You hope the shade provided by them will prevent them from getting exhausted too quickly. You might have to try finding some water for them soon, though, you didn't have much time to refuel them at the Ranger camp after all.
The firearm facility is a massive, and you do mean MASSIVE, factory that stretches up into the sky for what has to be an actual mile. You can't quite see where it ends since a large chunk of it is just too far up in the sky for you to see.
Large chunks of the facility has crumpled from equal parts old age (it has been around since the Old World, over 200~ years ago) and from the desert environment ripping it to shreds. That barely does anything to impact the structural integrity of this facility, no, tower.
You wonder why they would need a facility this tall. You would think making it wider would've been a better idea. Maybe it's just one of the few buildings that survived and it was built like that to save horizontal space. The front entrance to the building is completely unguarded. You can just enter.
[PERSON OF INTEREST] However. Something catches your interest. There's someone waiting for you. She's barely hidden behind one of the trees.
She slowly steps out of cover...
https://youtu.be/q-XRfTHmJYg - SPOOK?
It's one of them. The silver suit and tie, the censored face covered in static, the service pistol hanging in their hand. It's one of the spooks. They're not even trying to hide this time around.
Perfect. You prepare your FEDKILLER while everyone else scrambles to equip their own weapons. The spook doesn't even react when an anti-material rifle, two revolvers, a derringer, a shotgun and a weird living pistol are all armed at her.
<span class="mu-s">"Nicole. There is an issue I wish to discuss with you. There is a reason I came in an outfit your group can recognize immediately. I do not wish to hide my intentions with you."</span>
<span class="mu-s">"We have a...mutual issue I believe we can both benefit by working together. At least for this part of your journey."</span>
Your brain short circuits. What?
"Excuse me, huh?" Clover keeps his revolver aimed at the Spook. "Your guys literally tried killing me and Nicky not even twenty minutes ago? Why the hell would we work with you?"
"We're also actively working against you with saving Foxtrots???" Kiara can't even attempt to process this bizarre data being fed into her system. "Is this some desperate attempt to buy time?"
<span class="mu-s">"No. I am being genuine. Besides, we are not a monolith hivemind. We all have our own separate missions that we are assigned to complete."</span>
<span class="mu-s">"It is about a former associate of ours named Alisator Shockley. He has become a...massive liability and nuisance once my employers told him to leave. We were the only one willing to humor him so after we cut him off?"</span> The spook shrugs. <span class="mu-s">"He had nobody left to humor him. Last I have heard of him, he has been rummaging around here for something to get back at both us and YOU."</span>
