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Chapter 381 - City On Its Back

Tower Six released its empty basement wall.

The carrier put one leg through it.

Concrete folded around the copied safety plates. No body stood behind the wall, but three heating pipes and a fiber trunk did. Steam filled the basement. Seven neighboring towers lost their ward feed, and two hundred apartments lost heat.

Daro Quill wrote both results on Mira's Ward public board.

`NO PERSON BEHIND WALL.`

`CURRENT SERVICES LOST: HEAT, LOCAL FEED.`

The carrier's weight left Tower Nine and settled into the opening. Its occupied balconies stopped tilting. A South Bank clinic floor leveled enough for workers to roll two beds away from a cracked window.

Tower Six's chair cancelled the automatic angle update and kept the manual stops. Tower Three retained its eastern plate around the water main. Orin Care House kept both gears under its lift. Four buildings cancelled every remote service. Three kept room coverage and rejected structural control.

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