The 24th Century Warrior Became a Fake Heiress novel Chapter 99

Chapter 99 Traces in the Dark

Furthermore, Eugene didirt just have an immaculate track record in business; he was respected by everyone throughout the entire high–society ring.

Finphed

Hannah recalled a brief encounter with him where he had greeted her with effortless charm, while his younger brother bounced around full of infectious life.

Eugene was the absolute blueprint of every single billionaire CEO fantasy she had ever imagined.

Yet a flawless man like him had somehow gotten mixed up with a country bumpkin like Isabella.

Why her?!

Hannah’s entire soul wanted to scream out in pure rage.

A heavy, suffocating silence hung over the empty hallway as she stood there stewing.

Meanwhile, across town at the Carter estate, Isabella finished her late–night comfort meal and headed up to her designated room.

A moment later, Eugene walked in to deliver a sleek smartphone to her.

“This is the phone you dropped back at the kidnappers‘ hideout. Commander Wayne and his forensics team just finished verifying everything and had it sent right over.”

Standard protocol required every single item recovered from an active crime scene to be tightly sealed and analyzed.

Because of that, Isabella’s phone was only cleared and returned to her hands after they ran a full background check on it.

Brett’s phone had also been cleared and dropped off at the exact same time.

“Thanks,” Isabella murmured.

She gave a slight nod, taking the device from his hand.

Eugene’s expression remained warm and gentle as he said, “Get some rest, okay? If anything pops up, call me or my parents, or hit the call button by your pillow–a maid will head up immediately.

“Don’t worry about being a bother.”

He gave her a soft, reassuring reminder, genuinely worried she might hold back out of politeness.

Isabella gave him a quiet nod.

Satisfied, Eugene shut the door behind him and his footsteps faded down the hall.

Clutching the phone, Isabella walked over to the edge of the mattress and booted it up, noticing right away that the device had indeed been unlocked and wiped clean by police tech.

12:40 pm PTM

Chapter 99 Traces in the Dark

Isabella didn’t feel a single thing about it.

Finished

Every single piece of evidence from a major crime scene had to pass through this exact routine.

After all, nobody could guarantee whether the armed convicts had used her phone during the abduction.

Therefore, running a mandatory digital sweep was an absolute necessity.

It was also an essential shield for Isabella’s own security, ensuring she wasn’t being tracked or turned into an accomplice by the syndicate’s tech.

Keeping a completely blank poker face, Isabella began rewriting the phone’s internal configuration.

The exact second she handed her device over to the criminals earlier, she knew this scenario would play

out.

Because of that foresight, she had encrypted and buried her actual operating system deep within the firmware long ago.

Furthermore, Isabella’s custom configuration ensured that absolutely nobody on earth but her could ever view the hidden data sectors.

Consequently, she wasn’t the least bit worried about the police forensics finding anything out of the ordinary.

The moment she finalized the firmware rewrite, the screen flashed brilliantly, completely transforming into a high–tech terminal that bore zero resemblance to its original layout.

Her eyes narrowed into a razor–sharp gaze, completely ignoring the standard apps.

Instead, she bypassed the interface and plunged directly into a deeply hidden, secure network address.

Her fingertips danced across the glass with lightning speed, effortlessly ghosting past the site’s automated security filters to breach its inner core, pulling up every single hidden message log buried in the dark.

Isabella’s gaze turned cold and piercing.

Scanning the blocks of chat logs, encrypted communications, and dirty wire transfers, she compiled them into a master data package and sent the entire payload without a trace to the police department, along with a full roster of the offshore syndicates backing the crew.

Since these thugs were bold enough to target a top–tier billionaire family, it was blatantly obvious they had massive backing pulling the strings from the shadows.

Specifically, it was a hostile offshore organization looking to trigger mass chaos within Valoria’s borders.

While the Carter family didn’t hold any official government power, a high–profile, gruesome massacre of their youngest heir would have dominated international headlines on the spot.

Following that shockwave, sharks would have launched a coordinated assault against the Carter empire’s commercial pillars.

Isabella’s eyes narrowed even further.

213

VERIFYCAPTCHA_LABELVerify