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Chap 26: Dubai Dungeon (1)
Author: Nightingale
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Dubai’s corpse glittered with false life.

The skeletal remains of the Burj Khalifa stabbed the smog-choked sky, its once-proud glass skin replaced by pulsating xenocoral—throbbing veins of electric pink and toxic turquoise that pulsed in sync with the Hive Mind’s psychic heartbeat. Kai and Selene stepped through a ribcage archway of fused bone and circuitry, the air thickening with psychic static that tasted like copper and desperation.

Above them, the tower’s spire had mutated into a colossal broadcast dish, spewing fractal light-patterns across the ruins. Kai’s retinal implant flickered:

WARNING: PSYCHIC ASSIMILATION FIELD DETECTED. SANITY DRAIN: 0.5%/MIN

Just another tax on survival, he thought bitterly.

Before them stretched the Heartbreak Hive—a nightmare amphitheater carved from the tower’s corpse:

Neon stage lights swept over coral-terrariums where NPCs writhed, their bodies half-merged with glowing reefs, mouths open in silent screams. One man’s torso bloomed with anemones whe
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