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CHAPTER 75 : Hostile Takeover
Several days later,The early hours of Manhattan were usually the quietest time of day. Not this time. The sky above the Empire State Building split open with streaks of orange light.It was not the glow of dawn but the friction of atmosphere as the Proxima Consortium’s landing ships tore through the skies over New York City.Air raid sirens wailed across the city, triggering a level of mass panic unseen since 9/11.Inside the War Room of Monolith ARC Tower, Matthew Thomas gripped the edge of a glass table until his knuckles turned white. The golden patterns beneath his skin had spread up his neck, pulsing in rhythm with his irregular heartbeat.“They’re here faster than predicted." Caleb’s voice broke as his fingers trembled over the virtual keyboard. “Mr. Thomas, three Vanguard-class destroyers are directly above Central Park. They’ve locked onto this building’s coordinates.”“
CHAPTER 74 : The Earth Initial Public Offering
Suddenly, the room trembled violently. A forced transmission overrode the galactic market display. Julian Vance’s face appeared on the holographic screen. This time, he was no longer in a pristine white room. Behind him was the interior of a massive mothership, filled with pulsing organic technology.“Matthew Thomas.” Julian spat the name as if it were poison. “You’ve crossed the line. Interfering with the galactic exchange is illegal for a Class Four species like yours.”“Illegal?” Matthew laughed coldly, his voice echoing through the room. “I just read the Pan-Galactic Exchange regulations, Julian. Article 404, Section B. ‘Any civilization capable of independently accessing the encryption key is granted provisional economic sovereignty.’ I have the key. I have access. And now, I have the market.”“You’re only accelerating your own destruction!” Julian shouted. “I’ve deployed every asset of the Proxima Consortium to crush your planet’s valuation into the negative. No investor will to
CHAPTER 73 : Staring Into the Abyss
That night, Manhattan was never truly dark. A golden light radiating from the peak of Monolith ARC Tower could be seen from hundreds of miles away, leaving the people of New York wondering whether they were witnessing the end of the world or a miracle unfolding.Deep within the most secret underground server chamber, Matthew Thomas sat before the main console. He no longer needed a wheelchair, but he was now physically connected to the ARC system through a permanent neural link embedded in his spine.“Are you ready to see what lies behind the curtain?” Matthew asked. His voice was calm, almost unsettling in its stillness.Viviane Lane, Caleb Foster, Veronica Wu, and Hector Alvarez stood behind him. They looked like attendants to a king about to be crowned, or perhaps witnesses to a man about to sell the world.“What happens if you plug that key in, Mr. Thomas?” Veronica asked. “Will they know we’re here?”“They already know,” Matthew replied without emotion. “The moment this key activ
CHAPTER 72 : Battle in Zero Gravity
The lunar dust thrown into the air by the explosion had not yet settled when the alarms inside Hector’s tactical helmet screamed hysterically. Above the shattered Tycho Crater, the black sky, usually silent, was now filled with the streaks of thruster fire.“Commander, we’re locked on. Four Archon pursuit units just emerged from the crater’s shadow,” Sergeant Miller shouted over the radio. His voice cracked with electromagnetic interference.Hector looked up. There they were. Four interceptor craft belonging to the remnants of Archon, the traitorous human faction that had sold their souls to Julian Vance, dive like vultures.They were not drones, but the most unhinged combat pilots alive, armed with smuggled alien technology.“Do not panic. Use low gravity as your ally,” Hector replied, gripping the golden cylinder in his left hand while his right aimed the coilg
CHAPTER 71 : Operation Eclipse
Meanwhile, in outer space,A deadly silence blanketed lunar orbit, a stark contrast to the chaos that had just consumed the trading floors in New York.On the eternal darkness of the Moon’s far side, a sleek metallic silhouette, nearly invisible to radar, glided with the elegance of a predator.The spacecraft was Astra-V, the most expensive tactical transport ever built by humanity, a trillion-dollar masterpiece from Lane Corp. whose existence was unknown even to the Pentagon.Inside the command deck, lit by dim red light, Hector adjusted the harness of his tactical seat. The former elite unit commander looked like a steel monster in matte black exoskeleton armor fused to his body.“One minute to the drop point,” Caleb’s voice echoed through the encrypted comm channel, transmitted directly from Monolith ARC Tower in Manhattan. “Hector, are you receiving the topographical data from ARC?”Hector grinned, revealing the thin scar across his left eyebrow. “Loud and clear, Four-Eyes. I can
CHAPTER 70 : The Bear Raid
The next day,That morning in Lower Manhattan, the sky showed no trace of the sun. Thick black clouds hung low, as if the atmosphere itself were holding its breath.Inside the War Room of Monolith Tower, the tension was even more suffocating. Dozens of massive monitors surrounding the room displayed only one color, blood red.“The opening of the wheat market in Chicago just collapsed. Down fifteen percent in three minutes!” Caleb Foster shouted, his fingers dancing across a mechanical keyboard at an inhuman speed.His usually composed face was now drenched in cold sweat. “This isn’t just fluctuation, Matthew. Someone just dumped millions of contracts all at once!”Matthew Thomas stood in the center of the room, his right hand still stiff and numb, the price he had paid from his virtual encounter with Julian Vance the night before.Yet his eyes remained sharp, glowing faintly violet as he processed the data streams fed directly into his visual cortex by ARC.“Veronica, what’s the posit
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