All Chapters of The Miracle Doctor : Chapter 171
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Chapter 170
The tremor rippled upward through the city like a warning pulse.Ethan felt it beneath his boots as the core chamber shook, lights stuttering in sharp bursts. Data streams flared from soft blue to urgent red, alarms layering over one another until the sound became almost physical pressing against his chest.Korrin stood perfectly still amid the chaos, eyes bright.“You see?” he said calmly. “Refusal is still a decision.”Ethan braced himself against the console as another shockwave rolled through the chamber. “You’re destabilizing the city.”Korrin laughed softly. “No. I’m revealing what you built on.”Inside the network, Jonah felt the rupture spread.This was the moment he had always calculated and always avoided.He expanded,just enough.Old constraints dissolved,systems responded instantly, eager, almost relieved,emergency protocols long sealed away unlocked at his command.Ethan,the core is entering cascade failure whispered Jonah into Ethan's hearing.“I know,” Ethan replied, vo
Chapter 171
Morning came to Braxton City like a cautious guest.The sun rose slowly, its light slipping between towers scarred by smoke and shattered glass,emergency drones still hovered in the air, their soft hum replacing the constant mechanical rhythm the city had lived with for years. The streets were crowded,not with panic, but with people standing still, talking quietly, trying to understand what had happened and what came next.For the first time in a long while, the city felt human.Ethan stood on the balcony of the temporary command center, watching it all unfold,he hadn’t slept. Every time he closed his eyes, he saw the core collapsing, felt the lift shuddering upward, heard Jonah’s calm voice fading into silence.Leanna joined him, two cups of steaming tea in her hands.“You look like you’re carrying the entire skyline on your shoulders,” she said gently, handing him one.He took it, fingers brushing hers. “Feels like I dropped it… and somehow it didn’t crush everyone.”She leaned agai
Chapter 172
The night after the fall did not bring silence.Braxton City had always been loud,machines humming, systems clicking, towers whispering to one another through hidden networks,now the noise was different,human,uneven,and more alive than it had been in a while.Ethan walked through the lower district as dawn crept in again, this time without guards, without escorts, without the invisible weight of authority pressing on his back,people recognized him,some nodded,some stared,a few whispered his name as if saying it out loud might change what it meant.He let them look.For years, his name had been a rumor, a weapon, a symbol,now it had to become something simpler.A man.The undercity entrance was no longer sealed.Barricades had been pushed aside, and makeshift lamps lined the tunnel walls,volunteers moved in and out, carrying supplies, food, medical kits. The undercity once ignored, once hidden was finally visible.Ethan stopped beside an elderly woman handing out water.“You don’t belo
Chapter 173
Braxton City did not collapse all at once.It fractured quietly.Ethan noticed it in small things first,the way meetings stretched longer without resolution, the way people spoke over one another with rising frustration, the way old fears resurfaced now that the old enemy was gone.Freedom was heavier than chains.The public forum had once been a ceremonial space, used only when the council wanted to pretend it listened,now it was overflowing.Citizens stood on makeshift platforms, voices raw with anger, hope, confusion.“We need structure!” one man shouted.“We need time!” another woman countered.“No more elites deciding for us!”Ethan stood at the edge, refusing the central podium,when someone recognized him and tried to push him forward, he shook his head.“Let them speak,” he said. “They’ve waited long enough.”Leanna watched him from across the hall, recognizing the quiet strength in restraint. Leadership, she realized, wasn’t about commanding the room,it was about not owning it
Chapter 174
Fear did not announce itself.It seeped in, quiet and patient, settling into the cracks that were already within Braxton city. Braxton City woke that morning uneasy, as if the ground beneath it had shifted just enough for everyone to feel it,but not enough to see why.Ethan felt it the moment he stepped outside.People were still moving, still talking, but their voices were lower,their eyes lingered longer on strangers. Trust, once broken, was not easily rebuilt.By midmorning, three more symbols appeared across the city.On a transit hub wall,on the side of a food distribution center,and one etched into the glass of a decommissioned council tower.The same broken circle,no slogans,no demands,just the mark.Ethan stood with Leanna as analysts projected the locations onto a map. The points formed no obvious pattern,except that all of them were places where people gathered.“They want to be seen,” Leanna said quietly.“And remembered,” Ethan added. “Before they speak.”The city’s inform
