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Chapter 8: Digital Ghosting

Jia fights the accelerated auto-purge eating Patient 402 and Lazarus files inside the livestream studio. She launches a dummy feed to distract the surveillance AI, buys critical seconds, then routes the vital ghost clip to an off-grid analog tape deck. Elias arrives battered with the cloned heartbeat-keyed card, confirming the executive lockdown and Vane’s awareness. They prepare to hijack the internal network as security closes in and the purge countdown tightens to under ninety minutes.