Last Light Protocol

At 3:17 a.m., every police radio in the city turned on simultaneously. No emergency call.

Just one sentence repeating on every frequency. Do not trust what you see at sunrise.

Lieutenant Rios and his unit patrolled empty streets. No civilians. No traffic.

No noise. Traffic lights frozen on red. Security cameras showed something

impossible. The city was moving without people. Shadows crossed intersections with

no bodies attached. Doors opened before officers touched them. Inside an abandoned

station, they found a classified file labeled LAST LIGHT PROTOCOL. It warned that the

end wouldn't come with fire or chaos, but with silence. As the sun began to rise,