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Chapter 275 :First, We Eat

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We ran.

The bridge seemed longer now, stretching ahead of us like a nightmare that wouldn't end. Behind us, the howling grew louder—a symphony of rage and hunger that echoed through the ice canyon like the voice of hell itself.

"How many of them?" Katherine demanded as we sprinted.

"I couldn't get an exact count," Valerius panted. He was running beside me, his earlier weakness apparently burned away by adrenaline and fury. "But the network feeling... it was like being con
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