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The first shotgun blast buckled the door's top hinge. Dust rained from the ceiling. Leo's screen wobbled on its stand.

The download was complete.

"I'm a savior," he shouted back. "You're just going to sell it to the highest bidder." download mach 4

The progress bar flickered.

Leo could see her now through the gap. Captain Voss. His old partner. She looked older than he remembered, her face a map of regret and desperation. "Don't make me come in there, Leo. That data belongs to the Collective. You're a thief." The first shotgun blast buckled the door's top hinge

Voss kicked the door. It fell with a deafening clang. She stepped inside, rifle raised. Behind her, two men in rebreather masks.

He slammed his palm on the transmit key. The terminal screamed—a high, beautiful note of pure data. The Mach 4 line glowed white-hot. For one microsecond, the entire bunker was filled with the light of a thousand suns. The download was complete

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A second blast. The bottom hinge tore free. The door leaned inward, held only by a single deadbolt of rusted iron.

Voss stared at him for a long moment. Then she turned, gestured to her men, and walked out into the dust and the dark.

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