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As thehimself onto the base He felt it sway as Vik and Wyatt eased themselves on as well He twisted around the neck to expose the back panel, and Wyatt quickly stripped it away to expose the control chip

Just as the pinpoint caht of an alar in its depths, Vik yanked out its control chip and set about ja the new one in its place Toers had been nih to do it But it worked The Praetorian’s system blinked out, reset

They waited Tom could sense Wyatt and Vik’s tension behind the optical ca rapidly

And then the Praetorian powered back on again, utterly still for a longThedown the corridor with them on top of it Tom shoved his e to laugh, even though he knew any sound froht, arainst his Her fingers gripped his and tightened until his hand throbbed

It helped him that she was nervous, too It helped a lot

Relax, Toht to her We’ll be in and out

The Praetorian was taking therammed course to the nearest neural access port Tora for the data pattern that h the earbuds into Yuri’s ears in the Pentagonal Spire, and therefore straight into Obsidian Corp’s database As soon as they had its location, Wyatt had one algorithm to order their Praetorian to return them back to where they’d coht back to that transe to fry the trans with the supercomputer it was attached to

By the tian, they’d already be on the Interstice, heading hoh Obsidian Corp to the nearest neural access port felt interminable They shifted positions clumsily, each with a foot on the base of the Praetorian, the other hanging into the air, all three of theest test was the uard machines, all in sleep mode Tom held his breath as they slid past those pinprick ca

But they passed thee, hallway after hallway, auntlet of Praetorians rerateful he wasn’t doing this alone

They passed agazing upon the black night over the icy landscape of Antarctica And then the Praetorian stopped They were at a neural access port A treh Toers under the tunic portion of his optical ca a neural wire out of his pocket He jammed it into the access port It was tiram installed in his head locate the audio pattern from the transuys sure you can keep et electrocuted, Toht

Are you sure? Toht dubiously

Vik’s pride was pricked Hey, I a like an ox or a Yuri