The Facility: Dystopian Survival Fiction (Book 1, The Breeder Files) by Eliza Green

Author:Eliza Green [Green, Eliza]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eliza Green Books
Published: 2016-11-29T06:00:00+00:00

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Jason was the talk of Foxrush. His discovery—that Arcis had been altering the frequency of its force field—had sent Preston into overdrive. Jason had offered his help but when Preston worked, he worked alone.

They were getting closer to leaving Foxrush and saving Anya. Jason could feel it. He thought about going it alone, but Max and a rescue group had already tried the front-door approach. According to Max, those who had successfully made it inside Arcis that day were never seen again.

But if Jason and Thomas could figure out the pattern of rotation, it might give them an edge the rescue group hadn’t had. Max’s wife was still missing. Jason would help him find her as long as it meant getting Anya out of Arcis.

He found Thomas sitting cross-legged on a patch of grass behind one of the smaller tents. Ten sheets of paper surrounded him, each scrawled with numbers and data. He and Jason had been trying to work out when and why the power fluctuated, so they could predict Arcis’ schedule.

Thomas was two years older than Jason, but his studious eyes and soft, boyish looks made him look younger than the battle-scarred soldiers of the same age. He looked up when Jason approached.

‘Max gave me the paper. I find it easier to visualise something when I see it planned out.’

Jason folded himself on the ground beside Thomas, his eyes skimming over the pages that charted the sequence of events: how long the participants in Arcis spent on each floor before they were rotated, and when their soldiers had reported dips in the lights.

‘There’s not much to go on,’ said Jason with a sigh.

The lack of information about the inner workings of Arcis continued to frustrate him.

They’d been able to get only snippets from the soldiers inside Arcis, when the force field was weak enough to receive a strong, masked signal. But if they could maintain a steady connection through the fully operational force field...

‘Max said the pattern was much more predictable in the beginning.’ Thomas scooted closer to the papers. He pointed to the first page with his pencil.

‘According to our people, rotation on the ground floor occurred in twenty-eight days.’ He pointed to the second page, which showed movements from the first floor. ‘Here, they rotated in exactly thirty days.’

The third page had details about the second floor. ‘Twenty-five days here.’

Thomas tapped his finger on the fourth page, leaving behind a smudge of graphite.

‘This is where things changed. They rotated in twenty-four hours on the third floor. Preston said they just called it in.’ He paused, his eyebrows drawn forward. ‘He also said that some participants skipped certain floors. Why?’

‘Too predictable?’ It was meant as a private thought, but the look on Thomas’ face forced Jason to sit up straight. ‘What did I say?’

Thomas tapped the first four pages consecutively with his pencil. ‘Twenty-eight days, thirty days, twenty-five days, twenty-four hours.’ He lifted his brows at Jason.

‘They know we’re trying to get in?’ said Jason. When Thomas didn’t react, he added, ‘I’m wrong.

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