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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
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"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
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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
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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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"He was showing off," Lyra said angrily. She walked over and picked up Everett’s chain-sword from the grass. She handed it to him. "He wanted you to feel bad. He wanted to show you that he has them."Everett took the sword. He strapped it to his back. His face was a mask of cold, hard stone."Rae said the entire city was assimilated," Everett said. His voice was low and dangerous. "She said two million people were deleted.""We saw the computer logs, Everett," Silas reminded him gently. "The red text. The city is empty.""I do not believe it," Everett growled.He turned away from the playground. He looked out at the massive, towering glass skyscrapers of Glimmer. He looked at the endless streets, the thousands of apartment buildings, the giant factories."Two million people do not just vanish without a single survivor," Everett said. His voice was getting louder, rising with desperate denial. "There has to be someone left. A child hiding in a closet. An old man sleeping in a deep base
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The hundred glowing blue ghosts floated across the green grass of the playground.They did not make a sound. They did not have feet to walk. They simply drifted through the cold air. Their hands had turned into sharp, jagged spikes of raw, red digital energy.Everett stood perfectly still at the edge of the park.Behind him, Silas raised his sniper rifle. His hands were shaking. He aimed at the ghost of a little girl in a yellow dress."I have to try, Everett," Silas yelled, his voice breaking. "I have to shoot!"BANG!The heavy bullet flew out of the rifle. It traveled incredibly fast. It hit the ghost of the little girl right in the chest.But there was no blood. There was no impact. The heavy lead bullet passed completely through the glowing blue code. The bullet hit a wooden park bench behind the ghost and shattered it to pieces.The ghost of the little girl did not even blink. She kept floating forward."Bullets don't work!" Silas shouted, stepping backward. "They are made of air
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