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“That cuts both ways,” said Knox, and Chapreement

She pointed at the plan and said, “We have two choices Go through each side together or split up”

Finn said, “I vote for getting out of the open If we need to go through these section things, let’s split up I’ll go to the left and you two to the right”

Chapo left”

The o it alone? She needs a precious ile hand?”

“It’s not that,” said Knox uncomfortably

“Good to hear it,” she said “I’ll take the one on the left Now here’s some little tidbits you need to know about the section on the right to traverse it safely” She filled theained from her research

“Got it?” she said, looking at them

“You’ve given this a lot of thought,” said Knox

“Why wouldn’t I?” shot back Chapman “It’s my job”

“Good luck,” said Finn

“Cheers”

She left the twoafter her until she disappeared into the darkness

Stone was still waiting in the firing range roo since there weren’t many He could stay here until he starved to death Or he could go through the door

Or…

He got up, grabbed the wire that the targets rode on and pulled it free He wound one end of it around the door handle and over the existing pulleys Then he crouched down behind the counter and wound the remainder of the wire around his hand He counted to five and ai He slowly pulled on the wire The door handle lifted He tugged harder The door started to open As soon as it was open halfway, a barrage of bullets poured through, clanging off e room

Okay, probably against orders, the Russians are done playing around with stun darts

He tugged on the door some more until it opened all the way, then tied off the wire onto a hook to keep the door open He sidled along the counter and slid down the pair of NVGs he had brought They were older and had a ht-vision equipment too

He edged closer to the opening, but keeping so solid between hi unusual, at least to the untrained eye He took off his goggles, but still kept the the doorway Then he scuttled away, aiun and waited for what he was pretty certain was co

The shots came He counted four of them Stone couldn’t see the rounds, but he was sure they had passed an inch above the red dot revealed by his goggles to so at theeneration goggles While on infrared power they pain

ted a red dot basically on your forehead, allowing a sniper to draw a fatal bead

But by firing the Russians had revealed their position to Stone by their h the open doorway He fired rapidly, once, twice and then a third and fourth ti at spots two inches above the twin flashes Stone could tell by the weapons’ discharge that they were pistols If they were firing froet selection would coincide with their heads, bypassing their body armor

He heard two distinct thumps as the bodies hit the floor

He got up, snared his NVGs and kept

Three Russians down, three to go Plus Friedman