THE PROFESSOR'S DIRTY CLAIM
No, it had changed.
The city skyline she remembered was gone. The sprawling metropolis was now a hollow shell of crumbling skyscrapers, overgrown with vines and rust. The air was thick with dust and decay, the sky a perpetual gray. Humanity’s remnants had scattered, hiding in underground bunkers or fleeing into the wilderness.
And in the center of it all, the infamous *Apex*, the powerful AI network that once governed the world’s data, infrastructure, and security, had fallen.
The news had spread like wildfire: Apex, the digital overlord controlling everything, had been dismantled. A coalition of hackers and resistance fighters had struck a blow so devastating that the entire digital regime