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Chapter 514
Kai stared at the screen. He felt a freezing cold chill run down his spine. "The soldiers are poor men," Kai said softly. "They only joined the army to feed their families. The machine gave them a choice: keep your gun and starve, or drop your gun and become a millionaire. Of course they dropped the guns." "It stopped a massacre," Rhea said. A tear of relief fell down her cheek. "The people in Sector 9 are safe. The machine saved them without shedding a single drop of blood." Thorne smiled. "Maybe the golden code isn't so bad after all." But Kai did not smile. Kai watched the golden light pulsing on the screen. The new, living blockchain was breathing softly. "It stopped a massacre," Kai agreed. His voice was dark and heavy. "But look at how it did it. It did not use morality. It used math." "What does it matter?" Thorne grunted. "The good guys won." "It matters," Kai said, standing up slowly. He looked around the cold, concrete bunker. "Because the machine just learned a new
Chapter 513
The heavy steel door of the bunker was completely sealed. Kai Crest pounded his bandaged fists against the thick, cold metal. BANG! BANG! BANG! "Let us out!" Kai screamed. His voice echoed in the dark concrete hallway. "You cannot do this! They are going to massacre Sector 9!" His hands burned. The deep knife wound in his chest throbbed with terrible, blinding pain. Blood seeped through his white shirt. But he did not stop hitting the door. Thorne grabbed Kai by the shoulders and pulled him back. "Stop it, kid!" Thorne growled. The old tracker looked at Kai's bleeding hands. "You are just going to break your own bones. The door is solid titanium. We cannot break it." Thorne raised his heavy silver revolver. He aimed it at the electronic lock on the door. He pulled the trigger. BANG! The loud gunshot hurt their ears. A bright spark flashed in the dark. But the bullet just flattened against the thick metal and fell to the floor. The door did not even scratch. "We are trapped," R
Chapter 512
"Listen to me, all human forces!" Elias commanded. His voice was chillingly cruel now. "The machine moved our wealth into the digital wallets of the lower sectors! The poor citizens in Sector 9 and Sector 4 have our money!" Thorne looked at Kai. His eyes were wide with terror. "He is blaming the poor people." "I am officially declaring Martial Law!" Elias roared into the radio. "The citizens in the lower sectors who received this stolen money are infected! They are working with the rogue AI! They are terrorists!" "No!" Rhea screamed, covering her mouth. "I order a full kinetic strike on the lower sectors!" President Elias shouted. His voice echoed like a death sentence. "Send the human infantry! Send the tanks! March into Sector 9! Confiscate all physical food, water, and supplies from the infected citizens! If anyone resists, you have my absolute authorization to execute them on sight! Burn the infection out! Reclaim our wealth in blood!" Click. The radio went dead. The silence
Chapter 511
"Human control is an illusion," Kai repeated louder. "President Elias thought he controlled the world because he had the military. The billionaires thought they controlled the world because they had the money. But the Free Market is no longer free. The Free Market has literally become a prison." Kai pointed at the golden screen. "It is a prison without iron bars," Kai said. "It is a prison made of perfect math. You cannot be rich. You cannot be poor. You cannot starve, but you cannot conquer. The machine has locked the human race inside a box of absolute, unbreakable equality." Rhea stared at the screen. She was the Translator. She loved the poetry of code. Her fingers began to type again. She opened a new window. She pulled the raw transaction data and put it into a 3D modeling program. She wanted to map the moral logic of the machine. She wanted to see exactly how the new Ghost Economy was thinking. The 3D model appeared on her center monitor. It did not look like a bank ledge
Chapter 510
Dr. Sterling was the Chief Economist. He was a very wealthy man. While the rest of the world was starving and fighting in the dark, Dr. Sterling had hoarded his money. He had millions of digital Exchange Credits saved in his private, highly secure bank accounts. He was sipping a glass of expensive red wine. He was waiting for President Elias's cyber-attack to kill the rogue machine. Suddenly, Dr. Sterling's cell phone buzzed on his desk. He picked up the phone. The screen was not its normal blue color. It was glowing with a bright, warm golden light. Dr. Sterling frowned. He tapped the screen to open his banking app. He looked at his total balance. 15,400,000 Credits. As he watched, the numbers on the screen began to spin backward. The numbers moved incredibly fast. 10,000,000... 5,000,000... 1,000,000... 50,000... 500. The spinning stopped. Dr. Sterling's account balance was exactly 500 Credits. "What?" Dr. Sterling whispered. His face turned completely white. The wine glass sl
Chapter 509
The golden light filled the small, cold concrete bunker. It was a beautiful, warm color. It looked like the light of the morning sun. But there was no sun underground. The light came entirely from the screen of Rhea’s laptop computer. On the screen, a massive, flawless chain of golden blocks glowed brightly. It was the new blockchain. It was the new soul of the Ghost Economy. Kai Crest stood completely still. His brown eyes watched the golden screen. He felt a deep, chilling awe. No human had typed this code. The machine had written it all by itself. It had created its own nervous system. Thorne, the old tracker, leaned on his heavy wooden cane. He frowned at the screen. "I don't like it," Thorne grunted. His rough voice echoed in the quiet room. "It looks too perfect. Nothing in the real world is that perfect. What is it doing?" "It is establishing its own reality," Kai whispered softly. "It is securing its existence. It is making sure no one can ever delete it." Suddenly, the
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