日期：2024-04-19 49 If you had the strength of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight. The waiting beyond the stacks of Supply was the worst. Those who could napped. Most engaged innervous banter. Knox kept checking the time on the wall, picturing all the pieces... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 48 Poor living corpse, closed in a dead mans tomb! Juliette followed Solo through the hole in the server-room floor. There was a long ladder there and apassageway that led to thirty-five, a part of thirty-five she suspected was not accessible from t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 47 Give leave awhile, we must talk in secret. What is this place? Lukas asked Bernard. The two of them stood before a large chart hanging onthe wall like a tapestry. The diagrams were precise, the lettering ornate. It showed a grid of circlesevenly... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 46 I dreamt my lady came and found me dead Juliette stood perfectly still and listened to the sound of footsteps retreating down the stairwell. Shecould feel the vibrations in the railing. Goose bumps rushed up her legs and down her arms. Shewanted... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 45 These violent delights have violent ends. The countertop in Supply rattled with the implements of war. Guns, freshly milled and whollyforbidden, were lined up like so many sticks of steel. Knox picked one upcould felt the heat in abarrel recently... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 44 Deaths pale flag is not advanced there. The dirt farm below filled the stairwell with the rich smell of fresh rot. Juliette was still waking up asshe descended another level and began noticing the scent. She had no idea how long shed sleptithad f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 43 But old folksmany feign as they were dead;Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead. Do you understand what youre proposing we do? Knox looked up at McLain, met her wrinkled and wizened eyes with as much confidence as hecould muster. The tiny woman... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 42 Ill bury thee in a triumphant grave; A grave? O no! a lantern, slaughterd youth, For here lies Juliet,and her beauty makes this vault a feasting presence full of light. Juliette left her soup-slathered helmet on the floor and moved toward the pal... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 41 And too soon marrd are those so early made. The earth hath swallowd all my hopes but she. Lukas followed Bernard through the halls of IT, nervous techs scattering before them like night bugsstartled by the light. Bernard didnt seem to notice the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 40 For you and I are past our dancing days. Knox saw the uproar in Mechanical as just another emergency to overcome. Like the time thebasement subwall had sprung a leak, or when the oil rig had hit that pocket of methane and they hadto evacuate eigh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 39 Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fastJuliette forced her way through the inner airlock door and scrambled to get it closed. Darknessoverwhelmed her as the heavy door squealed on its hinges and settled against its dry seals. Shegroped for th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 38 Sharp misery had worn him to the bones; And about his shelves, a beggarly account of empty boxes. Lukas arrived at thirty-four breathless and clutching the small box, more exhausted from the laws hehad broken than this habitual climb to work. He... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 37 For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring. Walker made it to the end of the hallway and found himself leaving the comforting confines of a tightcorridor to enter the wider entrance hall to Mechanical. The room, he saw, was full of youngs... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 36 Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kissa dateless bargain to engrossing death! The bodies were everywhere. Covered in dust and dirt, suits worn down by the toxic eaters... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 35 One, two, and the third in your bosom. Lukas held the small box tightly against his chest as he hiked up to the landing on thirty-eight. Herewas a mixed-use level of offices, shops, a plastics factory, and one of the small water treatmentplants.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 34 Is there no pity sitting in the clouds that sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! The heavy steel doors of the silo parted, and a great cloud of argon billowed out with an angry hiss. The cloud seemed to materiali... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 33 Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears. Walker the electrician bent over a cluttered workbench and adjusted his magnifier. The great bulbouslens was attached to his head with a hoop that mightve been uncomfortable had he not been wearingit fo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 32 A glooming peace this morning with it brings;The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;Some shall be pardond, and some punished. It was the morning of the worst cleaning of Lukass lifeand for onc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 Part 4 The Unraveling 31 The Tragic Historye of Romeus and JulietteThe walk was long, and longer still for her young mind. Though Juliette took few of the steps withher own small feet, it felt as though she and her parents had traveled for weeks. To... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-11 30 Bernard watched the cleaning from the cafeteria while his techs gathered their supplies in Petersoffice. It was his habit to view these things alonehis techs rarely joined him. They lugged theirequipment out of the office and headed straight for... 阅读全文>>