Jason followed closely behind me as we traveled through a sea of debris. There were countless destroyed buildings and nature was slowly taking over.
While walking we eventually stopped and climbed a 4 floor building that was barely hanging on, its walls had crumbled and some pillars were missing. When we got to the highest floor we could see a pack of kaiju moving through the road.
『Alot Level 1 kaiju group together and form a pack in order to increase survivability.』
There were about 20 kaiju, ranging from a meter long to 4 meters long. And all of them were bipedal, they resembled wolves with the heads of ant eaters. They also made laughing noises along each other kind of like hyenas.
Jason glanced at me and then spoke
"Other than us humans, only kaiju live here."
I nodded and asked: "I need to get out of here more importantly"
Jason sighed and then scratched the back of his head while in thought.
"Well... thats basically impossible. We haven't had someone enter in 4 years. The main entrance is guarded by the man who made the underground net, jack harvestman. But he's gone insane after installing one too many cybernetics... actually my faction is inspired after him. He used to go around murdering everyone and taking their implants... now though you cant go ten feet within his range without getting your spine ripped off. Unless you can get through him, you aren't escaping. There aren't many other methods"
『If only kaiju exterminators actually cared enough and came looking for me. Ha-joon and Sun-Young probably arent allowed to leave York-3 so they cant come searching. I cant join Jason's faction either, they might harvest me while im asleep or even team up on me and execute me...』
Slowly an idea came in... starting my own faction!
『But where do i set up base and where do i find loyal people? And i can't stay here forever, other wise they will forget to take me back to south korea!』
And mr Jason might betray me at any time... I guess ill just blow off his head the moment he's suspicious.
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Somewhere in York-1
A figure stood in the middle of a square room. It was barely visible thanks to some red lights shining on it. Each labored breath was mechanical. The synthetic skin on the face was pale white. this human had no flesh. The rest of its body was pitch black machinery. Some of its mechanical insides were visible, like the implanted metal lungs, the fake beating heart, wires and even a metallic spine.
On its forearm there was a small grenade launcher mounted there.
"He" was jack harvestman.
"I need to find a replacement for these lungs..."
"He" muttered slowly. His eyes werent moving even slightly. his foot was dug into the chest of a corpse of some unlucky wanderer.
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Jason simply stared at me, probably wandering what I was thinking about. I turned around and pat his shoulder.
"Alright, then we will take him out!"
「We? Who the fuck is we?!」Jason thought while staring at me in shock
"You can fight him yourself! Dont get me involved, i won't even make a good meatshield!"
『I thought about it for a bit, im not sure if the kaiju suit is gonna be enough though... he makes this jack harvestman sound like a demon.』
"Fine, i guess little jack can wait. Let's go, i need to find a suitable place to stay"
When i said this, Jason suddenly smiled.
"Why not come with me? Back to the Scavenger's base, ill talk to the others and explain how you killing mack, Brian and Jay was all an accident!"
『No way he thinks im that naive.』
And so the travel began, we wandered through crumbling buildings and debris. The reason why York-1 was in this state was simple. During the war between America and Canada, America dug as many of their cities underground as possible for safety, but York-1(formerly known as new york) was hit by a "bio terrorist attack" and a virus spread through the underground city only a week after it was underground. Some thing this was Canada's fault, others say it was America poisoning its own city. This caused the death of over three million people. Some managed to retreat and get the proper treatment. As a result the place was abandoned for years. Then slowly nature began taking over, and then kaiju. At the end the homeless found out and began living underground. And now the population of York-1 is about 200 thousand people!
Jason and I would occasionally sneak past groups of people or kaiju. But we weren't found out once.
There were three major factions in York-1. The Pixies, Raiders and Sky watch. They were the factions with the most members. Pixies had about 20 thousand, raiders 40, and sky watch 15 thousand.
Suddenly one specially large pile of debris rose up slightly when we got a bit too close. A faint red glow shone on me and Jason as we stared at the giant machine coming out the ground.
[TARGETS LOCKED ON]
I quickly picked up Jason and jumped away. The machine was rusty but it was walking on 8 large legs like a spider. On its head there was a rocket artillery, but there were only two rockets left.
FWOOOSH
A rocket burst forth aimed right at the two of us. Luckily I had already run into a building and jumped out the window, with the amount of debris on the ground I couldn't achieve the full speed of the chimera skin. I relied on running through buildings to escaped.
BOOM!
Three houses surrounded the blast radius were blasted sky high. The spider machine was chasing after us at pretty high speeds without stop.
I didn't know where I was running but I kept going, running to who knows where. The alleyways were like a stone maze. Then I tried running out onto the street but Jason who was on my back shouted out.
"LOOK ABOVE!"
The spider machine was crawling onto the ceiling and then detached itself, it positioned itself correctly and landed right infront of us, creating a large cloud of dust.
I stumbled backwards but thankfully I stood up straight, my eyes fluttered open and it was standing less than a meter infront of me. Our eyes instantly locked onto eachother.