Please catch up - Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3.

Recap: W wakes up in a hotel room to find a pistol in her hand, aiming at a man. She is in a state of total retrograde amnesia - she can't remember anything that happened before that point. She tries to find out who she is, but her comprehensive efforts are met with failure. W is a good investigator - but before her amnesia, she was a masterly stealth artist. It's almost as if she did not exist. A ghost, a shadow, a master assassin.

Silence in Time - Chapter 4

Three weeks on, W has rediscovered her formidable skills - a master at stealth, infiltration, weapon design, manipulating people, hacking, and a whole lot more. A true maestro.

However, she has no clue whatsoever about who she was before the incident. It's clear to her that she was at the hotel room for an assassination, but nothing on her person left any trails.

Except herself - her body. With every other lead at a dead end, there's just one asset that retains her identity - her DNA. DNA sequencers are expensive, slow, and only available to verified personnel. So, W sets in motion a plan to infiltrate a prototype DNA sequencing lab and stealthily get her DNA sequenced.

Three days later, W is under the building housing the research lab. W is working on a broken down power distribution board. She attaches a switching module to the main switch, and carefully exits the area. W lurks near the parking, waiting, in a dark spot.

Moments later, a man passes by, she quietly sneaks up to him, and captures him, covering his face with a chloroform rag. This puts him to sleep. She drags him to the same dark corner, and removes his employee RFID tag.

She makes her way up the building - this is an old, retro building from the 60s. However, it is maintained well. It is once again late at night - very quiet. She waits outside the lab, until an employee exits through a sliding door.

Just as the employee has left the area, she presses a trigger. This disrupts power, and blacks out the entire building except for some emergency lights. The sliding door into the lab also freezes, half open. There’s some chaos inside the lab in response to the unusual power cut, and she fully exploits this distraction to her advantage.

This also triggers her watch timer, it reads 00:30. 00:29. 00:28.

(to be continued)

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