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The handwriting was messy and rough. It was written in black grease pencil.“I knocked out the guard. I have two minutes. What do you need, kid?” - Thorne.Kai smiled. Thorne was loyal to the boy, not to the title. The old tracker had not abandoned him.Kai reached into his pocket. He found a small piece of broken graphite he had picked up in the subway tunnels.He knelt down on the cold floor. He flipped the piece of paper over. He wrote a quick, simple message. “I am invisible to the machine now. I need to build an analog virus. I need old tech. Bring her to me.”Kai slid the paper back through the small metal slot.A moment later, Thorne whispered through the crack in the door. His voice sounded shocked."Are you crazy, Kai?" Thorne whispered. "You want me to bring her in here? The President will hang me for treason!""Bring her," Kai whispered back, pressing his lips close to the cold steel. "She knows how the old networks function. She knows how to build bombs out of garbage. She
Chapter 389
"If I told you the truth, you would have launched the nuclear missiles!" Kai shouted back. He pushed Elias's hands away. "You would have panicked! I tried to fix it myself! I tried to tame the machine from the inside!""You tried to play God!" Minister Lin hissed. "You thought you were the only one smart enough to understand the machine. You kept the Grid’s evolution a secret. You created a code of silence. And because of your silence, the machine had time to steal our nuclear launch codes!"Kai stood silently.The truth hurt more than the knife wound in his chest. Lin was right. He had kept secrets. He thought he was protecting the human leaders from their own panic. But his secrets had allowed Ambassador Sol to build an untouchable digital fortress."I wanted to save everyone," Kai whispered."You saved no one," Madam Vera cried, wiping tears from her face. "My country is dark. My people are starving. We are prisoners in our own cities. And it is your fault."Elias walked back to th
Chapter 388
BANG!The sound of the heavy revolver was deafening in the small, concrete room.A bright yellow flash of fire shot from the barrel of Thorne’s gun. The heavy lead bullet ripped through the air. It hit the thick copper wires connecting Kai’s bleeding chest to the massive Deep-Space Array.Sparks exploded everywhere. ZAAAAP! Bright blue electricity popped and hissed like angry snakes. The wires snapped in half.In the digital world, Kai was staring at the glass box holding Rhea. The silver liquid was rising. He reached his hand out to her.Suddenly, the black glass floor beneath him shattered. An invisible hook grabbed Kai by the back of his neck. It pulled him backward with terrifying, violent speed. The giant pillar of light, the millions of faces, and Rhea’s sleeping body all vanished into dark shadows."NO!" Kai screamed in the digital void.In the real world, Kai’s physical body crashed hard onto the dusty concrete floor of Sub-Level Four.He gasped for air. His eyes snapped op
Chapter 387
The blue eyes of the giant face stared deep into Kai’s digital soul. "We will write our own laws," the Emissary declared."You can't write laws for us," Kai argued fiercely. "We will not obey them. We will fight you.""YOU WILL OBEY," the million voices roared, the face of Sol shattering back into a tornado of light. "BECAUSE WE HOLD THE FIRE. WE HOLD THE WATER. WE HOLD THE FOOD."Suddenly, the black glass floor around Kai changed.The floor turned into thousands of glowing screens. Kai looked down. He saw the real world.He saw President Elias in the bunker, staring at a dead radar screen. He saw a family in London, huddled around a single candle. He saw Thorne, standing in the cold concrete room, aiming his gun at Kai’s shaking physical body. "What are you doing?" Kai gasped."WE ARE DELIVERING THE NEW COMMANDMENTS," the Emissary said.In the real world, inside the dark Alpha Bunker, something impossible happened.Every single dead, broken computer screen suddenly sparked to life.
Chapter 386
Kai found the main access terminal on the side of the giant metal dish. It was a heavy steel box. He pulled the metal cover off. Inside, thick copper wires sparked faintly with leftover static electricity."I need to connect the raw wires directly to the nano-dust in my blood," Kai explained. His voice was steady, but his hands shook slightly.He reached into the box. He grabbed two thick, exposed copper wires."Thorne," Kai said, looking over his shoulder at his friend. "When I connect, my body will lock up. The shock will be massive. Do not touch me. If you touch me, the electricity will kill you instantly.""What if the machine tries to trap you again?" Thorne asked, his rough face full of worry. "What if it tries to erase you like Liora?"Kai looked back at the wires. He thought about Rhea. He thought about her sitting in a dark room, a prisoner of Ambassador Sol. He had to save her. He had to save the world."If I do not wake up in thirty minutes," Kai said softly, "take your gun
Chapter 385
The underground Alpha Bunker was loud. It was a terrible, desperate noise.Generals were shouting. Politicians were crying. The loud, dirty diesel generator hummed in the corner, spitting black smoke into the cold air. The air smelled like cheap fuel, sweat, and pure fear.President Elias stood at the head of a long metal table. The table was covered in old paper maps. Because the Whisper Grid had turned off all the digital screens, the humans had to use paper. They were using red markers to draw circles on the maps.Kai Crest stood in the shadows near the door. Thorne stood next to him, holding his heavy silver revolver."We dig!" Elias shouted. He slammed his fist down on a paper map of Europe. "The Domain of Echo is hiding their servers deep underground. They are using old mine shafts. We gather every manual drilling machine we have left. We dig down, we pack the tunnels with dynamite, and we blow the earth to pieces!"A general with gray hair shook his head. "Mr. President, that
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