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“Talk to me, Chen,” Marcus said, pushing his glasses up his nose.

At 30,000 feet, the seafloor fell away into a void. And there, resting on a ledge of impossible basalt, was a structure. Not man-made. Not natural. A geometric shape that hurt to look at—spheres within triangles within spirals, all rotating slowly, dripping with heat shimmer. AssParade.23.05.15.Richh.Des.XXX.720p.HEVC.x265...

Marcus leaned forward. “And the ‘720p.HEVC.x265’?” “Talk to me, Chen,” Marcus said, pushing his

“The resolution and compression of the swarm’s telemetry. 720 petaflops of processing power, High-Efficiency Video Coding, and x265 is the military encryption layer. ‘SWAXX’ is the signature. SouthWest Anomaly eXpeditionary Xenos.” Not man-made

Marcus’s phone buzzed. A text from an unknown number: “Did you like the trailer? The full feature is 8K. But you’ll need to dive yourself to get it. Bring a shovel. The parade is waiting.”

Marcus reached for his gun. It dissolved into brine. The video file was now playing on every screen in the precinct, and on every screen in the world, the impossible structure’s door was beginning to open.