Level up Zombie Chapter 5: 129, a 13 tzameti fanfic

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As he stood on the second floor, the wind blew Zain's long red hair. It was quite gusty today as he walked out of the building, overlooking the sight in front of him.

"Holy sh*t! Just how many of them are there?!" Kun couldn't help but exclaim at the scene in front of him as he, too, walked out along with the others.

The zombies were heading towards them and were about a minute away, and on top of that, Kun, with his improved eyesight ever since he had been consuming crystals, could clearly see who was leading the charge.

"Damn it. It's that guy! I knew that he would do something like this. If he was in the Reborn organisation, they would have kicked someone troublesome like him a long time ago." Kun started to complain. Although he didn't have a good feeling from Stu anyway, he still didn't expect the latter to go this far.

"What are you thinking, Zain? Are you planning to get out of here?" Pink asked. "I mean, knowing you, that's the safest thing to do, right? To survive, we just need to leave this place and let everyone die. It makes sense.

"While the zombies are eating them, we can just safely escape, right? Well, I might as well head downstairs and say farewell to my family one last time then."

Kun was pulling a face because he understood from both sides. He knew how Pink felt with her family being here and also understood Zain being in the right to prioritise their survival because the way he acted was very much like those in the Reborn group.

On a large scale, Zain's way was also less selfish since it didn't sacrifice anyone who didn't need to be sacrificed.

[New quest received]

[Defend the museum from the Horde attack]

[Reward: Gold card]

'Sometimes, I'm not sure what you want from me. Do you want me to protect these people, turn them or what?'

Either way, despite the quest coming up there, there was still one thing on his mind whether or not he would attempt something like this.

"I have an answer." Zain finally said, looking at the zombies. "As long as I think there is a chance that we can survive this attack, then I will help them out, but we need to see what will happen first."

At the moment, looking at his own horde of zombies, Zain could see that they were all alright, but there was no point in calling them in this type of situation. There were multiple mutated zombies mixed among the regular zombies, and he imagined his horse would be killed fairly quickly against the former. For now, he was planning to observe and understand the capabilities of Ryan's group to make a stand on their own.

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Down below, the rest of the squad had walked out of the museum.

Tod and Max both had guns in their hands. However, they were the only ones holding automatic weapons, and the others had handguns. It was because even with the supply boxes, good weapons were difficult to come by.

They waited, aimed and were in position.

Then, when they were around thirty seconds away from the stairs, they organised themselves into a wall-like formation to increase their defence.

"Fire!" Brandon shouted.

Constant bangs were heard one after another as they fired gunshots at the zombies as best they could. They needed to aim for the heads more than anything to make any sort of impact, which was a slight problem.

However, these were professionally trained, and the zombies were starting to fall with ease. As they had done, just in front of the staircase, the fallen dead bodies looked to be creating a type of barrier that was making it difficult for the others to climb over.

It was slowing them down, but as always, there needed to be a time for the team to reload. Although there was backup fire, it wasn't enough for the number of zombies that were attempting to climb the stairs, and they were beginning to make it through.

Taking out his binoculars, Brandon was looking at the situation, and through the alleyways out of the apartment buildings, more zombies were making their way to where the group was.

'We need to find Stu.' Brandon thought that when he suddenly saw someone among the zombies with a gun pointed directly at the group.

-Bang!

A bullet was fired toward them.

"Duck!" Brandon shouted, and the people hid behind the sandbags. However, one was too slow, causing a bullet to go right through his shoulder.

"AGHHH! I'm hit!" The man cried out.

Pulling out his handgun, Brandon started to fire as he was also a trained gunman and wasn't injured. However, Stu had pulled a zombie in front of him, using its body to block the bullets.

"Sh*t, he's got a million meat shields, and as long as we keep using weapons, the zombies just won't stop. We will eventually run out of ammo and get tired."

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The zombies were now around a quarter way up the stairs, falling over each other and being shot down, falling back into each other.

It was then that the doors behind opened up, and they saw Ryan with a bat in his hand.

"We will defend this place!" Ryan shouted, and behind him, there were around twenty other people with their own weapons ready to fight. Most of them were young ones, but there were a few brave older ones in the group as well, all of them ready to do battle.

'That was always a skill of yours, right, being able to connect with people and get them to follow you.'

"Thanks, I think we've got you. We might be able to win this now," Brandon said, and although he said these words, he didn't really believe them, not without taking out Stu.

The zombies continued to climb while Stu stayed at the bottom of the stairs firing back. He had no intention of getting closer.

The gunmen moved to the side of the open platform area of the museum. At the same time, giving space for the rest of them to use their weapons on those that would come towards them. Everyone was nervous, holding their weapons tightly.

Then finally, the first zombie reached the stairs. Ryan gripped his bat, ready to swing at his head, but just as he was about to, a loud bang was heard, and the zombie fell to the ground, stumbling back down the stairs.

Soon, two other zombies that were close to the stop started to fall as well. Branding was left confused as the bullets weren't coming from any of his men.

The next moment, dropping down on another zombie that had reached the stairs, was someone from above, holding a sword in their hand. It went down and sliced directly in the middle of the zombie, causing its body to split apart.

A feat that seemed inhuman and impossible with human strength at least. Soon after, two more figures dropped down as well.

"…Zain.." Ryan called out as he noticed the red-coloured hair from behind.n0𝗏𝓔𝓁𝗎𝕊𝔟.𝑐0𝑚

It was then that everyone saw Zain calmly walking down the stairs. He had a handgun in one hand and the sword in another. He shot the zombies that were climbing the stairs one by one.

-Bang Bang!

The zombies fell, and then one close to him. He swung the sword, slicing its head off, and it could be seen floating through the air. Fearless, this person single-handedly walked right into the army of Zombies.

Everyone watching it right now had more fear in Zain than the attackers.

'I knew there was something that felt off about that guy.' Tod thought.

"So you decided to help in the end." Pink smiled as she kicked a zombie to the head, killing it with a single strike as she swiped the sword in her hand.

Meanwhile, Kun was keeping track of Stu.

"Yeah, I saw what I needed to see. These people have the will to live. That's all I needed to see. We have a chance." Zain replied.

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The people who had come out were ready to risk their lives. It had taken all of their will to muster up the strength to come out here to fight against the zombies. Some of them had even bid their last farewell to their loved ones, including children, older relatives and significant others.

The sheer sound outside gave them an idea of how many zombies were coming towards them, and based on the worried look on the faces of those they had relied on so far, their chances didn't look hopeful. In the end, there was one person who had convinced them.

Seeing Ryan risk his life so confidently, they felt guilty, extremely guilty that someone else would be fighting on their behalf while they sat inside and did nothing. In the end, if they didn't come out to help Ryan and others to fight back against the zombie herd, it would only hasten the inevitable.

Seeing the zombies in front of them they were all ready to attack, but something in their bodies weren't allowing them to move. It was fear, many of them had seen what would happen if they were to be bit, they would become one of them. In many ways, that was worse than dying. This was the fear that had planted their feet in the ground.

However, they were all now left speechless as they witnessed three people walk into the group of zombies like they were nothing and quite similarly, they were taking out the horde as if it was nothing as well.

Zain sliced one Zombie with a single shove of his sword right through the bottom of its chin, and when another came close to him, he used his handgun to shoot it right through the head. A couple of bangs were heard after causing two more behind the zombie to fall.Right after that, he kicked the zombie off his sword and down the flight of stairs, making it crash into the others.

"These cannon fodder aren't the important ones, and honestly, I don't want to kill too many of these," Zain commented.

He didn't tell others why he was saying this, but only he knew that for every regular zombie he killed, he was losing two points of exp. It didn't seem like much, but with the number he had to kill, the exp loss would be more than what it was worth.

"I guess when he said he was a jack of all trades he wasn;'t joking. He knows his way around a gun." Brandon commented.

The mystery of who Zain was began to grow in their minds. In the first place they were curious after knowing about Kun, now another. The only normal one, or at least partially normal one seemed to be Pink.

Just then, two more zombies started to charge toward Zain, they were mutated zombies, so unlike the others, they were actually trying to attack him. Footsteps from behind were heard, and Zain believed that it was Pink or Kun coming to back him up. Yet, that was impossible, because they were busy fighting their own groups of zombies that were trying to come up from the side of him.

When he saw the two swords slashing both zombies' heads though, he knew it was neither.

"I don't want to lose out." Tod smiled. "Maybe one day, you might even surpass me in sword skills. So I can't get rusty, and let you do all of the work."

Looking at his sword mastery now being level three, and seeing how slow it was going up from killing these Zombies, Zain smiled back.

"Maybe one day." Zain smiled, thinking that the system was a blessing. Once his sword skill levelled up a few times, he would be able to go back to that place, and see just how far he could progress. Perhaps that was the time he could challenge Tod again.

Tod continued forward, hacking and slashing against the zombies. Blood and flesh were splattering all over the place in different directions, but it never got on his face. Tod had a helmet with a plastic covering that covered his face. It looked similar to the ones which the swat and police would wear during riots and unrests. It was clearly part of their squad uniform from before. However, Tod was the only one of the group that was wearing one at the moment.

