He entered the police station, where the officer was snoring on the couch. Rargnes gripped his knife and approached stealthily the sleeping officer, who woke up in confusion, blinking. Rargnes lunged forward and stabbed the officer's throat with his knife.
The officer cried out in agony. Rargnes continued to stab again and again until there were no more cries before grabbing the policeman's two weapons.
"Jack?! What happened?" the voice of the other policeman approached with footsteps'runnning. When he came running through the door, Rargnes shot, hitting the officer in the arm, causing him to drop his weapon as he yelled in pain, falling through the door to take cover.
Another scream. Sengrar had cast his last remaining spell.
Rargnes went patiently to the door where he saw the policeman lying immobile, his arm trying to reach his gun. He took his weapon and ended the officer's suffering before handing it to Sengrar.
"We'll win through the apocalypse together; that is my proof."
"But you messed up," said Sengrar. "I can't believe you killed them like that! Everyone's gonna fear us."
"As if we care, they can't leave the area."
"That's the problem. They contacted the army. How are we going to explain that? There are witnesses! We kill of their own!"
Rargnes swallowed. "There might be a way," he said, trembling. "we can't live with only the two of us, not in that world."
Sengrar saw his eyes and thought about a terrible explanation.
"Rargnes, they are humans! We can't!"
"Do you want to live or not?"
"They didn't do anything to us!"
"And animals haven't done anything to us either. And no one has ever attacked me," said Rargnes. "But we can kill them. Don't let your morals convince you otherwise. We have a responsibility to our bodies."
"I can't," said Sengrar, shaking his head.
"Tell yourself they're goblins. Biped like orcs."
"Are you hearing yourself? Rargnes! Have you gone mad or what? Killing humans?! Massacring them like in the worst hours of humanity?!"
"But it's the world that's gone mad! Would I do this if it was before the apocalypse? Humans haven't become nicer, but everyone judges them if they do anything outside the lines! That's the only thing that's changed. In what periods of history have the winners not massacred people? We won't be the first nor the last."
Sengrar refused, strangely reassuring Rargnes. Would such a person betray him? A person with morals? He did help kill the policeman. Seeing how he didn't care about goblins ' lives, he would be a pillar to his group and a destroyer of other groups.
He just hoped Sengrar didn't put all of humanity in the same group.
"We can convince them," said Sengrar. "And the situation will convince them—they will be forced to."
"Or else, we can leave the area."
He didn't finish his sentence. It didn't matter if they were the ones who killed them. Doing so wasn't even profitable. There would be risks of injury, and they would waste the few bullets they got. The policemen only had about a hundred bullets left, and he had already given 30 to Sengrar. He had taken all the rest, including the flash grenades.
In any case, the goblins and humans would take care of killing them - or even enslaving them.
"Where do we go?"
"We're joining RedStar."
They waited the whole day, remaining far from the other, for Sengrar's mana to recover and darkness to fall.
They climbed the ladder with big bags of provisions and jumped off the wall, clinging to the edge to slide down before running in the opposite direction of the goblins and humans.
"Quick!" Rargnes thought, regretting his large bag shaking regularly on his back.
"Goblins!" Told Sengrar. Rargnes focused on saw small torches illuminating the goblins that carried them.
Rargnes and Sengrar shot at will, gaining pure energy that added to their body while running.
Rargnes counted he lost 8 shells.
Sengrar and Rargnes reached the edge of the city. They looked around and spent the rest of the night watching each other. Sengrar took the first half, followed by Rargnes.
Once the day broke, they went to a delivery building with many cars parked. They broke in by the door and smashed the locked container of the keys, throwing them violently to the ground. They then picked up the keys, trying each one on the biggest truck they could find.
Sengrar took the lead and drove it with difficulty. It was the lone moment of peacefulness they had gotten for a while. While traveling, Rargnes began learning how to drive.
They took a road and headed towards the rural areas.
They unloaded from the truck and went to the corner where they had left RedStar. They looked around and noticed no presence of the latter. There were humans, but no sign of RedStar-something.
A human begged to be taken with them. They looked at each other and refused.
"Wait," Rarges said to Sengrar as they refused the guy. "What if one of them has class improvement tokens?"
They asked, but none of them had any. Rargnes then thought that if they returned to their routes, they might be able to obtain them from the humans who stayed behind or the goblins and humans who chased them away.
If they didn't have firearms, it would be profitable.
They returned to the road towards the base. When they arrived, they saw a part of the wall destroyed without people. They had been taken somewhere.