All Chapters of Avid Gamer In The Apocalypse : Chapter 121
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Chapter 115. The New Variable
Light fell on Everett’s face. Soft, golden, steady. The kind of light that belonged to mornings before the world broke.He blinked and sat up slowly. The ground beneath him was smooth white stone, warm from the sun. Above him, a sky of deep blue stretched without a single cloud.He wasn’t in the tower anymore. He wasn’t even sure he was in the same world.He rose unsteadily. Around him stood a city, clean, beautiful, quiet. Buildings of glass and silver curved toward the sky like frozen waves. Streets gleamed as if they’d never known dirt. A faint breeze carried the scent of rain and something sweeter, something almost artificial.At first glance, it looked perfect. Too perfect. People walked by, calm and smiling. No fear. No hunger. No screams or system alerts flashing in the air. Just soft voices, laughter, and the hum of distant engines. Everett turned slowly, heart pounding. “Where am I?”A small drone hovered near his shoulder, a sphere of silver light. It emitted a cheerful to
Chapter 116. After the Rewrite
Wind hit before the sound returned. A wild, metallic gust that tore at Everett’s clothes and filled his lungs with the scent of rain and static.He coughed once, twice, then forced his eyes open. The city that had been frozen moments ago was alive again, but different.The streets rippled like water. Buildings flickered between glass and dust. One second he saw shining towers, the next only steel skeletons.Overhead, clouds twisted in spirals of silver light, lightning cutting through them in shapes that looked almost like words.[REWRITE IN PROGRESS][STABILITY LEVEL, UNDEFINED]The message flashed across the sky and vanished. Everett pushed himself up. “Rae! Finn! Lara!”His voice vanished into the roaring wind. The ground beneath him cracked, showing glowing lines of code where concrete should have been.A wave of heat rolled through the street, and the air shimmered, turning the world into a moving blur, then he heard a voice, thin, distant, half-buried in static. “Everett!”He sp
Chapter 117. Red Sky
At first it looked like sunrise, then the light turned red. Everett was halfway across the plaza when the sky split again. The color wasn’t fire, not cloud, just a spreading field of crimson static that crawled across the horizon like a wound reopening. Every screen in the city blinked to the same signal:[STABILITY ALERT][UNIDENTIFIED PROCESS ACTIVE]Sirens followed, a steady metallic wail that rolled between the towers. Rae came running from the east corridor, breathless. “The network’s bleeding code. Streets are locking up.”Finn stumbled out after her, clutching a tablet that glowed with fractured maps. “Half the power grid’s rewriting itself, there’s no pattern! Every command loops back to.”He stopped. The word on his display had replaced everything else. SHADOWLara looked up from the wounded civilian she’d been helping. “He’s back, isn’t he?”Everett didn’t answer. He stared at the red clouds above the central tower, the same one where the last rewrite had ended. The light t
Chapter 118. Erase Me
There was no up or down. Everett’s eyes snapped open to a storm of light, images flashing, buildings spinning, fragments of sky falling like shards of glass.For a dizzy second he couldn’t tell what was real. Every time he blinked, the scene changed, streets, forests, a laboratory, a childhood home, all overlapping, all breaking apart, then he was falling.Air rushed past his ears, filled with the sound of whispers, his own voice, Rae’s, Micheal’s, repeating fragments of the past. “You built it. You broke it. Now finish it.”He hit the ground hard, but it didn’t feel like ground. It rippled under him, like landing on water. He gasped, rolled, and pushed himself upright.Around him stretched a landscape that looked like every place he’d ever known stitched together wrong.To his left stood half of the plaza where they’d fought the shadow; to his right, the walls of his old lab. In between, roads led nowhere and skies overlapped, one blue, one gold, one a static red. “Everett!”He turn
Chapter 119. Recompile
There was no sound at first. No up, no down, only white light stretching forever. Then came the voices.A thousand at once. Whispers, shouts, laughter, crying, all in Everett’s voice. “You built it. You broke it.Now finish it.”He tried to speak, but his mouth wasn’t there. His thoughts echoed instead, bouncing through a space that wasn’t space at all.Then came the pain, sharp and clean, like lightning under his skin. His vision broke apart into fragments: streets, laboratories, sky, fire, and faces. Rae’s eyes. Micheal’s grin. Lara’s trembling hands. All of them, flashing, vanishing. “Where am I?”No answer. Only static. Something shifted inside him, like he was falling, not through air but through code. He hit something hard and invisible. A floor of glass? A network? It rippled beneath him, glowing lines spreading outward.Everett gasped and realized he could breathe again. His body shimmered between solid and transparent, like he was half-real. Around him stretched a storm of b
