The smiles quickly faded, replaced by serious expressions.
"What do we do now, Alaric?" one of the staff asked, his face tense. "Didn't you say you had a system that could monitor the robot remotely? If that's true, something like this shouldn't have spiraled out of control."
All eyes turned to Alaric. He stepped forward and took a deep breath. He knew this was the moment to prove his own words.
"Yes," he said confidently. "I do have that system. Let me handle it."
He reached into his bag and pulled out a small box. It was no bigger than a notebook, with several buttons on the surface and a thin, glass-like screen that flipped open like a transparent panel. Once the screen lit up, glowing lines of code appeared — green and blue, forming patterns only understood by those fluent in the language of programming.