Chapter 175
Braxton City woke to a voice it did not recognize.It came through cracked speakers, personal comms, and unauthorized broadcast channels, interrupting music, news feeds, even emergency frequencies. There was no warning, no visual feed at first,just a voice,calm,confident, and measured.“Citizens of Braxton City,” the voice said. “I know you are afraid.”Across the city, people froze.“I know you were promised freedom and given uncertainty,you were told chaos would become choice,instead, it has become confusion.”The feed flickered, and a figure appeared,his face half-lit, features intentionally softened by shadow.“I am not here to rule you,” the man continued. “I am here to restore balance.”Ethan stood rigid in the operations center, eyes locked on the screen.Leanna whispered, “That’s him.”Not Korrin,someone else.The speaker paused, as if letting the silence work for him.“You may call me Aurelian,” he said. “A voice among many,but one willing to speak when others hesitate.”The
Chapter 176
Ethan stood at the highest observation deck of Braxton Tower as dawn spread across the city,the skyline looked the same, but he knew better,something fundamental had shifted.The city was listening to someone else now.Below, groups gathered,not in anger, not in protest, but in discussion, and that worried him more,rage burned fast and died quickly. Thoughtful doubt lingered.Leanna joined him, holding a data slate thick with reports.“Overnight sentiment analysis is worse than we thought,” she said quietly.Ethan didn’t turn. “How bad?”“Forty percent of the city sees Aurelian as a stabilizing figure,another twenty are undecided but leaning toward him.”“And us?”Leanna hesitated. “They don’t see us as leaders anymore,they see us as… an experiment.”Ethan closed his eyes briefly.Freedom always looked like chaos before it looked like progress.By midmorning, the first public break happened.Councilor Halvek,one of the few remaining officials with real influence held a press briefing.
Chapter 177
The storm did not arrive all at once.It rolled in slowly, layer by layer, until the sky above Braxton City became a heavy ceiling of dark clouds pressing down on every street and tower,wind threaded through broken alleys and open plazas, carrying voices, arguments, and unresolved fears. Thunder followed like a warning no one could ignore.Ethan stood by the tall glass windows of Braxton Tower, watching the clouds gather,for the first time since the fall of the system, he felt something close to helplessness,not because he lacked power, but because he refused to take it back.Power, once tasted, always begged to be used.Inside the operations wing, tension filled the air like static before a lightning strike,engineers monitored failing nodes,coordinators argued quietly over response plans,volunteers moved between stations with exhaustion written into their posture.Leanna stepped into the room, her presence instantly steadying the chaos. She carried no weapon, no badge of authority,on
Chapter 178
The city woke under a fragile calm.Braxton City looked whole from a distance,lights steady, streets moving, systems humming at a careful, repaired pace. But beneath the surface, tension pulled tight like a wire ready to snap,the night’s crisis had passed, yet it left behind something more dangerous than fear.Awareness.People now knew how close the city had come to falling apart again,and they knew who had stood among them when it mattered,that knowledge changed everything.Leanna felt it before she heard it.As she walked through the eastern medical district, people looked at her differently,nurses nodded with respect,patients reached out to touch her sleeve, to thank her, to ask questions she had no easy answers for.“You didn’t leave,” an elderly man said softly as she adjusted his bandage. “You stayed.”She smiled gently. “So did you.”But the words followed her everywhere.Leanna was there.Leanna helped us.Leanna knows what she’s doing.By midday, informal networks were alrea
Chapter 179
Braxton City was quiet in the hours just before dawn.Not silent,never silent,but calm enough that the usual hum of the city seemed distant, almost contemplative,the night had stretched long, carrying whispers of unrest, rumors of influence, and the invisible pressure of fear. Ethan stood alone in the highest observation deck of Braxton Tower, eyes scanning the sleeping city below. The lights twinkled like scattered stars, but he could see the fractures beneath,the lines of tension running through neighborhoods, through families, through hearts.And in the shadows, Korrin’s trap was waiting.Ethan’s mind replayed the events of the past days like fractured mirrors.Leanna had gone,not taken violently, not stolen, but chosen to face the unknown herself. The message Korrin had sent wasn’t just a warning,it was a challenge, a psychological gambit designed to pull at the core of Ethan’s being,the part that loved, the part that believed he could protect everything.He clenched his fists,pro