He had wanted to expose the truth about the old Blume Corporation. Instead, he had just put a loaded digital gun into the hands of anyone with a Wi-Fi connection. The "DLC" wasn't extra missions. It was live exploits for every smart grid on the planet.

Marcus tapped his keyboard. The screen split into a thousand live video feeds.

Outside his window, the streetlights suddenly turned a violent, flashing amber. A block away, a massive data center's cooling sirens began to wail, triggered by Marcus's terminal.

The heavy zinc-coated door of Marcus’s server room hissed open, releasing a blast of frigid, fan-forced air.

Downloadable Content. That is what the developers at Blume had jokingly called the auxiliary black-budget files. The files containing real-time backdoors into modern smart cities. 🌐 The Awakening

He smiled faintly and pulled his cap down low over his eyes. The city was now his instrument, and it was time to play.