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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In an abandoned subway station in Chelsea, Emily wears a P100 mask that filters 99.97% of nerve gas. Her "office" is a converted federal money truck with a screen that pulsates with the flow of money from the Victor Foundation's 76 shell companies.

"Let's play a shorting game." She inserted Victor's childhood photo into the card reader, and the AI instantly generated a hologram of him as an eight-year-old witnessing his mother being abused by a debt collector. The memory is worth $45 million on the black market, enough to make the toughest Wolf of Wall Street incontinent in a boardroom.

Emily is debugging a microwave radiation gun when Victor's personal doctor's account suddenly receives a transfer alert from a Swiss bank. This legacy of the Cold War can stop a man's heart at six hundred meters, and the death report will show "congenital prolonged QT interval syndrome" - just like those auditors in 2013 who knew too much about the inner workings of the SEC.

Chapter 7 Reverse Takeover