A technomancer's journey in an apocalyptic world

Chapter 65: Planning the way back (part-3)

"Is this axe to your liking?"

Cai Bai held the axe in his hand as he inspected it before giving it a few mock swings as he spoke, "Yes this is perfectly well balanced I like it."

Ryan smiled towards him as he spoke, "Well I am glad that you liked my creation."

"Well, Ryan there is something that I want to ask you?"

"Yes, what is it?"

"Can you make guns for us, it would be useful."

Ryan grimaced inwardly his sister had told him to stall as much when it came to the matter of guns as much as possible, after all, they are unsure of the people present and the last thing that they would want is to handover some guns over to some homicidal maniac.

As such with a fake apologetic look on his face he spoke, "I am really sorry but at the moment I am working on the defence of the base as such guns for individuals would be a problem, not to mention the guns I make you would not be able to use."

Cai Bai frowned seeing the look on his face Ryan simply brought out his gun and presented it to him as he spoke, "Try lifting it."

Cai Bai looked curiously at the offered weapon as he tried to lift only for him to drop it on the ground as he jumped back to avoid it from crushing his toes as he looked it with a surprised look on his face, "This weapon is too he", whatever he was about to say was lost as he looked at Ryuu with his eyes wide as he watched him carelessly juggle the weapon with his right hand as if it was nothing.

"Heavy, I know and this is also one of the reasons that I am not putting the rest of my work to hand you guns, the world has changed and for the better or worse so have we, this weapon is only a Tier 4 weapon, yet no one is strong to wield it except for myself even then this weapon is kind of obsolete for me and is not strong enough for some creatures that are roaming around, I can create even more low tiered weapons but it will be akin to using water gun against a tank, and since the resources are already strained and it would be a waste to create something for you that you will not be of much use except to kill each other."

He waited for a moment before he spoke, "I can prioritize making guns and weapons over setting up proper defences but how will it work when you cannot even cut to wield it, how will it help if it cannot defend against the beast, because at the end of the day it would be useless at the end of the day, nothing more nothing less as such I am focusing on setting up better defences at the moment."

Cai Bai bit his lips as he spoke, "Are the creatures really that dangerous out there?"

Ryan sighed at his question as he spoke, "Have you heard about our trailer that we used to come here."

Cai Bai frowned at that as he spoke, "Yes I have tidbits about it, heard it was destroyed."

Ryan nodded as he spoke, "I hope you know what an RPG is?", as Cai Bai nodded in confirmation a small smile formed on Ryan's face as he spoke, "The trailer that I created was hit by multiple RPGs, bullets, Molotov and nothing happened to it, not even a scratch and yet one creature rammed the same trailer and tore it pieces in one hit, a creature that shrugged off our bullets and only died because I was able t outwit it, do you now understand what we had to deal with.

Cai Bai simply nodded with a pained look on his face before he left with a tired sigh, while Ryan slouched forward tiredly, 'How long will I have to give excuses such as this, I am not good at giving excuses, but still what I said was not a lie even then a few might get angry and hostile.'

He looked up and winced as he saw another person coming towards him, 'Well get ready to deal with another, I should not have shown my powers.'

"Err... I need a kitchen you see I kin.. Thank you, Thank you so much."

As the woman left Ryuu left out a sigh, 'I hate it, I wanted to be an astronaut not a salesman of cutlery and knives, even weapon dealer was much better than this, I want to go back home.'

"Hey Ryan, how is your shop running?"

Ryan looked towards Jessica as he gave her the stink eye before he spoke with a grumble, "Please stop calling it shop."

Jessica shrugged at that as she spoke, "So what you are creating stuff and selling it, as such it is a shop."

"I am not getting paid."

Jessica waved it off as she spoke, "Meh small stuff not worthy of attention."

Her statement made Ryan double-take at that, 'How is she disregarding one of the most important parts of a shop the money, just how bored is she that she is trying so hard to make fun of me in such boorish manner.'

"So how was your latest trip?"

"It was fine and finally we have a map of the entire region, and I would like to add that we found something that you might find useful."

