VIT TOOK A COUPLE OF hours for them to maneuver the boxes through the belly plate and into the drainage tunnels.
Meanwhile, I manned the 50 cal’s and looked for action. I did see somebody checking me out with a telescope as the sunlight glinted off it. But moving one of the guns in his direction with that lazer gave him an eyeful and I wasn’t bothered again.
Finally, I could feel the hatch shut. And someone tapped on the wall in between us.
I grabbed the mic, “What the hell? This ain’t no school bus!”
“Do you want to get paid?” the woman returned, calm as ice.
“Not if I can’t spend it. You know no one has left this city since they seceded,” I replied, a bit hot. “They make the rules here and one of them is no one in or out, under penalty of death.”
“You’ve already got half a fortune.
