This governing body didn't have to be governmental in nature, even a social media platform can act as a governing body. This was something Silas found out the hard way.
In any case, he was very interested in learning more on this topic. He wanted to acquire more information but the guy left before he could ask.
Apparently the smell coming from Silas was too much even for someone homeless.
Seeing this, Silas didn't bother anymore and went back to his tent. He didn't want to make any actions before he had more information of this place.
So, Silas found a piece of glass and wrapped a cloth around the lower part of it.
This was a temporary shiv that will be responsible for protecting him in case anything happens.
Knowing his current weakness, he was vigilant throughout the night. Resulting in him having bloodshot eyes.
But fortunately, his vigilance paid off. Late at night, his camp was visited by 4 homeless gentleman.
Four hours after the camp felt silent, four guys sneakily left their tent to greet their new neighbour. Their plan was simple, fuck him up a bit, see if he has any valuables and steal it.
As for future revenge by the victim, they had no such worries. Because, they were very well connected. In fact, they were members of a gang based in New York. Every one in this camp had to pay them 1 bronze weekly to get a tent.
Overtly this camp was set up by a humanitarian organization so they couldn't demand this money upfront but they had their methods.
After tonight, their new tenant will have to pay them a fee too. At least that's what they thought.
When they entered the camp, what they found was not a man sleeping, completely at their mercy but someone ready to kill.
Silas had already heard these men approaching so he stood up and got ready to attack the next person that walks into his tent.
And thirty second later someone did. As soon as the first guy entered ready to pounce on his unsuspecting victim, he was met with a stab to the neck.
Silas knew that it was almost impossible to beat four people with his weak and still half drunk body. So, he wasn't going to miss any chance.
Actually, a stab to the neck doesn't really incapacitate a human. It takes up to 2 minutes, even if one is hit in the main carotid artery. So, Silas immediately followed the stab with kick to the knee.
This kick ensured that this guy was effectively out of the fight.
But even the time Silas took for these set of actions was enough for the other three men to surround him.
Silas was prepared for this eventuality, so he ran...
Silas heard the cries of "Coward!" and "How dare you?" behind him but he didn't care.
He ran as fast as he could to the entrance of a drain nearby. Currently, he only had a pipe and a knife that he picked up from the first assailant, as his weapons. The shiv was already unusable. So he had to be smart when confronting the group.
He didn't really have a grand strategy, the entrance of the drain was narrow so Silas wanted to use his long range weapon - pipe to his advantage. Plus, he was banking on the fact that these guys will be stupid enough to come at him one by one.
After all, who would take a guy who just sneak attacked someone and ran seriously.
It took Silas forty seconds to reach the entrance. Silas predicted that the distance in between was just 200 m. this showed how poor Silas's current body was.
Even while running with his full might, it took Silas forty second. The assailants too evidently had poor physiques because it took the first assailant an additional three seconds. Silas estimated that he had about four seconds before the other assailants reach him too.
He had to make full use of this time...
Silas first used the pipe to launch a feint at the guy's head and then spun to launch the actual attack - a hit to the left lung.
The guy yelled "i got you kno-" as he collapsed. Silas found this site too funny. It had been a while since he had dealt with idiots. He had forgotten how fun it can be.
Taking a hit, from a blunt weapon directly was evidently more that what the guy's body could handle. So it started shutting down immediately...
Silas didn't miss this chance and launched a strike to the guy's head with full force. This was the finishing blow. The assailant died on the spot.
By now, the other two assailants had already launched their attacks. But seeing their colleague die right before their eyes made them hesitate.
Silas used this moment's hesitation to jam a knife in the eye of one of the two remaining assailants.
"Shit. Shit. Shit...." the remaining one was just getting ready to cry when a voice came from afar.
"What is going on here?" Unsurprisingly, this ruckus had woken up the camp. Both Silas and the remaining assailant thought this was good news. The assailant was happy because he had a higher chance of surviving this encounter now but he was thinking too much because Silas was completely out of gas.
He could still regulate his breathing because of a technique he learned in his previous life but he knew that he only had one move left in him.
So, Silas pretended to be magnanimous and left. Of course, not before taking out the knife jammed in the still screaming assailant's eye. He still needed to show strength at this moment to deter any retaliation.
Of course, he wasn't naive enough to believe that these guys would come for him. But he still wanted to ensure that he was safe tonight.
Early the next morning, he left the camp.