BuyMort: Smart Shopper: How I Became the Accidental Warlord of Arizona by Damien Hanson

Author:Damien Hanson [Hanson, Damien]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0BGBL11DJ
Published: 2022-11-10T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Tollya led the group, and most of the hobbs were laughing and chatting as they began to take gear from the new equipment. I noticed one of the hobbs was carrying the RPG launcher over one shoulder. Really hoped we didn’t need to use that underground.

Rayna had bought us more tracer rounds, so everyone started loading magazines. Each hobb got a Sleem Stick, and each of them had weapons capable of hurting the Sleem.

When I did a quick head count, I realized there was only a dozen hobbs with us. I had expected more, but they opened the hatch to the bugout tunnel as though we were ready.

“Rayna,” I asked as I approached. “Don’t we need more hobbs to do this?”

She waved a screen away and shook her head. “We used these before, rich client with herd of beef-beetles. Was being attacked by local Sleem nest, would only let us use equipment they had on hand.”

She waved her hand in the general direction of where the Sleem were holed up.

“Hive work well alone, but faster if you can move it around. Need small group to support hive. Anything is easy when you have morties. Hive do all Sleem work, we just there to break up clumps or deal with bugs they summon.”

Tollya lifted the new flame thrower to Rayna’s back, and the hobb started shrugging into the straps. She raised her phone and thumbed at the center of the screen.

The hive lit up and came to life. It was plugged into our new solar sail generator, which had been gathering power to store in its battery most of the day.

Small lights behind each door activated, and they began to slide open. All except the ten at the top opened, and small metal insects began to crawl out.

They were fascinating to watch. Each one would crawl on tiny spindle limbs to the edge of its door, before taking wing and flying down the open tunnel to the Sleem dungeon.

I was wearing my plasma falchion, and Falcor, each in hip and thigh scabbards. My bag of crystalline grenades was slung over one shoulder, and I carried my new Highwater Blast shotgun at the ready. It was loaded with laser slugs, and I had a fresh bandoleer with a mix of them and my remaining MIRV shells.

It had been tempting to buy and use another Sleem suit, but nobody else had one and it made me hesitate to bother. The goal here seemed to be not killing Sleem anymore but just pushing them into a single contained area.

I chuckled at my own thoughts. Just pushing them into a single contained area, eh? Easier said than done. I just hoped this encounter with the Sleem didn’t involve being burned as much as last time.

We hefted the hive between us, me and three hobbs. It was surprisingly heavy, but Rayna assured us we would not have to carry it far. As we walked down the entry hallway, one hobb remained behind to close the door.

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