Darren Hox

"I'm in."

Everyone immediately snapped to attention, gathering around as Ethan scrolled through lines of code and encrypted data that appeared across the screen.

"What are we looking at?" Reid asked, his tone serious.

Ethan's fingers moved across the keyboard, decrypting and bypassing firewalls with relative ease. "Alright, I've managed to access the simulation's core systems. If there's anything here about a malfunction or the Platinum-tier Primal that appeared, this is where we'll find it."

A moment later, a list of logs appeared on the screen, timestamps detailing everything that had occurred in the simulation over the last several days. Ethan quickly scrolled through them, searching for anomalies.

"Here," he said, highlighting a specific entry. "This log was altered. Someone injected foreign data into the system minutes before the Platinum-tier Primal appeared."

Clara frowned. "Can you trace it? Find out who did it?"