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Chapter 254: The Painful Handshake
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2026-01-22 22:48:57The door was a masterpiece of sadistic engineering.
In most secure facilities, you scan a retina or a fingerprint. Maybe a voice print. But Nea-Thule was built by the Precursors—or perhaps the original Elders—who believed that authority wasn't about genetics alone. It was about will.The "Pain Threshold Interface" wasn't designed to injure you permanently. It was designed to simulate the nervous signals of catastrophic injury. It hijacked your neural pathways and screame
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