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CHAPTER 131 : The Global Trolley Problem
The air conditioning in the Archon Underground Command Facility, New York, breathed like a glacial wind stripping the skin from every pore.Day 100 since the crisis began.The circular chamber, lined in black titanium, was dominated by the blood-red glow of a massive holographic projector at its center, radiating a color painful to the eyes. The color of death.Matthew Thomas stood rigid, both palms braced hard against the glass table until his knuckles whitened. The sleeves of his expensive black shirt were rolled to the elbows, exposing veins standing taut beneath the skin.Across from him, Veronica Wu, Caleb Foster, and Nikolai Sergeevich stood frozen in silence, staring at the screen with hollow eyes. Their faces were pale as corpses, painted by absolute terror.The sharp ozone scent of overstrained servers hung in the air, mingling with the cold sweat of executives pushed beyond human limits.“The energy deficit has crossed three
CHAPTER 130 : War of Minds
There was no sound in Matthew’s mindscape. No water, no steel walls. When Matthew slowly opened his eyes, or at least when his consciousness believed it was opening them, he found himself standing in the center of a vast and magnificent banquet hall.Its floor was made of pure gold, and towering marble pillars rose endlessly without a roof, piercing a night sky filled with constellations that had never existed on any astronomical map of Earth.Yet the grandeur was rotten. The marble walls were riddled with cracks that leaked poisonous blue light. Fragments of Julian Vance’s memories lay scattered in the form of malformed statues of faces, screaming without sound.This was the collapsing kingdom of Julian Vance’s mind, destroyed by Matthew in the real world, yet still forcefully sustained by the remnants of an immense ego.At the far end of the hall, atop a throne made of digital bones and glowing cables, Julian Vance sat waiting. He look
CHAPTER 129 : Diving to the Ocean Floor
The Pacific Ocean above the Mariana Trench churned violently. Yet ten thousand meters beneath the surface, the world felt frozen in absolute silence.The Abyssal Leviathan, an experimental Archon-class submarine armored in zirconium-carbon plating, descended through the eternal darkness like a black needle piercing the heart of the Earth.The only light came from the instrument panels inside the cockpit and the external floodlights, which could barely penetrate the crushing blackness of these depths. The groaning of metal under millions of tons of seawater echoed constantly, like the roar of a dying beast.Inside the main cabin, Nikolai Sergeevich gripped his harness until his knuckles turned white.“I hate water, Boss,” Nikolai muttered, cold sweat streaming down his temples.“On land, if someone shoots at me, I can shoot back. Down here? If that ten-inch glass cracks by even a hair, we all get compressed to the size of
CHAPTER 128 : Julian Vance’s Trail
That night,The sharp scent of antiseptic and ozone filled the advanced medical suite in the subterranean levels of ARC Monolith Tower. The room had been deliberately dimmed because even the slightest light felt like shards of glass stabbing into Matthew’s retinas.On a bio-medical bed forged from titanium alloy, Matthew lay motionless, bandages wrapped around his head. The steady pulse of the heart monitor cut through the suffocating silence.Viviane sat beside the bed, gripping her husband’s left hand tightly, his skin cold as ice. Her brown eyes were still swollen from crying. In the corner of the room, a lead-lined incubator hummed softly, shielding Dominic, who occasionally whimpered in his sleep.“You promised me, Matt,” Viviane whispered, her voice raw as it broke the silence. “You promised this system would not kill you, but tonight… I watched you almost die. Blood was pouring from your eyes and your ears. The
CHAPTER 127 : The Probes Awaken
The Main Control Chamber on the upper floor of the ARC Monolith had descended into chaos. Technicians rushed from one console to another, shouting emergency codes while the giant wall screens blazed with blood-red warnings.When the steel doors burst open, Matthew strode in with long, rapid steps. The force of his presence alone made several technicians stop panicking.“Caleb, report. Now!” Matthew shouted.Caleb Foster, hammering frantically at a virtual keyboard with sweat streaming down his face, turned at once.Something strange was happening. The probes, those detection devices that had done nothing but observe from the skies, were suddenly moving downward.“Mr. Thomas, thermal anomalies in the stratosphere have spiked ten thousand percent. Five thousand blue cylindrical probes that had remained stationary are breaking formation. They’re descending into the troposphere.”“Are they heading for major po
CHAPTER 126 : The Weight of Ruthlessness
Autumn rain poured relentlessly over New York City, drenching the massive glass walls of ARC Monolith Tower as it pierced the gray clouds.Inside the minimalist, futuristic private office at the summit, the silence was suffocating. The black cashmere carpet swallowed every footstep. But it could not absorb the tension radiating from the obsidian desk at the center of the room.A high-resolution holographic projection glowed, displaying Robert Watson, former CEO of Lane Corp. and Viviane Lane’s uncle. He looked disheveled. His gray suit was wrinkled, his tie loosened, dark circles carved beneath his eyes.Behind his projection, the distant thunder of massive hydraulic machinery and factory sirens echoed from one of the heavy industrial facilities in Berlin, Germany.“You have to give them rest, Matthew." Robert’s voice was hoarse, heavy with desperation.“Thirty workers died today. Extreme exhaustion, heart failure, industrial accidents. Forcing people to work eighteen hours a day with
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