Chapter 14 - The Escape Tunnel
One by one, we slid down the dark, slick stainless steel chute, plummeting thirty feet into icy water below.
I caught Genevieve as she emerged at the bottom, helping her stand in the waist-deep runoff stream.
The drainage tunnel was dark, wet, and freezing, echoing with the distant sound of alarms from the facility above.
Marcus carried the insulated medical transit case high above the water, keeping the precious cure entirely dry.
We waded rapidly through the concrete pipeline, following the natural flow of the water toward the forest exterior.
Behind us, muffled explosions echoed down the pipe as Vane’s team realized we had escaped the laboratory.
After ten agonizing minutes of marching through the freezing current, we burst out into the rain-soaked forest ravine.
The cool night air felt incredible against our skin as we scrambled up the muddy embankment under the pines.
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Our helicopter was already circling high above the trees, its powerful searchlight cutting through the storm.
Marcus popped an orange smoke flare, signaling our precise location to the pilot hovering above the forest floor.
