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Once you are satisfied that the lift is clean, you throw the drone inside, then you use your magnetized gloves to pull the doors closed. You seriously doubt that there are any other wreckers this deep in the hull, but you don’t want to worry about your drone getting pinched.
With your prize now situated, you poke your head through another set of doors in the lift bank, and inspect the lift shafts. It is dirty and dusty, with debris floating around here and there – but there is no evidence of conduit worms. You are just about to pull yourself inside and start heading up, when a terrible thought occurs to you. What if there is a drone inside the lift shaft? After all, it is more than wide enough.
As anxious as you are to keep moving, you force yourself to wait – to make sure that no lamp flickers on and off, as your drone did when it was on standby, or sentry, or whatever the fuck … before you set the thing off. After an agonizing wait, and no light, in a moment of uncharacteristic recklessness, you throw yourself into the shaft, then scramble up the three decks – half expecting the clouds of dust above and below you to explode into motion. But luckily, nothing happens and less than a dozen seconds after you entered, you are exiting at speed. It is not easy, but you force yourself to slow down, just a little – in case you end up stirring something else up.
Though you are not sure what that would be exactly, as there is very little dust and debris on this deck – and no sign of either conduit worms or drones. Still, you are so confident that something else is going to jump you before you reach the bulkhead that when you finally get there without incident you are actually surprised – and even more on edge. Should be bigger and bigger conduit worms as you approach the power plants, after all. Though considering that this bulkhead has external vents, if there are any in there – or around there, for that matter, then with any luck they should be dead or dormant.
You were not expecting to count on that kind of luck, and now that you seem to be having it – you are suspicious. But as there is nothing to fight or to flee from here, you really have no choice but to keep moving cautiously forward. Finally, you find yourself in front of a down and sealed blast door, like the one that you encountered earlier. Unlike the one that you encountered earlier, this one has a hatch installed in it. It either locks and unlocks only from the other side, or it doesn’t have a lock at all.
