>>5372479With little to no danger present, the five of you end up splitting up into groups (except for Boleski, who takes to the air to run along the tops of the servers for the search).
You and Bernard decide to work together, while Valjean and Julia stick with themselves.
Every once in a while, you hop atop a server to gauge just how far you are from the other end of the room. With walls separating blocks of servers, it’s kind of hard to tell just where you are.
It’s a long building, and you’re not sure how much longer you have to go; but you think you’re somewhere past the middle when you find a large, open entrance, one that says ‘SERVER MAINFRAME:’
“Well what do we got here?” Bernard points to the sign that says ‘SERVER MAINFRAME:’ “Think this is it?” He turns to you.
“Can’t think of anything else it’d be.” The feeling in your gut is more of a screech, and that screech is telling you to get the heck in there!
But first…
“Guys, we found something.” You report back to the rest of your team. No use in keeping you all separated if you don’t have to be.
“Tell us where you are so we can find you.” Julia demands.
“What she said.” Valjean echoes.
“Poczekaj dla mnie!” Boleski barks in his mother tongue.
“I’ll be on top of the servers.” You tell your crew, and, as you come to find out, the servers are slightly hot beneath your feet.
At long last, when you finally have the rest of your crew back together, the five of you find yourselves standing at the entrance of the server mainframe room.
“Come on so we can get out of this maze from hell…” Valjean motions to the rest of you before marching forwards.
“Trust me, jerk, you haven’t seen anythin’ yet.” Bernard returns, sharing a knowing look with you. Though it feels like forever ago, FutureLabs’ claustrophobic building is something you don’t think you’ll ever forget.
Stepping into the room, his foot meets a whitened plate– a plate that gives slightly beneath his step. Of course, nearly everything in this building is white, but, as your eyes linger on the place where his foot had been, you can’t help but think that the plate looks just a little out-of-place among everything else here.
If the server room was techish enough, the server mainframe room looks like it was ripped straight from the future, the computer systems lining the walls casting the hall aglow– or perhaps this is a small glimpse of the stuff you’ll see everywhere someday– but you’d rather not ooh and aah over this stuff when you’ve got a job to do.
Picking up the pace, your mind is set on one thing and one thing alone: reaching the end of the room, and, the longer you spend in the mainframe room, the more strongly-convinced you are that the end is surely in sight.
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