Chapter 111: Spider.
A faint flash illuminated the dark room every couple of seconds, like a lightning storm slowly approaching from the distant mountains. The darkness receded every time, revealing the cramped space and the numerous shelves lining its walls.
The left one was stacked with boxy drawers, each containing a different label. The right was much less organized, with more than a few baskets filled with wires of different sizes and colors, circuit boards of all shapes, and devices that seemed to have been disassembled to their most basic components.
There were no windows, which was obvious, seeing as the 6x3 m room was underground. The only entrance was a metal door that was welded shut from the inside. Right beside it was a cylinder-shaped device with a fan spinning at a constant pace, pulling in air through the vent behind it.
On the opposite side of the room, a portable heater glowed a faint orange, radiating a warmth that washed over the nearby desk from which the flashes of light constantly streamed.
Leaning back into his chair, Finn removed the mask covering his face and exhaled the air trapped in his lungs. Sweat beaded his forehead, a result of his intense focus and not the room’s temperature. Staring at the ceiling for a few seconds, he turned his attention to the object on the cutting mat in front of him.
A small cube barely six centimeters across rested at the center of a square-shaped circuit board, decorated with several resistors, capacitors, and integrated circuits, in addition to thin wires connected to the small cube at the center.
Reaching under the desk, the boy flicked a switch that caused the lamp hanging over it to light up. From the side, he picked an oddly designed skeletal frame and placed it in front of him. He then grabbed the circuit board and gently inserted it in the gap at the center of the frame then went about fastening it in place using a pen sized screw driver.
Once that was done, he connected a few wires to the rest of the frame then leaned back.
"Alright, Jake," He said. "This is the last one. Let’s give it a test run."
Beep bobeep.
[Jake: Got it.]