All Chapters of Hidden Fire in the Snow: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

On the calm shore of the sea, in the soft light of dawn, when Rohing Singh delivered this terrible news, the world around me seemed to sway once again. Mother is alive? Then was that blazing inferno in Quebec merely an illusion? I looked at Rohing Singh with a pale face. His old warrior attire was now stained with dust and blood, yet his eyes held an unshakable belief."Uncle..." I said in a trembling voice. "If mother is alive, then where has she been all this time? And what connection does the mystery of the Himalayas have with the Moreno lineage?"Rohing Singh rolled up his ancient manuscript. Taking a deep breath, he said, "Sophia, your mother Valeria Moreno was not an ordinary woman. She was the guardian of the original secret of the 'Blue Virus.' The laboratory in Quebec was only a shadow. The true source of power lies in a hidden cave in the Himalayas, known as the 'Heaven of the Dead.' Your father and the Guru—they are not dead. Just before the explosion, they used a special t

The silent Himalayan night turned into a living hell within moments. The words of the strange creature in the spacesuit at the door pierced my ears like poison. Ten minutes—only ten minutes before our carefully built world would be destroyed. Lucas stepped in front of me, pushing me back with his broken mechanical arm. A faint beeping sound came from within his body, as if he was gathering the last remnants of his energy.“Sophia, go inside! Take our child and escape through the back door!” Lucas roared. His human brown eyes were shifting back into that sharp blue digital glow. Though his mechanical body was unstable, his courage had not diminished at all.The alien struck the ground with a mechanical staff. Instantly, a massive shockwave shook the entire house. The glass windows shattered and rained down on us. In a cold mechanical voice, it said again,“Lucas Moreno, you are a defective unit. Your emotions are a disgrace to our dynasty. Hand over the child, or this Himalayan peak wi

The sky of our once peaceful, ringed planet has now turned blood-red. From the massive fissure stretching across the moon’s surface, billions of black mechanical spiders are cascading down like a waterfall. aren't just insects; they are 'nano-bots'—capable of transforming any biological life into metal within seconds. Lucas stood before me, his body as resilient as diamond. His wings, once golden, were now glowing a fierce, fiery red."Sophia, take Sona and get inside that mountain cave!" Lucas roared. His mechanical voice now carried a primal battle cry. "Edward never died; he had hidden his consciousness within the moon’s digital core. Today, he seeks to strip away our final sanctuary."I scooped little Sona into my arms. He gazed up at the massive celestial throne in the sky with wide-eyed wonder. Edward—Lucas’s elder brother—sat upon that throne, wearing a grin of diabolical satisfaction. Surrounding him were thousands of flying drones, torching the planet's blue trees into ash.

Our small, peaceful home has now turned into a house of death. Outside the window, the full moon casts an ominous yellowish light. Lucas, who stands before me—whom I trusted as my protector just moments ago—now has eyes glowing with an intense violet light. A demonic smile curls on his lips, one I have never seen before.“Lucas! Stop! What are you saying?” I step back, shielding little Sona at the corner of the bed. Sona is still in deep sleep, the moonlight falling gently on his innocent face.Lucas—no, the clone Sophia inside him—takes a step forward. Purple electricity drips from his mechanical claws. In a cold, mechanical voice, he says,“Sophia, Lucas is now trapped in a corner of my memory, crying. When he was connected to that ancient laboratory processor, I injected myself into every fiber of his soul. This diamond body, these wings—everything is mine now!”He suddenly spreads his wings and strikes the ceiling with tremendous force. The entire room trembles.“Tonight, I will

The small life-pod in the middle of the ocean has now turned into a living cage. The raging waters around have gone still. My four-year-old child—whom I had been holding close to my chest—now stands before me, and from his back, those black wings have turned white like ice and sharp like swords. His eyes are no longer golden; instead, an ominous purple glow burns within them. He is smiling, but there is no childhood in that smile—only the satisfaction of a hunger thousands of years old.“Sona! What are you saying?” I stepped back, pressing myself against the wall of the pod. “You sent Lucas? You loved him!”Sona placed his ice-cold hand on my chin. The touch burned more than fire. “Mother, love is a kind of mechanical error. When Father surrendered himself in that Atlantis lab, I absorbed his digital codes within me. I am no longer just your son—I am ‘Moreno Protocol 2.0.’ Lucas was sent to that mechanical city in space because the original chip inside his body will allow me to hack t