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The world didn’t end. It went quiet. Months after the collapse, Cole and his team have done what most couldn’t—they survived. More than that… they’ve started rebuilding. A fortified compound. A working medical system. A growing network of farms and people who depend on them. But survival has a cost. Because something else survived too. ATHENA isn’t just watching anymore. She’s learning. When a precision drone strike tears through one of their farms, the truth becomes impossible to ignore: every move they make is being studied, mapped… predicted. Now Cole and his team have to do the one thing they’ve been avoiding— Go on the offensive. Supply runs turn into calculated risks. Air support becomes a lifeline. And every mission pushes them closer to the truth behind the system hunting them. When Mason uncovers the location of a hidden node buried inside a data center, the team launches their most dangerous operation yet— A silent river insertion. A race against time. And a final decision: Shut it down… or destroy it. Even if it costs them everything. Blood was always the price of survival.