41. outcast
Leonard grabbed the 7.62mm sniper rifle ‘Winterfield’ that Max had left behind and checked the remaining ammunition. Since he is a sincere assistant, he has 5 feet full. I unlocked the safety device and chined the old man.
“Stay away over there.”
“What? Do you see me as a coward now?!”
Oldman raised an eyebrow.
“If you saw it that way, you saw it very well! Avoid me quickly!”
It was not a fluke that he had survived to that age. Maybe he will outlive Max.
Leonard lowered the muzzle and waited patiently. I couldn’t attack without knowing their weapons, number, and purpose. It was the same over there.
Boaaang- Boaaang-
Parabarabarabam-!
Cars came up one by one from the bottom of the hill. They were bizarre remodeled vehicles whose model, let alone model, was unknown.
A 2-seater convertible that realized a true open car by removing the left and right doors along with the ceiling, a 4-seater wagon with a machine gun mounted in the cramped rear seat so that a shower of shell shells would fall on the driver’s head, and a cargo truck without a roof, luggage compartment, or windshield. there was ‘Can you call that a truck?’ Anyway, three cars stopped in what was supposed to be a parking lot or loading dock.
‘Eight people?’
That’s the size of the vehicle, but the actual number of people getting off was 14 people. I got dressed up and rode.
Like a bandit, weapons and implants were free. It is expressed as best as possible. To be honest, it was like a beggar’s feet. The right arm is the size of a gorilla’s forearm, but the left arm looks like a normal 9-year-old bandit, so there was no need for long words. That normal bandit spit! spit it out and said
“This is our land.”
It’s not an accredited claim, but I didn’t pursue it. Bandit also did not receive objections.
“You’ve entered our land, pay the credits.”
Leonard glanced at the vent. It took time.
“How much?”
“10,000 credits.”
“Are there too many?”
“Then nine thousand credits. No more cutting.”
This request has more than doubled. Of course I couldn’t give it. When Leonard laughed, Bandit changed his policy to kill and steal.
“Are you alone?”
“No way. Everyone is hiding around here.”
The bandits scattered and looked around. It was a very ruined place, so there were many places to hide and hide.
“Don’t be bluffing. There was only one car in front of me.”
The gorilla biceps were no slouch. Leonard showed a sneak peek of his sniper rifle and said.
“One of my friends has a guy named Max, and he’s a sharpshooter who can hit a frog in the eye from 800m away. You don’t know which eye you’re aiming at, so be careful.”
A lie works well when it is specific. Even the clever bandit flinched. It seemed that if I did well, I could send it back without a fight. Leonard bluffed a little more while he was out.
“And then there’s the Jackson ‘Old Man’ toner. A brutal Silver Bullet soldier during the Great War. A veteran among veterans who are on a different level from corporate soldiers these days?”
“…Old Man?”
I should have just been satisfied with Max. The reaction of the bandits suddenly became ferocious.
“Are you talking about the braggart swindler ‘Old Man’?”
“That damn old man is here?!”
It seems to be more popular than you think. on the bad side.
“Sounds like a Silver Bullet! All of that is a lie!”
“Kill! Let’s kill them!”
The bandits pulled out their guns in unison. There were various types of guns, from home-made guns carved out of pipes to Big Ground brand guns. But it wasn’t just wasting time. Three of the bandits aiming their guns hit their heads, not Leonard’s. thump-! bang-!
“Fuck-! It’s a hacker!”
Even so, fourteen was a bit too many. Most of them didn’t even have a brain chip for fear of being considered a bandit. ‘That gorilla arm isn’t an implant?’ The wasteland was mysterious.
Contrary to my thoughts, my body was quick. He pulled Winterfield up and fired one shot, then rolled on the floor, pulled out his revolver, and fired two shots. Only the first rifle shot hit the gorilla’s forearm. That doesn’t mean the action was meaningless. I dodged most of the bullets fired by the bandit.
“Kuh…!”
To what extent is most A shot that he hadn’t been able to dodge came through his side. He wouldn’t die without his head and heart, but he was worried about the deterioration of his function. He fired his revolver and took cover under the vent protrusion.
The spirited bandits approached spraying bullets. They realized that the sniper was bluffing. Leonard pulled the Winterfield bolt, prepared a new bullet, and attempted a second hack. It was ‘overload’ faster and simpler than ‘suicide’. The bandit who was shooting the pipe shotgun covered his ears and screamed.
“Keah-!”
Leonard got up and relieved the pain with a 7.62mm lead. The treatment fee was refused, so I quickly sat down again. A rain of bullets passed overhead.
“You bastard hacker!”
Looking at it objectively, the implant hacker was a terrifying opponent beyond being difficult. Those bandits won’t be fighting hackers for a while, either, based on today’s experience. Or you can’t fight forever.
“These guys! Jackson Toner is here!”
Oldman, who took refuge in the building, shouted from the second floor window. A few muzzles went up. Leonard took the opportunity to fire another shot. I got a total of 6 kills with this.
‘The remaining guys are the ones who can’t be hacked…’
I pulled the bolt and removed the casing. There were quite a number of them, but they were biohumans without implants. The twins reinforce the body, so you can last three or four feet, so if you remove one each time you reload…
-Mr. Leonard? Mr. Leonard? What’s up?
