Project 731 by Jeremy Robinson

Author:Jeremy Robinson [Robinson, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Historical, Military, Supernatural, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Genetic Engineering, Thrillers, Science Fiction
Amazon: B00QBHYMSW
Barnesnoble: B00QBHYMSW
Publisher: Breakneck Media
Published: 2014-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

23

“Where are they?” I ask, watching the emergency vehicles’ futile attempts to put out fires and rescue the dying. We should be down there, coordinating a response. This is our job, and this ass... I take a deep breath and steady myself. Losing my cool will do no one any good.

“We don’t know,” the man behind the mirror replies.

“How could you not know?” Collins asks, sounding just as close to losing her patience as me.

“In case you have failed to notice, the sun has fallen.”

I turn to the mirrored wall behind me and stab out a finger. “In case you failed to notice the past thirty years, there is now such a thing as infrared.”

The man’s response is calm, lacking any trace of defensiveness. “The Tsuchi’s body heat is concealed within its armor. A normal Tsuchi can hide from thermal imaging when it is retracted within its shell. But these new...Kaiju-Tsuchi are armored, top to bottom, making them all but invisible to FLIR or any other thermal imaging. And before you ask, yes, that includes our digitally-enhanced vision system.”

“That’s a lazy name,” I say. “Don’t you think?”

Collins backhands my shoulder.

“What? It doesn’t even spell anything. Devs? ‘Hand me my Devs.’ ‘Looking through these Devs is like—’”

“Enough!” the man shouts, showing that he can, at least, be irritated. “How you people are still alive is a mystery to me. You respond to chaos with more chaos. You operate out of an old brick building and a cabin in the woods.”

Collins and I both tense, but if the man behind the glass notices, he doesn’t say anything. He knows about the cabin.

“Tell me, what is your plan now, Jon Hudson? If I were to set you free, what would you do?”

If I’m honest, I have no idea. He’s right. We play this stuff by ear, adapting as we go, because there is no precedent for what we deal with, and there still isn’t a weapon in the U.S. military’s arsenal capable of killing a Kaiju. I know from experience that the Mother of All Bombs (MOAB), the most powerful non-nuclear weapon we have, doesn’t work. And I’m not about to authorize or request that a nuclear device be used on U.S. soil, putting people at risk and maybe, at least in the case of Nemesis, who is a walking bomb, just making her angry. In her white form, it might work, but now? It’s not worth the risk. So I have no idea what to do, not without more intel. But I’m not about to let the man behind the curtain know...though I’m sure he already suspects.

“Remain silent if you choose,” he says. “Maintain some pride. But the truth is, you’re broken. Your team is broken, separated by thousands of miles, in hiding or injured.”

“Where is Woodstock?” I ask.

“Recovering,” the man says. “In a hospital. He was lucky to have survived.”

“And...” I’m about to ask about Alessi, but then I realize her identity might be worth concealing. “What about Lucy?”

“Lucy?”

Dammit. It was the first name that came to mind.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.