Chapter 160: The Reset CodeAriana couldn’t feel her hands.She was staring at Daniel, but everything behind him—no, everything everywhere—was shifting, stretching, folding in on itself like the world had lost its shape.“A reset…” she whispered.Her voice didn’t sound like hers anymore.Daniel didn’t move. Didn’t blink.“You finally understand.”“No.” She shook her head hard, like she could shake the truth out of existence. “No, I built a failsafe to stop it. To stop you.”A flicker of something passed across Daniel’s face. Not anger. Not amusement.Something closer to pity.“You built it before me,” he said quietly.That hit her like a slap.“…what?”“The reset code,” Daniel continued, “was written before I ever became what I am.”The space around them trembled again. The network wasn’t stable anymore—it was too full, too heavy, billions of minds pressing against each other, overlapping, clashing.Ariana could feel them now.Every thought.Every fear.Every scream.“Then why would I
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