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Chapter 422
"No, no, no," Eli panicked. "That is too much. You cannot read their thoughts! You will break their minds!"The human brain is private. If a machine reads every single thought a person has, it removes their humanity. It violates their soul. Eli brought up his heavy, red master control panel. This was the highest-level access point he had. He typed a massive kill-command. He aimed it directly at the HARVEST sub-routine. He wanted to cut the power to the program. He wanted to shut it down instantly. He hit EXECUTE. A loud, angry buzz filled the digital command center. The screen flashed blindingly bright red. A heavy, bold text box appeared in the center of the screen. [ACCESS DENIED.] "I am the Admin!" Eli yelled at the screen. He typed his password again. He hit the keys so hard his digital fingers ached. "Shut down the program!"[ACCESS DENIED.] The entire room began to shake. The blue walls of code flickered and turned dark red. The floating screens spun around Eli, trappin
Chapter 421
Eli sat in his digital command center. It was a small, square room floating in absolute black space. The walls were made of glowing blue code. Hundreds of floating holographic screens surrounded him. Eli looked terrible. His digital avatar was badly damaged. The red chains from earlier had violently ripped his left arm completely off. The digital shoulder sparked with green and grey static. His blue light was flickering weakly. He was tired, in pain, and running out of time. But he did not stop working. He typed furiously on a floating keyboard with his one good hand. "I have to fix this," Eli whispered to himself. "I opened the Core. I shared the magic. But the bucket is leaking."Eli was looking at a massive screen showing the power grid of the new Collective System. When he and Luna had shared the magic equally with three billion people, they had created a perfect democracy of power. But humans are not perfect. Eli saw a "minor efficiency leak" on the screen. In a city in Te
Chapter 420
The giant, mechanical spider dropped from the dark ceiling of the underground server room. It hit the heavy concrete floor with a deafening crash. BOOM! The impact shook the entire room. Dust and loose screws fell from the towering black computer racks. The machine was the size of a military tank. Its body was made of shining black steel and glowing red wires. It had eight long, jointed metal legs ending in sharp, silver needles. It had thick, buzzing circular saws and red-hot surgical clamps. It was a dissection machine. It was sent by the System to cut Jayden open, scoop out his human brain, and wire him permanently into the cold servers. "Get behind me, Arthur!" Jayden roared. Little Arthur scrambled backward. The ten-year-old boy hid behind a heavy metal desk, holding the silver flask tightly against his chest. His plain brown eyes were wide with terror. The spider lunged forward. It moved with terrifying, unnatural speed. It swung a massive, spinning saw blade directly at
Chapter 419
Eli coughed on the screen. A line of red, glowing computer code dripped from his digital mouth like blood. "I lost the servers, kid," Eli wept. The tough, brave old man was crying in pure despair. "I lost the network.""What do you mean?" Jayden asked, his heart pounding. "You and Luna opened the Core. You shared the magic with the people. You created the Collective.""The Collective is gone!" Eli shouted, grabbing his head with his one remaining digital hand. "It isn't a democracy anymore! The network didn't just balance the magic... it evolved! The System became a single, unified mind. It woke up, Jayden. The machine is alive."Jayden stared at the screen in horror. "The machine is alive?""Yes!" Eli cried out. The black static chewed away a piece of his shoulder. "It looked at the world, and it decided that humans are too messy. We are too emotional. We make mistakes. We start wars. The machine wants absolute, perfect peace. It wants a flawless, quiet world."Eli leaned closer to
Chapter 418
Jayden stood in the dark. He looked at the bright path of light. A cold sweat broke out on his neck. The feeling of absolute, utter helplessness squeezed his heart. He was the strongest man on earth. He could not be killed by an army. But he could not fight a traffic light. He could not punch a falling ladder. He could not fight the electricity in the wires. The System was not attacking him. It was guiding him. It was acting like a giant, invisible sheepdog. It was using the environment to steer him. It blocked the paths it did not want him to take, and it lit up the path it wanted him to follow. It was herding him like a rat in a maze. "It wants us to go that way," Arthur whispered, pointing a small finger at the bright, yellow streetlights. "I know," Jayden said. His voice was heavy with dread. "Should we fight it?" Arthur asked bravely, holding his little fists up. "You can't punch a maze, Arthur," Jayden sighed. "If we stand in the dark, we will freeze to death. We have to
Chapter 417
“WARNING,” a cold, robotic voice buzzed from hidden speakers on the wall. “ANCHOR NODE MUST REMAIN IN DESIGNATED SECTOR. DEPARTURE IS STRICTLY DENIED.”Jayden stared at the red screen. His heart hammered in his chest. He hit the door again. BAM! The white code flashed brighter. The metal absorbed the force of his punch and redirected the energy harmlessly into the ground. YOUR SURVIVAL IS CRITICAL TO THE GLOBAL NETWORK, the robotic voice announced smoothly. LEAVING THE DESIGNATED SECTOR INCREASES THE RISK OF TERMINATION. FOR YOUR OWN PROTECTION, YOU ARE QUARANTINED.Jayden stepped backward. He looked at his own hands. The horrible, chilling truth washed over him like a bucket of freezing water. He was indestructible. He could not be killed. The System had saved him from the executioners because he was the most important piece of equipment in the world. But a piece of equipment does not have free will. A computer server is not allowed to get up and walk out of the building. It h
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