Chapter Twenty-Six
Erik and Jia peeked around a corner.
It turned into a hallway that would bring them closer to the CEO’s office, so they stepped forward.
Without access to working cameras, they had no idea who or what might be between them and their destination. They’d encountered some stragglers along the way, and few of them had been willing to surrender. Erik could have been wrong, and a squad of exoskeletons was waiting to shower them in rockets.
The more he thought about it, the less he believed that.
“If they’ve only bothered to take out the cameras near the CEO…” he considered, “that means they don’t have a bunch of hidden exoskeletons. They’re trying to make us hesitate, which means they are stalling for some reason.” He pondered that before transmitting, “All teams advance.
