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CHAPTER 40: The Broken Line
Darin didn’t waste time. The moment he spotted the man’s silhouette waiting at the end of the street, he veered off. Not out of cowardice, but calculation. He slipped into a narrow alley barely wide enough for two people, where the stench of garbage hung thick in the air, a detail lost to the urgency pressing in on him.He lowered his stance, keeping Rian’s body steady in his arms. The boy was still unconscious, fragile, light as cotton.“Wake up…” Darin whispered, barely audible.No response. The System remained silent, even as the pressure in his head grew more insistent. He knew the weight he carried did not come from physical injury, but from the fact that something abnormal was hunting him. There were no footsteps behind him, and that silence only sharpened every alarm in his nerves.Darin quickened his pace, cutting sharply through the alley and leaping over puddles to save time. When he emerged into a wider passage, he was forced to stop short.A dead end. A tall concrete wall
CHAPTER 39: The Chosen Path
Darin did not attack. The step he had just taken stopped halfway between him and the man. Not a retreat, not a full advance, but enough to show he would not act recklessly.The man watched him, a slight change flickering in his eyes. “Your first decision that wasn’t impulsive,” he said quietly.Darin ignored the comment. His gaze returned to the capsule. Rian still did not move. His breathing was steady, but too calm for a ten-year-old who had just been taken.“He’s sedated,” Darin said. It was not a question.The man gave a small nod. “Stabilized.”Darin shifted his position slightly, maintaining a safe distance between himself and the man, while staying within reach of the capsule.“If this is protection,” he said flatly, “explain it now.”The man fell silent for a few seconds, as if weighing something. Then he stepped forward until he stood beside Darin. Not threatening, simply there.“That child,” he said quietly, “should not have survived this long.”Darin did not fully understan
CHAPTER 38: The Point of No Return
Darin did not speak. He had no intention of wasting time. The moment the man finished his sentence, Darin moved. His target was clear, the capsule. Not the man before him, not the room. Only Rian.His body shot across the metal floor. The distance between them was only a few meters, yet it felt like a barrier that had to be broken before everything became too late.The man did not block him directly. He simply shifted one step to the side, and in that instant, the world around Darin changed. Not physically, but the space suddenly felt heavy.Darin’s movement slowed for a fraction of a second, just enough to disrupt his rhythm and make the remaining distance no longer easy to cross. But he did not stop. He forced his body forward, ignoring the pressure bearing down on him. His eyes remained locked on the capsule.Three steps left. Two—Suddenly, something appeared between them.Not a person, not a solid object. It resembled compressed air, forced into a dense distortion.Darin slammed
CHAPTER 37: A Trail That Should Not Exist
Darin did not break into a run.He chose to walk instead, his steps measured and steady. But the calm was only a mask. Behind his expressionless face, he was exerting every ounce of control to keep himself from exploding.The thin line still glowed at the edge of his vision. At times it faded when his focus wavered, only to sharpen again each time he steadied his breathing and slowed his heartbeat. The thread of energy felt alive, pulsing as if urging him to follow.Darin continued the pursuit. He moved through narrow, suffocating alleyways, cut across silent side streets, then turned again. The landscape of the night city began to mutate. The farther he left the city center behind, the fewer streetlights remained. Old buildings stood packed together like sleeping giants, some hollowed out with shattered windows, others occupied only by dark, lingering shadows.There were no people, no voices. Only the sound of Darin’s footsteps striking cold asphalt, and the unwavering compass fixed
CHAPTER 36: What Remains
Silence descended in an instant.Only seconds after everything vanished, Darin remained frozen. He did not rise right away. His body was still locked in an awkward fallen position. One knee pressed against the hard asphalt, while one trembling hand braced his weight to keep him from collapsing completely.The world suddenly felt too real again.The faint electrical hum of the streetlights rang painfully in his ears. A thin gust of wind brushed the back of his neck, carrying the scent of dust and cold asphalt. Somewhere in the distance, at the edge of the city, the faint sound of car horns reminded him that normal life continued, a stark contrast to the madness he had just endured.Darin drew a long breath, trying to fill his constricted lungs. The pain in his chest had not faded. The impact from earlier still pulsed deep within him, a fractured sensation spreading along his ribs. But it was not the physical pain that truly disturbed him.There was a hollow space suddenly yawning open.
chapter 35
Darin looked ahead, the road in front of him appeared normal. Cracked asphalt, a flickering streetlight, but the space in the middle felt wrong. Like an image slightly out of alignment.The system pulsed faintly.[Anomaly increasing.]Darin took one step forward, then another. With each step, the pressure in his chest grew heavier, as if he were walking through something invisible. His eyes narrowed. He raised his hand, touching the empty air in front of him. There was resistance. Thin. Like touching the surface of perfectly still water.Darin did not hesitate. He pushed, the layer rippled and in an instant, reality cracked.CRACK!The sound was not heard by the ears, but felt inside the mind, the scene in front of him shifted.The empty street vanished, replaced by the same space but different. Dimmer. Colder. As if the color had been drained from the world.Darin stood still not surprised. Only observing.Three figures and one small body. Rian.The boy hung limp over a man’s should
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