Chapter 58: Null Encounter: Mirror of the Mind
He didn’t wake up.
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He simply activated.
Where Jay might’ve yawned and muttered something sarcastic, Null-Jay rose like a command line processing input. His eyes opened—not with curiosity, but calculation.
This was not the New Path.
This was beneath it.
Between things.
Inside things.
A realm of raw logic stitched together with forgotten memories and corrupted fragments. Where meaning twisted and time refused to flow straight.
He stood in a grayscale forest where trees bled binary, and the sky was a looping memory of a bluebird Jay once saw on a windowsill in childhood... played infinitely.
"Subject located," a low, echoing voice said.
"Mission: Eliminate Divergence."
Null-Jay looked ahead.