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Chapter 271 : When the Market Freezes
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2026-01-28 11:51:47The Stirling Owl's engines screamed like a wounded animal as we tore through the electromagnetic interference zone surrounding the North Pole.
Through the reinforced cockpit glass, I watched the aurora borealis twist into impossible shapes—not the gentle curtains of green and pink that tourists paid thousands to photograph, but violent spirals of purple and black that seemed to reach down toward us like grasping fingers. The compass on my wrist had given up entirely, its needle spi
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