Chapter 9
The heavy oak door unlatched with a dull thud, swinging inward to reveal a dimly lit archives room smelling of old paper and dust.
Rows of filing cabinets lined the walls, each labeled with encrypted alphanumeric codes corresponding to corporate shell companies.
Chloe stepped inside, pulling a small burner phone from her pocket to photograph the documents stacked neatly on the central desk.
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The top folder bore the name of a prominent American biotech firm that Arthur Vance had acquired under mysterious circumstances.
Inside were medical journals detailing unauthorized human trials and neurological suppression experiments conducted on unsuspecting subjects.
