Unscramble Signal の小説・ストーリー

The display screen lit up with four erect heat signals and one heat signal collapsed on the floor. Ben activated the frequency interrupting signals on his dial. He gestured Frank and Shadow to convey with his fingers that he would take the ones on the right, Shadow to deal with the ones on the left and Frank to provide cover to the one on the floor. Frank and Shadow nodded to confirm understanding. Ben signaled the countdown with his fingers – 3…. 2…. 1….

Kael superheated the data, turning the noise into a "Liquid-Signal." The Twins used the city’s mirrors and glass buildings to create a "Prism-Refraction," multiplying the signal a thousand times. Elara caught the Liquid-Signal on her obsidian stick. She didn't look at the Master-Architect. She looked at the Real Rhys in the penthouse window. "This is for the 'Glitches'!" she roared.

I said. "No. You did not, but that does not change the fact that I did it anyway. Family does not wait for permission when the risk is this high." I looked at him for a long moment. "Do not move them until I signal. Whatever you hear inside that building, do not move them until I signal. I need that discipline from you tonight more than I need anything else." "What is the signal," he asked. "Three shots fast. Then a pause. Then one more, nothing else. If you hear anything different, you stay put. If it goes completely silent, you still stay put until you get exactly that pattern."

It wasn't a ship or a machine; it was a Self-Replicating Entropic-Frequency (a sound wave that causes everything it touches to break down and die). "The Void-Signal is not a predator," a voice resonated in her mind—a voice so ancient it made the Architects' language sound like a nursery rhyme. "It is a Quarantine-Protocol. It was built to erase any life-form that achieved 'Isotope-Transcendence' (the ability to harness the power of the universe's foundational particles)."