The Destroyer 137 - Industrial Evolution by Warren Murphy

Author:Warren Murphy
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780751560862
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2016-09-28T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

“Nice to see ya again,” Remo said to the guard at the desk at the Intersection.

The guard had his feet on the desk and was leaning back on the back legs of the chair, but Remo’s appearance sent him tumbling to the floor, shouting out a profanity that was cut off with the heavy clonk of his skull hitting the rock floor.

“You have a way with people,” Chiun observed. They walked into the outer perimeter of the work areas at the Pit. The control operator at the silent shipping dock was almost as surprised at the guard, but jumped to his feet instead of landing on his head.

“Is Wools around?”

“I’ll call him. Stay right here.”

“No, thank you. You’d better call the medic, too. Your guard at the Intersection just gave himself a concussion.”

“Wait, where are you going? You can’t just walk around down here!”

They walked, and weren’t surprised when the red lights began flashing in their wall fixtures and the alarm started blurting raucously.

Hal Wools couldn’t believe how his luck was flipflopping. First the NRC weirdoes show up, getting nosy, then they go for a little exploring into the Pit of No Return. Then, more than a day later, just when. he’s starting to breathe easily, the sons of bitches return.

Well, they were still in his mine shaft. Wools was the king of the Pit, and nobody left the Pit without Wools’s say-so, especially if they threatened the future of this facility. Everybody down here agreed with him on the need to protect the facility, as scared as they might be of whatever was making people vanish. After all, they were all going to be millionaires when this thing became fully operational.

“They’re heading for the elevators,” reported one of his staff on the walkie-talkie.

“Get security there in force. Do not let them board the elevator. Repeat, do not let them board.”

Wools ran for the elevators himself.

“Oh good, it’s here already. I hate waiting for the elevator.” Remo nodded to the point man of the ranks who had taken up a position between the Masters of Sinanju and the elevator. “Nice of you all to see us off.”

“We can’t let you board the elevator, sir.”

“Sure, you can.”

“I ordered them not to,” Wools panted as he arrived, winded from jogging.

“Hiya, Hal. I’d come with us if I were you. You’re not safe down here. The same folks that killed the guards and took the other MIAs are coming back soon.”

“What are you talking about?” Hal didn’t sound as if he really wanted to know.

“Listen, Hal, and all of Hal’s friends within the sound of my voice. The truth is that there is an access way through Shaft C. Some very bad people are lurking around down there, killing some of you, taking others.” Remo had decided against revealing that the killers actually lived inside the earth.

“Liar!” Wools growled.

“In the last day we saw no less than two teams of attackers on their way to the Pit. The first team was just six guys, but the second team was almost thirty.

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