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Neo MoroengIn Chapter 29, we plunge beneath the Earth’s surface into the cold, metallic belly of the Gaia Node. The team battles both storm and sentinels, racing against time as the alien virus deepens its grip on the planet. Through tense combat, revelations, and a chilling elevator descent, the lines between code and consciousness blur. Da’kar delivers a haunting truth: the virus isn't just infecting systems—it feels, learns, and now, it hungers. Nancy steps further into the role only she can fill, while unspoken bonds simmer beneath the surface. The deeper they go, the closer they come to Earth’s last heartbeat… and its possible final breath. The war has changed, and what awaits them in the Gaia Node’s depths could rewrite everything. Get ready—the next chapter takes us straight into the core. Literally.
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Chapter 35: The R49 Crossing
The R49 highway stretched before them, a ribbon of cracked tar under the bruised twilight sky. Crossing it felt like stepping through a membrane—leaving behind the familiar wreckage of suburban Mahikeng and entering the untamed world of Aslaagte, where civilization frayed into the wild."Keep your eyes peeled," Mr. Nkosi murmured, his pistol raised. "This used to be quiet, but being near the reserve always meant spillover."They moved in silence, boots crunching softly on gravel. At first, the changes were subtle. A flicker in a shattered shop window revealed a mutated ground squirrel—its eyes glowed like dying embers, its movements twitchy, wrong. It vanished into the shadows before they could get a better look. Further ahead, a mongoose with matted fur and an elongated snout slithered out from under a dead smart car. It sniffed the air with an intensity that prickled Nancy's skin, then disappeared into the garden hedges.“They’re everywhere,” the burnt man whispered, clutching his r
Chapter 34: Landing in Mahikeng
The escape pod shrieked like a wounded animal, a defiant protest against the violent thrust that hurled it away from the stricken hub. Behind us, Horizon’s Edge—the crown jewel of our orbital defense—dwindled rapidly, its lights swallowed by the encroaching shadow of the alien vessel that now loomed like a black moon. Around us, hundreds of other capsules, sleek and menacing, hurtled toward Earth. Their hydrogen exhausts bloomed like angry, ephemeral flowers in the void, only to vanish into the cold dark.Ours was the lone human vessel among them. A fragile shard of resistance slicing through the heavens while a silent cosmic ballet of invasion unfolded behind us.I pressed my face to the viewport. The alien mothership swelled in view, monstrous and absolute. A monolith of impossible design, every inch of its shadow a threat. I’d read signals, monitored anomalies, run simulations. None of them prepared me for the scale of this.“General, trajectory confirmed,” Dr. Kim called from her
Chapter 33: The Watchers of Sol
The hum of the control room’s machinery provided a steady background thrum, a low and familiar comfort in the vastness of space. Five years. Five years since the Covenant had been forged, since Ka!ri left for Mars, since we pulled humanity back from the brink. Five years since I last stood on scorched Earth, looking up at a red star and made the hardest choice of my life.Now I was orbiting the planet I chose to stay and rebuild, a General still wearing the skin of a soldier, stationed aboard Horizon’s Edge, humanity’s first orbital surveillance hub. Earth below was no longer dying. Oceans pulsed blue again. Forests regrew like stubborn ideas. Africa—our continent—had become the beating heart of reconstruction, not because it was spared, but because it had learned how to rise.I leaned back in my chair, scanning rows of data crawling across my screens—defense diagnostics, environmental vitals, deep space monitoring. Routine. The quiet kind of duty. But some days, I still felt the tug.
Chapter 32: The Distant Star
The echoes of my speech still hung in the cavernous, scarred hall of the UN. “A new world order,” I’d said. Bold words, maybe even arrogant. But now, standing just off the podium’s edge as the applause faded and the room readjusted to its new equilibrium, I realized the moment hadn’t really been mine.It belonged to what came next.Mr. Ike Nyowe approached the mic. He was a man of minimal flair—sharp-eyed, weatherworn by decades of negotiation—but every inch the statesman. His presence alone could silence a crowd, and today, the wreckage of the world gave his voice a kind of divine weight.“The human suffering must not be in vain,” he began, his voice calm and resolute. “Today, we take the first coordinated step toward ensuring it never is.”Above him, the ceiling’s cracked holoscreens flared to life, mapping an orbital trajectory between Earth and Mars. A new corridor. A lifeline. A promise.“We formally initiate the Earth–Mars Intergalactic Highway,” Nyowe announced.Gasps swept the
Chapter 31: The New Covenant
The United Nations building in what was once New York stood like a scarred relic of the old world—its dome cracked, patched with salvaged polyglass, yet defiant. Inside, the grand assembly hall pulsed with a tension so thick it was almost audible. Delegates—what remained of them—filled the seats in ragged uniforms, patched suits, and grim stares. They had come from every surviving zone, a fractured mosaic of human resilience. Fear and grief haunted their eyes, but something else sparked underneath: the brittle glow of hope.Above them, salvaged media drones hovered like ghosts of the past, their cameras blinking with silent urgency. This wasn’t just another summit. It was humanity’s first breath after flatlining.We walked in, strangers among the architects of the old world. Our tattered combat gear replaced with plain black clothing, the blood scrubbed from our hands but not from our memories. Nancy walked beside me, her posture poised but her eyes carrying the haunted weight of Gaia'
Chapter 29: Gaia's Heart
The Bakkie shuddered to a halt, its engine dying with a final, choked gasp as the downpour turned the ground into a churning, muddy torrent around us. Visibility was zero, the acid rain stinging even through the thick poly-carbon of the windshield. Through the deluge, Nancy pointed. “There!”A colossal structure loomed out of the swirling mist, not ancient and organic as I’d half-expected, but brutally functional. It was a monolith of dark, reinforced alloys and chilled composites, a fortress against both time and disaster. No warm, pulsating life here; it exuded the sterile, unforgiving aura of a deep-cold data vault. This was the Gaia Node, built to house intensive tech and data, and it looked every bit the impenetrable vault Nancy said it was. The only indication of its colossal power was a faint, almost imperceptible hum that vibrated through the Bakkie’s frame, a low thrum beneath the din of the rain.“The main access point is ahead!” Nancy yelled, already unbuckling, her voice st
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