Chapter 7

+15 BONUS 

CHAPTER 7 

Chapter 7: The Industrial Hoard Begins 

The autumn wind blew cold off the river, carrying the sharp scent of wet rust and rotting leaves across the industrial outskirts of the city. I stood in the center of a massive, empty underground vault, my footfalls thoing against the thick, reinforced concrete walls. 

The air down here was heavy, damp, and freezing. Thirty feet above my head rested four feet of solid steel- reinforced concrete, buried under dirt and abandoned structural brick. It had been built years ago as a subterranean cold-storage facility for government food reserves before the city sold it off to a bankrupt logistics 

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For the average real estate buyer, it was a useless, expensive concrete pit with broken pipes and no modern electrical permits.