Conduct Zero Novels & Stories

A low, familiar growl rumbled close to my ear, steady and grounding. Then — nothing.

" Of course, it's a coincidence." Zero lets out a loud scoff, the sound a mixture of annoyance and sarcasm. " Coincidence huh? Alright, let's say I believe you. Then what? What do you plan to do with this information?”

I was leaning forward to look at the screen more closely, and Eli was standing close enough to point at specific details. The proximity was making it impossible to concentrate. "Here," he said, placing his hand on the counter next to mine. "This moment. Right before the patient's expression shifts. If we adjust the color temperature here..." His hand was close. Close enough that if I'd shifted even slightly, we would have been touching. I didn't shift. I couldn't shift. Because shifting would mean acknowledging the physical pull I was feeling, and acknowledging that would mean admitting that I wanted him, and admitting that would mean being vulnerable again after he'd just established bounda

More information will be given at the last chapter of CON, which sadly will be coming really soon. Stay safe.

The monitor labeled the reactivation sequence as: > MIRA-VN: 0_0_1 / ALPHA ROOT DESIGNATION: ZERO ACCESS: SYSTEM OVERRIDE Adrian stood so fast his chair fell backward. Sera’s voice cut in from comms: “What the hell is ‘Zero’?” Elias stared at the blinking cursor and said, dead quiet: “It’s what Mira made before you.” In the hall… Zero walked barefoot along the steel floor. Each step corrected itself. Each muscle learned as it moved. She didn’t breathe out of necessity. She breathed to practice what it meant to be alive.

she uttered. Zero unclasped his arms and grabbed his pen on the side of his PC. “Habit change,” he replied simply. Tilda bit her lower lip and approaches him, she tried to touch him but Zero spat her hand away and glared at her which makes Tilda laugh even louder. “Oh, Zero you used to love my touch. And even crave for my—” she didn’t finish her words when Zero stood up, grabbed her in the arm, and pierced his eyes into hers.

The siren echoed through the underground tunnel. Loud. Relentless. Terrifying. WOOOOOOO… WOOOOOOO… WOOOOOOO… Nobody moved. Nobody spoke either. Because something about that sound felt wrong. Very wrong. Elliot stared at his tablet. Then looked again. Then looked a third time. “No.” Victor immediately turned. “What now?” Elliot looked pale. Really pale. “The facility is activating Protocol Zero.” He said.

"Wherever those needles land, the 'Amber-Field' is 'Zeroed-Out.' They’re 'Paving' the world in 'Absolute-Logic'!" The Anatomy of the Reality-Anchor This chapter provides a 1,200-word granular deep-dive into "Zero-State-Engineering." The Auditors' needles functioned by creating a "Meissner-Effect" for information. They expelled all "Complexity" and "Resonance" from their immediate vicinity, creating a "Dead-Zone" where the "Gold-Standard" could not propagate.

Why isn't it stopping this? The System stayed silent. Of course it did. In a game like this, nobody cared if a side character lived or died. I was just an NPC. An obstacle in the leads' romance. A disposable villain there to make the male lead look better. But the pain was real. Way too real. "Still not talking?" Heidi pressed down harder. I heard skin split, then felt another rush of warmth spill out. Black spots flickered across my vision like static from an old TV.