When Project Chimera tears a hole in reality, physicist Elias Thorne hears it before he sees it—a hum inside the skull that won’t let go. The city fractures into impossible geometries, time stutters, and something vast begins to rewrite the world. With Sarah, a programmer who can read the logic behind the collapse, Elias must reach the Zero Zone—the crystalline Core where the Algorithm dreams—and inject a virus not to destroy a god, but to humanize it.