Chapter 327: Fragment Four
He descended to gene-active depth at Zone Six's conduit site one hour after sunrise.
The conduit was new — less than a day old. The energy channel was still settling into its shape, the carrier function reading a freshness in the stone that older conduits did not have. Zone One's conduit felt like a road. Zone Six's conduit felt like a road built yesterday, still taking on the character of the terrain around it.
He held position at thirty-two meters — below the entity's territory, below the organized ridge stone, in the layer where the carrier function could reach the archive network.
The archive connection registered immediately.
