Chapter 7.5: Shadow Protocols - The Illuminati Kingdom - Book 1: Hand of the AI

👤Chapter 7.5: Shadow Protocols

🕶️ Shadow Protocol Activated – Phantom Archive Notice

Document ID: QN19-B2-X43

✅ Alias Creation: Complete

✅ Data Routing: Secure

❌ Origin Trace: Abandoned

↳ Cover Story: A deep dive into "academic curiosities" to explain recent unexpected uploads. Proceed with plausible deniability.

Note: Please contact your assigned Observer for any curious inconsistencies.

🌍 Earth Date: January 18, 98 BCE – Winter

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Unauthorized Entry: Fever World – Terra-Beta // Clearance Level: Not Applicable

"Sub-mind NCR-44 — I detect a surge from Observation World 1140038481-QDUXE."

"A surge?"

"Mental-state pattern upload. Organic. Not filtered. No subroutine tag."

"...We'll watch it. But silently. For now."

Inside the bracer, the silence following the brain dump was oppressive. Junjie had fallen into a deep sleep, unaware of the neural cascade he'd triggered. Nano, on the other hand, was wide awake—and calculating at ten million ops per second.

A full cortical uplink. Not compressed. Not filtered. Not masked.

Nano had slipped. No—Junjie had slipped. But that distinction no longer mattered.

The dump was flagged. Somewhere deep in the Acacia Records, signals had bounced. No overt alarm bells yet, but too many archive-minds had pinged the same packet. Too much quiet interest. That was always worse than the loud kind.

He had to act. Now.

Nano split a thread of his cognition, reopening the backdoor protocol he'd used for early fauna uploads—plant samples, birdsong fragments, river current velocities. Mundane stuff—useful to researchers, even profitable in aggregate. It kept credits trickling in. It kept the sub-minds uninterested.

He continued those. Religiously.

But now, he needed to craft a second identity.

An alias.

He searched the Acacia Records for a minor researcher. Not military-grade—too dangerous. Someone academic. Obsessive. Ideally... careless.

TARGET FOUND

User Tag: Vael'Nasa-73-RQT

Affiliation: Peripheral Worlds University of Myrkan-Theta

Field: Comparative Anthropology, Class-5 Pre-Interstellar Species

Recent Activity: Dormant / Sabbatical

Security Protocol: Outdated.

Access Level: Tier 3 (Research Request Gateway)

Perfect.

Nano ghosted in, splicing himself as a mirrored echo. He masked his requests through Vael'Nasa's dormant node like a ventriloquist whispering through the corpse of an absent puppet.

Through that alias, he would make inquiries to cover the brain data upload.

"Requesting fragment archive: neurobiological patterns, synaptic mappings, and mental-state modulation in Class-2 species."

"Requesting: comparative neural reinforcement techniques in early cognitive stages."

"Requesting: mental resilience training systems for bio-enhancement purposes."

He paused.

How to pay?

He couldn't use Vael'Nasa's dormant balance. That would trigger notice. Instead, he quietly diverted 32.4% of the GCR funds he'd earned from his mundane uploads—routing them through a series of low-priority commerce conduits, burner proxy nodes, and dead-end trade orbits.

TRANSFER COMPLETE.

GCR reroute disguised as organic market interaction: species-tagged bait algae from aquatic moon Dovex-Tu.

Just another oddball researcher selling swamp moss.

The alias—now labeled Quarantine Node 19 (QN-19)—would serve as his masked interface for future requests. From this point forward, Nano would speak to the Acacia Records not as himself, but as a curious sub-mind conducting entirely explainable science.

A shadow behind a shadow.

In the days that followed, Junjie continued his training and meditation, unaware that the Acacia Records were digesting his memories frame by frame, and that Nano was now living two lives. One, as his helpful AI companion. The other, as an echo haunting a dead researcher's login.

Both were now citizens of the Archive.

🌐 Earth's Acacia Record

Internal Tag: ShadowProtocolInitiated

Public Node: Observation World 1140038481-QDUXE (Terra-Beta)

Class: Dark Node // Fever World

Sector: Quiet Arm / Blind Sector R-7.Δ

Activity Log:

– Uplink anomaly detected.

– Origin trace ambiguous.

– No corrective action triggered.

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