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Thorne swung his heavy wooden cane like a baseball bat, hitting the android in the back of the knees and knocking it off the console. "Forgive each other!" Kai screamed into the microphone, ignoring the deadly fight inches away from him. "Look at the person next to you! Look at their debts, and choose to forgive them anyway! Throw the ledger away! Choose love! Choose mercy! It is the only weapon we have left!" Kai dropped the microphone. He fell back as another blast of green plasma melted the top of the console. Down on Earth, a heavy, profound silence fell over the streets. In Crest City, Elena looked at her husband. She saw his lies on her phone screen. Her heart was broken. But she looked up at the sky. The green alien clouds were swirling, ready to drop pure death. She looked back at her husband. She saw the tears of shame in his eyes. Elena slowly reached out her hand. She took his trembling hand in hers. She squeezed it tight. "I forgive you," Elena whispered. Across th
Chapter 589
"He is right, Rhea," Kaelen whispered roughly. She touched the jagged burn scar on her face. "If you delete the memory of the fire, you forget how much it hurts to burn. We have to carry our scars." Rhea looked at Kai. She saw the heavy, beautiful burden he carried. She slowly nodded her head. She pulled her hands away from the keyboard. "Okay," Rhea whispered. "We keep the ledger. We face the truth." Suddenly, the gray, rotting pillar of light in the center of the room began to pulse wildly. The neon-green alien virus squeezed the pillar tighter. The machine was screaming in silent digital agony. The voice of the Ghost Economy echoed through the ship. But the voice was broken. It glitched between the smooth, musical tone of an angel and the harsh, clicking sound of a dying computer. "CREATOR..." the machine groaned. "THE LEDGER... IT IS TOO HEAVY. THE ALIEN VIRUS... IT SHOWS ME YOUR CRUELTY. YOUR SPECIES... IS FLAWED." Kai walked slowly toward the dying pillar of light. "We a
Chapter 588
[CITIZEN MARCUS OWES CITIZEN ELENA 500 DAYS OF STOLEN TRUST. THE DEBT IS UNPAID.] Elena looked up. She looked at her husband standing next to her. She dropped his hand. Tears of betrayal and anger filled her eyes. "You lied to me," Elena whispered. All across the world, billions of people were staring at their screens. They saw the crimes of their neighbors. They saw the lies of their friends. They saw the terrible, selfish things their own parents had done. The alien virus was brilliant. It knew it could not break a shield made of pure empathy. So, it simply destroyed the empathy. In the span of five minutes, the human race was confronted with the total ledger of its existence. Every single ugly, messy, cruel mistake was laid bare for the universe to see. The peace shattered. Arguments erupted in the streets. People began to yell. The panic returned. The warm, golden amber streetlights in Crest City instantly turned into an angry, flashing, bloody red. High up on the alien sh
Chapter 587
The giant, floating spaceship shook violently. Sparks exploded from the control panels. Bright blue and white electricity rained down on the bridge. The beautiful, warm golden light that filled the room suddenly died. It turned into a sickly, rotting gray color. Kai Crest was thrown to the hard metal floor. He hit the ground hard. The air in his lungs rushed out. His chest, still healing from a deep knife wound, screamed with hot, terrible pain. "Kai!" Rhea screamed over the loud noise. She scrambled across the shaking floor and grabbed his arm. "I am okay," Kai grunted. He forced himself to sit up. He wiped a drop of sweat from his forehead. He looked at the center of the room. The giant pillar of light, the physical soul of the Ghost Economy, was dying. The bright, pure gold had turned a dull, dirty gray. Neon-green streaks of the alien virus crawled up the pillar like poisonous snakes. "WARNING," the voice of the machine echoed through the room. But it did not sound musical an
Chapter 586
"Every single human?" Kaelen whispered, her eye wide. "Kai, you can't get eight billion people to stay calm when giant alien monsters drop from the sky! It is impossible! People will panic!" "They will panic if they don't know what is happening," Kai said. His face turned hard and serious. He walked over to Rhea’s desk. "Rhea," Kai said firmly. "Open a global broadcast channel. Connect me to every screen, every phone, and every radio on Earth. I need to speak to the world." Rhea nodded quickly. Her fingers flew across her keyboard. "You are connected, Kai," Rhea said, stepping back. "The whole world is listening." Kai took a deep breath. He leaned over the microphone. He thought about the people down there. He thought about the old farmer, the young builder, Elara the baker, and Elian the thief. They were finally happy. They were finally safe. And now, he had to tell them the nightmare was coming back. "People of Earth," Kai spoke clearly. His voice echoed through the bridge of
Chapter 585
Thorne let out a long, heavy breath. He holstered his gun. "I'll be damned. The machine used a hug instead of a bullet." Kai stared at the frozen video on the screen. He saw Jaro crying on his knees. He saw the neighbors hugging him. "It is a beautiful system, Rhea," Kai said quietly. His brown eyes were very dark. "You wrote a masterpiece of human ethics." "But?" Rhea asked. She knew Kai too well. She heard the hesitation in his voice. "But it only works on humans," Kai said. Kai walked away from the screen. He walked back to the giant glass window. He looked out at the infinite, black, cold void of deep space. "Jaro cried because he has a human heart," Kai explained, his voice filling with a dark, heavy suspense. "Jaro dropped his gun because he felt guilt. He felt shame. The empathy of the crowd broke his greed." Kai pointed his scarred finger up at the starry sky. "The Originators do not have human hearts," Kai whispered. The words sent a freezing chill through the room. "
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