'Look in the car, under the seat we weren't shooting at you - honest!' 'A Nitz commercial,' one of the NP men said shakily. 'Whom were you shooting at?' the sergeant demanded, 'At us?' A soldier plucked the car door open the two NP men stepped warily out, their arms raised. Reluctantly, the two NP men tossed their guns aside. 'Put your weapons down!' the sergeant in charge barked. 'Jeez, I hate those things,' he spat out with aversion.Īt the sound of the shot the police car was immediately surrounded by soldiers, all armed and all hair-trigger alert. It died into silence as the NP man driving venomously shot it with his pistol. 'In public, does your fly seem to be unzipped and do you need to glance down - ' 'Do people seem able to see right through your clothing?' it squeaked at them, bat-like, as it slithered into concealment under the front seat. It permeated the interior of the car.Īt that moment, as the police car crept along almost touching the car ahead, a Theodorus Nitz commercial slipped in through the open window.

Both men had become acutely tense Chic could sense it. Neither NP man answered their gaze was riveted on the army unit blocking the autobahn in effective, trained fashion. 'What's going on?' Chic asked, his heart labouring. Peering, Chic saw, at the roadblock, an army mobile weapons carrier on it, a big gun pointed eerily at the lines of cars and wheels halted by the barricade across the eight lanes.īeside Chic the NP man drew his hand weapon. The NP man seated next to him all at once said to the NP man driving, 'Hey look, Sid. And, after him, Anton and old Felix Karp. What can be done now?' The one I'd like to get, he thought, is my brother Vince. 'Next time when you start to leave the firm - ' Maury began. He wondered where Kongrosian was, right now. Right now Richard Kongrosian and I would be - where? In deep space, on our way to our frontier farm, beginning a chaste, new life. Somehow.'Īnd I wish I had, too, Chic thought to himself. 'I'm going to get you, Chic,' Maury said as the police car started up and moved towards the autobahn.

Simulacra 2 police station