Fractured Desert by Aidan Colyer

Author:Aidan Colyer [Colyer, Aidan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: GameLit, Military LitRPG, Military Science Fiction, Science fiction LitRPG, litrpg, LitFPS
Publisher: Aidan Colyer
Published: 2019-01-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16.

Roland sat in the lee of the HQ sipping a fresh bottle of cold water. They had taken Watts to the infirmary with Bywaters to find out what they could do about her shoulder. The others were sitting around while Lawry laid out in the sun with his head resting on his hands.

“He will regret that later,” Clark said kicking her boots off.

Roland chuckled. “Especially while we have devices that stop the medical equipment from working.”

Clark smiled. “This should be good for a laugh. About those devices though. Surely keeping hold of them is a stupid idea. If we get ambushed we are sitting ducks without respawning.”

“We need to work out how to get them back to the HQ. Or dismantle them here to work out what tech they are using,” Murden said walking up and sitting on a crate of water they had liberated from the tankers. She opened a bottle and took a long drink. She glanced over at Lawry. “He knows we don’t have any burns kits left doesn’t he?”

Roland and Clark grinned.

“Remind me never to go to sleep near you two in the future,” she said shaking her head. “Anyway, once the interrogation is done, we will probably move out and take the fight to the rebels while hitting the enemy troops at the same time.”

“What makes you say that?” Clark asked.

“Well, it’s what I’d do. We need to end this battle quicker. There are four days left and we are losing troops on the northern objectives for zero gain. If we move up to help them we have our objective taken behind us and end up in the same predicament. Our best bet is to win by casualty rates. The enemy won’t be expecting us to hit them hard and the rebels will help us at first.”

“Makes sense to me,” Roland replied as the door to the HQ opened. They all craned their necks round to look at whoever had exited. It was the lieutenant. He saw them looking and walked over. Murden chucked him a bottle of water from the crate she was sat on. He drained the bottle in one go and crushed it before dropping it to the side of the wall.

“Well, that was utterly pointless,” he said sitting on a fallen chunk of masonry. “They won’t talk to us about anything worthwhile. They keep claiming to be fighting a just fight against our evil rulers and some conspiracy bullshit. Apparently, we are just puppets of the evil ones who haven’t got the power to do anything so don’t need to know more than we do.”

He reached past Murden and grabbed another bottle from the crate drinking it at a slower pace than the last one.

Roland shook his head. “What are we going to do now?” he asked looking at the lieutenant.

“Only thing we can do. We take out as many of the enemy as possible and try to end the battle.”

“Told you so,” Murden said standing up. “I’ll get the troops in order.

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