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Chapter 141
"It is not a lie if they believe it," Ethan said. He set the heavy microphone back on its cradle. "And they must believe it until the first three transports are unloaded. Once we have the desalination units on the piers, it does not matter if they know the sky is empty. The people will have water."Maya stepped forward from the doorway. She looked out the window at the long grey piers stretching into the sea."Will they come?" she asked."They have no choice," Ethan said. He walked over to the corner of the room, where an old iron water bucket sat on a wooden crate. He dipped a tin cup into the murky water, brought it to his mouth, and drank. The water was flat, stale, and smelled of rust. He spat the last mouthful onto the floorboards."They have machines," Ethan said, wiping his chin with the back of his sleeve. "They have doctors. They have metal that does not rust. But they live in a pipe under t
Chapter 140
The dust in the room took a long time to settle. It hung in the yellow morning light like gold powder, floating over the bodies of the divers and the cracked tiles of the floor.David did not move for many minutes. His back was pressed against the cold concrete pillar. His breathing was slow and painful. Every rib on his left side felt bruised, and his fingers were sticky with half-dried blood. But the floor was still. The shaking in the earth had completely stopped.Ethan stood by the open gap where the window used to be. The wind from the ocean smelled of wet salt, burnt plastic, and sulfur. The smell of sulfur was new. It had drifted up from the deep water, carried by the shockwave of the broken volcano."David," Ethan said. He did not turn around. "Can you stand?"David grunted. He pushed his heels into the dust, grabbed the edge of the pillar with his good hand, and hauled himself up. His knees shook, but they held."I can stand," David said. His voice sounded like dry gravel. "I
Chapter 139
Three hundred miles above the Earth, the silence was absolute.The rod of forged tungsten-carbide fell.It was twenty feet long, a foot in diameter, and weighed twelve tons. It had no wings, no fins, and no explosive core. It was a solid, perfect needle of dense metal, hardened with depleted uranium, shaped to slice through the air with zero drag.Gravity pulled it with ruthless, increasing hunger.At seventy miles above the Pacific Ocean, it hit the thin edge of the atmosphere.Friction instantly gripped the metal. The air in front of the falling spear had no time to move out of the way; it compressed into a superheated pocket of plasma. The front tip of the rod began to glow dull red, then cherry red, then a blinding, electric violet.It left a trail of burning air fifty miles long across the night sky.To any ship or satellite watching from above, it looked like a shooting star that did not flicker. It did not curve. It fell straight down, perpendicular to the blue curve of the pla
Chapter 138
A sound like a cracking whip tore through the ruined office.The heavy pneumatic flechette rifle fired. A cluster of razor-sharp steel darts hissed through the air, moving faster than the human eye could follow.Ethan did not flinch, but David did not think. He simply threw his entire body weight forward.David collided with Ethan’s ribs, tackling him sideways off the platform. They crashed hard onto the cold concrete floor behind the executive desk.A millisecond later, the flechettes struck.The solid titanium desk rang like a church bell. The force of the impact dented the three-inch metal plating, sending sparks flying in every direction. The stray darts that missed the desk slammed into the Project Poseidon terminal behind them. The main screen shattered in a shower of liquid crystal and green glass. Wires hissed and popped, spitting blue fire into the smoke."Stay down!" David shouted, his chest heaving, his ears ringing from the deafening blast.Ethan did not shout. He lay on h
Chapter 137
David blinked, his hand freezing over the launch execute button. "What?""The Mariana Trench is a subduction zone," Ethan said, his cold eyes fixed on the bathymetric data displayed beneath the fleet's trajectory. "Directly beneath the fleet is the Daikoku Seamount—an unstable volcanic caldera under four thousand pounds of hydrostatic pressure per square inch. My grandfather didn't plan to shoot the wolves. He planned to collapse the floor beneath their feet."David’s breath hitched in his throat. His eyes darted to the geological cross-section of the seabed.A kinetic rod impacting the weakened basalt cap of a deep-sea volcanic ridge at Mach seven wouldn't just breach the rock. It would trigger an instantaneous, catastrophic hydrothermal eruption—a localized undersea caldera collapse creating a downward vortex of millions of tons of rushing water, followed by an upward magma plume that would boil the o
Chapter 136
Suddenly, a deafening blast tore through the lower levels of Apex Tower.The entire skyscraper shuddered. The massive structural pillars groaned as a violent shockwave traveled up the seventy stories of steel and concrete. Ceiling tiles popped from their tracks, raining white gypsum dust over the executive floor. The crystal chandelier in the corner of the boardroom swung wildly, casting fractured arcs of light across the walls.Red emergency beacons instantly replaced the warm office lighting, bathing the room in a bloody, pulsing glow.Vincent was across the room in a fraction of a second, slapping his hand onto the security terminal by the reinforced elevator bay. "Security team three, report! What was that? Did an electrical transformer blow in the basement?"Static hissed through Vincent’s earpiece, followed by the deafening sound of automatic gunfire, the wet sound of tearing metal, and s
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