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against a completely enclosed vehicle. Now, other things can wreck it, but it still gives us a fighting chance.”
    Selene wasn't sure she wanted to know what those other things were. The fauna she had encountered in the game was bad enough, and Zach had informed her that they had barely even scratched the surface. There were even more dangerous creatures lurking in the far corners of the world, capable of ripping through entire platoons or armored columns singlehandedly.
    “So what are you looking for, exactly?” Selene asked, trying to keep the conversation going for entertainment. She kept scanning the foliage, though, wondering if they'd have to deal with another attack.
    “It's a material called cyrocite. We use it to basically make plastics or polymers. That assault rifle you're carrying is pretty much made up of cyrocite, with steel in a few places like the barrel.”
    “Aren't all of our small arms made with plastic?”
    “Yeah, but the older versions don't have the durability of the newer cyrocite models. And getting the material from Old Chicago is really, really expensive. So we're going with this for now, even though it's dangerous.”
    “I'd hate to see what else we have to dig up,” Selene commented, still keeping a sharp eye out for any signs of activity. “Did you hear about our new discovery?”
    “Of course. I was one of the first ones they contacted about it,” he replied. “Although it's interesting that they didn't find a schematic. That's odd, since most places have something like that for new equipment.”
    “Is that going to be a problem?”
    “Well, it's not helpful, certainly,” Yusuf said. “If we want to find out how they're built we're going to have to take one apart and analyze it, and that should be done in Central City. Getting it there might be a problem too.”
    “Can't they just fly it south?”
    “Would you want to screw around with something as valuable as that if you didn't know how to properly operate it?”
    “OK, point taken.”
    “If we can get a pilot that can fly it safely then yeah, that's going to be the best option. I'd say that they'd fly it to the Indianapolis airfield and drop it off there. That's the most direct route. But if we want to play it safe then the best way would be to take it apart and ship it to the Gary port, then bring it south by rail.”
    “That's going to take some doing,” she replied. “And I think a lot of people would be sacred of doing something wrong and accidentally ruining the plane.”
    “Yeah, we'll probably send a team north to do it,” Yusuf confirmed. “Thought your engineers have been providing us with a ton of good information on the planes, so I don't think that they should feel incompetent.”
    “That's good to hear, but our specializations tend to focus more on battlefield engineering and less on the technical side of things. Or at least that's what they tell me.”
    “Makes sense. That's mostly what you're dealing with on a daily basis anyhow.”
    Selene moved a little to the left, trying to improve her field of vision a bit. It was difficult in the dense undergrowth of the forests south of Indianapolis. Lines of sight only extended about fifty yards or so in every direction, and even those were restricted. Trees and bushes created significant blind spots, places where a wily creature could sneak up on them.
    They had a few troops with flamethrowers, but they couldn't be everywhere at once, and anyhow, some fen wolves were still fast enough to avoid the gouts of flames. Her platoon would have to rely on good aim, or if worst came to worst, their close-combat abilities.
    “Here's a question for you,” she said. “You've taken a look at the designs of the plane we sent to you, right?”
    “Right. What about them?”
    “Do you think it's something that we can use to turn the tables on Ragnarok's air force?”
    “I'd have to make sure that we can build it first,” Yusuf said. “There's a good chance that it's