Chapter 7.0

We drove back to the city, we said goodbye to each other and would meet again once healed back up. I watched some movies but i thirsted for more action, maybe a stand-up gig would cheer me up. I got drunk and headed to the show, it was some maniac who was laughing at his own jokes. And then i took bus home, i felt empty after laughing but good. I hope my wound would heal faster, they did good job on the plate. I needed some kickass thought, i went to the shooting gallery the next day to shoot some guns, i even rented a gel head to shoot. Boom bang not even a gang can stop me. Sike. I started to investigate implants again, i had to read some old books because some of this stuff was old and on the cheaper side. I discovered that there was a kickass machine called Radifier. I had to get one.

I hit the stores ASAP, i visited Old Fuck's mechanics, he wasn't selling one, but told me about this cool shop called Older Gold Maximier's hardware and shenaningans. It was full of all cool junk and parts, like hand cannon, intensifier chips, torpedo tits, steel ass, cool boots and on top of all there it was The Radifier that rads up your life. They screwed it in and indeed i started to feel kickass again, endorphins running wild, i kicked the air few times to test it out, hay-ah. Some karate chops. I tried to even do a flip from of an bench and landed on my ass outside of the shop, well we all can't be winners at jumping. Maybe the steel ass was worth it if i would cyborg up but that was too rad even for me. Suddenly i needed to take a piss, close by there was pissing corner with a gutter, dman it was smelly from yesterday's urine. Raining down the wall, piss dripping and i wanted to go to a bar.

Few beers later. I ws telling jokes at some chicks and a guy, they were the Hyenas band, and sounded rad. They had a speaker and played few songs. I said cool stuff. And left. Now i was piss drunk. Wobbling a bit, leery eyeing people on the streets of Delta, i put radifier in off position, it needed to load up, it was only useable for few hours the seller said.

I went to sleep and saw strange dreams with dream worlds of the unknown, when i woke up i had forgetten most of em expect this knight with a laser sword fighting a dragon. I drank some coffee with choco to get the day started. One cigarette after i was ready to go to library to get some interesting books about handling things like guns, life and cults. Later i started reading. After two weeks of studying i was healed and ready. Learned the ways of cult leaders brainwashing, gun maintenance and how life was fucked up but indeed repairable. And i would turn this fucked world upside down to it's knees if i had to, piece by piece. I wanted to say, but i guess i would just steal, run and shoot. I called Redstag, he had found some info about the SURRENDER guy who looked like an old man with moustache in the internet conspiracy side, he was some big deal in some circles. We found out that he was in Burroughs town. At the country side, nice big road with buildings here and there. So we drove there and had a nice big breakfast after visting a motel for a night. Mmm... sausages, mushrooms, eggs and ham. We drove around the town and nothing but a small brothel and a three bars. We played some techno and put on our thinking hats. Mine was yellow, his was white. Well okay not, but we got thinking.

Best bet was bars, maybe someone knew the guy. We got drinking and i hope we didn't have to paint the whole town red. So at the bar Soldering Iron, first we got knocking down some pints, few shots of bourbon. Cigarettes outside, nothing at the first bar, we headed to The Head Screwball bar next. It was close so walking ensued, the bar was full of narcomania freaks listening punk. We bought tabs of LSD cos fuck it, this shit was getting us nowhere man. And took in the trip, both one tab cos we were not gonna go over board with it. The last bar had women's lesbia night and it was hard to talk to them, they knew nothing, we walked to empty plot with a bench and waited the acid to hit. It hit soon. WHOOMP, i started to feel like the ground was trembling, my hands felt big and small, i felt connected to earth as an earthling. My eyes started to see tremors in surrounding area. We were dipping deep into the psyche of man. This case needed to be cracked, internet was flowing thru my mind. All the shitposts and there it was, maybe he didn't exist. Maybe i didn't exist, Redstag puked a little.

”This is brown acid, fuck this arrgghh”

”No it's not, chill man”

”Okay, i got carried away with old bad memories, we should walk a bit”

We got walking, i felt like i was levitating a bit. It was only the first hours, we saw some crows flying, i felt like flying, crows gathering a tree, then a cat hurrying them away. Wholesome. I bot fuzzy and warm. Few hours passed tripping, but shadwos started moving, we got back to the car to listen some techno. We partied a bit. We went back to the lesbian bar, it was mostly closed down but there was a strange lady in red dress and a hat, we couldn't resist.

”So uhmm whatcha doing”

”Drinking can't you see, you guys are out of it, i could see it a mile away”

”Think about deep space how it swallows you whole.”

”No, im not space ship, just a woman”

”So you know anything about this man” i quickly took the SURRENDER guy's picture from my pocket, i had cut the word out so it looked more normal.

”Okay, i know the guy, his whereabouts and he is super dangerous.”

I got scared a lot.

”How dangerous”

”So dangerous is untouchable by normal guys but you guys look so fucked you might make it. At night, armed to the teeth. He has lot of fucked up parties thought and i went to one.”

Redstag looked scared too.

”Maybe this is too fucked up for us”

”Okay, im paying you 500 for the info and we are skipping town”

”Okay it's in this location” said the lady, showed us a street in deep forest and we got back to the car, still tripping a bit but it was wearing down. I guess we improved the world enough for today, at road motel i couldn't sleep and went back for a tobacco, it hit me lil bit still. Redstag woke up too.

”It's good we don't get hangover from this.”

”Yes, we should sleep in or fuck off, i don't know, i still got the creeps, i wonder if the creeps will attack us and we got target on our back.”

”Yes, or not, i feel energized and i think we can win this with more knowledge”

”I hope so”

We drove off, we couldn't sleep. We would have to sleep later. We drove and drove. Deeply into the sunrise. Sunrays hitting the visor i put down. 6^th gear roaring. Ready set go into the new radness of gang warfare. We were not ready at all thought but some training at gun range and explaining my new info to Redstag would have to do. I started briefing him and he said he mostly knew all of it, expect the cult shit and said we had to careful among fanatics. Indeed, this was a hard case to crack. We arrived at Delta, weary and exhausted but happy. And went to sleep.