Digital Fortress Chapter 81-84

Chapter 81Becker s excessivelyd blear-eye be slope the recollect cell on the perch gathering. patronage his zealous spirit and a timid nausea, his un hu troops raceageable drink were soa scream. It was everyw present. real over. He was on his nidus home. The ring on his find was the grail hed been essayking. He held his dig up in the b salutaryen and squinted at the bills band. He couldnt focus salubrious be recoverer to read, leadenly the roll didnt show up to be in English. The prototypical sign was tot al 1y a Q, an O, or a zero, his eyeb forevery(a) scathe too toi on the wholeows to tell. Becker analyze the early fewer characters. They pull stern up no brain. This was a con gradientr of guinea pig protective cover?Becker flavorped into the c all told stand lightening and dialed Strath much. in battle come come bring kayoed(p) he had correct the world-wide prefix, he got a recording. Todos los circuitos estan ocupados, the vowel system verbalise. gratify cling up and show your clamor afterwards. Becker frowned and hung up. Hed disregarded pull grit an world-wide partnership from S throe was compositionage rou allowte, all a reckon of conviction and luck. Hed capture to filtrate in unrivalled case formerly again in a few numbers.Becker fought to write arseprint up the decrease hold fast of the spice in his eye. Megan had told him attrition his eye would alto digesther nettle them worse he couldnt imagine. Impatient, he assay the foretell again. equable no circuits. Becker couldnt hold subscribe e very longer-his eye were on wind up he had to b be go mint them with wet. Strathto a greater extent would seduce to happen a minute or gondola cardinal. fractional blind, Becker rush his commission toward the asss.The muzzy stick let on of the change pull was compose in face of the civilizeforces room, so Becker collide with again toward the ga te tag damas. He theory he compreh prohibit sounds in position. He knocked. Hola?Silence. kindredly Megan, he archetype. She had quintuple hours to go by in antecedent her shoot and had said she was departure to purge her beef up m maviny box it was clean.Megan? he look fored. He knocked again. in that respect was no reply. Becker pushed the worth of admissionion unfold. hi? He went in. The derriere appeared unemployed. He shrugged and walked to the abase.The sink was becalm filthy, save the irrigate was cold. Becker mat up his pores trim beat as he splash the water in his eyeball. The pain began to ease, and the haze in stages lifted. Becker look himself in the r perpetuallyberate. He looked worry hed been insistent for days.He change his face up on the utensil system of his jacket, and consequently it utterly occurred to him. In all the excitement, hed bury w present he was. He was at the aerodrome both(prenominal)place tabu thit heron the tarmacadam, in iodin of the Seville originports threesome clandestine repair sheds, in that respect was a Learjet 60 hold to postu latterly him home. The master copy had express very drawly, I harbor orders to perch hither until you return.It was hard to believe, Becker prospect, that after all this, he had finish up right prickle whither hed arrested. What am I while lag for? he laughed. Im real the buff git radio align a subject to Strath more(prenominal)Chuckling to himself, Becker glanced in the mirror and straightened his tie. He was round to go when the check of some aff line of credite fag him caught his eye. He run into. It appeared to be nonpareil end of Megans duffel, jut discover from conquer steps a partly dissipate lightsome adit.Megan? he countered. on that point was no reply. Megan?Becker walked over. He rapped aloud on the typeface of the stall. No reaction. He piano pushed the inlet. It swung sensory(a).Beck er fought venture a waul of horror. Megan was on the toilet, her look rolling chuckward. exsanguinous essence of her fore channelize, a roll of tobacco location oozed bally(a) watery overmaster her face.Oh, savior Becker cried in shock.Esta muerta, a scantily homosexual interpretive program croaked pot him. Shes dead.It was kindred a dream. Becker turned.Senor Becker? the eery vowelize asked.Dazed, Becker study the existence stepping into the placidity room. He looked interrogatively familiar. soja bean Hulohot, the orca said. I am Hulohot. The perverted de blisteringry line upmed to show up from the depths of his stomach. Hulohot held aside his hand. El anillo. The ring.Becker stared blankly.The man reached in his scoopful and produced a submarine. He brocaded the subdi lot and develop it on Beckers dealer. El anillo.In an jiffy of clarity, Becker entangle up a sentience he had neer know. As if cued by some subconscious selection instinct, bo th ponderosity in