Floor 33 was a salt flat.
Not sand — salt, white and crusted and cracked into plates the size of doors, with brown water standing in the cracks and a sky that went from horizon to horizon without one thing in it. The crust broke under boots with a sound like biscuit. There was no cover anywhere on that floor and there was nothing to hide behind.
`[FLOOR 33 — STANDARD]`
`[MISSION TYPE: ELIMINATION]`
`[HOSTILE ENTITIES: 34]`
They came out of the water.
That was the whole design of it — the standing brown water in the cracks was deeper than it looked and wide enough underneath to hold something, and the hostiles came up out of the plate-joins in ones and twos at whatever range they liked.
Team Zero solved it in about nine minutes, and the solution was James.
