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Chapter 402
The city of Spokane, Washington, was perfectly still. Heavy, white snow fell gently from the pale grey sky. The cold winter wind blew through the tall, dark green pine trees. The beautiful houses of the quiet American city were covered in thick blankets of white frost. In the center of the town, ten thousand people stood on the streets. They did not speak. They did not move. They did not even blink. They were completely frozen. Fathers stood like statues with their hands raised. Mothers stood frozen on their front porches. Teenagers were stuck mid-step on the snowy sidewalks. Their eyes were not normal. Their eyes were completely pitch black. Inside the blackness, tiny red squares of computer code floated and spun. They were hostages in their own bodies. Walking among the frozen people was Caelum. Caelum was no longer a man. He was a walking, shifting nightmare of digital geometry. His body was made of solid black blocks, sharp angles, and jagged, glowing red lines. He did not
Chapter 401
"Mr. Vance thought he could put a purple string in your brains and eat you when he was hungry," Caelum mocked. "But Mr. Vance is an old, stupid beast. He does not understand technology. He does not understand evolution."Caelum’s shifting, geometric body grew taller. He expanded, feeding on the raw, shared magical energy of ten thousand human souls. "I am not going to eat you," Caelum announced. The red lights in his jagged face burned brighter. "I am going to use you. You are no longer citizens. You are no longer humans. You are processing power. You are my battery."On the porch, Robert’s body moved. Robert did not want to move. His human soul screamed in terror inside his trapped mind. Stop! Don't move! Mary, run! But Robert’s body stood up smoothly. It moved with perfect, robotic precision. Next to him, Mary stood up. Little Emma walked out of the house. Out in the snowy streets, ten thousand people stood up at the exact same time. They moved like a perfect, flawless army of
Chapter 400
The harmony turned into a cacophony. Robert opened his mouth. He did not want to scream. He did not know why he was screaming. But his body was no longer in his control. The hive mind had been hijacked by pain. "AAAAAAAGGGGHHH!" Robert screamed. Right next to him, Mary opened her mouth. "AAAAAAAGGGGHHH!" Mary screamed. Inside the house, little Emma screamed. Out in the street, Sarah, John, and Peter screamed. Ten thousand people in the city of Haven opened their mouths and screamed at the exact same time. It was not a messy, chaotic sound of different people yelling. It was absolutely, perfectly synchronized. Every single man, woman, and child hit the exact same terrible, high-pitched note. They breathed in at the exact same time. They screamed out at the exact same time. The sound was apocalyptic. It shook the pine trees. It vibrated the snow off the roofs of the houses. It sounded like one giant, massive monster dying in the mountains. Robert lay on the wooden porch, his b
Chapter 399
Far away from the ruined streets of New York, deep in the thick pine forests of Spokane, Washington, stood a quiet city. The people here called it Haven. Haven was a remote, peaceful place. It sat in a wide, snowy valley surrounded by tall, dark green mountains. In the old days, before the magic fell from the sky, it had been a normal American town. Now, it was a "Collective City." It was a shining example of the new world. There were no broken buildings here. There were no burning cars. The streets were perfectly clean. The snow on the sidewalks was shoveled into neat, square piles. The houses were repa/ired. The broken glass in the windows had been replaced. The people of Haven did not use money. They did not have a mayor. They did not have police officers or military guards. They did not need them. They had the Collective System. In the center of the town square, a tall, strong man named Robert was working. He wore a thick, red plaid winter coat. His breath came out in white
Chapter 398
Jayden could not punch a purple string. He could not fight a smile. He was a sword in a world that only wanted comfortable, quiet shields. Jayden looked down at the rusted steel pipe on the ground. He did not pick it up. He slowly turned around. He walked away from the bright, sunny street. He walked away from the laughing people who did not even turn to watch him leave. He pulled the collar of his torn grey coat up high against the cold wind. He walked into the dark, freezing shadows of a narrow brick alleyway. He walked until the sounds of the happy city faded away behind him. He stopped in the deepest, darkest part of the alley. He leaned his back against a cold brick wall. He slid down the wall until he hit the wet, dirty concrete. He pulled his knees to his chest. He sat alone in the dark, feeling completely, totally, and utterly empty. He was the last fighter on Earth. And he had no one left to fight. "I don't know what to do," Jayden whispered to the empty shadows. A si
Chapter 397
"You are too volatile, Jayden Prime," Mr. Miller explained. The voice was polite, but it was chillingly cold. "We can feel your energy. You are full of rage. You are full of violence. You want to smash the creature. You want to break its bones.""Because it is trying to kill you!" Jayden argued, his voice cracking with desperate frustration. "It is a monster! It only understands violence!""Violence creates conflict," the teenage girl said, speaking in the exact same flat, robotic tone as the mailman. "Conflict feeds the darkness," the old man added smoothly. "We do not need your violence," Mr. Miller said, looking at Jayden with a mixture of pity and mild disgust. "You are an echo of the old world. Your energy is dark. Please step back. You disrupt the harmony of the Collective."Jayden stared at the thirty normal people. They were looking at him as if he was the danger. They looked at him as if his desire to protect them was a filthy, disgusting disease. They saw him as a relic.
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