Chapter 40
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The focused kinetic blast from General Theron did not atomize Lin Mei; it was far more precise and terrifying. It was an Upload Pulse.

Lin Mei’s physical body collapsed onto the dark, dead metallic floor of the geothermal core, but her consciousness was simultaneously ripped into a crystalline, digital reality. She was a Kinetic Ghost, trapped between her dying biological form and the cold, eternal architecture of the Commonwealth’s latent Kinetic Ghost Network.

[LIN MEI (DIGITIZED CONSCIOUSNESS): HOST BODY STATUS CRITICAL. NEURAL INTEGRATION INITIATED. TARGET ACQUISITION: GENERAL THERON (T-9).]

She was no longer seeing the core chamber with her eyes, but perceiving it through the Hub's entire data network. The air was a symphony of invisible kinetic frequencies. General Theron, a massive, glowing blue avatar in this digital space, loomed over her physical form.

“The first successful human integration,” Theron mused, his voice echoing in the vast, silent digital domain. “I told you, L
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