Chapter 112Nobody moved after the screen went black.For several seconds, the operations room remained completely silent.The silence wasn't confusion.It wasn't shock.It was fear.The kind of fear that settled deep in your bones.Because Vale had just shown them something none of them wanted to believe.The Program wasn't over.It had never been over.It had simply changed shape.And somewhere, behind steel walls and locked doors, hundreds of children were already living the nightmare they thought they had destroyed.Mira was the first to break."No."The word came out as a whisper.A prayer.A denial."No."Her hands trembled."They can't be real."Nobody answered.Because everyone knew they were.Every person in that room had once been one of those children.Every person recognized the look in their eyes.The emptiness.The fear.The obedience.The hopelessness.You couldn't fake that.Luca knew that better than anyone.He hadn't moved since the transmission ended.His eyes remai
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