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Chapter 103: The Broken Abacus
Author: Duekki
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Lin Chen's POV

“uhh… phew….. phew…”

The erratic, high-pitched hum vibrating through the floorboards of the western ration hall turned my teeth to ice.

I dropped the heavy, moldy loaf of barley bread back into the wicker basket, my hands freezing mid-motion.

The hundreds of commoners lined up in the damp slush stopped their murmuring, their hollow eyes turning toward the high spires as a low, structural shudder groaned through the bedrock beneath our feet.

It wasn't the heavy, kinetic thud of
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