gridinsoft --purge --deep-scan --force-legacy

He didn’t touch it. He returned to the console.

He smiled, took a sip of his cold coffee, and typed:

“Status,” he said.

Then his air-gapped sensor tripped. A silent relay clicked. Someone had physically plugged a rogue device into his external data terminal—the one meant for the courier SSDs.

He opened a terminal and typed a command he’d hoped never to use: