Reflection and Direction

Travelling along in split mode was not as fast as catching a wave in the soup, but it beat the alternative of diffuse travel through the mesh itself. As I scanned back into the distance, I pinged the tips of the monster as it rose and spun to drop on another attraction zone to perform its release work. On the next ping, it was gone, having fallen below the edge of a mesh.

Harrowed by avoiding the crush or the monster, I took a short rest and switched back to the most basic Electron detection scan. While this was an unusually busy place when compared to a sheet of Fifties, it was starting to become almost as natural. Granted, it is more of a challenge to move about in a place like this, it's not impossible. I've even come to appreciate the ubiquitous Eights that were once so frustrating.

Looking past the flurry of noise that was the soup of One-Eight-Ones, I scanned in my basic mode for the flashes and pulses of electrons that the central network used. It took time, but I found a few pulses, and locked my scan into the zone as I switched modes. Flipping back to basic mode to confirm, I plotted the key structures that I could aim for and set the Eights off along them meshwork to start the search process.