Chapter 110: Another Angle.
A gray twelve-meter wall seemed to shrink in height while extending both left and right. The buildings behind it came into sight, their roofs entering the picture one after the other. Everything seemed to grow smaller with time, and in just a few minutes, it all vanished.
Mark watched the scene play out from the window at the very back of the truck. A formless weight pressed on his chest, brought forth by an unanticipated sense of melancholy.
A semi-shut-in like him had no real attachment to the environment beyond his sanctuary, or so he believed for a long time. Turns out one couldn’t avoid laying roots after spending two years in one place or the pain that comes with ripping them out.
Mark sighed wistfully and turned away from the desolate road and the red plains. He didn’t expect much when his stalker of a superior went to get new vehicles for them to travel in and because of that, it came as a shock when he showed up with two more trucks nearly identical to the ones King Scorpion melted away.
Who would’ve thought that military equipment would be abandoned along with the rest of a once-metropolitan city?
Alex, Elya, and Ben used one of the trucks while Franco, Mark, and Lara used the other. It was decided that each group would take turns driving among themselves. Only Ramsay was exempt from the arrangement as he chose to ride his bike.
The sergeant was bound to stop for a rest at some point but Mark had no intention of letting him get on the same truck. The earlier incident had ended with the youth being the butt of the joke for some reason, leaving him so resentful to the point that he would distance himself and refuse to speak to anyone, or that’s how he wanted it to appear, at least.
Though he was enraged at the start, Mark realized that he could use the incident to hide his true thoughts and divert everyone’s attention from the real reason behind his agitated state.
He had the confidence to do it without any of that, but adding another layer to his performance ensured that he wouldn’t get caught slipping.