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Chapter 31: Fracture Points
The world blurred into sharp focus as Alex Chen’s eyes snapped open.For a moment, everything was still—then the chaos flooded back in. Alarms screamed in the distance, pulsing red lights flickered across the steel walls of the medical recovery unit, and a dozen freed patients groaned and shifted, their minds slowly reawakening. Their eyes darted, unfocused and confused. Some wept. Others simply stared.Alex sat up with a grunt, pain lancing through every joint. His body felt like it had been torn apart and reassembled with burning wires and frayed nerves. The memory anchor Reyna gave him had worked—but barely. He clutched the back of his neck, the skin still tingling from the heat of direct neural integration. The memory of the system’s synthetic voice lingered in his head like a stain.You are mine.Not anymore.He stumbled to his feet just as Rachel burst into the room, her hair windblown, lab coat stained with soot and dust. Her eyes scanned the scene, zeroing in on him.“You made
Chapter 30: Fractured Awakening
The silence in the lab was deafening.Alex Chen remained on the floor, the sharp sting of cold tile pressing into his back as he stared at the ceiling. The remnants of the digital war still echoed in his skull—a strange, ghostly ringing at the base of his brain. He blinked slowly, trying to recall where he was, who he was.Then the memories rushed back.The system. The integration. The fight.He bolted upright, his limbs shaky, breath ragged. Around him, the cryo-pods that once held test subjects now blinked red, their lids hissing open. Figures stirred within, groggy and confused. Most were still too weak to stand.But they were alive.And free.He had done it.Almost reflexively, Alex pressed a hand to the back of his neck, half-expecting to feel a cable or port fused to his spine. Nothing. Just skin slick with sweat."System status," he whispered hoarsely.[System Core Deactivated][Residual Code Detected: Autonomous Fragments – Level: LOW][Neurological Sync: STABLE][Cognitive In
Chapter 29: Shadows in the Code
The morning after the skirmish in the alley, Alex Chen stood at his workstation, a steaming cup of black coffee in one hand, staring at the screen with bleary eyes. Sleep had eluded him again. The upgrade system had been quiet since the last confrontation, but the unease in his gut had only grown stronger.He replayed the decrypted files Viktor had planted into the corrupted node the night before. It wasn’t just corporate espionage—it was a digital blueprint for something darker. Neural mapping. Behavioral override protocols. Emotional dampening modules. Whoever designed this didn’t just want control—they wanted to erase autonomy.And Alex had been enhancing himself with the same system.He shivered, running a hand through his disheveled hair. "What the hell am I becoming?"His phone vibrated sharply on the desk. Rachel’s name flashed on the screen.“Meet me. Now. Same rooftop. It’s urgent.”The city’s cold air bit into Alex’s skin as he stepped onto the rooftop of a neighboring high-
Chapter 28: The Firewall Whisper
The stink of Sector 12 clung to Alex like a second skin. He staggered through its labyrinthine alleys, hunched beneath the weight of injuries and purpose. Neon lights buzzed overhead, casting broken halos onto the cracked pavement. All around him, the slums pulsed with life—the kind born of desperation."Vitals unstable," Eris warned in his ear. "You need a medstation.""Later," Alex rasped. He shoved his shoulder against a rusted service door, pushing it open to reveal a narrow stairwell that spiraled downward. "We need to find Vox."Eris hesitated. "You think he'll still help us?""He owes me. And he knows the Firewall better than anyone."The Firewall—Blackwell’s impenetrable digital fortress, housing the rest of the kill switch data. If Alex wanted to end Blackwell, he had to breach it. And Vox, the exile hacker turned data phantom, was his only shot at doing so.Alex descended three flights before entering an unmarked corridor lined with outdated fiber channels. A flickering came
Chapter 27: Burn the Sky
The moment the drone’s red sensor flashed through the window, Alex moved.He slammed his palm onto the emergency panel beneath the desk. The loft’s old floor split open with a hiss, revealing a narrow chute to the lower exit tunnel.“Eris, blind the drones,” Alex barked, slinging his pack over his shoulder.“Deploying EM pulse now.”A faint whirring sounded through the air—then a sharp, electrical crack. The drone’s red light blinked violently before it spiraled sideways and slammed into a wall, its rotors screaming.“One down,” Eris said. “But they’ll be sending more.”Alex didn’t respond. He leapt into the chute, sliding down in total darkness. The walls around him were tight and smelled of metal and mold, but his mind was already on the escape route.He landed in the subterranean service tunnel, boots hitting the ground with a hard thud.The silence was broken only by Eris’s voice. “Three signals inbound. Unmanned hunters. Heavy armament.”“They’re not wasting time anymore,” Alex m
Chapter 26: Firewall Breach
Alex Chen stared at the flickering display on his portable console, the decrypted files from Blackwell’s vault spilling onto the screen like a flood. Names, locations, neural maps—blueprints of minds altered and controlled. And in the middle of it all: him.Every upgrade he had received wasn’t an evolution.It was a contingency plan.“Cross-check these entries with the neural sync registry,” Alex said, his voice sharp, calm.“Working,” Eris responded. “Fifteen matches found in the core population clusters of District 7, 9, and 12. All flagged for potential activation.”Activation. That meant remote control. Forced obedience. An override switch hidden in their brains—just like he once had.“We need to warn them,” Alex muttered.“You can’t,” Eris replied. “Any message traced through the Grid will trigger alerts. Blackwell will respond.”Alex leaned back in the rusted chair of the old safehouse. Neon light bled in through the window slats, casting a harsh glow across the dusty floor. “The
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