I turned the lights on at the last moment as I stepped to the side.
She barely avoided hitting the wall.
I smiled, then shouted, "Found you! Angel!"
After a moment I shook my head, "You are not hurt, are you?"
She shook her head.
"You should not run toward a wall like that, you could have hurt yourself." I explained.
She lowered her head as she nodded.
I smiled as I patted her back, "You want to continue playing, right? You will be it this time."
She looked up at me as she nodded. "I'd like that."
That's when I heard the gate open. Looking over I saw Talor waving, "There you are, I was looking for you."
"What for?" I asked.
"Can't you guess? You're playing hide and seek, right? Mind if I join?"
"Is it alright?" I asked Angel.
She looked at him and shook her head, "I don't mind."
We played until she tired herself out. The sun had already set. The three of us had an early dinner before I took her to the bedroom and put her to sleep.
She held onto my sleeve as she drifted off. After making sure she was fully asleep, I gently moved her hand away. After that I followed Talor to the computer room.
He was looking through each security camera feed. "Are you looking for any mutants?" I asked.
He didn't take his eyes off the screen as he answered, "No. The mutants don't come out this early. I'm checking the feeds to make sure everything is working properly, before any mutants start coming out."
I stared at the screen for a moment before asking, "How much do they help?"
"A lot. The large perimeter pulls in plenty of mutants. Mostly normal ones with a few megas. The guns cuts their numbers down so Carl can handle the rest."
"These can't take all of them out?"
"No. Even normal animals are hard to hit."
I nodded, "I see."
I watched him work for a few minutes, then asked, "Where's Carl?"
"He is working on those scales you gave him. Best not to disturb him, he might burn himself."
I glanced at him, "And the mutants?"
"Their numbers aren't a problem until after dinner. Carl always finishes his work by then."
I took a moment before saying, "I can handle them for today."
"You can? You sure you won't need help?" He asked finally looking over to me.
"You'll be on the guns. If Carl can do it by himself, I'll be fine."
"If you say so... I'll tell Carl to be ready, just in case."
I nodded and headed to the armoury.
I took a 65mm assault rifle, with 20 rounds of bullets, each round held 50 bullets. Then a 75mm sniper rifle, with 50 rounds of 10. A bazooka with 4 shells. Military-grade kevlar. A backpack for the heavy gears, and a utility belt for the rifle and ammo.
I climbed out of a second floor window, onto the hangover walkway. It was built for fire evacuation, but soldiers were trained to move on them, since these made for good vantage points.
After about an hour, I noticed the first mutant climb up the third wall.
I started running, as I shot it down. More would be coming soon.
One bullet was enough for the normal ones. Headshots everytime.
By the time I ran out of 75mm rounds, the mutants were close enough for the assault rifle. I switched to it.
I was still able to kill each mutant with one shot.
By the time I killed 700 of them a large wolf appeared. I emptied the remaining rounds on it, But it kept going.
At least they were in 4 groups.
I put away the rifle and jumped down, absorbing the impact with my legs and rolling out smoothly.
I took out the bazooka and loaded it as I ran toward the large wolf. I shot the bazooka and used the momentum to change direction toward the next group. The bazooka shell was finally enough to put it out.
There were over thousands of them left.
I was still able to kill them in one shot without even missing a single shot.
I was running as fast as I can around the main building, killing those mutants.
After an hour mega mutant wolf came, there was only four packs of mutants left, and I only had 50 more bullets.
After I emptied those last bullets at the mega mutant, I loaded the bazooka and ran towards them.
I angled myself in a way I was in middle of a line joining the pack of the mega mutant and some other pack.
That mega mutant tried to attack me but, I jumped and pulled the trigger.
The force pushed me backwards, towards the other pack and the blast was enough to eliminate the whole pack with the mega mutant.
I landed on my leg, reloaded the bazooka while running, position myself, jumped and fired, to get to the third pack and killing the second pack.
I again reloaded the bazooka while running and destroyed the third pack. the forth pack was visible from there and I killed them from there.
This action did took a toll on my arms but, it would be fine after an hour or so.
When I got back in the main building, Talor was waiting there.
"You were incredible! Your accuracy was unbelievable, how were you so accurate even when you were running!?" he asked.
"Well, it was nothing against what I have went through at the war before the nuclear war." I answered.
"War before the nuclear war?" he asked in confusion.
"I'll explain that to you later" I replied.
"Ok" he said.
I went back to the armory to put back those weapons.
Well come to think of it my accuracy is great considering I haven't used a gun in 5 years atleast. Anyways I should go and take a nap.