On the short walk there we passed by several people dressed in standard merc gear going about their business, with the occasional burst of gunfire ringing out quite frequently.

  "Here we are. You want to train oargets, or would you rather start with drills?" Gramps inquired in his typical rough voice he set the couple of duffle bags he was carrying on a table.

  "Let's start with the range first and then we'll move on to training drills." I responded while setting my own three duffles down.

  Alice set her duffle that she had packed with her gear, which sisted of one of the many FBLAR-1 Laser Assault Rifles I was stockpiling for my future army and a modernized MAC-11 chambered for 10mm that she made herself.

  Meanwhile, gramps took out his trusty NPDM along with his .44 Magnum while I took out my own NPDM and FBLAR-1 Laser Assault Rifle. I would have brought heavier ons to fire and a duffle full of greo chuck, but sadly, it was against the rules.

  | NPDM |Damage: 50DPS: 625Fire rate: 750Capacity: 100Reload: 5Weight: 16Css: HeavyAmmo Type: 7.62x51mmValue: 24,750Item Description: An NPDM is a modernized RPD with all the bells and whistles chambered in the 7.62x51mm cartridge.

  Needing to get used to shooting with my new armor set, I put my helmet ba, grabbed my NPDM, and removed a 100-round drum for it from one of my duffles. Drum in hand, I slid it into position on the underside of the light mae gun. The sed I had it locked in, I took the follower attached to the belt, positiohe belt on the feed tray, and closed the cover when the belt was in position.

  I racked the charging handle and was ready to fire, so I took aim with the red dot sight I had mounted on the NPDM at a steel target approximately 100 meters de and pulled the trigger rapidly three times, letting loose a few rounds. The rounds flew down the rah only two of the three nailing the target.

  My accuracy is a bit off. I would've nded all three shots normally if that wasn't the case. I guess my body has gohrough a few ges with the level up.

  Guessing what my issue was, I spent a couple of minutes firing a few rounds at a time and making adjustments till I was back to hitting incredibly tight groupings oarget.

  Looks like I ot on and now that I've adjusted somewhat to whatever ges my body has undergone, let's have some fun.

  With the accuracy issue resolved to aent, I flipped the fun swit the NPDM, braced the on, ahe trigger down, sending a stream of lead at the target. I ged from oarget to another, ying into them with exceptional accuracy, the kind of accuracy that wouldn't have been humanly possible if not for my high bat skills and how strong I hysically....

  Over the couple of hours, the air was filled with a cacophony of gun and ser fire as I tio get used to the ges and hone my accuracy. In this period I performed inhumas with the two guns I brought along such as but not limited to hitting the same exact p the target multiple times in a row while firing in full auto with a 7.62 mae gun.

  When those two hours were up and I was bay previous abilities, we sed over to running drills. The bunch of us did that for a while aually sed from that to an expansive course that freed up ter in the day to gh simuted training.

  "That was fun. We should do this more often." Aliented happily.

  "Yeah, we should. It's good to e here and blow off some steam and sharpen our skills." I agreed with her enthusiastically.

  "Well, all you two gotta do is let me know. You know I'll never say no te day." Gramps said as we three were almost finished pag up our kit and the very little ammunition we had left.

  Prepared and ready for tomorrow, the three of us headed for the exit and upon seeing Bill still w the main ter, we shot the shit again with him for a bit and ter went to the gramp's truck. Our stuff loaded into the tru in and proceeded back to the Genesis Foundry to put back what we took from the armory and what little remaining ammo we had left. Definitely 't be going home with that kind of armament.

  From there, gramps dropped us off and headed home early, saying he had stuff to take care of, thus Alid I said oodbyes to him a io get a bit more done before my parents returned home.

  Alice did her studying down in the gym with me while I worked out. I would have been studying too, but there was no longer anythio learn, therefore why I was w out instead. Not long into what we were doing, my mom and dad arrived home, so we ed up our respective activities we were in the midst of and made a beeline upstairs. We could've finished what we were doing befoing up, but both of us were starving from ing lunch, hehe reason why we rushed upstairs.

  Once my mom Jane learhat her of us had lunch, she quickly went into her motherly chef mode and began whipping up a massive dinner, which both Alid I very much appreciated. At dinner, Alid I cleared more than four-sixths of the table on our own, though realistically most of the eating was done by me if we were being ho.

  Full and happy, the rest of the night went smoothly and the two of us turned in for the night not too long after putting down that big dinner mom prepared. While I was lying in bed with Alice peacefully sleeping beside me, I began thinking about my preparations.