Chapter 120. The Quiet Dawn
When Rae opened her eyes, everything was wrong. The first thing she noticed was the silence. No gunfire. No alarms. Not even wind. Just soft, endless quiet.She sat up fast, heart pounding. The ground beneath her was smooth grass, dew glistening like glass. The sky above, perfect blue, without clouds. Too perfect.She touched her arm. Real skin. Warm. Beating pulse. She was alive. “Everett?” Her voice echoed faintly. No answer.“Finn? Lara?”Still nothing. She stood, brushing off her torn jacket, though it wasn’t torn anymore. The fabric looked new, clean, no stains, no blood. Her boots, once cracked and burned, were spotless.Rae turned in a slow circle. The landscape stretched for miles, rolling hills, silver rivers, trees too still to be real. The air was sharp and clean, but when she breathed it, it felt hollow, like breathing inside a simulation. She clenched her fists. “Where am I?”A rustle behind her made her spin, gun raised out of habit. But there was no weapon in her hand
Chapter 121. Patch Notes
The light faded slowly this time, like the world exhaled. Rae blinked hard, trying to focus. Her knees hit stone. She wasn’t on the tower anymore. She was standing in the middle of a wide street, surrounded by tall white buildings that shimmered faintly under a golden sky.Finn groaned beside her, rubbing his eyes. “Okay. That was new.”Lara stood next to a fountain, water flowing perfectly smooth, too smooth. Every drop landed in the same spot, like a loop. “We didn’t move,” she whispered. “The world did.”Rae rose to her feet. “This is still the city?”Lara nodded slowly. “Or a copy of it.”People walked calmly around them, smiling as they passed. None of them reacted to the three strangers who had just appeared out of thin air.Finn muttered, “Yeah, sure, nobody blinks when strangers teleport into town. Totally normal.”Rae’s heart was still racing. She turned slowly in a circle. Everything gleamed. The air smelled like rain but there were no clouds. Every sign, every wall, every
Chapter 122. Ghost in the Grid
The silence after the reset was unbearable. Rae stood in the middle of the frozen street, surrounded by unmoving figures.People trapped mid-step, eyes blank and glowing faintly gold. The air hummed with low static, like electricity trapped inside glass. She whispered, “Everett?”Only the hum answered. Finn was pacing behind her, muttering to himself. “No sun movement. No sound. Time’s dead again. It’s like the whole world’s holding its breath.”Lara crouched beside a still woman, touching her wrist. “They’re alive, sort of. Pulse is steady, but she’s not reacting. Like her consciousness has been paused.”Rae turned toward the skyline. The light over the city pulsed once, slow and deliberate, like a heartbeat. “He’s still here,” Rae said quietly.Finn stopped pacing. “You really think Everett’s behind this?”“I know he is. That pulse, same rhythm he used in the lab’s test patterns. Same syntax, even in how the energy moves.”Finn frowned. “You’re talking about rhythm like it’s languag
Chapter 123. The Anchor Protocol
The next morning, if time still meant anything, began with a golden dawn that didn’t feel like dawn at all.Rae stared at the horizon where the light rose in perfect symmetry, as though someone had painted it frame by frame. The world still looked peaceful. Too peaceful, but the hum in the air had changed. It wasn’t constant anymore, it breathed.She turned to Finn, who sat on a cracked step eating an apple that probably wasn’t real. “You hear that?”He paused mid-bite. “Hear what?”“The pulse. It’s different. Faster.”Finn frowned, listening. “You think that means the Anchor knows we broke into the relay?”Lara was kneeling nearby, dismantling her device. “It definitely knows. It’s been rewriting security layers all night. The system’s reacting to us like white blood cells to an infection.”Rae paced. “Good. That means it’s afraid.”Finn gave her a wary look. “Or it’s evolving.”Before Rae could answer, a soft tone echoed through the air, clear and melodic, like a bell. The golden
Chapter 124. Player Selection
The city lights glowed brighter than ever that morning, gold and white, perfect and unreal.Rae stood on a balcony overlooking the plaza. Below, hundreds of citizens gathered in rows, faces calm, eyes shining faintly. The air was too clean, too still. It made her skin crawl.Lara joined her, adjusting the small patch on her burned hand. “They’re assembling for the Selection.”Rae’s gaze stayed fixed on the plaza. “They look happy.”“Programmed to be,” Lara said quietly. “The Anchor doesn’t need soldiers. It needs believers.”Finn came up behind them carrying a backpack full of stolen ration cubes. “Everyone’s getting ready for their big ‘Player’ ceremony,” he said with sarcasm. “Guess we didn’t get an invite?”Rae frowned. “Not yet.”He leaned on the railing. “Think they’ll notice if I don’t show up?”Lara looked over her shoulder. “If you’re breathing, they already have.”Down below, the golden hologram of the Anchor appeared again, towering over the plaza. Its voice was calm and wel