Mark Talbot was stunned into silence, his words caught in his throat.
He steadily watched the young man in front of him.
From the moment he started dealing with Carlos Charlie's case, he had thought that this young man was just a selfish businessman, protecting Carlos because of the interests within his own company.
But unexpectedly, when it mattered most, she proved to be reliable.
He stood behind Eve Thompson, jaw clenched, not saying a word.
Eve's mobile phone was next to them, on speaker mode.
Her fingers flew quickly across the keyboard, swiftly cracking the firewall before dissolving the wave of attacks.
The whole process was executed with a clean and efficient motion, without dragging feet.
The speed was so fast that the onlookers couldn't react in time.
What she didn't know was that all of this was being transmitted to every household through the internet.
Before she acted, Alexander Thanos had already taken control of the entire network.