All Chapters of 100 Days Before the Apocalypse: My Survival System: Chapter 121
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Chapter 121: The Witness Within
The two figures stood across from each other.One had a human face.The other had none.Yet Arjun could feel something strangely familiar coming from both.They weren't strangers.They were two halves of the same existence.The Witness looked at its darker half.“You shouldn't be here.”The faceless figure answered,“I was always here.”Nox stepped closer to Arjun.“What's happening?”Arjun kept his eyes on the two figures.“I think we're about to find out.”The First Arjun shook his head.“No.”Arjun glanced at him.“What?”“This isn't a fight.”The First Arjun pointed toward the two Witnesses.“It's a separation.”Elias nodded slowly.“The Witness has divided its consciousness.”“Why?”“Because it has developed something it never had before.”“Choice?”“Conflict.”The faceless figure stepped forward.“You call yourself human now.”The human Witness looked at it.“I am learning.”“You are weakening.”“No.”“You feel fear.”“Yes.”“You feel attachment.”“Yes.”“You feel pain.”“Yes.”
Chapter 122: The Designer of the Observer
Elias couldn't move.Arjun had never seen him like this.Not during the arrival of the Original Universe.Not when the First Creator appeared.Not even when the Witness divided itself.This was different.Elias was afraid.The First Arjun noticed it too.“You know who that is.”Elias didn't answer.Arjun stepped toward him.“Elias.”Still nothing.“Tell me.”Elias finally looked at him.“You don't want to know.”Arjun's expression hardened.“I'm tired of people deciding what I should know.”The darkness above them moved.A voice echoed through the white room.“THAT IS WHY HE WAS CREATED.”The First Arjun raised his head.“Who are you?”The voice answered.“THE DESIGNER.”The word itself seemed to carry weight.The two Witnesses stopped fighting.The Original Choice stopped breathing.Even Nox became silent.Arjun looked toward the ceiling.“You designed the Observer.”“Yes.”“Why?”“To watch.”“Watch what?”“Choice.”Arjun frowned.“Why would you need someone to watch choice?”“Becaus
Chapter 123: The System That Remembered
The room shattered.Not like glass.Like reality itself had forgotten how to remain whole.Arjun fell through darkness.He reached for Nox.His fingers caught the boy's hand.“Dad!”“I've got you!”Something pulled them apart.Arjun hit the ground.Silence followed.He opened his eyes.He was lying on the floor of his first room.The same walls.The same window.The same bed.For one impossible second, Arjun wondered if he had returned to the beginning.Then he noticed the clock.It wasn't moving.The second hand remained frozen at twelve.Arjun stood.“Nox?”No answer.“First Arjun?”Nothing.“Elias?”Silence.He walked toward the door.It opened before he touched it.Beyond it was darkness.Then a familiar golden light appeared.The System.Arjun stared.It floated in front of him exactly as it had on the first day.But this time, there was no interface.No missions.No numbers.No instructions.Only one sentence.**WELCOME BACK, ARJUN.**His eyes narrowed.“Back from where?”The Sy
Chapter 124: The Purpose of the System
The words remained suspended in the darkness.“He's the one the System was created to kill.”Arjun couldn't breathe.He looked at the figure wearing his face.Then at Nox.Then at the golden System.“No.”The Designer smiled.“You don't believe me.”“I don't.”“Good.”The smile disappeared.“That is exactly what I wanted.”Arjun's eyes narrowed.“You're manipulating me.”“Yes.”“At least you're honest.”“For once.”The golden System suddenly flickered.A warning appeared.**THREAT DETECTED.**Arjun stepped backward.“Who is the threat?”The System answered.**UNKNOWN.**Arjun stared.“You just said it was created to kill me.”The Designer shook his head.“I never said the System knows that.”“Then who does?”“You.”Arjun froze.The Designer continued.“Not the Arjun standing here.”He pointed toward the older version of Arjun's fading silhouette.“The Arjun who created it.”The room became silent.Arjun remembered the warning.Don't trust the Designer.But he also remembered something
Chapter 125: The First User
The word remained on the System.**USER: NOX.**Arjun stared at it.“No.”Nox looked equally confused.“Dad… I didn't do anything.”The Designer's broken face twisted into something that almost looked like fear.“You don't understand.”Arjun turned toward him.“Then explain.”The Designer pointed at Nox.“He was never supposed to become the user.”“Why?”“Because the System was designed to prevent exactly this.”Arjun glanced at the golden interface.“Prevent what?”“Nox remembering.”Nox's expression changed.“Remembering what?”The Designer said nothing.Arjun stepped closer.“You're going to tell us.”The Designer laughed softly.“You still think I control the System.”Arjun looked at the golden light.“Don't you?”“No.”The System suddenly displayed another message.**AUTHORITY TRANSFERRED.**The Designer's body began breaking apart.“No…”Arjun watched as cracks spread across its face.“Who transferred it?”The System answered.**ORIGINAL USER.**Arjun looked at Nox.Nox shook hi
