Meaning the meltdown isn’t just explosive anymore.
It’s becoming uncontrollable.
Wu calmly explains through the speakers:
“The core breach will collapse the entire underground structure beneath Bucharest.”
Clay stares upward murderously.
“You really planned to bury everyone with you.”
Wu answers without hesitation.
“History remembers outcomes. Not sacrifices.”
Monster.
Absolute monster.
The teenage girl suddenly stands fully.
Rifle lowered now.
Choice written all over her face.
“What if we help you?”
Silence falls instantly.
Because this—
this is the moment.
Not combat.
Not explosions.
Choice.
Free will.
Humanity.
Hannah steps closer carefully.
“You already are.”
The girl’s eyes fill slightly.
Like nobody’s ever said something kind to her before.
Then the teenage boy slowly pushes his weapon away across the floor.
A conscious decision.
His first real one.
And quietly—
