The Federal Reserve's gold vault smelled of wet wolf fur and cryptographic rust. Leo Wu stood knee-deep in shredded hundred-dollar bills, his claws carving blockchain hashes into the bulletproof glass ceiling. Every swipe left glowing amber grooves—part Bitcoin address, part wolf DNA helix. Below him, the Wall Street bull statue lay toppled, its hollow bronze belly overflowing with vampire quants' nano-silver spines.
Wolf King's Pupils Alert: X-13 Genetic Lock (00:07:33 Remaining)
"You're out of ticks, mutt."
The Pale Hand elder materialized from a cloud of disintegrated T-Notes, his suit woven from credit default swaps. His cufflinks pulsed with Iceland cloning facility feeds—Elaine Wu's replica mouthing silent poison: X-13 activation imminent.
Leo flicked a claw, sending a severed nanotendril skittering across the vault floor. "Funny. Your last quant said the same thing… right before I repo'd his spleen."
Phase One: The Bull's Last Charge
They'd fought through the NASDAQ massacre, through the blood moon's gene-rot downpour. Now the battlefield was financial scripture itself. The elder snapped his fingers.
The vault trembled. From the molten bull statue rose a grotesque hybrid—bronze hooves fused with LIBOR rate tickers, eyes streaming real-time WTI crude prices. Its roar formatted into FOMC meeting minutes.
Memory Detonation: Father's Final Trade1998 security footage: Wu Tianyou injecting himself with reverse Bitcoin protocol, screaming as his blood etched Satoshi's whitepaper onto Fed servers.
Leo's retinas glitched. "You turned the bull into a fucking ETF?"
The elder smiled, mercury dripping from his molars. "An Exchange-Traded Fangs vehicle. Collateralized by your mother's cloned bone marrow."
The Hybrid Bull charged.
Phase Two: Blockchain Bloodletting
Leo ducked under crude oil breath, claws screeching across interest rate-sensitive armor. Victor's last message scrolled across his retinal display—a dying AI's confession:
**> Forgive me Leo
Iceland rigs diverted 22% hashrate
X-13 protocol requires your voluntary…**
The message dissolved as the Bull's hoof connected. Leo crashed through shelves of gold bars engraved with Property of Wu Clan Gene Trust.
"Voluntary this," Leo spat bloodied Bitcoin hashes. His claws found purchase in the Bull's CME copper gut. With a roar that shook dormant trading algorithms, he ripped upward—
Gore as Financial Instrument:
Bronze hide peeled back to reveal 2008 MBS put options fluttering like cancerous flags
LIBOR ticker intestines spilled oil-slick algorithms
Buried deep in the chest cavity: A pristine $100 bill from 1913
The elder froze. "You wouldn't dare—"
Leo shredded the bill. The paper split with a howl older than the Fed, revealing the First Wolf King's visage stamped in gamma-ray ink.
Phase Three: The Sanctuary Rises
The vault exploded with amber light. Bitcoin miners worldwide seized up as their hashrate funneled into Leo's claws. He carved the final sequence into the ceiling—genes interlaced with cryptographic keys.
Wolf King's Genetic Blockchain: 100% Synced
The Hybrid Bull disintegrated. The elder's nano-silver bones screeched as they reformed into a new monument—a colossal wolf molar biting down on the Fed's seal.
"You forgot the first rule of shorts," Leo gripped the elder's mercury throat. "Never get caught naked during a margin call."
He slammed the vampire into the molar's enamel. The Pale Hand elder shattered into 21 million Satoshi-unit shards.
Ephemera: The New Ledger
In the molar's shadow, Leo found the vault transformed:
Gold bars now engraved with wolf clan migration routes
Security cameras captured 1929 crash victims bowing to the new monument
His retinal HUD displayed unfamiliar coordinates: Antarctica (-78.4625, 106.8397)
X-13 Alert: Genetic Lock Deactivated
New Protocol Detected: SANCTUARY NETWORK
From the shadows, wet footsteps echoed. Leo spun, claws drenched in Fed Chairman Bernanke's blood—but froze.
Elaine Wu's clone stood barefoot in the golden dust, her eyes Nasdaq green. "Hello, X-13."
Threads & Shadows
Victor's Ghost: Mining rigs globally report 22% hashrate still missing, traced to Antarctic signals
Father's Legacy: New blockchain reveals Wu Tianyou mined Bitcoin precursor in 1987 using Fed mainframes
Currency Evolution: Shredded dollars sprout wolf fur at fracture points, their serial numbers replaced with gene sequences
SANCTUARY Code: Leo's blood now writes equations that rewrite T-Bill auction results
Cliffhanger DNA:
The clone extends a hand holding three items:
Leo's baby teeth preserved in Fed formaldehyde
A Betamax labeled Species Repo Agreement 1692
A titanium card stamped SANCTUARY Access Code: X-13
Beyond the vault's shattered doors, Wall Street's ruins pulse with unfamiliar howls. The new molar monument begins projecting a countdown:
GLOBAL SHORT RESET: 00:00:07
Leo's claws retract involuntarily. The clone smiles with his mother's dimples.
"Time to settle ancestral debts," she whispers in Greenspan's voice.
The ceiling blockchain blinks red. Somewhere in Antarctica, ice cracks.