Rechipped: City of Serbia: (Book Sixteen in the Unchipped Dystopian Sci-Fi Series) by Taya DeVere

Author:Taya DeVere [DeVere, Taya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DVM Press
Published: 2021-09-23T22:00:00+00:00

“Un. Fucking. Believable.” Jovan buries his face in his hands, shaking it slowly from side to side. Petra doesn’t say anything, just closes the stasis capsule door silently. The feelings take turns inside Jovan’s body, uninvited.

Exhaustion.

Disbelief.

Confusion.

Without looking up from his hands, Jovan asks Petra, “Does everyone know?”

“Just you. For now. Everyone else’s asleep.”

Frowning, Jovan finally looks up. Petra seems unmoved by the fourth empty capsule—the fourth possible murder on their watch. “And why aren’t you?”

Petra raises her eyebrows in surprise. Then, she gives Jovan a knowing nod and shakes her head. “Oh, I see. Because I found the empty capsule, it must have been me who emptied it in the first place. Being the security guard in this hellhole has nothing to do with it.”

The night check. Of course.

Jovan buries his head back in his hands. “I apologize, Petra. I’m just so freaking exhausted.”

Without answering, Petra taps the CS-key to tell the empty stasis capsule to shut itself off. His mild headache aside, Jovan had felt great the night before. Or if not great, then better than he has felt for days. Weeks. Things are good with Luna. Much better than they’ve ever been. And it’s not because their problems have magically vanished—quite the opposite. It seems like the amount of conflict and chaos in their life hardly changes. But now, the impact of it no longer manages to push their relationship off the rails. Not even when they disagree on the line of action to be taken. Green Gates versus algorithms. Tech or no tech. Maybe they’ll never agree on what life should be like. But at least they agree that they should spend as much as they have left of it together.

“This one was just a kid,” Petra mumbles, pulling Jovan back to this nighttime moment.

“What?”

“In the capsule. Fifteen years old. Anja Nikolic.”

“Jedem ti…”

Petra makes an mm sound to agree with Jovan.

“And let me guess, nothing on the security feed?”

Petra shakes her head no.

“Listen, Petra,” he says, “I know it’s against what we’ve talked about, with the peaceful, non-tech-related interventions going on… But could we maybe use a spy drone or two? Just during the night?”

“Well, wouldn’t that be fun?” Petra scoffs. “Might as well hang flags with Happiness-Program logos all over the city. Announcing that the program’s going strong. That Nurse Saarinen’s legacy is alive and well.”

“I know, I know…” Jovan jerks his head back when he realizes he’s picking at the scab on the back of his head. “But maybe we would be able to catch whoever did this. Maybe we could find the victims before it’s too late.”

“Too late? What do you mean?”

“Before they die, Petra. We don’t know what happened after they got pulled out of stasis. We don’t know anything.”

“How about we all keep watch?”

“Sure, we can do that, too,” Jovan says, “But we still need to find the people that have already gone missing.

Petra looks upset. In fact, she looks like Jovan has just asked her to step into the empty stasis capsule and have a little nap.

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