All Chapters of The Contract Ex-Husband of Wealthy Widow: Chapter 51
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Chapter 51: The Enemy Within
"Give me the damn bottle, Julianna! Dammit, do you want us all to die?" Raka screamed, his voice hoarse, swallowed by the howling wind at the cliff's edge. Julianna snorted, casually swinging the silver bottle containing the AI-killing virus. "You think this is just about a virus, Raka? You think I’m cold enough to just let the world end?" "Your actions don't exactly scream 'good guy,' do they, shit!" Raka lunged forward, even though his steps were labored. His ribs, cracked from the fall from the Citadel last night, felt like they were being pierced by hot iron every time he took a breath. "I’m a professional, Raka. I’m paid to save you," Julianna said coldly, her eyes fixed sharply on Elena, who stood trembling behind Raka. "Saving me by killing Elena? What kind of garbage logic is that?" Raka threw a quick punch, but Julianna dodged it with ease. Julianna spun the bottle, then tucked it into her tactical pocket. "I don't have a choice. My client doesn't want 'The Seed' variable
Chapter 52: Stranded In The Hacker Village
"Let me go, damn it! This hurts!" Elena screamed, struggling against the tight grip of the coarse nylon netting.Elena’s hands shook violently as she tried to squeeze any remaining strength from her battered body after her freefall from the Citadel cliffs. The fishing net was wrapped around her so tightly that it left her dangling a foot and a half above the cold river water. On the edge of a rotting wooden dock, three men stood watching her with unreadable expressions. They wore ragged clothes, but their eyes were incredibly sharp, as if they were calculating every single cell in Elena’s body."Stay still, Miss. If you keep moving, this binary knot is just going to tighten automatically," said the oldest-looking man, Mada."What do you even mean by a binary knot?! I’m a human being, not a computer code! Get me down right now!" Elena barked, even as her breath started to catch in her throat."Mathematically speaking, your body mass is putting forty eight kilograms of pressure on the n
Chapter 53: Inner War In One Body
"Get out of my head, damn it! Get out!" Raka groaned, his voice hoarse from the unbearable pain.Thud.His own right hand swung around, slamming into his jaw with enough force to snap his head back. Fresh blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, but Raka didn't seem to care. He used his left hand to grab his right wrist, which kept moving on its own like it had a mind of its own."Raka! What are you doing? Stop!" Elena screamed.Elena’s face was ghost-white, her eyes wide with terror as she watched the man she loved torture himself in the middle of the ruined The Cache pier. The blue light from her stomach was still throbbing, illuminating the dark scene filled with smoke and the sulfurous stench of the explosion."Don't come any closer, Elena! Run!" Raka barked.Thud.Once more, Raka's right hand struck his own cheekbone. He fell onto the muddy ground, rolling around as he wrestled with his own limb. Julianna stood tall a few yards away, her rifle still aimed at Raka's head, but he
Chapter 54: Brain Surgery In The Woods
"Hold his legs, dammit! He’s trying to kick me in the face!" Leo yelled, struggling to pin down Raka’s body as he thrashed like a madman."Shut it, Leo! If you keep shaking, this razor is going to slice his throat open instead!" Gramps Karsa barked. His voice was raspy but carried an undeniable authority, cutting through the roar of the wind that shook the branches of the massive banyan tree above them."Look at him, Gramps, Raka’s got the strength of a possessed rhino! Julianna! Help me out here, stop just staring at the bushes!" Leo turned toward Julianna, who stood thirty feet away, her machine gun ready and eyes scanning the perimeter."I’m watching the Architects' drones circling above us, Leo! If I let up, we’re all dead from a missile strike!" Julianna snapped without looking back. Her face was tense, sweat dripping down her forehead in the middle of the humid, suffocating forest.Raka let out a groan, a sound that didn't even seem human anymore. His eyes rolled back, revealing
Chapter 55: Child From The Past
"Don’t you dare touch that tank, Leo! You want your hand to liquefy?!" Julianna barked, slapping Leo’s trembling hand away from the glass."I’m just trying to kill the stabilizer, Anna! Look at it, the fluid is boiling! This embryo is sucking every last bit of juice from my backup batteries!" Leo shouted back, his voice just as loud. He was breathing hard, and cold sweat matted his pale face."If you shut it down now, the blast will level this entire forest! Gramps Karsa is dead, so don’t let his sacrifice be for nothing just because you’re losing your mind!" Julianna grabbed Leo’s jacket collar, forcing him to look into her eyes, which were burning with rage and grief."But that’s no ordinary baby, Anna! You see it, don’t you? The cells are dividing at lightning speed! That thing, it’s not from this world!" Leo pointed a shaking finger at the makeshift incubator sitting on the damp earth, sheltered by the shadows of the banyan tree that now felt like a silent witness to a small-scale
