Jack travels to Nevada in a helicopter, along with three Xymos PR men in suits. When they reach the plant, the pilot says twelve people can live there, but they are isolated. Reno is 161 miles away. When they drop Jack off, they yell at Growly, one of the three, who gets out to urinate. They say they have strict instructions not to leave the chopper.

A man named Vince Reynolds takes Jack into the plant through an airlock. He gives him a safe for his metal and electronics. Vince confides that everyone working there is crazy and that there have been accidents, as everyone works on tiny invisible things. Ricky Morse appears, and Jack lets himself through an airlock with a code that Vince gives him. Jack notices that Ricky is more muscular than before, but he seems nervous. He says Julia has been out there by chopper almost every day for the past few weeks. Jack hadn’t known she’d been traveling to Nevada, which would explain her late nights.

Ricky takes him to the living space, where he sees Rosie Castro, a woman who works on natural language programming, and an engineer named

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