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CHAPTER 141
A Ghost in the SystemThe world looks familiar. But I know better.Everything is slightly… off.The streets are too clean. The sky is too blue like someone adjusted the saturation of reality itself. The people move the same, but they feel different—like shadows of themselves, echoes of something real. I walk among them, but there’s no weight to my presence.It’s like I don’t belong here.Kane walks beside me, focused on her handheld device, her fingers moving too fast for me to follow. Elias keeps his hands in his pockets, his expression unreadable, but the way his eyes scan our surroundings tells me he’s on edge too.No one looks at us.No one sees us.I swallow down the unease creeping up my spine. "Say something good, Kane."She doesn’t. Instead, her brows pull together, her mouth set in a tight line. "There’s no record of you."I stopped walking. "What?"She keeps typing, then shakes her head. "Nothing. No birth certificate, no ID, no financial records. It’s like you were never bo
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CHAPTER 142
Traces of HimThe city is very quiet.Not just abandoned. Not just forgotten.Erased.Kane’s device flickers in her hand as she tries to stabilize the signal. The air around us feels off, humming with something unnatural. This place—it doesn’t belong to the world anymore. It’s a scar in the system, a place that shouldn’t exist but still lingers.Elias lets out a low breath. "This place is a dead zone." He kicks a loose chunk of pavement, watching as dust puffs up and then settles. "No signals. No cameras. Nothing.""Which makes it the perfect place to hide something,"* I say.Or someone.Kane taps rapidly on her screen, her brows furrowed in concentration. "I can’t pinpoint the source, but there’s definitely something here. An anomaly."I can’t wait. I move."Tony—" Kane calls after me, but I don’t slow down.Because I feel it now.A pulse in the air. A presence tugging at the edge of my senses. Something familiar.The deeper we go, the stranger it gets.Buildings loom overhead, their
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CHAPTER 143
The Forgotten Code"Did you hear that?" I demand, my heart hammering against my ribs.Kane nods, her eyes wide with disbelief. "It wasn’t just an echo. That was him."Elias stands rigid beside me, his jaw tight. "How is that possible?""Because he’s still here," I say, barely able to breathe the words. "Somewhere."Kane’s fingers fly over her device, her face flickering between hope and fear. "If Darren’s voice is coming through, then there’s residual data of him left in the system. He’s not completely gone.""Then we pull him out," I say. "Now."Elias shakes his head, exhaling sharply. "It’s not that simple. You don’t just rip pieces of code out of the system without consequences."I meet his stare with unwavering determination. "We’ve done worse. What’s one more impossible thing?"Kane barely blinks as she continues tapping, scanning through streams of encrypted text. Her brows knit together. "There’s a way."We all turn to her at once."It’s buried deep—an old fail-safe in the syst
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CHAPTER 144
The Cost of Remembering "You’re saying I have to be his anchor," I say, the weight of the words pressing into my chest. Kane nods. "You knew him best. If anyone can hold onto him long enough to pull him back, it’s you." Elias crosses his arms, his jaw locked. "And what happens if Tony can’t handle it?" Kane hesitates. That hesitation alone is enough to make my stomach drop. "Then we lose them both." Silence clamps down on the room. No one moves. No one breathes. The answer is right there, staring us in the face. I already know mine. "We do it." Elias shakes his head, stepping forward like he can physically stop me. "Tony—" "Don’t waste time trying to stop me," I cut in, my voice sharp enough to slice through his arguments before they even form. "We’re doing this." His hands curl into fists at his sides. "Damn it, Tony—" "Enough," I snap. "Darren saved my life more times than I can count. If there’s even a chance I can do the same for him, I take it. No second-gu
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CHAPTER 145
Rebuilding DarrenHe’s standing in an endless void, his form flickering between solid and digital static. Pieces of him dissolve and reappear like he’s barely holding himself together.I take a step forward. "Darren!"He flinches back, his expression unreadable."Who are you?"My chest tightens like a fist has closed around my ribs. The words hit harder than they should, but I force myself to stay steady."It’s me," I say, my voice firm. "Tony."His brow furrows. A flicker of something crosses his face—recognition, hesitation—but it’s gone too fast."Tony…?"The world around us shifts, breaking apart like glass. Sharp edges of memory and reality collide, the pieces distorting, rearranging, refusing to settle.I don’t have much time."You have to come back with me," I say urgently. "We found a way."Darren looks down at his flickering hands, his jaw clenched. "I don’t know how.""Then let me help you."I reach for him, but the moment my fingers graze his wrist, something else makes its