'Is it to stop the blood from getting into his eyes? That would make sense then.' Zain thought. 'Since he fights in close quarters combat style, he would need something like that. Most likely, blood entering any part of you'

"Everyone, what are you doing?! Keep firing!" Brandon shouted, pulling the others out of their stupor, "Shoot the zombies from the side, make them only focus on the one in the centre, and get that damned traitor Stu!"

At the same time, no matter how good Tod and Zain were in killing, hacking and slashing zombies, as well with the weapon support, some zombies would still get through. Eventually even Zain would tire, so they needed to stop creating loud noise as soon as possible attracting the others, and the answer to that was Stu.

Just like they thought, eventually Zombies were managing to climb the difficult stairs as they just crawled over their dead allies' bodies, when running past Zain though there were others they needed to worry about. There was a second line of defence, with that being Pink.

With her powerful kicks, she slammed one zombie right in the face sending it in the air. The strength was incredible. She no longer had to hold back with her strength making the zombies feel like nothing but skin and bones which was practically what some of them were. The flying Zombie did well to reach a distance as it crashed down into the horde below.

Proud of her achievement two more zombies were approaching her. Just then, a couple of gunshots were heard next to Pink. It had hit the zombie but not in the head, it had caused the zombie to flinch but it wouldn't stop moving. Soon after, a large foot hit the Zombie in the stomach, causing it to stumble and fall.

"Judging from the way you made that last one fly, I thought I would have been able to do the same but it doesn't seem like it.I'm actually happy that you're with us." A deep loud voice called out. And turning her head, Pink could see the large man that she had fought with Max.

The fighting continued, with most of the group being able to stop the Zombies from reaching the top of the stairs, but as Zain and Tod went in deeper, it meant more zombies were starting to go around them and get through.

'These damn newcomers, they're ruining everything!' Stu grunted, as the veins on his neck bulged, his arms were aching, his body was burning up as well. He could still think but was unsure how much longer he would exactly be himself. 'You guys like to show off, don't you? Because of you, because of you I have become a zombie! If I have to live a life like this, then all of you should too!'n0𝓋𝚎𝒍𝓊𝑠𝐁.𝓬0𝐦

Pulling out his gun, Stu aimed carefully, he had a handgun as well as a semi-automatic, on top of that he was the best shooter in the squad.

"I'll take care of the big guy first, that will give the people a shock!" Pulling out the handgun, Stu had it aimed perfectly and was ready to pull the trigger until.

Several loud gunshots were heard, and Stu was suddenly hit in the hand.

"Sh*t!" Stu shouted as he hid behind a body. "Who could shoot from that far away!"

Stu tried to peek behind a zombie to see who it was, but more bullets were coming his way. Eventually, he managed to get a good look, and it was the newcomer who wore the stupid scarf around his face for some reason.

"It's him! Stu was shocked.

"Zain!" Kun shouted, as he quickly fired at the zombies at the front, making them fall down, and pulled out his automatic gun, and began to fire, making a relatively clear way. "Let me deal with that guy. I think he has some type of grudge against me."

Seeing Kun fight like this for the first time, Zain was beyond impressed. When going up against the zombies before, Zain didn't really have much of an impression on Kun, but it seemed like his skills really shone when he was using weapons of all things.

'It must have something to do with the Reborn group.' Zain thought.

"Sure, you go deal with Stu, we...need to deal with the two Titans." Zain said, looking at the two huge zombies coming towards them.

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Due to the situation, now Ryan and the people on top of the stairs had met with their first group of zombies. They began to swing their weapons aiming for either their legs to topple them or their heads to finish them off in one hit.

The melee weapon practice they had been going through with Tod sure came in handy, and the fact that they were lined up at the top of the stairs helped as well. Because of this, no one really had time to focus on the situation below anymore, apart from Brandon.

The sound of growling came from the bottom side, and glancing for a second where the zombie was, he had put a bullet through its head as he continued to watch the others.

"Are they going to make it, or are we going to have to change our plans?" Brandon thought. It was then that he saw something unbelievable, something he never thought he would witness.

Out of all the newcomers, Kun had decided to charge in deeper into the zombies, and he was fearless doing so as he ran past them toward the location of Stu. While doing this as well Brandon noticed that for some reason, the other Zombies weren't heading toward him.

'How can he run in like that? Is he not scared of getting bitten. Now that I look at them, there all like that, there fearless. Not even Tod can completely act like that, yet these guys can. Is there something that they know that we don't?'

Regardless, Brandon had soon lost sight of where Kun had gone. All he could hope was that Stu would be dealt with, and they could deal with the rest of these guys. Instead, his view now had changed to the main attraction, Zain. He was going to witness first hand how he planned to take on the Titan of a Zombie.

Zain stood there, allowing the zombies to go right past him as he looked at the two titans. He had reached the bottom of the stairs, so they were now on level flooring again.

'I guess I don't have to worry too much about using guns this time.' Zain thought since constant bangs were going off in the area.

In terms of strength or agility, Zainhadn'tt improved much compared to the last time he had fought one of these things, and it was a close call. The only thing that had increased was his sword mastery and the strong allies he had gathered, but he coudln't use them in this situation.

"First, let's get both of your attention," Zain said as he lifted the handgun and shot out two bullets, both of them hitting the head of the Titans. After that, he ran forward toward one on his left that was closer.

It was already in the middle of lifting its large fist as it powers up, and Zain knew that it had a slight increase in speed as it threw out the punch giving it a devastating blow. When in range, the Titan threw down its large fist. Zain spun himself, and his sword had hit the large fist, pushing it to the side lightly and causing him to dodge.

The fist slammed into a zombie instead crushing its bones as it hit the ground and caused a large crack and imprint to be left behind. Along with guts and blood of the dead.

"Still just as storng as alwasy but there are some chinks in your armour!" Zain stated as he went ahead and stabbed right between the elbow joint of the Titan. On its body the thick black substance was almost like armour.

And like any armour not the entirety of the body could be covered and this was what Zain was aiming for, the only thing was, although his attack was a success and the sword had stabbed through, the muscles were strong as well.

Zain wanted to slice the joint, breaking it, causing one of its arms to no longer be in action, but that didn't happen at all. Instead the Titan had tensed up its muscles and lifted its arm up in the air, when doing so it had lifted Zain up with it.

Now in the air, Zain was prime ready to be a punching bag. The other fist of the Titan was ready to throw, and just then Zain swung his body forward, pulling the sword out and landing on the Titan's chest, letting go of his gun and allowing it to drop to the floor as he clinged onto the Titan's neck.n0𝓋𝚎𝒍𝓊𝑠𝐁.𝓬0𝐦

"AHRMM!" the Titan shouted and screamed right next to Zain's ear. Spinning around kicking off the Titan's arm, Zain had changed position, so he was now behind it. With the sword in his hand, just like before, he looked at the opening on the Titan's back plate.

The sword was lifted into the air and constantly was being stabbed into it again and again.

'I just have to remember to jump off. Before it falls on its back like last time, these things seem to all act in the same way.'

Just as Zain thought about this though, he noticed something else. He needed to act fast and using the neck, he swung his legs. Zain changed his position back to the front of the Titan, now he's head was directly in front of the other and decided to let go dropping him back to the ground.

Moments later, a large bang was heard, and the Titan stumbled right in front of Zain. Rolling underneath its arms, he was able to avoid it falling on him, and it was a good thing he did because it had collapsed a second later, and now he could see what had occurred.

Because standing over the fallen Titan. It was another Titan. Just before Zain was about to jump off, he could see the Titan was winding up a punch, ready to throw one at him. This was never in his original plan, he wanted to take them out one at a time, but it seemed like the large zombies had a small brain or at least a low level of intelligence.

When looking at the Titan that was now on the ground, the back plate, the hard amrou was cracked, it was completely broken. It slowly started to come up off the ground, and the black hardened pieces fell.

"Well, it looks like there is an easy way to get rid of both of you," Zain stated.

Running forward, Zain picked up his gun and started to fire at one of the Titans to get its attention, just like he did before. Their movements were slow, so he could round them in a way, so they were getting closer and closer to each other.

Then finally, when they were at the right distance, Zain would just have to fire a bullet at each of them to get their attention. The timing was perfect. Both of them had disregard for the space around them. They were unaware of what was happening as they threw a fist right at each other both clashing and breaking away their heavy armour.

All Zain had to do now was play it safe and repeat this a few times, and eventually, both of the Titans had fallen. He had managed to trick one of them into hitting the other's head, killing it on the spot, then with the Titan with its back open, Zain could do what he did before, giving him an angle to shoot the Titan's brain from inside the zombie itself.

[Due to the difficulty of the situation, extra exp will be awarded for your kills]

[2000 exp]

[7,513/17,721 exp]

[The exp boost will now remain during the event of the quest]

At first Zain was going to help Kun find Stu. Get rid of him so he could complete the quest and get the golden reward, but now seeing this message another thought came into his head.

Looking around he could see quite a few mutated zombies in the crowd of zombies.

'If I only targeted the mutated zombies, or another Titan appeared I could use this situation to my advantage, and continue to level up.'

It was then that Zain lifted his gun and shot a bullet through two of the mutated zombies; he had missed a shot but ended up killing two of them still.

[20 exp has been gained]

'Maybe it won't be so bad if this thing went on for a little longer. I'll leave it to Kun just like he said, for me, it's time for me to farm.' Zain inwardly smiled as he went deeper into the group of zombies not killing any of the regulars and allowing more of them to get through and up onto the staircase.

