He acknowledges her with a fractional tilt of his chin before breaking off, cutting a clear line down the cell-lined hall of the lower levels.
ROMAC's corridors are still dark save for the reddened cast of emergency lighting, and the echoing klaxons are ceaseless. Rush halts before climbing the stairs, appropriating one of the fallen guards' sidearms, sliding the loaded magazine out and snapping it in again in a fluid release-and-catch. Given the state of mind and lack of rational planning devoted to their spontaneous subversion of the building's security, it's overwhelmingly likely they are to encounter far more resistance attempting to leave than they had upon entering, particularly if ROMAC has managed to assemble its security details into something marginally more competent.
Scaling the stairs and out of the lower levels is an endeavor alarmingly lacking in any sort of obstructions whatsoever, a fact that grows increasingly and disturbingly more obvious the further they ascend.
"No virus can account for this," he says, nodding shortly to indicate the halls and stairways conspicuously devoid of any personnel. "We should have encountered someone by now."
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ROMAC's corridors are still dark save for the reddened cast of emergency lighting, and the echoing klaxons are ceaseless. Rush halts before climbing the stairs, appropriating one of the fallen guards' sidearms, sliding the loaded magazine out and snapping it in again in a fluid release-and-catch. Given the state of mind and lack of rational planning devoted to their spontaneous subversion of the building's security, it's overwhelmingly likely they are to encounter far more resistance attempting to leave than they had upon entering, particularly if ROMAC has managed to assemble its security details into something marginally more competent.
Scaling the stairs and out of the lower levels is an endeavor alarmingly lacking in any sort of obstructions whatsoever, a fact that grows increasingly and disturbingly more obvious the further they ascend.
"No virus can account for this," he says, nodding shortly to indicate the halls and stairways conspicuously devoid of any personnel. "We should have encountered someone by now."