Chapter 31: The Asset Liquidation
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The central processing lab was dead. The thousands of transparent stasis pods that lined the multi-tiered cavern had completely powered down, their sick, pale-green chemical fluids draining rapidly into the sub-flooring grates in a loud, synchronized gurgle that sounded like a dying beast. The automated lifelines that had bound forty-five thousand lower-block civilians to the Northern Pipeline’s harvesting grid were shattered, their mechanical restraints unlocking with a heavy, metallic clack t
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