Zero Time Dilemma Walkthrough Novels & Stories

A concealed terminal in the battle room unlocked itself. A timer came to life. EMPATHY PROTOCOL STARTED Countdown: 72 hours. Goal: One must fall.

“IN the count of three,” Zekiel said seriously as they stood at the edge of the garden of the building where Timothy was hiding, holding his family hostage. “One... Two... Three... NOW!” Zekiel’s men quickly scrambled into action at his signal. When they reached the underground passage, two people opened it, and as soon as it was unlocked, they rushed inside one after another. “Go! Go! Go!” Dylan whispered urgently to their teammates leading the way inside.

Focus girl, she instructed herself. Oh. She could reason with him. If she offered him a deal, he could rebel and find a way out of the marriage. It wasn’t l he would be happy to have her as his wife. It would be a win-win situation for both of them. Tomorrow, she would talk to sweet evil, Aiden. Clara walked last her parents' room and she could hear them murmur. They were still awake. She wanted to walk past but instead, she tiptoed closer and put her ears to the door.

If my assertion was correct, it was an empty room I was in. "Hey, Zero, bitch, I'm getting impatient here, make it easy for yourself. Tell me where you are and I'll come to you. How about that?" There was silence before he started again. "But I'm making you a promise that if I find you myself, I will kill you. Choice is yours."

The rest of my pack pulls up in their cars. I exit the passenger side and look around me. I focus on the space between the trees for movement or sounds, but nothing can be seen or heard. I look back at my screen. The small triangle icon beeps over and over. "This doesn't make any sense," I say into the still air. "It says she's right here." Everybody has stepped out of their cars now and are looking around for any sign of the girls. My eyes move downward toward the ground, where the screen is incorrectly telling me the location of Rachel. As I'm about to look away a small gleam catches my eye. I squat and push the dirt away with the tips of my fingers and grab the object.

I started to panic but all I could do was to reach out to them until they faded into nothing. "KAIA!" I jolted awake from my bed and the first thing I saw was Xander shaking me. "Xander?" I asked dumbfounded. "Finally, you're awake! I've been trying to wake you for minutes, it’s already noon." what???

Thirty-nine seconds. "It is not a bomb," Zane said. His hands did not stop moving. His eyes were scanning the server architecture, following the logic of the countdown sequence through the rig's control infrastructure. "It is a scuttle," he said. "The legs are rigged to blow. The whole structure goes underwater in about four minutes once the sequence completes." "Stop it," Lucian said. "Working on that." Twenty-six seconds. The servers hummed. Zane moved through the system the way he moved through a defensive line, reading the gaps before they opened, committing to the decision a half second before anyone else saw it.

The countdown timer violently skipped digits, accelerating at three times its standard velocity. 00:10 00:09 00:08 Inside the sub-level control room, the overhead emergency sirens began to scream a deafening warning. *"Emergency manual override activated! Detonation sequence accelerated! Structural failure imminent!"* Lorrie looked at Matteo in absolute horror, the walls beginning to vibrate around them. "We're out of time! It's skipping!" Matteo desperately reached for his heavy sidearm, aiming it directly at the terminal glass. "I'll shoot the internal console matrix!"

99 couldn't speak, but the muscles at the corner of his eyes twitched. I stared fixedly at the digits on the digital clock. 5:59:58 am. 5:59:59 am. 6:00:00 am. Beep. The harsh, cold white light in the room suddenly shifted into a soft, warm yellow. A flat, synthetic mechanical voice echoed through the room without warning. [Congratulations, player. Achievement unlocked: Peaceful Survival. Ten-loop threat removed. Game cleared. Prize money: 900 billion dollars. Funds have been deposited.]

I muttered, closing my eyes. I felt a strange, cold tingling around the cut on my arm as the data started to transfer. My stomach twisted. I had one shot at this, and the timing had to be perfect. The tablet in his hand beeped, and a green bar lit up his face. "Connection established. Now, give me the code." I opened my eyes and looked right at him. "Zero. Zero. Delta. Echo. Niner," I said, taking a deep breath. "And go to hell."