CHAPTER 212 — THE THING WAITING IN THE DARK
For several long seconds, nobody moved.
The tunnel around them seemed to tighten with silence while the portable projection in Marcus's trembling hand continued displaying the same impossible result over and over again.
Sector seven no longer existed.
Not damaged.
Not blocked.
Gone.
Elena stared at the empty section of the underground map while cold crept slowly through her chest. Entire infrastructure sectors beneath the city could not simply disappear. The transit foundations alone stretched across miles of reinforced structural layers buried under decades of construction and expansion.
But the system had removed it anyway.
Which meant the city itself was no longer stable beneath their feet.
Marcus finally broke the silence first.
"This should not be possible."
Adrian's expression darkened beneath the weak emergency lights overhead.
"The system controls deep infrastructure synchronization now."
