(eng) P. T. Hylton & Jonathan Benecke - Vampire World 01 by The Savage Earth
Author:The Savage Earth [Earth, The Savage]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter 23
At CBâs command, Simmons and Owl joined him and Firefly in Reactor 1. He told Drew and Alex to continue their above-ground search in Reactor 2. After theyâd checked to ensure the control panel wasnât above ground, the team would reconvene. In the meantime, the crew in Reactor 1 would carefully begin working their way downward.
âOwl, my gut tells me weâre going to find the control panel underground,â CB said.
âSame,â Simmons echoed. âWhy build ten stories underground if youâre not going to put the most vital equipment down there?â
âLovely,â Owl said. âSo Iâm gonna be driving the rover down this dark staircase where we know there are vampires awake? Sounds safe.â
âThatâs why I called you in here,â CB said. âWeâre going to do something about that. Weâve got six Daylights, right?â
âYes, sir.â
âWe need you to set up five of them, one on each landing down to the fifth floor. Cover as much of the darkness as you can. If we get down to five and still havenât found the control panel, weâll start spacing them out, one every other floor.â
âWhat about the sixth light?â Owl asked.
âThat weâll mount on the rover itself. It wonât be perfect, but itâll give us some coverage. If shit goes south, weâll have some light to cover us on our retreat.â
âI like that idea,â Owl said. âThe rover will make it upstairs, but it ainât exactly speedy.â
âSimmons, you stay with Owl. Cover her while sheâs working just in case something happens. I agree with your sentiment that itâs more likely on one of the lowest levels, but so was that vampire we heard. In the interest of safety, weâre going to start at G1 and work our way down rather than starting at the bottom. Iâm not sending the team down to risk their lives on G10 only to find out the control panel was on G2. Firefly and I are going to search those floors as quickly and quietly as possible. Quiet is the operative word, hear me, Firefly?â
Firefly nodded.
âGood. Letâs make it happen.â
Owl got to work. No one mentioned that the Daylights hadnât been field-tested. They were counting on the hypothesis that real living vampires reacted the same way to the lights as the samples had in Brianâs lab.
Once Owl had the Daylight set up on the first underground floor, CB decided it was time for him and Firefly to head into G1 and search for the control panel. They made their way past the Daylight Owl had set up. This door was jammed too, and since it swung inward, they didnât have the luxury of kicking it in. After futilely tugging on it a few times, they took the door off its hinges.
As soon as they pulled down the door, the powerful odor of death and decay wafted out.
CB took one last breath of the relatively fresh air in the stairwell and stepped through the doorway.
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