All Chapters of Zombie Slaying System: Chapter 171
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Chapter 155. The Pulse Anomaly
Jonah woke up on the floor. Cold. Breathless. Sweat dripping from his hairline.He blinked at the ceiling, vision blurred, heart pounding as if someone else had been using it. His fingers shook when he pushed himself up. The room around him, the small safehouse he and Lisa shared, looked wrong.The walls glowed faintly in the dark. Soft rings of light were drawn across them. Smooth circles, layered, overlapping, pulsing in quiet waves. Blue in some places. Red in others.Jonah froze. His whisper came weak. “No, no, I didn’t do this.”A shiver ran through him. The circles were too perfect, too clean, too familiar. Hive patterns. His throat tightened. “Not again.”Lisa rushed through the door, hair messy, breathing hard. “Jonah! I heard something.” She stopped dead. Her eyes widened at the glowing marks. “What, what is that?”Jonah swallowed hard. He couldn’t meet her eyes. “I don’t know.”Lisa stepped closer, touching one of the circles. The light rippled under her fingers like wate
Chapter 156. Serra’s Warning
Night fell early over New Crest. The sky, usually touched by a soft blue glow ever since the towers awakened again, was strangely dark tonight. Clouds covered the moon. A quiet heaviness pressed over the city like a blanket made of shadows. Lisa felt it the moment she stepped outside.She stood on the balcony of the rebuilt council hall, arms crossed, staring down at the streets. People were moving again, slow, cautious, whispering whenever they saw a flicker of light float across a window. The hum was weaker tonight, softer, almost tired.Behind her, a door opened. Footsteps. Heavy. Steady. Familiar. “Lisa.”She turned. Serra stood in the doorway, her posture straight as a blade. But her eyes, normally sharp and cold, held something different tonight. Something like fear.Lisa frowned. “You shouldn’t be here. I thought you were still grounded from the defense breach.”Serra stepped forward. “I don’t answer to them anymore.”Lisa raised an eyebrow. “Then who do you answer to?”Serra
CHAPTER 157. THE BLUE AND THE RED
Jonah sat on the edge of the chamber, hands pressed against the shimmering floor. The blue light beneath him pulsed gently, matching the slow beat of his heart. For a moment, he felt calm, almost normal. But only for a moment. Lisa stood a few steps away, watching him carefully. “How long has it been happening?”Jonah didn’t answer right away. He kept his eyes on the floor, studying the patterns rising like breath from the ground.“Jonah,” she repeated softly. “Answer me.”He exhaled slowly. “Since yesterday.”“Yesterday?” Lisa’s voice cracked. “Why didn’t you tell me immediately?”Jonah lifted his head. His eyes glowed faintly, one blue, one gold, each shifting like reflections on water. “Because I thought I could fix it,” he murmured.Lisa stepped closer. “What exactly is it?”Jonah’s jaw tightened. “The network. It’s changing. Splitting.”Lisa’s stomach sank. “The blue and the red?”He nodded. “Yes.”Lisa swallowed. “Show me.”Jonah hesitated. For a brief second, fear flickered a
Chapter 158. The Mirror of Olos
Jonah had learned to recognize the feeling of danger before it arrived. It did not come as fear. It came as silence.A deep, ringing silence in the back of his skull, like the world holding its breath. It was that silence that pushed him toward the ruins of the old research district.A frozen skeleton of metal and ash on the east side of New Crest. The streets here were twisted, melted by the old pulse storms. Windows sagged like tired eyes. Vines of blue dust crept up abandoned walls, glowing faintly under the afternoon sun.Jonah walked slowly, breathing carefully. Every breath carried a soft shimmer beneath his skin. People in the streets watched him pass and stepped back, whispering.Lisa had seen their fear. She had tried to shield him from it, but Jonah understood. He wasn’t just Jonah anymore.He reached the cracked dome of the former Hive Laboratory. The doors were buried under debris, half collapsed. A faint blue line pulsed under the rubble, almost like a heartbeat.Jonah k
Chapter 159. Lisa’s Choice
Morning light poured through the cracked windows of the council chamber, soft and gold, but no one inside felt calm. The room buzzed with anxious whispers, arguments that rose and fell like crashing waves. New Crest’s leaders sat around the long metal table, faces tired, eyes worried.Lisa stood near the center, hands clasped tightly behind her back. Her veins still glowed faint blue from the connection, faint pulses running under her skin like a quiet signal. People tried not to stare, but they did anyway. Some with awe. Some with fear. Most with confusion.Jonah stood in the hallway outside, unable to enter. The council insisted it was safer that way. He watched through the doorway, shoulders tense, the soft glow in his eyes shifting with every breath.Lisa tried not to look at him too often, but she felt his presence like a heartbeat she couldn’t ignore.Councilman Darrin slammed his fist on the table. “This is madness. The towers are waking again. Look at the streets! Every mac