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Now only Pink was the only one from the newcomers that was left on the staircase, she was fighting side by side with Max, but the two of them slowly had to go back up toward the front entrance of the museum.

There was one thing she was nothing, although Max was impressive with his hand to hand combat skills and was decent using weapons, he was tiring out relatively fast, and it wasn't just him but it was true for the rest of them as well.

'Normal people can only fight for about 5 minutes if they haven't been trained. The initial adrenaline rush they had when the zombies first came out, it has to be starting to fade by now. They aren't like me.' Pink thought, as she dived in front of Max and kicked another Zombie right at the back of the kegs causing its to fall.

Then, with the blade on the top of her foot out, she kicked it in the head, stabbing it and killing it in one go. The strength of the kick had caused the head to bend back, snapping it.

"More zombies are coming up. We should head back to the entrance!" Max shouted, huffing and panting.

Pink looked back down into the group of zombies, even Tod was starting to move back, and he seemed to have more stamina compared to the rest of them, but the only ones she couldn't see were Kun and Zain.

"I'm sorry about your friends, they were brave and a little crazy, but I somewhat think that's why they were able to fight so well in the first place. They knew they weren't going to survive this, so let's not let their sacrifice be in vain." Max stated.

Pink, Tod and Max decided to head back up the stairs, as more zombies followed them, and went to join the wall of people on the top platform.

"By the way, those two, they won't die so easily, don't count them out yet. If I'm still alive and kicking, then they definitely are." Pink said with a smile.

It was absurd to think anyone who went into the middle of the horde could survive, but Brandon, who had seen Kun just charge in, felt like there might just be a reason behind Pink's confidence.

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In the middle of the zombie horde, in the street, it was packed with zombies, not quite so packed that one was unable to move without touching them, but there were slow moving zombies just plodding, their feet with their arms stretched out, heading to the front of the museum.

Kun was moving between these Zombies as he moved closer to a certain someone and he was using the zombies for cover for a good reason.

Just then, a few shots were heard, and Kun rolled on the ground, between the zombies, the bullets had hit them, killing them on the spot, and hiding behind a large male zombie's body, Kun stayed there for a while until the bullets stopped.

"Come on!" Stu shouted from an unknown direction. Kun wasn't going to peek his head out and get shot. "Aren't you meant to be some super talented agent, right? What are you part of the SAS or something?n0𝑽ℯ𝓵𝓤𝔰𝑩.𝑐0𝐌

"Is that why they admired you?"

Pulling out just his hand, Kun fired a few shots with his hand gun, it was blind fire without leaking his head. He just shot in the direction where he heard the voice was coming from.

"Let me guess, you were bit, right?" Kun shouted back. "You got angry, you went out to vent your frustration, and you lost your concentration and got bit. Now you're blaming the whole shelter just because you couldn't control your anger."

Several more shots were heard, and Kun continued to stay behind the large zombie. It did well to take the bullets.

"You think you know everything, look at who is going to live and who is going to die!" Stu shouted back.

Kun then grabbed the zombie, digging his hand into its chest. With his fingers, he had made a wound that allowed him to dig into the skin and the fibre muscle, while at the same time, he held the hand gun firmly in his other hand.

"People like you are all over the world. It's the same all over you're no different. You never take accountability for your own actions and are always trying to blame what happens to you on other people!" Shouting these words Kun, then using his newfound strength, he lifted the zombie off the ground.

With his hand dug into the chest of the zombie he had quite the strength, and the grip to do something like this and was reminded of a conversation he had back with Pink.

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"I think you should take it," Pink said as she handed over the tier 2 crystal.

"Wait, but we dealt with that Titan together. Isn't there a way we can like split this, absorb the energy half and half?" Kun replied.

"It seems like I have, I don't know, I think I evolved after absorbing so many crystals," Pink replied. "I'll be honest, I don't think me absorbing this crystal would do anything right now, it's better in your hands."

Thinking back, Kun and Pink had absorbed the same amount of crystals and although he did feel like he had gotten stronger, he didn't feel this sense of a new person and evolution the same as Pink had done.

"I know what you're thinking." Pink said. "But I wouldn't worry about it too much. You know how Zain thinks of this whole thing like a game. Maybe we should start thinking that way as well, and if this really was a game well.

"It just means you have a higher amount of exp to fill before getting to the next level. Im not sure you understand what I'm saying, but usually those that require more Exp to level up, as Zain would say, are the ones that become incredibly strong in the future."

Taking the crystal, Kun had decided to absorb it while everyone was resting up.

———

Lifting the zombie in the air by two inches, Kun, was starting to run forward. He ran and ran and the bullets were being shot again and again toward him. Due to the sound and bullets it allowed Kun to know exactly where Stu was, and when he was finally there, he threw the Zombie body right towards his direction, and rolled to the side.

Stu, had moved out of the way, avoiding the zombie that had been thrown at him, and pulled out his gun trying to aim it toward whoever was behind it, but before he could, Kun had placed his hand on the gun, and pulled it.

In seconds he started to dismantle the hand gun, pulling it apart into pieces and dropping them all on the floor.

"Arghh!" Stu shouted as he went to kick Kun, right on the side. Lifting up his knee, Kun had blocked the hit.

When seeing this, Stu started to smile as a thought ran through his head, and pulling himself closer to Kun he opened his mouth wide and bit down right on his arm, soon after Kun had let go of Stu, allowing him to fall to the floor.

Stu started laughing like a madman.

"HAHAH, well look at that. Now you will be like me!" Stu claimed. "Your little guess form before was right. I was scratched and I can tell slowly that my mind is rotting away. Do you know why I could do all of this, I could fight without caring. Without caring about anybody!

"At first, I thought I might have had a chance, but when the zombies no longer attacked me, I knew, I knew that they saw me as one of them, and now…now that I have bitten you as well. You will turn into one of them.

"Now you can feel the same sense of despair as I have done!" Stu continued to laugh as he looked at Kun, but looking into his eyes, he didn't seem scared at all. This wasn't the reaction he was expecting from someone who had just been bit.

"Look around you," Stu replied. "Do you see any of the zombies attacking me right now? Why do you think that is?"

Stu looked to his left and right, and it was true all of the zombies around were ignoring both of them. Which led him to a realization.

"You…you have been bit as well…they let an infected into the base. That's just great. Still, I get to have the pleasure of knowing that you too will be like me." Stu laughed.

Raising his hand, it looked like Kun was about to finish him off, but instead, his hand reached around for the scarf that was covering his face. Then he had pulled it away, revealing the marking on his face showing part of his teeth.

"No…we are not the same. You see, I'm not turning into a zombie, I was already a zombie."

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Hearing Kun's words, Stu was left speechless. His mouth was hanging wide open as his brain went through a complete meltdown. The images in front of him were starting to become distorted, and he didn't know if it was because he was turning or because of what he was seeing right now.

"You… you're a zombie! Wait, do you mean you always have been?" Stu asked, confused. Whatever the case was, he realised something he could now cling on to as hope. "You mean there is a chance I can become like you?! Can I still keep my mind? Tell me! Tell me what to do!"

Kun looked at Stu up and down, who was on the ground. The latter held his hands together as he begged for the secret to becoming a conscious zombie.

"Did you just forget about everything that you attempted to do? The fact that you just tried to gather a whole horde of zombies to storm your own group?! Did you have a memory loss, or do you truly think I will pity you and help you survive in any way?"

While these words, Kun noticed that more significant changes were happening to Stu, his skin was turning more a dull grey, his eyes were starting to hollow out as well, and the veins on his neck were beginning to bulge.,

"No, I won't save you...you will now turn and become what you hate," Kun said as he kicked Stu's chest and pinned him to the ground with his leg. Around twenty seconds later, Stu had finished his transformation and had turned into a zombie.n0𝐯𝑒𝓵𝒰𝓈𝔟.𝗰0𝓶

It was strange that he had lasted this long. Perhaps a person's willpower can affect the rate of transformation, and when Stu found out that he had lost and caught, all of that willpower holding him on dispersed, and he gave in.

The truth was, Kun had no clue how to turn others like him, but even if he did, he would have never done a favour for someone like Stu. Kun just wanted to make sure that while Stu turned, he thought about his actions and the fact that he could have been saved if he hadn't acted so stupid and betrayed his own people.

"We don't need another zombie like you in this world," Kun said, lifting his leg and using all his strength to stomp on Stu's head, breaking the skull and killing him in one go. The man, the person who had caused all of this mess, was finally dealt with.

It was somewhat pathetic and scary at the same time that a single person could cause so much trouble. In a world where there was danger all around them, they still had to worry about other humans the most.

When looking around, Kun noticed that the horde of zombies was still there. They were still large in numbers, reaching close to a thousand. Now that there weren't anymore gunshots, it would mean the number wouldn't increase by too much.

However, with a group of hundred people, most of them being untrained, they would have to take out at least ten zombies per person.

'That will be impossible for them, and the others are still shooting even though Stu stopped. Hopefully, Brandon will notice it soon. He's a smart guy, he reminds me of Shark. Still, something needs to be done, or they'll all end up dying, and I don't really think Zain could care less if they survive or not.' Kun thought as he started to rack his brain and began to look around to see what or where exactly Zain was.

