Chapter 19. First transmission (4)
The man’s posture was strange. The pose was like a shy high school girl splitting an apple. Could that be a grenade?
“Get out!”
… It’s a grenade. And that too with your finger on the safety hook.
But for a threat, it looks a bit strange. Most people aim guns and don’t try to detonate grenades. Moreover, this is a gas station. It looks like he’s already prepared to fly, which means he’s going to fly us. Oh, no way. Is it attention grabbing?
“Hands up!”
“Get down on the floor!”
A man and a woman ran out from the side of the gas station building. Although the instructions seemed slightly off to her, she compromised by raising her hands and slowly falling to the floor.
“Okay. “Don’t shoot.”
He made his posture large and moved slowly as if to show off. The man is in his late teens to early 20s and appears to be in good health. The woman appears to be in her mid-20s, and her slender body is covered in bruises and scars. He has a problem with breathing, as his upper body shakes every time he breathes.
“Everyone in the car, come out! If you don’t come out, you bastard will die!”
“That won’t work, kid.”
You are not the only one who can attract attention. Camilla and Leticia shouted from the back of the truck. The man and woman exposed her body, but the two women used the truck as cover.
“Put the gun on the floor and get back!”
“If you don’t, I’ll pierce your forehead!”
Although we are frustrated that we can’t keep up with each other, we work well together in this area. The feeling of being overwhelmed by something made me feel good.
“What, how did you find out?”
“Because it’s a technique I’ve used often.”
It was Camilla’s voice.
“Because I get hit often.”
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It was Leticia’s voice.
The air behind became cold in an instant. It’s the middle of summer, but it’s like the kind of chill that only feels like midwinter. It would be better to get out of here quickly. I waved my hand back and forth to indicate little boy.
“Hey. Let’s go easy. You probably saw me putting money into the gas pump. We put gas in the tank and leave, and you just stay here. Let’s put down those guns and grenades. This is our guest. Customer. “There’s no reason to act like this, right?”
“Don’t be funny!”
The man shouted as if he were having a fit. My clothes fluttered like a scarecrow caught in a strong wind. Surely that guy wouldn’t fall and be blown away by the wind and pull out the grenade pin?
“What kind of guest is this dirty slave hunter!”
The little boy screams. Slave hunter? We? My head hurts from the sudden declaration.
“… We?”
Camilla also asked in a weak voice, probably thinking it was quite absurd. The kid shouted energetically.
“I saw it all! Opening canned food and putting it in the cargo hold! You move the people you kidnap like livestock, giving them only the bare minimum of food! Hey people in there! “If you can hear me, hit the cargo bay wall with your hand!”
Boom! Thud! Thud! No, those? I was so annoyed because I had to stop on the road countless times because of those guys, but here they are responding to these comments?
“These bastards who don’t know grace… ….”
“That’s right. “You guys are slave hunters!”
Why are your ears so bright again? The little guy gains momentum and runs wild.
“You gangsters’ viciousness ends here! The church will establish a new order. Until the goddess finally wakes up and comes back to earth!”
I want to hit you hard.
“Hey. “Kid.”
“Hey? “Did you say hey?”
“So what should we do?”
The little boy did not say anything. Pointing her gun at me. But my eyes keep looking somewhere else. Toward the slender woman next to her self. The woman was coughing and coughing. Aha.
“So what are you telling us to do? I’m telling you to put down your gun and step back, die here, or release the people trapped inside. “What do you want to say?”
“Free the trapped people!”
The little boy shouted.
“Put down your weapon and get out with just your body!”
The man shouted from above the gas station.
“Just leave!”
A woman who is gurgling is yelling.
“No.”
An unexpected voice was heard. Turning her head, she saw Cassandra holding her pistol tightly with both hands. The muzzle of the gun was pointed directly at the man holding the grenade. Of course, his body was hidden in the car.
“Everyone, please step back. “Otherwise I will shoot you.”
“Then, we all die!”
The man struggled, but Cassandra remained calm.
“No. It’s impossible. Between the time it takes for the brain to decide to throw a grenade, to issue commands to the nervous and musculoskeletal systems, and for the muscles to make the movements desired by the brain, and for the bullet to penetrate the skull and rip apart the brain, the latter is overwhelmingly faster. No matter what you do, you’ll be late. It would be worthless to say that you would kill yourself with a grenade. Do you want to die needlessly?”
Everyone lost their minds for a moment due to the sudden outpouring of lectures. The kid who had left her mouth open cleared her throat.
“What are you, a doctor?”
“Quality… ….”
Cassandra tried to answer innocently, so I quickly caught her.
“I’m a women’s medicine doctor!”
It feels like she’s staring at the back of her head, but it’s better than getting embarrassed by saying, ‘I’m a senior researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.’ No, she doesn’t need to answer more honestly than that, does she?
“Doctor, you say?”
The woman stumbled forward. Startled, the boy tried to stop her by raising his arms but ended up groping her breasts. The woman doesn’t seem to pay much attention to her, but her little boy is startled and makes her blush. Innocent guy.
