The glowing status bar on the terminal pulsed a rhythmic, sickly green:
The screen flickered. Instead of a standard folder structure, a video feed jerked to life. It wasn't a recording from the planet Enoch's surface, but from the cryobays during the initial jump. The footage was grainy, distorted by the Anomaly’s interference. It showed a high-ranking ECA official standing over a cryo-pod—Kael’s pod. OUTRIDERS.part08.rar
"Is it ready?" Sarah asked, her voice echoing in the cramped, rusted basement of the Trench Town bunker. She was cleaning her thermal submachine gun, the metallic snick-snick of the bolt providing a soundtrack to Kael’s digital heist. The glowing status bar on the terminal pulsed
Suddenly, a red alert flared across the monitor. The footage was grainy, distorted by the Anomaly’s
"They knew," Kael realized, his hands shaking on the keyboard. "The ECA knew the Anomaly was coming before we even landed. Part 8 isn't just data... it’s a manifest of everyone they 'altered' before we even hit the atmosphere."