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#trap (4), Camp Roberts

The Trickster was quiet. Its hands and feet were stretched out, all as stiff as those of a corpse. The only proof that it was still alive was the slow rise and fall of its chest.

No matter how badly damaged it was, there had to be some energy left within its body. The lack of movement made it all the more suspicious. Upon seeing it, Gyeo-ul’s doubts grew more and more. It was as if it were pretending to be weak and helpless.

Tricksters usually gave off a powerful jamming wave before they collapsed. That had happened with the one Gyeo-ul had met at Atascadero. When it died, there had been a lot of static over the radio airwaves.

What if the radio interference was some kind of communication between these creatures?

‘And if so, then what’s the limit of that communication?’

Speech and radio communication were qualitatively different. The ability to communicate information among these new special mutants might be at a level that encompassed even vision and hearing.

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