Chapter 1246

chapter1246

Nick cut Atlas off mid-sentence, raising a hand to stop him. His voice was firm, "Look, accident or not, I have to go. Otherwise, joining the research institute would be pointless."

Atlas opened his mouth, knowing all too well how stubborn Nick could be, but ended up swallowing his words. "Just be careful, okay?"

"Yeah," Nick replied softly, leaning back on the couch with his eyes closed, ending the conversation there.

Seeing Nick's resolve, Atlas quietly left the room to start organizing his team for the necessary preparations.

After hanging up with Atlas, Mirabella sat quietly for a few moments. She booted up her laptop and shot a quick message to Adler on Messenger, "Anything big going down at the med school lately?"

Adler, already on his phone, quickly responded, "Haven't heard a thing. Why the sudden interest?"

Mirabella typed back, "Just curious."

Adler ran a hand through his messy hair, knowing Mirabella wasn't one to ask questions without reason. "Hang tight, I'll see what I can find out," he replied.

Mirabella placed her phone on the table and opened a program on her laptop, typing in some codes at lightning speed. The screen shifted from black to a satellite map, and she zoomed in on the red dot marking Nick's phone location in the industrial outskirts of town. The dot hadn't moved.

She leaned back in her chair, remembering that the land where Nick was currently located had been part of the Davis family's assets in Riverdale, information Atlas had shared before. Clearly, Atlas had been stalling during their call.

Her focus stayed on the screen until her phone buzzed. Picking it up, she saw Adler's message: "I asked around, nothing's up."

Mirabella traced the edge of her phone with her finger, quickly replying, "Alright, thanks for checking."

Adler texted back, "No problem at all. Just let me know if you need anything else."

Gotta keep the boss happy, he thought.

Mirabella sent back a smiley emoji and closed the chat. She glanced at the stationary red dot on her laptop, then grabbed some physics papers from a drawer and began working through them slowly.

Time ticked by, and just as she was finishing the last paper, the red dot finally began to move. She kept writing, occasionally glancing at the screen to see where Nick was headed at this hour.

About half an hour later, near midnight, the red dot stopped. A few minutes after that, it vanished completely.

Mirabella narrowed her eyes, pulling the computer closer to zoom in on the area where the dot disappeared. There were no landmarks, a sure sign it was a location designed to be off the radar.

There were magnetic field interferences and signal jammers.

She pondered for a moment, fingers tapping swiftly across the keyboard.

A 'Hacking Failed' message popped up on the screen.

Mirabella's lips curled into a sly smile. Things were getting interesting.

She exited the program and began entering another string of codes.

Meanwhile, elsewhere...

"It's no good, Atlas. They've got signal jammers set up here," said the technician in the car, his expression serious as he worked on his laptop. "I've tried a bunch of decryption methods, but none can get past the interference."