ss road. It was basically a giant gray concrete box the size of a foo

, waiting for his eyes t

t machine oil. He looked out at forty meters of bare concrete

et of keys. "Honestly, nobody wants the place. No heat, no staff, t

o said, not bothering to turn

gling s

locks changed today. No one com

Mr. Hart.

e actually thinks I'm

ad-either drowned or starving. Leo didn't feel bad about it. He just felt a

Leo waited until the sound of

iddle of the empty floo

ight's

ught would work. He'd pressed his hand against a stack of water bottle

et not in St

That meant everything he wanted to duplicate had to be stored first, and any

'll cle

glittering wall of water bottles-one milli

out. All

the warehous

e air s

ade, tumbling and stacking into walls. Column after column of clear plastic rose toward the cei

enter of the chaos

nally stopped, th

cross the entire north half of the warehouse. Sunlight from the broken w

Space capacity

out a sl

ttles. Half a

gers over the cold plastic. Every bottle was ident

men kill each other ove

elt something strange settle in his chest. It wasn't joy or trium

s cer

hone

ashed acros

hree times before

Where've you been? Sienna says you've bee

m b

aldives trip-I was thinking we upgrade to the overwater villa. It's like forty grand ext

t a wall of

he

n wh

l you pay

er this time. "Oh, you know. Whenever. Come on

the

k about it

you'd come throug

all e

moment. Then he opened his notes a

eck the shared b

the flood, when the numbers didn't add up and Trent alw

time

ticked down in the

cooldown:

ented truck was idling. Marcus Webb's driver

ases of military-grade MREs, like you asked. Sur

si

all the water had come from. Leo suspected the man had seen the bottles

palm on the

or

d the next. Sixty cases slid into the

red and tw

ver seven million packages-far more than the space coul

Fit the outpu

the warehouse floor and left exactly six

cooldown:

ting the second

,000x Multipl

stack:

g: MRE x60

nfi

nf

ace in his

themselves into the void, row on row, tier on tier, filling the

on complete.

e capacity:

cooldown res

d perfec

ed thousa

three MREs a day. Six hundred thousand meals meant two hundred thousa

hree more multipli

rled into a

les gleamed behind him

he pictured it full. Steel beams stacked to the ceiling. Crates of ammuni

I'm going to be the only man in it who is n

hone

upgrading the villa!!! You're the

at it for t

ld life. He opened Sienna's contact, pressed his

ked her again. She's still usef

builds, the h

nto his pocket and

a lot of w