Gulp.
Suddenly bullets struck the large mechanical spider from behind and it was suddenly hacked for a second, allowing me and Jason to run into another building and escape. We both looked out the window and noticed a bunch of people who wore almost all red.
"Raiders, dont pay attention and just run! They will murder us both!"
I listened to Jason's plea and nodded.
『Ive been running this whole time!』
The spider turned around facing off the group of raiders in all red. They instantly dispersed. Since this giant was relatively old it was easier to hack it, and so they did. The giant machine robot began seeing hundreds of people infront of it and just randomly launched another rocket.
FWOOOSH!
The rocket struck a random building with no one inside. One of the raiders fell from above and landed ontop the metal giant. The raider quickly grabbed at the panel above and tore it off, suddenly the metal spider began going haywire and jumping around, it rolled on the ground and climbed up a building. This was an emergency protocol programmed onto it. Once someone was ontop it had to start doing random actions and knock them off. And it succeeded, the raided jumped off and chased after it with his team. They were constantly shooting at it and hacking it. Suddenly a large machine gun arose from the head and began firing at the team, it managed to hit one person and put 30 holes into him. But the spider which was constantly being hacked couldn't aim, and it sprayed bullets everywhere randomly, which made it more dangerous because you didn't know if you would get hit!
Time seemed to slow down as another raider gently fell ontop, he raised his cybernetic arm which was pitch black.
BAM
He punched through the top and into the machine, when he opened his hand he was holding onto a black box the which was the size of a baseball. This box was the "brain" of the machine.
He dissapeared into the blink of an eye and the spider began trembling terribly before dropping to the floor. The red glow turned dimmer and dimmer until it dissappeared.
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After walking away far enough me and jason stopped and entered a building that used to be a hotel. I sat down on what used to be the counter while jason stood infront of me. He had a receding hairline and brown short hair.
"So what would it take for me to start a faction?" I asked while staring at him.
"What would it take? Members and a name. Why do you wanna start one anyway?"
"Ill need a team in order to beat harvestman. Are there any people down here who haven't joined a faction yet?"
Jason thought for a bit before answering.
"Well, there gotta be some lone wolves out there. But they are gonna be pretty hard to find. Most of em are in hiding. Others are just ignored."
I nodded at his answer and slid off the counter
"Thanks for the information" and with that I began walking away, but jason still followed me.
"Why are you still following me?" I couldn't help but ask.
"Aren't you keeping me hostage?" Jason raised his eyebrows and made me realize.
『Hmm... i should just send him back, but he might come back for revenge... but he could also be an ally... but i dont know what the scavengers are like, they might be horrible and evil people.』
But it wasn't like he could track me that easily.
What do i do?
『Do i shoot or not? Thats right... he was trying to get me to join his little faction, probably to murder me... and steal my implants.』
Without anymore hesitation i pulled out my pistol and aimed it at jason. His whole body froze in an instant and he dropped to the ground
"PLEASE! PLEASE DONT DO THIS! FORGIVE ME, PLEASE!" Jason screamed as loud as he could, pressing his forehead against the dirty floor and begging me.
『Maybe ill leave it up to fate...』
So In the end, I knocked him out and left him alone in the front desk.
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York-1 was a dark place, there was barely any natural light. It was possible to tell the location of different faction bases by climbing up a high spot overlooking the entire underground city.
Then I reached a bridge above a tunnel, there was someone on the bridge sitting infront if a fire. I could make out bright white hair, a strong jawline and black robes. The instant I stepped closer the man pulled out a rifle and aimed it at me.
"Who do you work for?"
His voice was hoarse, and his eyes cut deep into my soul. I had already taken out my own pistol and aimed it at him, matching his drawing speed.
"No one, I fell down here. Im not looking to hurt you unless you hurt me"
「Fell down here...」
I gripped the pistol harder, my finger on the trigger. The stranger looked around the place, searching for any ambushes.
Seeing that neither of us put their guns down, I slowly put my own gun down and raised my arms.
『My chimera skin should be able to take enough bullets for me to reach for the gun.』
And the man before me slowly put his own gun down and sighed.
"Levi bell, 19 years old."
Levi answered shortly after sitting back down.
"Beom Jae-wook... 22 years old. Like I told you I fell down here today"
Levi suddenly pulled out a orange box and handed it to me.
"Connect to the underground net." Levi didn't say anymore and stared at the fire.
I took the box from his hands and stared at it.
[Connecting...]
Then a chatroom appeared infront of me. Next to X marker were two extra marks. My eyes glanced at the marker and I blinked. I saw a bunch of articles and news pages about York-1. The people who lived down here had their owns news network. The second marker i clicked on was a store, people who were selling different items, food, weapons, implants and such. Then I went back to the chat room:
[Jason the primordial exterminator: there's new meat underground, hes wearing chimera skin.]
[Bluereaper: where was he last spotted?]
[Gladiator77: according to jason it was south of the raiders base]
[Sukitl0sers: harvestman is on the hunt.]
When i saw the last message I completely forgot about the fact I was being hunted down by jason and other people.
[Bluereaper:where is he?]
[Sukitl0sers: south.]