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Chapter 4: The Perimeter Tightens

Elias navigates the ventilation shafts to escape the server wing, realizing the hospital is using real-time video masking to hide security sweeps. He reaches the studio only to find Jia captured by Vane’s security team. He triggers a fire alarm as a distraction, catching a glimpse of a file linking Patient 402 to a black-budget clinical trial.