Lin Lee looked at her watch. Bruce had been gone for several hours and should have been back by now. The task she had given him was simple. Go to the hotel David Milton was supposedly staying at, confirm he was there and get his room number. His prolonged absence made her nervous. She had been held up in the safe house since their arrival and the lack of communication with the outside world was beginning to make her paranoid. She still didn’t fully trust Bruce but his was the only help she had to complete this practically impossible mission. She had already started to put together a plan to get her into the building to destroy the British Harmoniser. She had the blueprints of the college the Director had given her spread out on the bed. The university buildings were hundreds of years old and had undergone many renovations. A relatively recent addition was a network of air ducts servicing every building and every room throughout the college. The ducts were big enough for her to crawl through and were hidden by false ceilings in most areas. They presented the perfect concealed access point for her. She traced the route of the ducts on the drawings with her finger. They originated above a large boiler room toward the centre of the main college building. The room also housed the electrical distribution units for the main building. This would be her point of entry but getting past security would not be easy. This is where she needed Bruce. He would create a diversion to draw security to a location away from the boiler room. If she could depend on him to complete that one task, she could handle the rest herself. She looked at her watch again. “Where the hell is he?” she complained aloud. To distract herself she decided to take inventory of a large box of equipment delivered earlier in the day by representatives within the organisation. She was impressed, and somewhat intimidated, by the extent of the Chairman’s network. She took the blueprints from the bed and folded them neatly before replacing them with the heavy box. She unclipped the latches on the lid and flipped it open revealing a treasure of combat hardware. Item by item she removed the equipment from the box and inspected it closely before placing it on the bed. The box had three layers separated by Styrofoam. The top layer contained two Glock 22 handguns, four magazines each containing fifteen rounds and a further one hundred and eighty rounds in three boxes of sixty. The second layer housed a pair of night vision goggles and four teargas canisters. The final layer contained a separate metal compartment inside of which were six slabs of plastic explosive, six detonators, three digital timers and a remote control. She surveyed the array of weaponry laid out before her. She would have preferred more explosives but given the right planning this would suffice. One slab would be handed over to Bruce to create the diversion along with two of the gas canisters. A second would be needed to take out the electrical distribution units in the boiler room timed to go off once she was well inside the air ducts. That left four to ensure destruction of the Harmoniser. Finally, she considered the Glocks. It had occurred to her that perhaps one of these should be given to Bruce but her lack of trust in him persuaded her otherwise. Besides, once the lights were out she would be firing using night-vision goggles, severely affecting her depth perception. Two pistols would give her an increased hit rate. Happy the plan was falling into place, she packed the hardware back into the box apart from one of the Glocks and a full magazine. She would need this to carry out her first task on the list, the elimination of David Milton.