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Chapter 6: The Price of Being Prepared

Penulis: CagalieYula
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-10-21 12:49:06

If there's any realizatiin I made about preparing for the apocalypse, it was that money could disappear much faster than fear.

I stood in the middle of a hardware store, staring at the growing pile of supplies in my shopping cart while my phone displayed the latest total. Water filters, a hand-cranked flashlight, a compact tool kit, duct tape, work gloves, a folding shovel, and a box of heavy-duty trash bags had already pushed the bill higher than I wanted.

I hadn't even reached the supermarket
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  • The APOCALYPSE bows to my FOUR MEN!   Chapter 31 : My Memories Are Failing

    The recording had said my true name.Not Odette Turner. Cameron Reed.For several seconds, I couldn’t hear anything except the pounding of my heart. The laboratory lights flickered overhead, and the old console continued to hum, indifferent to the fact that my entire understanding of this world had just cracked open.Kael was the first to speak.“Cameron Reed,” he repeated slowly. “Who is that?”I had prepared for questions about my predictions. I had prepared for suspicion about my storage ability, my knowledge of the infected, and the death record that claimed I had never been alive.I had not prepared to hear my former name spoken aloud by a man who had just kissed me.“It’s me,” I said.Lucien’s eyes narrowed. “That answer raises more questions than it settles.”“I know.”“Then start explaining.”Kael lifted a hand before Lucien could continue. His attention remained on me, sharp but not hostile.“You don’t have to tell us everything at once,” he said. “But we need to know whether

  • The APOCALYPSE bows to my FOUR MEN!   Chapter 30 : The Story Knows My Name

    Zane’s eyes stared back at us from a photograph taken years before I had ever met him.Four boys stood beneath laboratory lights, their faces too still for children. The label beneath the image read: LANTERN COHORT 04 — FOUR SUBJECTS. OUTCOME: SEALED.Lucien leaned closer to the screen. “I’ve never seen this picture.”“Do you remember the room?” Kael asked him.“No.” Lucien’s voice had lost its usual ease. “I remember pieces. White walls. Questions. A door that wouldn’t open. But not this.”I wanted to ask whether he remembered the other boys, but the answer was already written in his expression. Whatever had happened here, someone had made sure the records couldn’t lead him back to it.A burst of static crackled from Kael’s radio.“—anyone—” Darius’s voice broke through. “We’re in the lower lab. Mercer’s with me. Aurelia too. We found a door that locked behind us.”Kael grabbed the radio. “Give us your location.”A series of knocks followed, then Darius’s voice again. “Can’t get a cl

  • The APOCALYPSE bows to my FOUR MEN!   Chapter 29 : The Rogue’s Erased Past

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  • The APOCALYPSE bows to my FOUR MEN!   Chapter 27: Trapped Beneath the City

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