"I’m initiating the extraction now," Kael whispered. He clicked the icon.
In the video, the official wasn't checking vitals. He was uploading a secondary sequence into the pod’s life-support system. OUTRIDERS.part08.rar
"Kael, we have to go!" Sarah yelled, slamming her magazine into place. Outside, the distant hum of an ECA dropship began to vibrate the floorboards. "I’m initiating the extraction now," Kael whispered
Suddenly, a red alert flared across the monitor. He was uploading a secondary sequence into the
"They knew," Kael realized, his hands shaking on the keyboard. "The ECA knew the Anomaly was coming before we even landed. Part 8 isn't just data... it’s a manifest of everyone they 'altered' before we even hit the atmosphere."
"Is it ready?" Sarah asked, her voice echoing in the cramped, rusted basement of the Trench Town bunker. She was cleaning her thermal submachine gun, the metallic snick-snick of the bolt providing a soundtrack to Kael’s digital heist.
The screen flickered. Instead of a standard folder structure, a video feed jerked to life. It wasn't a recording from the planet Enoch's surface, but from the cryobays during the initial jump. The footage was grainy, distorted by the Anomaly’s interference. It showed a high-ranking ECA official standing over a cryo-pod—Kael’s pod.