It turned out Lier had worried too much.
The temporal difference between the two worlds meant that most hackers couldn't cross that threshold, so the server hadn't been attacked.
Instead, after being overclocked repeatedly, it had been crushed by "the last straw."
Half an hour later, Lier, John, Anthony, and Skye finally put out the fire in the server room.
Lier panted as he watched the smoke in the room begin to clear. His head was still spinning-
He'd just played a Lizard Person in another world, and he still wasn't used to his body's outdated version now that he was back. Putting out the fire had nearly cost him his life.
Lying back in his chair, Lier gasped, "So... how did the server room catch fire? Damn."
Skye dropped into a chair, covered in soot.
"I don't know, either. I was adjusting ctOS's citywide network to help Aiden assassinate the head of the Chicago Gang, and then the server blew up at the last minute!
"God knows, I've always used it at this intensity. I don't know why the server burned out!"
As she spoke, she suddenly thought of something and eyed Lier suspiciously. "Boss, speaking of which, yesterday you told me to wait in the server room in case there was a fire. Did you secretly use the server to do something I don't know about?"
"What could I have done?" Lier laughed it off, then asked with concern, "How did Aiden's mission go?"
"Oh, right!" Skye hurriedly opened her computer.
Just before the server burned out, Aiden in the Watchdogs world had completed his final-and biggest-lone-wolf operation.
With hacking attacks that seemed almost prophetic, ctOS was like a patchwork riddled with holes to Skye. As long as Aiden found a server interface, control of ctOS was in