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Chapter Six439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKQio3gIkdf
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP3x7fmrL7f
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0OxmOmCpkB
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhWf8WBvnw
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtdLHA4uZLY
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjCdMhpnFmX
chance regardless, if so willing...439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2IpSU5FXN0
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnYd3OBsyqC
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRaQHm92xfX
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7p1NqAIrRZ
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsYzfr6Eprp
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTfh3NfpPt
will easily use them up.”439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4guIWUqIQk
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1RKqNpvgGi
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsytzXnxVMH
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhu9PYu1wfY
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjHI2v2WGul
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXV76x4o5rE
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡccK3nCayp3
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPTWG806k3
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh6Um0GzYO3
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbbTUeiKjGv
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSXPt97ctpI
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqqSnVPcy1b
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfKQ4khtCEf
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5puYzY5UAk
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4xw4RerDuE
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxu6oRiDRRN
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6t3qZ6Sk2C
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsRB0xcAOXG
metal wheels alone.”439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvfepirIizH
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGKRNvXnLeV
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1BZG3AyvfB
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE042Arvqes
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3u5zizIXoP
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5nk79kSkDm
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNDnivgNNSs
than twenty minutes at best.”439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtFFEDqmE0m
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCipjIfNJYw
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKfOPZIilm
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7igTnTlocW
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFsnTUs5O7R
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ28VBwu0PuW
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE1HELBZAgC
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPiW9BdsL6
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPYKKMrouQW
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXzArGhxZQK
be placed in a better perspective.”439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKepPCetcMn
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEBdyEWyYSQ
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”
