Albur sneezed out of thin air, the gang have walked for 2 hours and they only walked for 8 km.
"Hey, we have to think of other ideas rather than just walking, we can't reach all upgrade stations within 5 days in a pace like this." said Mysty.
"True, we need a transport or something." said Johnson.
"I can't walk anymore, I can't even feel my legs....." Albur sat down on the ground.
"Yeah, my battery is running low too...." said Covie.
Johnson looked at the sky, its already near dusk, he sighed and signaled Covie to set up the moon hut and threw her a battery. Mysty looked around, she then spotted some truck ruins near them.
"Mysty? What's wrong?" asked Albur.
"Can we put these to good use?" asked Mysty.
Albur stood up and walked to her, looking at the truck ruins, Johnson also walked to them.
"Speaking of that I didn't notice we walked past so many of these before." said Albur.
"These trucks still seemed to be in good condition, although unable to drive, I think we can build a new truck using their parts." said Johnson.
"Great idea! We can use this truck as a transport, we won't need to walk then!" exclaimed Mysty.
"Goodness, its a leg saver here!" said Albur.
"Ooh, I'm a genius in building things, let me have a look too." Covie heard the conversation and flew to them.
"You? Since when?" asked Johnson.
"Kidding! I just wanna help out too!" said Covie.
"These parts are sure complicated, can we make this work?" asked Albur.
"I got this. Let's look for the parts we need first." said Johnson. He then searched on the internet using his smartwatch and found a blueprint about what does a vehicle need.
"What, where did you get WIFI signals?" asked Albur.
"Mobile data... exist." said Johnson.
"Oh, sorry."
The gang then dumped themselves into the truck parts, looking for parts according to the blueprint. They spent a couple of minutes looking for them, and after 30 minutes, they gathered all of the parts they need which are still in good condition.
"Alright... now we will need to put them back together, that will take time..." Johnson cracked his knuckles and stretched his limbs.
"But speaking of that how can we power it up and drive it?" asked Mysty.
"Anyone have a car and drove it before?" asked Johnson.
"Uh....I do, but I....." begin Albur.
"Great, I still have some batteries from the supermarket we visited previously, which are the triple z's, I can make it power the car. Come on gang, let's start building it." said Johnson.
"Can you let me finish the sentence?" Albur thought to himself.
Johnson showed them the blueprint, he also put up a bunch of blueprints showcasing how to build the truck step by step.
"AWWW SNAP, it feels like being back in Design and Technology class in college." said Albur.
The team started building, Albur and Mysty is tasked to attach the parts onto another and Johnson will join them up using his special wrench. Covie is tasked to lift the heavy parts and give them to Albur and Mysty and the constructing goes on for hours. At 9 p.m. The car is 90% near done, using the advanced technologies in 8167, building vehicles are nothing too hard.
Albur and Mysty finished what they need to do, Johnson is left to join the parts up and also apply the batteries onto the car to make it start working. Covie have fallen asleep very early to prevent more electricity loss, since Johnson running out of batteries. Outside the moon hut, Albur and Mysty lit up a campfire and cooked the food they gathered previously from the supermarket.
"I can't believe we have to use things cavemen used to cook our food." said Albur.
"Its not like cavemen, our ancestors 6000 years ago use this in the wilderness." said Mysty.
"My history sucks, I don't know about anything in the past." Albur took his instant noodles from the campfire pot.
"Say, if you say this is cavemen technology, what about the necktie in your work suit or work vest? That is also something 6000 years ago." said Mysty.
"I mean you are wearing clothes 6000 years ago, at least I am wearing a suit of the year 8167." said Albur.
"Don't these feel adventurous? Like I post mystery unravels online and to make it suit the topic this clothes sure are suitable aren't they?" asked Mysty.
"Uh, not sure about that chief. Its cave man style to me." said Albur.
"By the way, speaking of this glitch invasion, do you think we can really save the planet from the glitches? Like we don't even know what is the capabilities of Commander Glitch... do we have any chance of doing that?" asked Mysty.
"I thought you were very confident and also brave when we first met Johnson." said Albur.
"We've already met 2 captain glitches, if the 2 of them is already that powerful, how can we even beat the final commando?" asked Mysty.
"Huh, all I can say is, we try our best I guess..... although I was also a bit messed up right now...speaking of that... I watched most of your videos online, I thought you were fearless."said Albur.
"Of course I have fears, which is being laughed at..." muttered Mysty.
"Analog horrors are way worse ok....." murmured Albur.
"What? "
"Nothing! Where were we? The glitch thing? " asked Albur.
"Maybe we discuss even more with Johnson?" asked Mysty.
"That dude, eh..... I have a little bad feeling with him." said Albur.
"Why?"
