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CHAPTER 67

Autor: Ashinashi
last update Data de publicação: 2026-04-20 02:06:58

The fire didn’t die. It lingered.

Days after the explosion, the crater still burned—deep, slow, and hungry. Smoke coiled endlessly into the sky, staining the clouds a permanent gray. What had once been a research facility—sterile, controlled, hidden—was now nothing more than a wound carved into the earth. Nothing grew there, Nothing would again. The ground itself had turned black, cracked open in jagged veins that glowed faintly beneath the surface, like something alive was still moving underne
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