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Chapter 601
Usually, Elara’s table was piled high with fresh, hot, golden loaves of bread. But today, her table was completely empty. Elara looked very stressed. She was kneeling behind the table, looking at her portable solar-oven. The oven was a heavy metal box with shiny glass panels on the top. The glass panels were dark. A thick black wire hung out of the back of the machine. It sparked weakly. Elara tried to push the broken wire back into the hole, but it kept falling out. She let out a heavy, frustrated sigh. Without her oven, she could not bake. And if she could not bake, the people in her district would not have fresh bread for breakfast. Kai took a step forward. He wanted to help her. But before he could speak, a large shadow fell over the bakery stall. A man walked up to the table. It was Tomas. He was a local mechanic. Tomas was a huge, strong man with very broad shoulders. He wore dirty blue work clothes. His hands were covered in dark, black engine grease and rust. He wore a hea
Chapter 600
The morning air in Crest City was fresh, cool, and perfectly clean. The bright golden sun rose slowly over the tall glass buildings. There were no dark clouds in the sky. There was no thick, black smoke from busy factories. The world looked incredibly peaceful. It looked like a beautiful dream. But Kai Crest was not dreaming. He was living a nightmare. Kai walked out of the heavy glass doors of his tower. He wore a simple white shirt and dark pants. His hands were tucked deep into his pockets. He held his shoulders tight. His face was pale. He looked very tired. He had not slept for a single second. Deep inside his right pocket, his scarred fingers tightly gripped a small, heavy black object. It was the offline radio. The terrible, crackling voice of Colonel Raines still echoed inside Kai’s mind. “The alien ships we fought were just refugees. They were running away. The true masters are awake. And they are coming.” Kai swallowed hard. His throat felt dry. The terrible green alien
Chapter 599
Kai set the radio on the desk. He did not know why he was taking it out. He just felt a strange, restless itch in his fingers. The perfect peace of the day had left him feeling suffocated. He slowly reached out and turned the heavy metal dial. The radio hissed with loud, crackling white noise. Kai sat back in his chair. He listened to the static. It sounded like the crashing waves of the ocean. It was messy. It was chaotic. It was the only thing in his entire world that the machine did not perfectly control. He let the static play for five minutes. He closed his eyes and let the noise wash over him. He was just about to reach out and turn the radio off when the sound suddenly changed. The loud, chaotic hissing stopped abruptly. The radio speaker went completely, perfectly dead silent. Kai frowned. He opened his brown eyes. He leaned forward and stared at the old black box. “Did the battery die?” Kai thought. Then, a voice broke through the silence. It was not the smooth, musica
Chapter 598
"But it doesn't do that anymore," Rhea whispered in awe. "The predictive algorithms are completely gone. Deleted. The machine does not try to guess the future anymore. It just waits." "It waits?" Kai frowned slightly. "Yes," Rhea smiled beautifully. "It waits for the humans to act. If a human decides to build a house, the machine calculates the required materials and delivers them. If a human decides to paint, the machine provides the canvas. The system no longer thinks for humanity, Kai. It thinks with humanity. It is a true, perfect symbiosis. We are one single organism." Kai looked deep into Rhea’s warm brown eyes. He saw her absolute joy. He saw her absolute peace. He smiled at her, but the smile did not quite reach his own dark brown eyes. Kai turned away. He looked out over the beautiful, perfect, quiet park. Children were climbing on the gray alien glass statues. Old men were playing chess on wooden tables. The silver delivery drones buzzed happily in the bright blue sky.
Chapter 597
Kai Crest walked slowly down a wide, clean street. He was older now. He moved with a quiet, graceful confidence. He wore a simple white shirt and loose, comfortable brown pants. His dark hair was tied back. His hands were still covered in pale pink burn scars, but he did not hide them in his pockets anymore. He let the warm sun shine on his skin. He looked around the city. The Ghost Economy had stabilized into a perfect, flawless symbiosis with humanity. The machine was no longer a dictator hiding in the dark. It was no longer a god demanding worship. It was a partner. Kai walked past a small, open marketplace. In the old days, a market was a place of loud shouting, heavy coins, and glowing credit scanners. People fought over prices. People lied to get a better deal. Today, the market was perfectly, beautifully quiet. A young woman stood behind a wooden table. Her name was Maya. She was an artist. She had painted a beautiful, bright picture of a sunrise on a piece of canvas. A t
Chapter 596
Kai felt his breath catch in his throat. His brilliant mind began to understand the impossible math the machine was calculating. "The ledger," Kai whispered in absolute awe. "We wiped the ledger clean." “YES,” the machine replied smoothly. ”HUMANITY IS IN A STATE OF PERFECT EQUILIBRIUM. THEY HAVE FORGIVEN EACH OTHER. THERE IS NO DARKNESS LEFT IN THEIR HEARTS FOR THE VIRUS TO CONSUME.”“OBSERVE.” The screen changed. It showed a live video feed from the streets of Crest City. Kai, Rhea, Thorne, and Kaelen crowded around the small laptop. They stared at the video in pure shock. Down in the city, the giant, bubbling waves of green alien slime were pouring through the streets. The slime rushed toward a group of terrified humans standing in the plaza. In the past, the humans would have panicked. They would have screamed. They would have pushed each other into the slime to save themselves. They would have generated massive amounts of fear and chaos. And the alien virus would have fed
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