Chapter 298 (1/2)
Book 3, Chapter 34 – Collateral Dae
Autu crudely bound The area that was bit was nu before her Because he'd helped suck out the venom, his mouth had become swollen
Autu he'd suffer fro her
Of course Cloudhaas in no danger His special situation lie toxins could do At present he was in the process of co “It's lucky you sahen you did A few seconds later and you'd be dead – or least lost the leg”
Autumn was still embarrassed by the whole ordeal Her cheeks were red and she looked off to the side, angry and asharateful At Cloudhawk's dire words she looked back at him “Was it that serious?”
“No shi+t Nothing that lives in the wastelands is safe to ignore The viper was probably hiding in the water to escape the heat They like to cool off in water especially Recklessly throwing it around scared it, that's why it bit you” Cloudhawk shook his head “The ot it from the sanctuary back in Skycloud You can't buy it out here, no matter how much money you throw around Without it you wouldn't be here talking to me”
Autumn understood that all of this was because she hadn't been careful But she was the victim here Not only was she bitten, but Cloudhawk also saw more of her than she was comfortable with
The hooligan got a good eyeful and got to be the hero, but instead of i his attitude he just treated her worse She felt indescribably ned, kicked while she was down She could just die
But she couldn't really blame him She had to just accept it
Barb set out on her mission to learn all she could The best way to do that, she felt, was to ask the shop assistants
Many of the people trying to h were quite faather information Only the old drunkard was the exception No one knew a thing about him, other than he'd been around for a few days
At least the sandstorm outside had started to calm down
Barb took advantage of the lull to go outside and get some fresh air Outside the place was al to understand how dangerous getting caught out in one of those stor out the sand and getting things in order
Barb bent her knees and ju a full four meters and landed nimbly on the top of the earthen walls that surrounded the hostel She shi+elded her eyes frolare with one hand and peered out into the horizon In contrast to when they were forced to stop, now she could peer out over the whole field of quicksand
The ed on the way here was just the edge On the other side of the hostel, the same scene stretched out farther than she could wrap her head around As far as the eye could see, all the way to the limit of her vision She squinted as the endless sands reflected the sun's light
Pools of quicksand joined, creating rivers ofsand that crisscrossed the way forward They were hard to pick out with the naked eye, but she saw signs of them as far out as a hundred kilometers before her vision failed her Out in the distance she could see the border where choking sands still hung in the air like a curtain Unlike the sandstorm it was constant, an ancient staple of this deadly place that ignored wind currents
Why would they build a city in a place like this? How did it even get a nah in the middle of a desert?
Barb's curiosity was piqued and she felt that fa at her The , the more she yearned to uncover its secrets The truth was Barb had already started to groeary of a bounty hunter's life, but she wasn't strong enough to life as she wanted Traveling with her senior killed two birds with one stone
Alright, well that's enough Time to make my report
Barb hopped off the wall and ruff series of curses caught her ear It sounded like soet a better look
“Mother fucker! Do you knoho this is?” A group of ether The first one she saas a tall man covered in a thick cloak His face was red, scorched by the sun and sand, with aunsavory about hiaunt as a skull He carried a pair of large ha he just stood by the door, while an older e curly beard hollered “Anyone who stands in the Red-Faced Ghost's way dies You fuckanna be next?”
This was the Red-Faced Ghost? That was a famous name in the wastelands
Red-Face for short, he was the boss of a bandit clan He didn't operate in the borderlands hout the wastelands In the last decade he'd made quite a name for hiht outside the door Only, several hotel workers were barring the
Bonobo treated the infareeted Cloudhawk “We're full up Come back later”
Red-Face was silent as a tombstone
His henchered forward “Who the fuck do you think you are? You worthless sack of rotwolf puke You've got some fuckin' stones thinkin' you can stand before the boss and talk like that!”
“Get the fuck outta here,” Bonobo replied
The bearded man did not take that well
Red-Face was also scowling with displeasure He was holding back, but he wasn'tin his stead Seeing this the bearded man wrenched a ht the sun, cold and brutal, thirsty for blood
Bonobo was unimpressed “I'll say it one more time fuck off”
The bearded bandit was done arguing Without hesitation he whipped the blade at the owner, its tip whistling through the air As it traveled onlookers were struck with the distinct impression that it was noits wielder behind its treht hand kne to handle himself
Barb suspected it would take some effort on her part if she ever had to kill him