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“Effective rate,” Farouk said “It only holds a thousand rounds at a ti electronic primer caps”

“I wouldn’t want to go up against her”

“Many ships have tried, even naval destroyers It didn’t end well for them”

“How do you know all this?”

Farouk turned back to his control panel “That is soht you would want to knoe’re up against”

“That still doesn’t explain e’re out here”

“Don’t raise your head Do you understand?”

“Okay”

“Using only your eyes, look at the bird circling high above us Do you see it?”

Li’s eyes tilted up “I see it So what?”

“That’s not a bird It’s a drone sent up by the Oregon It’s co in on that yacht I can’t listen in on the signal because it’s encrypted, but I can tell where the trans from”

Farouk nodded at the screen in front of hi the Dragão

“Let on”

“You catch on quickly,” Farouk said, ion has a central space called the e doors in her keel open to launch them unseen”

“So the sub is our target?”