28

CALIFF

“So you mean to say. It’s not an option?” My hopes just crumbled down. My plan was a complete waste.

“Yeah,” Marcus confirmed it. “Unless you abandon this compound because it’s completely contaminated with silver nitrate in the air, water, soil, and trees. Everything. If not, we will all die.”

“What do you have in mind then?”

“Dart gun with silver nitrate solution, or silver bullets, but you know the effect. I can wire an IED outside the compound and mix it with silver, but like I said, it’s hard to clean up. Or we will stick to plain Semtex. Your choice, Alpha.”

“Santi is upgrading the security system. I’m adding cameras and sensors, but it’s only an alert. The rest of that, we have to fight if they’re coming to us as a threat. I may have allies, but it will take minutes to hours before they arrive.”

“Just IED then, plain Semtex. Where can we buy it?”

“I’ll take care of that, Marcus.”

“Let me know when it arrives so that I can start planting it. I may need assistants,