Chapter 79 - Sniper

Jack calmly entered the hostel and headed for the elevator.

The elevator doors opened and Lam appeared there with the eternal cigarette in his mouth.

Grinning, the veteran shook his head — This is already some kind of tradition.

— It looks like it. Jack smiled calmly, still reliving what had happened

— Is this magic or something? — Lam sighed and pressed the button when the guy entered the elevator

— No, it's just that you come down to smoke so often that the chance of our meeting is constantly high.

— Yeah.

Then there was silence.

An awkward situation...

Jack didn't know how to talk to Lam now, because he just slept with his ex-wife yesterday.

And of course, it's all over between them a long time ago, and they're just... friends who like to fight, but the awkwardness from this did not go away from the guy.

Jack activated Belial's Eyes to at least roughly find out the veteran's thoughts on this matter, but found nothing.

Of course, it was possible that he was unaware of the events, but Jack somehow doubted it.

"Be careful with Chiquita, Jack. Lam said calmly, smiling thinly

— Em...

— Trust me, this woman... it's hard to cope with it.

— Ahem, Lam... you're not...

— Against? — Lam tilted his head to the side with a slight grin - No. It's all over between us a long time ago. Even before the last divorce.

— Even so...

- yes. I'm happy for Chiquita, actually. — Lam grinned with a little nostalgia — We didn't suit each other and parted a little... loudly. But nevertheless, I wish her happiness... — then his smile became crooked —...even though she's a pain in the ass.

Jack was surprised. Really surprised. It seemed to him that everything would be more difficult.

— Of all this situation, I just don't understand you. — Lam looked at the guy

— That is? Jack turned to face him

Lam grinned — Listen, I don't want to talk about preferences, but Chiquita? A little more, and she would have been old enough to be your grandmother.

— Hey! She doesn't look like an old woman! Jack was indignant

— Let it be so. — Lam shrugged his shoulders — I would understand if you weren't popular, but there are so many young girls around you... This is even if you don't remember about Coco, Valmet, Balalaika and this, what's her name, Revie.

— Hey!

— I don't understand your craving for mature women. Another thing is girls from twenty to thirty. the veteran chuckled

"You're fifty yourself!" No less!

In response, Lam just grinned nastily, and Jack rolled his eyes at it.

...

Jack calmly opened the door and went out onto the roof, where they usually practiced.

The training was in full swing, but there were a couple of new details.

The first detail is Valmet.

The woman was lying on the couch and just watched how the training was going.

Her body was relaxed and not sweaty at all, which means she didn't exercise.

The second detail is Coco.

While exercising, she squatted, but it was clear from the thoughtful melancholic face that mentally the girl was somewhere far away.

— Oh, who came. — Chiquita grinned, raising her head while doing push—ups - We thought you wouldn't come at all.

Coco, as if waking up, looked sharply at Jack and smiled — Jack, you've come.

- yes... There were some things to do, so I couldn't get out quickly. — the guy scratched his head awkwardly

— Come on, start studying. Chiquita nodded, getting up

— Today without... insurance? Jack smiled weakly, raising an eyebrow

Chiquita grimaced — Without. I've had enough already. For a couple of days, at least. — the woman looked at the crookedly smiling Valmet — This one in general... The doctor was a little shocked when he examined her... damage. He insisted that she, at least two weeks, did not engage with such... 'big scales.'

— I see. Jack nodded, even rejoicing inside

He wasn't in the mood for bed games right now. At all.

Jack rubbed his palms together — Let's get started. Where do we start?

— Squats. — Chiquita grinned — Three times more than usual.

— Okay. Jack said calmly

The woman inside was surprised.

Jack, though he was soft and compliant, usually, but he should have been outraged anyway.

Last time he couldn't make a double norm, what can we say about a triple one?

The guy himself just had some confidence and a desire to test himself after increasing the characteristics.

...

— ...everything. Jack exhaled with an effort, quickly putting the heavy neck on the ground

Coco looked at the guy with surprise, but she was much more amused by the reaction of Valmet and Chiquita.

Valmet, standing up from the sofa, opened her eyes wide and opened her mouth in surprise.

Chiquita's bulging eyes expressed disbelief and a generally complex look.

