Should Have Let Me Die

Chapter 162: SUV Tank

We walked into The Hyde Office and there were other groups of adventure-looking parties like ours standing in line to get sent out. Even the risk of getting caught by the mysterious ambusher didn't seem to slow the flow down of people looking to help. I wondered what drove everyone to help? It had to be more than just helping, Right?

I stood in the middle of our group and Rache/Nuwari stood at the head as we waited in line. She would be the best for speaking to the people at the front booth where we were waiting for. The place was similar to a guildhall office, but a bit more formal and no extra places to sit down.

"Your team will be sent to Ratiha, There is a shipment heading across the land, and we need you to intercept, you will get one-thousand for each slave returned healthily. This price is higher than the standard five-hundred per slave, but Ratiha is a dangerous place and you have some good recommendations."

"These terms are good, is there anything else we need to know about?" Rachel asked.

"Just there us is someone hunting you out there, but we have no idea what they want or if they are ever killing them. We just know that they disappear, but they don't happen often, but they can happen anywhere. Stay safe out there, here are the time and quadrants, get there early. I will leave the rest up to your and your group." The lady at the window handed Rachel the paper, but she handed Esmerelda/Kadence the note to put in the bag she wore over her shoulder.

We left the front desk and then the office. Nothing seemed off there, and the lady seemed honest about everything we had asked, so I put them off to the side. I had helped make something in secret, and now that we were in need of transportation, we just needed to get to the place that it is stored. It wasn't that far, but there were a couple parking lots and a couple places to rent or buy new rough riding cars, but they could only use them outside of the city.

The thing that I had been working on was comfier and it had more than enough room for everyone to move, we just had to make our way to the lot at the end of the city where it had been parked for the last day. The trip was a nice stroll with my best friend and the girls to our ride, but I was a bit of a pain to have to stay away from them for now since I picked such an inhuman form.

Who knows, maybe it will play to our advantage. I will be the last person they are thinking about, so I can get them with the old sneak attack! More like they will pay attention to me because I'm the weirdest looking one!

After about an hour they were already tired, but I probably could have walked the rest of the way there, but we had reached the SUV Tank. The thing didn't have a cannon and it was round like cars I had seen before, but with the help of Titania, Xelios, and some other very hard-working people, we had created a tough machine. 

The thing had triangle-shaped tracks that lifted slightly at the front and back. The rest of the vehicle was basically like your standard secret services sports utility Vehicle, all black. Though Xelios tried to convince me that it should be rainbow, man I sure glad I won that argument before today. I would be doing my best to stay out of any arguments with her from now on if I wanted to taste the rainbow again!

We all piled, and Esmeralda/Kadence reached in her bag and pulled out a special case. The thing was holding the special drive her father made with Mr. Spin. It was like the key and locking mechanism, it was different, and the box made it so you couldn't hear the humming noise it was making now.

I was in the back with Rachel and Esmeralda while Red/mesh and Jill/Kalita were in the front. Jill had asked to drive, and I remembered that was her favorite place to be. This was good because I was a horrible driver. Plus in most of my games, I would have already unlocked the gates and broken some of the seals by now, but this was the first game that I had been handed something almost stronger. 

I let a bunch of my front hair suck back in so the girls could cuddle into my arms, while we started to leave the city, there was a guard, but they didn't check people leaving the city, only the ones coming back in. So, we left the city and started heading down the open road. I really hoped we could get to the bottom of this mess, but there was a chance that we would run into Ratihian's.

If that happened, then I would probably have no choice but to deal with Kalita's mother. I had talked to Markeye to get more information, invite him and Kara over for meals to enjoy with the family when we could. The girls were forever inviting guests over, and I have to say I really enjoyed meeting with people over a meal, so it wasn't bad. Though, what I got from Markeye wasn't helpful. 

The queen kicked Kalita and Markeye out when she was only five, and that was more years than I would like to think about ago. Still, the woman hadn't been doing anything suspicious, but after they were kicked out, the country started to become more closed. Whatever happened before or after they were booted, neither of the two had any idea.

So, in the end, I resigned myself to do this thing if it came to it, and knowing the law of the universe and Murphy,  It would.