The emergency sirens wailed continuously through the night as emergency response teams, mobile trauma units, and armed royal security converged on foundation quadrant four. The excavation crater was enveloped in choking clouds of concrete dust, hydraulic vapor, and the acrid stench of scorched electrical wiring. When the heavy steel truss slammed into the concrete pump shield, the impact sounded like an artillery shell detonating in an enclosed bunker. Beneath the…
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