Wasteland Conqueror

Chapter 22: Making A Call

Four hours later.

Ahh, that was a good sleep.

As I was getting a nice stretch in, careful not to wake Alice, I started exploring the various ways I could get hold of that property owner's information in my mind. Seconds into that line of thinking, I concluded that it would be easiest to just look up the information I'm seeking on the undercity's public database and in the event I can't find it there, I'll just hack into the government servers and obtain the information I want from there.

With a plan in mind to acquire the information I needed for my upcoming negotiations, I got out of bed carefully so as not to disturb Alice and crept over to my desk where my desktop was located. The second I arrived in front of it, I slowly rolled out my desk's chair, not making a single sound in the process. Moving the chair into my preferred position, I sat down and turned on my desktop PC. As soon as it booted, I typed in my login credentials and proceeded to get down to business.

A short browse through the undercity's internet, I found out that a William Andrew Broward purchased the property. So with my target found, I continued onto my next objective to find all I could on the man.

No more than half an hour later, I collected all his contact details, plus an assortment of other miscellaneous information related to him. Including plenty of information on his family and what other things he was involved in, which I discovered wasn't much.

Having said that, I found the man was from a normal upbringing and was just finally beginning to generate some actual wealth for himself and his family. Unfortunately for him, he got a property that came with a few too many problems, more than he could handle, obviously.

And from my hacks into the government bank, I discovered the state of his finances, which weren't too good from the looks of things seeing how he had most of his liquidity locked into the facility he bought. The man also didn't own it outright and had a loan to pay off.

So if he doesn't rid himself of it before the undercity government finds out what lies within the mine, he will certainly fall into financial ruin after they come and take over the property to exterminate the molemen. That's what happens when you take on more debt than you can safely afford and something major pops up.

I would feel bad for the guy but the lowlife left his employees to die in the mine from what I can tell and is trying to unload this mess onto some poor unsuspecting sap while he himself gets off scot-free besides a small loss of money. In addition to that, the fucker hasn't compensated the families of the employees that died in the mine and those said families could use the money since they aren't well off from what I've found.

The more I dig into this man and the situation, the more pissed off I'm becoming by the minute... Yeah, I'm gonna fuck this piece of shit over good and rake him over the coals. But besides that, I think I'm going to modify my plans a bit and inform my gramps of the mess attached to the property and get him involved in the negotiation so he can exert additional pressure on the sly bastard.

The only issue with getting my grandpa involved is I'm going to have to explain to him how I'm going to handle the threat of the molemen. I know from the stories that he's told me over the years that he's well aware of just how dangerous they are, so that will be an interesting conversation.

I will also need to let him in on some of my other abilities because there is simply no way he won't pick up on the how do I know there molemen behind the collapsed section of the mine when I was only there for a short period and had zero way of peering behind all the collapsed rock.

There is no reasonable way I could have found out about what was behind the rubble unless I had some sort of unique ability that I've yet to share with him. I could try to reason it's because I'm a marked one who was lucky enough to not die from radiation poisoning and survive the transformation process you have to go through to become a marked one.