Chapter 3. Sole survivor.
November 15, 2023 at 12:46 PM
“Boss, we’ve found one of the people in the warehouse, he’s the only one who survived. Nat said.
-Where is?
- Nat, he shoots.
Nat walked into the office.
- I found it. He is in a house in 64 square meters, apartment 24.
- Okay, you can go.
Nat and Rose bowed and left the office. Soulless leaned back in his chair. After sitting for a while, he got up and went to the armorer.
- You can also add a scope here
- Thermal or such?
- Can we do both?
Hail turned and saw that the Soulless One was not far away, looking at them.
- Sorry, I didn’t see it! Grad said and bowed.
Hail was pounding, and cold sweat was pouring down his face.
- Magazines, grenades, explosives.
- H-Okay, let’s do it.
- Drink a sedative.
- S-I’ll do it.
-Here? Soulless said
-Yes. Nat said.
Soulless pulled his katana from behind his back. Throwing the bag off his shoulder, he opened it and took out the explosives, planted them on the door, and walked away. The door flew open and he stepped inside. When he went into the hall, he saw a young man standing by the window. He was shaking all over, and I couldn’t focus his eyes.
“S-Who are you!?”
-Cargo.
“Wh-what?”
-Where is?
“What are you talking about!?” I’m going to kill you now, bitch!
Soulless began to come closer.
“I’m going to shoot you!”
Soulless approached the dense.
- P-p-p-empty m-m-mask. You’re “Soulless.”
-Where is he?
- If you don’t know a damn thing about warehouses, and I don’t want to know! I somehow survived!
-Tell.
“I went to—” Before he could finish, he was stabbed in the stomach. He leaned on the window-sill and said:
“you!” He started waving his arms, trying to hit him, but he couldn’t.
Then the Soulless One swung his katana and cut off his arm.
“Ahh
-I… I… I don’t know… After the firing began… That she would die.
“And then they appeared—” There was the sound of a gunshot, and the guy fell.
Soulless jerked himself behind the chair and waited. The shooting did not stop, the bullets flew near the head.
-Nat.
- I hear, I’m trying to shoot.
Soulless heard multiple footsteps approaching rapidly. Then he jerked to his bag and pulled out a smoke grenade. Before he could pull out the pin, masked men ran out at him. He grabbed his bag and ran into the kitchen, sitting with his back to the window so he couldn’t be seen. He put away the smoke grenade and took out a shrapnel grenade, throwing it into the entrance, from where there was a scream and a scream. Immediately after that, the window behind his back began to be shot.
- Boss: Two more squads of five or six people are heading towards you. There are snipers on the houses near you. The only way out is the basement, but in order to get there, you need to go to the street, which is tightly closed by snipers.
-Got it.
- A police squad is also coming to you. Call for reinforcements?
-No. If I don’t answer in fifteen minutes. Activate the code “Black”
-Are you sure?
-Yes.
-Took. Survive.
Soulless took a pack of cigarettes out of his pocket and pulled out one cigarette, taking off the mask he lit a cigarette.
“It’s just déjà vu.”
“Well,” he said. Extinguishing the cigarette and checking the gun. He pulled the pin out of the smoke grenade and threw it in front of him. He put on his mask and waited for the kitchen to fill with smoke. And then the room was almost filled with smoke, he threw a fragmentation grenade into the entrance, screams were heard from there. Throwing the bag over their heads and quickly moving towards the exit, the opponents opened fire when they reached it.
- “Quick.” Soulless thought.
Then he took out the last grenade and threw it.
“Bitch, how many of them does he have!?”
While the opponents were trying to come to their senses, he ran out into the entrance and began shooting at everyone he saw.
- “Regular clothes?”
After the opponents were killed, Soulless headed towards the basement. Opening the door, the Soulless threw a smoke grenade, and as soon as the smoke cleared, the Soulless One quickly moved and entered the cellar.
-Nat.
“Boss, you’re alive!”
- Withdraw.
-Wait a second. Go to the far wall and blow up the floor near it. You’ll end up in the sewers, and I’ll tell you where.
“Nat, don’t you know where he is?” Rose asked.
Nat turned to her and smiled.
“He’ll be here soon.”
“Did something happen?”
-Yes. It’s all good.
There was a knock at the door.
-Log.
A girl came into the study, bowed, and said:
- I have news.
-What?
- In square 333a, there was a shooting with a large number of corpses. Work looked at the report, there were armed men, dressed in ordinary clothes, moving in unregistered cars.
- And what was their goal?
- We think it was either an ambush or an assassination attempt.
- For whom?
- A certain “Tornado” lived in that apartment. The last ones where he was seen in the warehouse, but he was presumed dead.
“In that warehouse?”
-Yes.
- What’s the result?
“They’re all dead. Both the Tornado and the attackers.
- Not identified by whom?
-Yes. But according to reports, the tornado was killed by a shot to the back of the head from a sniper rifle, we establish which one, and the attackers were killed by the explosion of a grenade, and the others by a shot from a pistol. There is one more fact. Tornado had a severed arm.
