The Great Zoo of China
“It bellowed with rage at CJ’s face.CJ opened her eyes.It was right there. It had them, but why wasn’t it—CJ flipped down her visor and saw some dazzling red laser grid-lines separating her from the dragon. Her truck’s slide had ended just outside the electromagnetic dome, inches outside it.CJ released the breath she’d been holding. ‘Now that’s what I call close.’Beside her truck stood Lucky, also on the safe side of the dome. Since the yellowjacket no longer had the pain chip in her head, she h...ad been able to pass through the dome unhurt.CJ unbuckled her seatbelt. ‘Come on, Li, let’s get this truck upright again and do our thing.’It took a little help from Lucky to right the truck, but soon CJ and Li were driving it up to the outer edge of the gigantic hole in the ground nearby, the hole into which the middle emplacement had fallen.Frayed cables stuck out of the hole on three sides: first, the main power cable coming in from the north; and second, the two lesser cables branching off to each side, connecting that incoming cable to the other emplacements.Thanks to the emplacements over at the airfield, the pulsing laser dome cut across the hole, separating CJ and Li from the pack of grey dragons now watching them from the other side.Li backed the truck up to the edge of the void and got to work.CJ helped as much as she could, unspooling replacement cable and holding insulation rubber while Li did the technical stuff.As Li had said, reattaching the copper cabling wasn’t that hard.MoreLess
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