The Final Code
The core screen bled crimson warnings. The Chronos Network had surpassed critical thresholds—its temporal model spinning into overdrive, warping the air into a suffocating vortex. Lin Xiaoxia staggered as fractured timelines lanced through her mind, each shard a scream of collapsing realities.
Xu Yuan’s fingers never stopped.
Keys hammered like gunfire, each line of code a dagger aimed at the network’s heart. He wasn’t just hacking now—he was rewriting fate.
The man in white howled, his commands dissolving into chaos. The system no longer obeyed him. It was eating itself alive.
Then—
A single keystroke.
A slash of emerald code tore through the screen.
SHUTDOWN SEQUENCE INITIATED.
The red alerts froze. The Chronos Network’s light guttered, its threads snapping like overstrung wires. The lab’s oppressive hum faded into silence.
The man in white collapsed to his knees, his voice a broken rasp. "No… this was… perfection…"
But as the last of the network’s power dimmed—
—a violet surge erupted from the core.
A rogue data stream, twisted and ravenous, lunged like a starving beast.
"XIAOXIA—!"
Xu Yuan shoved her aside, taking the full brunt of the blast.
Purple light engulfed him. His body arched, veins alight with temporal corruption. His skin flickered, pixels of his existence eroding.
Xiaoxia screamed, scrambling forward—but an invisible barrier repelled her.
Xu Yuan turned.
His lips moved.
"I love you."
Then—
He dissolved.
Motes of light swirled, then vanished.
Only his silver ring remained, clattering to the floor.
The screen went dark.
Silence.
The man in white aged decades in seconds—wrinkling, crumbling, until only dust remained.
Xiaoxia collapsed, the ring biting into her palm. The metal was cold.
He was gone.
Time had healed.
But he was the cost.
Epilogue: The Keeper of Time
Days passed.
The island sank into the sea, Chronos Corp’s legacy erased.
Xiaoxia stood on the shore, the ring now strung around her neck.
The world moved on.
But in the quiet hours, she’d press the silver to her lips—
—and swear she felt his pulse, echoing across time.
She would keep watch.
For him.
For all of them.
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