KUNPENG_DING

In the power meat grinder that is Washington, D.C., the Blackstone Group controls political scavenger Emily Watson through barcode tattoos. When avenger Victor Stone scorches her skin with an electromagnetic pulse, a dying Emily scans the barcode on her collarbone, accidentally activating a nerve gas canister buried in an underground pipeline on Capitol Hill.Within 72 hours, a toxic fog containing genetically-targeted technology envelops Washington, specializing in killing politicians registered in the DNA bank. Victor discovers that the biochip under his burn scar is counting down, and a jailed and reborn Adam Crawford holds the key that will shut off all the gas valves-but that will permanently lock tens of billions of the Blackstone Group's dirty money into a blockchain tomb. The trio must choose from the ruins of power: destroy all evidence and be reborn, or save their arch-enemy in exchange for a filthy immortality.

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Emily Watson's Christian Louboutin heels stomped through a surveillance blind spot at Dulles Airport, and her suitcase contained $3.8 million worth of "teaching tools" - a Tiffany pen soaked in tetrodotoxin, a Congressional commemorative pin embedded with polonium-210 pellets, and an infrasonic generator that can induce a cerebral hemorrhage. infrasound generators disguised as Bluetooth speakers from the White House souvenir store.

"Target is in harvest radius." She whispered into the bone-conduction microphone in her onyx necklace, her irises reflecting the fluorescence of the Bloomberg terminal three blocks away. Blackstone's price tag for Victor Stone is pulsing: the bounty increases by 0.7 bitcoins for every hour of delayed clearance.

When she scans the barcode at her collarbone, a holographic menu pops up with 221 death package options." The "Classical Mode" shows a John F. Kennedy-style convertible headshot scenario, while the "Technological Innovations" column features an EMP wristwatch that synchronizes and paralyzes all of the target's electronic devices. She ultimately chooses the "Wall Street Special", which uses the NASDAQ crash curve as a teaser for the kill.

Chapter 5: Hangman Economics