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Chapter 401
"I am trying!" Rae yelled back. The sound of her frantic typing echoed over the radio. "The machine is locked to noble bloodlines only! It requires a genetic scan to activate! It is rejecting his peasant status!""Break the code!" Silas roared, slamming his bloody fist against the side of the glass machine. "I don't care if you have to burn the entire city network down! Turn the damn machine on!""I am bypassing the genetic scanner!" Rae cried. "I am uploading an emergency override! Give me three seconds! Three... two... one!"The massive glass lid of the Reconstruction Node slid shut. It locked with a heavy, final click.Instantly, the soft blue gel inside the tank began to glow with a blinding, brilliant light. The liquid started to bubble and boil.A loud, mechanical female voice echoed from the speakers inside the white room.“EMERGENCY PATIENT DETECTED. MASSIVE TRAUMA DETECTED. RIGHT APPENDAGE SEVERED. BLOOD LOSS CRITICAL. INITIATING HIGH-LEVEL CONTINUUM RECONSTRUCTION.”Lyra fel
Chapter 400
The explosion shook the entire building. High above the deep underground control room, Silas had kept his promise. Ten minutes had passed. When Everett did not return, Silas did not wait. He placed a heavy block of C-4 explosive on the thick elevator doors and blew them wide open.Thick gray smoke poured into the dark elevator shaft."Everett!" Silas roared. His voice echoed down the long, empty black hole. There was no answer.Silas grabbed a thick nylon rope from his backpack. He tied it to a heavy metal pillar. He did not even wait to check if the knot was perfectly safe. He grabbed the rope and slid down into the darkness. Lyra followed right behind him, sliding so fast the rope burned the skin on her hands.They reached the bottom of the shaft. They ran down the long, cold concrete hallway. The emergency lights were flickering yellow.Silas kicked the black glass double doors open.They stepped into the massive core control node room. The giant floating black sphere in the cente
Chapter 399
Everett did not swing. He did not jump. He threw the piece of broken glass as hard as he could.The glass spun through the air like a throwing knife. The Pilgrim did not expect a physical projectile. He expected a magical attack or a sword swing. He raised his hand slightly too late.The sharp piece of glass flew past the Pilgrim's hand. It sliced directly across the dark shadows inside the brown hood.The Pilgrim flinched. He stepped backward quickly. The glass fell to the floor. A single, thick drop of liquid fell from inside the Pilgrim’s hood and hit the concrete. It was not red blood. It was bright, glowing, liquid golden code.Everett smiled a bloody smile. "You bleed data. You are not invincible. You are just a machine wearing a coat."The Pilgrim stood perfectly still. For the very first time, the calm, peaceful aura around him broke. The air in the room suddenly turned freezing cold. The blue cables on the walls began to spark wildly with angry red electricity."You have a ve
Chapter 398
"My correction is a hard reset," the Pilgrim answered. "I am walking from city to city, gathering the raw data of the human race. I am keeping their souls safe inside my code. When I reach the Core in Apex City, I will overwrite Speaker Rho. I will shut down the physical world entirely. Humanity will exist only as pure, sleeping data. A quiet, perfect, harmless dream forever.""I will not let you do that," Everett promised. His green eyes burned with a fierce, unbreakable fire."You cannot stop it," the Pilgrim said gently. "You are just a man. You are flesh and bone. I am the fundamental law of reality. I am the cleanup protocol. You were a glitch that broke the old machine. But you were never meant to save this world, Everett. You were only meant to force it to evolve."Everett did not want to talk anymore. He had heard enough lies. He had heard enough kings and gods tell him what the world was supposed to be.Everett pressed the red button on the handle of his heavy chain-sword.VR
Chapter 397
The city of Glimmer was perfectly, terrifyingly empty. Two million people were gone.Everett stood in the quiet classroom of the elementary school. He held the crumpled drawing made by the missing child. He put the drawing deep into his pocket. He turned around and walked out into the empty hallway.Silas and Lyra followed him. They could see the dark, heavy anger radiating from Everett’s broad shoulders."We need to find the city's core control node," Everett said. His voice was a low, rough whisper. "If the Pilgrim absorbed the people, the data had to pass through the city's main network hub to be sent to the capital. The node will be deep underground.""I saw the maps on Rae's computer," Lyra said softly. "The main control node is located beneath the Central Power Station. It is five blocks away."Everett nodded. He began to walk. When they reached the Central Power Station, it looked like a massive, gray concrete fortress. The heavy steel doors were wide open. Inside, it was compl
Chapter 396
The room was filled with rows of small, clear plastic cribs. Everett ran to the first crib. It was empty. He ran to the second crib. Empty. He ran down the entire row, looking frantically into every single plastic box."Where are they?!" Everett yelled, his voice cracking with pure, desperate panic. He picked up an empty plastic crib and threw it against the wall. It shattered into sharp pieces. "WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN?!"Lyra ran into the room. She saw Everett destroying the empty cribs. She had never seen him lose control like this. He was always the calm, steady mountain. But the empty hospital was breaking his mind.Lyra ran to him and grabbed his arms from behind. "Everett! Stop!""They took the babies, Lyra!" Everett shouted, turning around. His green eyes were filled with absolute agony. "The System took the babies!""I know," Lyra cried, holding him tightly. "I know."Everett slowly fell to his knees on the white tile floor. He stared at the empty cribs. He was the strongest m
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