Chapter 1400 - Cap Explosive (1/2)

After Gris left Outpost Town, with quickened steps, he hurried towards the Los Angeles suburbs.

The cold touch in his arms and the tinkling of metal made him feel warm and fuzzy inside. The thought of another reward waiting for him made him so excited that he almost wanted to sing. If he counted the deposit he received earlier and the payment from the mysterious man, his assets now exceeded 1,000 bottle caps.

After so many years of picking up rubbish in California, it was the first time he has seen so many bottle caps. If he didn’t really understand the meaning of the word getting rich overnight, now he had experienced firsthand what it feels like.

He already planned out how he would spend the money.

When he received the last sum from the mysterious man, he would first go to the Golden Cave in Liberty City to spend two days as a rich man, and then take the remaining money to the weapon shop to exchange for some top-notch equipment. He would become a mercenary or hunter, which was much more promising than being a scavenger.

To be honest, the mysterious employer did not offer a huge reward, at least compared with the generous Chinese, he could only be described as stingy. But even so, it was still two hundred bottle caps, and it was enough to buy his already not high professional ethics.

After all, no one would mind more money.

Although Gris’ excitement was beyond renewed, he still maintained the most basic vigilance. He did not walk in a straight line but made a few turns around the alleys in the suburbs.

No one was more familiar with Los Angeles than a scavenger. The paths he took would hardly encounter dangerous mutants. However, if people accidentally took a wrong take, they could very well end up in Death Claws’ territory, and those cruel monsters would take care of the stupid stalkers…

If there were any.

The meeting point was in an abandoned movie theater, and the poster at the entrance was a new movie released on a summer day in 2171.

He went straight to the main entrance of the theater, reached out and tapped rhythmically on the dilapidated mahogany door three times.

Soon, there was the sound of footsteps behind the mahogany door, and it was followed by a light creak. The door opened and let him in.

There were yellowing brochures scattered on the ground. Behind the mahogany door was a dusty red carpet, and the gold-rimmed guardrail was drooped with red silk studded with wool. Four soldiers in kinetic skeletons were standing on both sides of the entrance to the theater. Gris hesitated for a moment, then retracted his left hand into his sleeve that was calmly holding the fuse of a smoke bomb and walked nervously towards the theater.

“How did things go?” The man in the back seat of the movie theater slowly spoke in a frequency-converted voice. He wore a jet-black kinetic skeleton.

“I’ve pointed them the way to the Grand Canyon,” Gris extended his right hand as he walked to the man, “Then like what we agreed on, where is my reward?”

The man smiled and beckoned to the air next to him.

Almost at the same time, a layer of faint ripples broke out in the transparent air, and a jet-black figure stepped out from behind the ripples and appeared abruptly behind the man.

This scene shocked Gris. Although he had heard of optical invisibility, it was the first time he saw it with his own eyes.

Gris vigilantly watched the man that appeared out of thin air. The hand that held onto the smoke bomb fuse already began to sweat. If this group of people was going to kill him, he wouldn’t even have a chance to fight back.

Fortunately, these people did not intend to kill him. The man did not show a muzzle or a dagger, but a pocket-sized bottle cap box.

“The reward is here,” Captain Gerrard pointed to the box in the hands of his subordinate, and said with a smile, “There are ten large bottle caps in total. If I remember correctly, this large bottle cap can be exchanged for twenty normal caps.”

Gris gulped down, reached out, and took the box. He quickly opened the lid and took a glance inside, then stuffed it into his pocket.

“Generally speaking, this is the case. Although, we use the small battle cap more,” Gris forced a smile after taking two steps back nonchalantly, “Then… now that my task has been completed, I won’t bother you here anymore.”

“Don’t leave in a hurry yet,” Gerrard said unhurriedly after he stopped Gris, who had already turned around, “I have another task for you.”