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“You four, flush them out!” Kholkov ordered; then he nodded at the other man and said, “You, with me!”

As Kholkov and one e and started firing short, controlled bursts into the water After nearly a minute, Kholkov called, “Cease fire, cease fire!”

“There’s soht into the water

Kholkov walked over, looked a few moear and have a look”

The men were back in fiveunder the water

“Search the cavern first,” Kholkov ordered the somewhere”

In a cloud of bubbles, the htsthe walls, before finally both men resurfaced

“Not here,” one of them reported “There’s no place to hide”

Sa They’d ear

“Perhaps they went down the river tunnel,” the ested

Kholkov considered this for a ?” he asked the divers

Both ested the river tunnel “Take Pavel, rope yourselves off, and search the tunnel for any sign of them”

Thea rope

“Search the sub,” Kholkov ordered the divers, who both replaced their regulators and dove

Sa the hull until they stopped at what he assuhts wobbled and shifted and there ca of metal on metal After three more ulator from his mouth