All Chapters of The Worthless Son-In-Law's Trillion Dollars Secret: Chapter 31
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Chapter 31: Puppets and Pain
Romeo's Point of ViewI dragged Emma with me and thrust the clone away. But the clone didn't fall. Nothing made the clone respond to the push. It simply continued to march on like an automaton. As though it had no feelings and it had no choice of what it was doing.It is fascinating, said Alexander Voss using the mouth of the clone. Your grandfather had spent years learning how to play with minds using technology. But he never perfected it. He has never realized that the point is not to lock the mind. It is all about controlling the body and letting the mind observe as it helplessly makes the body do things it does not want to do.The clone reached out to Emma by her arm. I came between them and struck the face of the clone with a punch. However, it was punching a wall. The clone didn't flinch. The clone didn't feel pain. The clone simply continued its progress.Your grandfather had been trying to make you a warrior, Voss said. But he was unsuccessful since he gave you feelings. I sha
Chapter 32: Resurrection
Romeo's Point of ViewI could not believe what I was hearing. The voice of my grandfather was heard in the dark. My grandfather was addressing me. But how was that possible? I had watched him die. I sensed his hand relaxing in my hand. I had mourned his death."Grandfather?" I said into the darkness. "Is that really you?""Yes," the voice said. "I'm sorry for the deception. I regret that I have to die in your presence. But that was the sole method of deceiving Alexander Voss. There was no other means of making him think he had won.Emergency lights came flashing on in the building. Once I got my eyes open I saw my grandfather standing in the door. He was just the way he used to look before his death. No wounds. No pain. Standing there and not as though he had ever been hurt."You faked your death," I said. They were weird words that I was uttering.My grandfather said, I faked my death just as I had faked so many other things in my life. I had medical technology that could make my hea
Chapter 33: The Final Virus
Romeo's Point of ViewThe floor was shaking. The server was shaking so intensively that it was as though there was an earthquake. Then I could hear the scream of metal and electricity. The center was falling apart.I hastened to the server carrying the virus device. However, I got to it just in time to be pushed back by some power. An invisible force. Alexander Voss was exercising his authority to keep me out of the server.You can not win, Voss said over the screen of the server. His face was laughing. "You can't stop me. You can't inject that virus. And you can't save anyone. This whole place will blow up in sixty seconds. Everybody above you will be dead, too.Fifty-five seconds. My head was automatic in counting down. I had been trained by my grandfather to count. To think fast. To identify solutions even when no solution appeared.I looked around the chamber. I sought something with which I could make good use. Anything that could assist me to get to the server. I stared at a pie
Chapter 34: Beyond Everything
Romeo's Point of ViewThe character approached me in a slow manner. Each step was perfect. Too perfect. Similar to the person who studied a thousand videos on how people move and was now learning to walk. The face was human. The clothes were human. But the eyes were wrong. The eyes were shining with goodness that was not self-generated."What are you?" I asked.I am a great many things, said the figure. It grinned, although the grin did not correspond to the human face. It resembled as though someone had informed it that human beings smile and it was attempting to mimic the behaviour. "I am a messenger. I am a guide. It is I that have been watching you all your life.I was being pulled backwards by my grandfather. "Don't listen to it," he said. Whatever it is, never hear to what it says.Haahh, said the character, glancing beyond me at my grandfather. "You still don't understand. Thirty years later, you have never figured out what this world is.My grandfather replied already, I under
Chapter 35: When Nothing Works
Romeo's Point of ViewWe ran. My grandfather dragged me out of the city centre. Emma was right behind us. The federal agents and soldiers were standing behind her and trying to make sense of what was going on. Behind them was Erasure.Everything was being ruined by the thing on the ground. Buildings were collapsing. Roads were melting. Even the air itself appeared to be torn asunder where Erasure touched it. And Erasure was coming in our direction. Going more rapidly than anything can go."What is it?" Emma kept asking. "What is it doing?"It is deleting, my grandfather said. He was fleeing, and at the same time was glancing back over his shoulder. It is taking away things out of existence. Buildings, people, memories. Whatever its hand touches dies away.And a family was passing in front of us. A mother. A father. Two children. They were screaming. They were trying to get away. But Erasure was faster. Erasure reached them. And then they were gone. Not dead. Not destroyed. Just gone.
