CHAPTER 208 — WHEN THE CITY LEARNED THE TRUTH
The truth spread faster than the system could contain it.
By noon, the preservation maps had reached nearly every district in the city.
Not through official broadcasts.
Through people.
Screenshots passed through underground communication relays. Hidden infrastructure workers leaked internal allocation models into decentralized public networks. Civilians projected the preservation sectors directly onto abandoned advertisement towers across resistant districts until entire streets stood beneath glowing evidence of what the system had planned for them.
And once people saw proof that the city had been divided into those worth saving and those considered expendable,
everything changed.
Elena stood motionless near the towering glass windows of the control room while sunlight spilled across the fractured skyline outside. The city below no longer carried the unstable confusion of previous days.
Now it carried rage.