—Chiquita...— Valmet said softly

In turn, Chiquita, silently and quickly approached Jack and grabbed his hand — Hey! What is it?

In response, Chiquita only drew her eyebrows together, feeling the tense muscles of the guy's arms with surprise — You're a fucking monster...

— Hey!

— Oh, I'm sorry. — Chiquita smiled tightly — You're a fucking sexual monster.

— It's not better!

— What is it, Chiquita? — wincing, Valmet got to her feet

— His muscles became bulkier and seemed to be firmer.

— And he also got taller... Valmet came up, looking at Jack — his arms and legs, it seems, have also become longer. And in general, he seems to have lost ten kilograms.

Chiquita looked at Valmet—At the scales?

— On the scales. — the girl nodded in response

Chiquita was quickly pulled out from under the sofa scales - Stand up.

Jack slowly stood on the scales.

"Ninety—nine.".. — Valmet's eyes widened — Do you run marathons at night?

Jack didn't have time to answer, as Chiquita grinned and said — If only bed...

In response, the guy rolled his eyes, but at the same time he himself was surprised by such a rapid weight loss.

— "Nothing surprising." — Gunther spread his hands — "With the growth of characteristics, the energy consumption of the body also increases. The sexual system, with such a Libido, plows harder than Negroes from dawn to dusk. Muscles require a lot of energy, which is why the ordinary human body is very reluctant to build them up. Agility and Vitality, they also greatly increased the daily caloric intake, but the Mind influenced it the most. The brain is the most energy-consuming organ in the human body, and in your case it's still more interesting. Let's add here a diet, a "Devil's Body", daily exhausting workouts to the limit, including frenzied animal energetic sex and numerous stressful situations and... voila."

- "After this list, it now seems to me that I even somehow dropped a little..."

"Well, you're also gaining muscle mass, so with your height and muscles, ninety—nine kilograms is not bad. You should not forget that all this fat is optimally distributed throughout the body, so at most you now look like a slightly plump, but this is not for long."

Chiquita stretched — So I'm in the shower. and then the woman looked down at Jack—Alone.

Jack raised his hands—Of course-of course.

Coco, wiping her sweat, lay down on the bench — Will you back me up?

Jack looked at the barbell, or rather at the bare neck.

If anything, he can save the girl from injury.

— good. — Jack nodded with a slight smile and picked up the neck, put it in Coco's hands

- thanks.

...

A few minutes passed.

Coco was already finishing her workout, and Valmet dozed off on the couch.

— That's it.

— You're doing great. Jack smiled sweetly, taking the neck from the girl's hands

— I'm trying. Coco smiled back, wiping her face with a T—shirt

Because of this, the girl's T-shirt was pulled up and her flat tummy showed.

- "Come on!?" — Jack shouted to himself, feeling how excited he was, and his penis was gradually filling with blood — "Just because of the stomach!? I just fucked and killed Jessica, so why?!.."

While the guy was mentally swearing, Coco drank some water and suddenly asked, lying down on the bench again to rest — Jack, do you think I'm a monster?

- "Wha!?" — Jack couldn't believe his ears — What are you talking about? I told you that even if you don't sell weapons, people will find a way to kill each other...

Coco mentally shook her head.

Her project was under development.

A project that would allow her to stop wars and close the road to heaven for humanity.

Planes, rockets, anything that moves across the sky.

Everything sounds good, but there were certain risks and a huge price for a clear sky.

Even now, at the initial stage of development of the supercomputer, 'Jormunganda', she is told that its activation will bring down all the planes that are in the sky at this moment.

This is a huge number of innocent victims.

Moreover, this is not even a price, but a bid.

Coco wasn't even half sure that the wars would stop.

Moreover, she suspected that wars could break out with renewed vigor.

After all, the closure of the sky is equivalent to the loss of a 'nuclear umbrella', and in general, in principle, there is no possibility of a nuclear war and, as a consequence, a nuclear apocalypse.

The whole world has been holding on to these nuclear umbrellas, and even with the threat of a nuclear strike, countries continue to wage wars and accumulate nuclear potential.

Closing the sky may turn out to be a cruel and not at all funny mistake.

No one gave guarantees that the leaders of the countries, out of fright, would reject thoughts of war.

There was not a small chance that wars would break out with renewed vigor, but already on earth, as it was centuries ago.

