As Alex shared his findings with a cybersecurity forum, he noticed strange activity—his IP address was being probed. Someone, or something, was watching. He traced the probes to a burner email address linked to a name he knew: Mira Voss , a former intern at his university’s AI lab who had vanished months prior. The last file he decrypted contained a voice memo. Mira’s voice trembled: "If you’re hearing this, it means I’m gone. The code is safe… but don’t let them find the server. Not yet."