Cerca

Recovering from the impact with the containment mesh, I did a quick scan for the tagged ringlet, only to find that it had wandered in a new direction due to a lack of control. The mesh, however, had my rapt attention. While it might be possible to hop over and tunnel into the mesh, getting into a position so that I could make a hop just did not seem possible.

Unlike the monsters that can attract and repulse One-Eight-Ones, the mesh was firmly repulsive to any Eight-One paring. This included my ringlet and all of the nearby One-Eight-Ones. Skimming along the repulsion, I began exploring the inside surface of the mesh. In not much time, I encountered some zones that were very friendly to Eight-One pairings.

The patterns became flow lines, leading to openings that might take a ringlet if they were just a little wider. At each end of the opening were extra Electrons that looked like they needed a companion, as they bounced across the Sevens and Eights in the mesh. The frequency and shape of the extra Electrons' oscillations were familiar, so I mimicked the pattern as a scan pulse. Behind the veil of One-Eight-Ones, the eleven Protons in a single atom were keenly visible using the pattern filter. At only one Proton difference between and Eleven and a One-Eight-One combo, the Elevens were easy to miss.