Web of Extinction (Zone War Book 3) by John Conroe

Author:John Conroe [Conroe, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

Ten minutes later, we were sitting across from each other inside another windowless room, this one actually inside a pod that was suspended on springs, with multilayered walls of steel, carbon fiber, and other materials between us and the outside world. And it had absolutely no outside power or communications connections. In fact, the major had explained that the lights ran on batteries when the room was in lockdown. And we were the ones who got to lock it.

“Okay, this is as good as it gets. We would never know if this was secure or not,” she said to me.

“It’s an actual secure room, pretty expensive to build. I’m going to guess that we are, most likely, pretty private in here,” I said. “So what do I do?”

“That’s ultimately going to be up to you, Ajaya. If you want out of here and away from them, say the word. I’ve already got great leverage, and that doesn’t even include any of the information your friend Harper sent me.”

“You’ve heard from Harper?”

“She contacted me while I was still watching you rush out of Flottercot’s studio on my television. Gave me all kinds of information on the actual architects of Drone Night. Dangerous information. Contacted me again just hours ago to tell me that she knew you had been taken into custody after killing the Spider.”

“Rikki would likely have contacted her after going into the internet,” I guessed. “But is the stuff she gave you the kind of stuff they would kill you for?”

“Absolutely. But she assured me that she has set up fail-safes and dead man switches that will release all of her findings across the whole planet if anything happens to me or her. She thought I might need leverage to get you free.”

“Sarah, this is way, way beyond anything I imagined. I guess I spent most of my time either thinking about how to find and kill Plum Blossom or get that damn bomb out of my neck. This global blowup is so far out of my wheelhouse that it’s practically over the horizon.”

“Well, I wish I could tell you it would work itself out, but we both know it won’t. Not to mention that the damned Spider isn’t really done yet, is it?”

Oddly it was those words that made me calm down. No matter what was going on with the nation, Plum Blossom was still working to kill us all off. My brain started to work again, really fast. From zero to a hundred in seconds flat.

“What? I can see you just thought of something?” she asked.

“It’s just that you’re right. People are going to die. Either a lot of people or all of them. In fact, if Plum Blossom had its shit in order, we’d all be dead already. So if we fight among ourselves and don’t fight back, none of it will matter.”

“What do you mean… that we’d already be dead?”

“Well, I mean nuclear weapons. That’s best end goal for killing us off. I mean,

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