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Chapter Six426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAG7tUAas6n
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8DEhK4tmoG
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfb1GXf1gNI
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYsaR5ZTyLn
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZdeyOHhmF
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6eLhT1dyVO
chance regardless, if so willing...426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk64dY99zur
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc4BKmlgXZd
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCBMHFDqg6
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡslXgFW2OOh
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA1xhAIFY7S
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBqHKONiXUi
will easily use them up.”426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrv3BakgOg
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd2imLqwTlm
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9hvGKD18Bj
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡESZx0RNqK3
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡePwHgNdxaG
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGq1xQqabt1
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlfSgZUuk27
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡShuV3lDkD8
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ap55xfpOe
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqA7g4QEAbL
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0L0ShLcoYZ
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoolitN3jZd
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡys8OqBchQe
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ZsOFuoL1W
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCUh0cgueg
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ50ZeeByiTk
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjeKNIOcNlK
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGzlblhsYfU
metal wheels alone.”426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoiFcaDMxvB
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxn8z8gyAW
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbPRxuGnfhv
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7XCvD9gtfb
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ31VnoxmZ3I
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXyn6ODo8gY
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZfzeFMdCs6
than twenty minutes at best.”426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1JVKbBa5ul
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ29L7MKAI0Q
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAL5zw5rZaQ
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ8SfUpZKdo
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvJUUteWPkE
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHrhGvZ8ON8
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9psYjK0bWh
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHTzHvhM6Im
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKRJRVVwsSr
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMzYgF6bcQH
be placed in a better perspective.”426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwGuyjXV3D
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”426Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ZYjw7Llop
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”
