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CHAPTER 9 – Ghost Code
Rain lashed against the shattered glass as they burst out of the hospital’s side entrance. The sirens were closer now, sharp, metallic howls bouncing off skyscrapers. Lydia slammed the SUV door and yelled, “Drive!”April barely got in before Justin floored the gas. Tires shrieked, water fanning behind them like wings.“Helix has us locked,” Lydia muttered, reloading her weapon. “We tripped every sensor from here to Midtown.”Justin’s eyes flickered gold in the rearview mirror. “They didn’t need sensors. They can see through me.”April looked at him sharply. “What do you mean?”He gripped the wheel tighter. “The Origin Signal, whatever it is, it’s running inside my neural system. It’s using me like a satellite.”“You’re saying they can track your mind?” Lydia asked.“Not just track,” Justin said quietly. “They can talk through it.”April leaned forward. “Justin, if you can hear them, maybe you can find their next base before they find us.”He didn’t answer. His breathing slowed, eyes g
CHAPTER 8 – The Origin Signal
The rain hadn’t stopped for two days. New York looked like it was bleeding neon, red, blue, gold, into the slick streets.Lydia’s SUV screeched to a stop beside the abandoned hospital wing. “This is it,” she said. “The coordinates lead straight under Saint Harlow Memorial.”Justin’s fingers twitched against the glass. “A hospital hiding Helix servers. Poetic.”April glanced back from the passenger seat. “You think they used patients as cover?”Justin nodded slowly. “No one questions miracles inside hospitals.”The three of them stepped into the storm, hoods up. Lightning flared against the metal entrance gate, half-rusted shut. Lydia drew a crowbar from her jacket. “Move.”With a grunt, she wrenched it open. The screech echoed down the empty corridors. Inside, the air was heavy with disinfectant and rot. Broken monitors blinked faintly, machines that hadn’t worked in years.April shivered. “Feels like the dead are still waiting for treatment.”“They are,” Justin murmured.She turned t
CHAPTER 7 – The Hollow Pulse
Rain softened to a mist by dawn. Dock 47 was nothing but wreckage and silence. Lydia picked her way through the twisted steel, coughing on smoke. “Justin!” she called. “Talk to me!”No answer, only the hiss of cooling metal. She found April kneeling beside a scorch mark where Justin had fallen. The ground was blackened, but his body was gone. Lydia stopped short. “Where is he?”April’s voice was barely a whisper. “He… vanished. The light swallowed him.”Lydia knelt. The concrete was still warm. “Nobody just disappears.”“He did.” April’s hands shook. “I felt him go.”Lydia stared at her. “You were glowing blue ten minutes ago. Maybe you felt something else.”April’s eyes, now normal, met hers. “No. It was him. He’s not dead.”“Then where is he?”April looked toward the river. “Somewhere between life and memory.”Hours later, the city buzzed with rumors, explosions at the docks, military cleanup, curfews reinstated. Newsfeeds called it a chemical spill.In the safehouse, Lydia slammed
Chapter 6 – “The Resurrection Protocol”
Rain turned the alley to silver as Justin and Lydia raced through the backstreets. Every step echoed with sirens in the distance. Lydia shoved open a rusted service door. “In here!”They tumbled into a narrow stairwell. Justin pressed the drive against his palm, light bleeding through his fingers. “Whatever’s on this,” he said, “it’s trying to wake up.”“Then we’d better find a system that doesn’t explode when it does.”She led him up to a forgotten radio tower room, stripped bare except for a cracked console. Dust shimmered in the lightning flashes outside.Justin set the drive into the port. The screen blinked, stuttered, then filled with lines of living code, cells dividing, mutating. Lydia leaned in. “What are we looking at?”“Genetic schema,” he murmured. “But this… this isn’t mine.”“Then whose?”He hesitated. “April’s.”The code rearranged itself into a human outline, a digital pulse flickering like a heartbeat. “Holy hell,” Lydia whispered. “She’s alive inside that?”“No. She’
CHAPTER 5 – Echoes of the Dead
Smoke clawed at Justin’s throat as he and Lydia sprinted through the fractured tunnel. The air pulsed with sirens and collapsing stone. “Keep left!” Lydia shouted over the roar.Justin stumbled over a fallen pipe, clutching his side. “We’re boxed in!”“Not yet!” She slammed a maintenance door open with her shoulder and dragged him through. Behind them, the passage caved in, sealing the way with a wall of dust and fire.For a long moment, neither spoke. Their breath came in ragged gasps. Then Justin whispered, “He’s dead.”Lydia’s expression hardened. “So are we if we stay here. Move.”He nodded, but his gaze lingered on the smoke. For an instant, he swore he saw Marcus’s silhouette standing in the haze, eyes glowing faintly blue, lips moving in silence. “Justin?” Lydia grabbed his arm. “What is it?”He blinked, and the image vanished. “Nothing. Just, let’s go.”They followed a service stair up into the underbelly of the city. Water dripped from the ceiling; somewhere above, traffic ru
CHAPTER 4 – The Anatomy of a Lie
The tunnels no longer echoed only with dripping water, they pulsed with whispers. Lydia’s flashlight threw long shadows across the cracked brick as they moved deeper.Justin followed, his mind racing. Every footstep seemed to thud in time with the question pounding in his skull: Who built me into this?She stopped at a metal hatch covered in rust. “This leads to the old subway maintenance hub. Off-grid. Nobody goes there.”“Except you,” Justin said.“Except me,” she admitted. “You’ll be safe for an hour, maybe two.”He climbed through first. The room beyond looked like a forgotten lab, scattered monitors, surgical trays, a dead generator.Justin ran a hand across the dusty equipment. “This stuff… it’s medical grade. Experimental.”Lydia’s eyes flicked to the floor. “Yeah. Belonged to someone who tried to expose the government’s clinical trials before disappearing.”He turned to her sharply. “What kind of trials?”She hesitated. “On soldiers. Regenerative medicine. Unapproved.”Justin’
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