Chapter 29 - No negotiations with raiders

[Untitled squad]

[Number of squad members 21]

[Leader Brandon Parker]

[Thanks to the leader, all participants receive the following bonuses]

[Automatic weapons do 10% more damage, first aid is 20% more effective, +5 damage resistance]

[1 team - Leader Joe]

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[Team 2 - Leader Markus]

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[Team 3 - Leader Alex]

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[4th team - Leader Arthur]

[Leadership Bonus: Accuracy increased by 20%, Food and water consumption reduced by 10%]

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Looking through the new status window, Brandon saw that it showed the status of his squad, the loyalty and condition of his people. This is very useful data, so he can see who from his squad is really tired, injured, etc.

In addition, thanks to this module, his squad now has various bonuses. So, for example, his abilities give bonuses divided by two for the whole squad, and Arthur's team receives not only Brandon's bonuses, but also Arthur's bonuses as well.

After closing the menu, he began to enjoy an hour's break with his squad.

After an hour's respite, Brandon ordered the squad to leave the hospital and they moved on.

The next target was the police station and the donut building.

Nothing much happened to the police station, there was not even anyone there, and everything of value had already been taken by the scavengers, so after a short inspection, the squad went to a donut company.

It is a bombed-out building with holes in the walls and a collapsed roof. On the ground floor there is nothing remarkable, just a few plastic donut molds and other rubbish.

When the squad reached the second floor, they heard that someone was behind the door.

Without hesitation, Brandon knocked out the door with his foot, and then going inside and saw 3 raiders frightened from surprise, apparently they were trying to open the safe in the corner so they did not hold their weapons in their hands. Brandon, without hesitation, ordered them to raise their hands, and then began to question them.

According to the three raiders, a small gang of raiders took over the metro. Apart from this gang, only the Gunners remained in the city. As it turned out, the Gunners do not like raiders very much, but nevertheless they agreed with the raiders not to go near the school, in return the mercenaries will not attack the raiders, mostly.

Understanding the local structure of the city, Brandon came up with an idea how to quickly deal with the raiders on the subway.

He ordered to keep the raiders at gunpoint, and he himself took out 3 grenades and began to do something with them.

Half an hour later, Brandon ordered to remove all clothes from his chest, and then attached explosive devices to 3 raiders, making a vest with explosives.

When the raiders put their clothes back on, the explosives were not visible at all, Brandon, satisfied with the work, said.

- Listen here, I'm kind today, so I give you a chance, I put an explosive on you that will explode itself in an hour, naturally if someone tries to remove it, it will immediately explode on the spot, they are also synchronized, this means if someone is alone will die, others will explode too.

Naturally, there was no synchronization, it was a regular timer bomb, and Brandon also had a button to detonate them. But raiders don't need to know about this.

-The three of you will go to your boss and tell him that the Gunners want to meet him at the school in 30 minutes. I hope you understand that your task is to get him out of there, it would be even better for him to take all his people with him, but if he leaves someone on the subway, you should also leave someone alone so that he can help us later. If all goes well, I won't kill you.

The frightened raiders, hearing his plan, just nodded meekly, grabbed their weapons and quickly ran out of the building.

Brandon smiled, then took the remote out of his pocket and tossed it to Arthur,

The old man did not understand what Brandon meant, to which he answered.

- Well, I told them I wouldn't kill them. Let's go to the school, there we will take the best position for shooting, after the subway we will immediately take up the vault.

After 20 minutes, the squad occupied the area in front of the school, some people hid in buildings, behind pieces of garbage, behind cars to make it easier for them to shoot back. Brandon, on the other hand, was waiting in an open area with 7 people, so as not to scare the raiders with a large number of people, but also not to allow him to relax too much.

After about 10 minutes, Brandon noticed that a crowd of raiders was walking from the subway side, they were all dressed in torn leather clothes, pieces of metal, some in their hands you can see only axes, swords and pipes, and the rest have all kinds of handicraft weapons.

The leader of the raiders was also dressed in torn rags, but he stood out in that his armor had at least some structure, protecting him better than pieces of metal from his subordinates, he was holding a Combat rifle in his hands, apparently he was very lucky to find this weapon, this was produced before the war.

While Brandon was examining the raiders, the gang leader approached with greedy eyes and inspected Brandon's equipment. When the raiders came close, their leader spat on the floor and asked in a rude voice.

-What do you want? We seem to have agreed that we will not interfere with you, you will not touch us, has something changed?

Brandon ignored him inspecting the position of the raiders, noticing only 2 death row in the crowd.

The leader of the raiders, noticing that he was being ignored, got angry, but with patience decided to take a closer look at Brandon's equipment, noticing the differences from the armor of the Gunners, he doubted.

-Do you have a different color? New finds?

While the leader was speaking, a raider approached him and began to speak.

-Boss, I recognize this armor, these are the guards in the White Stone City, they say this place is full of loot, but the security there is serious.

Brandon looked around the area and saw the location of the raiders no longer waited and shouted loudly.

-Arthur START!

The leader of the raiders, having combat experience, understood that this signal would not lead them to anything good, he wanted to draw his weapon, but Brandon had pointed his revolver at him before him.

A second later, two explosions thundered on the road, these were two suicide raiders. Most of the other raiders were killed by the explosion, the rest were badly wounded and only a few were intact, but Brandon's squad left them no chance, killing everyone from several rounds.