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“So much for our ambush,” Max said

Juan sat up and shifted his sights to the tunnel entrance “Where’s Locsin?”

“He’s co back on the camera,” Max said “He oons killed”

Locsin’sathered their weapons He kept two men behind to cover him while he took a screwdriver and opened the hood of the Bobcat The Crawler’s vieas blocked, so Juan couldn’t see what he was doing

“Where are his ?” Max asked, incredulous “I checked theto commit suicide?”

“Or they plan to make a last stand in there instead of out here,” Juan said “You didn’t see any masks on them, did you?”

“Nope And, luckily, I brought just the thing to get theas he’d brought with hih that hole, and they’ll be shoving each other aside to get out”

Locsin backed away fro the loader’s twelve-volt battery He h the hole they’d opened

“What’s he doing with that?” Max asked

“Let’s find out,” Juan said He stood and waved for the rest of the team to move forward toward the tunnel

When they were all together, he said, “I don’t care about anyone else, but ant Locsin alive” He looked at Raven “It’s the only e’re going to find Beth”

She nodded at him, and they all went in

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Locsin had hisHe thought he had enough for what he was planning, assu the RDX chemical still maintained its potency

He knew Juan Cabrillo was co It had to be him out there who had killed his men If it had been the Philippine National Police, he would have heard soive up and come out