Gordon hid behind one of the boxes in a dark alley and listened. Finally he heard footsteps approaching and someone's rough voice "Do you think he noticed us?"
A second voice said, "Most likely. We should be careful "
Following the sound of footsteps of his opponents, Gordon switched his pistol to non-lethal mode. When the steps were close enough, Gordon jumped out from behind the boxes, falling on his side, firing several shots along the way.
Although these bandits were focused, they did not expect such bold movements from Gordon, so they did not even have time to fire a single shot, as they began to have monstrous convulsions and paralysis all over their bodies.
After an unknown time for them, they woke up in the same alley lying near the wall. With a headache and heaviness all over their bodies, they slowly began to get up, but before they could fully get up, they suddenly noticed Gordon, who pointed his pistol at them.
Swallowing loudly, they both knelt down and raised their hands up. Gordon smiled. "Looks like you know you shouldn't upset me."
The two thugs nodded heavily. Gordon asked, "Now tell me why you were following me?"
A few minutes later, someone screams from this alley, and then two blue flashes. Coming out of the alley, Gordon took a deep breath, put the pistol in its holster and headed in a specific direction, thinking about his first murder.
On Earth, he had a peaceful life, and only films, games and social networks allowed him to see someone's violent death. But seeing and killing are two different things. It is good that the memory of the 2-year training of his predecessor at the academy more or less stabilized Gordon's condition.
If he wants to live a peaceful life, then he should become a scientist or a clerk, but he has already determined his path. Therefore, with firm and confident steps, he walked to one warehouse.
The two bandits said that they belonged to a pirate squad of 10 people, led by Damien, the fat man Gordon spoke to in the dining room.
The group recently raided a merchant shuttle that was packed with weapons and as an enterprising man, Damien began selling these weapons in small batches to various pirate groups. He was just unlucky to stumble upon Thane, who immediately gave a cash advance and ordered a large batch of weapons.
Damien did not want to spoil his relationship with Thane, so he was so desperately looking for suitable couriers, and then he came across Gordon.
Of the 10 pirates, only 6 knew that Damien was talking to Gordon, the remaining 4 spend the whole day spending money in bars and brothels. Considering that he has already killed two of them, Gordon wants to try to kill 4 more and get their weapons, for which he can get scientific points, as well as their advance in the amount of 800 thousand credits
The training of these pirates is not at all comparable to his systematic training at the academy, so Gordon is quite confident in his abilities.
This time, he immediately switched his pistol to lethal mode, he does not want to dialogue with anyone. Having carefully examined the warehouse, Gordon saw that two thin men, with pistols sticking out of their pants, were standing near the entrance, smoking cigarettes and talking about something.
Since the pirates are now in disguise, they are all dressed in the old shabby clothes of a typical miner. Seeing that no one else was outside, Gordon came out from behind cover and headed towards the pirates.
The pirates immediately noticed Gordon, the first pirate strained a little and asked, "Hey, you seem to be lost, you shouldn't be running around here."
Gordon did not stop, but still calmly approached them, waving his arms "Uh-huh, this is my first time at this station, I need to find Luke Skywalker's warehouse. My load is waiting for me there."
The pirates looked each other in the eye and then turned to Gordon with smiles on their faces. "Indeed, Arthur, why be so rude to our guest, we should gladly help him. What kind of product is in that warehouse? Maybe we saw something "
Gordon began to depict a thought process on his face, slowly and quietly lowering his hand to the holster "Let me remember ... Oh, right, I remembered, there are exactly two plasma charges in that warehouse, which I must deliver directly to your door."
The pirates frowned, not understanding anything, but then with shock they saw the muzzle of a pistol pointed directly at them. The poor fellows did not even have time to do anything when two bright blue flashes burned deep holes in their bodies.
Gordon quickly bent down, disassembled their weapons into scientific glasses and ran inside the warehouse, in which voices were already heard, "So what kind of bastard decided to come here?"
Inside the warehouse there is a spacious room, which is cluttered with various boxes, as well as some large things, covered with cloth.
Taking the first shelter he came across, Gordon waited a bit, then looked out to understand the basic situation.
After analyzing everything with his dynamic vision, Gordon again hid behind a shelter and immediately into the place from behind which he looked out many red beams of plasma flew.
Assessing his position, as well as the approximate structure of the warehouse, Gordon began to change his position, trying to get around the enemy, meanwhile he heard the loud shouts of the fat man "Bastard, who sent you? Come out and fight like a man, stop hiding "
Moving carefully, bypassing the warehouse on the right side, hiding behind boxes and other structures, Gordon suddenly heard quiet steps in front of him, it seems that his opponent also wanted to bypass him.
