Hammer of the Gods Book 1 â First Strike: A LitRPG Post Apocalyptic Earth Adventure by Craig Zerf
Author:Craig Zerf [Zerf, Craig]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2023-11-10T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter 43
âDo you guys know the way to the train yard?â asked Liam.
âObviously,â grunted one of the deputies, both his expression and demeanor that of sulky surliness.
âJeez, dickhead much?â mumbled Liam as they followed the two deputies, hopefully heading for the station.
âWhatâs it like being a deputy here?â asked Mia.
Both of the deputies shrugged.
âWeâre one of the new batch,â answered one of them. âThe original deputies look down on us a bit because we ainât formally trained. But that donât bother me none. After all, itâs easier to be a lawman than it used to be. I mean, shit, pretty much everything is a crime now, and the sheriff â I mean the Grand Supervisor, allows us quite a bit of leeway. If we say itâs a crime, well then itâs a crime.â
âJudge, jury and executioner,â noted Mia.
The man shook his head. âNo, maâam. Only the sheriff does the executing. Oh, and Harrison, well he did before you shot him.â
âHow many citizens have been murdered then?â asked Mia.
The deputies stopped walking and turned to stare at her. âNot murdered, maâam,â the talker said. âThey was put down according to the law. You might think it harsh, but you should have been here before. The place was like a fucking Mad Max movie. Shootings and raping and killing every day. The sher⦠Grand Supervisor put an end to that. Okay, maybe things got a bit overzealous for a while, but theyâse calming down now.â
âSo how many?â insisted Mia.
The talker shrugged.
âBout three, maybe four,â interjected the second deputy. âTheyâse buried out in the desert, maybe a mile west.â
âThree or four people,â said Mia. âThatâs not many. I was expecting a much higher figure.â
Once again, the deputies turned to stare at her.
âHundred, maâam,â said the talker. âThree or four hundred people. Maybe more. I donât rightly keep count.â
Liam and the rest of the group stopped walking. Mia had gone pale, and even Cowboy looked a little shocked.
âDude,â said Liam. âThatâs like ten percent of the population. Fuck me, what sort of psycho personally offs four hundred people?â
Neither deputy answered, they merely kept walking so Liam and the group had to follow.
âThat must be about ten people a day from when the laws changed,â estimated Mia.
âMonstrous,â rumbled a voice they all knew, although there was no physical sign of the entityâs presence.
âWho said that?â asked the one deputy, spinning around in a circle in an attempt to track down the source of the utterance.
No one reacted.
âHey, tell me something,â said Liam after the two deputies stopped looking for the perpetrator. âHow come the sheriff hasnât made use of the steam train?â
The talker shrugged. âWhy would he? So we can go to some other shit hole and fight with new people. All we would end up doing is attracting unwanted attention. No, best leave well enough alone. Anyhow, I think the nerds who knew how to work the trains are all dead. The Grand Supervisor gave them all seriously low ranks, so they had little access to drugs or food, and they got to do the worst jobs.
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