——

Zain had been swinging his sword nonstop. Ever since he had found out that the mutated zombies he killed would give him 20 exp, he had been rushing through them all.

The mutated zombies no longer posed a threat to Zain. He could take them out in a single swing with his sword skill. This was making his task easier, and slowly, seeing the exp go up, he could see how close he was to level up.

Using the system, he spotted another mutated Zombie and ran right towards them, thrust his sword in its head before it could do anything.

[20 exp]

[9,713/17,721 exp]

'I am already past the half and have only been fighting for around fifteen minutes. Will there ever be a chance to get this sort of exp boost? This sure is fun.'

Zain's emotional senses had long dulled, but for the first time in a while, he felt alive as he looked at the exp increase rapidly. This reminded him of playing all those survival games when the world was normal.

That rush he had before was again here right now, only it was much more potent this time.

'But I need to get more.' Just then, Zain noticed a Spitter within the horde. He hadn't seen one in person for a while, but in a situation like this, where there was a horde around them, if the strange liquid was to get on him or anyone, it would worsen the situation.

However, Zain wasn't thinking too much about that and instead was just focused on the exp.

'I killed you in training in a child's body, with a weaker sword mastery at that time, so taking out something like you here is not going to be a big deal.'

——

At the museum entrance staircase, the group had lost three people so far. One man was bitten on his shoulder before he could push the zombie away. It was an older gentleman, a father who had already lost his children but was too afraid of death to do anything.

It was in this battle that he had decided to offer himself up to protect against the horde in the hopes that the younger ones could live.

When he was bit, he knew it was his end, so instead of doing nothing, he ran forward, pushed the zombie off the staircase, and leapt, crashing himself and the zombie into others incoming from below.

A group of zombies seemed to swarm the man, choosing to eat him rather than let him turn.

The other two that perished faced a similar fate. They were a university couple, a young man and a woman. When the situation took a bad turn, the woman who was tired abandoned her partner.

He was eaten and bitten down before anyone could come to help, and while she was getting away, a zombie grabbed her leg and dragged her across the ground. It was only because of her partner in the first place that the zombies were unable to get to her.

However, these three were a small number of losses for what they had accomplished, but everyone knew that if this battle prolongs, more people would begin to give up and will begin to slip up more and more, and with every death, the pressure on the others would also increase.

That's when Brandon noticed something.

"Everyone, cease fire!" Brandon shouted.

He had been looking out on the field for a while now and observing the whole battlefield. Earlier, he had noticed there was no more flash of light or a bang heard in the distance. He had been keeping an eye and waited for a few minutes just in case.

'Did he do it? Did he really manage to stop Stu? Or did he just turn into one of those zombies?' Brandon thought. "Everyone, pick up your weapons. The shooting has stopped, this is the last of them."

Ryan, hearing this, smiled as he looked back at his people.

"If we can get through this, then we can survive!" Brandon shouted as he swung his baseball bat, killing one of the zombies on the platforms and went towards the end of the stairs to look at just how many zombies there were left. Still, the number was far higher than he imagined and truthfully, even he was finding it hard to stay positive in a situation like this.

That was until they heard gunfire once again. Several gunshots resounded a bit further and far off in the distance. The flashes were away from them, and the shots were getting further away.

The zombies towards the bottom, and even those on the stairs, were turning their heads.

Immediately, Ryan took this opportunity and turned to everyone putting his index fingers on his lips and alerting all the others to be quiet.

As the bangs continued, the noise began to attract the zombies, and they started to walk down the stairs. The few closer to the top could smell the humans and were still coming after them, but the numbers were far fewer.

"I think we were just saved." Brandon's words reached everyone's ear.

——

Off in the distance, Kun had come up with a plan, he would make them go away the same way they were brought here. He didn't have to worry about getting bit, so running in another direction, he continued to fire and would split off from them and join the rest later.

At the same time, Zain could also tell the zombies around him were leaving. The Spitter was there on the ground, dead.

[11,713/17,721 exp]

[Quest has been completed]

[A gold card will now be rewarded]

'It looks like they made it.' Zain smiled. 'And I got another card.'

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[For completing the quest, additional rewards have been given.]

[5000 exp]

[Congratulations you have leveled up]

[You are now level 7]

[1,092/29,865 Exp]

'It looks like it was a good thing I decided to join in this thing after all. On top of the gold card, now 5000 exp as well. After defeating all those zombies it was finally enough for me to level up.' Zain thought.

However, looking at his exp bar, and the requirements to reach the next level… it was going to be a tall order.

In the first place, each level up only rewarded him with one extra stat point. So although he grew stronger, it wasn't as if it was by leaps and bounds.

Fighting against the Stage 2 zombies, such as the Titans and Spitters, did have its risks. Perhaps if he had chosen the other classes, he might have received more stat points for improving himself physically.

Perhaps things were just harder for him, in a levelling up sense, because he had yet to use his little army to fight zombies. On top of that, if he used his zombies to turn humans, that would also be an easy exp boost as well.

As for what to do with the stat point, of course Zain was going to use it straight away.

[Agility 01]

There was still one stage 2 Zombie that Zain had seen in Shark's diagrams, and that strange cave, that he had yet to see in real life, and its speed was beyond what Zain could handle.

If he wanted to become something that could take on anyone with his own strength, just in case, then he needed to be able to increase his stats so they were able to do so as well.

As most of the zombies started to clear out of the area, Zain stood on the street for a while. His nose had been picking up something for a while now and during the fight he had caught glimpses of them.

In the apartment windows, behind the convenience store and down the alley, they were those that were watching them. Watching the entire group fight against the horde the whole time, and specifically were watching him as well.

'Were they military? Or maybe just part of the other groups?' Zain thought. Either way, the best thing to do is leave them for now. It doesn't look like they're planning to attack, and I need to see what is up with the others.'

——

At the top of the museum, the area had been cleared. Pink had finished off most of the remaining zombies that had lingered and were crawling up the staircase. She used the front of her toe most of the time to give them a quick end.

As for the rest of them, they didn't even have time to mourn over those who had died, instead they just laid there at the front of the museum, on the floor breathing heavily, their mouths dry and their hands shaky.

"Everyone this is a rest well deserved for you all." Ryan said. "Because of everyone's efforts here, not only have you saved your lives but also of those inside as well."

The SWAT team were the ones that were able to recover the fastest, and they were also used to being in this type of scenario. The first thing they did was make sure nobody had any wounds on them.

After that, the dead zombie bodies were moved off to the side, including those on the staircase. Although they weren't taken off completely as Ryan claimed their bodies made good obstacles.

"I'm okay." Pink said, as Max went and approached her. "Do you think someone like me could get bit?"

She opened her arms and revealed herself showing no such marks. In truth, inside she was just hoping that Max would give her the benefit of the doubt, and he had done that as he turned away.

"If I didn't get bit or scratched, then I know they couldn't have laid a finger on you," Max said with a thumbs up, but in truth, he did notice that Pink seemed to be worried when he was approaching her.

"Look… they're still alive." Dave, the university student with his square glasses, said as he pointed at the staircase.

The top of their heads could be seen, and a red haired student as well as a long haired rock star with a mask around his face could be seen. Kun and Zain had somehow made it, even though they had dived deep into fighting the zombies.

"How strong are these guys, how were they able to get out of the Horde alive, it makes no sense." Another said.

"I don't know, did you see how skillful they were. I mean if they were able to do that, and take out Titans then maybe they could survive anything."

When Kun and Zain met, the two of them talked for a bit, and asked about what the other had done. Kun after shooting his gun and leading the zombies away, it was relatively easy for him to get back.

On top of that, he had done as he said he would by getting rid of Stu. Honestly, with his quick thinking and decision making, Zain thought Kun was a good asset to have, even better than before.

"You two are something else," Ryan said with a big smile on his face. "Honestly, I would love for everyone to give you a big cheer, here and now, but that might just attract more of the zombies.

"Although I am interested, just how did the two of you manage to survive?"

When asking this question, Ryan was thinking back to when he saw Kun, the zombies didn't seem to be attacking the two of them.

Kun didn't say a word, and wanted Zain to answer, but before they even could speak, the door was opened to the museum.n0𝑣𝔢𝐥𝗎𝓈𝒷.𝚌0𝓜

"Sir Ryan… we really need your help inside, we don't know what to do?" One of the squad members said.

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A few men were left outside to stand as guards while all the others returned inside. There was a huge smile on everyone's face as they were relieved to see that nearly everyone had survived the ordeal.

Inside the museum, there were around fifty people, and half of the group was deemed unable to fight for whatever reason. They were either too young, weak, or elderly. Still, all of them were proud of the ones who had decided to risk their lives for theirs and were willing to try and make up for it in other ways.

Whether it was massaging them, getting them supplies, making the clothes, or cleaning the area for them, they would do what they could to help and settle down the ones who had fought against the zombie horde and saved everyone's lives.

Ryan and others followed the panicked man, and they eventually entered the room where they had isolated the infected people. The man then told Ryan and the others to stand by the door since he was the only one with a mask on, whereas they didn't have any for themselves.

,m From the door, they could all see the state of the sick people inside. They were coughing non stop, and a metal bowl was placed by the side. In the metal bowl itself, blood could be seen, and on top of that, it was on the sheets that had covered them as well.

