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Chapter Six398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYNJoi2HKnn
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4nCWCTY0XM
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡholNhy59Ka
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkqndEjWhMh
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzDngTYKcfK
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc3ceufv4Z8
chance regardless, if so willing...398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡroCIp1ZzX9
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGp2yoSrEd8
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡagzi9mYc6B
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZmT0JpOdQ
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNHs7y6ICho
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2PHtSLzkS
will easily use them up.”398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRrJan7K6vs
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRJu3s9R4dP
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgn3SS69Net
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqvXecjfLG
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOzyQktyusr
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7YtGWfwVXb
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwwc0kRQIbv
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA6pGo82C1m
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEj4WMgeVDy
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxX5N9vmCP
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡynR5GUeHJL
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwHA9pehNQM
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQEe8rvNI5M
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcggCFEz9fQ
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb6EpYrATR8
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡblMe9KmfD1
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf1t93aB0P4
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVVXTR1N4X5
metal wheels alone.”398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6preodrGN3
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3TeFQIAemO
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsEEwl4ddiS
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4s5NlIrBgf
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPIQZDzOMNW
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8TYCdqbjeM
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqBazbDz0am
than twenty minutes at best.”398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDgLSnD3cxs
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyb4QyVjAMB
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWJX2HTh6L
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Ew0ERvTCs
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6RQjt1UHU7
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJLnd3hryc9
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBvEEwDz7Wp
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4KnX5b1j8s
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGT6Aultwi3
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjY9Cjd3byp
be placed in a better perspective.”398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtTDgQx13w2
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”398Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1u7M9c54sv
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”
