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Chapter 593
"It's a tie," Thorne whispered. He sounded like all the hope had just been punched out of him. "A perfect, exact tie." "How is that possible?" Kaelen demanded. "It is human nature," Kai said softly. His brown eyes filled with despair. "We are perfectly split between our desire for justice and our desire for peace. We cannot choose." The screen blinked. The machine processed the result. [CONSENSUS NOT REACHED.] [CONTRADICTORY DIRECTIVES DETECTED.] [SYSTEM CANNOT PROCEED. STASIS MAINTAINED.] "No!" Rhea screamed. She slammed her hands onto the keyboard. "You have to turn the power back on! People are going to die in the hospitals! The water purifiers are offline!" [ERROR. LOGIC LOOP DETECTED. CANNOT DELETE. CANNOT PRESERVE.] The automated systems were completely paralyzed. The machine was a strict rule-follower. If the humans could not give a clear command, the machine would simply do nothing. And doing nothing meant the death of the human race. "Kai, you have to break the tie,
Chapter 592
Kai cursed under his breath. He had given up his power. He had broken his own crown to set the people free. Now, he did not have the authority to save them. "It won't let me do it," Kai said softly. "Then who can do it?" Rhea asked. The screen flashed brightly. The machine answered her question. [THE LEDGER BELONGS TO ALL HUMANITY.] [ONLY A GLOBAL CONSENSUS CAN ALTER THE FOUNDATIONAL ARCHIVE.] [INITIATING PLANETARY VOTE.] Suddenly, every single dead screen on the planet Earth turned back on. Cell phones lit up in the dark pockets of scared citizens. Giant digital billboards glowed brightly in the ruined streets of Tokyo, London, and New York. The emergency radios buzzed with life. The world held its breath. A single, massive question appeared on every screen in the world. It was written in simple, bold white letters. [THE LEDGER OF HUMAN DEBT IS BALANCED BY GRACE.] [BUT THE DATA REMAINS.] [DO WE KEEP THE ARCHIVE AS A WARNING?][OR DO WE FORGET THE PAST TO TRULY BEGIN AGAI
Chapter 591
The dark, metal bridge of the alien ship was freezing cold. The giant, beautiful golden pillar of light was gone. The main brain of the Ghost Economy had gone to sleep. It had sacrificed its own mind to power the massive golden shield that now wrapped around the Earth. The shield was holding back the deadly green alien virus. But inside the ship, the nightmare was not completely over. Kai Crest leaned heavily against a metal console. He held his bloody, bandaged chest. He breathed in short, painful gasps. His dark brown eyes stared at the terrifying man standing across the room. Colonel Raines was no longer just an old soldier. He was a cyborg. The right half of his body was made of heavy, dark metal and thick blue wires. His right eye was a glowing, unblinking blue optical lens. He was the Debt Collector, a weapon built by the machine to fight the aliens. Raines stood perfectly still. He did not speak. He just stared out the giant glass window at the dark, starry sky. He was wai
Chapter 590
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
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