Chapter 32
My first thought on entering the portal is that drone videos really need something to set a sense of scale.
Those water buffalo are enormous.
They’re easily the size of a delivery truck and have got to weigh upwards of 10 ton. Did I even bring a big enough gun for this insanity?
Penetrating rounds it is, I’m not sure anything else will get through to their vitals. It seems the wolves have had the same idea, as they’re both now swapping magazines.
"Watch out for dung piles, they’ll be big enough to bog down the Jeeps like a mud pit" I hear one of the Ramirez brothers laugh over the radio, the distortion of the electronic device preventing me from telling who exactly our resident joker is.
He wasn’t wrong though, I wouldn’t want to have to try to walk through this field.
"Kat, take the left edge of the pack, see if you can down a straggler and we’ll try to break up the herd. A stampede likely won’t end well for us"
This voice would be Karl, over the small speaker mounted in the box, as the cab itself has no windows that open to let sound out.
"Scratch that, there’s some sort of huge lion coming in from the 3 o clock position headed for the herd. Let the predator scatter them and we’ll pick off what we can."
The trailer the Jeep hauled out is on the other side of the portal, so Karl must be intending to get a quick kill and fill the quota for the research team before we get to business.
Luck was on our side, one panicked beast, a full grown one with shorter horns came charging directly at us. I waited until it was only a hundred meters away before squeezing the trigger and putting a burst of penetrating rounds into its enormous chest, dropping it in just a few staggering steps.