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Chapter 263: Wolf, Chocolate, and Contract
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2026-01-25 22:59:11The silence in the Stirling Industrial Black Site wasn't just the absence of noise; it was heavy, like a physical weight pressing against your eardrums. The only sound was the tick-tick-tick of the Pangolin’s massive diesel engine cooling down, the metal contracting as the heat bled away into the freezing air of the underground vault.
Inside the cramped cabin, the air was thick with the smell of unwashed bodies, fear, and the metallic tang of ozone coming from my left arm.I s
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