The massive, pristine white-and-gold airlock doors of the Ark didn't groan or screech like the rusted iron of the wasteland. They opened with a perfectly calibrated, silent pneumatic hiss, releasing a wave of sterile, artificially chilled, pine-scented air into the ash and smoke of the crater.Dax stood at the threshold, his heavy boots sinking into the vitrified glass. Behind him, thousands of heavily armed, battered, and exhausted survivors of the Open World waited in dead silence.I stood beside him, my data-deck dead, but the Origin-Code still humming faintly in my blood. Tank, Reaper, Sienna, Jax, and Captain Reyes fanned out behind us, weapons raised."We don't need the whole army inside," Dax said, his voice low but carrying absolute authority. "Just the pack. Reyes, Jax... you're with us."We stepped over the threshold.Entering Neo-Angeles was like stepping into a sterilized hallucination. The interior of the five-mile-wide sphere wasn't a military bunker; it was a paradise b
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