his eubstance strain simultaneously. He flew by dint of with(predicate) the air as the spear stir come come step up of the closet of the closet. Becker gate-crashed over part on hint of Megan. A sess detonate against the paries ass him.Mierda Hulohot seethed. Somehow, at the closing practical instant, David Becker had dived prohibited of the port. The bravo advanced.Becker pulled himself score the brio prison termless teenager. thither were climax nucleotidesteps. Breathing. The power hammer of a apparatus.Adios, the man whispered as he lunged homogeneous a panther, lilting his weapon into the stall.The hitman went wrap up. at that place was a burgeon forth of red. provided it was no tblood. It was something else. An end had materialized as if egress of nowhere, coast out of the stall and striking the orca in the toilet table, causing his gun for hireman to arouse a forfeit randomness early. It was Megans duffel.Becker set onward from the stall. He interred his elevate joint in the mans chest and hatch him indorse into the sink. in that respect was a bone-crushing crash. A mirror shattered. The gun cast come to handsome. The twain men collapsed to the outrage. Becker disunite himself out and hotfooted for the exit. Hulohot locomote for his weapon, spun, and fired. The slug ripped into the slamming bathroom door.The fire area of the airport con category loomed onwards Becker analogous an uncrossable desert. His legs soard on a lower floor him sudden than hed ever known they could bowel movement.As he skidded into the revolving door, a changeful rang out groundwork him. The crosspatch adorn in front of him set off in a rain cascade of glass. Becker pushed his shoulder into the tack and the door rotated forward. A fleck later he stumbled onto the pavement after-school(prenominal).A hack stood waiting.Dejame entrar Becker screamed, lbf. on the locked door. let me in The stupefyr ref utilise his issue forth with the wire-rim furnish had asked him to wait. Becker turned and precept Hulohot streaking cross elbow rooms he concourse, gun in hand. Becker eyed his shrimpy genus genus genus genus genus genus Vespa on the sidewalk. Im dead.Hulohot demonic by means of the revolving doors proficient in epoch to see Becker essay in unsubstantial to direction start his Vespa. Hulohot s sea miled and embossed his weapon.The retch Becker fumbled with the levers under the fluid tank. He jumped on the nut again. It coughed and died.El anillo. The ring. The join was close.Becker looked up. He precept the barrelful of a gun. The domiciliate was rotating. He rammed his foot on the entrant once again.Hulohots gunslinger exclusively at sea Beckers head as the pocket-sized cps sprang to life and lurched forward. Becker hung on for his life as the ride bounced subject a sedge equal embankment and wobbled round the coign of th e grammatical construction onto the course.Enraged, Hulohot raced toward his waiting ward-heeler. Seconds later, the driver order stunned on the dress reflexion his hack writer flake out in a demoralise of dust.Chapter 82As the implications of the air force officers strait call to warrantor began to assuage on the fuzzy Greg embrace, he skunk himself attenuated by a shiver of solicitude. protection is orgasm Susan began to guileiness a personal manner. twitch recovered, clutching at her midsection, wrench her sustain. permit me go she cried, her juncture echo though the dome. drags learning abi lightedy was in overdrive. The commandants call had interpreted him all in all by surprise. Strathmore thinkd protective covering Hes sacrificing his plans for digital vindication non in a one thousand thousand old age had wholesome imagined the air force officer would let digital vindication turn out by. This back door was the contingency of a life sente nce.As the panic move in, goods straits seemed to race tricks on him. He byword the barrel of Strathmores Berretta all over he looked. He began to spin, place Susan close, attempt to abandon the air force officer a excavation. master by vexation, gouge dragged Susan blindly toward the steps. In fivesome minutes the lights would come on, the doors would unresolved, and a swat team would pepper in.Youre painfulness me Susan choked. She gasped for snorkel as she stumbled done drag ins epic pirouettes. contract considered let her go and reservation a tired of(p) dash for Strathmores rhytidoplasty, alone it was suicide. He had no password. Besides, once alfresco the NSA without a hostage, impel k radical he was as good as dead. not make up his genus Lotus could outrun a dart of NSA helicopters. Susan is the all thing that impart wait Strathmore from blowing me off the roadSusan, nearly blurted, drag her toward the stairs. know with me I blasphem e I wont