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Chapter 71. The Remaining Price of a Life
"Don't let go of her hand, Elara! I'm here!" Axel shouted, his hoarse voice shattering the silence of the room.Elara’s fingers tightened around Axel’s jacket for a brief moment before her entire body went limp again. Her eyelids, which had just opened, only managed to catch a blurred silhouette of Axel’s face before closing tightly once more. She was still breathing, heavy and steady, but her consciousness seemed to be pulled back into an abyss of overwhelming exhaustion. Lena immediately rushed forward, brushing Axel’s hand aside with the swift movement of a mother driven by pure protective instinct."Step back, Axel! Give her room to breathe!" Lena ordered as she checked Elara’s forehead temperature with the back of her hand."But she woke up, Mom! She touched me!" Axel replied, his breath uneven."She just fainted from exhaustion! Can't you see how pale she is?" Lena snapped without turning around.Arlo could only stand frozen in the corner of the room, gripping a bottle of alcoho
Chapter 70. A Banquet of Life
"Hold her head, Arlo! If this synchronization slips even a millimeter, her neural pathways will burn out permanently!" Axel shouted, the veins in his neck straining.Arlo’s hands trembled violently as he pressed against Elara’s cold, sweat-drenched temples on the apartment bed, now turned into an emergency operating room. The lingering scent of hospital-grade floor cleaner clung to the air, mixing with the sharp ozone smell from the rented ventilator humming low in the corner.Axel worked with mechanical precision, his bionic fingers moving swiftly as he connected electrodes from the System 2.0 module directly to the oxygen tank and the hemodynamic monitor. Sheet Fourteen lay open on the side table, its dull surface seeming to swallow the light from the bulb above."You’re insane, Axel. These devices were not designed to handle raw organic energy input," Arlo said, his voice nearly breaking with fear."This technology doesn’t care about its original design. It only needs a conductor,
Chapter 69. The Last Breath at the Edge of Nadir
“Let him go, or you’ll find out what it feels like to age in a single breath!” Axel roared, his voice sounding more like the growl of a machine than anything human.The grip of Axel’s bionic hand tightened around Baron’s collar. Golden-yellow static electricity crackled between his metal fingers, seeping into the pores of Baron’s skin. The heavyset man tried to scream, but his vocal cords seemed frozen by a cold that drained every ounce of his vitality. A horrifying phenomenon unfolded before the guards, who stood frozen in place. Baron’s once taut, oily skin began to wrinkle, shriveling like fruit rotting in fast-forward. His black hair turned white, falling out strand by strand until only a patchy, age-ravaged scalp remained.[ AGE TRANSFER PROCESS: 40 YEARS. 50 YEARS. CRITICAL ]The numbers flickered wildly across Axel’s retina. He felt a surge of pure, burning energy repairing the neural connectors that had been damaged by the earlier blow from the iron rod. The sting at his templ
Chapter 68. The Price of a Life
Axel stopped himself from stepping toward the nightclub crowd. His retina caught sight of a frail figure he recognized being dragged into a dark alley beside the luxurious building. It was Lukas. The old courier struggled in the grip of two broad men wearing club security uniforms.The humanity that had only just begun to grow inside Axel surged, overpowering the cold calculations of the system in his head. He ran with a limp, ignoring the pain in his bionic left leg, heading straight into the alley. The sound of dull blows and muffled groans echoed as he reached the entrance. Lukas lay on the ground, trying to shield his head from the kicks of one of the guards. His faded courier vest was now smeared with dust and blood.“Let him go,” Axel hissed, his voice scraping like rusted metal.The two guards turned and laughed mockingly at the sight of Axel’s battered, limping form. “Another vagrant looking to die. This old man tried to smuggle an illegal package into the club. He needs a les
Chapter 67. Sweat and Humiliation
“You think this place is a junkyard, huh?” a man in a grimy undershirt snapped, spitting on the ground right in front of Axel’s cracked boots.Axel stopped at the rusted gate of the container port. The setting sun burned against the remnants of his organic skin that had yet to heal. He stared at the dock foreman with a gaze that still carried the remnants of a fighter’s authority, but his body told a different story. The black shirt he wore now looked more like a rag, covering the bionic arm he had deliberately wrapped in dirty bandages to avoid drawing attention from the police or city scanners. The roar of crane engines and the shouts of laborers created a deafening symphony of noise.“I need a job, anything,” Axel replied, his voice hoarse from a parched throat.The foreman laughed mockingly, hands on his hips, his bloated stomach on full display. “Look at yourself. You can barely walk straight, you’re swaying like a boiled crab. I need people who can haul steel slabs, not beggars
Chapter 66. A Severed Resurrection
“Hold on or you will lose everything, Axel!” a heavy voice barked, distant beyond the thick fog of his consciousness.A pair of muscular hands yanked the collar of Axel’s scorched, acrid-smelling jacket. His body was dragged roughly across a pile of sharp industrial debris, leaving trails of cuts along the patches of organic skin that had not yet blistered.Nearby, a man with swift, tactical movements lifted Elara’s limp body into a protective embrace. The wail of police sirens tore through the tense silence of the night, clashing with the muffled bursts from the remains of Sector Nine’s recently collapsed building.The night sky above them had turned a dense orange as flames continued to lick at the wreckage of concrete and rusted steel. Axel tried to grasp the air with trembling fingers, but his organic lungs could only draw in thick smoke that burned and suffocated his chest. His vision slowly darkened just as the door of a black van slammed shut, sealing them away from the chaos o
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