0 With Line Through It Novels & Stories

It wasn't a symbol of a closed system. "What's that?" Meilin asked. Leo looked at the circle, then at the fire, then at the horizon where the first real lights of a rebuilding city were beginning to twinkle. "It's a 'Zero'," Leo said with a faint, witty smile. "But I think... I think I'm going to turn it into a 'One'." He drew a single line through the circle. The story of the Project Renaissance had ended. The story of Humanity 2.0 had just begun.

The gardener looked at me with a mix of pity and horror. "Dig it up. The smell stinks." My voice was indifferent. Watching the tree crash down, its roots—connected to the earth's ley lines—exposed to the air, I felt nothing but relief. I returned to the study and found the Blood Oath scrolls and cards Ethan had written to me. I shoved them, stack by stack, into the magical shredding array. The array hummed, and the sweet nothings that once made my wolf's heart race instantly turned into meaningless dust.

Anything. Nothing.

The Phoenix replied with a proud expression on her face. Jevro look at me, waiting for my opinion. Also the others. And I was about to speak when the chairman of the American monsters department, received a call. "Code, black. I repeat code black.! An unidentifying object is approaching towards our location! We need an order!" The man on the phone sounds scared. "What does it look like?" The chairman asked. "Responding to the chairman. It's like, wait hold on! It's a black dragon!"

I saw him lying in the floor unconsciously and my eyes went wide. "Chad!" I ran to kneel by his side. Sorry it came later than scheduled, the website has been misbehaving all day, ugh! Please leave your comments

The line went dead. ******

Instead, he muttered to himself again and again, "Where's my cheat ability? Why did it disappear? Why can't I see the future anymore?! What's going on?!" His expression was twisted with madness, like a rabid dog gone out of control. [That skill was a limited-time quirk for the newbie male lead, and it was bound to be retracted after a week.] [Even if he stocked the wrong supplies, he should've at least gotten food too. But this guy stocked only ice?] [Another brain-dead male lead, abandoned by the system.] At that moment, the signal cut off. I shrugged again, before continuing to eat my grilled meat.

Something that shouldn't be there. A void.

“What am I missing?” Knox yawned loudly. “Second line…” He squinted. “…replace the zero with a lowercase O.” I narrowed my eyes. “That simple?” Knox shrugged drunkenly. “Technology hates people who overthink.” I turned back toward the screen. Typed exactly what he said and pressed enter. The search loaded instantly. There was no error. My brows lifted. I turned around fully this time. Knox stood there grinning lazily, shoulders lifting in a proud shrug like he had just performed a miracle.

Not close at all. ***