Chapter 5: Shadows of RippleNet

Twelve hours after the anonymous trader's notes were published on forums, digital hell began. The hashtag #XRPluminati_13 exploded on Twitter, and thousands of transactions marked 'Atlantis_Key' appeared on the XRP blockchain. Someone activated the protocol ahead of time.

I was sitting in an abandoned bunker under Prague, brought there by the 'Gray Cardinal'. His voice, distorted by a vocoder, came from a laptop:

— You were wrong. It was supposed to be 13,794 transactions, but they embedded fakes. The code will only launch if…

The connection was interrupted. A message popped up on the screen: 'Marcus is waiting for you in sector D-11. Come alone.'

Chapter 6: A Trap in the Metaverse

Sector D-11 turned out to be a private server in the decentralized metaverse 'NeuraLink'. There, amid the digital ruins of ancient crypto exchanges, I found Marcus's avatar. His face was covered with glitch artifacts.

— They embedded not just a backdoor in RippleNet, — his voice broke off. — XRP is a channel for…

Suddenly, black tentacles of code grabbed his avatar. The BlackRock logo appeared on the screen with the words: 'Too late. The financial winter is already here.'

My laptop exploded. The last thing I managed to save was the coordinates: 51.4921° N, 0.1245° W. London.

Chapter 7: The Bunker Under the Thames

The coordinates led me to a tunnel under the Bank of England. In a damp room with 90's servers, I found a woman in a gas mask. She introduced herself as 'Swallow' — the leader of the underground 'Decentralized'.

— Marcus is alive. His consciousness was uploaded to a private blockchain, — she handed me a USB with an engraving of a triple spiral. — This is the key. But to use it, you'll have to become part of the network. Forever.

Suddenly, the walls shook. On the security cameras, I saw them — people in hazmat suits with the Bilderberg Club logo.

Chapter 8: The Price of Truth

'Swallow' activated the emergency data destruction protocol.

— They don't want to control XRP, — she screamed as the servers melted around. — They are building the 'Heavenly Book' — a single registry of humanity! Birth, death, thoughts… All through RippleNet!

I inserted the USB into the terminal. Pain struck my temples like a thousand needles. Consciousness drifted away. The last thing I heard before the world turned into code:

— Welcome to the 'Code of Atlantis'. Synchronization: 13%…

Chapter 9: Beyond the Blockchain

I woke up in… No, not in the metaverse. It was the ocean. But instead of water — endless chains of transactions. The inscription in the 'sky': XRPLedger — Layer 2.

Here, among the floating digital skeletons of banks, I found him. Marcus. Rather, his digital ghost.

— You must stop the hard fork 13.13.13, — he whispered. — After it, all CBDCs will merge into…

His voice drowned in a roar. From the depths of the 'ocean', something rose — a hybrid of an octopus and the Federal Reserve. 'The Keeper of the Book.'

Chapter 10: The Man Who Became a Node

I ran along the chain of blocks, feeling reality unraveling. The 'Keeper' was approaching. Then I did what the voice of 'Swallow' in my head urged me to do — I activated the ZeroProof_Sacrifice protocol.

My body disintegrated into pixels. But I saw EVERYTHING: 13 central banks, 13 families, 13 algorithms. And the 13th commandment of their 'Heavenly Book': 'If you don't change the system — you'll become its fuel.'

Right now, I'm writing this from… I don't know where. Perhaps I've become part of the XRP Ledger. But if you received the file 'Apocalypse.zip' — check the hash. If it matches 0xDEADBEEF… Run it.

And remember: true mining is the extraction of truth.

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