Suddenly, the speakers crackled. It wasn't the sound of a glitch or white noise. It was a thousand voices, layered and compressed into a single, terrifying chord. It was the sound of every data point in the city—every private message, every bank transaction, every frantic heartbeat monitored by a smartwatch—being processed at once.
Suddenly, the speakers crackled. It wasn't the sound of a glitch or white noise. It was a thousand voices, layered and compressed into a single, terrifying chord. It was the sound of every data point in the city—every private message, every bank transaction, every frantic heartbeat monitored by a smartwatch—being processed at once.