All Chapters of The Caffeine System: Critical Heart Protocol: Chapter 111
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Chapter 110: The Biting Birthday Candle
Raka laughed, his voice sounding joyful and slightly drunk. He stared at the black hole in the center of the giant flower, which in his eyes was an incredibly tempting, giant strawberry tart."Don't be shy, I just want to blow out the candle. My birthday was last month, but no one gave me a cake."On top of the 'cake', a beautiful, slender, and glowing purple 'candle' towered high. Its light was soft and calming.From its tip emanated a sweet aroma that made Raka even more entranced, forgetting the pain, the number on his chest, and the destroyed world.‘This is heaven. This is home,’ he thought."Raka! Don't go near it! That's not a candle!" Vanya's voice shrieked from the intercom, but to Raka's ears, it was just the sound of an out-of-tune party horn. He ignored it.Behind him, Luna ran haltingly. The girl tried to scream his name, but her hoarse voice couldn't escape from behind her mask. She tripped over a tree root, which in Raka's eyes was a luxurious red carpet.Raka reached ou
Chapter 111: The Last Breath (BPM 400)
Darkness began to swallow Raka. The slowing sound of his mechanical heartbeat sounded like a death knell ringing in his ringing ears.Click... whirrr...He could feel the thorny tentacles digging deeper, as if the plant were savoring every last drop of life remaining within him. The foul stench from the flower's mouth filled his sense of smell.On the threshold between life and death, a memory flashed through Raka's mind. His father's voice from the old radio."...for God's sake, if you hear this, stay away from the east. Hide. Raka, Maya, wherever you are... Dad is so sorry..."‘I haven't...’ a faint final thought formed in his oxygen-deprived brain. ‘I haven't seen them again...’[System: Oxygen to Brain: 3%... Initiating Permanent Shutdown Procedure... Goodbye, Barista.]Just as the System said its farewell, a shrill scream shattered the despair."RAKA! CATCH!"It was Vanya's voice. It sounded much closer than before. Raka, with the last of his consciousness, opened his almost-close
Chapter 112: Drunk on Spore Fluid
"Raka... don't move..." Vanya's trembling voice could be heard from a distance.Raka stood in the middle of a puddle of purple spore fluid, his body still vibrating violently. Thin smoke billowed from the reactor in his chest, which was now glowing bright red, too hot to touch.He had just ripped out the core of the giant mushroom monster, and in return, the monster had bathed him in its most toxic essence.Vanya and Luna stood frozen near the truck, not daring to get closer. They watched in horror as the purple fluid didn't burn Raka's skin, but instead seeped in.His open pores seemed to drink it, sucking every drop of the neurotoxin into his already mutated bloodstream.Raka's eyes, which had glowed purple during Overdrive mode, now turned into swirling mini galaxies.[System: A-A-ANOMALY! THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE! The subject should be experiencing massive organ failure! But... but the biometric data shows... he's absorbing it! His Techno-Organic tissue is assimilating the spores and co
Chapter 113: Brutal Detoxification
SPLASH! Raka woke with a violent jolt. He gasped for air greedily, like a drowning man. The first thing he felt was a bone-chilling cold, followed by ice water streaming down from his hair, soaking his face and washing the remnants of hallucinations from his eyes. "Good. You're back, Addict," Vanya's cold voice was the first thing to greet him. Raka blinked, his vision blurry and spinning. He tried to wipe his face, but his hands wouldn't move. He realized he was sitting in one of the passenger seats inside the cabin of The Toxic Goose truck. His wrists and ankles were tied securely to the seat frame using seatbelts and zip ties. The pale morning sunlight pierced through the truck's iron-barred windows, signaling that the long, horrifying night had passed. The truck was parked silently in an abandoned camping area.