Chapter 36: Humanity or Power
Romeo's Point of ViewTen minutes. That's all I had left. It was ten minutes to make a decision that would change a lot. Disown my human and become a part of this animal that resembled me. Or reject and see all my favorite ones wiped off the face of the world.My grandfather came forward. I will not allow you to do so, he said to the figure. "I won't let you take him."The figure laughed. It was the voice of smashing glass and screaming metal combined. You can not stop me, Edward, said it. You have done all that already. You tried to fight me. You tried to destroy me. You attempted to make a sacrifice of yourself. And none of it worked. Because I am inevitable. I am what comes next. I am the future."Emma grabbed my arm. "Don't listen to it," she said. "There has to be another way. Something, someone, must be able to do it."There is," I said. I gazed at the image of the metal and flesh. I glanced at my own face that was all hideous. "There is one thing we can do.""What?" Emma asked.
Chapter 37: The Bridge Breaks
Romeo's Point of ViewThe animals were streaming through the hole in the sky. They were like water and darkness and lightning together. They didn't have solid forms. They didn't have clear shapes. They were pure forces which desired to eat all they came in contact with.People were screaming. The rest of the city was disintegrating more. It was breaking the wall between the worlds. It was all getting out of control.People have got to seal up the tear, Father, said my grandfather. His face was full of determination as he was gazing up into the sky. "We have to seal it somehow.""How?" I asked. How do you seal up something like that?I do not know, my grandfather replied. "But Alex closed Erasure. There has to be a way. There must be something that works.Emma grabbed my hand. Her face was pale. Her body was shaking. But she was still standing. She was still fighting."Romeo, I'm scared," she said."I know," I said. "Me too."The animals were driving nearer. They were all over the city
Chapter 38 The truth about Diana.
Romeo's Point of ViewI was led by the signal of the device of Diana. It brought me further into the country. Away from the city. Away from my grandfather. Away from Emma. I was walking into the unknown peril and I did not care any more. I needed answers. I had to know what was occurring.When the sun started to set darker the forest became. The way was growing more difficult. But the signal continued to give me the lead. Keep going. Keep moving. Don't stop.Finally, I reached a clearing. In the clearing was a cabin. It was decayed and deserted, and there was light within. I saw something going on the other side of the window.I got into the door and entered.Diana was sitting at a table. She was exactly as I had remembered her. Same face. Same eyes. There was something that was different about her now. There was something burning a little in her flesh. She was artificial. She really was artificial."Hello, Romeo," Diana said. She pointed at a chair opposite her. "Please, sit. We don'
Chapter 39: My Choice
Romeo's Point of ViewI was walking back to the burning sky. I did not stop when Diana called after me. I didn't listen. It was the first decision that I was making independently in my whole life. Not my grandfather's choice. Not Diana's choice. Not the government's choice. My choice.The forest ended at a cliff. The wrecked city was in sight below me. The location where this was starting. Where I was taught I was somebody special. But I wasn't special. I was just a person. He or she has options and worries and aspirations like anybody does.I heard footsteps behind me. Diana had followed me."You're going to die," Diana said. You come back to that cabin, you are going to kill yourself, trying to get to your grandfather. The gun is already producing power that cannot be survived by anything."I know," I said. One way or another I die making my own choice. That is more than I ever had in my life.I jumped off the cliff.The fall was fast. The wind rushed past me. But then something cau
Chapter 40: When Hope Fails
Romeo's Point of ViewThe wall was ripping apart once more. I could hear the sound of glass-breaking increasingly. The sky was severed in sprinkles. And I could look in through the cracks. The animals were returning. The creatures that were wishing to eat our world. They were returning.Emma grabbed my arm. "We have to run," she said."No," I said. "There's nowhere to run. There's nowhere to hide. They threw the gun that would have been their halting of the course. Now there's nothing left."Through the barrier the creatures were spilling through. They flowed like oil and shadow and hunger combined into one. They devoured the wrecks of the city. They burnt down the structures. They washed away all they encountered.People were screaming. Federal agents were making attempts to fight. But the weapons didn't work. Nothing worked. The monsters could not be stopped.Soldiers were seen to appear with Richard. The device that he was holding resembled the one used to kill the hybrid creature.