Chapter 1040

Callum hauled over the laptop and dragged an extra chair up for Atticus to sit down and get cracking on hacking the surveillance system on the spot.

The pressure was on; they knew that Lysander might have already rallied his tech troops and started scouring the monitors.

A second’s delay could blow their cover wide open.

Wiping the surveillance footage clean was critical, a race against time.

Atticus booted up the laptop, and his little fingers danced across the keyboard at lightning speed. His cute, boyish features were a mask of serious concentration, so absorbed in his task that the world around him might as well not exist.

Thalassa, the other three kids, Evelyn, and Callum huddled around Atticus, watching in awe as his fingers blurred over the keys, almost creating afterimages.

They were all breathing slowly as if treading on eggshells, terrified of distracting him.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the town, Lysander’s ten coding elites was also in nonstop action.

just cracked the radar code and were gearing up to check the Starhaven surveillance

wizards

the footage has been wiped. It was all blank.” one of the

How could he forget that

around Star Harbor Villa and check every road!” Lysander commanded with

had personally witnessed the plane taking off from the Star Harbor Villa’s courtyard. The

traffic wouldn’t be disturbed by the flight, the sound of the plane would be

“Right away!”

to work, each hacking into a different intersection’s surveillance feed.

a smile crack his concentrated expression. “Done.” he

was astounded – it had only taken two

in Starhaven had told him

Atticus did it in two, erasing the footage

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