章 103: Intuition
It's official.
I cannot increase my stats by eating abnormals.
Only mutant meat. And perhaps mutant fish.
'Well there's not much I can do about it.' I thought and looked at the town where a large banquet was being hosted in the honor of my brother.
And Jesus, these guys were loud.
'Don't they know that such a large amount of noise will attract even more enemies.' I thought but then came to a halt when I saw a number of people going around the walls systematically and taking out the crystals from all the abnormals.
After taking out the crystals, they went to their leader and handed him the booty which he then only shared with those who had fought harder than everyone else.
'Hmm… The strong become stronger and the weak are just cannon fodder. I can see how this town works now.' I thought and it disgusted me.
The leader knew that such large amount of noise would attract more enemies, but he did it anyway.
More enemies meant more fights.
'More fights meant more crystals and cores the only people dying in those battle would be the cannon fodder anyway so why bother.'
As I thought more and more about the way this town worked, my expression turned even more downcast as I felt disgusted with the leader who had acted so friendly toward us just a few moments ago.
'I would not be surprised if he had a harem of unwilling women inside that town either.' Lily said and my expression turned even more darker before it became smooth.
Because in the end of the day, none of that mattered.
People suffered in that town, yes. But so what. Didn't they suffered everywhere else as well.
The weak are devoured and only the strong survive at the end of the day.
And I don't want to empathize with the weak because that only brings pain in the end.
So just care about your family and loved ones and let everyone else handle themselves.
Simple.
'But I don't know where he got so many big walls from.' I said 'I know for sure that such things can't be created by humans. I mean it can be done but who would waste so much metal in creating giant walls. So I can deduce that those walls are not something created by humans.'
'And the machine guns equipped at every point in the walls are a mystery as well. They are not like any other machine guns I've ever seen. And even if they were, it doesn't explain where he got so many of them.'
'So after looking at the town in such a rational manner, I can only deduce that this town was made with the help of the black watch.' I said 'Care to enlighten me about that Lily?'
'Sorry Ashok. This question is classified under 'Secret' information. You doesn't have the conditions required to get access to the information.' She said and I let out a chuckle at her words.
'Wow! Haven't heard that in a while.' I said.
'Well… you stopped asking the big questions a while ago.' She said with a chuckle 'That makes sense because people stop caring about the existence of abnormals if they can't get a bit food on the table.'
'Hn… You are right in that regard. And even if you don't tell me about this secret, I can already make a few guesses about the existence of these walls and the multiple machine guns.' I said.
'Oh! And what would that be?' she asked curiously.
'That 'leader' guy must have either completed some kind of evolution that must have opened new options for him in the 'Buy' section. Or it must have something to do with the amount of people he is leading. My guess is that the black watch allows people who lead such a large group to buy new things since protecting such a large group is often harder than protecting a small group.' I said 'Am I right.'
'I'm allowed to tell if you're right. But can say that you're not wrong.' She said with a playful smile 'Hey! Why don't you just ask his big bro about this. He might know about all these things you know.'
I snorted at her words and took out the crystal from the 4th tier abnormal's nape.
'I'm not really all that interested anymore. The walls allow someone to protect a large number of people. I don't care about a large number of people. Only two. So my sword is enough for me.' I said and put the 4th tier crystal inside the Black watch.
'Start a auction for this with the minimum about as 10 3rd tier mutant beast corpses.' I said and she nodded in return after which I took out my sword and took a deep breath to calm my emotions.
'That's right. My sword is enough for me.' I said and then started training.
When they sleep, I train.
When they sit idly, I train.
When they host banquets, I train.
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'All to protect my loved ones' I thought with a gentle smile and ate a mutant horse leg after an intense bout of training.
I had trained intensely for the last one hour and they were still partying.
'That bastard (the leader) really want to invite more enemies. Doesn't he. So that he could sacrifice cannon fodder for more wealth.' I thought with disgust and used the zoom function of the 'Advanced Vision' skill to search for my family.
'I don't know why big bro went inside, but I don't think they should be taking so long.'
'Perhaps they're having an orgy inside.' Lily said and I snapped at her.
'Don't say such things about big bro. He's not that kind of man.'
'I know. I know. I was just joking. Jeez…'
I shook my head at her antics and finished the large leg piece after which I felt my body rejuvenate and then picked up my sword once again.
'Time to get back to practice.' I thought and was about to swing it once again when I felt something wrong.
I became alert at once and took a defensive pose after which I looked at my surroundings cautiously.
I found nothing but didn't drop my guard.
It could be a camouflaged enemy for all I know.
I've come to rely more and more on my intuition during this past month and that alone has saved my ass more times than I care to admit.
So when my intuition screams 'Danger', I listen.
Even when there's nothing dangerous in sight.
But even after looking around for a few moments, I found nothing.
Such a thing should have put me at ease and made me wonder about my intuition.
But the intuition was screaming 'Danger' even loudly now.
And that's when I saw it.
A large horde of mutant monkeys.
'Must be more than a thousand of them.' I thought and quickly used the camouflage cloak to hide myself before I climbed a tall tree for more protection.
The large horde quickly passed by my location without ever knowing about my presence and I watched with a bit of anticipation as they moved toward the town.
'There must be more than 10 3rd tier mutant monkeys in that horde. After the die fighting against the people in the town, I can take their corpses since no one else is interested in them.' I thought with glee which turned into confusion and then horror as the monkey went around the town without even looking at it as the people rained bullets on them.
And that's when it hit me.
That horde was not trying to attack the town.
They were running away from something.
I quickly looking in the direction where they came from and felt a chill went down my spine at the view in front of me.
'oh shit…'
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