Chapter 160. Infection Pattern
The east sector had always been the quiet part of New Crest, a place of long metal corridors, old workshops, and humming machines that never fully shut down. But this morning, the sector felt wrong. Too still. Too empty. A strange whisper of red light crawled across the walls as if the metal had begun breathing on its own.Jonah stood at the entrance, staring at the silent hallway. His hands trembled slightly. He did not know if it was fear or the strange pulse inside him shifting again. The blue vein on his wrist flickered. The gold one beside it pulsed weakly. He tried to steady them, but they kept changing rhythm.Lisa touched his shoulder gently. “Are you okay?”Jonah nodded, but it was a lie. “I’m fine. Just… listening.”Kevin stayed behind them, clutching the half-bright sphere. “It feels weird here,” the boy whispered. “Like someone is watching us.”Lisa looked around slowly. “Jonah, do you hear anything?”Jonah closed his eyes. The air hummed in two tones, one soft and blue,
Chapter 161. Jonah’s Split
Jonah sat alone inside the tower chamber, the glass walls glowing with soft blue waves. The tower’s heartbeat pulsed through the floor like distant thunder, slow and calm, but Jonah felt none of that calm inside himself. His own pulse came in uneven bursts, jumping from warm gold to cold blue without warning.He pressed both hands to the sides of his head and whispered, “Stop… please stop.”The two voices inside him did not listen. One voice was calm and warm and protective. It sounded like the breath of the spiral, the gentle tone that had guided him the day he merged with the light.The other voice was sharp and hungry and always whispering like a machine trying to crawl into his bones. It sounded like the Residual Hive. It sounded like Olos.Sometimes the two voices spoke over each other. Sometimes they argued. Sometimes they blended together until Jonah felt he was listening to a stranger who lived inside his own chest.Jonah closed his eyes and said softly, “I need to think. J
Chapter 162. Lisa in the Wires
The link chamber was colder than Lisa expected. She stepped inside slowly, her boots echoing on the metal floor. The walls were smooth silver, shaped like the inside of a giant shell. Thin streams of light flowed along the curves, moving like veins under transparent skin.She stared at the center of the room. The neural cradle. A tall pillar made of glass and light waited for her, humming in a soft blue tone. Small cables rose from the floor like vines, twitching gently as if sensing her presence.Lisa swallowed hard. She had promised herself she would never enter the network again, not after Jonah almost dissolved inside it. But this time was different. Jonah’s mind was fracturing. His voice was splitting. He wandered the city at night without memory. And the engineers in the east sector had vanished with no trace except red humming machines that whispered unity.Lisa took a deep breath. “I have to do this,” she whispered.Footsteps echoed behind her. “Lisa, wait.”She turned. Ke
Chapter 163. Olos Reconstructed
The underground servers had not stirred in years. They slept beneath New Crest like forgotten bones, cold, silent, and buried under layers of dust and collapsed corridors. Most people believed the old labs were dead ruins, sealed after the Hive’s fall. No one dared go near them. No one except Jonah.He walked alone through the lower tunnels, following the faint pull in his chest. His veins glowed softly in the darkness, blue on one side, gold on the other. Every step he took sent ripples of light down his arms. The hum inside him grew louder the deeper he went.Lisa’s worried voice echoed in his memory. “You don’t need to go there, Jonah… please.”But he did. Because something had called him. A whisper in his sleep. A voice he knew too well.The tunnels opened into a collapsed laboratory. Debris lay everywhere, broken screens, melted glass, bits of old servers held together by rust and stubborn metal. The air smelled of dust, age, and something colder… like still electricity waiting
Chapter 164. Serra’s Rebellion
The night in New Crest did not feel like night anymore. The towers whispered softly in the dark, their blue glow spreading across the ruined streets like a calm river. People slept without fear, but under the quiet surface, something darker moved.Serra walked alone through the abandoned west sector, her boots crunching over broken glass. She carried no lantern. The faint light from her wrist-scanner was enough. The air around her felt colder than the rest of the city, as if the Breath-Born avoided this place.She stopped beside a rusted metal door. Two guards stepped out of the shadows.One whispered, “Captain Serra. Are you sure about this?”Serra’s eyes were sharp. “Open the door.”They hesitated, but her command left no room for argument. The door unlocked with a shrill metallic groan.Serra stepped inside the old maintenance warehouse.Dozens of people stood waiting, some engineers, some soldiers, some citizens who had once trusted Jonah but now feared what he was becoming. Th