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CHAPTER 307: THE LIVING CODE
Gregory hadn’t slept in three days. Every time he closed his eyes, he saw his father’s face flickering through code, alive, grinning, and whispering through the static.The Lazarus Vault hummed beneath the building like a buried heart, locked and sealed. Its presence could be felt even through the reinforced floors of Caldwell Tower. It wasn’t a vault anymore. It was a tomb.And the dead inside refused to stay silent. Blake entered the surveillance room carrying two coffees. “You look like you’ve been staring at those feeds since yesterday.”Gregory didn’t take his eyes off the monitors. “Because I have.”On-screen, lines of code scrolled endlessly, the captured digital consciousness of Richard Caldwell, contained within the quantum matrix of the vault.Every few hours, the code shifted rhythm, forming patterns almost like breathing. “He’s learning,” Gregory muttered. “Adapting.”Blake handed him a cup. “You sure that’s even possible? You boxed him in hard.”Gregory shook his head slo
CHAPTER 306: ECHOES OF THE DEAD
The Atlantic wind cut through Gregory like a knife as he climbed onto the rescue craft. The storm had passed, but the ocean still heaved with restless energy.He was bleeding, exhausted, and hollow, yet the fight inside him refused to die. Blake caught him by the arm. “You look like hell.”Gregory gave a faint smile. “Feels about right.”Amelia hurried forward, wrapping a thermal blanket around his shoulders. “We lost your signal three times. We thought you”“Didn’t make it?” Gregory interrupted. “Not yet.”Blake frowned. “And the facility?”“Gone,” Gregory said quietly. “Buried under two miles of water.”Crane, who stood by the communications console, turned slowly. “Then it’s over.”Gregory’s eyes darkened. “No. It’s only begun.”Two days later, back in London. Caldwell Tower had become a fortress, sealed floors, blacked-out windows, servers running on isolated loops.Gregory moved through the top floor like a man haunted, every light flickering at his passing. Amelia entered his of
CHAPTER 305: THE FATHER WHO SHOULD’VE DIED
The shock hit Gregory harder than the cold. The face before him, gaunt, lined, but unmistakable, was the one he had buried in his memories, the face that haunted his nightmares and drove his every move.“Father…” Gregory’s voice came out low, unbelieving. “You died. I saw the reports. The fire, the wreckage”Richard Caldwell’s eyes gleamed under the sterile glow of the Mirror facility’s lights. “You saw what I wanted the world to see.”Gregory’s pulse thundered in his ears. “You faked your death?”Richard stepped closer, slow and deliberate. “There are two ways to win a war, son, by surviving it or by letting them think you didn’t. I chose both.”Gregory’s hands clenched into fists. “You let them hunt me. You let them destroy everything. Elara, the Syndicate”His father’s tone was cold, clinical. “I needed them to. Voss was never the threat, Gregory. She was a tool, a visible enemy to distract you while the real one kept building power.”Gregory’s eyes narrowed. “You used me.”Richard
CHAPTER 304: THE MIRROR CONSPIRACY
Snow fell like ash over the Rockies. The helicopter cut through the storm in silence, its red beacons blinking against the endless dark. Inside, the air stank of gun oil and blood.Gregory sat slumped in his seat, one hand clamped over his shoulder wound, the other clutching the encrypted drive. His vision blurred, but his mind refused to rest.Helix had gone public. The world was in chaos, headlines screaming, markets crashing, governments scrambling to deny the revelations. Yet the fire in his chest wasn’t victory. It was warning.Blake looked up from his comms. “Every outlet’s running the Helix data dump. Half the Voss Syndicate’s under arrest, the rest are disappearing underground.”Gregory’s voice was hoarse. “That’s what they want us to see.”Amelia frowned. “What do you mean?”He stared at the drive. “Helix wasn’t the top layer, it was a door. My father designed everything in mirrors, dual systems. He knew if one side was corrupted, the other would still survive.”Blake narrowe
CHAPTER 303: THE SIEGE OF HELIX
The tunnels shook like thunder. Dust rained from the ceiling as gunfire cracked through the dark corridors of the Armitage Facility.The Helix servers glowed behind Gregory like a heartbeat made of light, flaring brighter each second as the global data upload ticked upward: UPLOAD STATUS: 47% … 52% …Blake crouched behind a shattered console, returning fire. “They’ve got suppressors and body armor. I count at least twelve!”“Seventeen,” Gregory corrected, swapping magazines. “Voss never does anything halfway.”Across the room, Amelia ducked behind a support pillar, clutching a small data drive to her chest, the manual backup.Her face was pale, streaked with dust, but her eyes burned. “How long until Helix finishes transmitting?”Gregory checked the monitor. “Three minutes. We just have to hold this room.”A calm voice cut through the chaos. “You won’t.”Elara Voss stepped through the doorway like she owned the air itself. Her black tactical coat barely rippled despite the gunfire. Tw
CHAPTER 302: PROTOCOL HELIX AWAKENS
The night after the Voss takeover was sleepless. Rain lashed against the windows of the penthouse safehouse as Gregory sat in front of three glowing monitors, each screen loaded with fragments of encrypted code.Blake paced like a caged animal behind him, while Amelia, still shaken from the boardroom chaos, watched the city burn in reflection.“Nothing about this adds up,” Blake muttered. “Voss couldn’t have hijacked half the board without inside help. Somebody close to us opened that door.”Gregory didn’t look up. His eyes were locked on the code repeating endlessly across the screens, lines his father had buried in the system decades ago. “He did,” Gregory said quietly. “My father. He left it there for me.”Amelia turned. “You mean… the words that flashed on the monitors?”Gregory nodded. “Protocol Helix. I found references to it in his private notes before the fire. He wrote that it was his ‘fail-safe.’ Something he could never trust the board with.”Blake frowned. “Fail-safe for w
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