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CHAPTER 146
Fractured PiecesThe world outside should feel normal. It doesn’t.I sit at Darren’s bedside, watching the slow, rhythmic rise and fall of his chest. His skin is pale, almost waxy under the harsh medical lights. Alive. Breathing. But he hasn’t spoken since the moment he woke up and whispered—Who am I?The question still rattles in my skull like a broken gear in a machine that refuses to run properly. I should feel relief. I should feel like I won. But something about this victory feels incomplete.Elias leans against the doorway, arms crossed, his dark eyes unreadable. “He’s not waking up right.”“No shit,” I mutter, my voice is raspier than I expected.She stands next to me, her gaze fixed on the monitors, lips pressed into a thin line. “His neural pathways are intact,” she says carefully. “But the damage…” She exhales, shaking her head. “It’s like someone shattered a mirror and put the pieces back in the wrong order.”I squeeze the bridge of my nose, exhaustion pressing down on me l
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CHAPTER 147
Whispers from the VoidThe lights flicker again. Just for a second. Just long enough to send a shiver down my spine.Darren’s grip tightens around my wrist, his skin clammy, his breath uneven. His wide, glassy eyes aren’t just looking at me—they’re looking through me. Past me.“You hear it too,” he murmurs.I do.It’s not a voice, not at first. Just a whisper at the edge of my perception, like wind slipping through cracks in a door. A sensation more than a sound, raising the hairs on the back of my neck.Kane stiffens, scanning the room with sharp eyes. “Electromagnetic interference?”Her fingers fly over the device in her hands, recalibrating. The screen glitches, lines of static crawling across it like fractured veins.“This isn’t interference,” she mutters. “Something’s bleeding through.”Darren flinches. His nails dig into the bedsheet. “It’s not supposed to be here.”Elias, silent until now, steps forward. His usual cool confidence is fraying at the edges. “Define ‘it.’”Darren e
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CHAPTER 148
The System Still WhispersThe voice shouldn’t exist. But it does.It lingers in the air, fractured, stretched thin, but unmistakably real.Darren grips the side of the bed, his knuckles white. His breath comes in shallow bursts.Elias shifts beside me, his stance tense, like a man waiting for the next hit in a fight he doesn’t understand. “Someone explain what the hell is happening.”Darren’s eyes flick to mine, and the look in them—fear, disbelief, something deeper—makes my stomach turn.“It’s him,” he breathes.I frown. “Who?”Darren swallows hard. His voice barely carries.“The other me.”Silence.I feel the words before I process them. They sink into my skin, cold and wrong.“The part that never made it back.”Kane hesitates, fingers hovering over her device. “That’s impossible.”Darren lets out a breath that’s almost a laugh but lacks any humor. “Yeah. Well. So I survived.”The air crackles.And then—The whisper again.“Tony… help…”My spine locks.The voice isn’t just a whisper
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CHAPTER 149
The Shadow at the Edge of RealityWe don’t waste time.Kane’s fingers blur over the screen, calibrating the system with a precision that borders on desperation. The hum of the stabilizer builds as Elias mutters to himself, pacing near the controls. His eyes flick between us, sharp with unspoken frustration.“This is a terrible idea,” he says, for the third time in as many minutes.Darren sits on the edge of the cot, rolling his shoulders as if testing the limits of a body that still isn’t fully his. He’s pale. Tense. But there’s no hesitation in his movements.“If I go back in,” I say, keeping my voice even, “I might not make it out.”Darren shakes his head before I even finish the sentence. “Then I guess we’re both not making it out.”His fingers twitch at his sides, but his eyes are locked onto mine with an intensity that makes my throat go tight. I know that look. It’s the same one I’ve seen when he throws himself into danger without a second thought—when he’s already made up his m
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CHAPTER 150
The New godThe void stretches before me, an endless horizon of shifting dark. It isn’t empty. It never was.I hear the voice before I see him. A whisper threaded through the emptiness, calling my name. It tugs at something deep inside me, a sensation I can’t quite explain—like remembering a dream just before it slips away.And then—I see him.Darren.But not the Darren I know.He stands at the precipice, his body half-formed, flickering between what he was and something more. His edges blur like static, shifting between his usual self and something vast and unknowable. His eyes—once sharp and grounded—hold an unnatural glow now, like something ancient is staring through them.A shiver crawls down my spine.I hesitate.“Darren?”He turns.And smiles.It’s small. Sad.“Tony,” he says quietly. “What have we become?”The weight of his words settles over me like a stone.I don’t know how to answer.Kane's voice crackles through my earpiece. “Tony, I don’t like this. His vitals are—” She s
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