Ryan could not keep hold of his enthusiasm as he spoke out, "What is it?"

Jessica smirked at him as she replied, "A rail yard, we have flown towards the general direction of the Fort Genesis as such we missed it, but there is a large rail yard to be found if you move towards the direction of Navalach, it is so hidden because of the trees that are difficult to spot even if it is only a few of kilometres from our current base."

Ryan gained a contemplative look on his face before he replied with a nod, "Does it have any trains?"

"Plenty of trains for days, I do not think you will have any shortages of it for some time and the best part almost all of them are passenger wagons as well as a good few engines, though many are wrecked."

"No problem, it would be faster to gather them up and create the Land Train, than creating from scratch, at best I will be done within a couple of weeks at most instead of months, it is difficult to gather resources from this place."

Jessica nodded before she spoke with a frown, "So when are we leaving?"

Ryan's face scrunched up for a moment in deep thought, "Let me ask big sis, it would be a large undertaking, not to mention time-consuming as such we need sufficient amount of protection along with us."

A loud horn bellowing out loud drew their attention as the duo ran up towards the wall of their base as fast as they could. Gone were the rickety wooden walls as in their place was grey coloured concrete blocks that made up the walls protecting the base.

As the duo stood atop the wall they were soon joined by others as Ryan spoke with a frown, "Hey did their numbers increase."

Jessica nodded at that as she spoke, "It seems so they had been absent for near about a week and now they are back with even more, including some children, impressive."

As the door opened wide Ylerias stepped inside like Queen without paying attention to the 'peasants' around her then her eyes fell on Ryan as a small smile graced her face as she greeted him with a small nod of her head.

Ryan simply jumped down from the wall as he made his way towards Ylerias as he greeted her back, "Welcome back Lady Ylerias have your journey been safe and fruitful."

Meanwhile back with the rest of the humans, Anndrais simply narrowed his eyes as he looked at the interaction between the two as one of his fellow former slaves spoke, "Something is going on between the two."

Anndrais nodded in agreement as he spoke, "That woman is like some kind of Holy woman of theirs as such they revere her and in a way worship her, her guards her polite and when we approach, that is if her guards allow us and even then we have to be extremely respectful to her, but that Ryan fellow is not only treated with respect by her guards, he is also treated as if he is her peer for reasons unknown."

The person standing near him frowned for a moment before he spoke, "Is it because he has some magical powers."

Anndrais shook his head as he spoke, "I do not think so, some of us including his own sister have magical powers yet they are treated like the rest of us but he is different why?"

"I once overheard some of them referring to him as 'Lord Ryan'."

Anndrais looked towards the speaker who was a woman in her mid-fifties with a few strands of grey hairs standing by his side looking intently at Ryan as she continued to speak, "Something is going one, something they are hiding from us, if you listen intently you might catch the Guards calling him as Lord and then the fiasco when he arrived here for the first time, something fishy is going on, and as for his sister I doubt she is really his sister they look nothing alike, nothing at all."

Anndrais hummed in thought as he spoke, "We have to keep an eye on them, the last thing we want is the repeat of the Pig king or something worse."

"It was fine Ryan and extremely fruitful as I found some more of my brethren whom I brought along with me."

Ryan gave her a small smile as he spoke, "That is extremely good news, I will not waste your time you all must be tired so please take some rest."

Ylerias nodded before her eyes travelled to the walls as she spoke, "Before I leave to take my rest there is something I wish to ask you, Ryan."

As Ryan nodded in agreement Ylerias spoke with a curious look on her face, "I noticed that the walls are made up of some weird grey coloured stones what are they, they are so smooth."

Ryan looked at the walls briefly as he spoke with a smile, "That is no stone my lady but a substance known as concrete which we use to create our houses and various infrastructures, they are quite sturdy and much easier to use than stones."

"I see.", she looked at it briefly before she spoke again with a sigh, "Well I am taking my leave for the moment, but before that could you please get someone to help my people settle down."

Ryan nodded as he spoke, "Of course, I will have no problem with that, I just know the correct person for that."