Chapter 7 - The Morgue Infiltration
Claire and Noah escaped across the rainy rooftops, leaving the burning building far behind them.
They realized that the stolen documents in the briefcase had burned in the fire, leaving them with absolutely no proof.
"There is only one place left that holds the evidence we need," Noah said as they caught their breath in a quiet park.
He explained that the corrupt medical examiner who signed her fake death certificate kept highly detailed digital blackmail files on all his wealthy clients.
The medical examiner's office was located in the deep, underground basement of the city's largest public hospital.
They stole a pair of blue scrubs from a hospital laundry truck and seamlessly blended in with the late-night medical staff.
The morgue was freezing cold and completely deserted at this late hour of the night.
They easily found the examiner's private computer terminal sitting on a cluttered metal desk.
Noah's fingers flew across the keyboard, utilizing his old medical network passwords to bypass the basic security firewall.
He successfully downloaded the encrypted blackmail files onto a small, silver flash drive.
"We have it, this proves Daniel bought the poison and paid for the fake autopsy," Noah whispered excitedly.
Claire smiled for the first time in days, finally feeling a glimmer of true hope.
Suddenly, the heavy electronic doors of the morgue slid shut with a loud, mechanical hum.
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The digital thermostat on the wall beeped aggressively as the temperature rapidly plummeted toward sub-zero levels.
Daniel's voice echoed through the intercom speaker, calmly stating that he had hacked the hospital mainframe and turned the entire room into a flash-freezer.
