Chapter 43: Part 39
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- Royce, Royce, Royce...
I shook my head and walked over to him. No, I wasn't going to mock him and when he opened his mouth to say something I just kicked him in the head and knocked him out.
- Girls, get to work... get everything you can out of this doddle....
- Malström might not like it... after all, one of the first after Brick, he must have a lot of information and extensive access....
- It's a good idea... we'll sell the info through a fixer. If they don't want the information to fall into the wrong hands, they'll buy it back themselves and pay us... and they'll pay us a lot.
- A lot of trouble, too....
I sighed.
- Nah... no one's gonna die but Royce, I'm gonna drag them out of the building before the boom.
- So maybe Royce too...
- Bookwoman. Am I missing something?
- A friend of mine was in Malström and he talked about Royce. And although he spoke only in a profane tone, but this profane tone was still admiring.
I sighed.
- Well, in general... my face is already known to many fixers... and in Postmortem we shone a couple of times, so it's really not necessary to clean up everyone who saw me, and I've never done such a thing....
- See?
- But Royce is a vengeful bastard... he will definitely decide to take revenge and he won't give a shit where and how... so it's easier to eliminate him after all....
I looked thoughtfully at the body of the Malström gang. At the same time, I thought very hard. What would I gain by keeping him alive? The fact that it would allow me to preserve some line of canon I do not take into account... I'm on the butterflies a lot of already not even trampled, and jumped... so....
- Scribe...
- Quiet?
- Are you asking for him or not?
- А?
- Are you asking me to let Royce live or are you just bringing it up?
- Well, I guess I am.
- All right, then I'll honour your request.
- А?
- I say okay, let him live.
With these words I moved away from Royce and went below, again switching on the sandi I entered the last room, in it there were ten bandits each holding a machine gun and all these guns were pointed in my direction.
However, these cadres had neither advanced optics to see my approach through the door, nor the experience and skills and arsehole instinct to start shooting in time. So these ones, unlike Royce, didn't stand a chance. Although Royce didn't stand a chance either.
- Let's go, girls.
While the girls were hacking away at everything the splinters could reach, I was injecting the reagents that were here with substances that would start to decompose them. Just because after the second day it turned out that explosions do not destroy everything, some of the substances still poison ordinary people and I turned to Vic, who helped me to make a plan of action.
While the girls were working, I started to carry the bodies...
Rough man's work.
When I moved all the bodies I had nothing to do, and the girls asked for at least another fifteen minutes, because there was more information, and the bills were much more. In short, we were going to make an unbelievable amount of money.
In general, I just began to mine everything much more qualitatively. After all, the building was an emergency, so we could tear it down to hell to bury everything in the basement under it.
- We're done.
- Got it.
I was already on the ground floor and calmly walked out of the building and being near a bunch of Malstremovs pressed the detonator button...
Explosion...
As far as I know it must be a branch of hell inside now because of the heat that destroys everything inside. And then the building started to fold inwards...
Beautiful...
I shook my head.
- Girls give me the data that downloaded....
The data was immediately forwarded to me and I immediately put our connection on standby and contacted Regina.
- Quiet...
- Regina, there were Malstrem's people at the last site... they are alive in general, though Royce lost his arm and leg chrome, but those crazy people will quickly find a replacement for him and put it up... if they don't scrap him after the loud failure. Anyway, I've got some data from their network.
- You want to sell it?
- Yes... I think you know what and how to do with this data, but I would like you to offer them to buy it back first... after all, neither I nor I think you would like really big problems with these lunatics... and they can arrange them just out of principle....
- That's right... good forwarding... you seem to have destroyed all the labs, the other solos, though not as successful as you, have cleaned up the outlets... I even got Dorio and Pilar involved at your request...
- Thank you.
- You're welcome... they did a good job overall... so I don't mind throwing them a job every now and then... at least as long as they're willing to work with me. But for now it's nothing serious... still, even though their reputation is not bad, but the team is obviously incomplete right now....
I nodded my head.
- Are we free?
- For now.
- Regina?
- Say, if anything, are you willing to fit into a problematic case?
I sighed.
- Well, you know me, I don't really want to work against the corp, but in general, sooner or later I'll have to take that path. So...
I covered my eyes for a few seconds.
- I think so... just warn me in advance... I'll have to buy some chrome, and give the girls some upgrades... I'm afraid that only skills and a small amount of chrome won't get you there....
- Well, according to the data you've already given me, it's not an Arasaki or Militeh level corp, more like one of the subsidiaries. But you're right, you'll definitely need an upgrade... But I'll check everything first, and there's no rush... They won't be able to quickly restore the production of shiny things or start producing other stuff... so we'll hit them....
I nodded my head.
- Catch the payment, as well as the bonus from the customer... and yes, I'll contact Malstrom, have them pick up their own...
