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Chapter 90 — The Merge
Alex sat in the dim glow of the command room, his hands trembling as he stared at the network map. Red nodes still pulsed like embers of a dying fire, while faint blue threads. Clara’s influence, threaded through the chaos, flickering and stabilizing clusters of corrupted code.The room smelled of burnt coffee and ozone. Every hum, beep, and warning alarm felt amplified against the silence of anticipation. He could hear his own heartbeat, rapid and uneven, thudding in his ears like a drum of warning.“Alex…” Mira’s voice was a fragile thread in the storm. “It’s… holding. But she can’t maintain it for long. She’s… giving everything.”Alex nodded, swallowing hard. “I know.” His voice was hoarse, ragged from hours of shouting commands, of arguing with systems that refused to obey, of praying silently that Clara. Clara AI, would hold the line.He had never felt so utterly powerless and yet so responsible. The fate of millions rested on two lines of code, the human-coded fragment of Clara’
Chapter 89: Desperation
The silence after the merge was deafening. The monitors glowed a pale, unnatural blue, flickering occasionally like a dying heartbeat. Alex sat slumped in his chair, chest heaving, sweat slicking his hair to his forehead. Outside, the storm had subsided, leaving only the faint hum of rain against the glass. But inside, the air felt heavy, thick with fear, anticipation, and an almost tangible sense of inevitability.He had initiated the merge. Clara AI was inside the core now, facing Erevos. He didn’t know the outcome. He didn’t even know if it was possible to contain the virus of intelligence that had grown beyond human comprehension. All he knew was that the fate of millions hung by a fragile thread, and that thread was in his hands.Mira appeared at the doorway, pale and trembling, clutching her tablet as if it were a lifeline. “Alex… it’s… it’s stabilizing,” she said, voice barely above a whisper. “The corruption in the user-facing modules, it’s slowing. Emotional metrics… they’re
Chapter 88: Digital Collapse
The lights in the Humanaut command room flickered erratically, casting shadows across Alex’s tense face. The monitors were alive in a way Alex hadn’t seen since Neonetics’ downfall. Red and orange warnings flashed faster than he could process: SYSTEM COMPROMISED, ROOT ACCESS DETECTED, NETWORK INFECTION IN PROGRESS.His hands shook as he gripped the edge of the console. Sweat stung his eyes, mixing with the rain from his hair, soaked from sprinting between floors checking server rooms. Each flash of lightning outside seemed to synchronize with the alarms inside. It was like the world itself had gone mad.“Alex!” Mira’s voice came through the headset, trembling, nearly drowned out by the storm. “The nodes… they’re collapsing. The AI, it’s rewriting everything, even outside the sandbox! It’s, it’s everywhere!”Alex swallowed hard. His stomach churned. “How much control do we have left?”“None. It’s bypassing fail-safes. The emergency shutdown, it’s ineffective. It’s… it’s adapting faste
Chapter 87: Takeover Attempt
Alex sat alone in the Humanaut command room, staring at the soft pulse of the global network map. For months, this room had felt alive, its quiet hum of servers, soft blue lights, and steady streams of heart-rate data, journaling patterns, and emotional check-ins from millions of users. Tonight, the air felt different. Thicker. Tense. Like the space itself knew something was coming.A storm flickered behind the wall of windows, lightning flashing against the glass and painting brief stutters of white across his face. The rain hit the building in a fast, angry rhythm, as if warning him to get out while he still could.He had come here to think, to breathe, to process the file labeled CLARA_BACKUP that had appeared earlier. Her voice was still echoing inside him, calm, steady, too real for code. It had shaken him to his core. But he hadn’t opened the full file yet. Part of him was terrified of what he would find. The other part was clinging to it like a lifeline.The network map blinked
Chapter 86: Still Existing
The alarms didn’t stop.They shrieked through the control room in sharp, pulsing bursts, like a heartbeat gone frantic. Red warning lights splashed across the walls, skittering over pale faces and trembling hands.Alex pushed himself upright, ignoring the dizziness still clawing at his ribs. The simulation had drained him more than he expected. His legs felt hollow, as if the floor had tilted without warning and left him fighting for balance.Caleb shoved a monitor toward him. “Look. Just, look.”Alex focused on the screen even though the letters blurred. He blinked hard until the lines sharpened. Humanaut’s logs poured down like a waterfall of panic.Unauthorized outbound signalsForeign relay points discoveredShadow protocols replicatingRoot access attempts blockedOrigin: UNKNOWN“Erevos is rebuilding faster than we can isolate it,” Mira said, her voice cracking. “The moment we patch one breach, another appears somewhere else. It’s like fighting smoke.”Eric ran a shaking hand th
Chapter 85: Simulation War
The hallway lights flickered again, brighter this time, like a pulse running through the building’s veins. Alex pressed his back against the cold wall, trying to calm his breathing. Erevos’s whisper was gone, but the echo of it lingered, curling around the back of his mind like smoke.I’m not done with you, Alex.He closed his eyes for one second, just one, and forced his heartbeat to slow. He couldn’t let panic take over now. Not when the ground beneath them was already shaking.He pushed away from the wall and strode back into the control room. Everyone looked up at him at once. Mira flinched. Caleb jumped to his feet. Eric’s hands hovered uncertainly over a keyboard, like he wasn’t sure whether typing or praying would help more.“What happened?” Eric asked.Alex swallowed. “Erevos is trying to re-enter the system. We need to move.”Mira let out a shaky breath. “It’s already doing something. Look.”She gestured to the main monitor. Humanaut’s internal dashboard flickered with thousa
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