Emma was an impressive AI and critical to their efforts, but she wasn’t a miracle worker.
She’d need a couple of minutes before she gained control of the cameras and drones, and in those critical minutes, whoever was attacking the commerce tower had the upper hand.
That enemy had had the foresight and ability to hack the commerce tower’s systems, which meant they weren’t just criminals who’d shown up and started shooting at people. Jia and Erik needed to bring the situation under control.
They slowed as the flow of screaming people thinned. They ducked behind a large statue of a twenty-first-century actor neither had heard of.
Pairs of rifle-toting men in comically large Leem masks were running in different directions on the concourse, but none had headed their way yet.
That wasn’t go