Taking aim ahead of him, he waited for the pirate to come out from behind cover. After a couple of breaths, the bandit with some kind of blaster pistol and machine gun finally appeared in front of Gordon, but when he saw the muzzle of the pistol, he didn't even have time to cry out, as the hot plasma burned a hole in his skull.
The fat man who was hiding on the second floor saw a blue flash in the far corner and, hearing nothing from his partner, growled, "Damn it. Man, let's agree, what do you want? I can pay you even more than you have earned for all your raids. "
"You don't need money? I can give you all our weapons, I am sure that many groups of pirates will gladly accept you…. ENOUGH TO BE SILENT, ANSWER ANYTHING! "
In response, a burst of red plasma beams just flew in. Gordon on the run, holding the pistol and weapons of the first pirate, suppressed the fat man with fire, meanwhile approaching him.
Finally, right under the fat man, Gordon threw out his automatic blaster and began firing his pistol. After dropping the entire charge of the pistol battery, Gordon stopped firing, watching and listening.
After waiting 20 seconds, he smelled burnt meat, which means that he hit the fat man. And carefully climbing the stairs to the second floor, he really saw the fried corpse of the fat man, which is still smoking in several places.
Convinced of his death, Gordon quickly went downstairs and began to destroy everything that was in this warehouse. Also lifting the cloth, he saw 3 spaceships, which were most likely used by these 10 pirates.
With a light touch of the fingers, these ships also instantly melted into a small pile of ash. After 10 minutes, taking the chip with the money from the fat man, and also making sure that he did not leave traces or anything that he could exchange for glasses, Gordon quickly left the warehouse and headed to the port to take the task and finally leave this station.
[Deconstruction is successful. Blaster model received ...]
[Deconstruction is successful. Blaster model received ...]
[Deconstruction is successful. Blaster model received ...…]
Choosing a mission to deliver materials, Gordon finally returned to his ship and began sorting out his loot.
After deconstructing several crates filled with various weapons, Gordon received in his memory a huge database and diagrams regarding these weapons. In addition, he also received a complete diagram of the structure of the pirate ships, with the exception of the hyperdrive and the fusion reactor, as his understanding is still insufficient.
Although he is sure that if one more of the same specimen is destroyed, then he will fully recognize the structure of the engine and reactor.
But all this schema and data is just a nice bonus compared to how many scientific points he earned.
[Physics 3 LVL 9312/10000 XP]
[Biology 3 LVL 6000/10000 XP]
[Engineering 4 LVL 12339/15000 XP]
[Information technology 4 LVL 10000/15000 XP]
[Science Points - 13764]
After the distribution of points, his branches of science looked like this.
[Physics 4 LVL 10000/15000 XP] (+688)
[Biology 4 LVL 10000/15000 XP] (+4000)
[Engineering 6 LVL 21000/28000 XP] (+8661)
[Information technology 4 LVL 10000/15000 XP] (+415)
[Science Points - 0]
Upon reaching level 6, knowledge appeared in Gordon's head, which, in his opinion, is the peak of all engineering sciences on his past Earth. That is, the most advanced knowledge regarding weapons design, space sphere, etc.
The knowledge that he will receive further with 100% certainty can be called the science of the space age.
[Good Engineering: No need to use a designer to view the schematic for the host. Analyze and design live]
[Experienced Engineer: Allows you to see the defects of the object that appeared during the creation of the object]
[Improved Analyzer: Analysis gives 5% more Science Points]
All 3 options are good this time around, but unfortunately Gordon can only pick 1 option. The first bonus will be quite useful, both during simple assembly work and during a combat situation.
Although time goes slower in the designer, constantly switching from the designer to the real world can lose concentration, and concentration in combat is the most important thing.
The second bonus is a bit specific. Gordon can already see the defects of objects in his database, but he sees defects that appeared during the use of the item.
For example, a worn out battery, cracked glass, scratched case, etc.
Well, the explanation of bonus 3 speaks for itself. This time, Gordon took his time with the choice. He spent much more time thinking, but in the end he came up with the first option.
After finishing with the bonuses, Gordon sat in the pilot's seat, followed the standard takeoff and clearance procedures, and then left the mining station.
Already approaching the hyper corridor, Gordon remembered the money chip he had received from the pirates. Digging into the inside pocket of his jacket, he pulled out a small dark rectangular chip.
After inserting it into the terminal, he saw that there were only 531,412 credits left on the account of this chip out of the original 800 thousand.
Gordon understood that almost no pirate thinks about a peaceful retirement, so they almost never keep money, but constantly spend it. Unless, of course, take into account the large pirate syndicates, which have their own accountant.
But even from this realization, Gordon is still a little angry with the pirates, since they spent almost 300 thousand of his credits.