Cryptomining Supervillain

Chapter 209: 209 THE VEYRAN INFILTRATION

209 THE VEYRAN INFILTRATION

"I don't know yet," Kail replied, his tone quick and tense. "They're masking their signal through multiple shadow relays… it's not local. And they're using quantum-level encryption."

Damen stepped closer, eyes narrowing at the streaming data. "Syndic of Fracture? or Nuralith?"

Kail shook his head grimly. "I don't really know yet. Dackerie and his team are handling the incursion…I'm just observing."

After Dackerie joined them, Kail entrusted the company's main servers to him and his team of programmers. They built a labyrinthine network, strong enough to withstand some of the best hackers in the city.

Damen believed Kail shouldn't reveal his full capabilities unless absolutely necessary.

If anyone tried breaching their systems, they would first have to go through Dackerie and his decoy networks. Even if they succeeded, they'd only penetrate the servers of Aukouma Corporation…never their true base hidden beneath.

Kail's current job was simple: watch and monitor the situation.

After a long night of digital warfare, a message finally blinked green across the holo-screens—Incursion Repelled.

"They did it!" Kail exclaimed, punching the air. "Hiring Dackerie was the right choice after all!"

"Did you trace anything about the attackers?" Damen asked.

Kail was still typing furiously. "After they gave up on attacking our servers, I followed their data trail through the ghost nodes. Guess where it led?"

"Where?" Damen asked, leaning forward.

"You'll never guess—the Veyrans."

Damen frowned. "Veyran? You mean Valtor Veyran?"

Kail shook his head. "No. Valtor doesn't have that kind of influence in Silver City anymore. His businesses are small-time compared to this scale of operation."

"Then who?" Damen pressed.

"The main branch of the Veyran family—the one Valtor came from," Kail said.

Damen was silent for a moment, thinking. The pieces fit together too neatly to ignore.

The Veyrans sent Eryn to the Nuralith Corporation to appease them for Carl Nuralith's death. But Eryn was rescued…and the Nuraliths suspected it was the Veyran family who rescued her and now they wanted her return.

The Veyran were now on fishing trips trying to find Eryn themselves and their hunt finally ended up here in Aukouma's servers.

"They're looking for Eryn," Damen said quietly.

Kail looked up. "What should we do?"

Damen turned toward the basement window, his reflection sharp against the black mirror. "We pay the Veyrans a visit," he said. "It's time to get them into the picture…once and for all."

"Let the show begin."

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"Are you sure about this? We're really going to the Veyran family?" Kail asked, his eyes narrowing.

"Yeah," Eryn replied firmly. "I have a score to settle. I trusted them—they were supposed to be my family. But they betrayed me. They deserve what's coming."

Damen smiled approvingly.

"Good," Liorea said with a faint smirk. "Then you know the script."

Liorea was the director of what to come.

Eryn gave her a thumbs up before stepping out of the van and into the grand glass doors of the Veyran Building.

The mirrored walls reflected her image…but not as Eryn Veyran.

In every reflection, another woman stared back: a tall, sleek professional in her forties, her expression cool and sharp behind oversized glasses.

She was Linsee Dahl, IT manager at Nuralith Corporation, one of the most skilled hackers in Silver City.

Eryn walked confidently to the reception desk. "I'm here to see Chris Gome from IT," she said.

The clerk smiled, scanning her ID. "Welcome to Veyran Corporation, Miss Linsee."

Eryndisguised herself by her special powers.

She followed the path to the IT wing. Without hesitation, she entered Chris's office.

"There's nobody there you can walk right into the room", Kail told her on her comms.

The room was empty as Kail predicted.

It was perfect for what she was about to do. She moved to the far wall and pressed a small hexagonal device onto the paneling. It blinked once… and became active.

Then the door opened.

Chris stepped in, surprised. "Linsee? What are you doing here? You could've just sent the files digitally."

Eryn straightened, flustered but quick to act. "Oh, Chris—I, uh, have a document from Nuralith. They wanted me to deliver it personally."

He took the folder, browsed through it briefly, then signed without further suspicion. "Alright then. You people at Nuralith are getting old-fashioned."

"this is the only way for me to claim transportation allowance", she replied and chuckled awkwardly, took the document back, and hurried out before her nerves gave her away.

By the time she reached the armored van, she was pale and out of breath. "I'm sorry," she said between gasps. "I was so scared… I almost ruined it."

Liorea burst out laughing. "You did perfectly. The more nervous you looked, the more they'll suspect Linsee Dahl and what she did in there."

Eryn exhaled, finally allowing herself a smile.

Damen nodded from the front seat. "Nice work. Now let's plan our next move."

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Damen had been monitoring the core staff of Veyran Corporation for two weeks. Patterns emerged with midnight meetings in restricted areas, and a handful of buildings with inexplicable energy signatures.

After further digging, he found it: a network of hidden underground banks. It was where the Veyrans funneled billions in aur from their illegal arms sales to off-city buyers.

Their security network was the most sophisticated Kail had ever seen and far more advanced than even Nuralith's warehouse.

Ordinary hackers wouldn't last a second against it. Not unless their main server was already compromised…or they faced someone with a Quantum Mind.

Tonight, Damen was that someone…or at least he was with that someone.

"Big Brother, over", Kail greeted over the comms. Kail was that someone.

He slipped through the alleys into an old brick building, his black coat brushing the dust.

"As usual, the guard dogs and cameras are blind," Kail said over comms.

"Good," Damen whispered. The back door clicked open automatically.

With Kail's real-time guidance, he ghosted through the corridors…avoiding the guards, skipping motion sensors, even timing his steps with the rhythm of the patrolling drones.

Soon he reached the manager's office.

"There are two heat signatures inside, they must be working overtime," Kail murmured.

The door opened on its own.

"What the hell? Is something wrong with the lock?" the manager asked, half-naked and holding his secretary close.

The manager and his secretary were clocking overtime in their office.

"It's just the wind," she whispered, tugging him back into a kiss.

"The wind? There's no opened window in this room…"

But a soft gust swept across the office, silencing him.

"See? I told you," she teased.

They both ducked beneath the desk, too distracted to notice the filing cabinet sliding open by itself.

Damen emerged soundlessly from the shadow, slipping into the narrow space behind the cabinet. Inside was a short corridor…and at its end, a biometric vault door.

"Your turn, Kail," Damen said.

The locks disengaged in sequence—click, click, hiss.

"Access granted," Kail said proudly.

Damen entered a vast chamber humming with energy. Towers of data cores lined the walls. In the center stood a crystalline server pulsing like a heartbeat.

"This is it," Damen muttered. He moved quickly, transferring billions of aur into his bag. "Jackpot."

"Hurry," Kail urged. "The manager upstairs is… uh, approaching his limit. He should be done soon."