Time had slowed inside the government meeting room. The clock on the wall ticked steadily—12:45 pm—but the tension made each second feel heavier than the last.
A young female officer nervously cleared her throat.
"Sir… may I speak?"
Her voice trembled slightly, a mix of hesitation and fear.
The superior glanced at her but remained silent.
The young officer took a deep breath and continued.
"S-Sis… she's always been kind… maybe… can we ask her for help?"
The room went quiet again.
Experienced officers exchanged uneasy glances.
One of them finally spoke, voice firm.
"We took her device. We tried to hack it. And you expect her to help us now?"
The young officer opened her mouth, ready to respond, but the superior cut her off sharply.
"Stop."
"She didn't help us."
"Right now… maybe she already knows everything we've done."
His voice lowered slightly, weighed with gravity.
"And if she does… we can't even imagine the scale of the damage."
"We cannot face it."
Another young female officer spoke up, her tone a little braver this time.
"Sir… but the brothers… they always took her device to play games."
"Nothing happened before."
The superior raised a brow and turned slowly toward the cyber team.
"Explain."
"What does she mean by that?"
A cyber officer stepped forward.
"Sir… we never unlocked her phone on our own."
"The only time it was touched… one officer took the device and connected it to our system for hacking."
"And immediately… the data uploading started on its own."
"There was no other action required."
"We didn't even try to unlock the phone before that reaction occurred."
Another officer spoke, voice low and tense.
"It's as if… any unauthorized person touching that device triggers it to attack back."
The superior rubbed his temples.
"What kind of technology is this?"
His words were half question, half exasperation.
The cyber officer shook his head.
"We don't know, sir."
"We can only describe what likely happened."
"It seems the system is designed to protect itself…"
"…and anyone attempting unauthorized access triggers a full defensive response."
The room fell silent.
Even the hum of the servers and the low beeps of the cyber team's computers seemed to pause, as if the building itself understood the gravity of the situation.
The officers sat frozen, processing the enormity of what they had done.
Every attempt to access the eleven individuals' devices had backfired.
Every measure they thought would control the situation had instead spread it worldwide.
Outside, time ticked on.
And still… the eleven remained perfectly calm, unaware—or perhaps fully aware—of the chaos their mere presence had unleashed.
Baby's voice echoed softly in the twin siblings' secret monitoring room.
"Sir… they are panicking."
"They don't understand."
"And they never will."
Jinhai leaned back in his chair, a faint smile on his lips.
"Let them try."
"The more they struggle, the more they reveal about themselves."
Jinmei crossed her arms, watching the screens.
"It's almost… poetic."
"All that power, and yet they have no control over us."
Meanwhile, the CCTV feed showed Suriya sitting upright, hands folded on her lap, eyes closed in meditation.
The ten young men continued resting peacefully on the sofas, their calm presence an unshakable shield against the storm of confusion unfolding outside.
No one in the government meeting room could have predicted this.
Not a single plan they had worked on was unfolding as intended.
And yet, in that calm waiting room, the eleven moved as if in perfect harmony with one another—and with a system far beyond the comprehension of any human officer.
The room remained tense.
Every officer present understood that this was no ordinary case.
This was something entirely new.
Something unstoppable.
The superior's voice finally broke the silence, low and grim.
"We have nothing else to try… for now."
And with that, the officers could only watch, powerless, as the quiet, disciplined presence of the eleven continued to dominate the situation entirely.
Outside the building, the entire country had already fallen into confusion.
News channels were shouting breaking updates every few minutes.
Social media was flooded with leaked files, arguments, accusations, and endless speculation.
No one understood where the data had come from, but everyone was talking about it.
Inside the government headquarters,
however, the meeting room had become strangely silent.
Dozens of senior officers sat around the large table, but no one spoke.
The heavy silence was suddenly broken when the door opened again.
Another officer entered quickly.
His uniform and the respect everyone showed him made it clear that he was even higher in rank than the superior officer managing the investigation.
He looked around the room with a serious expression.
"Why did you change the test time again to 3 pm?"
The superior officer immediately frowned.
"We didn't change the time."
The senior officer looked confused.
"What do you mean you didn't change it?"
Several officers quickly opened their devices.
One of them spoke nervously.
"Sir… all media channels are reporting that the government has officially postponed the test again to 3 pm."
Another officer confirmed it.
"Yes sir… every news network is broadcasting it right now."
All eyes slowly turned toward the cyber team.
One cyber officer checked something on his computer and then spoke carefully.
"Sir… the announcement was sent from an official government email ID to all major media outlets."
For a moment, the superior officer simply stared at him.
He looked completely stunned.
Before he could react, the higher-ranking officer spoke firmly.
"Enough delays."
His voice was cold and direct.
"Finish the test as soon as possible and send those eleven people back."
The superior nodded immediately.
"Yes sir."
He quickly contacted the officers in the testing room.
"Prepare the machines."
"We are proceeding with the test immediately."
For a few seconds there was only the sound of radio communication.
Then the testing room officer responded.
"Sir…"
His voice sounded uneasy.
"The testing machine is currently shut down."
The meeting room became alert again.
"What happened?" the superior demanded.
The officer continued.
"We checked the system panel."
"It shows that the machine will automatically power on at 2:55 pm."
The entire room froze again.
A senior officer slowly asked,
"Did anyone attack the system there?"
The testing room officer answered immediately.
"No sir."
"We only turned the machine off earlier."
"The system itself shows that it will restart at 2:55 pm."
"We didn't touch anything else."
The superior leaned back slowly in his chair.
His mind was racing.
"We discussed changing the test time quickly…"
"But instead it has been delayed by another hour."
Another officer whispered quietly,
"The eleven people didn't do anything."
He looked around the room.
"Then who is doing all this?"
No one had an answer.
The superior turned toward the cyber team again.
"Check immediately."
"Is someone hacking our building systems right now?"
The cyber team began typing rapidly,
checking security logs, firewall records, and internal monitoring systems.
After a few moments, the team leader spoke.
"Sir… we found no trace of hacking."
Another cyber officer added,
"No one has attempted to breach the system."
The superior frowned deeply.
"So you're telling me…"
"…our systems are changing decisions…"
"…sending official messages…"
"…and controlling testing equipment…"
"…without any hacker?"
The cyber team exchanged uneasy glances.
Finally one of them spoke quietly.
"Yes sir."
"There is no external intrusion."
The room once again fell into heavy silence.
On the large screens at the front of the room, the waiting room camera continued showing the same peaceful scene.
Ten young men still sleeping comfortably on the sofas.
Suriya still sitting calmly with her eyes closed in meditation.
Not a single one of them had moved.
Yet somehow…
the entire government building seemed to be moving according to an invisible decision.