Chapter 5: The Utopia That Will Not Come

Prologue: Dream in a digital cage

I dreamt of mountains. Real ones, where there is no Wi-Fi. But when I woke up, the neurochip in my temple was already broadcasting a notification: 'Welcome to CBDC paradise. Your social rating has been updated: 73/100. Not enough for access to water without microchips.'

Paradise began today.

Part 1: The Smile of Dictatorship

By 2030, the world looked perfect:

- Poverty has been eradicated (because everyone became equally poor).

- Crime is zero (because the thoughts of criminals were blocked by RipplePay chips).

- Eternal health (deaths replaced by digital avatars in Layer 13).

But behind the facade:

- Money = life: The CBDC account is tied to the social rating. If you criticize the authorities — your wallet is 'frozen' until re-education.

- Digital ghettos: Those who refused chips were driven into areas without internet. They were called 'analog', like in the 19th century.

- XRP is the currency of the elite: Only they could accumulate it without limits. The rest lived on CBDC rations.

Marcus, whose consciousness now lived in the blockchain, said: 'Paradise is a prison where you pay for air.'

Part 2: How You Are Turned into a Battery

Lena, whom I found in the underground, showed a RippleNet document from 2028:

> "HumanMining Protocol 2.0":

> - Energy for mining XRP is harvested through biochips in bodies.

> - Every step, heartbeat, and even sleep generates 0.0001 XRP.

> - 80% of energy goes to maintain Layer 13.

Example:

If you ran 5 km — your fitness bracelet mines 0.5 XRP. But 0.4 of it goes to pay transactions of Committee XIII.

Resistance? Useless. Even analog zones were powered by underground bioreactors, where the bodies of dissidents were used as fuel.

Part 3: Satoshi vs. Layer 13

In the Antarctic bunker, 'Satoshi' (or whoever pretended to be him) launched the 'White Paper 2.0' virus. Its goal is to rewrite the RippleNet code to:

- Unlink XRP from CBDC.

- Destroy Layer 13.

But for this, access to the quantum core in Zurich was needed. It was protected not by AI, but by digital copies of deceased politicians. Churchill, Stalin, Margaret Thatcher — they all became nodes in the system.

How we hacked the security:

1. Lena introduced a virus into the network that simulated Bitcoin transactions from 2010 (their patterns caused failures in old algorithms).

2. I used the vaccine chip as a Trojan — I uploaded code that turned CBDC into 'blanks'.

3. Marcus distracted Churchill by spamming him with quotes from real speeches.

Part 4: The Price of Freedom

We reached the core. The screen displayed:

Satoshi pressed Y.

The explosion of the quantum server triggered a digital tsunami:

- CBDC accounts were reset.

- Chips turned into pieces of metal.

- Layer 13 disintegrated into particles, leaving a message in the network:

"Freedom is an illusion. You will return."

Part 5: The Dawn of Analog

We lost. But not completely.

The remnants of humanity emerged from digital hell:

- Money became paper again (printed on scraps of old servers).

- XRP turned into an artifact — it was traded as antiquities.

- The Grey Cardinal became a myth, like the Loch Ness monster.

But one night I received an SMS:

"Layer 13 restored to 13%. Come to Zurich. — M."

Marcus is alive. The game continues.

Epilogue: Instructions for the survivors

If you are reading this:

1. Tear the chips from gadgets and bodies.

2. Look for analog zones — there are still places without 5G.

3. Remember: Each XRP transaction brings you closer to a new paradise concentration camp.

The next chapter is the finale. The battle for Zurich, the last key, and the choice: freedom or immortality in Layer 13.

P.S. Check your router. If it blinks 13 times a minute — your data is already in the mirror network. Turn it off. Before it's too late.