One could think that after returning from an apocalyptic world with an item that could possibly give an insane amount of information and insight, I wouldn't even think about doing anything beside exploring its ins and outs.
And yet, as soon as I laid my feet on the floor of my basent, the hologram vanished from the sight, remaining as nothing but a simple, cheap bracelet. Thinking about this now, if this was the general level of craft used to make this item, then I could only wonder what would the better models be capable of.
But once again, instead of taking my ti to explore it, I quickly changed back to the normal clothes, hid all the giveaways of my otherworldly expeditions and
Went upstairs to help my father peel the potatoes.
Compared to the wonders of the worlds lost, the chance to spend so ti with my family like back in the good, old days There was no way my priorities would be that shifted for to bother with so toys right now!
After helping my father in the kitchen, my light and feeble steps took towards the back area of the house, where the garden was located. And there, my mother
Crack.
This mont felt like if my vision shattered in several pieces, right before reassembling itself back together. Without any hint or giveaway, the sudden tingle of my spine was all I required to understand that sothing wrong was going on. Most likely, it was my heightened guard combined with my recently improved perception.
That is, that's what I thought while my body softened up, making fall to my knees.
"Deploy!"
This one word was what started the mayhem. Right as my eyes moved away from the startled face of my mom, looking at with her happy, innocent smile, I noticed the grenade. But not sothing as simple as the legendary frag, sothing that with enough effort I could defend against. It was the new form of emp grenade.
BANG!
The sa object that attracted my eyes suddenly exploded with a flash of light. Before I could react, the ti suddenly seed to slow, quickly losing out its montum. All the way to the point where everything turned stale.
"What's happening"
I definitely attempted to open my mouth and voice my doubts, but despite the sound going off in my mind, no sound escaped my lips.
"Detected dium-high energy pulse. Deploying shields. Deploying standard prevention mode."
This ti, that pale, female face didn't appear. Instead, my vision turned slightly blurred, as if soone poured a thick cre on my eyes.
"Early-warning concluding in 3, 2, 1"
For so reason, I instantly understood what was going to happen now. Using up all my determination, I rushed forward. Just in ti to see the first of the invaders kicking the doors of my family house open.
What the heck!
So far, everything that I did, I did in order to save myself an intervention from any of the newly erging, powerful factions. With the sudden ladder on which people could climb to the great heights, every bit of the scarce resource would attract their attention and quick response.
But how?
The school? No. With all my fake friends distancing themselves from and after cutting my ties with those who were true friends of mine, I remained completely alone. My family couldn't report anything either, as nothing about the two of them staying cupped in the house has changed.
That ant there was only one person that could cause trouble for . One particular person that knew sothing that others didn't about , and that I dissatisfied recently. But thinking about this, there was simply no way for it to be the case.
Casting away my shady thoughts that would dishonour and my entire ancestry if I ever bothered to care about it, I shook my head. There was no point in figuring that out. All that mattered was to protect his family, for whatever the cost.
A simple hit.
Just stretch your arm to the back, before pushing it forward as fast as you can right into the skull of the enemy. It didn't work, then do it again. Despite all my physical training, I never really practised killing. No matter what my coach from the tis of systema said, there was a difference in smashing one's fist in a huge piece of at and doing the sa against a real person.
Yet, in the ongoing situation, I simply had no fucking way to care about such minute details.
Using all my power while strictly following the principles beaten into by that sadist who called himself a teacher, I allowed my wrist to execute the attack instead of relying on the entire arm.
As if forcing the nail while swinging a small hamr, my knuckles connected with chest of one of the invaders.
CRASH!
Instantly thrown aside, the man didn't stop even after making several steps to the back. Before anything else could happen, his mouth filled with blood. Right after that, he was already resting with his hand against the wall, trying to calm his insides.
For a mont, the entire area froze.
This developnt had to be as unexpected to those attackers as it was to . Sadly, the ti's mood was fickle, quickly forcing everyone back to reality.
"We have wounded!"
Once again, just this single sentence changed the world around . In one instant, the atmosphere filled with gunshots. Instead of the standard tra-ta-ta of the old-school weapons, the bullets were whistling by my ear whit the sound closer to "li, li, li" like so laser blasters from sci-fi movies.
Unable to face such an onslaught, I jumped to the back
And that turned out to be my end.
Instantly pinned to the ground at the mont when all my limbs were away from the earth - a rookie mistake - I suddenly found myself under a huge mountain of at in form of three masked rcenaries that laid right on top of .
"The target is secured."
Using the mont of silence when I first attacked, those three most likely found a way to flank . Failing to spot them would most likely turn into my greatest mistake. Yet, right now, I only had one thought in my mind.
"Mother"
Still pinned by the rcenaries and hardly capable of squeezing any bit of air from my lungs, I gargled on my own saliva, nearing the border of consciousness.
But then, I saw her. Surrounded by what had to be a hail of the bullets, thanks to a god's intervention, no glass directly between her and the attackers had any holes in it. Her face while stunned, was just as healthy as soone barely recovered from a powerful illness could have.
"Where is the plant?"
In the sa mont when I allowed a speck of ho to be born in my soul, the words of the rcenary tightly squeezed this fla out of existence.
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