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Chapter 114: In Raka's Brain
"GIVE IT BACK TO ME!" Raka suddenly went berserk. Not from pain anymore, but from a hunger for the poison. He struggled so hard that the truck seat creaked, trying to snap the zip ties on his wrists. "Vanya, give me that purple coffee! I can see them! I can see our audience! They like me! Give me more!" Raka babbled, his eyes staring wildly at the empty air, saliva dripping from the corner of his lips. Raka, who had always tried to be rational and sarcastic, now looked so pathetic. He was no longer the 'Captain' who defeated monsters. He was nothing more than an addict who had lost his mind for one more dose. Baginda, sitting on the rear dashboard, hid in fear upon hearing its master's roars. The goose had never seen Raka in this condition. Luna couldn't bear to watch it anymore. The mute girl stood up and approached Raka. She didn't carr
Chapter 115: The Admin's Confession
"Ten thousand beats... It feels like being given spare change to buy a life at a near-bankrupt grocery store," Raka muttered. His voice sounded hoarse.He sat limply at the edge of the rear door of the ruined The Toxic Goose truck bed. His legs dangled outside, occasionally the tips of his shoes scraping against the cracked toll road asphalt with the vehicle's jolts.Before him, the sea of purple fog that had once claimed his sanity began to recede down the slope, looking like a puddle of poison starting to fade, swept away by the dawn wind.The truck moved slowly but steadily. In the front cabin, Luna sat behind the wheel. Her sharp eyes stared at the ascending path, while Baginda curled up in the passenger seat beside her.Luna took over the role of driver because she knew Raka could barely lift his own hands after the brutal dialysis process from Vanya."Still alive back there, Guinea Pig?" Vanya's voice broke the silence, sounding from behind her messy laboratory table inside the
Chapter 116: Out of the Fog
"Luna! Step on the gas until we are out of their sensor range!" Raka shouted. The white flare in the sky slowly dimmed, but the thousands of blue eyes in the valley below grew even brighter. Blinking in rhythm with the mechanical heartbeat in Raka's chest. The Toxic Goose truck roared wildly, its off-road tires throwing sharp pebbles as Luna slammed the steering wheel past the final corner at the top of the slope. Suddenly, the world seemed to explode in a painful golden color. "My eyes! Damn it, Vanya! I'm blind!" Raka covered his face with his left hand, while his right hand clutched the plate on his chest. After hours of being trapped in the suffocating dimness of the purple fog, their truck finally broke through the outer boundary of the Hallucinogen Zone. The genuine morning sunlight, and not the luminescence of spores, hit the win
Chapter 117: Gladiator's Invitation
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! A high-pitched alarm sound exploded right in the center of Raka's nervous system. It didn't come from the outside, but rather from inside his own skull. Raka jolted violently, his head hitting the steering wheel of The Toxic Goose truck with a loud thud. "Argh! My ears! System, lower the volume!" Raka shouted, clutching his head with both hands. Inside the cramped cabin, Baginda was also startled and flapped his wings wildly, while Luna immediately drew her knife, her eyes watchfully sweeping every inch of The Hive's city wall ahead of them. [System: GLOBAL WARNING! Entering Content Sovereignty Territory!][System: PvP (Player vs Player) AREA DETECTED! WELCOME TO THE ARENA, MY BELOVED CONTENTS!] "PvP?" Raka hissed, his breathing heavy. "Vanya! Did you hear that alarm too?!" Vanya crawled qui
Chapter 118: The Noisy Walled City
"What the hell is this? A music concert in the middle of the apocalypse?" Raka shouted, his hands trembling on the steering wheel due to the sudden sound shock. The Toxic Goose truck roared past the damp steel gate tunnel, and at that very moment, the silent world that had been enveloping Raka's escape exploded into a cacophony that assaulted all his senses. Raka's ears were hit by the thumping of high-volume techno music echoing between the concrete walls. Purple and yellow neon lights clung to every building pillar, emitting a blinding light that made the purple fog outside earlier feel like a children's playground. "Welcome to the new civilization, Raka!" Vanya's voice was heard from the intercom, this time without a cynical tone. "Look at the monitor! The electromagnetic frequency here is very dense. They have an independent electrical transmitter!" Raka slowed down his tru
Chapter 119: The Lobby of False Gods
"Stay close to me," Raka whispered. The automatic doors of the Walled City's main Coliseum lobby opened with a hiss of high-pressure air. Raka stepped inside, followed by Luna who remained alert and Baginda who walked with a haughty strut as if he were the owner of the place. Raka noticed the floor made of black marble polished to reflect shadows, and along the walls, pillars of light displayed the statistics of the top fighters. Raka then looked down at himself. He was only wearing a dull shirt torn at the shoulder, jeans full of oil stains, and a grimy barista apron he found in the warehouse ruins the other day. At his waist, tucked a rusty cement trowel. Around him, other System Users looked like heroes from a fantasy comic. There was a man in glowing gold armor, a woman in a fur cloak continuously emitting sparks, and a group of muscular men with giant swords on their backs.