Only the soldiers will not have swords and shields, but tanks and machine guns.

And yet, she continued to develop 'Jormungand' and a way to deliver dozens of computers into orbit using rockets.

Despite everything, she continued to move forward towards the goal, selling weapons and thereby continuing the wars that could have ended much faster without these weapons, ammunition and equipment.

— Sorry for such a stupid question, Jack, but... — grinning, Coco said and raised her head, looked into his eyes —...do you think there is equality in the world? Justice? The truth?

Jack's brows drew together.

He was not confused by the questions themselves, he was confused by the tone with which Coco asked all this and her general mood.

— Equality... no. — Jack said calmly, remembering that he was here at all with a system and a demon inside — It can't be. Not to mention the conditions in which we were born and brought up, all people are not equal in the rudiments of life. Someone was born healthy, someone was not. Someone will be born a genius, and someone a fool... As long as there is a winner, there will be a loser. When everyone is equal, no one can be a winner or a loser.

Coco closed her eyes—Yes, it is.

— As for the truth, it is there and it cannot be taken away. The problem is that people interpret this truth in different ways, to please themselves, and this truth becomes a lie. As for justice, it, like equality, does not come from birth...

Coco looked at Jack's calm face and found a bit of coldness in his eyes — ...but it can be achieved through tremendous efforts, sweat, blood and...

He wanted to say 'corpses' again, but he came to his senses in time and looked at Coco's narrowed eyes?.. So what?

Jack smiled weakly, a little stiffly, and hardened his character.

Coco's squint has become even stronger— Really? Is that what you wanted to say?..

— End...

Jack did not have time to finish the sentence, as automatic queues rang out below them, in the hostel.

Valmet woke up instantly and pulled out her gun.

Jack also quickly pulled out his gun and pulled the safety off.

Human screams and screams, like an alarm siren, sounded after the shots.

— What's going on? — knitting her eyebrows and opening her eyes wide, Valmet asked and frowning got up from the sofa

— I don't know. Jack replied glumly, looking at the only door

Coco smiled coldly and got up from the bench — It looks like they came for my head again.

— Coco, get down! Valmet shouted, seeing the lens of a sniper sight flash on a building nearby

Jack was closer to the girl, and therefore, without restraining his strength, pushed her.

Surprised by Coco, she flew two meters away and fell on her back.

Then a shot rang out and a bullet flew next to Jack, in the very place where the girl was standing.

— Valmet! Jack shouted and his eyes narrowed and shone a little

Together with Valmet, he opened fire with a pistol at the sniper.

The distance was acceptable, no more than fifty meters.

The fire was overwhelming, so the sniper was eliminated fairly quickly.

He was hit by six bullets when they emptied barely half of the magazines.

Immediately after that, Valmet, through the pain, ran up to Coco and raised her hand — You need to leave the open space!

- yes. Coco said calmly with a slight smile and an indifferent look

Image :

Jack, looking at Coco, realized that she was not afraid of death.

Perhaps even desired her.

Suddenly, the radio on the coffee table sounded and the voice of Lam —Coco was heard, ten militants burst into the building. They kill everything that dares to move. Intelligence failed us.

Coco picked up the walkie—talkie and answered - Not for the first time, Lam. How are you?

— I was trapped on the second floor and caught in the shoulder, but I will live. Lam replied with the calmness of an elephant

Through the walkie-talkie, it was heard how the man struck a lighter and took a drag.

— They know where and what. Someone turned us in.

— We'll take care of that later. Coco replied, following Valmet and Jack off the roof

— Give me the radio. Jack said anxiously

— Here you go. Coco said calmly with a slight smile

Jack's stomach twisted with her emotions.

— Hey, Lam!

"Oh, Jack, I forgot you were here, ha ha ha. — Lam laughed and took another drag — Sorry, now.

— Lam!

A series of shots followed from the radio.

— I'm sorry, they wanted to bypass me here.

— Lam ... — Jack said softly, and then clenched his jaw — Don't you dare die! You won't get high before you die!

— But you can try it... Lam calmly replied, inhaling and exhaling

"If you die, I'll kill you!"

— Ha-ha-ha, funny said. — the veteran laughed heartily

— Don't take any chances, I'll be right there! Jack said quickly, handing the walkie-talkie to Coco