Nightlife by [email protected]

Author:[email protected]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2013-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

Thirty-five

they reached the top of the service staircase. Beth had pressed her hand against the steel door panel, ready to push inside, when she felt Jack’s grip on her elbow, holding her back. He lifted his index fi ger to his lips for silence, then pointed through the door’s wire-mesh glass window.

Halfway down the hall, Beth spied a c eiling-mounted security camera. It was slowly sweeping across the hallway. Midway through every arc, it landed on Axis’s office windows. “We’re going to have to deal with that.” Jack set his heavy steel canister pack on the ground, then clipped open the top hasps. From it, he removed his tactical belt and pistols. He patted Blood on the scruff. “Stay here. Keep watch.” Then he turned to Beth. “You, follow my lead.”

Jack waited until the camera had just started to swing in the direction opposite from them. Then he pushed through the doors. Beth shadowed him, and they quickly padded down the hall, stopping directly under the camera. They stood dead in its blind spot. “Get a glimpse of the CC rotation on the monitor in the guard’s station?”

“Me?” Jack shook his head slightly, muttering calculations under his breath. “Twelve floors. Two cameras per floor, plus elevators, stairwells, basement, and parking garage. Probably a standard quad monitor running three seconds per click. Should hit this one every thirty seconds or so. I can live with those odds.”

He quickly pulled a s mall silver cylinder from his belt. It was roughly the size and shape of a tube of lip gloss. From one end protruded a s et of wires. He clipped it to the underside of the camera. “Magnetic,” he offered by way of explanation. Then he tugged a multitool from his belt, quickly sheared the cable at the back of the camera, and crimped the wires from the tube onto the half that went into the wall. A small green LED winked to life on the cylinder’s underside. “Don’t hear any alarms. That’s a good sign.” Jack fi ished the wire splice off with a length of black electrical tape and hit a small button on the base.

“What is it?”

“It’s a second camera,” Jack answered as he let the camera complete another arc, then hit the button again. “With a built-in recorder. It’ll play an endless loop of that sweep. Should work provided that guard doesn’t look too closely at the footage.” He stepped out of the blind spot and into the hall proper. Then he went back to the door and opened it for Blood. “Safe to come back in, boy.”

“Now what?” Beth was still amazed by the swiftness with which he’d defeated the camera.

“After I g o in, y ou keep an eye out, and pretend you’re spraying for bugs. Act natural. No reason for you not to be doing that. Just another day at work.”

“Right. Spray for bugs. Look natural. Just another day at work.”

“And pay attention,” he added, once again checking his equipment. “Take note of everything, every sound, every smell, every reflection.

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