District 42-Chapter 198: The last soldier part 2
The group of Casper, which now was reduced to just three people, were now gathered again, and they continued their way until the Operation center.
"The place is right there! Just some more rooms!" The colonel stated, trying to prompt his friends. He could not let their morale go down no matter what. The multiple soldiers killed there were enough to get them all shaken; the least they needed to have was the will to get to the final of that mission.
The objective was near them. It was even unbelievable that they could pass through all that hell and finally get there. After many people died, Casper was determined to get into their goal no matter what it takes, even if he ended up with all his body destroyed.
"C-colonel! They are still running after us!" The general yelled, the only soldier remained from that entire troop of 49 people, except Ana. He was limping harder than before, and it was clear that his black pants were soaked in blood, which was even drying already.
Casper looked in the direction the general pointed to him and saw that some soldiers were indeed going after them with all sorts of weapons, some already starting to shot at them.
"The next rooms are all lined up, one in front of the other... How can we overcome this...? Even when we get into the room where the operation center is, there is no way that we will be able to stand against them. They catch us anyway, and there is nothing we can do without any ammunition to spend..." The colonel tried to reason, searching for some strategy they could resort to keep going with their mission without being caught afterward.
"Casper... Two of us will need to get behind now..." Ana spoke, and the soldier looked at her frowning hard, not liking the idea she proposed.
"Are you kidding!? I..." He was going to snap, but the brigade captain shut his mouth by interrupting him.
"Do I have time to kid around here, huh? Do I have, colonel!? I am talking serious with you, and you better don’t start with bullshit, understood!?" She shouted.
Casper needed some time thinking to absorb what would happen. He didn’t want to believe that that was the situation he would be stuck in. However, it was just the expected in the end. With 10 people invading there, even if they could pull through, every single life there should be taken for the sake of the mission.
At the moment that those soldiers choose to continue regardless the fact that the odds were against them, they knew that their lives were being put at stake, and for sure they wouldn’t be getting out of there.
Indeed, even Casper hadn’t a good chance of survival there. It was miraculous that at least three people could be there to help with the final phase of the mission.
"How will you do it without ammunition?" Casper asked.
"Don’t worry, Colonel, I have some." Spoke the general, giving one of his pistols to Ana and reloading his gun. "It’s not much, but if we use it right we can stop them for enough time for you to finish what you need to do. I have some grenades as well."
Casper nodded. Unfortunately, he couldn’t argue with them. The two seemed to have had made up their minds and were going to do it no matter what.
In the penultimate room, Ana and the general threw some machines to the ground, tables as well, and all sorts of huge large and resistant things to make a barricade and hide behind it.
The colonel, though, kept running towards the final room, forcing himself to not regret the decision they made together.
Just when the shots began, he burst into the room, his impetus breaking the door that was closing it.
The Operation center was a place with several computers lined up. It was just like the office of an enterprise. In the wall on the opposite side of the entrance were numerous screens, as well as a big screen in the middle, all of them showing different sorts of graphics, data, and information being gathered.
A bunch of people was working on those computers, walking here and there, in a frenzy. They seemed to be quite busy that day, and he knew why.
"The hacking was successful. They couldn’t contact the soldiers of their other base near here, and their network is completely cracked. They are probably trying to recover it before the Yanke Forces can invade here... But it’s late... I am here already."
A soldier appeared, seeing the manner that Casper entered the room. His rifle raised, and he probably guessed that Casper was one of the invaders.
The colonel, though, was quicker than him, and swiftly drew his knife, throwing it against the soldier, aiming at his throat. The man could not have the time to pull the trigger, and the agony made him put his hands instinctively at his throat, trying to get the knife out of there.
Casper approached him, taking his gun and ammunition as fast as he could.
"I will need this, buddy. I hope you don’t mind me."
He turned to the other people working there. They noticed what just happened, and were paralyzed. They didn’t expect that just 50 soldiers could make it until the Operation center so quickly, not even a single one of them.
In truth, they were hoping that they would die before even get inside the complex of the Operation base.
One of the workers tried to reach a gun inside his drawer. He moved as quietly as he could, but as soon as he turned his head to glance at it and see if he was targetting the right place to get the weapon, everything went black. A bullet got stuck on his brain.
Everyone there went pale, looking at Casper as if he was a monster.
"If you move, you die." The colonel stated, his eyes darkened. That was the expression of someone who saw enough that day, and just some more deaths wouldn’t make too much difference for him.
Another woman was so scared that she needed to sit again on her chair, but as soon as her knees started to bend, another shot sounded, and she was laying on the floor.
"I said: if you move, you die." He repeated, relentless, then started to walk between the lines of tables with computers and other office materials.
He got next to one of the workers. His table was bigger than the others and was not lined, but separated. Those tiny details made Casper think that he was the encharged of that team.
"I want all the data you’ve got. Put it into this." He offered a pen drive to that man, that looked disgusted to Casper. "And I will say just one time: if you don’t obey, you won’t die, but all these people that are here working with you. You will need to see each one of them going down, and it will be all your fault. The last one will be you. Understood?"
The face of the encharged was already pale, but now his expression was the one of a person ready to faint or to cry.
He took the pen drive with his hands trembling and went hastily towards his computer, starting to type frenetically. Casper approached him and stayed there, looking at what he was doing to make sure that the encharged wasn’t fooling him.
After some minutes, he finally could finish his job there, and quickly delivered the pen drive to the colonel, who had his expression even more darkened than before. The encharged wasn’t sure, but there was something wrong with those eyes that were staring at him.
Before he could assimilate what was going on, the sound of a shot echoed through that room again, then again... The encharged remained with his eyes widened while sitting on that chair, but one could see that there wasn’t life there anymore.
The other workers couldn’t have the time to be surprised. Casper just put the pen drive inside his pocket, pointed the gun, and did one of the things he would most regret on that day.
The White warrior found a lot of things to be very difficult to accomplish or see on that day. Although his body started to follow his memory almost automatically, Casper still needed to see and feel everything he lived there. It was hard to take some decisions again, particularly the ones he regretted so much.
He didn’t hesitate to pull the trigger, in the end, nor to kill those first two people he killed, but, inside his mind, the soldier was screaming in pain and frustration.
Once that slaughtering ended, the colonel reloaded his gun and solemnly left that place.
Now was time for the last part of that plan. He would need to get out of the Black Widow alive again.