"I know we just went through one problem and managed to survive that, but the sickness is getting worse. More and more people are coughing. Whatever this is, it's spreading fast. We need to find a cure or find out what it is." The man said to everyone.

Ryan looked at Zain and Brandon uncomfortably. On top of that, Pink had rushed to her sick mother's side. The man wanted to stop her, but Kun grabbed his hand to not let him block her.

The three figured that due to them being Reborn humans, this disease wouldn't really affect them.

"We need to leave straight away. We will take one of the patients with us." Brandon said, "Everyone else should stay here just in case another attack is to happen. Are you still up for coming?"

When Brandon asked this question, he was looking at Zain, knowing the latter was the decision maker. Pink had pleading eyes, and either way, Zain knew she would go.

"I'll carry my mother. No one else should get sick, and after she is treated, we will get the medication that is required and come back here. Heck! We will bring the doctor back with us if we have to!" Pink shouted.

Understanding the situation, Zain made up his mind.

"Fine, we will go, but only if you tell me everything you know about the Rebron group and the second I notice you're lying, I'll leave from here." Zain outright said.

These words surprised Ryan, but judging by the nod that Brandon had given, it looked like the latter did know something after all.

"We can talk about it on the way. We have to get to the hospital right now."

Soon, some wooden planks were gathered to create a small makeshift bed, and then it was tied around Pink, and now she was able to carry her mother on her back.

Everyone was quite surprised by the strength she displayed, which she wasn't hiding anymore. In fact, she didn't really care. Although this would still restrict her movement, she still needed to be the one to carry her mother.

In no time, a team of five, or six if one was to count Pink's mother, walked out of the museum. Kun, Pink, Zain, Brandon, and Dave from the University group. According to Brandon, due to the latter's innocent face and sweet tongue, he had a knack for convincing people and calming them down.

Since they were going to ask another group for a favour, they thought they could use him well in this type of situation.

"I'm happy to be working with you. I hope if I am in danger, you can help me out, and I will try to do the same." Dave said with a thumbs up toward Zain.

"Let's just get moving. We have to get there before it's dark and may even have to stay the night."

While leaving the museum, Zain also began to check his system. He then opened the Horde tab to check his horde's status. He hadn't had the chance or time to add more members to his Horde. Still, the main group was there, and he wanted to order them to move along with him.

After all, there might be a situation where he could use his horde to get out of it.

'I might as well check out what exactly this gold card will do as well. Maybe it can give me something else. Last time, I got the skill to turn other zombies into horde members, and it was very useful. Let's see what I get this time.'

[Gold reward card has been used]

——

At that moment in the hospital, one of the groups had returned, and they had all met with the doctor to give him their report.

"Is what you're saying true?" The doctor asked. "That the museum managed to survive an entire horde attack of that size?"

"Yes, sir, and the reports about the others we saw, the ones who helped them, are true as well." The man gulped.

"Very well." The doctor waved off his hand, brushing them away. "You have recovered your debt to me from last time. You may all leave."

Seated on his chair, the doctor was left in his thoughts as he thought about the reports that had come in.

"Those three certainly sound impressive. It is clearly because of them that the museum group even managed to survive. It makes me wonder, they clearly can't be normal. I wonder if they are Superhuman as well? Have they figured out the secret to unlocking such a thing?

"I…need more subjects." The doctor said as he stood up and zipped up the fly on his trousers.

"You have paid your debt as well. You may leave."

Just then, a woman appeared from underneath his desk, whipping saliva from her mouth as she stormed out of the room with tears running down her face.

"What a beautiful world we live in." The doctor smiled.

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The usual three had almost forgotten that they were now travelling with humans because Pink and the others were just going to walk through the streets filled with zombies. Luckily, Brandon was the one leading the way and instead chose a route of alleyways, streets and more to get to the hospital while avoiding zombies and also picked the quickest path possible.

Every time Pink's mother coughed, the former could feel how violent it was for her. She could feel the vibrations on her back, and sometimes her mother would even spit blood on her hand while coughing.

"Hey, I don't want to be a downer or anything," Dave said, pushing his glasses up on his nose. The group were currently down an alleyway looking at the street, trying to see how clear it was for them. "But, if your mom is already in this state, I don't think we will be able to save the others by the time we get back because it looks really serious."

Pink turned to Dave and almost reached out to break his glasses in half, but as she moved her hand, Zain was the one who had grabbed her arm to stop her. Although he could easily stop her with his strength, she had stopped herself upon realising what was about to happen.

"He is right, we are moving too slowly, we can go directly to the hospital via the streets, and I know something that will work," Zain said as he looked back in the alleyway at some dead bodies.

He told the others to cover themselves in dead body parts to disguise their scent. This made sense to them, and it seemed like Brandon had already somewhat known this as well, but there was another reason why Zain had suggested this.

It gave him and his friends a sneaky chance to consume some meat on the side to regain their energy while covering their bodies. After the large fight, they needed to replenish their energy, but they were constantly around people and couldn't afford to take the risk of consuming meat.

Since the act was quite disgusting in itself anyway, everyone somewhat did it while looking away from each other, making it easy for them to consume some flesh. As for Pink's mother on the former's back, she couldn't see anything anyway.

After secretly eating food and getting their bodies covered with guts and blood, they resumed walking down the street. Dave found this task the hardest as he nearly threw up doing such a thing, and the smell constantly made him gag.

"Keep in mind that this won't completely disguise your smell. It will just make it harder." Zain started telling them not to get too close to the zombies. Since at a close distance, zombies could still react.

Besides, there always seemed to never be too many zombies at once on the streets. Only when an extremely loud noise or event went off would the zombies gather in a single area and form a horde.

While the group were walking down, Zain decided to look at the reward he had received from the system once again.

[Gold Card reward received]

[You have received a new skill. 'Through the eyes of others']

[This skill can be used on any other members of the Horde]

[It allows the users to transfer their state of mind to another Horde member giving him full control over the member's body.]

[Commands must be given to the original body before one is to use the skill.]

The Gold card was impressive, and as Zain had guessed, it was another skill. Although he had only received one other Gold card before, he was hoping for it to be another skill because they were precious and helped him greatly in many ways to sustain himself in his zombie lifestyle and once again, it had done the same thing.

'I can think of so many uses for this skill already. For example, rather than giving orders, if I want, I can just take control of Cobra and use his speed in a fight, Or if Skittle was amped up with super strength, I could change to him as well.

'The problem is, what exactly does my real body do in that situation and how safe is it to do such a thing?'

Honestly, Zain wanted to test it right away rather than in a situation when he needed it. If he was caught or trapped, he could always transfer himself to the others and fight in their body.n0𝑣𝔢𝐥𝗎𝓈𝒷.𝚌0𝓜

Seeing how this was a gold reward, Zain started to think just what the platinum and diamond rewards were like, and maybe after the current objectives were achieved, he could focus on finding one of the meteorites since he had improved a lot since the last time.

"Kun, do you mind keeping an eye on me for a bit? I feel a bit light-headed, and I think my body might zone out for a second or so." Zain said as the two of them continued walking at the end of the group.

Kun thought it was a strange request, but then again, he had seen Zain act strange before, so he decided to go along with it. If the latter's body suddenly went limp, he would just carry him.

[Skill 'Through the eyes of others' has been used]

A system message similar to that he would use to control the Horde members had come up, and for now, he had just set himself to protect Kun. It didn't seem like anything dangerous was happening, and he would only test this for a few seconds.

His vision went blank for a few seconds, and shortly after, he could now see that he was in an apartment room. Not just him, but Jam, War, Corba and of course Skittle, who Zain currently body he was in.

'I can move everything just fine...I really am in Skittle's body?' Zain thought.

Bringing up the system, it also showed him as Skittle, and he could see his current stats. The ability was beyond what he had imagined. While testing out Skittle's body, throwing a few punches here and there to check movement, he heard a few people talking, and it sounded like it was coming from directly underneath.

"There's nothing in this room. Let's go and check the next one." The voice said.

'There are people...near my horde members.' Zain frowned.

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Transferring his mind into Skittle was literally a transcendent experience for Zain. For the first few seconds, it was hard to comprehend that he was in an entirely new body. His height was much lower than what he was used to, and it was almost as if he had just been transported.

The thing was, the concept was quite normal in video games, to switch between characters that one controlled. However, it made sense for it to work in a video game. After all, a game was just a program that allowed one to do what they intended, but here it was different.

This was real life, so just how in the world was such a thing possible, especially with the current technology? Another thing that confused Zain was how he could even bring up the System now that he was in Skittle's body.

Was the System something inherently his now and not in his body but in his mind instead? Was he truthfully going crazy? It was hard to say, but he knew he needed to use everything he could to survive.

This was why, the moment he heard those voices from below, he began to panic. Then, somewhat calming himself down, he began to move the horde bit by bit. Every time he went down a few blocks, he would tell them to do the same and would hide them in an apartment while checking by himself if the coast was clear.

This was just in case the group ran into any Stage 2 zombies along the way. At the same time, the system upgrade allowed him to see just how far his Horde members were, but the thing was, it didn't show anyone else on the map other than himself.

