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clean off the surface of a hatch . Looking up, she said, “There are steps to a tunnel. It is connected to more tunnels that will lead us out of the city.”
    Or get his men trapped underground .
    This just got better by the minute, but sirens were screeching outside, growing louder . Coming closer.
    Nick and Dingo rushed in.
    Tanner said, “She’s got a tunnel exit, but we may get boxed in somewhere.”
    Dingo said, “If we do, we fight, mate . There’s nowhere outside to go right now and the lights in the stadium are dying down.”
    Celebration was over.
    More soldiers would be available to flood the streets. Having the largest army in the world meant no lack of manpower when needed.
    Tanner dropped to his knees and wrenched hard until the hatch finally came free . He raised it and swung the dusty slab of wood all the way back to lie on the ground. Standing up, he told Jin, “Lead.”
    She stepped down into a black hole that swallowed her in seconds. He couldn’t even hear her footsteps . If not for the small light bobbing its way downward, he’d have thought the ground had sucked her in whole.
    The physicists exchanged wary looks. Those two had probably never been so close to dirt in their lives and they came from a country where women had little value .
    Pang clearly had an issue with Jin .
    Were they rethinking their decision to defect ? Too late for that.
    Dingo descended next, then Tanner waved the two packages forward with Blade right behind them.
    Nick was last to step into the opening and paused next to Tanner. “You trust her?”
    “Not a bit.”
    Nick grinned and dropped down the steps.
    Tanner shook his head . He never knew how to take Nick.
    Once down in the hole, Tanner pulled the hatch closed . That wouldn’t slow anyone down once they found the tuk-tuk and came inside to investigate. But his booby traps would.
    Tanner pulled a Claymore mine out of his kit bag and set it in the dark under the steps, pointing up. Next he rigged a pressure switch three steps from the bottom . That should take out the steps, and cause their pursuers the most trouble with one punch. The whole thing took him 90 seconds to set up.
    Thirty feet in, he rigged another Claymore with a trip wire across the tunnel, then hurried to catch up to his group who waited fifty feet away . That would be enough to slow them down without caving rock walls in on top of his team. He hoped.
    The tunnel smelled old and the timbers supporting the ceiling had rotten areas, but it was wide enough to walk two side-by-side . He maneuvered to the front and put his hand on Jin’s back to get her started forward.
    Her muscles tightened under his fingers.
    Not the reaction of a woman used to any man’s touch.
    Tanner dropped his hand. She took off and he stayed at her side .
    If this tunnel went as far as the DMZ, which Tanner seriously doubted because those routes would be heavily guarded, his men could make the hundred-mile trek, but pudgy Pang and wheezing Har would never manage it .
    There was only one given at this point.
    They would run into security somewhere and his team wouldn’t have the advantage if they were fighting in a tunnel.

     
    Chapter Six
     
    That crazy cowboy was not going to take her with him .
    Jin fanned her pitiful flashlight over the dirt floor of the tunnel and fought to draw each breath against the thick lump of disappointment lodged in her chest . She’d waited three long years for this opportunity. Not just waited, but suffered every indignity her superiors had dumped on her just so she could remain close to Pang and Har.
    The golden boys of Project Jigu-X.
    Part of the inner circle of power forbidden to a woman.
    She didn’t want their power, but it would have been nice to have the same privileges when she was just as capable as those two .
    But she was less than just a woman. She was Amerasian in a land where others spit upon anyone who had blood mixed with an American’s.
    She hurried along the uneven floor of