บท 10: revenge
"I-I will talk, I will talk. Just don't hurt me," said the man with a shaky voice.
He wanted to cry, but he was too frightened even to do that. Instead, he just did as he was asked and talked.
Apparently, he was part of a gang consisting of a twenty-four-man group that did criminal work even before the nanobot system.
They were stationed approximately thirty kilometers from their house, and they were all scattered through the area in search of quests and animals to kill so that they could level up before going to the city.
They were all spouse to go back to their campsite in four hours and share what they had found with the group.
"who's the most powerful in your group? What is his level?" asked Alex.
"The-the boss is level 17, and he is the most powerful one."
"Describe him," Alex inwardly sighed in relief. If the most powerful of them was only level 17 and didn't even have a job, taking care of them was child's play for Alex.
"he is pretty easy to notice, he has blue hair, and one of his eyes is blind, so he covers it with a patch."
'don't tell me….' Alex thought in surprise and asked hurriedly, "is your boss's name Mike Torres?"
"y-yes. How do you know that…." Alex didn't let him finish and slashed the sword and killed him on the spot.
DING
"you have leveled up to level 28."
"all stats plus two"
"two free stats are added to your account."
"you have killed a player."
"98,539,019 INB has been added to your account."
Hidden quest improvement: 2 confirmed kills.
Alex was so mad that he couldn't even think straight. He just wanted to run out of the house all the way to their campsite and kill that bastard right there and then.
As he prepared to exit the house, he saw a little shadow near the door of the house.
Alex came to his senses and ran to the door before Emily could enter and see the gruesome scene.
"how long have you been there?" Alex asked with worry. He didn't want his sister to look at him as a murderer.
"I just got here; what happened to those guys? Did you get hurt?" said Emily while checking her brother for scar marks.
"it's ok; I'm ok. I got rid of them; they wouldn't come back here again." Said Alex before continuing, "now, stay here for a little bit more till I come back."
As Alex turned around to go to the kitchen, he heard some footsteps from behind, and when he turned around, he saw Emily following him.
He sighed and just let her follow him, but instead of the kitchen, he went straight up the stairs and to his room.
"Ok, good night, you can go to bed now."
"But I'm still hungry,"
"how about dinner in bed then? We can eat together in your room. You go change your clothes, and I will go get the food."
Emily got happy at the mention of food in bed and said, "can we also watch a movie?"
"yes, why not. You pick the movie then. I'll be back in a minute." Said Alex and went downstairs.
When he got back to the kitchen, his expression turned cold again, like there never was a loving brother called Alex in this world.
He looked at the two bodies and searched them for anything useful but didn't find anything, so instead just left them there and took a step back from the bodies.
"system, how much are their bodies worth?" asked Alex.
DING
"calculating the body mass," answered the system
Not even ten seconds later, another message was displayed in front of him.
"a total of 187.65 kilograms of consumable mass has been detected. Do you wish to surrender them to the system?"
"yes/no."
Alex answered yes without even a single second of hesitation, and the bodies started to disintegrate into nothingness slowly. A minute later, the only thing left of their existence was their clothes.
"187,657,092 INB has been added to your account."
One of the ways to increase the number of nanobots in an area was by feeding them human flesh. And in exchange, the system gave the players INBs in exchange for the flesh.
This fact wasn't known by the public until a year after the explosion, and when it got out, the murder rate got higher and higher. And the difficulty of winning the hidden quest also increased exponentially.
'I have to kill the rest before they move.' Thought Alex before buying a special pill from the system and putting it in Emily's food.
After getting rid of the two men's remaining, Alex went upstairs with a plate of food.
Fifteen minutes later, Alex could be seen coming out of the house.
"System, how much does it cost to shield the house for twelve hours?" asked Alex.
DING
"calculating"
"it costs exactly 120,055,424 INBS to shield the house for twelve hours with the highest grade shield. Do you wish to know the cost for other grade shields?"
"no need; I wish to purchase the highest grade shield for twelve hours."
"Are you sure?"
"yes"
One of the functions of the system was called "shield area." The "shield area" put a shield around the area as it was obvious from its name. If anyone or anything tried to move past the shield, they would immediately get shocked until they fell to the ground unconscious, or in the case of lifeless objects, they got deflected by the shield.
Alex got into the car and headed in the direction the man told him. He wasn't worried that the information might be wrong. The man was too much of a simpleton to be able to think of such a thing in that situation.
All the way through the jungle to the gang's hideout, Alex was thinking of different ways to kill that person again in the most excruciating way possible.
Unfortunately for current Mike Torres, in his previous life, Alex didn't get to enjoy killing him and had to finish him off the fastest way possible.
But now, the situation was different, Alex was more powerful than him, and he had the advantage of surprise.
He planned to save the best for the last and first get rid of his minions.
So instead of a head-on battle where he might accidentally kill the boss, he chose to take them out one by one without them noticing.
But if he didn't have any other choice, he wouldn't hesitate even for a second to kill them all at once.
The poor Mike didn't even know what beast was coming his way, or else he would have fled the place long ago.
If only he knew that he was paying for the sins he didn't even commit; he would have cursed his future self for crossing paths with this beast.
A year from now, Mike, as the vice-guild leader of the guild "black ravens," was one of the culprits in Emily's death, and Alex didn't have any plan of letting such a sweet second chance of revenge slip through his fingers.
Tonight, no matter what, he would finish Mike Torres.
Tonight, no matter what, he would get the revenge he always wanted.
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