Drilling Complex

Sprawling facility packed with corridors and control rooms drives the deep-Earth drilling project. Stahlman runs operations from here, pushing technicians past safety limits while green ooze threatens from below. Gold speeds toward it to suspend the work with Ministerial orders, but sabotage delays his arrival. Patterson detours under threats, heightening the race against catastrophe. Murder of Slocum unfolds in its operational heart, drawing investigations amid humming machinery and rising panic.