Messing With Her? Are You Crazy! novel Chapter 1591

In layman's terms, whoever orchestrated this never intended to just test Asset 07's combat capabilities.

They wanted Asset 07 to brutally assassinate the Sterling Sovereign right in the middle of the Observation Theater, in front of every major player on the ship.

And the most damning part...

This ghost command hadn't been broadcast from an external terminal. It had been buried deep inside Asset 07's core programming well in advance, set to trigger the moment the ship's internal exhibition system came online.

The signal relay node pointed straight toward the inner Sanctum Vault.

The very same vault that even she hadn't found a way to breach yet.

The inner Sanctum Vault was the beating heart of Project Zero-Transit.

Anyone with clearance to access that zone held immense power.

Why would someone within the ship's own elite hierarchy want to assassinate their highest-tier buyer during the gala?

The alias of the Sterling Sovereign commanded absolute authority over the Obsidian Dark Web.

If he died on this ship, Project Zero-Transit would be burned to the ground in retaliation.

That was exactly why Kaelen was losing his mind.

Yet, a high-ranking insider was actively trying to get him killed.

It didn't make any sense.

But what caught Serena's attention the most was a momentary glitch during the signal trace. For a fraction of a second, an ID tag flashed across the hidden routing path.

AWS-05.

It appeared for barely a millisecond before a massively powerful external override slammed into the system, wiping the trace clean.

It was a desperate, scorched-earth tactic, as if the hacker realized they were being hunted and frantically burned their own bridge to hide their tracks.

But that millisecond was all Serena needed.

The coldness in her eyes hardened into absolute ice.

No one had a clue that in a matter of seconds, Asset 07's darkest secrets had been flawlessly cloned.

But just as the download finished, Asset 07's body violently convulsed.

Every muscle in its massive frame snapped taut. The thick, darkened veins bulged against its skin, and the titanium chains binding its wrists shrieked in agonizing friction.

"W-What's happening?!"

Out in the control room, the green baseline on the monitors violently erupted back into critical red spikes.

Kaelen's face drained of all color, his legs turning to jelly. "Ms. Panacea, what did you do?! Why is it resisting again?!"

"I thought you controlled it! You said it was stable! What the hell is going on?!"

"Is the target lock broken yet?! Why is it still looking at Mr. Blackwood?!"

"Ms. Panacea, talk to me! How much longer is this going to take? Can you even handle this..."