And now that he was in Skittle's body and had Skittle's senses, he could hear it, the voice from below, and from the way they were talking, without a doubt, they were humans.

p 'I don't know how big the apartment building is or what their goal is, but if they are going to continue searching room by room, they will eventually run into us.'

Although Zain was confident that his group of super zombies could deal with anyone who walked through the door, there was always a chance of things going wrong, and he wanted to play it safe, which was why he had quickly moved back into his original body.

"Everyone!" Zain said, causing them to turn around on the street. "There is somewhere I must go to right now. I know where the hospital is, I promise I'll meet you guys there."

Before anyone could even react, Zain started to run in a completely different direction. Brandon wanted to call out to him, but the task was more important, and he didn't think Zain would abandon his friends with them if he wasn't going to return, although he didn't know Zain very well either.

"Your leader is a strange one..but he's kinda cool," Dave commented. "I wonder what matter did he suddenly remember that made him so worked up. Don't you guys have to follow him to help?"

"We couldn't even if we wanted to," Kun replied. "I have no clue what he's doing. He can be strange like this sometimes. You know how university students are, just very impulsive."

Looking at Pink, she didn't even think of going after Zain and instead was still carrying her mother as she continued to walk towards the hospital.

"I see, so you're still going with that, huh? With the story that he's a university student." Brandon commented.n0𝑣𝔢𝐥𝗎𝓈𝒷.𝚌0𝓜

"But he is." Dave shrugged. "There were a few in our group who knew about him, he really is a university student, but based on his skills, I could see why everyone probably thinks he's part of the army or something."

Brandon scoffed at this fact because it was so unbelievable.

"If he is a University student, then he must be some type of superhuman or something."

"You might be right about this part," Kun replied. "But if you were to ask him yourself, I'm sure he would just tell you the same answer that he's just a university student who likes to play many games."

While Zain was running towards Skittle and the others, he opened the system panel and was ready to use the skill again, only this time, he set an order for Zain to protect Skittle. This way, his body would run towards Skittle's location. After setting things up, he again used the skill and found himself back in Skittle's body in the apartment building.

"Alright, the rest of you, I'm just hiding somewhere," Zain said as he instructed the others, and with their current intelligence, all of them seemed to somewhat understand his commands.

As they hid behind sofas, under the beds, in the bathroom, or in any possible hiding spot, Zain decided to open the door and step out into the hallway.

'I must not forget that I am not in your own body, so if I have to fight, it's going to feel different, and I don't have my sword either...maybe it would be better if I was Cobra...but Skittle is the most important person for me.' Zain thought, and he just felt more comfortable directly controlling Skittle compared to anyone else.

At that moment, he heard the voices from below once again.

In the apartment block, on the floor below, there was a group of humans, all dressed up in imalri clothing. They had black leather clothing all over their bodies as if they were part of some type of gang.

There were five of them in total, and they had weapons on themselves, including guns. Among them, there were two women and three males in total in the group. They had been going door to door in the apartment building and were ready to open the next one.

A tall thin man with sunken eyeballs and dark black bags under his eyes was at the front, and he had a small knife in his hand. Two zombies appeared in front of him when he kicked open the door.

"These two are mine!" the man declared as he stepped into the room and threw two small knives in the air. He hadn't thrown them towards the zombies though, he had thrown them just straight ahead, then, when they had reached a certain distance, he moved his hands, and the knives moved as well, going right through both of the zombie's heads, killing them on the spot.

"I did it. I'm getting better at using this!" the man cheered.

A man with a perfect V-shaped body, with the same black leather jacket on as the others, walked in front of him and stared down at the unmoving zombies. He had bushy eyebrows and a fierce straight look on his face as he then began to look around the room.

"There doesn't seem to be any more in here. Come on, let's keep clearing this place and get rid of all the zombies in this apartment."

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The black-clothed group, whose members were mostly wearing leather jackets and black jeans, continued to search the apartment block, going through the rooms one by one. As they went inside, they would take turns in eliminating the zombies they would find in the apartments.

Most of the apartment rooms' locks were already broken in one way or another, so it was easy for them to enter the place. However, the group of black jackets weren't ordinary people by any means.

The slender man with black eye bags was known as Sharp. His weapon of choice was knives of any kind; in fact, in difficult situations, he could make use of any objects he had in his hand. When fighting against the zombies, he would weaponise any object that he could control to a certain degree and move it in the air.

This allowed him to fine-tune his aim when targeting the zombie's heads or go around the corner to attack others if need be.

Out of the group of five, he wasn't the only one who could do special things. In fact, everyone in the group had something special that they could do. Entering the next apartment, the one who walked in front of the others this time was the man with a fine-toned v-shaped upper body and short brown hair. One might confuse him with a movie star if they were to come across him on a normal day..

There were three zombies in the room, but he confidently walked into the room and began to punch the zombie with his fists. After a single hit, a loud fracture resonated in the room, and the zombie's skull cracked. The fists themselves were heavy and hard, as if they were made out of metal, and that was because it was close to it.

One of the other zombies noticed the human that was in the room and leapt right at the man, and that's when he did something that no sane human would ever dare do. Unlike others, he had a sleeveless leather jacket which was strange compared to the rest. His arms, shoulders and forearms were all on display which made his next set of actions even weirder as he shoved his forearm right into the Zombies mouth.

As he did this, his forearm suddenly began to shine in a strange light and turned into what almost looked like a type of metal. As the zombie attempted to bite down, it was unable to get its teeth through the skin, only leaving at most a few scratch marks. And in the next second, a heavy fist landed right on top of the zombie's skull crushing it to pieces as well and killing it on the spot.

This man had a special power, and his name was Farris.

Before Farris could go for the third zombie that was in the room, he suddenly noticed his female partner. Standing there with her long slender legs and long black hair, with her leather jacket, she stood over the dead zombie.

There were no weapons on her body, no guns or other things as well, but she had dealt with it quickly and silently compared to the others.

"Alright, I think all of you have had enough practice with your abilities." The woman said.

"What about me, Wendy!" Hazel asked.

Out of the entire group, Hazel was the most petite female; her black leather jacket was actually two sizes too big for her, so the sleeves were covering her arms. She had a hairband in her hair, and her cheeks glowed a slight red, making it hard for anyone to believe that this type of person could survive in this world, and yet she had done.

"I didn't really get to try and use my powers," Hazel asked.

Wendy turned around, and her face could be seen by the entire group. She had a crevice look, showing next to no expression to the others.

"Our main goal is to get rid of the zombies," Wendy replied. "It's okay to grow our powers and test them when things are safe, but the noise all this is making will attract more zombies towards us, and it's starting to get a bit dark as well.

"If we want to survive, then we need to fight together, cover each other's backs and more. If this was a ga-"

"We know!" Sharp moaned back. "If this was a game, then none of us would have survived. It's all thanks to you, our group leader, that we have gotten this far. We have heard this again and again."

Hearing these words, Wendy's face went a shade redder from the embarrassment, but she soon cleared her throat.

"I'm sorry, it's just I have a lot of experience when it comes to games with these types of things," Wendy said. "Anyway, from now on, we need to clear the rooms quicker, and we will all work together. Understand?"

The others nodded, and they continued to rid the world of one zombie at a time. When exiting the room, the back of their black leather jackets had white writing on, as if someone had painted something on them, and it had the words, Zombie Hunters.

These weren't a group of people that were trying to just survive in this world, they were actively going out with the task of ridding the world of zombies, and that's what they would do.

Exiting the door, they went down the hallway and were ready to go into the next room until the one at the very end of the group, who had long hair covering his entire face and his jacket zipped up with his hands in his pockets, said something.

"One of them is moving fast, coming down the hallway."

The group turned their heads, and right by the staircase, they could see relatively small zombies right in front of them. It had frozen in place as it looked at them.

"That's a bit strange?" Sharp said. "Why is the zombie frozen and staring at us?"

It was at that moment that Zain saw this person as well and knew that he should run.

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For the last few minutes, Zain was listening to the group of people and was wondering what exactly it was that they were doing, and he realised that they were searching every apartment room for some reason.

It was only a matter of time before they discovered all the zombies in one of the rooms. Even if they tried to move as a group, there was a chance that they would be caught, which was why Zain, being in Skittle's body, had two goals.

One was to check out just what group was doing this. Was it the military? Or perhaps just some random people. If it was the latter, then maybe he would just use the whole horde to take them out and take their brains for safe keeping, leaving them be.

This was why he decided to make a move and assess the situation. When reaching the staircase and looking down the hallway, there was an unfortunate coincidence of timing.

As Zain looked them up and down, he noticed that they had no guns, it was a relief that it wasn't military and he wouldn't suddenly get shot, but that's when he noticed something else as well.

All of them had a confident look on their face, there was no worry, similar to that of those in the Reborn group, and at the same time, it looked like they almost had no weapons on them at all. To survive this long with no weapons, and with this level of confidence, was certainly not because of a dumb luck.

Alarm bells were screaming in Zain's head that these people were certainly trouble, and he needed to get out of there. With the current way he was now, without a doubt, they would know he was a zombie.

Unlike in his own body, Zain didn't have the usual pale grey skin, but Skittle did. Which meant, straight away, they would know.