- Thank you...
I ended the conversation and started talking to the girls again.
- Ok, talked to the fixer, everything is fine, but it looks like we're due for an upgrade...
- Quiet.
- Cherry, I know you're against it, but if what the fixer warned me about comes true, the upgrade will be necessary. But in any case, it's all negotiable...
- Okay, I'll talk to you at home.
- Yep... thanks everyone.....
I connected to the account and sighed. Then I shuddered.
- Mother of God...
- What is it?
Kiwi showed interest and I just closed my eyes and dropped her, Lucy and Judy four hundred and fifty thousand each.
- Kha...
The girls coughed, however, Becca and Panam also started coughing when I dropped their shares.
- Yup...nice bounty....
I was a little confused too. Still, we had earned over a million for the chumba this week... with Panam and Becca, who had the smallest shares, earning over a million, and our rancherias earning over a million....
- Listen... what are your future plans?
- Mentor, has our Tycho captivated you?
- I was rather captivated by my earnings... I could not earn so much in a year in our team... and here in a week... I'm going to pay off my debt to F...fixer by half!
- Let's talk later.
I closed my eyes.
- I'm calling tomorrow a day off. But we'll definitely get together... To celebrate such a successful week and yes, Mentor, this is the first time we've had such successful orders. So don't expect that kind of money to be with us forever. On average, I think it will be possible to raise fifty to one hundred thousand per plague for two daily assignments... if you count the current line-up, of course.
While talking I took all the chips from Malstremovs, and then walked to the road, where I was soon picked up by Tortik next to whom Kiwi was riding on his motorbike.
- Let's go...
Bestia's call was very unexpected....
- Can I congratulate you?
I sighed and raised my hand to stop the conversations in the cabin, and I put the connection with Kiwi on hold when I saw who was calling me.
- I see you're getting information VERY quickly...
- It's my job to have information...
The image of Bestia grinned.
- When will you start my assignments?
- The day after tomorrow. Tomorrow is our day off, and after that I'll fulfil your orders.
- Good...then catch the data.....
I blinked and my image nodded, signalling that the data had arrived.
- Study it and when you're ready, get to work.
- Roger that...
The connection was broken and I breathed a sigh of relief as I re-activated the link with Kiwi so she could hear what I was saying.
- The Queen of Postmortality is, as usual, very informed and showing a modicum of impatience...
- B-bestia?
Becca was very much surprised by my words.
- Yes... she had already given me an assignment, but agreed to postpone it until the day after tomorrow... so tomorrow, as I said, will be a day off... let's go on a picnic....
- A picnic? What do you mean?
Kiwi was very surprised.
- In the direct sense... I'll grill kebab... I'll feed you deliciously... we'll rest our souls in nature... the main thing is to find a place not in the sands....
- Well, I've got a place.
Judy has joined the conversation.
- A cabin by the lake.
- Erm... you mean the lake near the town?
- Yeah, there's no others near...
Judy gave a slightly annoyed look to Becca, who asked the question.
- I come from a town that used to be on the site of a lake, and when the town was flooded, one of the townsfolk built a cabin next to it... I used to holiday there a lot before. I haven't been out there since I met David, but it's pretty nice.
- Good, so we'll get together and tomorrow morning we'll go there... to rest... so the girls to the town, so they can get together, and we need to get ready... to buy sunbeds, and I also need to collect a proper barbecue and make skewers, because you can't buy that here....
- I see you've already got it all planned out.
Kiwi was surprised.
- Do you mind?
- No... it's just a bit unexpected... I'm somehow used to the fact that we celebrate in the Afterlife... that's why I'm a bit confused....
I shrugged.
- Get used to it, if you work with us, I won't take you to bars. I prefer to cook my own food on these occasions. Well, you should have realised that by now from the snacks I've provided you all with.
- Mm-hmm... this is unusual... decided to hit on all of us?
I was about to answer, but she beat me to it.
- I'm sorry, David, but you're not my type... I prefer a more mature man.
- Pilar?
- Mm-hmm.
- Is that a guess?
I was very surprised that I got the wrong end of the stick. And Pilar's quite a personality and I called him just to tease him, but it turned out to be... yeah....
- Well.
- No fucking way, you have a crush on my dickhead brother?!
- Well, 'crush' is too strong a word. I'm more interested in him.
- Oh, fuck.
I even turned round to see Becky's fucking face, and Lucy looked confused and incredulous. At least she was keeping it all to herself, though, whereas Becca didn't seem like she was going to stop.
- He's a degenerate! Totally unreliable! Cretin! Asshole! Chrome-obsessed, stupid bastard!
- Becca, we get it... Kiwi gets it....
I stopped her from continuing to insult her brother.
- I just don't understand.
- Becca, there's an expression... Love is evil, you'll love a goat....
- Yeah... like my brother...
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