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fficult. If Jessica made a mistake in Marin's conversions,
who would care if Marin Aoki went a few kilometers-per-hour over the speed limit?
There was no one there to enforce it anyway.
After nearly eight hours of preparation, including a wide variety of tests
for biological hazards, latent radiation, and chemical pollutants, she
was ready to start Marin's trip. Everything went smoothly. The canned water
had not perished, the freeze dried food had not decomposed and the computer
had kept the solar car's batteries charged.
The only set back Marin Aoki had, aside from the death of Marin's companions, was that
the gun locker was buried under a huge concrete beam. Obviously, some kind of
explosion had occurred near by and now Marin Aoki was going to have to enter the
world above armed with only a tazer gun.
The tazer gun had been left in the glove compartment of Marin's
transportation, a solar car. This was because, like the solar car's batteries,
its charge had to be maintained for the ten years Marin Aoki had been
in thermo freeze. For projectiles, the tazer fired two darts which
struck an adversary and delivered a shock of twenty thousand volts through
wires which attached to the gun. It only had a range of around three meters
and only worked against one opponent.
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