All Chapters of THE SILENT LUNA’S REVENGE: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

The air inside Vault B was not air anymore. It was knives.Ten freezers stood in a circle, humming low like sleeping beasts. Ten people inside, standing upright, eyes closed, hands frozen at their sides. Frost covered their hair, their eyelashes. They looked like statues carved from winter itself.Serena did not move from freezer number one.Her father's face was peaceful. Too peaceful. He had not aged a day since 2010. The blue shirt was still crisp. The watch on his wrist was still ticking faintly under the ice. That small ticking sound broke her heart more than anything.Julian was still holding her from behind. He could feel her shaking through her thick sweater. He did not rush her. He knew this was the moment her whole life had been leading to.Behind them, the red button on the steel table continued to blink.*PROJECT LUNA - PHASE TWO - PRESS TO ERASE ALL*Director Zhao was walking slowly around the room, his old knees cracking with every step. He wiped frost from each nameplat

White fog swallowed Vault B.It was so thick, so cold, you couldn't see your own hands. The temperature alarm screamed. The nitrogen tanks hissed like snakes above them.Ten emergency seals had been cracked at once.Julian's hands were frozen to the metal of Adam's freezer. The skin on his palms was burning. He didn't let go. He pulled.The glass door moved. Just an inch. Then another inch. Ice cracked inside like broken glass."Pull!" he roared.Serena was beside him, both hands on the same door, crying, pulling with everything she had. The fog was in her lungs. In her eyes. But she didn't stop.Behind them, ten soldiers were doing the same. Ten doors. Ten people inside.Marcus had freezer number four. He put his shoulder against it and pushed his whole body weight. "It's stuck! The ice is holding it!"Director Zhao was shouting, "Warm water! Pour warm water on the hinges! Now!"Medical team ran in with buckets of warm saline Dr. Chen told them to prepare. They poured it on the seals

The SUV ride back from the airstrip was silent. Victoria Vance sat in the back seat, hands cuffed in front of her, white coat stained with dirt from the tarmac. She wasn't crying anymore. She was staring out the window at the pine trees blurring past. Her son Ethan was in the other SUV, alone. Julian sat opposite her, gun on his lap, phone buzzing nonstop. Zhao Li was driving fast. "You should have let me go, Julian," Victoria said quietly, not looking at him. "Serena doesn't know what her father is. Adam was not the saint she thinks he was." Julian didn't look up from his phone. "Save it for interrogation." "You think you won because you thawed him?" She laughed, a dry laugh. "Project Luna was not about saving lives. It was about creating them. Ask Director Zhao. He knows." Julian finally looked at her. "What do you mean creating them?" Victoria turned and smiled. Her lipstick was still perfect. "Serena was never born, Julian. She was made." --- Vault B was no longer cold.

The flatline scream filled Victoria's office.Serena's hands went numb. The tablet slipped from her fingers and clattered onto the black desk. On the screen, Adam's heart line was flat. Straight. No beep. No rise."No," she whispered. "No no noJulian was already on his radio, shouting. "Vault B, respond! What happened to Adam Crestwood?! His monitor just flatlined! I need eyes on him now!"Static. Then Marcus's voice, panting, panicked. "Boss! He stood up! He ripped the IV out! He said he had to find Serena! We tried to stop him—"The door to the office burst open.Adam Crestwood stood there.Barefoot. Wet hospital gown clinging to his thin body. Hair still damp, dripping onto the floor. An oxygen tube hanging loose around his neck, not on his face. Two soldiers behind him trying to hold his arms but not daring to hurt him.He was breathing. Hard. Chest heaving. Eyes wild, looking for one person."Serena!"Serena ran. She crossed the room in three steps and crashed into him. She hugg

The hum didn't start loud. It started like a toothache in the floor.hmmVictoria's water glass shivered. A small ripple in it. Then the glass rattled against the black desk.Serena felt it through her bare feet first. She was still in wet socks from Vault B, standing in Victoria's office on the 40th floor, and the floor was vibrating.11:48 PM.Julian's radio cracked."Boss! Boss, you need to hear this!" Marcus was breathing hard, you could hear concrete grinding behind him like teeth. "The floor in Vault B! The floor cracked! There's a line, boss, a perfect steel line we never saw before under the ice! It's a hatch! It's opening by itself!"Julian pressed the radio to his mouth. "How big?""Big enough for a truck! Cold air is pouring out! It's minus— my thermometer just died! It's too cold!"On the stretcher, Subject 07 — Sol — sat bolt upright. His pale blue eyes went huge."No," he whispered. "No, no, no. She said she wouldn't. She said she sealed it."Serena turned to him. "What