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Chapter 73. The Final Donor
"Vayu, you have no idea what you’re inviting into this room!" Dex screamed, his voice shrill and cracking at the edge of his throat.Dex crawled backward across the cold concrete floor. His trembling fingers clutched the leg of a worktable as if it were the only anchor to his sanity. Sweat flooded the crooked frame of his glasses, making his eyes look wide and filled with raw, unfiltered fear. In front of him, Vayu stood tall, his empty gaze unblinking. Death rested under the control of his index finger."I know exactly what I’m inviting, Dex. I’m inviting justice for my father," Vayu replied in a flat, emotionless tone."Justice? This is cold-blooded murder!" Dex tried to stand, but his knees buckled. "Remember who financed your escape all this time? Who kept these illegal devices hidden from the government’s radar? That was me, Vayu! I was your partner!"Vayu did not answer with words. He pressed a button on his control tablet. Instantly, the projector screen in the center of the la
Chapter 72. The Labyrinth of Betrayal
"You look like a corpse crawling out of a grave, Axel," Mr. Hen, the neighbor next door, greeted him as they crossed paths in the dim apartment hallway.Axel’s steps halted for a moment. He pulled the hood of his jacket lower, hiding the dullness of his skin and the deepening wrinkles on his face. Mr. Hen stepped back, his face paling in horror at the sight of Axel’s dimmed gaze. Axel did not respond. He continued dragging his heavy feet toward the emergency stairs. His knee joints creaked painfully with every step on the concrete. To him, every second wasted felt like the last grains of sand in an hourglass running out. He had to leave before those heavy footsteps in the corridor found the door to his unit.The night air greeted him with a biting chill that pierced through his thin jacket. Axel got into the old car he had prepared in the dark alley behind the building. His hands trembled violently as he gripped the steering wheel. The rearview mirror reflected the image of a stranger
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
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