PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
They stripped the massive, reinforced steel axles, the heavy-duty alternators, and miles of thick, industrial copper wiring.
In the widest, steepest ventilation shaft of the cavern—a massive, forty-five-degree tunnel angling directly upward toward the surface of the mountain—they had built the equalizer.
Baraka stood at the base of the tunnel, staring up at the terrifying, jury-rigged machine.
It was a primitive but mathematically flawless electromagnetic railgun. Two parallel rails of solid, conductive steel ran a hundred yards up the shaft. They were wrapped in thousands of coils of thick copper wire, hooked directly into a massive, daisy-chained bank of heavy diesel truck batteries and mo