novelzi Chapter 197 You Don't Get To Steal 'Our' Food
Chapter 197 You Don't Get To Steal 'Our' Food
I was panicking at the fact that Amber was facing off against the guy who single handedly took down an entire group of armed guards without breaking a sweat.
It's not like I think she's too weak to fight him but isn't this unnecessary?
Just give him the box and we wouldn't even need to fight at all!
The thief raised an eyebrow at Amber, as though silently asking if she was seriously trying to stop him.
He was going to take another step forward when he stopped as soon as Mara stood up to stand beside Amber to face him. Enjoy more content from My Virtual Library Empire
Wait, you too, Mara?! Why?!
I think the thief also remembered that Amber and Mara were the ones who caught him and forced him to cut off his arm in our earlier encounter because he took a step back.
Surprisingly, he sheathed his blades and nodded at the box, "You can have that."
Oh... He gave up on that surprisingly easily.
He then turned back to the lift and Amber growled at him, "You're not touching those either. We're eating those."
The thief wasn't that happy to hear that and turned back around with a frown plastered on his face, "Don't push your luck. I only decided to let you keep that box because it would waste my time to fight you both for that small box of it. But if you were to put that on the line, I will not back down."
"Then we'll just kill you? Makes no difference to us," Amber shot back.
What are you doing, Amber?! We don't even have any weapons! The only equipment we have are our personal shields! How are we supposed to... Oh.
My gaze wandered until it landed on the dead guard beside me and the rifle he had dropped on the ground beside him.
I guess... That could work?
The thief reached for his sword and pulled out one of his blades, only for something to fly towards him with blinding speed and hit him in the wrist, causing him to lose his grip on his weapon.
The thing turned out to be a metal tray that was thrown towards him, presumably by either Amber of Mara.
The thief narrowed his eyes even more, "I knew it. Do you think I'll be intimidated by that? You will not hit me again."
I looked back at the two girls and I saw that they each had frying pans in their hands. When the hell did they pick those up?
"You wanna bet? Because I can tell you you're gonna lose," Amber growled.
The thief said nothing before he suddenly disappeared from view.
I did not stay down and simply rolled towards the dead guard's body to snatch up the gun before continuing my roll into a crouch beside his corpse.
Amber came up beside me and peered inside the lift that still had its doors open, "I don't get it? What was his plan though? Did he think he could just walk out through the front door through the kitchen?"
Steiner shook his head, "I believe he did not expect the lift to stop on this floor. We have a security measure in place that locks down the lifts for the food storage area when an intruder is detected. He must have been expecting the lift to go up to the top floor instead and escape from there. Too bad for them, the computer automatically locks it down when the alarm has been triggered."
Lea then joined us while wondering aloud, "Are we going to be compensated for this?"
Steiner groaned, "I don't know. That's outside of my jurisdiction. You're gonna need to find someone else for that. Fuck... As if my day couldn't get any worse... Maybe I should just quit and go back to the inner colonies..."
Damn it, I thought he had already recovered by now or at least shook himself out of it after what just happened. Seems like he's still hung up about it...
At least we dealt with the problem so--
A sudden cloud of smoke exploded from where the thief was laying, hiding him from view.
I saw the vague outline of a shadow running towards the door before that disappeared and by the time the smoke cloud had dispersed, the thief was gone.
What the fuck, he got shot twice and smashed in the face with a frying pan and he could still run away? What even is he made of?!
I turned to look at the lift and... Oh, one of the boxes seemed to be missing too. I guess he knew he could not take everything with him but he didn't want to leave empty handed either so he took one with him.
Seriously though, I'd think if you were shot up and beaten like that, the last thing on your mind should be how to get out with your stolen stuff and just think about how to escape instead.
Steiner also realised what happened straight away and pointed an angry finger at the door, "That fucker!! Someone chase him!! He took one of the boxes!! Arrrgghhh!!"
The head chef actually picked up another frying pan and ran out of the kitchen after him, prompting a few of the remaining chefs to chase him as well.
Can this day get any weirder?
Ah fuck it... I don't even care anymore... I just want the organic food that I earned from the cook off...
As I started gathering the packages that fell out of the box from when I dropped it, Mara approached me with furrowed brows and gave me a strange look.
"Tera... Can I ask you something?"
I paused and nodded at her.
"How did you know that the idiot was coming at you from above earlier?"
"Ah... Umm... I don't really know how to explain but I just get this weird feeling that something is coming at me from that direction. I've fought a few people who can do that before so I got used to trusting that feeling to locate people like that."
Mara's frown deepened before turning to Amber, both of them seemed to share a look before the doctor pulled her away to whisper conspiratorially in a corner.
What? What's going on?