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“Excuseskeptical, Joe, but that doesn’t seem like Pyramid’s mo What’s your evidence?”

“Let o, NUMA launched the Bathysphere 3, a replica of a historical diving bell, in waters off Bermuda The dive was broadcast all over the worldYou may have seen it on television”

Yoo spread his hands apart, his e no “I’ve been pretty busy, Joe Haven’t watched much TV Is this the op that Pyrae?”

Zavala nodded

“I designed the diving bell,” he said, “and Kurt Austin, my partner at NUMA, was the project leader Thepart of the dive wasn’t transmitted because an underwater robot cut the bathysphere’s cable”

“Whoa!” Yoo said, a wide grin on his boyish face “An underwater robot That’s pretty wild stuff, Joe”

“I thought so at the tio, the sphere was buried a half mile down in muck”

Yoo leaned forward across the desk His grin had disappeared

“You’re not kidding, are you? That’s an incredible story! How’d you get out of a situation like that?”

“Kurt made a rescue dive, and ere able to activate our flotation system While ere on our way to the surface, the robot went after Austin He beat the thing off of hirabbed one of the pincers it had used to cut our cable The pincer was stao”

Yoo shook his head

“You had le is a pretty co”

“I agree, Charlie, except for one thing The robot is identical to one that Pyramid’s seafood division uses to inspect nets”

“You know this for a fact?”

Zavala nodded