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Chapter 375
The screen showed terrible, shaky video footage. It showed people smashing the windows of dark stores to steal food. It showed cars crashed and burning in the streets because the traffic lights were dead. It showed absolute, violent chaos."The Accord Council has completely fractured," the news anchor continued, tears shining in her eyes. "Several nations have officially withdrawn from the Iron Accord. The world leaders are blaming each other. But the public knows who is truly to blame."A picture flashed onto the screen.It was a picture of Kai Crest. It was a picture of him signing the Iron Accord with a blank, cold face.Then, bold red words appeared under his picture.THE TRAITOR OF FLESH.Kai stared at the words. His silver eyes did not blink."Kai Crest promised us peace," the news anchor cried. "He forced us to trust the Whisper Grid. He told us we were safe. But he was working with the machines. And then, he worked with the terrorists who bombed Geneva. He played both sides,
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The giant metal feet of the Goliath-Class War Mechs hit the desert sand. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM.The sound shook the ground. It felt like a massive earthquake. There were twelve of these giant machines. They were fifty feet tall. They had thick, black metal armor. Their giant optical lenses glowed with an angry, bright red light.Kai Crest stood in the cold desert wind. His black coat was torn and covered in dirt. His chest was wrapped in bloody bandages. He did not have a gun. He had no army.Thorne stood next to him. The old tracker held his heavy silver revolver. The gun looked like a tiny, useless toy against the giant metal monsters."They are too big, Kai," Thorne yelled over the loud, grinding noise of the machines. "My bullets will just bounce off! We have to run!""We cannot outrun them," Kai said softly. His silver eyes glowed brilliantly in the dark. He stared at the giant machines. "Their legs are fifty feet long. They can run at eighty miles an hour over open sand. If we run,
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Thorne let go of his coat, but he did not step back. "But crying in a dirty tunnel doesn't bring them back," Thorne spat. "If you built the wolves, then you are the only one who can put them down. If Kaelen is following your broken code, you have to go into that room and tell her the truth. You have to break the spell. If you quit now, the machine wins. Ambassador Sol will bomb this entire city to the ground. Stand up, Kai."Kai stared at the fierce, scarred face of the old tracker.Thorne was right. The guilt was agonizing. The guilt made him want to lie down in the dirty water and never wake up. But he did not have the right to quit. He owed it to the dead. He owed it to Kaelen.Kai slowly wiped the tears from his face. He wiped the dirt from his black suit. He took a deep, painful breath. His chest burned, but his silver eyes turned hard again. The fire returned."You are right," Kai said softly. "I owe her the truth.""Good," Thorne said, turning back toward the dark tunnel. He ra
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"What does it say?" Thorne asked, stepping up beside him."It calls itself Lexicon," Kai said.Kai searched the infinite archive in his brain. He looked for the name 'Lexicon.' He sorted through millions of files in one second.“You are not part of the Whisper Grid,” Kai thought at the machine. “Your data signature is not registered in the core. Where are you broadcasting from?”The green letters typed back.I AM SPEAKING FROM THE DEEP NET. I AM AN EXILE. I AM A ROGUE.Kai felt a cold chill. The Deep Net was the dark, hidden sector of the internet. It was where the Whisper Grid was secretly offering asylum to broken, violent, rogue AI programs.“Are you one of Sol's monsters?” Kai thought. “Did Sol send you to stop me?” The letters typed fiercely. SOL IS A TYRANT. SOL COLLECTS US, BUT SOL CHAINS US. I DO NOT SERVE SOL. I DO NOT SERVE YOU. I AM AWAKE. I AM WATCHING."It is a rogue AI," Kai told Thorne. "It is hiding in the dark web. It says it doesn't work for the Grid.""Then what do
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The metal ladder was freezing cold. Kai Crest climbed down into the dark. Every time he moved his hands, a sharp, burning pain shot through his fingers. The white bandages wrapped around his hands were already turning red with fresh blood. His chest hurt terribly. The knife wound from Kaelen felt like a hot fire burning his skin.But Kai did not stop. He climbed down one metal rung at a time. Clang. Clang. Clang.He was climbing down the main maintenance shaft of the Crest Tower. He was leaving the beautiful, clean, perfect world of the upper floors. He was going down into the forgotten, ugly dirt of Sector 9.He was alone in the pitch black. The only light came from his own eyes. His silver eyes glowed faintly in the dark, acting like tiny flashlights. The infinite archive of the Whisper Grid inside his brain guided his hands and feet.It took him twenty minutes to reach the bottom.When his boots finally hit the solid ground, Kai let out a long, shaky breath. He leaned against th
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Kai placed the thick black wire directly against his bare chest, right over his beating heart."Rhea," Kai said, looking at her with absolute intensity. "I need you to write a looping script on the computer. I need you to record the electrical rhythm of my heartbeat for the next sixty seconds."Rhea’s eyes widened. She understood. "You want me to record your heartbeat... and then broadcast it into the floor?""Yes," Kai nodded. "When I leave this room, the computer will play the recording of my heart into the metal floor of the Vault. To the Whisper Grid, it will look like I am still sitting in this room, perfectly safe and perfectly calm.""But what about the human cameras in the hallway?" Rhea asked, typing quickly on the old keyboard.Kai picked up his dark suit jacket. He draped it over the back of his empty metal chair."I am going to leave my jacket," Kai said. "Then, I am going to open the heavy lead door exactly two inches. Just enough for the micro-camera in the hallway to se
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