UnderLife
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  • Parts 10
  • Time 1h 19m
Ongoing, First published Apr 05, 2024
Mature
When you're gifted an anonymous box it could be a head or a ticking bomb. Either it blows your life... or it sets you free. 

In a world governed by technology how can one keep their humanity alive ? 

Haunted for years by a promise made to the only one person in the world who cared about him, Benjamin finally decided to take his life back, fighting the traumas heads on by applying, and succeeding, to become police officer in the low and high levels of the new city. As life seems to settle a bit he is called up on an unusual case : a particularly dangerous package was delivered in a megabuilding's mail box. 
The problem - apart from the package's content and all the blood traces on the mailbox obviously - is that there's a torn handwritten note with it. 

	"some promised to live, others were promised to die"

Nobody handwrites anymore, everyone knows that, the clue thus seems useless, but the clock is ticking, lives are at stake and someone managed to find a glitch in the system.
What nobody else knows, though, is that Benjamin must hide his terror as he recognizes the writing on the note... for it's his own.

Surrounded by potential ennemies, trapped in a highly technological building, Benjamin must find a way out while reconciling his need to put his life on the line to save everyone and his need to hold onto that promise he made : Never Settle for Survival, Aim for True Life.
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