"FWLS35" - читать интересную книгу автора (A Future We'd Like to See)

Personal force shield units with ECM? How about a Wand of
Earthquake +2?"

"I'm afraid we don't carry any of that. Please give me back
my flamethrower."

"Trust me, pal, I need this more than you. How about a
gun?"

"We don't carry guns, sir."

"I thought you said this place had weapons!"

"We do. I have these nice personal 'Zapper' taser handhelds
you can use--"

"Yeah, right, like that'll help. Okay, I'll just take this
flamethrower."

"That'll be 520 credits, please."

"Here," the boy said, fishing various gold coins, copper
pieces, paper bills, and small rubber exchange units out of his
pocket and tossing them behind the counter. "I've got no idea
what currency you use. Sort out the conversions yourself, I've
got stuff to do."

The boy slipped out while the robot was busy analyzing the
chemical compounds in the rubber coin.

*

"C'atel Police, how may I help you?" the smiling girl on the
holoscreen said. "Oh, Hank. It's you. What do you need?"

"Hiya. I need some personnel information. Can you go look
up a 'Myki' for me?"

"Huh? Any reason?"

"Well, there's been a shooting down here, and we found a
shipment of plasma units here with a check made out to someone
named Myki. We just want to follow up on her for questioning."

"What's a plasma unit? You know we don't do investigations,
Hank, we're just a local--"

"Just check, willya? Come on, this is really urgent stuff."

"Alright, alright... let's see... Which Myki?"