Unfortunately it looks like the sewers here were desigo handle flushing the entire tent of one of the farm tanks, in case of emergehere are four manholes outside your perimeter, but inside your ser grids, and one located in the middle of your fortifications.

  I didn’t reply, I was too busy sprinting towards the manhole cover in the middle of the interse. I was a half dozen paces away when a Model Three started poking its head above the surface. I unslung the axe from my bad, without breaking stride, brought the on down so it lodged squarely iithesis’s skull. The body immediately went limp and slipped back down into the sewer.

  Without a moment of hesitation I dropped the axe and brought up my rifle aied it into the opening, catg another half dozen Threes trying to climb up after the first. It was only after my gun ran out of ammo that I felt safe enough to peek ihe tunnel was dark, and appeared to be empty, so I switched my visor over to night vision. There were two massive, hubcap sized, pound eyes right there, staring at me. The shrimp.

  As soon as the creature realised I could see it, it began to thrash about, causing minor tremors. “ that thing actually dig its way out like that?”

  No, it only attack straight ahead, but it could cause major damage to other utilities down there. I’d be more worried about Model Eights getting ferried to the area and tunnelling up, that flood-way is wide enough for twelves to carry reinforts.

  I stared into those giant eyes, which hadn’t left my positioe the creature smashing whatever it could reach. “Gimme a gel tracker grenade, I don’t want to lose this bastard again.”

  As soon as the grenade appeared in my hand I casually tossed it onto the back of the shrimp. The creature’s eyes followed the greried to evade the best it could in the limited space it had, then immediately lost i when it realised the grenade didn’t hurt it.

  I snorted, “Stupid thing. Dispy its location in my augs at all times, until someoually kills it. We should probably share that data with the others too.”Done.

  “You mentioned something about gas traps earlier, right? Anything that I could use to vihe Antithesis dowo kindly fuck off until we’re done here?”

  Of course, any requirements?

  “Quick w, hands off, and nothing that will harm the residents when they finally get back here,” I said, ting off my fingers as I went.

  I have just the thing. An Aerosolized Sulfuric Acid, specially desigo automatically ralise itself after an hour. Normally effective withiy feet, but in that enclosed space it’ll spread much further.

  As I watched, a Model Three attempted to sneak past the mantis shrimp, but was crushed against the wall by its erratient. “I don’t think I have a ton of time to be picky here, if that thing moves out of the way the smaller models are going to flood through here. Just make sure you give me the relevant safety precautions too.”

  Two different boxes materialised o my feet. The rger box had a device which looked like a pair of oversized acetylene welding tanks, which fed into a long hose whided in some sort of gas dispersal nozzle. On the back of the tanks there were a series of metal hooks spaced evenly. The smaller package had some sort of unmarked spray .

  There is a dder mounted within the sewer access, lower the gas dispersal device down and hook it on to the rungs. The spray tains a sealing foam which you use to make the opening airtight ahe gas within the sewers.

  The tanks weighed a ton, and I struggled to put the device within the sewers without dropping it, it was something I never would have been able to carry before the muscle repts. When the gas was in pce I repced the manhole cover aed it shut with the foam.

  After a few moments I could hear a faint hiss from within the sewers. The dot on my Augs stopped moving for a moment, then vacated the area at a retively high speed. “That’s not going to be enough to kill that thing, is it?”

  Probably not, but there’s a ce. The gas will seep between the armor ptes a at the more vulnerable flesh. I doubt anything will survive aended period down there.

  “Good to know.” I let out a tired sigh, “I still o seal those other manholes.”

  The bears are dealing with any Antithesis which cw their way out of those, and there should be enough Acid to weaken any that make it that far.

  “Yeah, but I probably should do it anyway. If I iionally leave weaknesses in my defenses I’m just inviting trouble.”

  That’s a pretty mature way of looking at the situation.

  “Yeah, well, I prefer to keep my ans on the inside, and don’t mind doing a little extra busy work to keep it that way. How e the team hasn’t fihose other hives yet? It feels like it’s been hours already,” I moaned.

  It’s beehan five minutes, you’ve just been putting out a lot of fires ever since you activated that lure.

  “Fuuuuuuucccckkkkk….”

  Cheer up, a couple more hours and it’ll be all over.

  Clearing the other four manholes was retively easy, I just repeated my previous strategy. Clear the surface around the manholes, with the bear’s help, fire a clip down the hole to gain some time, fill with mas and seal. The entire process took less than five minutes, and at the end of it I was starting to feel like things were retively secure.

  Of course that’s usually when things went wrong for me, so I spent the en minutes obsessively cheg my defenses. It was only after Nyx received some hat I had a reason to interrupt my relentless pag.

  The third hive just went down, and in addition to that your points for saving civilians have just been processed. That’s aoken and a couple thousand more points, do you have any important purchases to make?