Sam was more interested in the weapons of these military men. Even those old rifles was priceless in his eyes.

Why is country X in such crap?

One of the main reasons is that people are helpless.

It doesn’t matter how many people come out for the protests, it’s all pointless. Just toothless attempts to appeal to the law, although the law has not existed for a long time.

But what if many people among the multi-million population were armed like in the US? Would fat officials dare to thoughtlessly deprive people of all rights and freedoms under the guise of dogs from the army and police?

Would these dogs of the regime dare to drive people through the streets like this, reveling in impunity and power?

Sam was sure - no! That’s why they walked around in groups because they were afraid even with weapons.

If they understood that they could catch a bullet, they would instantly remember the laws and humanity. They would literally behave like other people and stand up for justice. It's that simple.

They were probably well paid and dressed, but this is a matter of wins and losses. As soon as they realize that it’s not worth the risk, everything will immediately fall apart.

Sam had never killed anyone before, but he had to get those weapons. People too rarely entered the wasteland, especially military ones. There was no one to catch around here.

He continued to watch as the guy was humiliated, insulted and beaten.

Finally they got tired of it and beat him to death.

Then they started arguing about how to get rid of the body. Sam couldn't hear their discussions though, so he could only guess.

One stayed by the car, while the other two went in different directions. Apparently they were too lazy to dig a hole and they wanted to throw the corpse somewhere and decided to look for a suitable place.

Now Sam had a choice, he could attack the one at the car or the one who moved towards the artificial pool with concrete walls.

When this soldier gets to this hole with water, he will definitely find it a great place to get rid of the corpse and will quickly return. So Sam decided to target this warrior specifically.

Unlike these soldiers, he literally lived here for the last years, so using this advantage he moved ahead and settled down next to the lake.

Of course, he could have been mistaken and that soldier would never have found this place, that would have been the end of it all and he would have lived as if nothing had happened, forgetting about that episode.

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Perhaps he even partly hoped for such an outcome.

But the soldier found this place and approached.

Sam lay on the ground and did not move until he heard his steps nearby. Then he stood up and began to approach him from behind.

Of course the soldier heard or felt him and turned around. Sam wasn't a fucking ninja after all. There were branches and bushes everywhere, making it impossible to move silently.

Nevertheless, he didn't care. The soldier had the rifle on his back, but instead of reaching for it when he saw Sam, the soldier began to pull the mask over his face.

He was clearly more worried about the witnesses than about his own life at that moment. Indeed, who would dare to attack an armed soldier? Apparently this happened too rarely.

In response, Sam switched to running and stopped trying to hide the bat behind his back.

- What the fck?!

The soldier stopped fiddling with his mask and, screaming, reached for his weapon, but it was too late.

In fact, he was a hefty, well-fed large man, and although Sam himself was not small, he doubted that he would have defeated such a man in a fair fight. But the surprise effect did its job.

As soon as the soldier received the first blow, everything was decided. Hunter and prey have been identified.

Having beaten him to death, Sam tried to catch his breath and vomited while squatting, but quickly came to his senses.

Although most likely the screams could not be heard from here, he could not be sure.

He removed rifle from the corpse and wiped it, after which he breathed a sigh of relief.

So many years had passed since he participated in shooting ranges... He already doubted that he would be able to use a weapon. But when Sam got his hands on it he realized that it was still an old model and there was nothing special about it.

He threw the corpse into an artificial pit with water nearby and hid the traces of the incident by covering the traces of blood with earth.

Having made sure that the rifle was loaded and ready to fire, he returned the same way he came and climbed the same tree.

The soldier by the car was still there, and he climbed inside the car. Sam waited patiently for the second scout to return.

He couldn't let any of them go, otherwise he would have to run. Although it wasn't a big deal, Sam still didn't want to take the risk.

The distance from his tree to the car was about 50 meters or something like that. He wasn't sure he would be able to shoot them from here, but he was going to try.

When the scout returned, soldier got out of the car and they began to smoke calmly chatting about something and laughing.

Sam took aim and was breathing deeply when he finally felt ready to pull the trigger.

Everything went smoothly. He managed to shoot the first one immediately, but the second one took half the magazine.

He approached the car and made sure that the soldiers were dead, after which he took away everything valuable from them and dragged all the corpses, their phones and everything unnecessary to the pool where he dumped them.

There was a chance that someone heard the shots, but he didn't care too much. The country is at war after all. Sirens howled regularly with or without reason, even now. And the city was quite far away.

He drove the car far into the wasteland and hid it. There were no electronics in it. An ordinary unremarkable old-style car.

Just another rusty piece of iron in the wasteland, who cares.

Sometimes people donated such vehicles voluntarily, among other things, to the needs of the army. Of course more often they were simply confiscated. Unfortunately those same cars, drones, uniform etc witch was donated were used against the people themselves, nothing new.