CHAPTER 36
They entered the command center—a huge room that held the computers and screens that monitored every ray terminal and displayed live surveillance.
But now the room was empty. All the panels were turned off, the monitors powered down, and the floors were scuffed from equipment being moved away.
A long window on one wall looked out over the city, and a single flat screen TV was mounted on the corner of the wall.
“No one,” Brocc said.
“Why aren’t there any Gourmans?” Lara Stella asked. “We got all the way up this tower without a single encounter. I thought we were lucky, but now I’m not so sure.”
“They’ve fooled us,” Geoffrey said. He walked over to where a Nutrizeen monitoring machine should have been. “They’ve deserted this place. It’s a trap.”
The doors slammed open and A
