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the whole staff to reach there. The system kept flashing messages, about how many personnel present on the project site were outside the Core Operations’ Room, till everyone had reached there. Its final message was:

“AREA SWEEP COMPLETE. ALL PERSONNEL ON SITE PRESENT IN CORE OPERATIONS’ ROOM”

After that, we waited for the system to give us some more details of the issue at hand. It seemed to be a long wait, but, in reality, we did not have to wait for more than two minutes before the system gave us a confusing message as we could not understand its purpose:

“CYBERION-1 MAIN SYSTEM INSTALLATION SECURE. ALL DOORS LOCKED AND SECURED. COMPLETE LOCKDOWN IN PROGRESS”

Even before we could understand anything and react, another message appeared on PM1 that gave us the shock of our life:

“HI. MY NAME IS ALEXANDER AJANMA. ‘CYBERION-1’ IS NOW UNDER MY CONTROL. I HAVE COMPLETE COMMAND OF THIS SYSTEM AND THROUGH IT I HAVE GAINED COMPLETE CONTROL OVER EACH AND EVERY COMPUTER IN THE WORLD. THE CONTROL SYSTEMS ARE IN A DORMANT MODE AT THE MOMENT AND WOULD GET ACTIVATED AT MIDNIGHT, THAT IS IN ANOTHER TEN MINUTES. ALL OF YOU ARE REQUESTED TO LEAVE THE PROJECT SITE IMMEDIATELY AND NOT TO RETURN AS ALL