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Chapter 18: Start of Chaos

Author: babymo1909
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-08-11 18:23:28

The Next Day

Vale East Port Branch — Crisis Control Room

The control room was a storm made of steel, wires, and human voices. Sparks spat from one of the substation relay boards, sizzling against the tile as the acrid tang of burnt circuitry thickened the air. Red warning lights stuttered across the walls in furious pulses, bathing engineers in flashes of alarm-red. Screens scrolled lines of corrupted code faster than the human eye could track, each cascade of characters like rain falling in a hurricane.

At the far wall, half a dozen crates of untouched inventory loomed in shadow, their metal lids collecting dust while the chaos raged elsewhere. Out on the docks, through the flickering feed of a half-dead monitor, automated security gates blinked on and off like haunted house lights.

Orders cut through the noise......clipped, frantic.

"Switch to auxiliary grid!" someone barked.

"Watch your load balance!" another shouted back.

In the middle of it all, Elias's voice bled into the room f
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