THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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Workshops. Laundries. Storerooms. Kitchens, some stripped and a few
still intact. A hospital. Guardhouse and lockup.

More storerooms on the level above, reached by returning to the vehicle
hangar and lifting to an upper entrance. By this time, gangs were at
work there, too, moving contragravity skids in empty and out loaded.

"The CO here must have had squirrel blood," Anse said. "I think when the
evacuation orders came through he just gathered up everything there was
topside and crammed it down here, any old way. Honest to Ghu, this place
was packed solid when we found it. Nobody'd believe it."

"Wait till you see the next one."

"You mean there's another place like this?"

"You can say so. You can say a twenty-megaton thermonuclear is like a