Thirty-Eight
Quick but thorough, Gunfire and I talked it through.
The computers out in the tunnels had either tiny controllers, like those in the monitoring gear and the screen outside the airlock, or buried somewhere within massive tunneling bots. The moment I went near the tunneling bots, the mutineers would assume I intended to turn the machine against the facility. I felt certain that they wouldn’t stand down for no no folks, I want only the processor cores so we can open up an alternate Portal and let Montague HQ spank you.
Clearing tunnels required explosives. If we searched, we might find them. They might let us blow a bigger hole at the end of the tunnel. They might also bring the ceiling down on us. And the moment the mutineers saw us open the explosives locker, they’d pull two
