Chapter 310: Confrontation
Day Six at Zone Two, and the deep material was cleaner than anything in the first twelve anchors.
At forty meters, below the reach of the Fragment Extractor's full sweep, the basement rock held its original character. Uniform compression. No fracture pattern. No warning in the stone. Kai held the carrier function still, matched the character at the contact point, and waited.
Thirty-eight seconds.
The entity's presence came from the east section of its distributed territory — a clean extension, not the slow careful reaching it had shown in the repaired upper sections. It came to the contact point and settled.
Pool cost: 11%.
He noted the time and moved to the next anchor position.
