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Juan crouched down next to Linc and Murph on the suspended , took aim, and said, “Fire”

They let loose with their P90s, and the ht, behind the large vat One of the guards went doith a bullet in his chest The others escaped injury

Four h a door onto another catwalk on the opposite side of the hold and opened fire Juan took cover behind a pipe, while Linc and Murph ducked behind one in the other direction

Now they were pinned doith no effective sight line on Carlton, who shouted for Chen to get back to work

Juan had to create a distraction He looked at the bank of computer servers at the far end of the hold They had to be critical to the operation of Colossus If he started taking potshots at it, that et a reaction

He aiazine at it

It seeet their attention

“Stop him!” Carlton cried out

The disembodied woman calmly announced, “Two minutes to detonation”

FIFTY-NINE

Colossus is being daed Master must protect Colossus

Carlton looked up from his phone at Bondarev and said, “Make sure he finishes disabling the self-destruct uards “You two, come with me”

Chen finally showed some emotion and sneered at Carlton Carlton didn’t care Once this was done and Colossus was safe, Chen would get over it

Carlton led the guards across the hold carrying Bondarev’s assault rifle Although he didn’t collect guns, he had always been fascinated by theer to try his hand at a huet

Using the vats as cover, they dashed frole on the intruder shooting at the server bays