“Did we... kill them all?”

    Jang Ju-im, standing behind me, asked hesitantly.

    “Not all of them, just a portion,” I replied.

    “What about our robot? How did it do?”

    “It’s fine.”

    Truthfully, it wouldn’t have made much of a difference even without the robot. In a narrow, straight hallway devoid of any cover, mowing people down with a 7.62mm machine gun isn’t exactly difficult.

    The only reason we managed to kill five of them was because we lured them in. If we’d started shooting from the entrance, we might not have gotten a single one. Still, the initial show of force was enough to assert dominance.

    Now the real challenge begins.

    But something’s nagging at me.

    I can hear crying behind us.@@ing from the room where the children are.

    I turned to the researchers.

    “Pull the robot back around the corner.”

    “What? Back? Aren’t we going to use it?”

    “We’ll bring it out when we need it again.”

    Jang Ju-im, his face pale, nodded shakily and maneuvered the robot back behind cover.

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    The raiders’ gunfire persisted as the robot retreated to the corner of the hallway.

    “What now?” Jang Ju-im asked.

    “Let them keep shooting. All we need is time, right?”

    It was 9 p.m.

    We had to hold out for another ten hours to see the light of day.

    But...

    “Scared!”

    “Moooom!”

    “Teacher! Teacher!”

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