Chapter 1170

At 1:45 a.m., with fifteen minutes left until two o’clock, all seven members of the team were already in position beneath Berlin’s night sky.

Lucy and Sasha were inside a van three hundred meters from the villa, surrounded by screens and equipment. Lucy’s fingers hovered over the keyboard, her knuckles slightly pale. Sasha stared at the spectrum analyzer, where the waveform moved steadily across the display like the heartbeat of someone asleep.

“Communications channel is quiet,” Sasha whispered. “Fifteen minutes until the next report.”