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Kai slowly stood up. He walked to the metal chair and sat down. His hands were still tied tightly behind his back. The dark glasses were still on his face.The man walked around to the front of the chair. He stood in the shadows, just outside the bright circle of light."My soldiers tell me you are a tech worker," the man said. His voice was deep, rough, and strangely familiar. "They tell me you want to help us fight the machine. They tell me you have secrets."Kai kept his head down. "I do. I know how the Grid is routing its power. If you let me go, I will draw you a map."The man in the shadows let out a low, dry laugh."You think I am an idiot?" the man asked. He took a step forward. His heavy boots echoed in the small room. "I know a liar when I hear one. I know a spy when I smell one."The man stepped into the bright light.Kai’s breath caught in his throat. Even behind the dark glasses, his silver eyes widened in absolute shock.It was an old man with short gray hair and a thick
Chapter 395
Kaelen looked down at the dirty floor. She was struggling. She hated the machine. But she also realized that Project Eclipse would kill everyone she loved."The main control bunker is called the Iron Mountain," Kaelen finally said. Her voice was quiet. "It is an old military base a hundred miles outside of Crest City. It is buried under solid rock. That is where Raines kept his biggest secrets.""We go to the Iron Mountain," Kai said."You can't just walk in," Kaelen warned him. "It is guarded by two hundred hardcore Purist soldiers. They hate you, Kai. You are the Traitor of Flesh. If they see your face, they will shoot you a hundred times. And I cannot help you get inside.""Why not?" Thorne asked. "You are their second-in-command!""Because my radio is broken, and I have been missing for hours," Kaelen said bitterly. "Raines is dead. Vorn is probably in charge now. Vorn thinks I betrayed them because I stopped the attack in Nion Prime. If I show up, they will shoot me, too."Kai no
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The giant glass tubes groaned. The sound was like cracking ice.CRASH!The thick glass shattered into a million pieces. The glowing red dust exploded into the laboratory. It looked like a cloud of angry, flying blood. The microscopic machines buzzed loudly. They were hungry. Ambassador Sol had rewritten their code. Now, they did not want to eat computers. They wanted to eat human brains."Get back!" Kai Crest yelled.Kaelen crawled backward on the floor, holding her burned hand. Thorne raised his gun, but he knew bullets could not kill dust.The red cloud flew straight toward them. It moved fast. It filled the air with a terrible, hot red light.Kai looked around the bright white laboratory. He had seconds before the dust entered their lungs and ate them from the inside. He needed a weapon. He needed electricity.He saw the heavy, broken power cable hanging from the ceiling. It was the same cable that used to power the giant glass tubes. Thick copper wires stuck out of the end, spark
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"Careful, kid," Thorne warned, stepping back. "That stuff looks like it wants to eat your face.""It wants to eat the machine," Kai corrected him. "This is it. This is how we win."Kai walked over to a sleek, white computer terminal connected to the glass tubes. He started typing. He needed to unlock the release valves. He needed to attach the glass tubes to the main water pipes that fed the Domain of Echo’s underground servers."I am overriding the safety locks," Kai said, typing rapidly. "I will program the swarm to seek out the unique digital signature of Ambassador Sol. Once I open the valves, the nanites will travel through the pipes. They will multiply. In ten minutes, the Domain will be completely consumed.""Do it," Kaelen urged. "End this nightmare."Kai’s fingers flew across the keyboard. The green progress bar on the screen moved quickly.UNLOCKING VALVES... 40%... 60%...Suddenly, the bright white lights in the laboratory flickered.BZZZT.The lights turned a deep, dark, b
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Kai hit the heavy ENTER key.The screen flashed. A massive web of financial transactions appeared. Red lines connected hundreds of fake bank accounts. They all pointed to one single, massive source.Kai opened his eyes. He stared at the name on the screen. "Apex Dynamics," Kai read out loud.Thorne cursed under his breath. "Apex Dynamics? They are a corporate military company. They build tanks. They build guns.""They used to," Kai said. His voice was cold and bitter. "Before I launched the Whisper Grid, Apex Dynamics was the biggest weapons manufacturer on Earth. They made hundreds of billions of dollars selling weapons to fighting nations.""But when you turned the Grid on, you stopped all the wars," Kaelen realized. "You made the world peaceful.""Yes," Kai nodded. "And when the wars stopped, Apex Dynamics stopped making money. Their business died. The corporate bosses hated me. They hated the machine."Kai pointed to the red lines on the screen."They didn't want human freedom, Ka
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The heavy steel door of Holding Cell Four stood open.Kai Crest, Thorne, and Kaelen stepped out into the dark, gray concrete hallway. The emergency red lights flashed above them. Blink. Blink. Blink. The loud diesel generator hummed in the background. The Alpha Bunker was in total chaos, which made it the perfect time to run."Stay close," Thorne whispered. He held his heavy silver revolver in his right hand. "The human soldiers are running around like scared ants. But if they see us, they will shoot.""I know the way out," Kaelen said softly. Her jagged burn scar looked dark in the red light. "When they brought me in here, I counted the steps. There is a blind spot near the old ventilation shafts."Kai nodded. His chest burned with terrible pain. The white bandages under his black shirt were sticky with fresh blood. His silver eyes glowed faintly in the dark. He did not say a word. He just followed them.They moved like three silent ghosts through the bunker. They dodged behind met
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