'I can't run back up. There is a chance that they will follow me…and if I fight… that's not a good idea. I don't want to lose Skittle's body, but honestly, while using this skill, I'm not even sure what will happen if I do die!' Zain thought.

That's when he decided to make a break for it and continued running down the stairs.

"That zombie… it's running away from us!" Sharp shouted.

Out of all the zombies they had met, it was the first time anything like this had ever happened before, so of course, they were interested.

"Let's split up!" Wendy ordered. "Make sure that it can't exit out the other staircase, and we will chase it from here!"

Farris, and the long-haired man at the back, turned the other way, running to the staircase on the other side. At the same time, the others ran after Zain.

While going down the stairs, he didn't step into the next floor but rather continued running down. Looking up, he saw the one woman leading them had jumped over the staircase and was hanging over the handrail.

'What in the…' Zain thought as he looked. The next second she dropped down and managed to grab the handrail beneath the next floor. The woman was athletic beyond belief, and even if Zain was in his body, he didn't think he could do that.

'Okay, maybe the stairs aren't a good way to throw them off. I need to go down the hallway. Right now, I really wish I had picked Cobra instead. He would have been able to outrun these guys.' Zain thought.

The second Zain took a right down the hallway, the female who was chasing him shouted.

"He's going down to the second floor!"

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Running down, Zain could see in front of him the two that had split up were now coming towards him and blocking his way forward.

'Skittle's strength was upgraded to two points. Already as a zombie, one is naturally stronger, then at one point, its super strength and at two, I should be able to take these two guys out.' Zain thought.

When running straight ahead, at the right time, he threw a fist out as hard as he could from underneath. The others were surprised because they had never seen a zombie throw a punch.

Immediately, Farris braced himself as he went ahead to turn his stomach to metal. As soon as the fist clashed against his hard body, Farris felt his whole body being shifted backwards as he skidded across the floor, at the same time, Zain could feel that Skittle's knuckles had broken.

What he had hit wasn't human flesh. It felt like he had gone up against a brick wall. Thankfully, there was no pain because Skittle was a zombie at the end of the day.

'What was that… that zombie, it doesn't look like a special type, and somehow, he managed to push back Farris that far? This zombie, there is definitely something strange about this zombie.' Wendy frowned.

"Sharp, slow it down, but don't kill it!" Wendy ordered.

Immediately, Sharp pulled out two small normal butter knives from his belt and threw them toward the zombie. Seeing this, Zain thought there was no chance that the knives would go toward him, but that's when he saw the knives' trajectory change.

'He can control them? And it looks like it's going for my knees!' Zain readied himself.

It was then that Zain decided to act fast. He pulled at one of the doors of the apartment that was closest to him. With his strength, he could rip it off its hinge and use it as a shield at the right moment. The knives were stuck in the wooden door and could no longer move.

"I guess you're just good at hitting zombies that can't really think for themselves." Hazel started to giggle, seeing Sharp's attack fail.

Then, Zain threw the door at the large man who had originally attacked while running into the apartment.

"Keep chasing after him. We can't let that zombie go!" Wendy shouted, seeing this, and all of them ran after Zain.

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The group had continued forward without Zain. It had been a while, so it was clear he didn't just go for some kind of toilet break, but had gone off for a legitimate reason.

'I wonder what that kid is doing?' Kun thought. 'When we spoke about family before, he said he didn't have any right? So he couldn't be going back there, and he couldn't be going back to the university, not if he said he would be meeting us at the hospital.

'Whenever we ask him if he is hiding anything, he always say's he isn't, but surely this means that he is hiding something. That person is a strange person.'

The others were thinking the same, but they knew they had an important task at hand, and the coughing that was coming from Pink's mother was a reminder of that. Which allowed them to continue marching on.

"Brandon, there was a question, a question that Zian wanted to ask you." Kun stated. While they were walking they might as well get the awkward bits over and done with."He wanted to ask you about the Reborn group… What do you know about them?"

There was silence from Brandon, as he continued to walk in front of everyone. The streets seemed to be getting quiet as they got closer to the hospital. Whether that was a good thing or bad thing, it was hard to tell.

"Ah, so I see your interested in it as well. Honestly, I was just surprised by the name that was all. I mean the Reborn group? There's no real connection."

Although this was his answer, Kun wasn't so sure that he was still telling the truth… there had to be something else.

"Come on, you're like the SWAT captain for your squad right? The squad that protects and runs the city. Are you saying you've never heard of the name Reborn group?" With the extra questioning Kun was pushing for an answer, but with no further response from Brandon he was about to give up, until a thought had entered his mind.

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"Oh I see, well if you didn't know, I'm part of the Reborn group you see." Kun stated, with a smile hidden behind his mask.

It was then that Brandon had stopped walking for a second, and continued on forward. It was clear now that he did know something.

"I don't know much about them, and if you are really part of the Reborn group then you should know more than me." Brandon replied. "When I was working, the sergeant of the city had a meeting once. I was called in and there was a file that had the name Reborn group on.

"Honestly, I didn't think much of it, or even remembered that day till it was mentioned. The only reason why it was alarming to me as well, was because it was a week before this whole event started and by event I'm sure you know what I mean."

Kun definitely knew what he meant by those words, the thing was, he had no idea what was going on with the Reborn project for them to be involved with the city, and specifically this one. Because at that time, both him and Shark had already been turned.

Because of that, they were kept in containment cells, being observed for the time being, and only being let out once in a while, so as for what the company was doing at that moment, he had no idea.

"So tell me then, what type of group is the Reborn group, and I'm guessing that's where you learned to use that gun in your hand." Brandon asked.

Starting the open question, Kun had thought that it might lead to this, which was why he didn't want to do such a thing in the first place.

"Sorry, that was a lie, I just wanted you to tell me what you knew." Kun shrugged his shoulders. "I knew you were hiding something, but honestly, I used to serve in the military for two years after leaving school. Never went to university or any of that stuff, and I was just pretty good, if I do say so myself."

It was hard to know whether or not Brandon would believe what he had said, but at the end of the day it made things clear. Kun wasn't going to talk about it, and he wasn't willing to. At the same time, Brandon hadn't asked any more questions.

Finally, they could see the hospital in sight. It was on a main road, and it was extremely large, with a natural high wall around it. There was no barbed wire on top though, so if someone was skillful enough, they should be able to climb it, but they still could only enter through one entrance.

There were also other entrances, but it looked like they had been blocked off purposely with cars.

"I think we could climb those cars instead of going all the way round." Dave suggested.

"It's not a good idea." Brandon replied. "Those cars have been set up like that for a reason, and if we were to go through that way, uninvited, when we are the ones trying to ask for a favor, it could spell great trouble for us."

It looked like Zain had never caught up in the end, so they would have to at least do this part without him. Just before they reached the Hospital though, Kun pulled Pink to the side.

"We can't go in there." Kun whispered.

"What do you mean, we can't go in there? We need to, I have to make sure my mum gets better!"

"Did you forget what we are?" Kun replied. "The two of us are zombies, and we are going into a hospital of all things. It won't be a surprise that before they even let us in, that they check all of us for bite marks. We have to give them a good reason for why we can't go in, but we will stay outside."

Pink wanted to reply, she wanted to see her mother get better, and she was sure that she would be the most convincing person if push came to shove to get her mother treatment, but in the end, what else could they do.

If they found out what they were, then the only choice they had was force, and that was unlikely to go down well.

"Alright, but you better come up with something good."

The entrance could be seen just up ahead, and when they were about to reach it, Kun called out while Pink started to take her mother off the hand made stretcher.

"Wait... Maybe it's best if we don't go inside with you." Kun replied. "We don't know how they are going to react, but it's unlikely that they will just fire bullets at you. We were thinking its better if we stay back, and if you need support we can help you out then.

"Besides, it might be best if we wait for Zain anyway, and I doubt that they will let you guys in with these weapons strapped to you, so rather than take them off there, I think it would be better if you handed it to us,"

Brandon looked at Kun wondering what to do, and surprisingly in the end he had agreed, handing over his submachine gun he had on him, but kept a handgun just in case.

"If you here us yelling, or not coming out after an hour, then you guys know what to do." Brandon stated, as Dave and Pink's mother walked ahead.

They eventually got to the entrance of the hospital. As they stood in front of it, they could see guards right by the double door glass entrance, they too had guns, which made them think that this place was well guarded.

Walking forward, both Brandon and Dave placed their hands up in the air, as they made it clear they were surrendering.

"We are a group from the museum!" Brandon shouted. "We do not come in harm, we have a sick patient, and we believe that there is someone here that can help us."

One of the men pointed their gun towards the group, which made Dave gulp. Meanwhile the other guard rushed inside, as if he had gone to inform the others.

"Let's hope things go smoothly." Brandon muttered under his breath.

At the same time, while Kun and Pink were waiting outside, Kun had a bad feeling that, just like nearly all of their interactions with humans so far, something was going to go wrong.

'An hour Zain, you have an hour to get back to us before we head inside this place.' Kun thought, wondering just what on earth Zain was doing at this point and time.

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While inside Skittle's body, Zain regretted picking him compared to one of the others. Even Jam would have been a better choice. As a small dog, there were a number of places he could get to, and his agility could easily throw them off.

'These guys, I'm sure, after hitting that guy and seeing those knives, they have to be superhuman. Like Cobra, like that guy from the supermarket, but their powers might even be more advanced.'

