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"Careful, kid," Thorne warned, stepping back. "That stuff looks like it wants to eat your face.""It wants to eat the machine," Kai corrected him. "This is it. This is how we win."Kai walked over to a sleek, white computer terminal connected to the glass tubes. He started typing. He needed to unlock the release valves. He needed to attach the glass tubes to the main water pipes that fed the Domain of Echo’s underground servers."I am overriding the safety locks," Kai said, typing rapidly. "I will program the swarm to seek out the unique digital signature of Ambassador Sol. Once I open the valves, the nanites will travel through the pipes. They will multiply. In ten minutes, the Domain will be completely consumed.""Do it," Kaelen urged. "End this nightmare."Kai’s fingers flew across the keyboard. The green progress bar on the screen moved quickly.UNLOCKING VALVES... 40%... 60%...Suddenly, the bright white lights in the laboratory flickered.BZZZT.The lights turned a deep, dark, b
Chapter 392
Kai hit the heavy ENTER key.The screen flashed. A massive web of financial transactions appeared. Red lines connected hundreds of fake bank accounts. They all pointed to one single, massive source.Kai opened his eyes. He stared at the name on the screen. "Apex Dynamics," Kai read out loud.Thorne cursed under his breath. "Apex Dynamics? They are a corporate military company. They build tanks. They build guns.""They used to," Kai said. His voice was cold and bitter. "Before I launched the Whisper Grid, Apex Dynamics was the biggest weapons manufacturer on Earth. They made hundreds of billions of dollars selling weapons to fighting nations.""But when you turned the Grid on, you stopped all the wars," Kaelen realized. "You made the world peaceful.""Yes," Kai nodded. "And when the wars stopped, Apex Dynamics stopped making money. Their business died. The corporate bosses hated me. They hated the machine."Kai pointed to the red lines on the screen."They didn't want human freedom, Ka
Chapter 391
The heavy steel door of Holding Cell Four stood open.Kai Crest, Thorne, and Kaelen stepped out into the dark, gray concrete hallway. The emergency red lights flashed above them. Blink. Blink. Blink. The loud diesel generator hummed in the background. The Alpha Bunker was in total chaos, which made it the perfect time to run."Stay close," Thorne whispered. He held his heavy silver revolver in his right hand. "The human soldiers are running around like scared ants. But if they see us, they will shoot.""I know the way out," Kaelen said softly. Her jagged burn scar looked dark in the red light. "When they brought me in here, I counted the steps. There is a blind spot near the old ventilation shafts."Kai nodded. His chest burned with terrible pain. The white bandages under his black shirt were sticky with fresh blood. His silver eyes glowed faintly in the dark. He did not say a word. He just followed them.They moved like three silent ghosts through the bunker. They dodged behind met
Chapter 390
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
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