Chapter Fifty-Three
Erik’s heart thundered. He wasn’t afraid to die. That came with the job, past and present, but the next few minutes might determine the future of the human race.
The most annoying part was that it was all because a group of arrogant rich people had decided they knew best how to run human society, no matter the cost. They could have spent their lives making the UTC a better place. Instead, they’d ended up reinventing every nasty aspect of corrupt rulership and fanatical ideological zealotry they claimed to stand against.
He didn’t even think this was a case of staring into the darkness until they became the monsters. It was obvious that the Core had always been twisted. The kind of people who justified nuking a city to make the world a better place weren’t very well-a
