Half-Life (book) Chapter 3

… -And the media-and-Irno! My name is Dwight Barnes, I’m your new instructor. Remember, vessels: I am now a native. I will say “run”-you must run. I will say “squeeze out”-you will have to push. Everything is clear to everyone?

-Great. Then let’s start. – With these words, the instructor approached Sheppard.

-How to call you, sucker?

-Corporal Adrian Sheppard, sir!

-N-yes, corporal. You look, of course, even worse than my ass, but nothing can be done. Live down to the training center! They will do you there!

Sheppard ran out of the barracks and went down the stairs to the exit. He was extremely angry with an instructor. He is one of the best soldiers of this base, the first who was entrusted with a platoon, and they treat him as if with a green newcomer! But nothing, he will show them yet. Soon they should be sent to Santigo, to team training, and here there will be real exercises, and not this mockery!

Having run out of the barracks, Sheppard drew attention to the runway next to the training base. It is usually empty, now it was a real cavard: here and there, several heavy transport “Olocons” were piled up, to which the soldiers dragged boxes with ammunition. Ten paratroopers in full beaning ran to one of the cars in construction. Everything looked like it was a military operation. Sheppard, having become interested, went to the gate leading to the helicopter site, but he was stopped by a hefty guy from the military police:

-You can’t here! Secret operation!

“Again, these guys conduct their special teachings, but how much they raised the noise!”With dissatisfaction, Sheppard thought, going towards the Tire. Taking from the shelf one of the “desert needles”, he, almost without thinking, put the whole clip in the apple. Returning the weapon, he heard:

-Good firing, Gavnyuk. Only this is a cardboard, not the enemy. Interestingly, whether you will drive or not at the sight of a real Arab with “Kalashnikov”?

Throwing all his will to not crush the barns of the skull, Sheppard laid the “needle” on the table and went to the sniper tire. Shooting M-40 has never been his favorite pastime, but today, apparently, because of anger at the instructor, Sheppard managed to put the whole clip in an apple. He was about to go to a machine -gun shooting gallery, as a voice was heard unexpectedly from the speakers:

-Attention! Everyone urgently arrives at the helicopter site in full lining!

Without understanding anything, Sheppard threw the rifle and rushed into the barracks ..

… the elevator doors opened, and Gordon, grabbing a gun, quickly circled them all the dark room that opened in front. Only after that he decided to go out.

In the distant corridor, burning the path, a torn cable hung, sparks rolled up with a bang at its end. Gordon decided to get under him when he suddenly noticed a crab crawl to the cable. He wanted to shoot him, but the electricity turned out to be faster. Bright lightning flashed, and after a moment a charred piece of meat smoked on the floor.

Swallowing, Gordon decided to look for another way. Noticing a ventilation hole in the wall next to the cable, he, without hesitation, climbed right into it, trying not to touch the cable. Somehow making his way through ventilation, Gordon now and then let go of strong curses, looking like a web from the way and scaring the cockroaches.

Finally a way out appeared https://stakezone-top.co.uk ahead. Having knocked out the lattice, Gordon crawled out right on the machine guns with a sparkle. Apparently, this premises once served as a vacation spot for scientists. Now everything was turned upside down here, the door was barricaded.

In the corner, at the tables, the old man in a white coat sat. Gordon went to him, he, noticing him, stood up and whispered:

-Quiet, son. These creatures have a great rumor.

-Sir, where there is a camshaft here? I really need to turn off the current!

-Ah, this … over there, behind the door. If you are going to the surface, pass on the rescuers, let them go down here and grab me!

Nodding, Gordon neatly went to the door to the electrical panel. Turning the handle on the wall, he heard the satisfactory buzz of the shield and realized that the shopping mall was disconnected. Saying goodbye to the old man, he, pushing the machine gun standing in the way, went into the corridor leading to the elevator. The old man immediately closed the door, locked it and pulled the machine back back.

Gordon walked past a peacefully hanging cable and approached a huge window, from which several doors were visible to the offices. He went up to him and tried to break the crowbar. The glass resisted such a barbaric attitude towards itself for a long time, but in the end surrendered, marked by the defeat of the hail of fragments that coloned on the floor.

Having made his way into the frame, Gordon went towards the guard post indicated by the tablet on the wall. The passage was forced by boxes with all kinds of junk, and there was a very, very hard work crowbar. Finally, with wooden Tara, it was finished, and Gordon, catching his breath, went to the guard, pushing the remnants of the boxes.

