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“What are you doing?” Mary Catherine asked

“If they find one of the ventilation shafts, they could do anything Plug it up, s soas che outside to make sure that doesn’t happen”

McMurphy started going toward the back of the bus complex

“Isn’t the front door the other way?” Mary Catherine said

“I can’t go out the front Are you crazy? I need to go out through the tunnels”

“The tunnels?”

“I forgot to tell you about them,” he said as he pulled up the handle of a door at the rear of the main corridor On its other side was a dirt tunnel about four feet tall, strung with lightbulbs

“I’ve been digging tunnels for years and years Out the back of the coh this hill It’s actually what I did in Vietnam Cleared the tunnels They called us tunnel rats The ones I built are just like the ones I saw in Cu Chi Hell, better Just shut the back door behind ot”

He suddenly ran back toward the gun rooh a CD-filled shoe box

“GiveMary Catherine a disk, “and then put this on the CD setup there and crank it!”

“What? Why?”

“I got speakers strung up in the trees all along the slope, strobe lights We used to use it for parties, drop a couple of tabs and go on nature walks We were really into mind expansion for a few years Anye can use it now It’ll wake these ht this’ll teach them!

“Remember, lock the door behind me, now,” the merry prankster called as he ran off and disappeared around a corner of the tunnel

Mary Catherine closed the bus door behind him before she looked at the CD case

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