Semua Bab Desired by My Stepdad and His Sons : Bab 151 - Bab 160

Chapter 152: The First MindFor a moment, the world stopped breathing.Ariana stood frozen, staring at the woman she had called Mom her entire life.Her ears rang.Her heart slammed violently against her ribs.“No…” Ariana whispered, shaking her head slowly. “No, that’s not funny.”But the woman didn’t laugh.She didn’t even blink.Instead, she watched Ariana with a calmness that felt deeply unsettling. Like someone observing an experiment finally reaching its final stage.Victor staggered backward.“That’s impossible,” he said hoarsely.His eyes were wide, filled with something Ariana had never seen before.Fear.“You died,” he continued. “I watched you die.”The woman tilted her head slightly.“Yes,” she said softly. “My body did.”A cold silence fell over the laboratory.Ethan’s eyes narrowed.“You transferred your consciousness,” he said.It wasn’t a question.The woman’s lips curved into a slow smile.“Finally,” she murmured. “Someone intelligent in this room.”Ariana felt the fl

Chapter 154: The Body They BuiltFor a few seconds, no one spoke.The only sound in the laboratory was the sharp hum of the machines and Ariana’s uneven breathing.On the monitor, the words burned like fire.NEW PRIMARY HOST: ACTIVATEDAriana stared at the man standing in front of the soldiers.The one who looked exactly like Ethan.But now she understood something terrifying.He wasn’t Ethan.Not really.Not anymore.Victor looked like he had aged ten years in the last ten seconds.“You can’t be the host,” he said hoarsely.The man smiled.“Oh, but I already am.”The monitors flickered again.HOST TRANSFER: 67%Victor’s hands began to shake.“That body won’t survive the neural load.”The man tilted his head.“That’s where you’re wrong.”Ariana stepped forward slowly, her heart racing.“What are you talking about?”The man’s eyes shifted toward her.And for a moment, something softer passed through them.Something almost… familiar.“You really don’t know, do you?”Victor suddenly shou

Chapter 156: The First ConversionThe monitors glowed like warning lights in a collapsing world.GLOBAL CONVERSION: 1% COMPLETENo one in the laboratory moved.Victor stared at the numbers like a man watching the end of everything he had ever known.“One percent…” he whispered.His voice sounded hollow.“That’s nearly eighty million people.”Ariana felt the words slam into her chest.Eighty million.Already gone.Already changed.The entity inside Subject 002’s body watched the screens calmly, as if observing weather patterns instead of the transformation of the human race.“The process has begun.”Ethan stepped forward slowly.“What exactly happens to them?”The entity’s glowing eyes shifted toward him.“They awaken.”Ethan frowned.“That’s not an answer.”Victor looked at the monitors.“It means their neural networks are synchronizing with the signal.”Ariana swallowed.“You mean with me.”Victor nodded grimly.“You’re still the broadcast core.”Ariana felt sick.“So I’m the one tur

Chapter 158: The Man Who Planned It AllThe number hit 52%—and kept climbing.56%61%68%The laboratory no longer felt like a place.It felt like a countdown.Victor staggered back, gripping the edge of the console like it was the only thing keeping him upright.“No… no, no… this isn’t possible…”His voice broke under the weight of it.“You can’t rewrite the entire network in real time.”Across every monitor, Daniel’s face flickered in and out—no longer just a man, but something threaded into the system itself.Watching.Listening.Controlling.“I told you, Victor,” his voice echoed smoothly, layered with something deeper now, something not entirely human.“I didn’t come here to stop anything.”Ethan stepped forward, his fists clenched.“You hijacked a global consciousness network.”Daniel’s lips curved slightly.“Correction.”The lights flickered.“I perfected it.”Ariana stood still in the center of it all.Too still.Her mind was loud—too loud.The voices were no longer chaotic, n

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