  With today's activities, I've adjusted to any ges that have occurred to my body from the level up and ied the new skill perks into my skill set so I'm pretty much as prepared as I be for tomorrow.

  The only thing I have left to do is test the rest of the skill perks that be tested tomorrow and as soon as that's done I'll be ready to clear the rubble of the mine and head into the depths of it to extermihe molemen threat... Actually, I have a couple of perks I test out here in bed.

  Raising my right hand, I tried using Medical Genius via my will on the finger I had left a small faint scar upon years ago when I tested my body's durability with the knife gramps passed down to me.

  After trying to will it, I started questioning whether I was doing something wrong, and right as that thought crossed my mind, a soft glow emitted from the sy finger. Following a few seds, the light rapidly extinguished, revealing my finger, which was now pristih not a single blemish in sight.

  That's an awesome power to have in my tool belt. I wonder how fast it regrow limbs and missing body parts. I don't want to put my own body up to test it so I guess I'll have to wait until I get out into the wastend where there will be plenty of trash to experiment on or I could capture and keep several molemen to experiment on, that is also an option.

  Okay, with that perk's ability checked out, let me check out the map.

  Calling upon my system, a holographidow came iehe instant it appeared, I navigated to the map tab and started zooming the map out, transitioning from my house to the uy as a whole. Then to 50 square miles of the wastend with the uy smack dab in the ter of the map.

  I kept zooming out from there, getting to the point where the map was showing the eate of Nevada, with numerous unvisited locations spread across it. tinuing further, it went from that to the former U.S. that y in ruins to the p and then to the sor system, surprisingly dispying more than a few locations on the far parts of the system.

  Oh, look what we have here. The Zetans have a station oskirts of the system by Pluto, cute.

  I looked around the rest of the system to see if they had anything else and the most they had was a couple of outposts on Mars ah's moon.

  I'll have to move up my Zetan elimination pns, it would seem. I don't hose greys interfering with my goal of quering the wastend. To do that, I'm going to o capture Area 51 as soon as possible so I begin reverse engineering whatever tech the military instaltion possesses.

  Hopefully, the pce has an alien ship or two. Otherwise, I'm going to have to waste a shitload of time pying catch-up to get remotely heir level of tech. At that point, it might just be worth ing up with a pn to capture one of their vessels.

  The question is, how am I going to do that from all the way here oh... I could try and brainstorm it now, but it would be better to wait and hold off until I capture the instaltion to see what cards I'm pying with. There's very little point tinuing down this line of thinking when there very well may be a ship sitting in the pce.

  That said, I believe it would be wise to ge my pns a bit. So instead of having my forces making their movements on the surface gathering and transp resources, I would be better off eg tunnels from my pces and linking up to the preexistiro tunnels.

  Doing that would give me an underground highway of sorts and would allow all my future movements to go unnoticed by Zetans and the powers that be of the wastend, giving me plenty of time to amass strength i.

  Ding, New Quest!Ding, New Quest!

  And would you look at that, I got two new quests to go with my idea. Let's see what the details are.

  | Metro e | Objectives: ect the nearby metro rails with your pces. Rewards: Perk | Apprentice Miner |, 10 Repair Points, 50,000 exp.

  | Undegrounder | Objectives: Clear all Nevada metros of hostiles and take trol of them. Rewards: Perk Mole People, 10 Attribute Points, 1,000,000 exp.

  ore stuff to add to my ever-expanding list of things I o do. At least both quests provide suitable rewards.

  Two new quests added to my quest log, I resumed my exploration of the map to tinue my search for Zetan locations. I didn't find any more in space, thus I zoomed in oh and resumed my search back around Nevada and the nearby states.

  Surprise, surprise, the little bastards even have a site oh out in Wyoming. I don't like how close they are, however if I don't find a ship at Area 51, them being as close as they are to me will give me aarget to raid for a possible Zetan ship.

  Even if I don't find ohere, I at the minimum ransack the pce for alien tech. And since I've found oe here on this phere must be more than just the oan site here iates. They probably have more spread out across the p.

  tinuing my search, I found ahen another, followed by another after that, bringing the total of them to four oh.

  Good, I got several pces to raid in case Area 51 is a bust.

  Alright, that's enough searg for one night. It's time I've turned in for the night and got some sleep.

  tent with my findings, I closed out of the map, but not before testing out the minimap fun I got from Space Farer. Once I was satisfied with the positioning of the minimap iht er of my vision, I toggled it off and closed my eyes to get some rest for the big adventure I had ahead of myself tomorrow.