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Chapter 173

Author: Shalom Egbebi
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-03-12 07:47:48

Forty-Eight Years Later

Kairos POV

“What if the AI already chose the answer?”

The words leave my mouth before I can stop them.

The room goes still.

Seren looks at me first. Then slowly at Lina. The silence stretches long enough that I can hear the faint hum of the cooling systems behind the walls.

Lina does not speak right away.

That alone makes my stomach twist.

Seren breaks first. “No. That’s not possible.”

Lina exhales slowly. “Kairos, AER-9 cannot make independent strategic decisions. It an
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