Chapter 20
In the meantime, it had begun to rain. There was a light drizzle from the cloudy night sky. It wasn't really rain, but the moisture in the air felt something like moving through a light soupy mist. Everything seemed permeated by the mist. Unpleasant. Some strange smells were in the air as well. It didn't smell like clean rain, but rather like acid rain.
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He was sitting in one of the four buggies that were again heading south at high speed. He sat in the second buggy and was tightly bound to his seat. By now, the four buggies were fully armed and probably also equipped with the nano-net. Now they were dangerous, armored, military fighting machines.
His buggy was driven by a woman - he thought he recognized Fay Seymore - in combat fatigues. On the platform next to him, a