“… Yes. “I’m a doctor.”
“Cough. Collock. There were quite a few doctors in the gang, but it seems like you are one of those people who sells their conscience to make a living. “Ugh, wow!”
The woman on her knees coughed violently. Her blood poured out between the cracks in her hands. Isn’t that a sign of zombification? Thump thump thump!
“Hey, I won’t stay still!”
I shouted, but the truck’s shaking became louder. The smell of blood. I can handle it, so there are probably quite a few of them in the cargo hold. The little boy’s eyes change from embarrassment to anger.
“Hey, you f*cking bastards! If it’s not enough to make Kanna have a body like this, what more can they do? “There’s no need for them all, I’ll kill them all!”
It’s really annoying to hear that kid talking so hard. Being misunderstood was getting tiresome, but somehow I got caught by this guy… Grabbed your ankle?
“Are you wasting time?”
Not only the little boy but also the woman was so shocked that she even took a step back.
As expected, it was correct. A picture of a goddess on a gas station wall. The words of a kid who talked about the goddess and the church being like this and that.
Those people are followers of the Goddess of Hunger and belong to a cult. They probably saw us coming from afar and asked the church for help. The church probably told them to hold on to us as long as possible.
Is it a good decision to side with the denomination?
I have already fought against fanatics. However, I don’t know whether the people here are the same group as those fanatics or not. Since all witnesses were wiped out at that time, there would have been no chance of being caught.
However, the level of armament and number of people were at a scale that could never be ignored. Moreover, we are in a situation where the face and vehicle are specific.
“Yes.”
The woman stepped forward.
“Cough. Collock. We already reported it to the church. The chase team will arrive soon. Either kill us or capture us. “It will never get out of hand.”
“What kind of bastards are thieves…” .”
Leticia was furious. I waved her hands up and down vigorously.
“Okay. I know what the problem is. You saw us as a gang. But actually we are not. “What’s in there isn’t even a person.”
“A modified work….”
“Why don’t you open it?”
He quietly shot at the kid.
“But, I’m really annoyed by this situation, right? You even threatened me and my group. I can’t just get over this. If it’s a person inside, then kill me and release the others. But if what’s inside isn’t human, I’ll kill you. “In return, I will save the others.”
“Damn it.”
“One more thing. That Humvee is loaded with C4 bombs. You said you called someone from the church, right? Try. Because it can be blown very cleanly around this area. It’s worth seeing, really. “Because of your one mistake in judgment, even the members of the church are tired.”
The little girl shakes her body. I gave the notice as clearly and slowly as possible.
“It’s your last chance. Please let us go quietly. I’ll just quietly add oil and leave. Otherwise, if you don’t bother checking, you or I will lose one of our heads. What do you want to do? Do you want to pretend it never happened or do you want to see blood?”
For the first time, something similar to hesitation appeared on the little guy’s face. Good. Let’s just go easy easy easy. I also want to just add oil and go.
Boom boom!
Those mindless zombie bastards are causing this to happen. You have no candy anymore. They were pounding on the wall like crazy, as if saying, ‘Please save us.’
There was even a certain determination in the boy’s eyes. ‘I will definitely fix this world’ is the kind of look in one’s eyes that makes many people who are new to politics tired.
In the end, he took a step. And then he fell forward.
The woman, who was gurgling, gave the boy a sharp whack on the back of the head with the butt of her butt. I don’t know where that kind of power came from, but it’s a bonus that I took away her little gun to avoid misfiring.
“Kanna!”
“I want to open it.”
A woman with a gun in both hands walked towards me with a clear voice. She set her gun down at an awkward distance between the boy and me. When I looked at her up close, her illness was clearly evident. It doesn’t seem surprising if she turns into a zombie at any moment.
“Kanna, what are you doing!”
The boy screams desperately. She looks back at the woman with faint eyes.
“… Thank you for taking care of me all this time. Load. “I won’t forget it.”
Take a picture of something very pure. I see tears in the boy’s eyes. A woman named Kanna stood in front of me and swallowed her dry saliva.
“I want to open it. If Jim’s judgment is wrong, shoot me. Instead, save Uncle Mori and Jim. Would that be okay under those conditions?”
“There are also options that you don’t need to open.”
I spoke sincerely. But the woman named Kanna was adamant.
“I can’t have more people like me come out. “I don’t know if there are people trapped inside, but I can’t just leave.”
Why are you crawling into a place to die? I nodded to indicate that I should do so. The boy is already with his tears streaming down his face and is pointing his gun at me.
“Over there. However.”
Kanna hesitates.
“… “Can I come and give Jim a hug just once?”
“Well….”
I heard a strange sound and turned around to see Camilla covering her mouth. Leticia’s eyes turned red. Cassandra is still aiming at the man, but she is looking at the sick woman with pity in her eyes.
No, if you do that too, it makes me seem like a really bad guy.