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Chapter 77— The Sky That Learned to Breathe
Author: Milky-Grip
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At first, the heartbeat was just a sound. A deep, steady pulse rolling through the earth’s crust, faint enough to mistake for thunder or distant artillery.

But within an hour, every seismic sensor on the planet began picking it up synchronized tremors, perfectly spaced, perfectly uniform. No natural fault line had ever moved with such precision.

By the time night fell over the Western hemisphere, the world’s timepieces were keeping rhythm with it. Clocks skipped, then caught the beat. Power grids flickered, then pulsed in unison. And then the sky began to move.

In the command bunker beneath Geneva, Dr. Mara Solheim stared at the global display wall. “Those aren’t just quakes,” she whispered. “They’re patterned. It’s resonance.”

Her second-in-command, Lieutenant Nwosu, wiped sweat from his forehead. “Ma’am, every satellite is feeding the same telemetry. It’s like the planet’s… humming.”

The heartbeat rolled again. Paper shuddered on desks. Coffee cups rattled. The fluorescent lights ov
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