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Giordino swung right into the first crosscut he reached without slowing down, taking the turn on theels Pitt hung on and gave hi They had traveled less than two hundred feet when abruptly the golf cart shot into another tunnel They came to a fast stop and stared in total astonishment
"Mind-boggling," Giordino muttered under his breath in awe
"Don't stop," ordered Pitt "Keep going"
Giordino acquiesced and drove the golf cart at top speed into another tunnel He didn't hesitate or wait for Pitt to urge hied through the crosscut into a fourth tunnel At last they could go no farther, and Giordino braked the cart before they struck the far wall They sat there for severalin the i
The gargantuan proportions of the tunnel network became even more spectacular when Pitt and Giordino in stunned disbelief forced themselves to accept the fact that there was not one but four immense interconnected tunnels of equal size
Giordino didn't astound easily, but he was shamelessly overwhelmed "This can't be real," he said, in a voice barely above a whisper
Carefully, Pitt steeled hi his mind from the impact and blind his concentration There had to be an explanation for the Herculean undertaking Hoas it possible that Specter had built four ua without exposure by international intelligence or the one unnoticed for more than four years?
"How many railroads does Specter intend to operate?" Giordino muttered dazedly
"These tunnels weren't built to run cargo across the land by rail," Pitt mused
"Barge transportation, maybe?"
"Not cost-efficient There has to be another objective behind it all"
"There has to be a colossal bonanza at the end of the rainbow for such an expensive undertaking"
"The cost must have easily run more than the estimated seven billion"
Their voices reverberated up and down the cavernous tunnel that was completely empty of men and vehicles If not for the perfectly arched walls and roof and the sined therotto
Pitt tilted his head down at the floor of the tunnel "So o system They removed the railroad tracks"