Revenant: City of Artem by Jez Cajiao

Author:Jez Cajiao [Cajiao, Jez]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

Lilith better be dead and soon.

That was it, along with a set of coordinates. I groaned, pulling the image up: a smiling woman, deep-purple hair, impressive cleavage, and glowing purple nails. It’d been taken while she was talking to someone. The image zoomed in to show her leaning on the shoulder of a massively modded man. The arms looked to be tier two at the minimum, maybe three. Chrome all the way, artistically layered with “muscle.”

He was clearly armed to the teeth, mostly standard-issue crap, but a nice-looking HK-TT slug thrower on his hip. I could see a few others to the sides, laughing, and…

I checked the image, finding it was zoomed in, but not locked. I rolled the point of view back a little, seeing a dozen idiots with her. Most were like Lucky’s lot, gangbangers who thought that a willingness to use uber violence was the same as being lethal adversaries.

It wasn’t, and the condition of their guns when I zoomed in on them made it clear they were amateurs. Most of them were filthy, and a few even had the red warning light of low-zero ammo blinking.

They were walking round with empty or low weapons, and didn’t do anything about it. Idiots.

Most of their weapons were melee, as near as I could see—electro-shock knuckles, batons, blades—and the bodyguard had discharge plates on his knuckles when I zoomed in on them as well.

Yeah, that was a nice set of arms.

I was ready to ignore it, to head straight back to the apartment, until I saw the last figure.

It was an older man, one who wore the same tattoos as some of Lucky’s gang, and he was laid on the floor to one side. A trail of blood led from him to the bodyguard, while another ganger counted out credit-chips.

They’d moved into Lucky’s territory, he’d said, and I guessed this image was supposed to make me believe they were the aggressor, and that they were attacking the innocent?

No. They were selling drugs and stims, I betted, zooming in and out of the image at different points to confirm. They were the same level of scum that Lucky and his people were, but they also had credits, and I had slightly more reason to kill these people.

Besides, it’d be a shame if someone else got those arms.

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