Chapter 15

as we put the final roof tile and weld it on, night has sufficiently gone over as we sweat out our energy and start going down ready to take a nap as I make another trip to Brownie to eat the rest of my meal as we all lay down at our respective spots on the ground, as Cody's group also comes in with low energy left, I don't blame them while we worked on dozens of wide and heavy room tiles, they had to make all the supports to hold up the platform by the walls, and the towers, as they come and lay down with us, now all that is left is the innards of the base, and the actual tower and platform, and we would actually finish the base, and be ready to go

we do the same thing every night, though a lot laxer now that we have a fool roof, as I go to my first sleep I hear someone mutter to themself, probably Jerry, as my eyes slowly drop and close for the next morning to appear

we all got up awakened by others as we all got some stretches done and started going over to the usual meeting spot for Cook to show with their suit, and crates of food, as they seem to be looking at some papers for some reason as when we get to him, he speaks up

" Hello all of you again, as you can see I have something on me"

as they show the papers having different papers with different information and images

" I will be your 'on the surface' clerk, since it would be easier, my being here is temporary of course since the real clerk will be here themselves when we get an actual foothold on the surface, the quests currently available are the webbing, the hunt, and the passage "

as people go in line as well as I to get food and to check what the quests are as I make it to the front myself and get my crate

"so the three quests what are they?"

with a quick pace, as they answer

"First is the hunt or spider hunt witch by the name is obvious so no explanation is needed, next is the webbing, this quest can be either or much more dangerous depending on your luck, as you would have to go to the nest, to gather bits of its webbing to bring back to r and d, and nearby the nest will probably have worse things than the acid spider of which you all only took out one of, and lastly is, the passage, now that you all have a semi protective base on the ground there should be an easy way to transport what is needed to the moving city and the base, this mission is more a group mission than a single one"

"O-k so, what are the rewards for those missions then?"

"for the hunting mission fifteen points like last time, twenty if yo-"

as they go into Muttering a moment looking at me with increasingly hurtful eyes

"what did I do?"

" Nothing, anyway next up is the webbing which is also fifteen points but also can result in a new feature in the armor"

"and passage is 20 points for all involved though bonus points to those most productive, as well as having a safe transport area to move mission material or for us to get you, your items"

"Alright, Alright, I get it"

as I think a moment the passage one clearly won't take a day, as the webbing is likely to get me killed and I would like to at least have a full set of armor on me, which leaves the spider one

"what would happen if I took two down?"

"then you would get thirty for doing the mission twice"

"how did you-"

"because that is the only mission involved with hunting"

right either way, with Cody and Brownie we can get another set of armor! but I got mentioned question

"so are the weapons ready from those projects you mentioned"

"Firstly I'm sure you meant wolf, you need to first finish the base, so sorry to say but no, no worries however, you are already close to finishing"

"Right"

as I get my crate up and start heading back to Brownie as I go into my crate and finish what I could, I made much more progress but I still had to get Brownie to guard my food, as what's left is the inside and the actual platform on the side of the wall, this, caused the teams to swap as we are to carry the materials up and down from the supports and frame, we also have to keep balance at the height on the beams, with Cody's team works on the fine details inside starting from beds of, whatever they use for beds, the facilities, a generator powered by some bikes to power it, and a construction beside the base to gather the acid rain and filter it

as the day starts turning to night our progress has been well since we have a lot of smaller parts to the pieces, and not as difficult, as we finished the side platform, and 2 out of 4 shells of the watch towers, well, more lookout platforms with a barrier and a roof, as Cody's team are done with the beds as well as the lights and generator though the side thing is still far from done, I get back to Brownie to finish my meal off and thinking this will be the last time I will need her to guard a crate for me as we all start to pack up

as we get back and we started to organize which bed we will be using each, it didn't take long as the beds are the same and we are already tired it just became one group at each side, kind of thing as we all get to lay down at each of our beds and to actually rest with walls and a ceiling around us as my eyes fully rest enough to ignore the noise nearby

morning came as a group got a, on surface quest to kill a spider even asked for my help as the, one who made the strategy if I don't say so myself, the group all had leggings and got a sword each, one is a woman with brown hair and green eyes, and two others, a guy with some muscle but nowhere enough against the muscle duo, and this ent guy again as the plan is to wait for the spider patrol to come by from the walls side platform and throw the swords at the spiders, there are two others which I'm sure in the thin duo that will also be with us, as the plan is gonna be told to the others at the base so no one is caught unaware

after meeting the thin duo personally I actually got their names the one with black hair and the first to get their armor is Cole with his magnifying glass to inspect his food as best as he can, and the brown-haired one is Chris with his scalpel, they are both friends who knew each other before the whole event and decided to take a chance despite their families wanting not to

"We just want to know what is actually outside those walls"

says Cole as they check their sword in case it miraculously falls apart somehow

"and how the organisms have changed"

said Chris as they reveal to me a piece of a carapace they managed to get off when we're taking the spider corpse to the platform

" It's not much but it's so interesting to look inside of, sadly I don't get lab equipment "

they say with a sigh putting the sample away as ent has a weird look as Cole starts again

"either way with six of us now it can be three thrown at each spider of the patrol, we can get the points and Chris can get some samples of the pieces not covered in acid, and we will then pull the bodies one at a time with all six of us got it?"

as we all mostly agree, as the Ent guy just responds with a nod as our plan is put into action as we wait as the others work on construction until the spider patrol arrives, we do as planned we warned the others when we saw it coming and ready to fire, but something, happened

when the two spiders got in range we made our throws, while not all of us hit, it was enough for it to be lethal to the spiders, as we were going to celebrate. only to see something else rush over the cries of the two spiders, another spider, seemingly covered in armor and its speed alarming starts rushing over to us as ent speaks

"that is definitely not gonna get harmed by your swords, go back to base!"

they say as they promptly rush off the platform just as the spider rams into the wall shaking the platform beside it as we soon start climbing off as well as I rush around helping my team off as it keeps ramming into the wall, as we make it to the ground and rushing over to the base

as we start heading inside with the others starting to notice the situation Cole gets caught by the spider's leg

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yknow I was expecting that guarding some kids at a base would be easy barely a challenge that would make one as I even hope to sweat, however, turns out those spiders had a brain, after all, after all bringing one of the big guys and even catching one of them and probably gonna eat them

as annoying as it is I make a gamble as I manipulate the spider shadow to make it move off the kid, basically pulling it until they are free enough to run inside As I go into a less crowded part of the building to call over Wolf, the puppy has a bleeding heart that annoys me but they are tough enough to take this out without me showing myself and breaking cover

as I turn into my real form the person I controlled Gabe me the thumbs up ready to stay in the crowd as I look over this situation as a shadow, the thing got over the wall Using its height which means we may have to add mission to make the wall electrical and taller along with the towers other than that the wall stood strong easily and so is the base so the danger isn't ever-present, yet still annoying.