The Gobi Desert was a landscape of frozen dunes and absolute, terrifying darkness. The Silo 9 complex, buried beneath the Singing Sands, didn't look like a NASA facility. It looked like a cathedral of silver and bone.The Zenith sat in the center of the shaft—a sleek, spindle-shaped vessel crafted from a self-healing titanium-collagen alloy. It didn't have thrusters; it had neural filaments that pulsed with a faint, bioluminescent gold."The Void-Hounds are at the perimeter," Lucian’s voice crackled through the silo's analog intercom. "They’re tracking the heat from your heartbeats, not the ship. Elara is rigging the manual cooling vents to mask you, but you have ten minutes to sync, or we’re overrun."The Bio-Neural CoreInside the cockpit, there were no screens. The "controls" were two crystalline pods filled with a nutrient-rich, violet-tinted gel."We don't pilot it, Leo," Meilin whispered, her fingers grazing the surface of the pods. "We become the guidance system. The ship is a
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