Burying the remote in a foot of soil should have blocked the signal well enough, but just to be sure, I had wrapped it in aluminum foil, which served as a Faraday cage, blocking electromagnetic radiation. As Clarke Hankey had demonstrated, it paid to be cautious.
“I then entered the courtyard and buried the wrapped collar in a deep planter there, centering it in the middle of two feet of potting soil. This complete, I pressed the remote in the sequence that would trigger the device to explode and breathed a third sigh of relief. The collar hadn’t gone off.”
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“Burying the remote in a foot of soil should have blocked the signal well enough, but just to be sure, I had wrapped it in aluminum foil, which served as a Faraday cage, blocking electromagnetic radiation. As Clarke Hankey had demonstrated, it paid to be cautious.”
***NOTE:
He didn’t bury the REMOTE. He buried the COLLAR and set off its explosive. He still has the REMOTE in his hand, which is how he set off the buried COLLAR.
It literally took place a few sentences before, and the sentence prior to the new paragraph says COLLAR.
***Editor, Author, Beta-Reader ERROR— (How?)
*****NOTATION AFTER READING THAT HE HAD PROGRAMMED THE SIGNAL INTO HIS AND ASHLEY’S BRAIN IMPLANTS:
I came back to re-read if it made sense that he had indeed, buried the remote. On this page, it doesn’t. There seems to be a missing paragraph of information regarding why he’d bury the remote.
Just one sentence that he had “bluetooth” connected the device to his brain implant would have been helpful and not felt like a writer or editor error.
