HPDBC Chapter 147 It's A Map
Chapter 147 It's A Map
"What do you think they are?" I asked, showing Amber what I had discovered less than half an hour ago.
She scrolled through the list of files with furrowed brows, "This... Hmmm... I'm not too sure... Since this happened after you merged the folders together... It must mean that there's others out there that would open more of the files. We just need to find them."
Lea was also looking at it from her side and pointed at the screen, "Don't they form a picture, Captain?"
I turned to her, "A picture?"
She nodded and moved to point at two of the files, This one's edges line up with this one, Captain. Could we pull them both up on the screen, please?"
I did as she requested and both files were opened to be displayed on the screen, allowing Lea to manipulate the images such that they were laid side by side.
Sure enough, if we looked at it, the two files seemed to form into one picture when arranged like that.
We still could not tell what it was actually depicting since it was so pixelated but the fact that we now know what were the nature of these files was already a rather big step forward in my opinion.
"Are there any other files that could also be linked together? Could you do the same as what you did here, Lea?" I asked.
Lea nodded, "Allow me to try, Captain."
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She then started sifting through each of the files, opening them up to lay them out on the screen in front of her.
I watched as she quickly scanned through each of them before she started moving them around almost immediately.
In less than five minutes, she had linked up all the pictures that were matched with each other. Most of them were only matched by pairs though there were a few that had three or four of them that matched together while the remaining had no matching pair.
She then laid them out to be projected into the air and I quickly realised what I was looking at.
"Isn't this a map of the galaxy?" I blurted out.
Even though it was very pixelated and not at all clear, I could at least see the 'arms' of the galaxy in some of the pictures.
And sure enough, when I arranged the images in the pattern that I remembered on how the galaxy looked like, the pieces that we currently have actually match up with the shape of the galaxy.
The other two seemed to realise this as well and Amber let out a gasp, "Does this mean we are looking at a map?"
"You think this might be a treasure map?" I asked, trying to contain my excitement.
"It could be a possibility. Unless someone decided to just make a map of the galaxy and for some reason decided to split it into different parts?"
Lea turned to her, "It could also be an invasion plan of sorts that someone is hiding though?
"You mean like some other civilisation making plans to attack humanity or something?"
She gave me a serious look, "It has happened before, Captain. Even before the AI Rebellion war too."
I suppose she has a point...
The people here seemed to stay in these small holes that were barely big enough for a bed to fit inside and some of them even had corpses stuffed in them and no one cared.
And those that could actually call those holes home seem to be the fortunate ones here since most of them were just laying down or crouching outside on the street.
Also... There's way more dead people that were just left by the side of the street and... Holy shit... Are those guys eating that corpse?
I turned to Amber, "You sure this guy's legit?"
Amber tilted her head, "Hmmm? From what I've seen, he's pretty good at least."
"And he lives and works in a place like this?"
"Yep."
I shouldn't comment then...
Lea had no such qualms though, "Forgive me for my impudence but... Could a dump like this house anyone decent?"
Amber shrugged, "I dunno, but he's what I've found to be at least trustworthy enough to leave this guy in his hands."
"Would you leave Captain in his hands?"
"Fuck no."
...
So Amber literally is just dumping this Merc there because he's a stranger and he doesn't care if he lives or dies either, doesn't she?
Oh whatever, we'll be there to watch anyway so if things go to shit, at least we'll be able to deal with it at that moment instead of finding out later that the doctor 'accidentally' cut off his head or something.
We reached his clinic which looked like it was basically a shipping container that had its insides renovated into a clinic and a hole cut out at the side to place a door.
I pulled open the door for Amber and we stepped inside, which I was actually surprised to see that it actually looked like a proper clinic with clean furnishings and actual high tech equipment.
But that wasn't the thing I was most surprised about.
"Shut up and give me the money you stupid freak!" A thug shouted, pointing his gun at what appeared to be a robot.
"Sir, I must insist that you calm down before you hurt yourself."
"You fucking piece of--"
"I shall now engage self defence protocols."
There was a wet shlick sound before the thug in front of the robot was sliced into two vertically, his two halves dropping on either side.
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What kind of doctor did you find us, Amber?