Revision 7--DNA by Terry Persun

Author:Terry Persun [Persun, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781620150542
Goodreads: 18909004
Publisher: Booktrope Editions
Published: 2012-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

NEIL DROVE SLOWLY in case Mavra and the robots had already arrived, which he doubted. He figured that they took a longer way around to confuse their followers. He drove past a squat building and up a narrow, dirt access road of some kind. Robots may be able to compute a lot of data, they may be able to simulate thought, but they couldn't anticipate his actions. He'd cut them off at the pass.

He turned the car off and called Rogers.

“What is it now?” Rogers sounded frustrated.

“Staying in touch,” Neil said.

“We just found a second stolen vehicle parked along the road. Too conspicuous, if you ask me. They must be trying to put us off the scent.”

“Where are you?”

Rogers stayed quiet for a moment.

“You're not on Route 7 anymore,” Neil said.

“We have several cars out. The local police got a call from a gas station owner doing a drive-by his station who noticed a broken vending machine. One of the cars followed that lead and found the SUV parked about five miles past a Y in the road outside Clandby, one fork leading to Jasonville and the other to Marksville. Must be part of the Clandby family,” he laughed. “I suspect they either split up or plan to meet somewhere in between the two places.” Rogers paused again. “Where are you?”

“Nowhere near you,” Neil said.

“Still on 7?”

Now it was Neil's turn to be quiet for a moment. “I took a side road on a hunch. Guess it didn't pay off. Do you mind if I head your way?” Neil asked, but didn't care about the answer. He had to get to Mavra and the balancer before the FBI jumped the gun and got someone killed.

Rogers' answer would only let him know how visible he could be. While talking, Neil punched in for a GPS location. He was quite a ways away, but could catch up using some mountain roads.

“You can show up as long as you help us locate a trail and then stay back,” he said.

“I'm going to take a quick look around here, then I'm on my way,” Neil said.

“You promised,” Rogers said, but he didn't wait for Neil to confirm before hanging up.

Neil wasn't so sure he was wrong yet. They could have stolen another car and dropped that one off. So far, there had been two coincidences: the SUV that the robots had stolen was found parked along the road, and the gas station owner doing a drive-by in the middle of the night. Neil couldn't see that happening a third time. But he did notice that the robots were having a bit of bad luck.

The government building was a small, no-frills, boxy place bearing only a small sign on the door. He walked around the building several times. A single light threw a glow over the front entrance. A breeze swept around the corner leaning some wildflowers toward the east. His phone beeped registering a text. He opened it right away while pacing along the front of the building, one eye on the phone and the other watching where he walked.

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