Chapter 3 - The Hidden Ledger
Emma accepted the dangerous job because she could not allow a tyrant like Maddox to weaponize civilian logistics.
Elias provided her with a forged security badge for Maddox's primary distribution warehouse on the south side of Chicago.
She entered the massive, echoing facility disguised as an overnight safety inspector.
Her highly trained eyes immediately noticed severe discrepancies in the automated cargo manifesting system.
Containers labeled as agricultural machinery were secretly positioned in high-security quarantine zones with armed guards.
Emma slipped silently past the patrols, relying on the stealth skills she had honed in hostile territories overseas.
She broke the lock on the warehouse manager's office door and accessed the encrypted shipping terminal.
It only took her six minutes to bypass the corporate firewall and uncover the hidden master ledger.
She downloaded the classified files onto a secure flash drive, her heart pounding with heavy adrenaline.
As she opened the files on her portable screen, her blood ran completely cold.
Maddox was not smuggling illegal weapons or dangerous narcotics.
He was moving thousands of crates of stolen medical supplies and emergency food rations.
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She recognized the specific routing codes attached to the stolen crates immediately.
They were the exact same medical supplies that went missing during her disastrous convoy mission with Horizon Passage eleven months ago.