"Like uh..... that time when I was knocked away by that captain glitch, even though my ears are ringing, I can still hear you calling Johnson but he didn't even respond you..." said Albur.
"Huh, I guess he is just too focused on the fight." said Mysty.
"I don't know, and also he always swear. Or else why would Covie cover his mouth?" asked Albur.
"I think that is just his personality, like Covie said, he have been through a rough and tough time in his past." said Mysty.
Albur scoffed, Mysty replied him with a smile.
"By the way, where's Covie? " asked Albur.
"She slept very early, she's our most important teammate right now, if she wasn't around, we'll die due to serious injuries. " said Mysty.
"I wonder how Johnson made these cool stuffs when he had a hard time in his past. " said Albur.
"And he built up RNP within a few years, that is amazing for a CEO that...."
Suddenly, they saw a beam of light behind the moon hut, and also some engine powering sounds.
"Yes! I did it!" Johnson jumped off the ground and stretched his limbs.
"Uh.....Johnson? What happened?" asked Albur.
"I managed to make the truck work, we finally have a transport." Johnson sat near them, sighing in relief.
"Thank you for the hard work, now we can go to the upgrade stations even faster!" exclaimed Mysty.
"I don't really think so, wait till we reached Clementine and Crimson, we will need to travel overseas, since the planet military and executive are not in our country." said Johnson.
"It's alright, at least we can get to the those 2 stations very quickly." said Mysty.
"That work was so hard, thank goodness I have my wrench with me." Johnson said as he took out a green glass bottle and took a sip.
"Wait, what is that?" asked Albur.
"Apple juice, I convert it to electricity. Want some?" asked Johnson.
"Nah thanks, I thought it was beer." said Albur.
"Not all green glass bottles are beer." said Johnson.
"How do you drink it? You literally have a robot body." said Mysty.
Johnson flipped his LED screen, showing a mouth like part.
"Eww.... shut it down! Looks gross!" said Albur .
"What? Doesn't your mouth look like that too?" asked Johnson.
"Uh, that mouth really don't look like a human mouth." said Albur.
"Its already been years since I looked at how my mouth looks like, I have been a cyborg for so long I sometimes even forgot I'm a human, just because I have a metal body, though I still have my muscles, blood vessels and my organs." said Johnson.
"Sounds weird." said Albur.
"Don't know about that..... " said Johnson.
"By the way.... Johnson? Can I ask you a question, you see, my laser rifle shoot lasers that is able to bounce right? Like when I spin it violently, it can ricochet around the room when there's a wall. Do you happen to know why?" asked Albur.
"That's an easy question, you see, these laser bullets aren't like real physical bullets, they are light, and you know that objects can reflect light right? And while normal light reflect on smooth surfaces, these laser bullets has high temperature due to it is laser light focus and compressed together to make a concentrated high heat laser bullets which make the surface smooth since it burns the surface and make it smooth, and uh, you said you spun it very violently right? I think the spinning makes the bullet unstable since you spun the rifle so violently, it cant move in a straight line so it is much easier to ricochet when have contact on a wall.But uh, I won't use the phrase bounce, the laser bullets simply changes direction, and also the wall might get damaged by reflecting that bullet. " explained Johnson.
"Oh, damn, I understand it now..." murmured Albur.
"By the way Albur? Can you go test whether the truck is able drive? " asked Johnson.
"I haven't finish my food yet, wait a sec." said Albur.
"I think I can help, I may not have a car but I was graduated from a driving school." said Mysty.
"Great, come on, let's go." Johnson stood up and walked to the truck, Mysty followed him. Albur continued to eat his food, but then, he remembered Mysty's cut off sentence just now and also his own questions about RNP, so he tried to search for RNP, to see what have Johnson have created in the company, but when he was looking at the history, he saw something strange. The CEO of RNP's face is blurred, and the name of the CEO is John Hamilton.
"Wait a second....." Albur tried to search up about RNP's CEO, all results pointed to John Hamilton, instead of Johnson Hamliton. Both of them are cyborgs and can travel to the digital world, to Albur's knowledge, in this advanced world, becoming a cyborg is nothing hard.
Albur looked at Johnson, a shiver ran down his spine. Suddenly, he heard teleporting sounds. Mysty and Johnson looked at the same place, the glitches spaceships have arrived at their spot.
"Crap! Mysty! Shut down the truck! Albur! Extinguish the campfire! And turn off all of your smartwatches! Get into the moon hut!" Johnson quickly grabbed everything into the moon hut. Mysty parked the truck and Albur extinguished the fire. They quickly ran back into the moon hut.
"This is patrol team #73, we found a campfire that still have smoke coming out from it. "
"This is headquarters, they must be nearby, go search for them ,quick. "
"Copy that."