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Chapter 9: The Final Upload

Elias and Jia race against the clock after Dr. Vane severs the hospital’s external internet, cutting off their primary upload path for the Lazarus files. Forced to seek the emergency satellite uplink in the basement, they navigate sealed corridors and face a sedative gas flooding through the ventilation system designed to incapacitate them. Battling exhaustion and encroaching security forces, they reach the server room where Jia secures the critical ghost clip on analog tape—immune to the hospital’s digital purge. Elias then works to hijack the hospital’s internal broadcast network—the only remaining way to expose the cover-up. As Vane cuts all external communication, Elias and Jia brace for a perilous broadcast over the hospital’s own propaganda system, marking a point of no return and escalating the stakes toward the final showdown.