The sound rumbled in the room.
Failure of the system.
Ramos was frozen.
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“But inspector, federal protocol demands...
Ricardo fulminated him with his gaze.
“I said it’s a failure. Manual processing. Now.
Sergio swallowed saliva.
“Yes, sir.
But he didn't smile anymore.
Martha, from the door, had not seen all the words.
But he saw Ricardo's panic.
He saw how he closed the laptop.
He saw how Sergio went white.
And he knew that was not a normal mistake.
Ramos hesitated three seconds.
Three seconds I would remember for years.
He then opened the laptop and deleted the local alert.
What neither understood was that the alert had already been sent.
The federal server saved it the moment it appeared.
Each click was recorded.
Every attempt to erase.
Every second.
Deleting a screen does not erase the truth.