The guard sitting behind a steel grill was passionate about reading some detective. He did not notice how he was approaching him from behind, which until recently was his colleague, and now there was a zombie. However, Gordon saw this perfectly and shouted:

The guard jumped up from the chair and remained standing with his mouth open, shocked by a spectacle. Meanwhile, the spectacle was approaching, rushing clawed paws. Gordon, realizing that the guard would rather petrify with fear than grabbing the gun, decided to act himself.

Near the door lay several boxes with the inscription “Munger”. Gordon tore off the lid from one of them. Inside, gleaming with steel, lay a heavy assault shotgun. Without thinking twice, he grabbed a weapon, aimed at the head of the zombie and pressed the descent.

The roar of a shot stunned even somehow accustomed to the shots of Beretta Gordon. The crab sitting on the head of the zombie was a mess, forming something surrealist on the wall. The guard, seeing the death of the zombie, staggered, grabbed the door handle, unlocking it and fell, he was sick.

Freeman raised the guard from the floor, put him in a chair and asked:

-Yes … this creature … hey! And who are you?

-My name is Gordon Freeman, I am one of the scientists who worked in the laboratories of abnormal materials. I managed to escape after this … incidents. These creatures appeared out of nowhere, as if teleported. They seem to be extraterrestrial origin and ..

-Okay, okay, dock. Konchay lecture. If you want, take over there in the corner of cartridges, and I stay here. I feel something unimportant ..

Gordon went to the room, a guard. Taking a little ammunition, he was about to leave, when he suddenly noticed a guard who instructed him his gun.

-Do not move! He was whispering. Gordon closed his eyes, waiting for a shot in his forehead, and the shot crashed. Gordon, having waited a couple of seconds, was surprised to notice that he was still alive and well. Opening his eyes, he saw a guard that removes the gun in a holster, and heard:

-There would be a little more, and this creature would ..

Turning around, Gordon saw a crab stirring in dying torment. Having plunged the guard, he left the room and, looking at the acquired shotgun in the way, headed back to the offices.

Passing by the office with a sign “Doctor Newel, the theory of chaos” (“Yes, now this guy would have come in handy with his theory,” Gordon thought), Freeman was about to wrap around the corner, when he suddenly heard wild cries:

-No! No! Damned mechanism!

Looking around the corner, Gordon saw a professor standing in the middle of the room. A spot of a laser sight, belonging to a huge six -barreled machine gun, aiming at the victim’s head, blushed on his forehead. He, seeing Freeman, cried out:

-I’m Dr. Newell, please help me!

Gordon noticed a small shield under the machine gun, an employee, apparently, for controlling the tool. He decided to get to him, hiding behind the boxes. He neatly crawled around the corner and headed for the shield, hiding behind the boxes.

But it was too late. The old man passed his nerves, and he rushed to run, which in the case of automatic security turrets should not have been done in any way. Instant promotion of trunks, a second line, and now Newell’s head is a bloody mess, stitched by fifty large-caliber bullets.

Having turned off the machine gun, Gordon went to the doctor, stood a little over the corpse and went on, thinking: “You preached the theory of chaos, dock. Now your head itself has become chaos … “.

He went to a small labyrinth of offices. Suddenly familiar sounds came from around the corner, and two green creatures jumped out at Gordon at once. One of them immediately released an electric lightning that hit the wall, leaving a smoking spot on it. Gordon did not yawn, and after two seconds both creatures writhed on the floor, receiving each charge of fractions in the stomach.

Having crossed through them, Gordon saw open elevator doors ahead. Approaching them, he looked into the dark mine. There was no chance of driving out normally a lift was a bunch of fragments lying at the bottom of the mine.

Gordon’s sensitive hearing suddenly caught the steps coming from behind the door next to the elevator. Turning around, Gordon saw the very man in a blue suit, which so mysteriously disappeared in the warehouse. Running to the door, Gordon shouted:

-Hey, you’re okay? I am now!

He tried to open the door, but she was tightly locked. The man looked at him with a mockery, straightened his tie, turned and disappeared around the corridor’s bend, leaving Gordon in riddles.

At the opposite end of the elevator shaft, a staircase created for techniques serving the elevator was visible. Having scattered, Gordon jumped, grabbed her and climbed up to the light that was visible at the top ..