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  • Chapter 10 : Bloodline

    Chapter by LEOWOLF · 08 May 2026
  • Cassandra and Grace finally arrived at Elias’s secret base. With Elias’s help, Cassandra’s mind and body received a gentler and more soothing adjustment. However, what awaited them was yet another earth-shattering secret...
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  • The fine rain before dawn had not stopped. The silver-gray sedan bumped along the muddy forest road. Grace gripped the steering wheel tightly as the headlights illuminated a single-story house that had been burned. The wooden boards were charred and rotten, the windows shattered, and part of the roof had collapsed. It looked like a tomb long forgotten by the world.

    “This is the place,” Cassandra said softly. Following Elias’s final voice instructions, she found a rust-covered key and a flashlight under the third loose floorboard at the entrance.

    The two pushed open the creaking wooden door. A damp, musty smell rushed toward them. Grace held Cassandra’s hand tightly; their fingers were cold and intertwined from tension. They avoided the broken glass and dried rat carcasses on the floor and reached the center of the living room. Following the instructions, they lifted an ordinary-looking floorboard, revealing a heavy steel hatch and an electronic lock underneath.

    After entering the password Elias had provided, the hatch released a low hiss of pressurized air and slowly opened. A narrow, rusted staircase extended downward, as if leading to the center of the earth. The air grew colder, carrying a mixed scent of metal and paper, along with a faint low-frequency mechanical hum.

    “Chérie…” Grace said softly, “no matter what’s down there, I’m by your side.”

    Cassandra nodded. Her rationality had briefly returned thanks to Elias’s earlier audio file. She felt the thick, viscous call inside her body had been isolated by a heavy barrier. Her uterus no longer pulsed, and her breasts were no longer swollen and hot. But this “calm” only made her more awake — and more uneasy.

    The two descended the stairs for nearly three minutes before reaching a heavy airtight door. The door slid open automatically.

    Before them was a spacious yet extremely oppressive underground laboratory. Layered shelves, buzzing servers, iron cabinets stuffed with files, and dozens of glowing monitors on the walls filled the space almost to the point of suffocation. In the center stood a large metal table covered with ancient clay tablet rubbings, original printouts from the Pioneer probes, and hundreds of DNA comparison charts.

    A tall, thin middle-aged man stepped out from the shadows.

    “Welcome to my cage,” Dr. Elias Crowe said in a low, weary voice tinged with gentle compassion. He was forty-seven, with messy graying hair, bloodshot eyes behind his glasses, and wearing an …
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