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Chapter 66: The Weight On Her Shoulders

作者: Crown Imagination
last update 公開日: 2026-06-23 10:58:10

For a long moment, Natasha did not move.

The laboratory remained silent around her, but the silence was not empty. It was full of everything Elias had just said, full of every discovery that had slowly gathered around her like a storm.

The serum was not only inside her.

It had become part of her.

Her parents had not simply created a cure. They had created something that could survive the same biological force that destroyed the world.

They had created a survivor.

And somehow, that survivo
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