Sakura’s eyes widened.
“Anything else?”
- That’s all for now.
- Okay, you can go.
The girl bowed and left the office.
- “Not him.”
Vlad was sitting in a café and looking out the window.
- Sorry, the bus broke down. Misha said.
- Yes, that’s what I understood.
- Have you ordered food yet?
- No, I’m waiting for you.
-Thank you! I’ll catch my breath for a second and order.
- Take your time.
A waiter came to the table.
“More coffee?”
-Two. Coffee said.
- Me with sugar. Misha said.
- Citrus Group is in position.
-Accepted. Sakura said.
“I’m in the system,” Work said.
- The Omega and Delta groups are in place.
-Accepted. Start.
Sakura kicked the door off her foot.
-Purely.
Walking into the depths without finding anyone, Sakura said:
- Everything is clean here.
After these words, there was an explosion. Recovering from the shock and hiding behind cover, Sakura said:
- Everything is fine.
- We have losses! About fifteen two-hundredths and another four three-hundredths!
- Omega is coming to us quickly!
-Go!
Sakura’s eyes were swimming.
- Well, something like this. By the way, have you seen the news yet?
- Hmm. You know how to “have fun”, but the news is so fleeting.
- You’re as usual. Misha said dissatisfied.
- What’s the point of reading them?
“You know, when there’s a shooting going on under your nose, it’s kind of scary.
“Tell me already, or you’ll tear up.”
- In short, as they say, it was a massacre! So many corpses!
- Have you seen the photo yet?
- Nope. They don’t.
- What do they say?
- Yes, everything is murky there. It’s not clear who started it.
- Don’t even suspect anyone?
- Nope.
“That’s why I don’t read the news until lunchtime.
“What do you mean?”
- You have to watch movies.
-Mae. And what did you do?
- Nothing.
- You’re bored.
- I’m not complaining.
A bell rang above the door, and a girl entered the café. She walked to the counter and turned her gaze in Vlad’s direction.
- Oh, Vlad, you’re here!
The girl ran to the table.
-Hello! She shouted.
-Vlada? And what are your fates here?
- I was walking to you, and on the way I was thinking, “Why not buy coffee?”
- Why?
- Give away the book “The White King in Trouble”.
Vlad thought for a moment.
- I could do it later.
- Yes, I already promised to return it a week ago.
- Punctuality is your middle name. Okay, come here.
Vlada took the book out of her bag and handed it to Vlad.
-Liked?
- The middle is not very good, it’s really sad, but yes!
- My eyes are shining.
“Okay, is that all?”
-Yes. By the way, have you forgotten that you promised to help me with the computer?
Vlad thought again
- There are more and more of them! One of the Omega group shouted
-See! Sakura shouted.
- Work!
- I’m doing my best! Bitch! There’s a bit of a mess in my system!
At that moment, the connection was cut off.
- Work! Work! Your!
-Grenade!
- When do you need a computer?
- Preferably right now, otherwise the presentation is on fire.
Vlad sighed heavily.
- Okay, let’s go. Mish, we need help.
- Yes, I understand. I’ve got a case.
- Okay, I’ll see you later.
-Come on.
Vlad and Misha shook hands. Vlad and Vlada left the café.
-Tc. Who would have thought.
A waiter came to the table.
- Anything else?
-And? Wait, am I going to pay anything?
“Nat, what’s up with them?” Mars said
“If you don’t intervene, they’ll be pulverized.
- Hmm.
“What’s going on?” Soulless said.
“S-Hello,” Mars said, and bowed.
Nat tried to get up.
-Sit. What’s there?
- A. Yes… In general. Nat couldn’t find the words, and finally he pulled himself together.
- The “Whites” were attacked presumably by the “Reds”.
- “Reds”?
-Yes. It is not clear where they came from. But they have good programmers. Broke their system in a couple of minutes.
“How did you know?”
- I watched the cameras of our territories, then I got on the camera, from which you can see their territory and ours. I saw the shooting, I got into their system. And there this unknown person is having fun with all his might.
-Got it. Soulless said and went to his office.
“He’s not even going to do anything?” Mars (Alpha Group) asked Nat in a whisper.
-Who knows.
Rose followed the Soulless One, and when she entered the study she could not say anything for a long time.
“Do you want to intervene?” Soulless said.
“It’s not like…
- Especially for you. They are our enemies and their problems are their problems.
“But they’re not well-known, and who knows what they’re going to do.
-No.
Rose bowed and went out.
“That’s good, they don’t have any heavy weapons,” Nat said.
- Yes, it is. Mars agreed.
- You know what’s interesting?
-M?
- Where are the police and so on.
- I should know.
“you!” We’ve been pinned down!
- Citrus!
“We’ve been killed like flies!” We’ve got four left!
- Work! Work! Sakura shouted.
- “It’s useless…”
Soulless took out a pistole and thinned it out. Placing the bullets vertically, he began to drop one at a time.
