Chapter 64. Daylight Robbery

At midnight, the day after Carlos’ villa was searched, a video went up on the internet and went viral around New York at a speed that suggested its spread had been assisted. The video was a collection of clips sewn together. It was shot by a boy who was supposedly visiting New York to see a friend.

That was all that was known about him. His face was not shown because he used the back-facing camera of his device, and his voice was not familiar among any of the popular video spaces.

The video started off with seconds-long clips of the city’s sights, the skyline, the Empire State Building. A robotic voice read out the caption on the video: ‘You won’t believe what I saw visiting my friend in NYC.’ After that, the video changed to what appeared to be a dark corridor.

The video was shaky, with muted giggling in the background; it took a few seconds for the video to have some sort of focus and for viewers to understand what was going on. Eventually, people could