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FAULT ; ARTIFACT chapter 131
Further more. The bowstring was pulled by a special "rail" that freely walked along the carrier beam - a kind of base, to which the shoulders were attached in front, and the butt behind. This “rail” captured the bowstring with a cunning mechanism, wound it by the holders of the trigger mechanism and then released it for the possibility of descent. Quite cunningly done, although technically simple and elegant. That's just what kind of force set in motion all of the above, at first it was completely incomprehensible. More precisely, it is clear that it is magical, but where is it? You press the triggers, and in response, silence. And this despite the fact that it was not possible to move anything or even just scratch the metal of the weapon at all.Next are the shoulders. No, they bent, of course, only to bend them to the point where it became possible to put on a bowstring, it took the efforts of four broad-shouldered men. And the further the shoulders tried to bend, the more they resi
FAULT ; ARTIFACT chapter 132
A lot of storm drains came out of the city into the sea, and indeed, there were much more underground structures here than above-ground ones. In general, monsters very similar to hefty rats lived in these drains. Such strange rats, they ran on four legs, but they did all the other things on two, using their forelimbs quite deftly. At the same time, the rats were "large-caliber" - more than a meter in length.It was worth throwing a fish in front of the drain, as monsters appeared within half an hour, and in the evening it happened even faster. In the garrison, after the guarantee of Arthur, they managed to get the go-ahead to take out the crossbow. This fact did not please the mentioned rats.Zhenya shot his prey on the second attempt, but Marina had some problems. Let her agree to shoot “at the poor animals” almost immediately, as soon as she took a good look at these “poor animals”. But the girl could not hit them in any way, because at the moment of pressing the trigger guard, for
FAULT ; ARTIFACT chapter 133
After Kolya smiled rather and continued:“But at my age, it’s necessary to get to know each other differently,” and the man glanced at the hips of the waiter walking past, then caught her eye and seductively (in Kolya’s version) smiled. The waitress giggled.- But you don’t take such an example, this is a bad example, this is for gopniks ... You are the first method. Yes, and Jacquelinochka will not approve.The mysterious Jacqueline, with whom the gopnik was now cohabiting, Yura had never seen before. But the omniscient Zhenya gave a brief and not at all philosophical description: “Baba is dynamite ...”Yura began to think over Kolya's words and found them reasonable. And he was not even offended by the "juvenile lover of adult pictures."Marina burst into the tavern like a small hurricane and went to her comrades, not showing a shadow of fear that she experienced during her first visit here. Having stumbled upon a group of sailors who were quarreling in the aisle, she began to deftl
FAULT ; ARTIFACT chapter 134
In addition to these people, who are supposed to be on any merchant ship, two more went ashore. Rude, but not rude, but stern, a middle-aged man, dressed in a beige jacket and trousers, and accompanying him, a beautiful, red-haired and moderately wiry woman in an elegant, but discreet light dress. In a man, in addition to broad shoulders and a military bearing, a dark, neatly trimmed beard immediately caught the eye, which bordered a face with slightly gray hair, the color of a beard. The look of this man was heavy, and an incomprehensible tension was felt in it.The couple walked around the city a lot. Travelers visited both the local temple and the noisy Mitungsky market, which is located near the port. They looked at the western outskirts of the city, where they wandered for a long time between the chic mansions of wealthy citizens, the cozy gardens of which were separated from the road by graceful wrought iron bars. With interest, the couple looked at the beautiful residence of th
FAULT ; ARTIFACT chapter 135
Alaira's opinion had to be reckoned with: even though the operation as a whole was commanded by Rhetor, the saboteurs were subordinate to the red-haired warrior.The woman continued:- With the onset of darkness around the city, a magical barrier is activated, the option of landing and attacking from land disappears automatically.The Rhetor took the floor:- Well, then we go out to sea and wait for cloudy weather. The ships must approach within the launching distance of the boats exactly at the moment of dusk falling. At eleven it gets dark, and at twelve the night guard changes. After the change, the guards of the forts will switch to night mode: they will lock all the doors and generally be on the alert. In total, the landing force has only an hour to try to capture the forts. If we fail at this hour, it will be an order of magnitude more difficult to pull off such a thing in the next ten years.The interlocutors nodded approvingly.***Around the same time, Yura and his comrades v
FAULT ; ARTIFACT chapter 136
- Yes, right now, - the gopnik muttered, - so that I miss all the fun in your casemates ...The sea lit up with a garland of bright flashes, right there, with these flashes, the body of a large ship with black sails pulled out of the darkness. Its side bristled with fire from two rows of cannons, then, belching its anger, it sank into darkness. Behind him, to the left, about half a kilometer away, another ship burst into flames with a rolling cannonade. Having filled the sky with an unpleasant whistle, the “bespredelchik” disappeared under the cover of darkness. In less than ten seconds, the third attacker revealed his location.“Here are the impudent ones, they stand two hundred meters from the shore, no more,” Kolya muttered.The philosopher looked at the gopnik in bewilderment. The comrade's remark clearly pulled Zhenya out of a kind of catharsis generated by the spectacle of the night salvo of a huge ship.But Kolya was a more down-to-earth person, he did not feel admiration, and
FAULT ; ARTIFACT chapter 137
- I know how to climb, - Zhenya suddenly blurted out, not believing his own ears. “We just need to try something.Since the running was not very conducive to conversation, the discussion had to be postponed. And the philosopher simply followed his friend, watching what was happening and marveling at Kolya's ability to spin the flywheel of events.Gopnik confidently moved along the dark streets of the port districts. Zhenya did not know this area very well, but he understood that they were heading towards the sailors' dormitories. There were places in the city where, with sufficient convenience and for a small fee, entire ship crews could be accommodated. And very soon the hitmen came to a complex of large buildings that looked like military barracks. Here, either Colin's luck worked, which, by the way, was equal to two, or circumstances coincided, but a group of sailors crowded in front of the hostels and excitedly argued about something in the light of a bright lantern at night. Ther
FAULT ; ARTIFACT chapter 138
Kolya grimaced, sighed, grimaced once more and, closing his eyes, thrust his hands into the mass of quivering darkness.- "Japanese in the city", she keeps me! he groaned frightenedly at the philosopher.- Yes, do not twitch, this thing, by the way, is difficult to keep active.Suddenly, the stain confidently crawled up the wall, inexorably pulling the gopnik along with it.- Ah-ah-ah-ah, it drags me! "Police!"- It's not it that drags you, but I drag you, - Zhenya, covered with perspiration, grunted from tension.Kolya no longer hung on the wall, but hung from the ceiling. The dark mass smoothly crawled up to the ceiling, firmly holding his hands, which is why the gopnik, kicking his legs, dangled like a pendulum.“Cancel, get ready,” commanded the philosopher."Blot" let go of the hands of the hanging one and silently soaked into the ceiling. Freed, Kolya fell to the edge of the platform, almost losing his balance and not flopping into the water.- Scary, blah! You warn me before yo