Ch. 16 Rescue in the Ruins

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Andraia and Raven moved back to a safe distance after picking up the resistance gun and cautiously fired a few shots at the capsule. The first shot appeared not to damage it, but the second and third shots dented the container. Not wanting to risk damage to whatever was inside, Andraia approached and jammed her fingers into a crack that had appeared and forced the hole wider until she could see into the capsule. She and Raven breathed a collective sigh of relief when the container didn't blow up in her face or trigger some kind of trap. Instead, it was a cache of energy crystals. The two of them emptied the capsule and divided up the crystals, but there was something else at the bottom. Some sort of disk inside a clear protective casing. There was no indication of what information it contained, but they decided to take it with them and see if Cerveau could find something of value on it later. A physical disk was an odd find though, a very outdated way to store and transmit data. Not to mention how easily broken they were. They'd have to be careful with it as they moved through the ruins. In any case, there was no sign of the resistance soldier or any way to move onward, it looked as though they'd have to fly over the lava again and take the passage they'd seen before.