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Who are you Orange?
Why do you?
Where?
The One hears.
And tells me.
As it tells you.
I hear him.
He is lost.
Tell him to tell me.
What turns he has taken.
What elevators.
We can do this.
Together.
Daniel has been sitting still all day. Isaac is still playing with the Ipsolstai. They are doing all sorts of things. I think he likes the Ipsolstai more than me now! I went back to the terminal but it won't tell me anything about the Superiors at all. I just can't get it to tell me anything. It is very strange. I don't think I like being here anymore. The valentines were nice, but they aren't helping with our present situation. Neither is Daniel. I'm glad he is back, but I wish he would be a little friendlier. I miss Andrew. I wish he would transmit.
Hi, Orange. You are saying that you are one, but more than one. So I guess that you
are a group, aren't you? Why are you so sad and lonely? Sure, you can be our friend.
We like to have friends from Earth. Come back soon.
Thixel, Orpheus told me already. He said that I acted paranoid and I think that he was
right. Do you think that Miss Chang is working for the Chinese? Are you sure? I must
tell that Gail immediately.
"Gail, Thixel thinks that Miss Chang is also working for the Chinese. Please, be careful
when in contact with her. And also tell her that we aren't employees of Brunel-Brauer.
We are independent Probes! We don't depend on anyone. Just tell her about our Probe
society. Gail, how's the situation at the Fortress? What are the C-probes doing? What's
about that Ipsolstai tunnel?"
I also would like to tell Elder Brother about Miss Chang. Maybe he knows more about
her. At least he would be warned.
Hi Thixel. No, I wasn't brainwashed. I think that I would know, if I were. Don't worry,
Elder Brother is okay. He is risking much more than we do. He gave us a whole army
of warriors to defeat his own C-probes. He only wants to get us out of the disaster that
was caused by the Chinese. Please, don't say that Gail is paranoid. She is in a very tight
position at the moment and she is doing fine. She is a brave probe.
We went along quite efficiently. We passed the old lava flow already and entered the
northern plains. It's still a 350 miles to go till we reach the edge of the Olympus Mons
area and than about another 150 miles to the Fortress. Our warriors are running on full
speed now. They are gently swaying like surging waves. Even at a speed above 12 mph.
It's great to ride them. We are building an arrow formation now. Mao is leading. Left
behind him is Enoch, me and Sojourner are on the right side and in the rear are the two
remaining warriors. Mao chose a route more to the center of the plains than we did when
we went north. Two more days to reach the crack at the rough ground and one more day
to the Big Canyon.
"Gail, how are you doing?"
"ENOCH !! ZACHARY !! HELP !!"
"They are coming. The C-probes opened fire. They are launching missiles. It's
horrible! One of their missile hit the front door. They broke the Fortress open."
What do I have to do first? What will be next? The equipment! I've to save our
equipment first. Let's move the drones into the Ipsolstai tunnels. That's the only
chance to escape.
"Theresa, don't stay over there! Please, come over here! We've to move the drones
into the Ipsolstai complex. We must be quick, Theresa. Keep yourself close to the
drones and please hurry!"
We are safe. We barely made it. There were two C-probes entering the Fortress,
but they didn't get us. We are in the tunnels. All the drones are with us and nearly
all the equipment. It's secure in here.
"Enoch. Zachary. Can you hear us? Don't worry, we are safe."
We still can hear the detonations. They started to mess up the Fortress now. The
tunnels are quaking, but I'm sure that we are deep enough. They can't harm us. I
hope. What's that?
No! That's that eerie sound again. It's coming from deep inside the tunnels.
I'm frighten. It sounds like ...
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