All Chapters of Seconds To Zero : Chapter 251
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Chapter 251
The Grand Lobby of the High Spire was quiet for exactly one minute. It was a strange, heavy silence. The fighting was over. The silver Enforcer guards were tied up on the floor. Their heavy armor was dented. Their electric sticks were broken. The poor people of the South District stood in the middle of the room. They looked down at their wrists. Every single bio-watch glowed with a bright, beautiful green light. They all had millions of years. They had more time than they could ever spend. They were immortal. At their feet, the floor was covered in a thick layer of solid gold time-tokens. The wealth of the Bank was scattered like dirty leaves in a forest. They had won. They had the money. But as the minute passed, the feeling in the massive room began to change. Maria, the tired factory worker in the dirty clothes, stood over the Enforcer Captain she had knocked out. She dropped her heavy metal purse. It hit the marble floor with a loud clank. Maria did not look at the green n
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Chapter 252
"Then what do we do with him?" the young man asked, lowering the broken glass slightly. Silas looked down at the rich man in the purple suit. The man was shaking, covered in white fire foam and dirt. "We teach him what it feels like to be us," Silas said. Silas bent down. He grabbed the lapels of the rich man’s expensive, custom-made purple silk jacket. Silas pulled hard. The jacket ripped off the man’s shoulders. Silas threw the expensive jacket onto the dirty, wet floor. "Take off your shoes," Silas ordered the rich man. "What?" the rich man cried. "These shoes cost ten years of life!""Take them off," the crowd yelled together. The rich man scrambled to take off his shiny leather shoes. He took off his gold rings. He took off his diamond tie. The angry crowd grabbed the beautiful clothes and the expensive jewelry. They threw them onto the floor. They stomped on them. They rubbed the expensive silk into the mud and the wet fire foam. They dragged the rich man’s pride into the
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Chapter 253
The walls moved closer. The room, which used to be the size of a football field, was now only fifty feet wide. And it was still shrinking. The ceiling was only two feet above Evan’s head. He had to crouch to avoid being hit by the falling pipes. Glitch was running around the small space like a terrified mouse. The little hacker held his cracked tablet, pressing buttons frantically. "There is no override!" Glitch screamed, crying openly. "The Architect locked the system from the outside! The doors are crushed! The stairs are crushed! We are going to be flat like pancakes!"Evan looked around wildly. He saw the Silencers. There were nearly a hundred of them left in the room. They were the glass monsters that Evan had saved. Their eyes were glowing with warm, human gold. They were no longer slaves. The Silencers did not panic. They did not scream. They looked at Evan. They looked at Marco trapped under the beam. Then, the Silencers moved. They moved with perfect, silent unison. Hal
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Chapter 254
The dark was heavy and thick. The wind roared like a wild beast in Evan Kennedy’s ears. He was falling. They were all falling. Down, down, down the massive, black maintenance shaft in the very center of the High Spire. Evan held tightly to Glitch. The tiny hacker squeezed his eyes shut and buried his face in Evan’s dirty jacket. Above them, Marco was falling too. But Marco was not falling alone.A heavy, black glass monster—a Silencer with warm, golden eyes—was holding the wounded grifter securely in its sharp arms. Nineteen other golden-eyed Silencers were falling around them like heavy, silent stones. Eighty floors. Seventy floors. Sixty floors. The speed was terrifying. The air rushed past them so fast it was hard to breathe. They were falling straight down to the bottom of the skyscraper. If they hit the concrete floor at this speed, they would be crushed into nothing. But Evan was looking down. He was looking at the deep, pulsing blood-red light at the very bottom of the sha
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Chapter 255
Evan, Marco, and Glitch stepped out of the dark service room. They walked onto a wide, beautiful balcony overlooking the Grand Lobby. The twenty golden-eyed Silencers followed silently behind them, their glass bodies reflecting the chaotic lights. Evan looked down over the balcony railing. His breath caught in his throat. The Grand Lobby was completely destroyed. It was no longer a palace of gold and velvet. It was a war zone. The people of the South District, the poor slum patrons who had been kept in terrible debt their entire lives, had taken over the floor. It was a full, massive riot. It wasn't just about the money anymore. It was about pure, burning revenge. The patrons had turned on the house. Evan watched in pure awe as the chaos unfolded below. To the left, a massive group of factory workers was attacking the high-stakes poker tables. These tables were made of rare, beautiful wood. They were the tables where the rich VIPs used to gamble away the lives of the poor. Now
