Knock Knock

Alexander walked up to him, crouching next to him with a smile on his lips.

But to the man, it looked like Satan's face.

"You can't be here. How did you survive? The news said you died in the service tunnels!"

Alex tilted his head slightly, wondering what he was talking about. But he could guess this had been some information manipulation from Katherine's underlings.

He only wondered why she would do it.

And the answer came in his ear.

"I didn't want them to expect retaliation from you. So I changed the news with some image manipulation and deep fake, to make it look like you died in the rat incident.

"I was also planning to have the videos of both altercations between you and the Bianchis play in the bunker once you had let me inside the mainframe. Just for some dramatic flair."

Alex could hear the slight undertones of playfulness in her voice across the comms, and had to control himself from tearing the earpiece out.