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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
Chapter 395
"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
Chapter 394
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
Chapter 393
"He is a walking black hole," Everett whispered. His deep voice shook slightly in the cold room. "He is walking from city to city. He calms the people down with his hypnotic voice. And when they stop fighting... he absorbs their code. He is gathering all the data of the human race to take it back to the Core.""Why?" Silas asked angrily. "Why absorb the data? Why not just kill them?""To challenge Speaker Rho," Rae realized, wiping her eyes. "Speaker Rho uploaded his mind to the Core. He thinks he is a god. But the original, ancient System code does not want a human ruling it. The System created the Pilgrim to gather enough pure power to overwrite Speaker Rho and delete the entire human race once and for all."Everett gripped the handle of his heavy chain-sword.If the Pilgrim reached Apex City with the absorbed power of millions of souls, he would be completely, totally unstoppable. The Pilgrim would merge with the Core, delete Speaker Rho, and then delete the entire world. The long,
Chapter 392
They walked slowly down the empty road toward the open gates.When they passed through the giant metal gates, a cold chill ran down Lyra’s spine. She rubbed her arms."It feels wrong," Lyra whispered. She closed her silver eyes and tried to use her healer instincts to sense life energy. Usually, a city this big would feel like a bright, roaring fire of souls. But now?"It is empty, Everett," Lyra said softly. "It feels like a glass with no water inside. There is not a single living soul in this entire city."They walked down the main street.The scout was completely right. The city was in perfect condition. The tall, shining glass skyscrapers stood proudly against the sky. The streetlights were glowing with bright white light, even though it was daytime.Everett walked up to a small outdoor café on the corner of the street.There were small metal tables and chairs. On one table, there was a cup of coffee. Steam was still rising from the cup. A half-eaten piece of synthetic bread sat
Chapter 391
The dark underground bunker was filled with the soft humming sound of computer fans.Rae sat in her metal chair. She was wrapped in a thick gray blanket. She was drinking a cup of hot, synthetic coffee. Her eyes were fixed on her six glowing screens. She was watching the digital map of the world. She was looking for any signs of the Sovereign Council's army, or the strange, moving glitches that belonged to the Pilgrim.Suddenly, her middle screen beeped. BEEP.Rae put her coffee cup down. She leaned closer to the monitor. She pushed her thick glasses up her nose.On the map, there was a large, bright blue dot. The blue dot represented the city of Glimmer.Glimmer was a massive trading city. It sat in a wide green valley surrounded by tall mountains. Over two million people lived in Glimmer. It was a busy, loud, crowded place. Merchants sold food there. Travelers bought weapons there. It was one of the biggest cities outside the capital of Apex City. But right now, the bright blue do
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