Battle Beneath the Earth Page #4

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yarn I've ever heard.

Is it?

As an experienced seismologist,

I can assure you that what I...

Severe landslide above San Francisco

reported a few minutes ago.

Nothing recorded

on our equipment.

Get back in that mine.

Take a team of men.

- Find out what's at the end of that tunnel.

- Yes, sir.

And, Jon, be prepared

for anything.

Yes, sir.

This is priority,

double-scramble the line.

- There it is.

- Move them up, sergeant.

Pick it up, Grasso.

What's that?

Hold it. Sergeant.

- Another set of tunnels...

- Shh!

Douse the light.

Chinese.

Yeah.

With atom bombs.

We move in?

What about the bombs?

We assume they're not triggered.

Take your men and

fan out over there.

- Go in when I go in.

- Right.

Grasso, Greenberg, Hawkins.

Ready?

Let's go.

Sergeant Mulberry?

Get the disposal team.

Hawkins, Greenberg, Grasso.

Take two men back up the

tunnel, about a hundred yards.

- Take those boxes, set a barricade.

- Yeah.

- Come on, move it, move it.

- Hey, guys.

Put it right up

against the wall.

Come on, let's move it, let's

move it. Come on, come on.

Yes.

Identical to the Mark III.

Yeah, copied lock, stock

and imploding pin.

It's a Mark III assembly.

Disarm and destroy. And watch

your step. It's tricky.

Got one.

Got two.

Got three.

Four.

Five.

Got six.

Hawkins.

Hawkins.

Move back, commander.

Okay, let's get out.

- Give us five minutes.

- I can't! Let's move!

Number eight, sir.

That machine, it's coming back!

Come on!

Hawkins, come on.

Grenades. Hit the

treads with grenades.

Come on, everybody out!

- See to the wounded, Chai.

- Yes, general.

So the Americans

have discovered us?

Sooner or later, it

was bound to happen.

- How many bombs are still operative?

- Only two.

- And your technicians?

- One survivor.

I'm sorry.

- Our most valuable men.

- They will be replaced.

But when? And the bombs?

- Even now, our deliveries fall far behind.

- We have prepared for a long struggle.

Five new atomic squadrons

will be dispatched soon.

And what about Peking?

The old men quake in their

boots, they dare not interfere.

General Chan, the advance force have

bored into the Colorado caverns.

- They await instructions.

- Good.

This is no time for a

faint heart, Kengh Lee.

The enemy lies naked before us, we rely

on your brilliance to see us through.

Hand me that fragment, Jon.

Thank you.

If Kramer's right, then he's years

ahead of your entire operation here.

Now, that's not fair, sir. We were set

up to detect underground explosions.

- Then how do we trace the tunnels?

- I've been talking to Dr. Kramer.

He's sketched out these new circuits.

He thinks they might be the answer.

What do you think, Vance?

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