Chapter 285: Ceiling
The interior nodes were denser than anything he had worked through before.
He had known they would be. The Gene Archive's initial scan had shown higher gene energy pressure in the concentration points near the archive's core. What the scan had not conveyed was the quality of the organized rock at that depth. At forty-five meters and below, the entity's field had a different character from the outer layers.
More deliberate. More compressed. The outer field had been built to hold and move gene energy over a wide area. The deep interior felt like it had been built to hold one specific thing — carefully, with as much patience as ten thousand years allowed.
