She Left She Thrived She’s Worth Billions novel Chapter 686

However... twenty minutes later.

"I'm really sorry, Manager Bennett..." the lead maintenance technician's voice filtered through the heavy door.

"The security grid for the R&D floor is a completely isolated system. If we want to reboot the power or initiate an override, it requires a dual-authorization unlock using both a retinal scan and a fingerprint from an R&D executive."

"From what I can tell on my end, the system isn't broken. It looks like an R&D executive intentionally triggered a total lockdown, maybe by accident, or maybe because they didn't know you were in there."

"Right now, the system is in total blackout mode. That means the doors lock from the outside, the internal panels shut down, and the climate control cuts off to isolate the room."

"It's an easy fix, though, Manager Bennett! Just call up R&D. Any of their team leaders can come up and unlock it in two seconds."

With that, the maintenance crew packed up their gear and left the twelfth floor.

Inside the meeting room, the administrative team plunged into despair. They weren't exactly afraid of dying in there, but...

It was incredibly hot.

It was already a sweltering day, and the meeting room faced directly south. The blazing sun was pouring through the floor-to-ceiling windows, turning the enclosed space into a literal greenhouse.

"Manager Bennett, please, call someone from R&D!"

"Please, Manager Bennett, hurry!"

"You're the only one who can fix this, Manager Bennett..."

The entire room was practically begging her. They were terrified she wouldn't swallow her pride to ask R&D for help. After all, she had made enemies of the entire R&D department the second she joined the company.

But right now, they were the only ones who could get them out.

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