Chapter 148 - Liquidation of the Bloodline
*INITIATING ZERO BALANCING PROTOCOL.*
*BROADCASTING UNENCRYPTED LEDGERS TO: INTERPOL, SEC, UK SFO, FINMA.*
*PUBLIC KEYS RELEASED TO OPEN DOMAIN.*
"Stop it!" Arthur screamed, attempting to haul himself up using the edge of the mahogany desk, his boots slipping in his own blood. "That is fifty years of sovereignty! It controls the debt of eighteen nations! You will destroy everything!"
"Not everything," I said, watching the terminal execute the irrevocable distribution order. "Just you."
On the primary monitors wrapping around the chamber, global tickers began to plunge. Millions of hidden offshore accounts—holding the stolen wealth of the Archon syndicate, the blood money Arthur had hoarded while pretending to be a bankrupt Connecticut patrician—began dumping their reserves onto the open currency markets in an uncontrolled flash-crash.
Every shell company, every hidden trust, every sovereign bond bearing the Sterling seal was dissolving in real time. The wealth that had sustained the abuse, the capital that had paid for the beatings, the silence, and the fear was being wiped from the global ledger like dirt washed off a kitchen floor.
The rig shuddered violently.
Across the room, the primary console flared amber. An automated siren began to wail, high and shrill throughout the submerged chamber.
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*STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY COMPROMISED. SCUTTLE PROTOCOL INITIATED BY REMOTE OVERRIDE.*
Arthur looked up, a bloody, lunatic grin spreading across his pale lips. "Did you think... I wouldn't have a dead man's switch? If the master ledger unlocks... the ballast tanks open. We drown together, Emily. At the family table."
