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Chapter 65: The Thing That Remembered How To Die
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2026-10-21 17:25:21
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Reborn before the apocalypse PROLOGUE: THE WORLD ENDED AT 11:47
The first time I died, I was standing on Brooklyn Bridge.I remember it with a clarity that doesn't feel human. Like a file that was saved in too high a resolution.The sky turned black at exactly 11:46 a.m.Not grey. Not dark with storm clouds. Not the kind of dark that comes before a summer storm.Black. A flat, absolute, light-eating black, as if someone had reached up and switched off the sun.One moment, New York was alive. Traffic honking, shouting vendors selling hot dogs, people rushing to work with coffee in their hands, a kid crying in a stroller. The next, every single sound disappeared. Cut off mid-note.It was so silent it hurt my ears.Cars stopped dead in the middle of the road. Not braked. Stopped. Mid-motion.A man froze while crossing the street, one foot suspended above the ground, his briefcase hanging in the air beside him.A woman dropped her phone, but it never reached the pavement. It just hung there, two inches above the concrete.Even the birds stopped flying
Reborn before the apocalypse To be continued
Maybe the network had created our first meeting in that lab as L-01 and E-01.Maybe it had designed our connection as part of its experiment.But it hadn't made the choices we had made after that. Those belonged to us. The choice to stay. The choice to love. The choice to keep finding each other.I turned towards the little girl.“What happens to you if I choose the unrecorded outcome?”She smiled sadly, peacefully, and for the first time she looked free.“I will finally be allowed to rest. I have been awake for a very long time, Lena. I am tired.”I nodded, tears running freely.“Then let's do it. Let's rest.”I reached out and placed my hand into the empty space.---I opened my eyes, gasping.I was back in Level Zero.Emma was beside the control panel, both hands pressed against it, struggling to hold the system open, blood running from her nose.The woman stood near the chamber, her hands pressed against her ears, screaming at a voice only she could hear.And Ethan was kneeling in
Reborn before the apocalypse CHAPTER 110: THE LAST REBIRTH
WHICH ORIGINAL CONSCIOUSNESS SHOULD BE RESTORED?The question glowed above the control panel, white and merciless, reflected in the black veins crawling up my arms.Two options.Two lives.One decision that would determine what happened to the world.RESTORE ORIGINAL LENA CARTER.RESTORE ORIGINAL ETHAN CROSS.MERGE BOTH ORIGINAL CONSCIOUSNESSES.My hand moved towards the screen without my permission.I tried to pull it back. I strained until my shoulder burned. My fingers trembled, but they kept moving, drawn by an invisible thread.Nothing happened. I wasn't in control of my own body anymore.My fingers continued towards the first option.RESTORE ORIGINAL LENA CARTER.“No!” Ethan shouted.He lunged and grabbed my wrist. His hand was freezing, his grip like iron. Pain shot through my arm, bright and sharp, but my hand stopped. Inches from the screen.For one second, I could breathe again. I could hear my own heartbeat thundering over the alarms.Then the system spoke, its voice no lon
Reborn before the apocalypse CHAPTER 109: THE NAME BEFORE LENA
“Your real name.”Ethan's words stayed with me long after the floor stopped shaking.I stared at him, searching his face for something familiar. A flicker of recognition. A sign that the man standing before me was still the person who had held my hand on Brooklyn Bridge and promised we would survive the apocalypse together. The boy who had tapped three times in the dark to tell me he was still there.There was nothing.His eyes were completely black. Not dark. Not shadowed. Black, like the space between stars. Like two holes punched straight through him into something else.“Ethan,” I whispered. My voice broke on his name.He tilted his head, studying me with a detached curiosity that made my skin crawl.“That's not my name anymore.”My stomach tightened into a knot.“What do you mean?”He smiled. A small, polite smile that did not reach those terrible eyes.“I mean the name you know belongs to a version of me that no longer exists. That Ethan died a long time ago. On the bridge. You
Reborn before the apocalypse CHAPTER 108: I WAS NEVER HUMAN
"Welcome back, Original Lena Carter."Words followed me around room.I couldn't stop staring at woman who stepped out of chamber.She looked exactly like me.Not similar.Not copy.Exactly like me.Yet she stood there like she owned every memory I ever had.I took step back."Stay away from me."She stopped.For moment, something like sad crossed face."You still do that.""Do what?""Run from truth whenever it becomes hard."I almost laughed."You just walked out of glass coffin, called me not human, and said whole life lie. What exactly you expect me to do? Welcome you home?""No," she replied quiet. "I expect you to remember."Painful pressure formed behind eyes.Images flashed through mind.White room.Little girl crying beside window.Man shouting my name.Clock frozen at 11:47.Then everything disappeared.I grabbed head."Stop it!"Woman didn't move."I'm not doing anything.""Then why I can see these things?""Because they yours.""No!"My voice echoed through Level Zero."I r
Reborn before the apocalypse CHAPTER 107: THE WOMAN WHO WOKE UP
"ETHAN!"I ran to him.He lay on floor beside black structure, one hand pressed against chest. Eyes open, but he not looking at me.He staring at something I couldn't see."Ethan, look at me."I dropped beside him and grabbed shoulders."Can you hear me?"His lips moved.I leaned closer."Don't let her—"Whole body jerked.Lights above us turned red.ANCHOR CONNECTION COMPLETE.ORIGINAL CONSCIOUSNESS TRANSFER: 12%.I stared at screen.Twelve percent?What had Ethan transferred?Behind glass, woman who wore my face sat upright. Eyes opened slowly, and she looked straight at me.For one horrible second, I forgot how to breathe.She had my eyes.My nose.Even tiny scar above left eyebrow.But there was something wrong with way she looked at me.It wasn't knowing.It was disappointment."Lena," she whispered.I froze.Voice came through chamber speakers, yet it sounded so close I felt she standing right beside me."Who are you?" I demanded.Her eyes shifted to Ethan."You shouldn't have b
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