Gun Blade: A LitRPG Fantasy Sci-fi (Crystal Shards Online Book 4) by Scott Rick

Author:Scott, Rick [Scott, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2019-03-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30: Escalation

“I’m telling you the truth,” Martha Kirkwood said emphatically. “The brute had a gun!”

Bruce buried his face in his clasped hands as he released a sigh. The rest of the board members had similar reactions. Alarm for most of them, but Bruce watched the reaction of Dennis most of all. To his surprise, he didn’t react with alarm either, but neither did he give off any impression that he knew about the situation beforehand. Whether that was him concealing or simply being flippant about the matter was yet to be seen, but he wasn’t hamming up the situation like someone who was instigating an outcome either.

But that wasn’t surprising. This had Novak written all over it.

“Are you certain?” Dennis said, narrowing his eyes. “The protocols to create a lethal projectile weapon are quite impossible to replicate.”

“He pointed it at my face, Dennis!” Martha shouted, nearly in tears. “He was going to kill me with it!”

Damn that punk . It’d been less than five days since his run-in with him in the air scrubber room with Gina. Bruce had hedged his bets and provided a security detail of four people for her while she worked, wary that Novak would try to intimidate her again. But he should have been looking in the other direction. Novak had come to Bruce first, but now that that door was closed, he was leveraging the weaker members of the board against him: putting pressure on him from the inside as well as out.

It was a good plan too. Assuming he’d actually used intelligence rather than brutal instinct. Either way the result was the same, Bruce was now stuck in a jam. He’d either have to play dumb and pretend like this was new information to him, or reveal to the board that he already knew about it all along.

This kind of tactic was Dennis-worthy.

Bruce eyed the carrot-topped software engineer from across the table, his stomach churning. There it was…an enemy AI right in their midst. Or whatever the heck he truly was. And darn if this wouldn’t have been the perfect time to blow it all wide open. To reveal this whole gun deal was set up by him and expose him for what he was.

But Bruce had nothing.

Carl hadn’t uncovered anything more pertinent from his surveillance and Gina was still zeroing in on the gun factory. But there was nothing connecting the both of them. At least nothing obvious. Perhaps it was coincidence. Or his own internal obsession with Dennis, skewing his objectivity, but there was no longer any time to see whether the two would pan out or not.

Novak had upped the ante and the schedule.

And Bruce needed to act now.

“You’re wrong about the protocols,” Bruce said.

The atmosphere in the room grew heavy and silent as all eyes turned to him.

Bruce was never one to go the route of subterfuge if he could avoid it. The coward’s path, he considered it. He needed to confront this head-on…consequences be damned.

“There are ways to create weapons without them,” Bruce continued.

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