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The Janitor Solved The Universe's Greatest Mystery, But His Revenge Unleashed A Nightmare!

The Janitor Solved The Universe's Greatest Mystery, But His Revenge Unleashed A Nightmare! — Part 2
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Previously: A disgraced physicist's last-ditch effort to save a mission hinges on a janitor's hidden genius. But the janitor's calm facade hides a decades-old quest for justice against the man who ruined him.

The Weight of Stolen Genius

The camera zoomed in, a macro lens capturing the frantic details. Brock's pupils, dilated and bloodshot, reflected the glowing red error matrices on his tablet monitor. His jaw muscle twitched erratically, a physical manifestation of his crumbling composure. Tears of humiliated fury welled along his lower eyelids, but he fought to suppress them, his pride a fragile shield against the impending disaster.

Outside, the torrential rain continued to hammer the lead roof, its hollow reverberations a constant, maddening counterpoint to the ticking clockwork. The Pioneer-X probe, the culmination of Brock's stolen legacy, was mere minutes from burning up in the atmosphere. Forty Nobel laureates had allegedly failed to solve the complex tensor curvature, a problem that now threatened to obliterate his entire career.

The Janitor Solved The Universe's Greatest Mystery, But His Revenge Unleashed A Nightmare!
Dr. Brock Henderson:

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Dr. Brock Henderson: