What happens when the architecture you designed to process others is activated on you?

At 06:00 they took him out of the cell. The corridor curved fifteen degrees to the left —the exact angle he had calculated six years earlier, from his office on the 34th floor, justifying the curvature in the technical document as "optimization of processing flow." What he never wrote down was what it actually meant: so they won't know where they're being taken. So they lose hope before they arrive.

Now he walks through his own architecture. He feels the angle in his legs. He feels the forty meters without visual reference —another of his specifications. It works. It works perfectly.

This chapter is the entry point into the Protocol: three consecutive sessions in the SR-7 chair he signed off on, with the straps he specified, with the crystal needles he approved. And between extraction attempts, recognition:

— The pianist playing an instrument that no longer exists.

— The old woman staring at her hands like objects stuck to the end of her arms.

— The young man sitting perfectly still, reduced to a statue of flesh.

— Mira, by the window, repeating the syllabic pattern of the five words he never answered: "You feel it too, don't you?"

Four lives turned to residue. One of them because of his signature.

In CPE-7 the containers glow on the shelves —blue, green, gold—. Packaged experiences, priced, shelved for sale. And among them, one labeled 72-T with a projection of 152,707,000 credits: his own life converted into a figure, still "in process" because the Tic Tac refuses to be torn out.

Three sessions. Three failures. And at the close, a soft almost musical voice —grey eyes that have forgotten how to hold color— speaks two sentences that were in no document he had ever seen:

"Interesting anomaly. Prepare Protocol Omega."

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🜂 MINUS HUMAN Vol. I — The Threshold

Jesús Bernal Allende | Escuela del Deber-Optimizar y la Soberanía de la Evidencia

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