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"Of course, but think! Who made this place? How big is the complex?
When and why did they abandon it? Where are they now?"
"Yes-and above all, what else will we find in here?"
Just then the screech of tortured metal sounded loudly throughout the
chamber. Everyone turned and stared back at the elevators, where the
sound was coming from. A spot on the left door of the central elevator
began to glow red, then orange, then white. Iridescent metal began to
spew forth in chunks. Then a spherical mechanism about the size of a
basketball shot through the hole. A few bright green and yellow lights
the size of small coins lit up its dull silver surface.
Zip's blood ran cold. "It's an airbot!" he cried. Zip had never seen an
airbot before, but he knew what it was: an aerial reconobot, an armed
robotic flying device which, among other uses, could be programmed to
track down fugitives, drawn by their body heat. Zip and Mark lifted
their laser pistols and fired simultaneously. Their beams lit up red
dots on the surface of the flying ball but scattered harmlessly, as the
Starmen assumed they would. The airbot quickly oriented itself to the
escapees and began to fly toward them.
9: A Vision in the Night
"RUN! Go! Scatter! Move!" shouted Zip frantically. He ran forward to
the closest aisle between the stacks of crates, wheeled right, and sped
down the narrow space.
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