Chapter 56: Comedy Amidst The Invasion
"Raka, move your ass! You want us to get liquidated over a damn diaper?!" Julianna screams, unloading her machine gun toward the shattered window of the shack."You think it’s easy putting this thing on while getting rained on by lasers, huh?!" Raka fires back, his voice just as loud. His hands are shaking, trying to stick the diaper tape onto the waist of the little boy who was 'born' from an incubator tube just a few hours ago."Jesus, the smell! Rak, what the hell does this kid eat? It smells like nuclear waste mixed with a dead rat!" Leo covers his nose with his shirt while frantically typing on his cracked tablet."How should I know! He was born the size of a four-year-old, obviously his plumbing is different!" Raka curses, his face turning beet red from holding his breath.The old wooden shack on the edge of the forest vibrates violently. Outside, the sky that should have been dawning is now blotted out by hundreds of Architects' fighter ships, their red lasers strafing everythi
Chapter 57: The Child’s Betrayal
"Let go of Elena’s hand, kid, I’m begging you, don't do this!" Raka screamed, his voice hoarse, swallowed by the roar of the Architects' ship engines shaking the forest.Raka’s hands gripped Elena’s ankle tight as she began to lift toward the blue tractor beam coming from the sky. Her body floated, pulled by force toward the mothership’s hatch that hung open like a steel monster’s mouth. Elena was crying, her hands reaching out for Raka, trying to fight the artificial gravity that tortured her joints."Raka, hold on, my hands are slipping!" Elena shrieked, her face pale under the blinding blue light.The little boy stood just six feet in front of them. His face, a perfect mix of Raka and Elena, remained calm, far too calm for a creature that had just triggered a small scale apocalypse. He stared at Raka with glowing red eyes, ignoring the desperate cries of the man he had called "Papa" only minutes ago."The identity of 'Dad' is an irrelevant emotional label for the asset retrieval pr
Chapter 58: Climbing The Sky Castle
"You have truly lost your mind, Raka! There is no way we are catching that city sized thing in a satay vendor’s hot air balloon, damn it!" Leo screamed hysterically, his voice hitting a high pitch in the middle of the eerie silence of a night that had turned terrifying.Raka did not care. He dragged his limping leg, leaving a trail of fresh blood on the dry grass. The hole in his right thigh from the Architects' laser felt like thousands of hot needles stabbing him all at once. "We don't have a choice, Leo! All the Architects' planes use biometric locks. This piece of junk is the only thing that doesn't have a system they can hijack!""But it is a satay balloon, Raka! A satay balloon!" Leo pointed at the large, parked hot air balloon at the edge of the village field, complete with a faded banner that read Uncle Jaja’s Young Goat Satay. "The load is already overflowing with the grill and the charcoal! You want us to die like idiots?!""Dying like an idiot is staying here and waiting fo
Chapter 59: Falling With Style
"Open your eyes, Leo, if you pass out now, we’re seriously dead," Raka shouted, his voice nearly drowned out by the roar of the wind, which was deafening."I don't want to look, I hate heights, Raka, I’d rather die with my eyes shut than die watching the ground," Leo shrieked hysterically. His body spun uncontrollably in the air, looking like a top thrown from the heavens. Leo’s glasses had flown off somewhere, forcing him to squint against the battering of terminal velocity winds."Grab my hand, now," Raka drove his body downward, performing a diving maneuver by pinning his arms tight to his sides. The hole in his right thigh was leaking blood that froze instantly in the extreme cold of thirty thousand feet. The sting was incredible, like a white hot iron being twisted deeper into his flesh. But Raka didn't care. He had to catch Leo before his best friend became a puddle on the metallic roof of the Citadel.With one powerful lunge, Raka managed to snag Leo’s wrist. He drew a sharp b
Chapter 60: The Engine Room's Death Dance
"Get out of the way, Anna, let me handle this piece of junk," Raka yelled while rolling hard across the hot, steel floor."Don't be a hero, Raka, your leg looks like shredded meat, you want to die for nothing," Julianna shouted back, her voice raspy from the dust and oil fumes."Shut up, I am not letting this thing crush me."Raka winced in agony as the wound in his right thigh tore open again, leaking fresh blood. The ,pigiant robot in front of him, a Goliath series nearly thirteen feet tall, had just slammed its metal foot down where Raka had been standing a second ago. The thud of metal hitting the floor sent a vibration through the room that made Raka’s ears ring. The robot wasn't slow, every movement was precise, driven by hydraulics that hissed like an angry cobra."Raka, look out, he is about to fire again," Leo screamed from behind a wrecked control desk.The robot’s forearm spun, revealing a plasma cannon muzzle that began to glow with electric blue light. Raka had nowhere to