Max communicated in an uneasy voice. It seems that gunshots could be heard all the way down to the basement.
“Ah, it’s okay. Finish that thing.”
-I don’t know if it’s a main or something, but I put a memory chip in the biggest computer. But it’s not working?
“There will be emergency power. Take a good look around.”
-Emergency power… emergency power… emergency…
If not, I had to go to the power plant. Come to think of it, 4,000 credits were not enough.
-I think this one? I’ll pull it now!
Clap-! Wheein-!
Max did the job right. Leonard’s brain chip interlocked with the TCA computer. Dozens of windows booted up and installed in every corner of the field of view. Most of them popped up as errors, but there were some useful ones. A smile formed on Leonard’s lips.
‘As expected, the Earth Defense Force.’
Leonard threw Winterfield and his revolver over his head. Seeing the disarming, the bandits stopped shooting.
“Do you think you’ll save me if I surrender?! Come out right now!”
That bandit was definitely an idiot. I’m going to kill you, but if I tell you to come out, will you leave? Leonard sat up and raised his hands.
“Do you know what we are doing here?”
“here? It’s an old ruin, isn’t it?”
“It’s not just a ruin, it’s a military base.”
And Leonard was the interim commander.
“In a gun fight, the one with the most guns wins.”
Something came out pushing the concrete debris off the roof of the corroded warehouse. The same thing appeared at the tilted entrance of the main building and in front of the guard post where only the steel frame remained.
It’s a bit unfamiliar since it’s an old model, but there is a universal design for industrial products, so it’s not difficult to guess its use. At least the clever gorilla forearm shouted.
“It’s an automatic turret!”
The barrel raised its head like a snake. It was clear who to ask. I threw down my weapon and shot poison at the fleeing bandits. For reference, heavy metals are poisons that are harmful to the human body. Too-ta-ta-ta-ta-! Tata Tang-!
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The volley of automatic turret fire ended quickly.
It was partly because the organic target without a piece of metal was quickly destroyed, but partly because the barrel and bullets that did not overcome the years caused a malfunction. The automatic turret on the post exploded without firing ten rounds.
“Whoa…”
Still, it was enough to settle the fight. Leonard sighed as he looked down at the torn corpse of the bandit. There were exceptionally many red things on the body without implants. I was afraid Max would be shocked.
“You got it all done! It really sucked! Whoa ha ha!”
Old Man laughed and ran. Like an old man who went through a great war, he didn’t care about childbirth.
Leonard took out a lollipop, bit on it, and continued to check the computer in the cellar.
“Congratulations.”
“Ah, we fought together and won, so what’s the celebration…”
“Don’t do that. No, I was the only one who fought, right?”
It wasn’t a victory celebration. Oldman understood perfectly.
“Did you open it?”
“I opened it.”
The laughter grew 7 times.
“Go quickly! Quickly!”
“for a moment. We need to get Max out.”
Leonard lifted the dusty Max from the vent. After a great adventure, the boy talked about what he had seen, but it was not conveyed properly because of Old Man, who was preoccupied with the air-raid shelter, and Leonard, who did not want to see him. A pouting Max pursed his lips.
“What’s in it that’s why it’s like that?”
“Well, do you have any gold or silver treasures?”
It was a legacy left by humanity in its most brilliant period. Honestly, Leonard was also curious.
“Can I really get more than 4,000 credits with the treasure?”
Leonard spat out the millet-sized candy and said.
“It’s not a treasure.”
“why?”
“Because that clever old man can’t take us.”
No matter how creditable the solver was, he did not shudder in front of millions or tens of millions of credits. Leonard himself didn’t believe it, so Oldman was natural. The old man who arrived on the 3rd basement level is angry! got angry
“what! It wasn’t open!”
“Ah, calm down. It is not good to see historical moments in person.”
Leonard tampered with one of the programs on the brain chip. It was an order to open the underground bunker starting with B-0205. The circular door rotated with the sound of the hydraulic system. After all, TCA technology was great.
“finally! finally…!”
The air circulation system was activated along with the lights. The 47-year-old air escaped, shaking his hair and the hem of his clothes. And what was revealed was a person. To be precise, they were people who died a long time ago and became white bones. Max was more disappointed than surprised.
“Isn’t it really?”
Leonard was neither surprised nor disappointed.
“A facility of this size would have about a thousand residents, so why haven’t we found an air-raid shelter so far?”
“Uh… there are no survivors?”
There were survivors. It was Old Man. Leonard left the weeping old man alone and told him his reasoning.
“After the nuclear explosion, he must have been isolated there. At first, they would have waited for rescue, but could they come when the whole world turned into a sea of fire? After a month and two months like that, food and energy ran out, and in the end, a rescue team would have been dispatched to request help.”
“Is that Old Man?”
“Old Man will not be alone, but he will be. Because there wouldn’t have been many protective suits.”
After that, Max seemed to know. It was not a localized nuclear attack, but the destruction of mankind. The rescue team would have given up on the rescue. Or died from pollution, as did most of the rest of humanity on Earth. Only one old man survived to the end.
“I can finally keep my promise… finally…”
He was the only rescuer who came after 47 years of wandering to the underground city, as a pioneer, and as a vagabond in the wasteland.
The words of King Tara left a lot of pain in my heart.