日期：2024-04-19 69 Silo 17 Juliette pulled herself through the cold, dark waters, bumping blindly against the ceiling, a wall, noway to tell which. She gathered the limp air hose with blind and desperate lunges, no idea how fastshe was goinguntil she crashed into t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 68 Silo 18 Hello? Solo? Please say something. There was no mistaking that voice, even through the small speakers in the dismantled headset. Itechoed bodiless in the control room, the same control room that had housed that very voice for somany years... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 67 Silo 18 Lukas sat with his mother on the thick jamb of the open server-room door. He looked down at herhands, both of them wrapped around one of his. She let go with one of them and picked a piece of lintoff his shoulder, then cast the offending... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 66 Silo 17 Juliette grabbed the limp air hose with both hands and squeezed. Her reward was a few weak bubblesrolling up her visorthe pressure inside the tube was gone. She whispered a curse, tilted her chin against the radio, and called Solos name.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 65 Silo 18 Walker found himself shoved down the square stairs, past a crew of mechanics working to weldanother set of steel plates across the narrow passage. He had most of the home-built radio in thespare-parts tub, which he desperately clutched wi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 64 Silo 17 The descent to Mechanical was oddly tranquil, almost mesmerizing. Juliette slid through the greenflood, pushing herself away from the curved railing each time the staircase spiraled around beneathher feet. The only sounds anywhere were th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 63 Silo 18 Lukas sat at the little desk constructed from an embarrassment of wood and stared down at a bookstuffed with a fortune in crisp paper. The chair beneath him was probably worth more than hed makein a lifetime, and he was sitting on it. If... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 62 Silo 17 The panic she felt from donning the suit was unexpected. Juliette had anticipated some degree of fear from slipping into the water, but it was the simple actof putting on the cleaning suit that filled her with a hollow dread, that gave he... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 61 Silo 18 said Thursday that Id get it to you in two days. Well, damn it, its been two days, Carl. You do realize the cleanings tomorrow morning, right? And you realize that today is still today, dont you? Dont be a smart-ass. Get me that file and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 60 Silo 18 boys from the other side of the camp. These results were closely observed by the experimenters,who were posing as camp counselors. When the violence got out of hand, the experiment was haltedbefore it could run its full course. What began... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 59 Silo 17 Juliette flicked the lights on in the Suit Lab as she hauled in her latest load from Supply. Unlike Solo,she didnt take the constant source of power for granted. Not knowing where it came from made hernervous that it wouldnt last. So whil... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 58 Silo 18 Walker waved his arms over his head as he attempted to explain his new theory for how the radioprobably worked. So the sound, these transmissions, theyre like ripples in the air, you see? Hechased the invisible voices with his fingers. Ab... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 57 Silo 18 was the year the Civil War consumed the thirty-four states. More American lives were lost in thisconflict than in all the subsequent ones combined, for any death was a death among kin. For fouryears, the land was ravaged, smoke clearing o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 56 Silo 17 A tiny strand of copper wire stood at a right angle to the rest. It was like a silo landing shooting offthe great stairway, a bit of flat amid the twisted spiral. As Juliette wrapped the pads of her fingersaround the wire and worked the s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 55 Three weeks later Silo 18 Walker remained in his cot and listened to the sounds of distant violence. Shouts echoed down hishallway, emanating from the entrance to Mechanical. The familiar patter of gunfire came next, thepop pop pop of the good gu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 54 Silo 18 The first moment of true rest came hours later at Supply, on the upper edge of the down deep. Therewas talk of holding there, of setting up some kind of barrier, but it wasnt clear how the entirestairway could be blocked to include the op... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 Part 5 The Stranded 53 Silo 18 Marck stumbled down the great stairway, his hand sliding against the cool railing, a rifle tuckedunder his arm, his boots slipping in blood. He could barely hear the screams all around him: the wailsfrom the wounded as... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 52 I have seen the day that I have worn a visor and could tell a whispering tale. Bernard came to at the sound of shouting, his eyes burning from the smoke, his ears ringing with along-ago blast. Peter Billings was shaking his shoulders, yelling at... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 51 This days black fate on more days doth depend: This but begins the woe others must end. The waiting was interminable. It was the long silence of itchy scalps and trickling sweat, thediscomfort of weight on elbows, of backs bent, of bellies flat a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 50 Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low,As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. It would take ten lifetimes to read all these. Juliette looked up from the pile of scattered tins and stacks of thick books. There was more tomarvel at in their text-he... 阅读全文>>