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Chapter 206
The alarms wouldn’t stop screaming. Red lights pulsed down the hallway, like the whole place was a giant warning sign. My lungs felt like fire, but I didn’t slow down. None of us did. We were past the point of stopping.“Straight ahead!” Rami shouted over the noise, his eyes glued to the flickering map on his wrist screen. “Core chamber’s fifty meters!”“Fifty meters is still forever,” Maya panted, but she still gripped her blades tighter. “If something jumps us now, I’m blaming you, Davion.”“Yeah,” I shot back, trying to sound cocky even though sweat stung my eyes. “You’ll thank me when this is over.”“Assuming we live,” Beverly muttered, her voice sharp but steady. She was carrying the girl we’d freed earlier, her small body limp but still breathing. Bev didn’t even complain about the weight—just powered forward like she’d break her own bones before letting the kid drop. That’s why I couldn’t look away from her for too long. That’s why I had to win.The hallway widened. A door like
Chapter 205
The alarms wouldn’t stop screaming. Red lights spun across the walls, shadows jerking like they were alive. The floor shook under their feet, dust falling from the steel ceiling with every boom of the reactors failing.Davion’s lungs burned, but he didn’t stop running. He couldn’t. Not when everything was about to blow. Not when his father was still talking through the intercom like some messed-up god.“Children,” the voice thundered, glitching with static but still sharp enough to make everyone flinch. “You were born in fire. You’ll die in it.”“Shut up!” Maya yelled, flipping her middle finger at the ceiling like the voice could see it. “You sound like a bad video game boss!”“Focus!” Beverly snapped. Her hair was damp with sweat, her grip on the rescued girl tight as they ran. The girl’s legs kept buckling, but Beverly didn’t let go. “Rami, how far to the core?”Rami was half running, half staring at the glowing tablet in his hands. “Two corridors, then a lift. But the system’s loc
Chapter 204
The alarms wouldn’t stop. Red lights flashed everywhere, painting the hall in this sick glow that made everything feel like a nightmare you couldn’t wake up from.Davion sprinted down the corridor, his chest burning, the weight of what just happened dragging at his heels. His dad’s voice was still in his head, echoing like poison: “You’ll die with them.”But he couldn’t let it get to him. Not now. Not when everything mattered.“Left!” Rami shouted, skidding around a corner with his laptop practically bouncing from his bag. “We’re close to the core, I swear!”Beverly didn’t even hesitate, just grabbed Davion’s wrist when he almost overshot the turn. “Keep up, soldier boy. No dying on me today.”He managed a breathless laugh, but honestly, his throat was dry. His lungs felt like fire. He’d ripped out those wires, saved that girl—at least for now. But she wasn’t the only one trapped in this nightmare. And if they didn’t shut down Genesis, more kids would end up like her. Like him.They r
Chapter 203
The alarms were still screaming, red lights painting the walls like blood. Davion’s heart pounded in his chest, his father’s words still echoing in his head. Weak. Always weak.He clenched his fists. No. Not this time.“Keep moving!” Beverly shouted, grabbing the half-conscious girl Davion had saved. Maya covered their backs, gun raised. Rami hacked into the next panel with his tablet, sparks flying as he worked.“This is insane,” Rami muttered. “Your dad built this whole place like it’s a giant death trap.”“Yeah,” Davion said, voice low, “because it is.”They pushed forward into another hall, this one filled with shattered glass pods. Davion’s stomach dropped. He knew this place. The smell of chemicals. The cold steel floor. The faint whir of machines meant to break kids down and rebuild them.“Home sweet home,” Davion muttered bitterly.Beverly shot him a sharp look. “Don’t do that. Don’t slip back. You’re not who he made you.”Davion swallowed hard and nodded. She was right. But e
Chapter 202
The air in Genesis felt heavy, like every breath carried static. Sparks hissed from broken conduits, the alarms were just a dull echo now, but the walls themselves seemed alive, trembling like they were about to fold in on everyone.Davion’s knuckles were white on his rifle. He wasn’t even sure if the thing would hold up anymore. His suit was scorched, his lungs ached from smoke, but he couldn’t stop. Not now.They had reached the final hallway before the core.“Okay,” Rami said, crouching by the door’s control panel, sweat dripping down his temple. “This is… yeah, this is ridiculous. Triple encryption with manual override backup. It’s not a door—it’s a vault.”Beverly slammed her palm against the wall, frustrated. “We don’t have time to pick at locks. This place is literally falling apart!”“Yeah, well, unless you’ve got a rocket launcher stashed under your jacket, you’re gonna let me work,” Rami shot back.Maya leaned casually against the wall even though the ceiling above them crea
Chapter 201
The alarms were still echoing in Davion’s head even though they weren’t real anymore. Just ghosts of everything they’d run through. The group stumbled into the lower levels of Genesis, the flicker of dying red lights bouncing off broken walls. The place felt like it was breathing—every groan of metal and hiss of steam made it sound alive.Rami was the first to break the silence. “This feels like walking into a horror movie.” His voice cracked as he tried to laugh. “You know… right before the monster jumps out and eats everybody.”“Comforting,” Maya muttered, gripping her blade like she was waiting for exactly that.Beverly walked close to Davion, her eyes darting around. She whispered, “Are you okay?”He didn’t answer right away. He was staring at the walls, where faded symbols and old scorch marks made the place look like a war had already happened here. Maybe it had. Finally, he muttered, “I don’t think ‘okay’ exists in this place.”The girl they’d rescued—the one with the spine imp
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