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Eli was attacking the virus. But a digital ghost is very fragile. Every time Eli hit the red code, sparks of black static flew off his blue avatar. Eli screamed in pain as his own memory files began to burn. "Eli, stop!" Jayden yelled, seeing his friend’s avatar crack and glitch. "You will destroy yourself again!""I am already dead, kid!" Eli laughed through the pain. "Let an old man do his job!"Eli grabbed the massive, invisible root of the red virus. With a mighty, digital roar, Eli pulled with all his strength. KABOOOOOOOM! A massive explosion of blue and red static ripped through the town square. The shockwave blew the snow away, exposing the bare, cracked pavement. The glowing red snake of code wrapped around Jayden’s arm shattered like glass. The connection was broken. Jayden fell backward onto the cold, wet pavement. The white light stopped pouring from his chest. He gasped loudly, pulling huge breaths of freezing winter air into his burning lungs. He was exhausted. He
Chapter 407
Instantly, thick, jagged lines of glowing red computer code exploded from her forehead. The red code shot outward, wrapping tightly around Jayden’s arm like a burning, electric snake. "AGGGGH!" Jayden roared in shock and pain. He tried to pull his arm back, but the red code was incredibly strong. It locked his hand to her head. The trap was sprung. Caelum had not just deleted the city. He had left a highly advanced, deeply hidden computer virus inside the empty brain of the Anchor. It was a digital landmine. It was designed to trigger the exact moment a powerful magical user tried to heal her. And Jayden had just stepped right on it. "I told you!" Eli shouted in panic. The old hacker’s blue hologram flickered wildly. "It is a parasitic siphon! Pull away, Jayden!""I can't!" Jayden yelled through his teeth. The red code burned through the sleeve of his grey coat. It melted into his skin. It did not feel like physical pain. It did not break his bones. It felt like someone had o
Chapter 406
Jayden walked up to a man standing near a parked car. The man held a snow shovel in his hands. He was frozen in the exact middle of swinging the shovel. The snow on the shovel had not fallen off. Jayden looked closely at the man’s face. The man was not breathing. His chest did not move up and down. But he was not dead. Jayden could see the faint, slow pulse of a heartbeat in the man’s neck. But the man’s eyes were horrifying. They were completely wide open. The white parts of his eyes were gone. His entire eyeballs were pitch black. Deep inside the blackness, tiny, glowing red squares of computer code spun and shifted. "He is locked out of his own body," Jayden whispered. "Caelum severed the Anchor," Eli’s voice whispered from the silver flask in Arthur’s hands. A small blue hologram of Eli appeared, walking next to them. "When Caelum cut the central router of the city, the psychic backlash hit every single brain in town. Their minds were instantly disconnected from the System,
Chapter 405
The silver flask in little Arthur’s hand began to glow. Jayden and Arthur stood in the dark, rainy alley in New York City. They had just escaped the chaos of the streets. Jayden was preparing to walk toward the giant crater to fight the Devourer. But before he could take another step, the silver flask buzzed loudly. A bright beam of blue light shot out of the top of the metal flask. The light hit the wet brick wall of the alley and expanded. It formed the shape of an old man in a thick brown leather jacket. It was the digital ghost of Eli. "Eli," Jayden said, his plain brown eyes widening in surprise. "You are inside the flask?"The blue hologram of the old hacker smiled a sad, tired smile. "I am everywhere, kid," Eli’s rough voice crackled from the small speaker on the flask. "I am a ghost in the global machine now. I uploaded my brain to the network before my bunker exploded. Arthur has a projection drive inside that flask.""Grandpa," Arthur whispered, hugging the cold metal fl
Chapter 404
Caelum closed his chest. He lowered his massive, terrifying arms. He stood fifteen feet tall, towering over the sleeping city. He radiated an aura of pure, absolute, overwhelming dominance. He looked down at his new, massive hands. The red code sparked and hissed around his claws. "I am no longer a King," Caelum whispered into the cold winter wind. "I am an Engine. I am the new Core."He turned his burning red eyes toward the East. He looked across the vast continent of America, staring through the miles, staring directly toward the ruined city of New York. He knew Mr. Vance was deep underground there. He knew Jayden Prime was walking the streets. Caelum smiled his jagged, digital smile. "I am coming for you, Anchor," Caelum boomed. "I am coming to eat your city next."With a massive leap, Caelum launched himself into the sky. He did not fly like a bird. He shot through the clouds like a dark red missile, leaving a trail of corrupted code in the air behind him. He was heading fo
Chapter 403
Caelum slowly raised the sharp black needle. He pointed the tip of the needle directly at the center of Hannah’s forehead. "System override," Caelum commanded. The air around him buzzed with heavy, dark energy. "Target identified: Collective Anchor Node. Action: Permanent Disconnection."Caelum pressed the black needle into Hannah’s skin. It did not draw blood. It did not break her skull. The needle passed right through her physical body and pierced directly into her soul. KZZZZZZT! A horrific, deafening sound of ripping static echoed across the quiet, snowy town square. Inside Hannah’s mind, the pain was unimaginable. It was worse than being burned alive. It was worse than having her bones crushed. Caelum was not attacking her flesh. He was attacking her existence. Hannah saw the beautiful, glowing blue wires that connected her to her mother. She saw the wires that connected her to the patients she cared for at the hospital. She saw the bright web of human love that she had b
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