C19 Ethan Contacts an Old Friend

The call wasn’t made by phone.

Ethan used an old trick—an encrypted IRC relay routed through six abandoned Chinese BBS servers. No metadata. No logs. Just a handle.

“WOLF\_EIGHT” pinged green.

The reply came two minutes later:

WOLF\_EIGHT: No contact in 2,849 days. Curious. Dead yet?

GHOST\_47: Need verification on a ghost signature. Name: Lee Jae-Min.

WOLF\_EIGHT: Not cheap