Black Marble (Darkside Dreams - Series 1 Book 3) by A. King Bradley

Author:A. King Bradley [Bradley, A. King]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-07T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 2

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In the silence of the cabana, with the distant sigh of the surf echoing from all sides, Ana and I review the Commander's intel for the fifth or sixth time.

“Give it to me again,” I say, rubbing my temples and blinking three times fast to moisten my strained eyes. “From the top.”

Ana, being just data on an omni, is pretty much tireless. Several times, she's pointed out this inability to fatigue as the one major upside to being technically dead.

That, and the fact that she doesn't get periods anymore.

“It's been a little over two years since the assassinations began,” Ana says. “Since then, they've come somewhat regularly. Not regularly enough that any useful pattern has been established. But there's never been longer than a two-month gap between incidents. fifty-six members of the OUSP have been killed in similar ways. Though detailed files do not exist for every single one of the victims, we can extrapolate that around two thirds of them have been synths. Perhaps even more. It's clear that the synths are the primary targets. Someone is trying to take the last of them out, one batch-killing at a time, without much concern for collateral damage to the organic population.

“For about three years, the OUSP has been aware of an anti-synth terror cell led by a shadowy figure who goes by the codename Cronus. True identity unknown...”

Cronus. A mythological figure who ate his children. A human who destroys synths, the synths being the children of humanity... the successors. Or maybe I'm reading too far into it, and this guy (or girl) just thought Cronus sounded cool.

“This terror cell is considered the most likely suspect in the assassinations,” Ana continues. “As far as the assassinations themselves go, a few of them have been captured on video...”

We've already reviewed these videos, enough times that I've memorized them top to bottom. In some of them, a small fire team sweeps in and takes the targets down. Never more than four assassins. In other instances, there's only one. And it's always the same one. The same hitter who's present at every single recorded incident.

This ever-present assassin has the same body type as me. Around 6’3” tall, broad shoulders, probably weighs around two hundred twenty pounds. Ana and I are sure that the main guy is likely a dude. That’s really the only identifying characteristic we have. I know that he’s a scumbag assassin, but the more I watch of the videos, the more I can't help but admire his techniques. He moves fast, efficiently… as smooth as water. Always wears a mask to cover his face though. I find that bit kind of annoying, when it comes to making an ID, but I at least take solace in the fact that the mask he wears is quite distinctive. It shines like metal, shimmers with oily rainbows... It depicts a strange, ghoulish face. So, it'll be easy to spot. The problem is it's probably homemade, a one-of-a-kind piece. Not like we can trace

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