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Chapter 7 - B.N.T.G Scavenger group

The summary of items collected:

Items in the backpack: 3x Almond water, 3x Beef Jerky, 1x Cake, 1x Colt M1911, 2x AAA batteries, 2x AAA batteries (empty), 1x Thomas' torn leather jacket, 3x throwing knifes with handle tied in red string

Items hanging on the backpack or tucked in side pockets of the backpack: 1x Climbing blue rope, 1x Red Ice axe, 1x Almond water

Items outside the backpack:

In pockets : 1x Gasoline lighter, 4x cigarettes, 1x pair of Keys, 1x Wallet

In hands: 1x Flashlight

In gun sheet: 1x Makarov MP

Tucked behind a belt: 1x throwing knife with handle tied with yellow string

Stats:

Hunger: 75% (Decreasing)

Thirst: 88% (Decreasing)

Health: 70% (Decreasing!)

Sleep: 66% (Decreasing)

Cold/Warmth: 44%/56% (Temperature in this enviroment is slightly cold)

Sanity: 78% (Stable)

Infection: 0%

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Walking through a maze of simmilar shadow walls while looking for a signs of life, Thomas was smoking his cigarette.

"I wonder who was that man" he spoke to himself and took a last deep puff from his cigarette.

It was already an hour he encountered the monsters and gained a backpack with few supplies from the man that died there.

A sudden sound of something crash against the ground echoed through the halls, picking up Thomas' attention.

Comming to the corner, Thomas leaned over and saw two man, picking up an Engine part that probbably falled from their hands but it was too heavy.

When he was about to go over to them, something tuckled him on the ground from behind.

Thomas quickly pulled his gun out while landing on his back but what he saw shocked him.

A woman, wearing blue leather jacket, tight black jeans and high leather boots was aiming a pump-action shotgun at him with a smirk.

"Who are you and why are you watching us!" she reloded her shotgun and kicked into Thomas' hand, sending his gun flying away.

"Wait a minute... Why do you have Aron's jacket? And his backpack!" she spoke as the two man let go of the engine part and quickly approached her with their guns.

"Who is this?" asked one of the man and the other ran after Thomas' gun.

Picking it up he spoke: "That's Aron's gun" as he started walking back to the group.

"Explain what did you do to my partner before I paint the ground with your brain!" spoke the woman and bend above Thomas who finally started speaking.

"He was attacked and killed by two skin-stealers and a haund..."

"What? This is not a time for joking stranger!" the woman moved the shotgun closer a little and asked.

"What did you do to my partner!"

"Nothing I swear. Only thing I did was to kill those monsters!"

"Why do you have his stuff then?"

"Because he was DEAD? I found him in an empty room with missing pieces of skin on his face and two holes in his body after I killed those monsters that killed HIM!"

The woman looked at Thomas and saw blood coming out from his right arm as he tried to not move too much with it.

"Do you have any other proof then your arm?" asked the man standing next to the woman.

"No! I don't have a camera to take a picture of him and then show it as a proof!"

"Fine... go, and don't watch us again or I'll shoot you!" the woman spoke with hint of sadness in her eyes as a sudden scream was heard by all four of them.

"What was that?" asked the man who arrived with Thomas' gun.

"A friend of your?" asked the woman and extended her hand, helping Thomas to get up from the cold floor.

"That's not a friend" Thomas said and took his gun from the man next to him.

"That's a Skin-Stealer, bunch of them actually! I passed around them twenty minutes ago. The sound you made by that engine part probbably lured them here" he responded to the man's question and hid his gun to his sheet.

"We should probbably move before they arive" spoke the woman after hearing Thomas' answer and all three started moving towards the engine part lying on the ground while Thomas looked at the woman's back and slowly followed them.

"Do you need help?" he asked when he saw the three struggling to pick up the engine part from the ground.

"No! We don't know you... go from where you came from and leave us" said the woman and tried to lift her side of the engine part but it was just too heavy.

"Come on girl, we need to move!" spoke one of the man.

"I'm not a girl-" responded to the man but got pulled away from the engine part by Thomas as he grabed her sides.

"Move" : Thomas suddenly said and liffted the engine part.

"We carry, you shoot" he said and started carrying the part with the three man forwards who were glad he didn't left them after they were mean to him, while the woman showed signs of small smile as she pulled out her shotgun.

"Very well then, Marwin, Alan, lead him to the elevator! I'll cover you on the way!" she said as the sound of something approaching was slowly heard from behind.

"How far?" Thomas asked as his right arms started bleeding more.

"Not too much, just a few more turns" spoke the man called Alan and smiled a little.

"Thanks for help! Without you, we would be forced to leave it here."

"Why do you need an entire Engine part?" asked Thomas.

"For a generator we are building." Marvin responded this time.

"What's your name?" he added.

"Thomas, Thomas Parker. I'm a detective from San Francisco."

"Ohhh, I'm Marvin and I'm an enginer. This fella here is Alan."

"Hi, I'm a cashier in Tesco supermarket in New York"

"Nice to meet you two"

"And you?" Thomas asked as he looked at the woman.

"You don't need to know... You are going to leave soon anyways" she replayed with a smirk.

Thomas smiled widelly as he tried to ignore the pain in his arm that was starting to rising pretty quick.

"Wait guys! I need a little rest" spoke Thomas as they quietly placed the engine part on the ground.

"What's wrong?" asked Alan who didn't knew about Thomas' injury.

"He's injured" responded the woman as Thomas pulled out Almond water from his backpack.

"You want some?" he asked when he saw desire in Alan's eyes while the woman walked behind a corner.

"Yeah, thanks man" he replayed and shared the bottle of Almond watter with Marwin while Thomas went after the woman.

Comming behind the corner, he saw her kneeling on the very end of a small hallway so he slowly and quietly approached her.

"Anything dangerous?" he asked as the woman spinned and slamed him against the wall while covering his mouth.

"Stop approaching me this way or you'll die!" she whispered close to his left ear, while still looking at a creature in a distance, behind a new corner, with her right eye.

Pulling out her hand, Thomas spoke quietly: "I just wanted to share..." as he handed her a half empty bottle of his Almond water.

Looking at the water and then on him, she didn't felt any bad intentions so she took it and drank it in a row.

"Happy?" she asked and Thomas nodded.

"Yes, and now tell me your name..." he spoke.

"Maybe later cowboy" she spoke and passed him, going back to her two partners.

...

Comming back, Thomas joined a conversation.

"We need to take the longer root. Too much monsters are lurking here" the woman spoke and Thomas nodded.

"Right now, there is a scratcher around the corner"

"Do you know them?" the woman asked.

"Yeah, but I never fought them"

"What about going through the sector B?" Alan suddenly asked.

"Yeah, that might work..." replayed the woman as she helped Marvin get up from the ground.

"Sector B? What is that?"

"Sector B is a place where almost no creatures are appearing except one..."

"Which is?" Thomas asked.

"Smilers..."