Chapter 126: The Choice Without a Design
The question remained suspended before Arjun.**IF NO ONE DESIGNED YOUR NEXT CHOICE…**The screen went completely dark.For several seconds, Arjun heard nothing.No System.No voice.No Nox.No Witness.Nothing.Then the second line appeared.**WHO WILL YOU BECOME?**Arjun stared at it.For most of his life, the answer had always been connected to something else.The System had given him missions.The World Keys had revealed paths.The Original Design had given him conditions.The Witness had watched him.The Designer had tried to understand him.Even Nox had been connected to a choice made before Arjun understood what choice meant.But now—there was nothing.No predetermined path.No instruction.No prophecy.Arjun slowly raised his hand.The System waited.He expected another command.There wasn't one.“Fine.”His voice echoed through the empty space.“If nobody designed my next choice…”He lowered his hand.“…I'll make it myself.”The screen disappeared.For the first time since t
Chapter 127: The Universe That Chose to Disappear
The universe disappeared.There was no explosion.No collapse.No final scream.It simply—stopped existing.Arjun stared at the empty space where an entire universe had been.“What did you do?”The Witness stood motionless.“I don't know.”The First Arjun stepped forward.“You chose.”“Yes.”“And the universe disappeared.”“Yes.”Arjun looked at Nox.“Nox?”The boy shook his head.“I didn't do anything.”That answer frightened Arjun more than anything else.Because for the first time, something had happened without Nox influencing it.The Witness had made the choice.And the consequence had been real.The Witness looked at the empty space.“I didn't choose to destroy it.”“Then what did you choose?”The Witness closed its eyes.“I chose not to watch it.”Arjun froze.“What?”“I stopped observing that universe.”The First Arjun's expression changed.“That should be impossible.”“Why?”“Because an observed universe remains connected to the Observer.”The Witness looked at him.“Then pe
Chapter 128: The One Who Was Still Watching
Darkness surrounded Arjun.For the first time, there were no stars.No universes.No World Keys.No System.No visible future.Nothing.Arjun held Nox's hand tightly.“You're still here?”Nox squeezed his fingers.“Yes.”“How can you see me?”“I can't.”Arjun frowned.“Then how do you know it's me?”Nox smiled.“I don't need to see you.”Those words reminded Arjun of what he had just done.He had ended observation.He had released every universe from the network.He had accepted an unknown future.But something was still watching.Arjun slowly turned.“Who's there?”Silence.Nox's smile disappeared.“Dad…”“I know.”A faint sound appeared in the darkness.Not footsteps.Not breathing.A pulse.Once.Twice.Three times.Arjun recognized the rhythm.His eyes widened.“The System.”Nox shook his head.“No.”“Then what?”The pulse came again.Arjun closed his eyes.He had heard it before.Long ago.Before the World Keys.Before the Architect.Before he understood the cycles.Before he eve
Chapter 129: The Choice You Never Made
Arjun stared at the figure inside the newborn universe.The golden crack between them was already closing.“Wait!”He reached forward.The figure didn't move.It simply watched him.Arjun knew that face.Not because it looked exactly like him.Because it carried something he had never possessed.Peace.No fear.No anger.No hunger for answers.Only certainty.The crack closed.Darkness returned.Nox looked at Arjun.“What did the First Mind mean?”Arjun didn't answer.The First Mind did.“The choice you never made.”Arjun turned toward the darkness.“What choice?”Silence.“Tell me.”“You don't remember.”“Then make me remember.”The darkness trembled.A memory appeared.Arjun saw himself standing at the edge of two doors.One was white.One was black.Behind the white door was the new universe.Behind the black door was the Original Universe.Between them stood his mother.She was younger.Much younger.She held two children.Arjun recognized them immediately.Himself.And the Origin
Chapter 130: The Two Noxes
The words appeared above them.**CHOOSE WHICH NOX IS REAL.**Arjun stared at the System.Then he laughed.It was a quiet laugh.Almost bitter.“No.”The golden eye above the city seemed to narrow.The System remained unchanged.**CHOOSE.**Arjun stepped between the two boys.“You don't get to decide the question.”The original Nox looked at him.“Dad…”The older Nox said nothing.Arjun studied them both.One had the golden eye.The other carried the original mark.One was the Nox who had walked beside him through countless worlds.The other was the Nox who had apparently existed before that journey.But something felt wrong.Too convenient.Too simple.Arjun looked toward the golden eye.“You want me to choose between them.”The eye remained silent.“Why?”No answer.Arjun turned toward the two boys.“Both of you. Tell me who you are.”The younger Nox spoke first.“I'm Nox.”The older one answered:“So am I.”Arjun frowned.“What do you remember?”The younger Nox looked at him.“I rem