
Stage 1
A Shocking Find
Decryption finished and the file opened. Reading down the screen, my hands shook and stopped over the keyboard. [PROJECT-X: NEURAL CONTROL PROTOCOL] Objective: manipulate citizens' brainwaves to achieve total social control Phase 1: medical chip distribution - complete Phase 2: network integration - in progress Phase 3: full activation - D-███ A plan for OmniCorp to reach directly into the heads of an entire city. Phase 1 was already finished. I went to send it straight to Phantom, and found one more encrypted file caught inside the folder. Its lock hint pointed at the project's own name.
Clue
[Secondary file lock hint] "Convert the letter X in the project name to its alphabet position number. Raise that number to the power of this project's phase count."