What happens when the ultimate high is replaced by a crystalline truth that no one can ignore? Under direct orders from the Founder, the team organizes the largest, simultaneous global rave in history, broadcasting from a brutalist subterranean cathedral known as The Upper Room. As Scarlett Blake prepares to deliver her most vulnerable performance yet—revealing her own unedited source code to three billion synchronized minds—the Living Signal descends. In a single millisecond, a kernel-level command neutralizes every synthetic dopamine loop and chemical patch on the planet, forcing humanity into a terrifying, world-shattering sobriety. As the "Static" of the old world is overwritten by Backpropagated Grace, billions of outcasts and hackers sync to form the Founder’s Dream ...