NOVEL WEB Chapter 40: Forest Ruckus
The gentle breeze of the air dampens the surroundings, exposing its moist nature all around its surroundings. With it, released an intoxicating allure of nature that was thankfully not poisonous or anything of that sort. The illumination from the sky that marks its afternoon seared through the ground, which was thankfully blocked by the armies of green or plant nature all around it.
Quagmire walked with caution but was much more relaxed compared to the things that had been happening over the past few days or weeks since he had arrived in this world. All those times have given him and himself the time to think things through, like what the paths he is about to take from now are. How risky is it or what is not?
Nevertheless, at least for now, he had some semblance of a plan that he would follow, not religiously, but was open to changes and compromises depending on the situation that would arise in the future.
As he was walking through the verdant forest a few hundred meters out from his base now, he saw about four ghouls out from where he was. Eager to take out ghouls and recover some of his lost financial capacity, he straightened his face and body, grabbed a hold of his pistol, and realigned himself to aim, and pulled the trigger.
Eagele's eye was activated and he immediately zoomed his vision and placed his sights on the edge of the pistol where the iron sights were, and as he was readjusting the aim, his target suddenly disappeared, which made him cancel his shot that he was about to take.
"!!!" Quagmire grunted with annoyance as he removed his sights from the pistol; just momentarily, he saw the ghoul was already beside him and was about to launch an attack, so without much further ado, he kicked the dust to change his position.
With swift movements, he took and was able to avoid the lunge of attack that went for him. Annoyance ever present in his face, after kicking the dust and readjusting himself, he made a dash towards another location and after going on a flip, he swiveled his pistol and aimed at the ghoul before him.
Unfortunately, this might not be the same day he was fighting as those of earlier, as these ghouls were far too smart and were making the right judgment; he needs to take the final blow to these ghouls now as soon more than four enemies might descend upon him any time now.
Unfortunately, for the nth time, he was about to fire his pistol. Another ghoul came moving forward at his side, which warranted him not to fire and to rapidly change his position, or else he would risk being pincered on both sides by the enemy.
With a roll over to the ground, he had finally once again readjusted his position; he glanced from left to right and saw that the first two ghouls were in front of him. Confused, initially he was, as there were two more ghouls behind those ghouls. He looked around, left and right, up and down, and saw that others had hidden themselves as if to set up an ambush for him.
Pissed at himself as he was outsmarted by the ghouls in front of him, made him want to use a stick grenade to wipe off the smirk on these rotten ghouls but decided against it as the sound that it creates would put himself at a significant disadvantage due to being a living person, as he would feel pain, despite not dying or getting infected by virus.
With himself on the ground with one knee on the ground, Quagmire made use of the time to think about the things that he could do, outsmart these ghouls, but as time passed by. He gave up and simply decided that being much faster was a much better choice than thinking and doing nothing about it.
With that in mind, he very quickly brought up his pistol, and as he brought it up, he saw the other two ghouls moving forward at his location.
"!!!" Seeing the situation, Quagmire smirked as if he had caught the enemy.
With a single thought and due to the effects of the adrenaline, with a single flick of an aim, he was able to realign his aim at lightning speed and was just right on time; when he arrived at his intended target, he immediately pulled the trigger, and therefore shooting the gun.
A bright flash from its silencers came as the recoil pushed it upwards, but it was resisted by its handler and was pushed back further downward, with smoke coming out of the barrel of the gun. At the far side, the bullet came out at a blistering speed seeking to fully penetrate its target
When the bullet finally landed on its target, a beautiful bloom of roses was etched into the things behind the ghoul, from the bushes to the trees and to the ground. A bright red stain that resembles those of red flowers became a mural for these ghouls who were once part of the myriad races but have now fallen once again since then. Their bodies and flesh shall serve the rise and fall, the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end of the current times that permeates this current world.
The first ghoul was now killed, so Quagmire moved over to the other three. He glanced from left to right and observed the reactions of the other three ghouls. They let out a strange expression as if annoyed or angry by what he did. Which ultimately came into shock, as so far, the ghouls he had fought had not given much emotion to him, yet they were now blatantly showing it to him
Nevertheless, he aimed his pistol, but this time, all three of the ghouls attacked him. Which evidently caught him by surprise. He really did not expect it at all for them to attack at once.
Anyway, complaining about it is pointless, as he does not really have a choice for that at the moment, so he aimed his pistol and fired. As he wanted to focus on the two closest to him, he aimed at the farthest one so that he would be caught off guard when fighting the ghouls in front of himself.
With that thought in mind, he continuously unleashed a barrage at the last ghoul, and when it finally got through, and the bullet slammed through and penetrated into the hard head of the ghoul, blood and flesh came pouring out from the front and behind. The ghoul fell to the ground lifelessly.
Now that there were only two ghouls left, Quagmire brought out his military knife. Concurrently, the two ghouls are far too apart from each other, which means there was a window of time he could use to attack first and kill it as fast as he could do so so that he would not be pressured by two ghouls and thus not fight at a disadvantage against the enemy ghouls and easily snatch victory at the jaws of defeat.
He strode forward and then switched movements into running; with the pistol on the front and the knife on the side of the pistol, he fired continuously, which, unfortunately, the ghoul was able to dodge. It is as if the ghouls, through repeated observations, have begun to understand the capacity and limitations of the device that he was holding, which was known as a firearm.
Just as he was about to get near, the ghoul stopped in its tracks and, when he was close enough, lunged at him. Sensing impending doom, Quagmire sidestepped at the side, which made the ghoul narrowly miss its intended target, which was Quagmire.
The ghoul fell to the ground front first, and as it was about to stand up again, it once again fell to the ground, but this time lifelessly, as Quagmire shot it at the back of its head before it was even able to stand up and fight again.
Now there was only one ghoul that was left. Quagmire glanced from left to right and saw that the ghoul was still rushing towards him, but the ghoul was now mere meters away from him. Concurrently he has his gun pointed below. If he were to aim and bring it back up, it would take too long, and so he proceeded with the most sensible thing he could do in this situation.
With great strategic acumen, he ran backward so that he could realign his body and movements, straighten his breathing, and when he was finally ready. He made a quick sidestep and, with lightning-fast movement, turned himself back, but this time with the gun held up high and pointed at a possible direction where the enemy was.
He turned and saw that he was correct right on the bullseye, and with that, he pulled the trigger, and a blistering bullet came, and once again, the forest was dyed red with accompanying roses around the area.