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　　76,　　• Silo 18 •,　　Lukas teetered on the upturned trash can, the toes of his boots denting ¹ the soft plastic, feeling as if itcould go flying out from under him or collapse ² under his weight at any moment. He steadied himselfby holding the top of server twelve, the thick layer of dust up there telling him it had been years sinceanyone had been in to clean with a ladder and a rag. He pressed his nose up to the air-conditioningvent and took another whiff.,　　The nearby door beeped, the locks clanking as they withdrew into the jamb. With a soft squeal,the massive hinges budged ⁴ and the heavy door swung inward.,　　Lukas nearly lost his grip on the dusty server top as Bernard pushed his way inside. The head ofIT looked up at him quizzically.,　　“You’ll never fit,” Bernard said. He laughed as he turned to push the door shut. The locking pinsclunked, the panel beeped, and a red light resumed its watch over the room.,　　“I thought I smelled something, ” he explained. “Does it look smoky in here to you?”,　　Bernard squinted ⁵ at the air. “It always seems hazy ⁶ in here to me. And I don’t smell anything. Justhot servers.
” He reached into his breast pocket and brought out a few folded pieces of paper. “Here.,　　Letters from your mother. I told her to porter them to me and I’d pass them along.”,　　Lukas smiled, embarrassed, and accepted them. “I still think you should ask about … ” He glancedup at the air-conditioning vent ³ and realized there was no one in Mechanical to ask. The last that he’dheard from the radio below was that Sims and the others were mopping up. Dozens were dead. Threeto four times that many were in custody ⁷. Apartment wings were being prepped in the mids to holdthem all. It sounded like there would be enough people to clean for years.,　　“I’ll have one of the replacement ⁸ mechanics look into it,
” Bernard promised. “Which reminds me,I’d like to go over some of that with you. There’s going to be a massive shift from green to blue aswe push farmers into Mechanical. I was wondering what you’d think of Sammi heading up the entiredivision down there.”,Because titanium isextremely strong, it is resistant to scratching, denting, and bending. 由于钛isextremely强 ，可耐刮伤，凹陷
，和弯曲 。 来自互联网,The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。