Chapter 16: Catching a Ghost II (1/2)

Chapter 16: Catching a Ghost II

Adarunted at Aldrich because that was all their zoht enveloped the group, blinding away the Nexus and teleporting Aldrich back to the forest He checked his wristwatch

10:10 PM

Barely any time had passed

Good Aldrich needed soet ready

HePollen] in his hands It looked like a two- bamboo shoot that split off into three branches at the crown A yellow, seed-like bulb the size of a baseball drooped from each branch, and the surface of each seed was scattered with tiny hairs and bright yellow pollen

Each of these bulbs had a cast of [Pollen Cloud] erenades that could be remotely detonated

A near perfect tool for what Aldrich wanted to do -

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"Stop me here," said Ghost from the comfortably cushi+oned backseat of a coer in a car that had enough seating space to fit in six, and he abused the space asout like he was in his own bed

He had ordered an black tier express ride from Carrier, the best and most reliable taxi and rideshare service on theto etting jitters froh of X

"Are you sure, sir? This is still quite a ways from the compound, and there may be Variants out and about," said the driver frolass sheet separated passengers from the driver, but Ghost could still see the silhouette of the driver's head cocked in confusion

"Did you not fucking hear me?" said Ghost, annoyed "I want out here"

"As you wish, sir," said the driver He halted the sleek black, expensive hovercar to a ser side door slid open, and he hobbled out, backpack slung over his shoulder

"Next time, if there is one," said Ghost to the driver "You don't question ot it? Two hundred credits a ride and you lecture me, a top tier Blackwater recruit, on safety? fuck off"

"Have a nice day, sir," said the driver, obviously used to this kind of treatment

"Yeah, whatever," said Ghost as he stumbled away on the paved road He heard the hovercar door click shut behind him and the car zooone before he went off the road and into the dirt of the forest

Ghost gri, he was 20th - the very last of the A-class, and he was in dire danger of slipping into B-class No, in the first place, he was B-class material The only reason he was in the A-class was because Seth Solar was his friend and could pull string for hi hard, Ghost could barely hold his own in the A-class, but these drugs, these fucking drugs - they screwed him up They o blank when he needed it to be sharp

Ghost dug his fingers into his forearrit his teeth But he could not quit fuck that Blackwater technician for introducing him to X It was all his fault that he was in this doard spiral

Regardless, Ghost needed to get rid of the syringes he had used X was illegal enough that getting rid of the the Granted, it was not a high risk, but any risk was tootolerance policy ht with, no, even just associated with drugs, especially one like X, he was truly fucked The best way he thought of getting rid of contraband was du them in the forest because nobody ever went there due to the danger of Variants