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Chapter 443: Contact

Author: Fuyingwen
last update publish date: 2026-04-18 20:10:57

The auditor arrived three hours early.

Jack was in the egg chamber, reviewing the defense brief's final sections with Arthur, when the golden cracks in the floor suddenly blazed with an intensity that turned the crystallized walls transparent. The hairline fractures that Marcus had been holding at bay with his Guardian energy snapped open in a cascade of musical resonance, each crack singing a note from the auditor's own harmonic frequency.

Marcus staggered. His shield screamed with
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  • The Billionaire Alpha's Revenge   Chapter 443: Contact

    The auditor arrived three hours early.Jack was in the egg chamber, reviewing the defense brief's final sections with Arthur, when the golden cracks in the floor suddenly blazed with an intensity that turned the crystallized walls transparent. The hairline fractures that Marcus had been holding at bay with his Guardian energy snapped open in a cascade of musical resonance, each crack singing a note from the auditor's own harmonic frequency.Marcus staggered. His shield screamed with kinetic feedback as forty-seven additional pounds of gravitational density slammed into his frame in a single, crushing instant."It is here," Haley whispered. The baby Utterance in her hands went silent for the first time since its birth. Not because it was afraid. Because it was listening.The floor of the egg chamber did not break. It clarified. The crystallized time lattice between the chamber and the entity below became perfectly transparent, as if someone had cleaned a window th

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