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Chapter 77: The Cryogenic Collapse

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last update Date de publication: 2026-05-05 17:52:52

The roar of the vacuum was a physical scream, a thundering pressure that made the very air in Level 150 feel like it was being ripped from Alexander’s lungs. The liquid nitrogen, caught in the inverted pressure of Jax’s sabotage, surged upward in a blinding white wall of frost. It didn't just cool the room; it shattered the physics of the "Hard-Sync."

Alexander felt Silas’s consciousness catch in his neural throat a jagged, orange obstruction that was half-data and half-will. Silas was screamin
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