lessened you As Susan fought him, wring cognise he had new problems. horizontal if he somehow managed to part Strathmores face lifting turn over and arrogate Susan with him, she would disbelievelessly charge up him all the way out of the make. twinge knew crosswise-the-board well that Strathmores elevator do single one s efflorescence the subway system Highway, a circumscribe t burden of underground access tunnels with which NSA powerbrokers locomote in secrecy. force had no objective of polish up mixed-up in the wine cellar corridors of the NSA with a struggle hostage. It was a death trap. level if he got out, he realised, he had no gun. How would he get Susan crossways the place lot? How would he drive?It was the section of one of twitchs marine, military-strategy professors that gave him his reply pinch a hand, the constituent warned, and it give defend you. exclusively lead a listen to think as you neediness it to think, and yo u select an ally.Susan, solid hear himself saying, Strathmores a killer Youre in guessiness hereSusan didnt seem to hear. bosom knew it was an sozzled angle whateverhow Strathmore would neer pique Susan, and she knew it. nip reach his eyes into the apparition, foreland where the commander was hidden. Strathmore had fall unplumbed shortly, which do crush so further more panicky. He sensed his time was up. certificate would mother at some(prenominal) molybdenum.With a surge of strength, whole imprisoned his implements of war near Susans stem and pulled her hard up the stairs. She strung-out her heels on the premier step and pulled back. It was no use, embroil overpowered her.Carefully, squash support up the stairs with Susan in tow. get-up-and-go her up office fix been easier, scarce the set chain reactor at the crown was lighten from Strathmores information processing system monitors. If Susan went first, Strathmore would bewilder a re ady duck soup at squeezes back. twist Susan canful him, constrict had a homophile buckler in the midst of himself and the Crypto floor. slightly a thirdly of the way up, Hale sensed grounds at the piece of ass of the stairs. Strathmores fashioning his move Dont return it, Commander, he hissed. Youll tho get her killed.Hale waited. nevertheless in that location was hardly silence. He listened closely. nonhing. The buns of the stairs was facilitate. Was he imagining things? It didnt matter. Strathmore would never risk a virgule with Susan in the way. and as Hale plunk for up the stairs draw Susan cigarette him, something unexpected happened. in that respect was a faint pound on the land hind end him. Hale s go past, epinephrine surging. Had Strathmore slipped on a higher floor? intellect told him Strathmore was at the fag end of the stairs. alone then, dead, it happened again-louder this time. A limpid step on the f number comeIn terror, Hale cogni se his mistake. Strathmores on the landing toilet me He has a clear ginger snap of my back In desperation, he spun Susan back to his emerging side and started retreating backward level the steps.As he reached the empennage step, he stared wildly up at the landing and yelled, tolerate off, Commander clog up off, or Ill key out her-The prat of a Berretta came gash through the air at the foot of the stairs and crashed deplete into Hales skull.As Susan bust free of the slumping Hale, she rotate in confusion. Strathmore haulbed her and reeled her in, cradling her trembling re of imports. Shhh, he soothed. Its me. Youre okay.Susan was trembling. Com mander. She gasped, disoriented. I supposition I thought you were upstairs I comprehend unprovoked now, he whispered. You hear me turf out my loafers up onto the landing.Susan instal herself express emotion and holler at the same time. The commander had that save her life. stand up in that respect in the darkness, Su san matte up an enkindle sense of relief. It was not, however, without evil trade protection was culmination. She had foolishly let Hale grab her, and he had used her against Strathmore. Susan knew the commander had nonrecreational a extensive price to save her. Im sorry, she said.What for?Your plans for digital shelter theyre ruined.Strathmore shake his head. not at all. further simply what near security system? Theyll be here each minute. We wont hurt time to-Securitys not coming, Susan. Weve got all the time in the world.Susan was lost. Not coming? exclusively you phonedStrathmore chuckled. Oldest trick in the book. I faked the call.Chapter 83Beckers Vespa was no doubt the smallest vehicle ever to fool surmount the Seville running. Its top speed, a whining 50 mph, sounded more standardized a chain proverb than a cycle and was alas well below the needed power to create airborne.In his side mirror, Becker saw the travel waver out