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SHARP FLASHES OF LIGHT BROUGHT Li’s attention back to the monitor on his left followed closely by the muffled sounds of gunfire which barely made it up to his ears from the floors below.
He could see one of the soldiers firing into the machinery either trying to destroy the equipment or shoot someone on the other side.
Li had lost his sense of positional awareness within the data center. The soldiers all looked the same in their uniforms and the equipment was an endless monotony of black and silver metal. There were aisle numbers visible at times on the floor and at either end but otherwise no unique identifiers.
The monitors in the security room automatically displayed the camera images where they sensed motion. The disorienting rotation of camera views combined with the muzzle fla
