The Engine Room stopped working overnight and the seam Marcus had carefully mapped for days simply vanished—the wall now smooth as glass, like it had never existed at all. When he discovered the floor beneath him breathing at the exact rhythm of his own heartbeat, Marcus faced Day 8's breaking point: he could no longer tell if he was following the machine or the machine was following him. The Core has moved beyond machines. Now it speaks through the body itself.

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