A technomancer's journey in an apocalyptic world

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~Ratatatata~

Was the sound that made Ryan jump up from his sleeping position, as he looked around he found himself to be inside his latest creation, he felt a small bout of headache from being wakened suddenly but then he was slapped by the harsh reality.

'Those guns are firing like crazy. Did we run into some problem? Damn it all I wanted was a good nap.'

As such he stormed into the control room to find the control seats for the guns occupied, there were over eighteen guns that he had managed to place on top of the vehicle, and the control for them was placed at the driver compartment, was it wise for him to create it as such, maybe not but at least it would be outside the reach of someone truly despicable who would turn the guns on them or at worst sabotaged them, as such Ryan had placed it all at the driver compartment making it the most crowded area of the entire vehicle.

As he entered the driver compartment using the access codes, he was greeted by the sound of turret operators busy with manning their weapons.

'Damn, Ylerias and her group are incredible they are manning the turret-like they have been doing for ages, but what are they firing at so much.'

Ryan had placed the guns eighteen guns in total including, except on top of a few compartments, not to mention they spread in such a way that the half of them were on the right the other half were on the left, he could have placed more but then he would have had to place even more control stations, not to mention ammunition needed for it, at the time Ryan had managed to acquire only around thirty thousand rounds before their departure.

'Not that I would not like to have some more but the harvest of resources needed for the ammunition was low, that was the only amount I could acquire within the stipulated time period, not to mention how could I wait when I had already thrown the challenge and said I would leave within three days.'

He then looked over the shoulder of one of the operators as a scowl formed over his face, 'What is this? A bunch of undead and they are firing the guns like we are facing a horde.', as his eyes then fell on the counter at the bottom of the screen it showed that the counter had reached five hundred and was steadily rising.

'Damn them are they going to empty everything by the first day of the journey.'

He pulsed his power as the guns suddenly stopped firing, making everyone taken aback by it as Ylerias who had occupied one of the seats stared at it in a dumbfounded expression, before pressing a couple of buttons as she spoke in a sad tone, "Did the machine break."

"It would seem so Your Holiness, none of them is working."

As such an aura of sadness engulfed them, only to be brought out of it upon hearing the sound of a throat being cleared.

Upon looking back they were greeted by the sight of a scowling Ryan, Yleiras could not help but speak out quickly, "Brother Ryan there has been some problem with the machine, they are not working."

'Brother Ryan, huh, I do not know why but that is what Ylerias has taken to calling me, all of a sudden I feel like some wuxia hero, ahem maybe I should not be too harsh on her, Nah, being tough would bear fruit later.'

"There is no problem with this machine, I stopped you from firing."

"You can do that?"

Ryan looked at the speaker as he spoke, "Yes I can, I can control every part of this vehicle without touching it because I made it."

Ylerias frowned as she quickly spoke, "May I know the reason."

Ryan nodded as he spoke, "Yes, Lady Ylerias, firstly I would applaud you all for learning how to operate them so fast, but here is the problem with how you are using them.", he took a breath before continuing, "Tell me there is a number on your screen and if I am not wrong all of you have just nearing five hundred right?"

As everyone nodded Ryan spoke with a smile, "You have only been firing for two minutes, and in that time all of you managed to use four thousand, five hundred and thirty-seven rounds out of the thirty thousand available to us at the moment, and today is day one not to mention only a few hours since we began our journey, a journey that would take over a week at least to complete."

One of Ylerias subordinates quickly spoke, "But, what are we to do, we need it to kill those creatures."

"Yes, I know but please can you tell me how many arrows one of you would take in your current level of strength need to kill them."

"One"

"Two"

As the answers came one after another Ryan stopped them by raising his hand as he spoke, "See and how many creatures did you successfully kill by firing all those rounds."

"None"

"One"

"I think two."

"Okay okay, now do you understand where I am coming from?"

Ylerias nodded as she spoke, "We are wasting them, but you are gathering them later on right? So what is the problem we can use it again and again."

Ryan shook his head as he spoke, "No you misunderstand, I am not gathering the bullets only the empty casings, think of the casing as a quiver and the bullets as the arrows, but unlike arrows, once it has been fired it is gone for good, as such", Ryan snapped his fingers as a click was heard before he spoke, "Change the way you are firing from burst to single shot."

He then closed his eyes as the turrets aimed and then a couple of the fired instantly blowing off the heads of a couple of creatures.

"Seeing in this mode you will not waste too many bullets just aim and fire, unlike before where you were simply pointing the gun while firing and hoping that it would hit you will have to aim carefully and remember each press of the button would fire the gun once only."

He looked at everyone listening carefully to him as he continued, "There are two ways to fire at an opponent, the American way or the British way. The former method consists of overwhelming your enemy with a hail of bullets useful for crowd control, as well as a method where an amateur can easily work with, but it is a waste for dealing with a single enemy unless it takes lots of firepowers to deal with it not to mention that tactics work only when you have tons of rounds, which we lack currently."

He took a breather as he continued, "The latter one is to take aim and then fire, it requires more skill and for the current, use is the most viable seeing the lack of resources, please remember to use the rounds with caution, and please carry on, on providing them with fire support, though I would request please help them when it is required to only."

As their attention returned to their stations, Ryan sighed inwardly, 'I hope my lecture would make them understand their folly, though I do not know if the idea that I had used from the movie is right or wrong, sometimes movies are way off, though even if the movie was not that extraordinary I hope I can make a submarine-like that, just the thought of that splendid machine sends goosebumps on my body.'

Ryan stood there looking at his sister working from behind the monitor before he whispered with a frown on his face, "What am I doing here? I got to get acquainted with my weapons a bit better if I join them not to mention the harvesting of resources."

With that thought in mind, he hastily left and soon found himself leaving the safety confines of the vehicle amidst the curious look of others.

As he stepped out of the vehicle the door looked itself automatically courtesy of his powers, he looked around for a moment which followed by a deep breath and a bit of stretching before long his new gauntlets appeared which was followed by his pistol, with that he began to jog towards Michalina and others.

"Lady Ylerias!"

"Is something wrong?"

"Lord Ryan left the vehicle and is making his way towards others."

"What?!", Ylerias could not help but shout out as she did a double-take as she noticed Ryan happily jogging towards the resource collecting group.

Michalina's raid chirped as she turned from her initial position before making her way towards Ryan, who had just arrived without any boy armour, just with a pistol in his hand, before she could reprimand him he shouted out, "Watch out behind you."

Michalina heard a snarl from behind her followed by a sound, a sound any sci-fi movie lovers could easily identify.

Meanwhile, Ryan's hand shook as he looked down at his gun his eyes welled up with tears as he whispered with an equal amount of shock and joy, "It is a freaking laser pistol.", he stood silent for a moment before he looked up towards the sky before he shouted out loud, "Lord Avtis you are the best God ever."