Chapter 158 Erchius Ghost 1 (1/2)
John's eyes soon recovered from the temporary blindness and he immediately proceeded to scan his surroundings with the scope in his Spitfire assault rifle.
It was a desolated moon with anything in sight but the blue rocky terrain in front of him.
The surface was barely brightened from the giant sun in the distance, but it was more than enough for him to see without any other light source.
He was currently still wearing his Terrene Protectorate uniform, as his Scouter's Set was basically useless after his fight against the Ixodoom.
Strapped at his back was the a gray cylinder object, the Environment Protection Pack, or EPP, that protected John from the spacial hazards and provided oxygen for him to live on.
John then looked at his PIPS and saw the raw analysis of the moon and its composition.
There wasn't that much useful information beside the fact that there was no atmosphere and the gravity on the moon was off about 0,90m/s^2, about 1/10 of Earth's gravity which is 9,807m/s^2.
Seeing that it was clear, John looked at the ground beside him.
John couldn't help but smile at the sight of Lenny sprawled at the ground like a corpse.
”Hey.” John lightly kicked Lenny's rib, ”Stand up, we have to keep moving. 2 hours until this moon will be covered in darkness.”
”Urgh...” Lenny groaned in pain as he struggled to stand up, ”Fucking teleporters...” He complained as soon as he was on his feet.
John rolled his eyes and took the lead to explore the moon they were at.
Different from the cautious John, Lenny was casually walking around with his hands behind his head.
Lenny was treating everything like it was a walk in the park.
”Lenny!” John was annoyed at how dismissively Lenny was acting and berated him, ”Be more careful and attentive, Lenny. We don't know what kind of danger might have around here.”
”We're in moon, John.” Lenny said without paying much attention, ”What kind of dangers could be in a place without oxygen and low gravity?”
”Well, you know, maybe, METEORS!? MOONTANTS!? ERCHIUS HORROR!?”
”Ah, you didn't have to shout by my ear.”
”Lenny...you don't have ears...”
”Meaningless details...'
”Lenny...you...ahhhh...forget about it, just do as you please...” John simply gave up talking with Lenny.
”John, Lenny, focus.” John heard a voice entering his ears. It was Peri's voice.
”Oh?” John was surprised for a moment before saying, ”I thought Forge would be guiding us from the sky, who come it's you?”
”What? You prefer her?” All heard was Peri's frosty voice coming from his PIPS.
”No! No! No! No! Don't misunderstand!” John immediately shook his head and denied, ”I thought you were taking care of Saito, that's all!”
”Humph!” Peri let out an audible snort, ”We switched places, she's too just too mentally tired to focus on guiding from up here. She rather take care of Saito.”
”Okay!” John's cleaned up some sweat beads that formed over his forehead in relief.
”Hehehehe...” Lenny just watched and listened the situation from side while grinning like a perverted old man.
Looking over his shoulder, John saw that expression in Lenny's face and became even more annoyed and embarrassed.
He swiftly accelerated his pace and created some distance between him and Lenny.
...
John and Lenny had been walking on the moon's surface for about 20 minutes.
On their mindless walk, John saw some purple crystals on the surface and didn't hesitate to take the Matter Manipulator on his hip and mine them.