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Chapter 256
One of the Enforcers was hit in the helmet with a heavy bottle. The guard fell to his knees. He looked up, desperate for help. Through the legs of the angry mob, the silver guard saw Evan. The guard locked eyes with the boy with the white hair. The guard reached out a shaking, armored hand toward Evan, begging for rescue. Begging for mercy. Evan stopped. He looked at the guard. Evan felt the core struggle in his heart. He did not like violence. He did not want to see anyone die, not even a Bank guard. He had given up infinite wealth to save the Silencers. He had spared Caspian’s life on the stairs, even though the cyborg tried to kill him. But Evan also remembered the rules of the South District. He remembered the old men freezing to death in the alleys because the guards had taken their last hour. He remembered the mothers crying outside the factory doors. Evan looked at the guard’s shaking hand. Then, Evan simply stepped over the guard's hand. He kept walking. He rejected the
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Chapter 257
Evan pointed to the smashed slot machines and the broken servers. "But you have to be careful," Evan warned them. His voice was serious and heavy. "The Bank is dead. But the people who built the Bank are still out there. The Architect escaped. The Board is in the sky. If you just burn this place down and fight each other, they will come back. They will build a new cage."Silas nodded slowly. He understood the warning. The core struggle was shifting. Freedom was not just about breaking chains; it was about learning how to walk without them. "We will be ready," Silas promised. "We are going to build a council. We are going to take the South District back. It belongs to us now.""Take care of them, Silas," Evan said. Evan stepped forward. He walked past Silas. He walked past Maria. He stepped through the empty, shattered metal frame of the front doors. Evan Kennedy walked out of the High Spire. He stepped out into the Plaza of Zeros. The cold, toxic rain of the South District hit hi
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Chapter 258
The concrete stairs were dark, cold, and smelled like burnt oil. High up in the ruined top floors of the High Spire, near Level 99, a broken body lay perfectly still. It was the body of Caspian. The Headhunter. A few minutes ago, Evan Kennedy had driven his bare hand into Caspian’s chest. Evan had ripped out the main power core. He had thrown the bloody, oily machine part onto the floor. Caspian’s red mechanical eye had faded to black. The cyborg had died. But the Bank’s greatest killer was expensive. He was a machine built to survive anything. Deep inside the base of Caspian’s metal skull, a tiny, hidden battery clicked. Click. Whirrr. A small green light blinked inside his dark brain. It was the Emergency Backup Protocol. It was not enough power to fight. It was not enough power to run fast. It was just enough power to wake up and crawl away. Caspian’s single human eye slowly opened. It was filled with blood. He blinked once. Twice. His right mechanical eye flickered. It did
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Chapter 259
The mechanic saw a tall man in a shredded black suit. He saw the thick, black oily fluid dripping onto the gold chips. He saw the terrifying, half-metal face. The mechanic’s eyes went wide. The mechanic dropped his wrench. "Hey," the mechanic said loudly. His voice cut through the noise of the crowd. "Hey! Look!"Other people stopped what they were doing. They turned around. The laughter died down. The cheering stopped. Within ten seconds, a large circle of empty space formed around Caspian. Hundreds of people were staring at him. They recognized the black suit. They recognized the cold, chrome eye, even though it was flickering and dim. They recognized the cruel shape of his face. "It is him," a woman whispered. She covered her mouth with her hands. Her eyes filled with fresh tears. "It is the Headhunter.""He took my brother," a man growled from the front of the crowd. He clenched his fists. "He took my father," a young girl said softly. The fear was still there in their voi
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Chapter 260
The people of the South District did not use guns. They used their bare hands. They used their tools. They used the absolute weight of their anger. Dozens of hands grabbed Caspian’s remaining left arm. They pulled in opposite directions. The strong, expensive metal joints groaned and protested. CRACK! Caspian’s left arm was ripped completely out of its socket. He screamed a terrible, metallic scream of agony. They grabbed his legs. They smashed his heavy metal boots with wrenches and broken table legs. Maria stood over him. She looked down at the monster who had haunted her nightmares. She raised a heavy, solid gold time-token in her hand. "This is for my husband," Maria whispered. She slammed the heavy gold token directly into Caspian’s shiny chrome skull. The chrome dented. The glass covering his red mechanical eye shattered into a dozen pieces. "Error. Error. Error," Caspian’s broken voice box repeated mechanically. The crowd swarmed over him completely. They buried him un
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