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Chapter 80: The Return of the Zero
Author: Author Melody
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The Hanhai pavement felt harder than I remembered. It wasn’t the cold, calculated hardness of a digital construct; it was just concrete. Filthy, sun-baked, mortal concrete. I stood there, my breath coming in ragged, shallow gasps, my lungs burning with the thick, unrefined air of the lower world.

The gold-coin rain was still clattering around us, a multi-trillion dollar funeral for my divinity.

"Mr. Qin Ming?" the Void-Bank clerk repeated, his voice dripping with a rehearsed, synthetic pity. H
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