Chapter 26 · Undercity Broker - Chapter 26: Platform Zero

Lin hit the platform and gunfire was already ripping through the air.

He rolled behind a concrete pillar. Chips of stone exploded next to his head. The station wasn't empty. Three groups, all armed, all screaming at each other in the dark.

The Bureau on the left. Black tactical gear, red armbands. Lei's loan sharks on the right, crowding behind overturned benches. And in the middle, Su Jin's scavengers, backs to the far wall where a single door stood half-open.

That's where she is. The sleeper. The source.

Lin's arm burned. The black tattoo writhed like it was trying to crawl off his skin. Every mark on every person in this station was glowing faint green, all of them pointed the same direction. Toward that door.

"Lin!" Su Jin's voice cut through the noise. She was crouched behind a rusted ticket machine, blood running down her temple. "You made it. Stupid of you."

"Yeah, well." Lin kept low, moved toward her. Bullets whined overhead. "I'm good at stupid."

A Bureau agent went down hard. One of Lei's guys took a shot to the leg and started screaming. The scavengers were holding the door but barely. Lin saw Dr.