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Chapter 102
The city was still half-asleep when Everett reached the main square. Ash drifted through the sunlight like slow snow. People were gathered around small fires, cooking, trading, trying to make sense of their new lives.Everett climbed the broken steps of a monument that once held the System’s emblem. It was gone now, only a black scar remained. He raised his voice. “Listen to me!”Dozens of heads turned. Kael’s voice murmured within him, “Keep it simple. They fear what they don’t understand.”Everett nodded slightly and spoke again, louder this time. “Something is waking beneath the city. Old machines. They think the system still exists. They will try to restore it.”A man in the crowd shouted, “You mean more enforcers?”“Worse,” Everett said. “They’re not following any order now. They’re building their own.”A ripple of unease moved through the people. Rena, the engineer from before, pushed forward. “You said the system was gone!”“It was,” Everett said. “But some of its pieces survi
Chapter 101
Morning came slowly over the broken skyline. The storm had passed, leaving behind a heavy silence. The towers still stood, cracked and blackened, their glass windows glinting weakly in the pale light. Smoke rose from a dozen fires.Everett walked through the main street, boots crunching on bits of metal and glass. Around him, people were beginning to move again, building, searching, arguing.Some worked together, passing supplies from hand to hand. Others shouted at each other over food or shelter. Children stared at the sky, afraid it might start speaking again.Kael’s quiet voice echoed in Everett’s mind. “They’re adapting faster than I expected.”Everett nodded slightly. “Humans always do. That’s their strength.”He stopped to help a man lift a fallen beam. The man stared at Everett’s faintly glowing hands. “You’re not like us, are you?”Everett hesitated. “No. But I’m trying to be.”The man nodded uncertainly, as if he didn’t understand but wanted to believe. “The power’s still d
Chapter 100
The blue light spread like veins through the metal walls. Everett stood still, feeling the vibration crawl up through his boots. The air smelled of ozone and dust.Kael whispered inside him, “He’s close. Every pulse carries his code.”Everett drew a slow breath. “Then we find the source before it spreads.”They followed the glow deeper underground. The tunnels bent and split, filled with humming machines that flickered weakly between life and death. On some walls, half-alive screens blinked with fragments of faces, old engineers, soldiers, strangers, ghosts trapped in static.Kael’s voice trembled. “These are memory shards. He’s stitching them together to rebuild himself.”Everett touched one of the screens. The image rippled and spoke in Olos’s voice, faint but calm: “Order cannot die. It only waits.”The light jumped from the wall to the floor, forming a trail ahead. Everett followed. “Waiting’s over.”The tunnel opened into a circular chamber lit by rotating columns of blue fire.
Chapter 99
The sun rose over the city, but it felt wrong. The light was too soft, the air too still. The sky, once lined with drones, was empty now. Towers stood silent, their lights dead, and in the streets below, thousands of people wandered in confusion.For years, the system had told them where to go, what to do, when to eat, when to sleep. Now there was only silence. No voice in their minds. No map on their lenses. Nothing.The sound of shouting echoed between the metal walls. A man tried to open the door of a food center, but the locks no longer responded. Others gathered around, frightened. “What happened?” someone asked.“Why won’t the schedule show?”“Is this a test?”No one answered. The city that had once moved like a single body was breaking apart.At the top of the central tower, Everett stood before the large glass window, watching the confusion spread. His reflection looked strange to him, half human, half something more. Faint lines of golden light still ran across his arms an
Chapter 98
The elevator doors opened with a soft hiss. Cold air drifted out, smelling faintly of metal and rain. The chamber beyond was enormous, rows of tall glass tubes stretching into the darkness like a forest of frozen light. Faint blue symbols floated inside each one, flickering, pulsing, waiting.Everett stepped inside slowly. His boots echoed on the metal floor. The silence was deep, too deep. Even the hum of the system seemed to hold its breath. Kael’s voice whispered inside his mind. “This is where the memories sleep.”Everett’s eyes swept across the rows. “Memories of who?”“Everyone who ever lived in this city,” Kael answered quietly. “The system copies them when they die. Their thoughts, their choices, their fears… all stored here.”Everett’s chest tightened. “So no one’s really gone.”Kael paused. “Not alive either. Just… remembered.”A faint vibration ran through the floor. The glass tubes shimmered as the lights along the walls flared brighter, one after another, like eyes open
Chapter 97
Light rippled across the broken city. It started as a pulse from the central tower, the same tower where Everett and Kael had vanished. The light spread outward in perfect waves, touching rooftops, bridges, and every silent street. Machines paused mid-motion. The sky itself seemed to hum, then came the voice.[System reboot successful.][Core synchronization complete.]People across the city stopped what they were doing. The citizens, dressed in pale gray uniforms and wearing thin silver bands across their temples, all turned their heads toward the sound. Their eyes flickered faintly blue, waiting for the next command, but none came. For the first time in twenty years, the system spoke… and then stayed silent.In the tower’s core chamber, the merged figure of Everett and Kael stood still among the fading light. Two minds. One body. One heartbeat.Everett opened his eyes first. They glowed faint gold, reflecting the light from the shattered sphere. “We did it,” he whispered.Kael’s v
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