Cody stood near the place where he had first met Gwen. However, he couldn’t see the house. There was a giant black box with blue glowing lines covering the place with such massive size. Several smaller boxes seemed to slide along the lines that formed like a series of electronic circuits.Cody touched the surface of the box, and he could feel the signal of someone inside it getting stronger. Gwen’s signal had been detected just yesterday.“Are you mad at me, Gwen?” Cody mumbled. “For what I did to you? For everything that happened? If that’s what made you like this, I’m sorry.”There was no answer. Cody only heard the soft mechanical creaking of the box that looked like an alien building.“How do you feel now, Gwen? Did Zeno force you to do this? If you don’t like it, I’ll try to save you. You don’t have to follow his orders.”Gwen still didn’t answer, and Cody’s eyes shed tears.“I didn’t want it to end like this, Gwen. I don’t care who you are. To me, you are Gwen Belluci, my best f

“Greetings, candidate. I am the fifth commander. My official name is project number 74. My job is to be your last tester. You may know me as Gwen Bellucci, the singer.” A woman’s voice echoed from inside the box building. Although it sounded robotic and flat, Cody recognized it as Gwen’s voice. “Come in to proceed to the last test. Prepare yourself as best you can, because you have to go in alone with no help from anyone else. And once you’re in, you can’t get out until the test is over. You also won’t be able to get help from outside.”Cody looked at Helena, who had just come out of the tent. “Leave it to me, Helena. You just wait here.”Helena wiped away her tears. “Please, bring my little sister back.”“I’ll try.” Cody sighed, then walked through the gate of the box building. At first he saw pitch darkness, but brighter bluish lines of light appeared on the walls.Thanks to the lights, Cody could see boxes of various sizes and heights in that place, and among them was Gwen, who was

Cody kneeled down and continued to cry. He felt that all of this was meaningless without Gwen. She was the one who had been with him since the beginning.“We’ll take our leave too.”The man’s voice made Cody lift his face, and he found Gard standing in front of him, still wearing the appearance of a convenience store cashier. Meanwhile, Korre, Aronis and Exal, with their bodies the size of ordinary humans, stood a few meters behind him.Cody stood up. “Hey, if you can bend reality, you should be able to bring Gwen back.”“Unfortunately, she is an entity that must be gone for Zeno’s grand plan to succeed.” Gard’s body and the other commanders also began to deter like Zeno’s. “I will indeed reset this world back to normal, but without Gwen and everyone’s memories of her will be lost, except yours.”Cody grabbed Gard’s collar while still crying. “Do you think I will accept your excuse?”“And only you will remember all of this, from the zombie apocalypse until now,” Gard continued. “But d

Cody drove his car so fast, and Luna, who was sitting next to him, could only hold on while closing her eyes. It would be faster if Cody used his special zombies, but that would attract attention and would cause additional problems.As soon as he arrived at his apartment, Cody got out, followed by Luna. Several police had gathered and Cody found a yellow police line in front of the door of his residence.When he was about to break in, an officer blocked them, who was immediately speechless.“I believe you are Mr. Wolfe, right? I’m sorry to hear about the disappearance of your wife and son.” The officer asked, frowning, then looking at Cody and Luna in turns. “Have I met you two before? Your faces are quite familiar.”Cody looked at the officer’s name tag. “I don’t think so, Officer Owens. Can you tell me what happened?”“You still need an examination.” The officer, who was none other than Randy Owens, opened his cellphone. “Inside, we found this symbol. Do you know about this?”Luna t

There was one big question that bothered Cody. Why did anti-Zeno release Freya and only bring his son?If he really wanted to use hostages to get Cody to do what he wanted, wouldn’t it have been better to use Cody’s wife and son? And why did anti-Zeno choose Helena and Emily?None of this made sense to Cody.For the umpteenth time, Randy looked at the two special zombies sitting in the back seat.“I don’t know if this is true or not.” The officer said. “But I feel like since they got into this car, I feel like my memories from that time are coming back to my brain more and more.”“I’m sorry, Randy.” Still driving, Cody sighed. “For everything I did in those days.”Randy was silent for a moment. “Honestly, I understand why you did all that. I was the first to challenge you to a life and death duel... Well, now I’m talking nonsense, even though I’m starting to believe it did happen... By the way, where are we going?”Cody continued driving to the coordinates indicated by Luna, who had c