CHAPTER 227 — THE ROAD INTO THE ABYSS
The descent began just after midnight.
Elena stood at the entrance of the abandoned service sector and stared into a darkness that seemed older than the city itself. Above them, millions of people continued living their lives unaware that another secret lay buried beneath every secret already uncovered. The contrast felt surreal. Only a few days earlier, Elena believed the greatest threat facing humanity was Continuity. Then Ascension emerged from thirty-one years of silence and changed everything. Now they were preparing to descend beneath both systems, chasing a signal sent by something neither intelligence seemed able to explain. Every answer they discovered only revealed another question hiding beneath it.
