Chapter 7 - THE UPLOAD
They dragged the unconscious men into the kitchen and looted their weapons and keycards. Maya swiped the card on the server room door. It beeped green.
The room was freezing, filled with towering racks of blinking servers. Vance stumbled to the main terminal, his fingers flying across the keyboard despite his injury. He plugged in the encrypted flash drive.
"Bypassing the firewall... connecting to the secure FBI intranet," Vance muttered, his eyes glued to the progress bar. "Twenty percent... thirty..."
Suddenly, the glass wall of the server room shattered into a million diamonds as heavy gunfire ripped through the corridor. Briggs had found them.
"Vance!" Briggs’ voice boomed over the gunfire. "It's over! Step away from the console and I'll let the girl live!"
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"He's lying," Maya said flatly, picking up one of the dropped submachine guns. She didn't know how to shoot, but she knew how to pull a trigger. She laid down suppressing fire through the shattered window, forcing Briggs and his remaining men to take cover behind a heavy mahogany desk.
"Eighty percent," Vance shouted over the deafening roar of gunfire. "Just hold them off for ten more seconds!"
