Semua Bab System Of Blood: To Crave Survival: Bab 141 - Bab 150

CHAPTER 142Camryn's POVI felt it manifest before Whitney's equipment registered anything.The emergency response spawned at exactly 3:47 AM in the central districts, pulling so much Intent that every anomaly within five miles went dormant. They could sense what I could sense: something vast had entered Lenore, something that existed on a level above their programming.I was in the facility's command center when it happened, reviewing optimal response strategies for various Class S possibilities. My team had been sleeping in shifts, but I didn't need sleep anymore. The absorbed functions kept my consciousness active constantly, processing scenarios and calculating probabilities.Amon found me there, still awake. He'd stopped trying to reach whatever remained of Camryn and started treating me like a tactical asset. Smart. Efficient. I would have made the same choice."You felt it," he said."Class S entity, manifested in sector seven. It's pulling Intent from approximately forty thous

CHAPTER 144Camryn's POVThe facility didn’t shake physically, but in some way that existed beneath reality's surface. Code rippled around us, and I felt something massive focusing attention on our location."System core has detected unauthorized access," I said. "It's deploying emergency countermeasures.""What kind of countermeasures?" Amon asked.Before I could answer, anomalies started manifesting in the courtyard. Not spawned from Intent but generated directly by the game's core systems. Class A entities appearing instantly, dozens of them, all focused on a single objective.Stop the rewrite. Kill everyone involved. Reset the game state manually."Defend the position," Miranda ordered. "They can't reach her."My team moved into combat formation, weapons ready. But I could see the math. Forty-three Class A anomalies against six fighters, even skilled ones, was unsustainable. They'd be overwhelmed within minutes."Julian," I said. "How much longer until the rewrite completes?""Thr

CHAPTER 146Camryn's POV“I don’t know yet,” I admitted. “Part of me wants to go back and fix what was broken in my original life. Make my sister face consequences. Live the life I was supposed to have. But another part knows I can’t go back. Not as who I am now. Lucille Reyes didn’t have seven absorbed functions and the ability to see reality as code. She was just a woman with a corrupt family and bad choices.”“Maybe that’s the gift,” Julian said quietly. “The game changes us. We go in as one person and come out as something different. The question is whether we use that change to build something better or let it destroy us.”“Is that what you’re doing? Building something better by choosing to die?”“I’m choosing to stop being the thing the game made me. To end on my terms instead of its script.” He looked back out the window. “I’ve spawned enough monsters for one lifetime. Let someone else carry that burden now.”“There won’t be a new Marionettist,” I said. “The modified code doesn

CHAPTER 148Camryn's POV"Go ahead.""Do you regret it? Absorbing all those functions. Becoming what you are now. If you could go back and choose differently, would you?"I thought about it honestly. The absorptions had cost me my humanity, my ability to feel emotions beyond distant memories, my connection to the person I'd been before. But they'd also given me the power to save everyone. To rewrite the game itself. To preserve Lenore and give forty thousand players the choice to stay or leave."No," I said finally. "I don't regret it. I'd make the same choice again, knowing the cost. Some things are worth sacrificing yourself for.""Even if the sacrifice is permanent?""Especially then. Temporary sacrifices are easy. It's the permanent ones that prove you mean it."Whitney smiled sadly. "You sound like Camryn when you say things like that. Maybe there's more of you left than you think.""Or maybe the absorbed functions are just good at mimicking human speech patterns.""I choose to b

CHAPTER 150Camryn's POVWe chose the Hollow Quarter for our first disclosure.It was one of the oldest abandoned districts, populated mostly by people who'd given up on House protection years ago. They survived through cooperation and grit, running their own security patrols and managing their own anomaly responses. If anyone could handle the truth without falling apart, it was them.Still, my hands shook as we approached the community center they'd built from salvaged materials. Not from fear exactly, but from something my fragmented consciousness recognized as anxiety even if I couldn't quite feel it properly."You don't have to do this," Amon said quietly. "Miranda could take the lead.""No. It should be me." I checked my notes one more time, though I'd memorized everything already. "I rewrote the game. I should be the one who explains what that means."The community center was packed. Word had spread that we wanted to talk about Julian's death and what came next, and apparently e