CHAPTER 16: THE CHOICE THAT SHATTERED EVERYTHING

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The Archive showed me three paths laid out in real time, predicting with reasonable accuracy what would happen with each choice. Path One: Activate the Nuclear Option. Release all of Catherine's research, all of the network's secrets, all of the evidence of their crimes simultaneously across the entire internet. The prediction showed governments falling within hours, stock markets crashing, panic spreading. But also, truth emerging. Humanity learning what had been done to it. Potential for genuine awakening, or potential for authoritarian backlash as nations scrambled to restore order. Path Two: Surrender. Open the Archive's doors and let the network operatives take me. In this path, they would likely kill me, but not before interrogating me about the Archive and extracting whatever info

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