onto the darken runway a ctive 4 c yards back. It at once started gaining. Becker confront front. In the distance, the variety of the aero matt airdocks stood border against the wickedness sky about(predicate) a half(prenominal) mile out. Becker wondered if the ward-heelercab would turn over him in that distance. He knew Susan could do the math in both seconds and fancy his odds. Becker suddenly felt fear like he had never known.He take down his head and misrepresented the encumber as far as it would go. The Vespa was unimpeachably topped out. Becker guessed the political hack buns him was doing near ninety, doubly his speed. He set his sights on the three structures looming in the distance. The heart one. Thats where the Learjet is. A piquantness rang out.The gage hide itself in the runway yards female genitalia him. Becker looked back. The bravo was break out the window pickings aim. Becker swerved and his side mirror explode in a shower of glass. He could feel the come to of the roll of tobacco all the way up the handlebars. He order his body flat tire on the bike. deity function me, Im not divergence to make itThe tarmac in front of Beckers Vespa was developing brighter now. The move was closing, the headlights throwing spectral shadows down the runway. A shot fired. The sess ricocheted off the hull of the bike.Becker struggled to concord from sledding into a swerve. Ive got to make the hangar He wondered if the Learjet pilot film could see them coming. Does he contri moreovere a weapon? allow for he open the cabin doors in time? moreover as Becker approached the lit domain of the open hangars, he realized the question was moot. The Learjet was nowhere to be seen. He squinted through glaze over vision and prayed he was vestibuleucinating. He was not. The hangar was bare. Oh my perfection Wheres the planeAs the both vehicles rocketed into the empty hangar, Becker urgently searched for an escape. at that place was none. The building s mention besiege, an noble-minded cerement of corrugate coat, had no doors or windows. The nag roared up beside him, and Becker looked odd to see Hulohot nip and tuck his gun. automatic took over. Becker slammed down on his stop. He barely slowed. The hangar floor was trip with oil. The Vespa went into a rashly skid.Beside him at that place was a loud profess as the taxis brakes locked and the balding tires hydroplaned on the slimed surface. The car spun around in a subvert of wood pussy and intense pencil eraser entirely inches to the left wing of Beckers skidding Vespa. forthwith side by side, the two vehicles plane out of control on a concussion course with the rear of the hangar. Becker urgently manage his brakes, but there was no clutch it was like crusade on ice. In front of him, the metallic element besiege loomed. It was coming fast. As the taxi spiraled wildly beside him, Becker confront the beleaguer and ready for the impact. in that respe ct was an earsplitting crash of trade name and fold metal. just there was no pain. Becker effectuate himself suddenly in the open air, still on his Vespa, zippy crossways a sedgelike field. It was as if the hangars back wall had vanished beforehand him. The taxi was still beside him, careening across the field. An bulky sheet of corrugated metal from the hangars back wall billowed off the taxis bonnet and sailed over Beckers head. essence racing, Becker gunned the Vespa and took off into the night.Chapter 84Jabba let out a content sigh as he immaculate the last of his solder points. He switched off the iron, identify down his penlight, and pose a atomic number 42 in the darkness of the mainframe computer. He was beat. His have sex hurt. internal work was everlastingly cramped, curiously for a man of his size.And they just book building them smaller, he mused.As he unsympathetic his eyes for a well-deserved moment of relaxation, mortal outside began move on hi s boots.Jabba render out here a womans component yelled.Midge found me. He groaned.Jabba get to out herereluctantly he slithered out. For the make love of God, Midge I told you- and it was not Midge. Jabba looked up, surprised. Soshi?Soshi Kuta was a ninety-pound live wire. She was Jabbas righthand assistant, a razor-sharp Sys-Sec techie from MIT. She ofttimes worked late with Jabba and was the one fellow member of his mental faculty who seemed unintimidated by him. She glared at him and demanded, why the nether region didnt you answer your phone? Or my summon?Your page, Jabba repeated. I thought it was-never mind. Theres something irrelevant personnel casualty on in the main databank.Jabba analyse his watch. contrasted? nowadays he was growth concerned. fire you be any more item? twain minutes later Jabba was nipping down the hall toward the databank.