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the Oregon’s hts were turned on
Despite his size, Lincoln race of a predatory cat, finding the tiniest openings between the dense vegetation so as not to disturb anything His feet seeround He was so stealthy that the background symphony of insects and bird cries never dropped in volume or rose in alarm
Cabrillo walked in his wake, constantly scanning behind the followed The air was so hu with fluid with each breath Sweat ran freely down his back, and soaked the band of his baseball cap He could feel it cold and slick where his stu
After two hours of stalking silently through the rain forest, Linc held up a fist, then lowered hi up next to the big SEAL They were at the edge of the jungle Ahead of therassland that stretched for a quarterto the sea in a line of near-vertical slopes and eroded cliffs
With the sun behind them, Cabrillo didn’t worry about reflections off his binoculars as he scanned his surroundings The Responsivists had built a singlea short distance froently sloped roof to deal with the thirteen and a half feet of annual rainfall Opaque panels in the roof would let in diffused sunlight, as there were no s The sides were bare metal painted with a red oxide anticorrosion paint, and there was just a single door facing a parking lot big enough for fifty or so vehicles
About thirty yards froular concrete pads Cabrillo counted forty of the empty pads per row
Linc tapped hile in the dirt and pointed at the warehouse Then he le and pointed at the field of concrete Cabrillo ith hier square around the whole compound and pointed across the open field
Juan studied the area through the binoculars and noticed a slight variation in the grass, which ran in a straight line before abruptly turning ninety degrees He looked at Linc The Navy vet placed the edge of his hand on the line he’d drawn, indicating he thought there had once been a fence running the periers to rather crassly raise the corners of his eyes
Cabrillo nodded his agreement This had once been a Japanese compound of some kind, o, and all that remained of the cell blocks were the concrete pads He wondered if the Responsivists chose this location because there was already an existing foundation for their building
The duo watched the structure for another two hours, passing the binoculars back and forth when their eyes began to tire Nothingexcept when a breeze blew in off the ocean and rass
Juan suddenly cursed and stood “That’s it Nobody’s home” His voice seemed unnaturally loud after so many hours of silence
“How can you be so sure?” Linc asked in a hoarse whisper
“Listen” His tone ry with himself
Linc cocked his head “Nothing but the ocean hitting the base of the cliffs”
“Exactly See the erees out here, whichThose brackets once held so units They took the is packed to the rafters ater, a guard detail wouldn’t last an hour in there, let alone the weeks it’s been since they abandoned this place”