Last Safe Haven

Luo Jian had always believed that control was absolute. If he could see everything, hear everything, and predict every move before it happened—then nothing could touch him.

But now, something was slipping through the cracks.

"Lock it down," he said, the words clipped and sharp. "No one enters. No one leaves."

His data centers—the beating heart of the Nine Dragons’ digital empire—shut down like a fortress sealing its gates. Employees were trapped inside, cut off from the outside world. Security patrols doubled. The once seamless hum of operation was replaced by the sterile silence of lockdown.

"If we can’t move information, we can’t move money," one of his lieutenants warned. "This isn’t protection. It’s suicide."

But Luo Jian wasn’t listening.

He was convinced that something—or someone—had breached his system. Not just any adversary, but a phantom, a shadow slipping through his firewalls, turning his own architecture against him.

In a way, he was right.