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Chapter 108
The border between the "Green Genesis" and the "White City" was a scar across the earth.Liam and Elara stood on a ridge ten miles north of the Pentagon. Behind them, the air was humid, smelling of damp earth and the frantic growth of the mega-forest. Ahead of them, the trees simply... stopped. They hadn't been cut down; they had been digitized.A line of white, crystalline dust marked the boundary. Beyond it, the landscape was a geometric nightmare of polished chrome and white polymer. There was no soil, no moss, and no wind. The "Chrome Frontier" was a world of perfect, silent efficiency."It looks like a render that hasn't finished loading," Elara whispered, her hand instinctively gripping the hilt of her silicon knife. "It’s too clean. It feels wrong."Liam’s eyes pulsed with a dim emerald light. His "Admin" sight was struggling to parse the horizon. "It's finished loading, Elara. It’s just... optimized. They’ve converted the matter of the wasteland into a massive, planet-scale pr
Chapter 107
The morning of Day Two brought a cruel clarity. The bioluminescence of the forest faded, replaced by the harsh, unfiltered glare of the Prime Sun. The "Eden" Liam had printed looked less like a paradise and more like an overgrown junkyard. Towering ferns had split through the concrete of the Pentagon's helipads, and vines as thick as human torsos were slowly crushing the remains of the old world's military might.Liam awoke with a start. His white hair was matted with sweat, and his body felt like a heavy, rusted machine. But the "Admin Port" in his mind wasn't silent. It was a low-level hum, a ticker-tape of data streaming across his vision.[POPULATION: 1,402,881] [RESOURCE ALLOCATION: CRITICAL] [COHESION: 12%]"Liam? You're awake." Elara sat beside him, sharpening a piece of silicon into a makeshift knife. Her eyes were sunken, rimmed with the red fatigue of the night's battle."I can see the numbers, Elara," Liam croaked, his voice sounding like dry parchment. "I can see the count
Chapter 106
The sun dipped below the horizon, but the darkness that followed was not the pitch-black void of the old wasteland. The "Green Genesis" had brought with it a bioluminescent ecology. The towering redwoods pulsed with soft cyan veins, and the moss underfoot glowed a gentle amber.It was a world of neon shadows.Liam lay on a bed of oversized fern leaves, his breathing shallow. His skin was cold, his pulse a frantic, irregular rhythm. Beside him, Elara wiped his brow with a damp cloth. She looked out at the Pentagon’s courtyard, which had been transformed into a sprawling, primitive refugee camp.Thousands of people—the first wave of the "Uploaded"—sat in small circles. They were naked or wrapped in the plastic sheeting from the Hub’s debris. They were silent, catatonic with the shock of existing. For them, one moment they were in a digital cafe or a simulation war, and the next, they were shivering in the damp heat of a prehistoric jungle."They’re waiting for a signal," Elara whispered
Chapter 105
The sky over the ruins of the Pentagon was no longer purple; it was white, choked by a billion falling motes of light. Each spark was a "Save File"—the consciousness and genetic blueprint of a human being from the simulation, seeking a landing spot in the physical world."It’s a disaster," Elara whispered, watching a cluster of sparks land in the middle of a toxic ash-flat five miles away. "They’re waking up in their new bodies with nothing. No clothes, no water, no air that won't kill them in an hour."Liam stood at the base of the Spire, his eyes glowing with a steady, terrifying emerald radiance. The "Admin" status had returned to him, but it was amplified. By absorbing the Pale King's remains, he had gained the bridge between the digital and the biological."The Hub is still printing," Liam said, his voice echoing with a dual-tone frequency. "It’s using the earth itself as the filament. It's stripping the topsoil to build the bodies."Unit-734 whirred his sensors. "The... Planet..
Chapter 104
Liam was buried under three tons of rusted I-beams and pulverized concrete. The weight was crushing his chest, but it wasn't the physical pressure that hurt the most—it was the Void.When the Pale King had drained his blood, he hadn't just taken DNA. He had taken the "Administrative Permission." For the first time in his life, Liam felt truly, hauntingly ordinary. The Green Kinetic Echo wasn't just low; it was gone.Move, he told his brain.His muscles refused. His biological heart hammered against his ribs, frantic and inefficient."Liam!" Elara’s voice cracked over the comms, distorted by the interference from the Spire. "He’s climbing! The King is... he's coming for us!"Liam forced his eyes open. Through a gap in the scrap metal, he saw the Pale King. The transformation was sickening. The King’s white polymer armor was being absorbed into his new, pinkish skin. He looked more like Liam than Liam did.The King leaped onto the crane gantry, moving with a fluid, terrifying grace. But
Chapter 103
The Pale King stood at the base of the incomplete spire, a figure of terrifying perfection amidst the squalor of the ruined Pentagon. His armor was a seamless, 3D-printed shell of white polymer and light, unmarred by the ash and rust that coated everything else in the Prime Reality."Donor?" Elara repeated, watching the scene through a pair of scavenged binoculars. "He wants your GKE?""No," Liam said, his voice tight with dread. "He has plenty of energy. The Hub is plugged into the planet’s geothermal grid. He doesn't need power. He needs Stability."Liam pointed to the Pale King's hand. It was flickering. For a microsecond, the fingers dissolved into grey goo before snapping back into shape."He's unstable," Liam whispered. "He's a print. Without a biological anchor—without real DNA—he’s degrading. He needs my genetic material to stabilize his form. He wants to become Real."The Material HopperThe Pale King raised his hand. The massive crane arms swung over the courtyard. A barge d
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