Chapter 11:Manufactured Love

The countdown timer on the walls bled a jagged, digital red. 00:42. 00:41.The hum in the floorboards was no longer a vibration; it was a physical weight, the sound of the facility’s cooling fans reversing to ignite the oxygen in the vents. We were standing in a pressure cooker, and Silas had just turned the dial to maximum."Alessia, the ventilation shaft!" Lorenzo shouted, his voice strained over the rising roar of the machinery. He grabbed a heavy server rack, his muscles bulging as he tried to wrench it from the floor to use as a ladder.I didn't move. I was staring at a sub-file that had just flickered onto the terminal. A series of chemical equations. A sequence of pheromone triggers. A timeline of our "spontaneous" meetings across the centuries."It was never us, Lorenzo," I whispered. My voice was hollow, a ghost of a sound in the thundering room.He stopped, his hands still gripped on the cold steel. "What are you talking about? We have forty seconds!""The cafe in 1986. The

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Chapter 12: The Failure Cycle

The drainage tunnel was a ribcage of concrete and slime, leading us deeper into the bowels of Nairobi’s industrial underbelly. The drone followed us, a silent, hovering vulture with a red mechanical eye. It didn't fire. I just watched it."Phase One?" I spat, the word tasting like the metallic soot in my lungs. I didn't stop running. My boots splashed through the oily water, my internal compass already mapping the city above. The pipeline was three kilometers north. The airport was ten."Alessia, wait," Lorenzo wheezed. He stumbled, his shoulder hitting the damp wall. He wasn't like me; his body hadn't been optimized for high-intensity recovery. He was human enough to bleed, human enough to tire.I stopped and turned. The drone hovered exactly three meters away."Why aren't you killing us, Silas?" I yelled at the machine.The drone’s speaker crackled. It wasn't Silas’s voice this time. It was a composite—a thousand voices layered over each other, men and women from the past entries I’

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Chapter 13: Lorenzo Unleashed

The intersection of Moi Avenue was a sea of frozen statues. A matatu driver, a fruit vendor, a businesswoman in a sharp suit—every single one of them stood perfectly still, their eyes glowing with that haunting, synthetic blue light."Silas," I spat, my back hitting Lorenzo’s as we stood in the center of the street. "He’s hijacking their neural links. He’s using the city as a biological shield."Lorenzo didn’t answer with words. I heard the metallic snick-snick of a weapon being readied. He had snatched a dropped security guard's submachine gun with a speed that made my own enhanced reflexes hum in approval."Alessia," he said, his voice dropping into a register I hadn’t heard in this life. It wasn't the voice of a lover. It was the voice of a commander. "Close your eyes.""What?""I’ve spent twenty lives watching you die," he growled, his shoulders expanding, his grip on the weapon turning his knuckles white. "I’ve spent centuries being the 'Catalyst' for your trauma. But they forgot

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Chapter 14: The Perfect Weapon

The SUV roared through the outskirts of Nairobi, the skyline behind us a jagged silhouette of smoke and flickering neon. Every screen we passed—digital billboards, ATM faceplates, even the smartphones of terrified pedestrians—displayed the same scrolling red text: LIQUIDATION IN PROGRESS.Beside me, Lorenzo was a shadow of his former self, his knuckles white as he gripped the dashboard. He was the anchor, the heart.I was the storm.I didn't feel the adrenaline anymore. I didn't feel fear. My brain had shifted into a state of "Cold Flow." I could see the refresh rates of the traffic lights before they changed. I could hear the high-pitched whine of the VANTA hunter-drones three miles out. My "Blood Memory" wasn't just a flashback now; it was a live, tactical overlay."They’re closing the grid," I said, my voice sounding like sharpened glass. "Silas is cutting off the sector. He’s going to level everything from Westlands to the CBD just to make sure we’re ash.""Then we go underground,

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บททั้งหมดของ Deja vu: Blood Memory : บทที่ 11 - บทที่ 14

Chapter 11:Manufactured Love

Chapter 12: The Failure Cycle

Chapter 13: Lorenzo Unleashed

Chapter 14: The Perfect Weapon