Specter Protocol by Eddie R. Hicks

Author:Eddie R. Hicks [Hicks, Eddie R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-25T06:00:00+00:00

Thirty-Two

Ray

Bashiir switched off the car’s headlights that were brightening the falling snow covering the scenery around. Ray couldn’t remember which of them suggested they buy thick and warm coats, gloves, and winter boots, but he was glad they did. He had a feeling it’d be several hours, if not a whole, day before they’d be indoors for a long period. He sat alone in the back seat with his laptop on his lap, and an opened backpack, full of his equipment and supplies to his left.

Chow time was over, and the base’s staff resumed their duties for the evening, running patrols near the airfield, examining the barbed-wired fence, or chatting when things got boring. The RW’s AIs became part of the many objects Ray’s glasses listed as vulnerable targets to his apps. He saw what the RW duo could see on his laptop’s screen, and that included what their HUDs displayed, optical scans, and facial scanned profiles. And if Ray was feeling bold, he could hijack the RWs cyberware so long as their AI was offline. Their car shook slightly when the snowy and blustery conditions outside picked in intensity. The drive back would not be a smooth one.

An emergency had the base’s staff on edge. Ray couldn’t gain the full details on why, other than it happened during their car ride over while he had put his laptop away, having grown bored of watching the base’s staff eat and chat.

As a result, the RW duo’s patrol put them inside the facility, making security checks of its halls, brightening empty rooms with their flashlights, and ensuring they were clear of hostiles. They approached a large sliding door, larger than the other doors seen in the base. If Ray were to guess, it was used to move bulky objects through rather than just the base’s staff. The duo entered. Ray’s vision underwent a transformation triggered by what they saw.

He was in Arianna’s body again, dressed in a lab coat. She stood in the Indonesia jungle facility run by Zhang Industries, and a trail of dead men and women lay behind her. A lone mind-controlled lab worker carried out her will when she demanded it. The Arianna in his vision took a glance at what Zhang was developing, the weapon. The weapon with its blueprints, and other related data, were buried deep in Ray’s brain. The layout of the lab Arianna was in, like its equipment and computers, bore a strikingly similar resemblance to the one the two RWs walked into as part of their patrol route, seen from his laptop’s screen—

“Malaka!”

Ray shook his head clear of the vision. He was himself again. “What?”

Theo was looking back at him from his seat upfront on the passenger’s side. “You blanked out for a minute. You okay, bro?” Ray nodded and Theo pointed to the base off in the distance, his index finger hovering near the TEK suited patrols searching the flaming remains of other TEK suits. “Got a plan for them? Or any

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