-Time.
- The figure has been killed! The figure has been killed!
- Why, you! Sakura shouted and started shooting wherever she could.
At that moment, Sakura was hit in the shoulder.
“Bitch!” Sakura shouted. But she didn’t stop shooting.
- Jack is dead!
Sakura ran out of ammo.
“That’s enough for me!”
Taking out the last clip, she said:
-Last…
- Music is wounded! There’s something to squeeze this filth!
Soulless had bullets on his desk, and the last bullet was still standing, so he began to swing it with his finger. After shaking it a little, he took all the bullets and loaded them into the pistol, got up and walked out of the office.
-Attention!
There was silence in the room.
-Come. “Alpha”, “Beta”, “OP-S”, “Charlie”, “Hunters”, “Gatherers”, “Formula”. You’ve got four minutes. Racer!
A guy ran up to Soulless.
- Armored vehicle. Thirty seconds.
The guy bowed and ran away.
-Nat.
- I’m already working.
- Rose is with me.
Everyone began to fuss.
- They’re walking on the holo…
Sakura peeked out and saw that she was almost alone in the building. Then she took out a grana and threw it into the crowd. The grenade landed at the feet of the crowd, but was kicked. Sakura then fled to the far corner of the building. As she ran, she caught on the rebar and pierced her leg.
-Devil! She shouted.
- Is everything in place?
-Yes. “They said 'Beta'.
-Yes. — They said “Alpha”.
-We’re ready. — They said “OP-S”.
“Us too,” Charlie said.
“The charge is laid, let’s retreat to the points,” the “Hunters” said.
- Positions taken, said the Gatherers
“Everybody’s ready,” said Rose.
- Transfer to the Formula car.
Rosa was taken aback, but she didn’t protest and got out of the car.
- Detonate the Hunter after thirty seconds, and you perform after the Hunters explode after eleven seconds. Nat keep everyone busy however you want. And then according to the plan. Did everyone get it?
-Yes. The Hunters said
- It will be done. Nat said.
“Yes” came from all the groups.
- “The meaning of life…” — thought the soulless.
“Where are you?” The unknown man said in a mock voice.
Sakura sat silently.
-Here she is! Another stranger shouted.
Then a man approached the sakura. He was dressed all in red, and he wore a red mask with cutouts under his eyes.
“There you are!” You’re shaking, it’s a pity. How could you be in charge? But it doesn’t matter anymore.
The stranger pointed a machine gun at Sakura. Sakura closed her eyes.
- Goodbye…
There was an explosion and a car drove into the building. The stranger jumped away from the car.
-What?! He shouted, “Kill him!” He kept shouting.
“They’re still in the back!”
-What!?
Soulless got out of the car and began to shoot people in red clothes.
- Kill them! You are weak! He shouted as he stepped back.
Sakura opened her eyes. But I couldn’t see anything. His eyes were swimming, and a shiver ran through his body, then his eyes began to darken.
“Listen, Falcon, I see a freak on the bridge with a magnifying glass,” Monocle said.
-Wait a second. “At these words, the Falcon fired,” Blind Man said. Where are you talking?
- On the bridge, to the right of the sign.
-See. “The falcon fired.
-Ha! Three-pointers.
- Yep. They would still be standing with their eyes closed. “OS-P2” what do you have there?
- Like in an operating room.
“Oh, oh, oh, he ran out alone. Near the entrance. Monocle said.
-Watch.
The falcon fired. The bullet hit near the leg of the fleeing man.
“Who came up with this ugly wind?” said the Falcon discontentedly.
“Nat, hey, we’ve got a marathon runner running east here. Monocle said.
-See.
- OS-P2, here the marathon runner moved to the east. See? Falcon said.
“You’ve seen it, but that bitch is out of range.
“Why, what about him!”
- Don’t boil. Monocle said, “The Gatherers, there’s your client in the east.
-Took.
- Well, that’s it. And we’d better reel in our fishing rods and move to a spare point.
-Aha.
- I think that’s it! One of the Hunters shouted.
- “Charlie”, check the building, “Alpha” is the district. Soulless said.
“It seems that the light music is over,” said the Eye (OS-P2 group)
“Well, that’s nice,” said Scope, “Falcon, I think the job is done.”
“There was no command,” Sokol said.
Soulless put the machine gun in the car and walked over to Sakura. Bending down, he felt the pulse, looked at his leg and saw that blood was coming from there, and when he looked at his arm, there was also blood coming from there. Taking a first-aid kit from the car, he bandaged his leg and arm, then said:
-Nat.
-Yes?
- Connect to the block.
- The unit is in touch.
- The second positive one.
- It will be done!
- The “lanterns” are coming to you. Nat said.
-Hold.
-'Ll.
- All groups. Leave.
Soulless took Sakura and put her in the car, then got behind the wheel himself. Opening her eyes, Sakura saw that she was in a room, there was a dot in the distance in front of her, and there was light in her eyes.