BANG!!!...suddenly there was a shot that riped though the air and hit the ants pincer right in the joint riping the blade like appendage out, alexandrove looked at the direction of the shot and saw a overly armored man with a rifle that looked like a mosin nagant from his previous world.
the soldiers here were like they were from the Ussr in the 1970 complete with steal helmets and all but the man looked completely different a mish mash of equipment of varies quality's, and nations in one the man racked another round and fired again into the ants head it didn't even leave a mark cursed under his breath the man dropped the rifle and pulled out his bayonet which was long and thick and rushed at the insect with inhuman speed, as the insect did the same,
the man was faster though and stabt his bayonet into the ants neck severing the head from the body, the ant moved for half a minute before secuming to it's injurie.
the man looked at Alexandrove through his gas mask and just stated the obvious.
" get to wall"
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU ???"
" just get to the fucking wall idiot I will explain there "
Alexandrove didn't argue he just turned around and run as fast as his body could take him...which wasn't very fast he got to the gate and saw radeve there standing guard, dringing Alexandrove in radeve saw the strange man behind him and yelled.
"LOSTEVE THERE'S A STALKER"
when losteve heard this he ran to the gate and asked.
" IDENTEFICASION!!! "
the stalker handed the captain a stained piece of paper with a strange symbol on it that looked like a mix of the radiation and bio-hazard symbols mixed together, just then Alexandrove saw the stalker and got more info of him first he was tall really tall like two meters and above, as he removed his gas mask his face was scared and Alexandrove could swear that his eye pulsed with a greenish blue glow before going back to brown.
"your cleared, don't Couse any problems in the city " said losteve as he continued to look at the unwelcomed visitor.
on the other hand radeve looked as if he was looking at an idol, so Alexandrove took the chance to ask.
"what are stalkers ?"
radeve looked at him like he just kicked a puppy.
" you don't know stalkers are the brave hero's that go in the black zone for years on end and scavenge for resources bring back rare corpses for study and are the only ones that can travers from city to city with out needing clearance for the monorail. there an insperasion..."
" there a nascence that suck up resources with musicale returns...and I swore they are more like eruptides then human "
said losteve with bitterness in his voice.
" now the tags ?"
as soon as losteve said about tags Alexandrove remembered why he went out to begin with money!
giving the tags to losteve, he got back a single gold plate after that he when to the stalker and thanked him for saving his life, the stalkers name was sarel and he came from calsaris to restock on ammonicion.
" your wierdly friendly with me most people would keep there distance from a stalker "
" am not most people... also what was that insect thing and more importantly how did you become a stalker ? if you don't mind me asking "
" it's fine its no secret thoughs are called terriads they are approximately 1.50/2.00 meters high and have a strong exoskeleton that can shrug of most calibers under 10mm but thy have a weakness there joints aren't as tough but they still require at least 20kg of force to cut them now if that was a wraith we would both be fucked, am only rank 6.
now the second question is a little more complicated, theoretically anyone can become a stalker but to be able to fight with the eruptides on equal footing you will have to consume eruptibe flesh and survive, depending on what kind of eruptide you consume you will be a different kind of stalker that's the ugly truth."
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