Chapter 20 The Erchius Mining Facility Incident 7 (2/2)
John took from his inventory a item that looked like a remote control. He looked at the screen on top of it.
”No signal...?” John looked at the words that appeared there, ”But when we have just arrived I checked it and saw that he still had signal.”
If the Retriever won't work Lenny and John would be stuck at the Lunar Base.
”It's probably being jammed.” Lenny said.
”You mean... Someone is doing it?”
”Probably... Or might be something else...?”
”Erchius... Horror?”
”That too. I think is one or the other.”
John frowned his eyebrows in deep thought.
Ever since they teleported to this place John felt like someone was watching them in the dark, and he also felt a foreboding.
”We need to keep going...” John said, ”We need those Erchius Crystals, but let's be more careful. We must kill every single Moontan we findt.”
”Why kill all of them?” Lenny curiously asked.
”There might be survivors in this place... We need to provide help, while we can”
Lenny helplessly sighed, ”This personality of your will probably end up killing you, or worse, killing someone important for you.”
”There's no way around.” John said resolutely, ”I'm a Protector after all.”
”Alright...”
John looked at his PIPS and checked his Energy Storage. His PIPS's storage togheter with what the armor provided gave John the amount of 800 UE of storage. When he fired the pistol two times he spent 4 UE, but he had already recover about 1.6 of the energy he spent, because his regeneration was about 0.8 UE per minute.
”Let's go. We need to go to the mine, there might be some Erchius Crystals down there.” John called out for Lenny.
The two of them walked deeper into the Base. They were able to hear some discernible growls ,coming from the Moontants, over the siren sound.
They reached a bifurcation on their way. John decide to fallow the path where he was able to hear the most amount of growls.
John and Lenny were soon able to see two more Moontants, and before they could get ready, the Moontants saw them and charged toward them.
*Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang...”
While Lenny spent only one bullet to skillfully explode the head of one of them, John had to spent more than 5 pistol energy bullets to do the same, not counting 1 bullet that he missed.
Lenny started to laugh without reservation.
”What are you laughing at?” John angrily rolled hos eyes and asked Lenny, ”They saw us even before we could get ready because you are simply a walking beacon.”
”A walking beacon with better shooting skills than you.”
”Shut up.”
After they fussed for a while, they moved on.
They were moving by a claustrophobic hallway when John saw a opened door in his right.
He carefully opened while watching every corner.
It was a food storage, but the stands were all empty, there was only empty food boxes and water bottles scattered around the floor.
John saw a humanoid figure sitting on ground while resting on the wall. John aimed at it with his flashlight and saw that it was a human body.