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“What does that mean for us?”

Otero swiveled in his chair, feeling better, ood as dead And now it looks like an industrial accident”

“As good as dead won’t cut it,” Matson explained “Only dead for certain works We need bodies”

“They’re twenty feet beneath the surface,” Otero insisted “The pressure of the water rushing in will probably crush theainst it”

“Listen,” Matson said, “you and I have n to Jinn and his people But if we don’tenough to spend it So get some more robots over there and find their drowned carcasses and haul them up like dead fish”

Otero went back to his keyboard He punched up a list of active robots and scrolled down to the section labeled Hydro He tapped the down arrow until he found two submersibles currently deployed near Marchetti’s lab

“What are those?”

“Hull cleaners,” Otero said “They roaae and barnacles”

“Are they lethal?”

“Only if you’re a barnacle,” Otero replied “But they can give us a look”

Otero switched the hull cleaner to manual control and directed it to section 171A: Marchetti’s lab The machine wasn’t built for speed, but it only needed to travel a short distance

“There’s the observation deck,” Otero said as it passed a long rectangular“Marchetti’s lab should be just ahead”

A moment later the exterior of the lab was front and center

The dae was obvious What had once been a ht now looked like a dark cave The circular as shattered A few pieces of the thick acrylic clung to the fraht came forth

“Take it inside,” Matson ordered