Steve expected the link to the outside world to be down and wasn’t disappointed. Whatever connection the automatic updates went through he couldn’t figure out, so the plan of sending their own message needed a secondary strategy.
Their current plan B was digging through concrete walls into the earth before clawing their way through two-stories of dirt to the surface. Rather than dive into manual labor, Steve went back to the server room, committed to an exhaustive attempt at fixing the mess he’d made when he’d disconnected Dot. Apparently, he’d blown several other systems at the same time.
He crawled among the towers of wires and LEDs that housed the meat and bones of Dot’s systems, as well as facilitated the information that passed through the lab. He admitted he was glad for the distra
