Far unknown

Previously

…I didn't touch my coffee. I didn't linger. The café, once a place of potential discovery, now felt like a tomb. I left, the city's noise a deafening roar in my ears, the hum of the device a silent, sinister promise. I had Sarah Chen's warning, her veiled threat, and a potential blueprint for global annihilation. The Architects were real. Their plan was terrifyingly concrete. And Sarah Chen, with her cold eyes and chilling logic, was clearly one of their key players. My investigation had just taken a sharp, dangerous turn. I was no longer just chasing a story; I was running from a reckoning. And the shadow of Sarah Chen, and the organization she represented, had just fallen squarely upon me.