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16. Damage Control i
~ The elevator opened and before Helick, Daniel, and Ichiro could step out, Marx and Anabella, who had been waiting for them, stepped in. The door closed again.
“Welcome to Anax Corp. I trust you gentlemen had a pleasant ride here,” she said to them.
“I could get used to having a chopper on hand,” Helick commented.
She gave him a small smile and a nod before typing in a password with the regular elevator buttons. The elevator started moving. No one spoke on the way down. When the numbers stopped lighting up at ‘B’ for the basement level, but the elevator kept descending, no one asked questions. The elevator dinged on its stop, the panel behind them opening.
“Gentlemen,” Anabella stepped out before them. They walked into the middle of an underground factory
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