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“No oil,” Henley said “Only a few sas deposits on the Chinese side”

“What about water?” Rudi asked

“No water either, but they did find a co deep into the crust, well beyond the range of the survey”

“Vertical fractures?”

“Of a type I’ve never seen before,” Henley ady database matches the in its own right but not an ocean of freshwater”

“Thatabout ways to study as down there without needing to send an ROV to the botto for Kenzo’s Z-waves And we found the stations are equipped to detect the the data out”

“Why?”

“Because the pattern they produce is identical to the signal generated by a deep-earth h-intensity sound waves”

“Mining?”

Priya nodded

“So that’s what the Chinese have been doing down there”

“So it appears,” Priya said “But I’ news Once we got ahold of the raw, unfiltered data and ran it through a prograned, ere able to determine the depth and orientation of the Z-waves What we found was incredible The Z-waves are propagating vertically, down into the crust and back up”

“How deep do they go?” Rudi asked

Henley answered “Through the crust and the upper mantle, into an area known as the transition zone At least two hundred two hundred miles below the surface At the bottom of the transition zone, the Z-waves are reflected back off the denser rock and bounced back up to the surface, creating a harmonic vibration on the way in and the way out And that tre havoc on a particular type of mineral within the transition zone”

“What kind of mineral?”