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Chapter 4 - The Secret LaboratoryJulian collapsed onto his knees, covering his streaming eyes as tears of silver light washed away years of artificial darkness.

“I can see...” Julian sobbed, looking up through blurred vision at the silhouette of his father and the brave young girl standing before him. “Father... I can see you!”

Alexander fell to his knees, embracing his son in a storm of weeping, disbelieving joy. But as Alexander looked down at the tiny micro-devices in Alma’s hand, the reality of a massive, twelve-year criminal conspiracy set in.

“Who put these in my son’s eyes?” Alexander demanded, his voice shaking with fierce rage.

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Alma pointed to the wall behind the piano. “The signal was being transmitted from under this floor.”

Alexander summoned his head of security, ordering the marble wall behind the grand piano to be demolished immediately. Behind the plaster and reinforced steel lay a secret staircase leading deep beneath the Sterling estate—a hidden underground laboratory that Alexander never knew existed.

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