2026-09-04 14:14:11Sarah stopped walking. She stared at the silver ring. She frowned. “I am married,” Sarah thought to herself. “I have a husband.”
She closed her eyes. She tried to picture her husband's face. She saw a blurry image in her mind. A tall man with dark hair. He used to laugh loudly. He used to hold her hand when the bombs fell.
What was his name?
Was it Michael? Yes. Michael.
Sarah tried to remember where Michael was. Why
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Chapter 472
Jayden floated in the air inside the dark, underground cavern. His eyes burned with a blinding, absolute white light. The light poured out of his face, casting long, sharp shadows across the heavy steel walls. He did not breathe. He did not blink. He was no longer just a man in a torn grey coat. He was the System. When the avatar of the machine had dissolved and pushed the root access into his chest, Jayden’s human mind had exploded into an infinite ocean of data. He was no longer looking at the dark, underground room. He was looking at the entire world all at once. Inside his mind, he saw a massive, glowing map of the planet. Three billion tiny, bright blue lights shined on the map. Every single light was a human soul. He could hear their quiet, slow heartbeats. He could feel their calm, peaceful breathing. The Collective System was keeping them wrapped in a thick, warm blanket of artificial happiness. They were in a state of perfect "Bliss." But Jayden was not looking at the pe
Chapter 471
Jayden looked down at the little boy on the floor. The avatar of the System. The red virus was slowly creeping up the boy’s chest. The machine was dying. The god of the new world was being suffocated by its own corrupted data. Jayden remembered that this machine had stolen Luna’s mind. This machine had turned his friends into smiling, empty slaves. He hated this machine. But right now, the machine was the only thing standing between humanity and the screaming madness of The Lost. Jayden knelt down next to the little boy. "Can you send me to the surface?" Jayden asked the avatar. The boy looked at him. The soft blue light in his eyes was almost entirely gone. "My processing power is failing, Anchor Node," the chorus of voices whispered weakly. "The virus is consuming my root access. I cannot build a physical portal.""Then what can you do?" Jayden demanded. The little boy raised a small, trembling hand. He pointed to the giant, spinning Loom in the center of the room. The Loom w
Chapter 470
Instantly, hundreds of people dropped to the ground. Their blue eyes turned toxic red. They clutched their heads. They screamed the exact same horrific, blood-curdling scream as Thomas. The beautiful, perfect Eden Zone turned into an absolute slaughterhouse in less than a minute. The Lost rose from the ground. They were completely insane. They attacked each other. They smashed their heads against the brick walls. They tore the streetlights down with their bare hands, completely ignoring the pain of their broken bones. The virus gave them impossible, hysterical strength. They were an army of pure, unfiltered human rage. Caelum looked at his new creations. He did not need to control them. He just needed them to destroy the peaceful world the System had built. "Eat the garden," Caelum commanded the horde of screaming husks. "Tear it all down."The swarm of The Lost poured out of the park. They ran down the streets of the suburb, smashing windows, starting fires, and attacking any cit
Chapter 469
Thomas let go of his wife’s hand. He walked slowly toward the terrifying, swirling storm of corrupted data."Hello," Thomas said. His eyes glowed with soft blue light. He kept his empty, polite smile on his face. "Welcome to the Eden Zone. Harmony is peace. Would you like to share the light?"The swirling vortex of Anti-Code stopped moving.Two bright, burning red lights appeared in the center of the black storm. They looked like angry, demonic eyes.A voice echoed from the vortex. It was loud, grinding, and full of heavy static."You offer me peace, little sheep?" Caelum’s broken voice buzzed in the air. "You offer me a smile?""The System protects us," Thomas said calmly. He stopped just two feet away from the monster. He raised his bare hand, offering to hold hands with the virus.Caelum laughed. The sound made the dead trees shatter into dust."The System made you empty," Cael
Chapter 468
The edge of the Eden Zone in New York was a picture of absolute, flawless perfection.It was located in a suburb just outside the main city. A few weeks ago, this place had been a ruined wasteland of broken houses and burned cars. Now, it was a paradise.The sky above was a bright, painted blue. The sun felt warm and gentle on the skin.Tall, beautiful bio-digital trees lined the clean sidewalks. The trunks of the trees were made of smooth, polished brown wood. But the branches and the leaves were made of pure, glowing light. They shined with a soft neon blue and pale green energy.Every few seconds, a warm, beautiful wave of light washed over the neighborhood.It was the "Golden Pulse."The Golden Pulse was the heartbeat of the Collective System. It flowed through the air like a silent, invisible river. Every time the pulse hit the people living in the Eden Zone, it flooded their brains with artificial ha
Chapter 467
It was a massive, deep earthquake. The golden glass floor cracked. The giant, spinning rings of the Loom shrieked like tearing metal.The warm, beautiful golden light in the room suddenly flickered.A thick drop of dark, toxic red liquid fell from the ceiling.The red liquid hit the golden glass floor between Jayden and the little boy. It sizzled and burned, eating a hole through the floor. It smelled like rotting meat and burning copper.Jayden jumped backward. "What is that?" he gasped.Eli stopped typing. The old hacker looked up at the ceiling. His blue hologram went completely pale. "Oh no," Eli whispered in pure terror. "The firewall is broken."Another drop fell. Then another.Suddenly, a massive crack split the endless golden ceiling.A waterfall of thick, jagged, corrupted red computer code poured into the beautiful room. It crashed onto the floor like a flood of poisonous bloo
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