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Chapter 1: The Corpse of Steel(5)

2023-11-23vtubernijisanjiennoctyxfulgurovidlegatus505 来源:百合文库
I turn back away from the steel corpse for a moment to take in the city in the distance, all lit up in neon shades of crimson and cyan. Even with the sun just beginning to set, The Republic appears as a beacon, outshining all else with its artificial allure. With a blink, my view clouds over to a dusty brown haze of worn grey columns, each one as uniform and built for function as the last. The sun has only just begun setting, yet the smog that our ancestors exuded had cloaked the once lush planet in a curtain of melancholic dust - the excrement of a foregone people we no longer claim as our own. Rather than coalesce beneath the earth into a more useful form, they still lingered on, and in everything, one final gift from those who did nothing but take.

Chapter 1: The Corpse of Steel


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The corner of the building offers me an easy entry. The long dead vegetation just happened to form a slope that leads to the third floor. After that treacherous climb there are signs of human habitation; the same parasitic infestation that outlives every host. Discarded soda cans, food wrappers and numerous cigarette butts are scattered over a make-shift floor of patchwork wooden boards and crumbling cement.
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