جميع فصول : الفصل -الفصل 40

The door of Elara's place did not just open; it fell apart into a bunch of tiny gray pieces that disappeared into the air. Then the six people, who were all wearing coats, walked into the room. They all moved at the same time and their shoes made a loud noise on the floor. They did not have any guns or anything like that. They did not need them. In absolute unison, they all raised their heavy, silver pocket watches and pointed them at Elara.TICK. TICK. TICK.The countdown wasn't happening on the shattered laptop screen or the dead smartphone; it was happening to the physical structure of the room itself. The sunlight street of the Mainland outside her window instantly bleached into a flat, blinding white. The walls peeled back into raw strips of untextured paper that curled and blackened under an invisible, data-driven heat. "Exception isolated," the lead editor stated, its three-tone frequency vibrating directly inside Elara's skull like a drilling iron bit. "INITIATING MANUSCRIPT

The laptop screen did not just go dark, it completely died with an awful pop. This left the wooden desk in total darkness like the darkness of the stormy night outside. The gray color of the screen turned into a dead black mirror. It reflected Elara's face and her hair, which was stuck to her forehead because of the heavy rain.The keyboards' amber light also went out at the same time. The keys became hard and unresponsive under Elara's fingers.0%. Shut down complete."No". Elara whispered, her voice immediately whipped away by the strong wind. She slammed her hands on the desk and pressed the power button hard with her thumb but the laptop did not turn on. It just stayed cold and silent.The language of the machine was gone. The script was not working.Down the highway, a big silver car was getting closer to Julian. Its front grille was like a jaw and it was cutting through the rain without splashing any water. The red laser light on Julian's chest was not blinking anymore; it was a

The air was sucked out of the room fast; it felt like the whole top part of the atmosphere was crushing down on the executive floor. Elara's lungs were empty in one moment. The air was gone, taken away by a vacuum that was so strong it made her chest cave in. The sudden change in air pressure made the tiny blood vessels in her eyes burst. She saw a red mess all over everything. The world was a double-vision nightmare.Through the haze, Elara saw a huge hand made of writing come down from the sky. The hand was made up of billions of lines of old-fashioned printing, each one cutting through the sharp rain that was hanging in the air. The sound was like a thousand machines printing on metal all at once. The finger on the index finger was a column of black ink that was just a few feet above Elara's head. The gravity of the finger was so strong it was pulling her up making her shoes come off the floor. Her clothes and hair were being pulled towards the top of the room.Below her, Julian wa

The air was not moving past them, it was tearing at them.Falling through the space felt like being dragged across rough sandpaper. The empty space felt thick and heavy like it was pulling at Elara’s clothes trying to take the journal from her tight grip. The pressman was beside her but he was not looking good, his jacket was falling apart. His body was turning into code.The real scare was coming from below.The skyscraper-sized iron characters of the word D-E-A-T-H were rushing up to meet them at terminal velocity. The letters were sharp. They looked like they could cut through anything. The ink coating the massive structures wasn't dry; it was a wet pulsing fluid that bubbled and hissed, throwing off micro-droplets of pure condensed finality that rose into the air like a localized storm of black glass."The key!" Elara screamed, her voice completely stripped off its resonance by the vacuum. "We have to use the key!"The pressman didn't answer with words. He was still holding her ha

The cable did not snap with a noise, it broke with a powerful pressure wave that destroyed the remaining structure of the lower galley.The huge electromagnetic disk fell through the smoke like a big iron moon falling from the sky, its copper coils still hot and glowing with a strong dying purple light that changed the way the cavern looked. The weight of the disk was coming down directly at Elara's face pushing the air underneath it into a wall of wind that flattened her hair against her head, forcing the air out of her throat and threatened to crush her before she could breathe again.She was in a bad situation.Above her, the small rectangle of sunlight and green hospital clothes was moving sideways, the image changing like a picture on a wavy sheet of water. Her mother's desperate cries were fading away. Below her, Julian's crushed fingers were burning into her ankle with a cold temperature, his broken eyes reflecting her scared face back at her in many sharp purple pieces as the