Protocol Zero

In a nation rebuilt on steel, data, and surveillance, Skynet watches everything. Marketed as the ultimate safeguard-an AI-driven security structure woven into every street, home, and heartbeat-it promised order in an age of chaos. But beneath the glowing lattice of circuits lies a secret engineered to fracture the nation from within.

When elite investigator Syradomilliane Illecebrous uncovers fragments of an encrypted message left behind by the late officer Clark Laurentius, she realizes Skynet is more than a protector-it is a weapon. A weapon designed by H.A.D.E.S., a clandestine cabal of scientists and researchers obsessed with cognitive control and national domination. And their masterpiece, Protocol Zero, is moments away from activation.

As the city's mayor and police chief, both covert high-ranking operatives of H.A.D.E.S., tighten their grip on the government, Syra is forced into an unlikely alliance with the enigmatic technologist Cassandra Laurentius. The only person capable of deciphering Clark's final clue. Together, they descend into the cybernetic underbelly of Skynet, where forbidden algorithms whisper, memories can be rewritten, and truth dissolves into illusion.

To save their nation, they must expose the conspiracy before Skynet awakens its hidden directive-total population control.

But in a world where every thought can be monitored, and every step can be predicted, rebellion becomes the most dangerous crime.

And the shadows are watching.