Chapter 18 – Navigate the beasts

After couple of minutes of crawling into random turns in the vent I reached an end. I peeked through the holes in the vent and the room seemed to be clear so I pushed the lid open and came out of the vent.
- “Now, just got to be more careful.” I said to myself.
My heart was still beating pretty fast as I thought I could have easily died back there. I looked around the room. It was pretty small and relatively empty. There was one door leading out of it. I silently opened the door and looked out. It led into a bigger room with lots of computers. There was a guard sitting behind them and one more guard standing right beside him.
I very quietly crawled through the door, walked up to the standing guard and then in one swift motion smacked him on the head with my V pistol. That knocked him out. The other guard got alerted momentarily to this, but I quickly put a gun against his face.
- “Don’t move!” I said.
- “Please don’t shoot me. I’m just doing my job.”
- “Well don’t.” I commanded.
- “All right fine. I don’t care about any researches that are going on in here. I just work here for the money.”
- “OK, well me and my team are going to blow this place to hell, so your co-operation would be much appreciated.” I said.
- “All right fine. Just don’t shoot me.” The guy said.
- “First of all, explain to me this creature repellent device.” I demanded.
- “OK, we have a giant engine-kind of device, invented in these labs very recently in fact and it basically is responsible for keeping creatures out of the main area of the base by emitting radio waves of a very specific frequency that messes up brain activity of creatures but not of humans. The mini version of this device is also installed in the crufacles of all the UFR members.” The guy explained.
- “Can you disable it?”
- “Well… yes I can. Why would you want to do that? We all will die!”
- “I need creatures to keep most of the guards busy. Disable it. All of them.” I commanded.
- “OK OK. Just calm down.”
The guy pressed a few buttons and then there was a strange sound heard.
- “The creature repellent devices have been disabled.” He informed me.
- “Good.” I said, “Now open all the outside doors.”
He obeyed and did so.
- “Will you be able to also send transmissions outside of the base?”
- “Yes I can.” The man said.
- “Good, contact my VENUS station. The code for that is 11C5R721.” I told him.
He began typing the code in. At this moment two UFR guards walked into the room.
- “Mate, why have you switched creature repellent off?” they were saying while entering, but then both spotted me, “What the…?!”
At this moment I quickly pointed my V pistol at them and produced two shots. Both shots got them in the head, killing them this way. The sitting guard at this moment got up and tackled me. We both fell onto the ground.
- “You pathetic retard!” I cursed.
He began punching me at this moment. Here I got out a WD-15 electron stunner from my crufacle pocket. We use them during extreme emergencies and they are basically like tazers but much more powerful and can even knock the person out. I stabbed the needle of WD-15 into the guard’s neck and activated it. The guy began shaking from jolts of numerous electrons entering his body. He fell onto the ground beside me and was pretty much knocked out.
I got up from the floor and approached the computers.
- “All right, let’s see how to do this.” I said and finished inputting the code and pressed ‘Contact’.
About 3 seconds later I reached my VENUS station. One of the agents was on the other end.
- “Yes, I need to speak to David.” I said.
A couple of seconds later David responded from the other end:
- “Yes? Who is this?”
- “Hey, it’s me – Jim.”
- “Jim? You’re still alive! Brilliant. What happened?”
- “Too long to explain, but I found the base and need some back up.”
- “I’m sorry Jim.” David said, “But Bravo team hit trouble. They mentioned that some creatures attacked them.”
- “Damn!” I said, “All right, in that case I’ll have to do this alone.”
- “Where is this base?” David asked.
- “I don’t know exactly. Hey, if I don’t call again then I am dead, but otherwise keep waiting for my call.” I said and here disconnected the call.
I then looked at the security camera terminals and could see that lots of creatures were entering the base through all the entrances.
- “Good.” I said, “Come to daddy.”
I then left the terminals and prepared to leave when I spotted a manual next to all the terminals. It was called ‘Adreno-man guide’. I opened it for a few seconds out of curiosity as I’ve never heard of a device called ‘Adreno-man’. I read about what it does and it said that it can temporarily increase levels of adrenaline in a person, something up to 2 hours or so. Low setting gives more focus, medium setting allows extremely good reactions and high setting is pretty much for extreme situations and using high setting on yourself too often could kill you. I wondered where this Adreno-man machine was located. That thief Troy must’ve been charged with it before he set out on his missions and that is why he was so good. This base truly did come up with some amazing devices.
I looked at the two knocked out guards, then at two dead guards and finally made my way out of the room.