The Man In The Silver Mask (Secret Agent Witch Book 4) by T. R. Cameron & Martha Carr & Michael Anderle

Author:T. R. Cameron & Martha Carr & Michael Anderle [Cameron, T. R. & Carr, Martha & Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2023-08-16T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Maslov was alone in his control room again, save the doctor, who napped in a chair behind him. He held a tablet on which a bouncing video image showed the interior of facility three’s warehouse. A small speaker carried Kira’s words.

“As you can see, we’ve got the bolts installed.” She knelt to show him a fastener drilled into the concrete floor. Attached to it were several shiny silver chains. She held them up to display wrist cuffs, ankle cuffs, and a collar, each with a lock.

He remarked, “Thorough.”

She let them fall and rose, causing the camera mounted on her glasses to bounce. “We’re not taking any chances. Some of them are secret agents, after all.”

He winced at the memory of their competence as Kira walked around the warehouse’s periphery. An abundant number of the restraint setups were placed symmetrically throughout the space, far enough apart, he presumed, that those imprisoned by them wouldn’t be able to reach one another. “And the anti-magic emitter?”

“One is sufficient to cover the entire place. We have two that will run constantly, the primary attached to the local power grid, the backup fed by a generator we control.”

“Good. Very good. I am reassured.”

“I live to serve.” Her voice held a note of humor. Kira was the only person remaining who would take such a tone with him. He missed Anya terribly and was determined that Irina would not share her fate. Kira passed through a doorway, and the video showed Oleg and Golov seated on one side of the desk as she moved to the opposite side.

The subjective view deactivated as another camera mounted on a display hung on the wall took over. His subordinates were all looking up at the screen, which showed the feed from his tablet’s camera. Maslov said, “We’re ready for whatever prisoners we can capture. Good work. Now, explain the rest of the operational details to me.”

Kira replied, “We’ll start with an infomancy attack to take place precisely at noon. Oleg and I will be walking through security at that same time.”

Golov took over. “Unlike our last attempt, when our goal was to get to specific and highly protected information, this time our main objective is simply to cause chaos in their systems. We will accomplish that with a less targeted, more brute-force approach. It should look to them as if we’re making another try at their records since they’ll be sensitive to that.”

The infomancer smiled, looking pleased with himself. In Maslov’s view, infomancers were among the most egotistical people on the planet. Still, one couldn’t do without them. “In reality, we’ll be deploying programs to interfere with everything. We hope to be able to strike at the power and security systems, but if all we can access is bookkeeping, for instance, we’ll still disrupt it. Anything that pulls resources away from supporting the defense of the physical facility is worth doing.”

Maslov nodded. “Agreed.”

Golov smiled at the screen as if the praise had been his due. “At the same time, another one of our infomancers will hit the Council House systems.

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