Semua Bab The Anniversary He Forgot: Bab 61

Alex stared at the glowing monitor, his pulse hammering in his ears as his mother's frightened, bruised face remained illuminated on the feed. "Mom... what do you mean?"​"If you destroy Genesis, your father dies," Evelyn whispered into the camera, her breath trembling in the dark room.​Kendall lunged toward the terminal, his face panicked as he tried to cut the transmission. "Evelyn, don't! Shut it down!"​"He needs to know, Kendall!" Evelyn shouted back, her voice breaking through the static.​Forced into a corner, Kendall slowly lowered his hands and hung his head, unable to meet Alex's gaze. The truth came out in a halting, bitter confession: Genesis was not merely a software network; it was physically tethered to his body. Decades ago, Alex's grandfather had forced a neural regulator into Kendall’s brain stem to ensure a living, obedient controller would always remain tethered to the system. The regulator relied on a constant handshake protocol from the Genesis core to mainta