Chapter 654: Where the World Was Cut
"It thinks we work here," said Ira.
"It thinks somebody works here." Vyra had already climbed to the first terrace and was walking its edge with a hand out, testing where the authorization ended. "It has been waiting a very long time for them, and something is broken badly enough that we look close enough."
They spent an hour finding out how much that was worth.
The answer was limited: access to the outer terraces, several fragmentary diagrams, and nothing else. Vyra could raise parts of a schematic by touching certain channel junctions, but it used conventions neither she nor Mo Rui had seen. Broad commands did nothing. When Yu asked directly for an exit, the nexus repeated the line about the three anchors twice and then fell silent for four minutes.
