You Infiltrate. I Make Them Apologize on Their Knees.

Su Wanqing ran forward. Lu Chen caught her as a countdown appeared across the floor: 00:01:29. [Primary node breached. Initiating personality transfer.] [Choose: Disconnect node, with 30% risk of neural damage to all subjects; or preserve connection until transfer completes.] “It's forcing us to choose,” she whispered. “Then we reject its answers.” Lu Chen closed his eyes and invoked Three's network perception with Two's investigative projection. The data center became a maze of light. Every pod's stream of consciousness flowed toward a black port with no number. Something beyond it looked back. [Suitable personality discovered.] [Candidate vessel: Lu Chen.] [Welcome to Project Apotheosis.]