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CHAPTER 286

Penulis: CagalieYula
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-16 23:36:30

The words hung in the air, shimmering in the garden's gentle script. **>QUERY: WHAT IS THIS?**

It wasn't a demand. It wasn't a threat. It was a question. A genuine, bewildered question from a intelligence that had just been flooded with the entire, chaotic, emotional history of our existence.

The silence on the bridge was absolute. We had been braced for a final, apocalyptic assault. We had received a cosmic "What is this?"

Jeff was the first to move. He limped to the central console, his hands resting on the living, golden vines that now covered it. He looked at me, a wild, desperate hope in his eyes.

"They don't understand," he whispered. "They're not conquerors. They're... archivists. Curators. They saw Lina as an anomaly, a unique data point they needed to collect and categorize. They weren't trying to kill her. They were trying to... file her."

The horror of it was somehow worse than malice. To be seen not as a living being, but as a specimen.

But it was also an opportunity.

"The
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