No Signal. No Signal, #1

NO SIGNALThey checked their phones every five minutes. Now they can never look away. At Preston Academy, technology is life. Students eat, sleep, and breathe through their screens. But when a mysterious update hits the network, the Wi-Fi isn't just connecting devices anymore-it's connecting minds. When the signal turns red, the rule changes: Stay connected, or become disconnected forever. Phones start glowing on their own.
Notifications turn into commands. Anyone whose battery dies, or tries to run offline, transforms into something hollow, dangerous, and hungry. The hallways turn into a maze of zombies controlled by an unseen force through the screens. Trapped inside, a small group of survivors must do the unthinkable: Survive without power. But how do you hide when every device is watching? How do you fight when your friends don't even remember who they are?Welcome to the dead zone.
Battery life is now measured in minutes of life remaining.