bookpub Chapter 2396: Carrot
Chapter 2396: Carrot
Chapter 2396: Carrot
"Do you have any more detailed information on these three abominations that you
mentioned? Even the details about them before they turned would be helpful." Sam asked after digesting the information.
The lady nodded and passed him a few scrolls. Sam quickly scanned through them with the help of a bird puppet and compiled them into three individual reports. The bird puppet projected the three reports side by side.
The lady was dumbfounded.
She just saw the spectacle with her eyes wide open. Sam just gave her a side-eyed glance and continued to check the details.
It is not that he cannot read the reports through the scrolls. However, he is using the opportunity to display the merits of being on his side. Its just basic carrot and stick method. He threatened her and all the humans in this place a couple of minutes ago, now he is showing that he might have something incredible to offer along with that threat.
She wanted to ask what exactly it is and how Sam did it.
But she didn't. She noticed how seriously Sam is looking at the information and refrained from speaking.
Sam just took ten minutes before he understood the reports.
"Most of the information is before their change. The one you call the water abomination is a water element cultivator. The sky abomination is a wind cultivator and the land abomination is a dual elemental cultivator with earth and wood.
That kind of explains why they turned into those specific abominations.
But there is no mention of any of their experiments and the possible things they have done." "That is a very well kept secret. None of the surviving settlements have any information regarding that. Even before turning into abominations they are way too powerful for the human race of this planet. There is no one who could force them to reveal the information even if they tried.
So, they were kept secret and they remained a secret after the war."
"No one tried to explore this a bit more? Maybe they could have found a way out of this from their labs." Sam asked.
"We did think of doing it. And we do believe that we might indeed gain some cure for this situation there. Even if we cannot turn those creatures back, we at least believed we might get some info on their weaknesses.
But we are beaten back even before we could entertain that thought.
We are barely maintaining the status quo with the limited knowledge we have. Like how we used the poisonous sea beasts to keep the water abomination and his underlings at bay, other settlements do have similar to means to keep the other abominations at bay.
Even though we are at a relative safety, we cannot entertain such grand thoughts because we noticed that our current means are temporary.
These creatures are slowly gaining immunity to poison.
So, our priority is to think of ways to survive first."
"Understood."
Sam went mute for a while after saying that. He just kept on thinking what to do and how to proceed forward with a plan.
After some time, he spoke to her.
"I forgot to ask your name."
"Naila."
"Okay, why are all the settlements not together? Don't you guys have the spatial transportation technology?"
"Some settlements do, and they attempted it at the start. But the Sky abomination has a way to interrupt it. It has means to find the locations of people when a transmission has been used. Through that, it managed to look past the illusion arrays we made and destroyed a couple of settlements."
Sam nodded and went silent again.
Two bullets flew out of the gun and hit two creatures.
*PUFF**PUFF*
Once the bullets hit, they exploded in puff of poisonous smoke. The creatures stopped
running and fell to the ground, flapping around like fish out of the water. Within seconds,
they died. Their bodies withered like dried fish.
Naila widened her eyes in disbelief.
"Finish them, please."
Naila kept on shooting them. Sam is surprised how decent of a shot she is. She shot twelve
times and hit eight targets. Not bad for the first time.
After she is done with them, he spoke.
"From what I experienced with them, these creatures are way too weak under the potent poison. But they are tough to fight directly, even if your strength is higher compared to them.
They are high in number, powerful in combat and they heal as well.
But when you use a truly potent poison, they are done for.
I am guessing you are not taking this approach because the creatures have grown accustomed
to most of the poisons that people of your planet could create?"
Naila nodded absentmindedly. She is still lost in the feeling of how easy it was to kill these
nightmarish creatures.
After she got off her shock, she was about to ask Sam something, but he stopped her and
threw a spatial ring to her.
The ring is filled with handguns.
"Each weapon only endures about fifteen shots and it will automatically collapse. I am sure, this is enough fire power for the first line of defense in your settlement.
I don't have access to other lackeys of water abomination and the other abominations. But for these creatures that we faced and those sharks, this level of weapon will be enough. Of course,
you might want to shoot the shark a few more times.
Use this as a bargaining chip.
As long as they accept my deal, they will have a few of these. And I will even device a plan of action to get back some of your territory and improve your lives. I need an answer in one hour.
Meanwhile, I need a quite and isolated room to conduct some research."
Naila nodded and they hurriedly went back to the city.
While Sam was sent to a room as per his choice. She went to talk to her peers in other
settlements.