The shutdown self-check of the strange sentry repairman named "Monica" went on for a long time. After waiting a few minutes, Murphy lost interest.
He was busy and had no time to wait around for this strange robot to finish its self-check. So he gently set the engineering wrench at her feet, then headed outside to look for the entrance to the power chamber.
The passage had been jammed by the torn terrain, but the mechanical structure was intact, so it could be opened from the inside.
Murphy didn't take long to follow the path to the power chamber door. With his administrator privileges, he easily unlocked it. When the mechanical door slid open, he found the way forward completely blocked by a massive pile of fallen rocks.
But they were only rocks. They could no longer stop Lord Murphy.
He casually tossed out the Omni-Device, transforming it into a semi-fixed magnetic field cannon. He inserted an energy cell, then stood behind it and rubbed his hands together. With studied composure, he adjusted the angle and pressed the targeting button.
As energy gathered with a buzzing hum, the three guide rails at the cannon's front made subtle, high-tech adjustments. The metal probe shifted forward into its launch position, and when Murphy pressed the firing button a second time, it unleashed a lethal high-energy beam. Constrained by the guide rails, the beam converged and fired in a flash of silver light.
The shot itself was silent, save for the faint sound of the energy stream piercing the air.
But the rocks it hit exploded with a thunderous boom. The ground shook, and by the time Murphy put away the Omni-Device, the rubble blocking the entrance had been cleared in a single shot. Stone fragments filled the passage like gray dust, and