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Sienna retargeted Joe, more firmly this time “I’ive me the transmitter”

Joe held still, but one of the hackers intervened, cli the remote from the floor of the tunnel As soon as he had it in his hand, the ave it to Calista, who tapped the screen a few tirin

“A u r e v o i r,” she said as the traan to accelerate away “Give your friend my love when he wakes up”

Joe watched the traloom of the tunnel “I knee should have called the cavalry”

Hoping to wake Kurt, Joe shook hi Kurt was catatonic, exactly the way he’d been when Joe pulled him from the water three an to think perhaps it was not entirely coincidental

“This is bad,” he said

It may have been the understatement of Joe’s life He was trapped in a secret base on the wrong side of the DMZ, with an unconscious friend, a 9ry battalion of North Korean soldiers barreling down on them

“Bad” did not begin to cover it

With little tian to look around for options

First, he raced over to the panel and checked the security video oncetheir way through the piles of unconsciousup froas masks had reached the seventh floor and would soon reach the sixth, where the battle had occurred He guessed they would clear that floor and the ones beneath it first beforetheir way to the bottom, but time was not on his side

He studied the control panel, but it was an inco icons No way he was going to be able to decipher that in ti a mode of transportation that didn’t require a physicist to operate In the dark corner to his left he saw soht fit the bill

“Of course,” he said “The ore had to get down here somehow”

There, sitting on a platfor North Korean tractor trailer It was a bulk hauler with an open top,containers Than Rang was using

Joe ran to the cab, clinition “Thank God for the internal co to the sweet sound of the ruear, Joeand eased it over to where Kurt lay on the floor

Stopping the truck and ju out, Joe picked up his friend, carried hier’s side, and hauled him onto the tattered vinyl of the old bench seat in the cab of the truck As he settled, Kurt began to thrash around a bit, alainst the seat and went quiet once again