Faithful encounter

Bonza is sleeping in the truck with the music on. It's a luxury in the slums to have this kind of entertainment. Most people in the slum consider it a wasteful hobby, but Benzo finds it pleasing. He often put on jazz while sleeping.

Normally he wouldn't do this in the ruin, but the Dumo ruin is devoid of any danger. Its threat is only in the main tower on the second floor and upward. So he doesn't have to babysit some gang members and listen to sweet music.

BEEP!

His music time was interrupted by a loud beep coming from their tracking terminal. It's a cheap tracking terminal with only a motion sensor, but it can detect up to a 1 km radius. This trade is considered to be fine for coming to a safe Dumo ruin.

Bonza begrudgingly gets on the top of the truck. He looks for the thing that interrupts his fuzzy time, intending to shoot it down as soon as it's in his effective range. His binoculars zoom to where the target is despite the building blocking him. From his terminal vision, he can roughly make out the shape of a dog.

Benzo thinks that it's just a wasteland dog. It's a generic name for a generic creature. The wasteland dog is just a dog that got enhanced by a nanomachine left by the old world. It boosts their physicality and size. The largest one ever recorded is about 3 meters long. This creature is common in the wasteland due to its high reproduction rate.

Benzo readies his gun as the target gets closer. Once it's in his line of sight, he uses the binoculars to check on his target again. This time his face got pale.

Elsewhere Vero is order around. Two bags in his hand are getting heavier every minute. Coal keeps wearing Vero down with all the relics he finds. This completely exhausted him, making his plan harder and harder to achieve.

As his body is about to give out, Coal receives a call from the walkie-talkie.

"Huh..... What!?"

The call was cut off, changing Coal's expression in an instant. He draws his pistol and shoots one of the workers down in an instant. This causes everyone to hide in panic. Coal didn't stop and shot at another one trying to run away.

Vero hid behind a desk, hoping Coal would forget about him. This line of thought doesn't work here. Coal tracked down and shot another worker. As he was about to reach Vero, a walkie-talkie came through and hurried Coal back to the truck.

He bit his lips and quickly made his way back to the truck. Vero thought about what to do in this situation. Being here will definitely kill him, so his only option is to run after Coal.

Vero follows Coal to the exit. He makes sure to keep his distance and not alert him to his presence. Coal exits the building to see the Hayato group already on the truck. He turned back and shot Vero, who was following him, in the legs and smiled.

"ARHHHHH!!!!!!!"

Coal knew that Vero had followed him. He smiled mischievously at Vero as he got into the truck. He left Vero in the tower, screaming from his leg injury. Another worker that hasn't been shot appears after him and cusses.

"Thay left us!?"

The worker said, in disbelief, that he didn't want to be left in the ruin. Even if they label this place as safe. He is horrified by this reality.

However, this is a better outcome than being shot to death. If Coal had more time, he would even torture them before killing them off. This outcome is slightly better. After the truck left, Vero and the other worker were stuck there staring at each other trying to think of how to get back to civilization. But something interrupts their thoughts.

A quadruped appears. With its four legs and two little arms in the front, lurking around trying to find something with its beak-like head. Its' skin is pure white, making the creature stand out in a brown wasteland like it's from another world.

"What is that!?"

Its searching eyes reach both Vero and the worker. This sent a chill down his spine. Their minds froze, and the monster charged at them with full force. The worker next to Vero tries to run, but the thing is too fast.

The worker got swallowed whole by its mouth, which split into four directions. Vero also pisses his pants at the sight of a man that the monster ate whole. The fear in the man's eyes before his death makes Vero start running.

The monster chases after him, knocking the stuff as he passes through the office area. This slows the monster down a bit, making enough time for Vero to escape into the hallway. He came across a split path.

[Go left]

A voice was generated from the wristband in his arm. Vero follows the instructions without thinking. When a big ass monster is chasing you down trying to eat you, you'd likely follow a strange instruction. He runs through another hallway, but this time there's nothing to stop the monster.

[Duck!]

As he was about to reach a dead-end, the voice came through again with another instruction. Vero ducks without thinking and sees the monster fly over his head. Turns out it just jumped at him. Vero only dodges that because of the instruction and how small his body is.

[Enter through the door on your right while it's still recovering.]

While it recovers, Vero takes the door to his right. It leads him into a lounge area of the tower with the monster busting open the door right behind him. He hears another instruction.

[Get in the door right in front of you and wait for my command].

A metal door opens and Vero rushes in there with all the strength he can muster. He got into the small room but it looked like a dead end. Blindly following a random voice leads him to his doom!

[Duck!]

Another instruction comes through, but this time Vero is a little hesitant to follow it. He turned his head and saw a monster flying at him with its mouth wide open. Time seems to stop for a second while Vero's life flashes before his eyes.

He ducks a moment later, barely evading the monster's mouth. Its teeth sink into the wall of the small room. causing the monster to have some trouble. Vero decides that this is the time he sneaks out, but the door shuts, cutting off the monster's head.

Its lifeless head fell next to Vero while he sat motionless on the ground. He tried to stand up but lost his balance and fell to the ground. partly because his leg is shaking, but the main problem is his right arm, which is missing.

"AGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"