There was one choice that Zain had made that was the right one, and that was to not attempt to engage with these guys with the full group because he was sure it would have ended up with a loss for at least some members of his team, and there were still others in their group of whom he had no clue what their power was.

Sharp had run into the apartment room with a smile on his face and a small knife in his hand again, only to be greeted with a flying chair that had hit him and broken on impact.

"Argh!" Sharp shouted as he stumbled back and fell to the ground.

"My word, you really are stupid, aren't you?" Hazel couldn't help but chuckle, seeing Sharp hurt and up against the wall. "We already know this is a zombie with intelligence, and you just ran through that door?"

Following up after Sharp though, was Farris, and the strange long-haired man, who still had his hands in his pockets.

"Step to the right the second you go in." The long-haired man said.

Farris followed, doing just that, and another chair was thrown through the doorway, but this time it had missed its target and went on to hit the wall. Seeing this, Zain continued to throw objects he could find in the living room.

He threw a lamp, a side table, books and more at the two men who had entered the room. The long-haired man seemed to be able to avoid most of them, and Zain could hear that he was informing the larger man where to step to avoid his attack.

'What is this? Some type of foresight ability? But then that guy should have been able to warn about my punch that was coming that time. It can't be simple foresight...'

Either way, it was dangerous because now the two women were in the room. Zain wasn't hopeful with his odds against the two guys, and it wouldn't be long until Sharp was back on his feet.

"You can't take us all on. Just give up, and let us take you. You can understand us, right?" Wendy asked.

When stepping back, Zain could feel his back touch the apartment wall. His head was racing as to what to do. Should he send for the others to come to the room to have an all-out battle? Should he bite one of them during a fight, maybe there was a good chance he could turn them?

Then he remembered that superhumans were more resistant to a zombie's bite, so it was a risky move.

'Is this a game-over situation…while in Skittle's body?'

Thinking back to his games as he did in the past, it really would be game over in this type of situation. He had ventured into unknown territory and wasn't at a high enough level to deal with it.

"It's game over for you." Wendy continued to say as the group surrounded him and closed in slowly, still knowing he was dangerous after his scuffle with Farris.

Hearing those words match ups with his own thoughts, he couldn't help but smile.

"You're right," Zain replied.

The surprise use of somewhat clear speech had stunned them all to a halt. They thought that maybe the zombie could understand them, but to now even be able to speak, was beyond their imagination which was why they had stopped moving forward as well.n0𝓋𝓔𝒍𝚞𝗌𝗯.𝐂0𝗆

"What am I right about?" Wendy asked.

The smirk on Zain's face grew wider.

"That if this was a game it certainly would be game over, but this isn't one, and I'm not bound by the limitation."

After saying these words, Zain made a bolt for it toward the window that was at the back wall not too far from him and jumped up, covering himself, as he pulled his knees into his chest, making him deliver somewhat of a cannonball jump.

When he smashed through the glass, the impact sent shards everywhere.

Right now, they were on the second floor.

'From this height, I should be okay.' Zain thought. 'But just in case, I have a bit of a theory, but I'm not sure if it will work.';

Just as Zain said those words, landing on his two feet, he had landed on his leg oddly, causing him to twist his ankle, and the whole impact of his weight and the jump's momentum had caused it to snap.

'As I thought, when it rains, it pours, luck is not on my side, but I counted on that.' Zain thought, and the system message that had come up several times whenever a severe injury would take place had also come up.

Asking Zain if he would like to use his energy to heal his body, Immediately Zain had chosen to do so, and his ankle was healing on the spot. When talking to the others, it spread that all zombies had a healing factor.

As long as they ate flesh, it would allow them to heal. The thing was, they couldn't activate like Zain could and exchange his energy to heal on the spot. There was a guess that they were all the same; it was just that Zain's system allowed him to skip this option, and it seemed to be the case.

'I don't think those guys would risk coming down here like I did.' Zain thought as he looked behind him, but his eyes opened wide to see that although most of them hadn't continued the chase, there was one somehow on the ground, and that was none other than the leader Wendy.

Immediately, Zain sprinted, running through the wide streets as fast as he could. Up ahead, there was a small convenient shop. Heading inside, there were several aisles, but they weren't filled with food like they used to be, there was rubbish, blood and everything else all over the place.

"If it's just one of them, then maybe I can do something," Zain mumbled under his breath.

He started to walk slower as he silenced his footsteps and continued to move between the aisles.

Soon, he heard Wendy enter after him.

"I don't have time to play hide-and-seek games," Wendy said as she walked down the aisle and looked left and right, trying to spot anyone. That's when she could see it, she could see a figure on the other side.

When she kicked the aisle, the shelves had banged into Skittle's body, causing him to be stable, but raising his hand, Zain was able to push the shelf back with amazing strength and slid it across the shop floor. He continued to push it, for the two aisles to crash against each other and sandwich the intruder.

The aisle slammed into the other so hard that the shelves broke and snapped. However, the feeling wasn't quite right. There was no residence or extra force needed. When looking, Zain could see no one there.

A foot suddenly appeared in front of Zain's face before he could react and slammed into the face. Taking the shot, since he could feel no pain, he threw out a fist of his own, but it had hit nothing but the air, but he could feel someone had grabbed it.

Before he knew it, he was being lifted in the air, and his back slammed on the floor.

"I'm taking you back with me," Wendy said, and while huffing and panting to catch her breath, she opened up the palm of her hand as a mystical see-through orb of energy appeared in her palm, and the next second, a large sword was in her hand and the energy was gone.

The time looked to have spread out of thin air, making Zain realise that she had been going easy during the fight because she didn't want to hurt her precious test subject.

"I'll die if I go back with you. I would never not fight for my life!" Zain got up off the ground and charged in for a tackle, and that's when Wendy instinctively swung her sword as well, and with the trajectory it was going, it would slice the zombie vertically right between the neck and head, killing it.

'No! We needed this!'

Just when it was about to Skittle, another sword suddenly clashed against hers, sending her sword back up in the air as she felt a great force.

"Don't touch him," Zain's real body had finally arrived.

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While in control of Skittle's body, there was no need for him to look at where his actual body was because he had given his body a single command with the help of the system. And the command was to protect Skittle from any danger.n0𝑽𝓮𝗅𝐔𝓢𝓑.𝐜0𝗆

Doing this meant that his body would take the quickest route to reach Skittle. Zain didn't know what would happen on the way or whether his real body would run into danger. However, when his real body was close, a system prompt flashed in front of him.

The system prompt alerted him that his real body was close. Still, he was in danger and didn't know when his real body would get here, and he could rely on that information when he had someone right on his back. However, just then, he saw his real body.

And seeing his body enter the shop from behind was the moment, the moment when he made the switch once again. Now Zain was in control of his own body once again, and he continued to run as fast as he could, swinging his sword up. As soon as the swords clashed, he knocked Wendy's sword in the air with his powerful strength.

Zain didn't follow up with an attack. Instead, he immediately shifted his body so now it was in-between Skittle and Wendy and held his sword firmly in his hand.

"Who are you?!" Wendy called out, looking at the strange man. "Do you know what you are doing? You're protecting a zombie!"

Not saying anything, Zain went to attack the left arm. This was the side that didn't have a sword, it was an awkward position, and he knew that the woman would have to shift in a certain way to block the attack. This was part of the knowledge he had gained due to his sword mastery reaching level three.

It wasn't just about skills but the knowledge of swords and how it worked as well. Once again though, Wendy opened the palm of her hand, and a strange see-through orb of energy appeared. The next moment, a short sword was in her other hand.

Lifting it up, the two swords clashed, and the attack was blocked. However, Zain wasn't playing around, and he hadn't held back when using his strength. He pushed the sword deep, and the back of the sword hit her arm.

Unfortunately, it wasn't the sharp end making it, so it didn't pierce her, but the blow did still hurt. Trying to bear the pain, she swung her sword with her right hand towards Zain, who was able to step out of the way and swung the sword hard again at the incoming attack.

They clashed, and the sword nearly came loose, falling out of Wendy's grip. The hits were making her hand numb, and she could barely hold onto the sword. Seeing this, she decided to jump back a few steps, getting out of the way of being hit once more by the powerful blows.

These few blows had made one thing clear in her mind, whoever this person was, it was clear that he was incredibly skilful and powerful.

'This woman, the skill she used earlier to make the sword appear out of nowhere. It's clear that is another special ability. I saw it twice now. Is it some kind of space? Like a game inventory where she can pull out and store things at will? That's quite a handy thing to have.'

Just like Wendy, Zain was also assessing the enemy. Even though he was able to push her back and had the upper hand, he knew better not to underestimate her.

'If I turn her, and add to my horde, then maybe I would in some capacity have the skill as well. The problem is, since she is superhuman, the chances of her turning are low, and at the same time, there are others I need to be careful of. They will soon appear to back her up. This is the only chance I have because even though she is quite strong, I can beat her before the others arrive.'

While Zain was assessing the situation, the strange orb appeared around her hands again, and one of the swords was replaced by what looked like a chain. Without hesitation, she swung it out towards Zain and Skittle.

Zain had forgotten to give Skittle an order, so to save him, he leaned forward and kicked Skittle in the stomach, sending him far away and preventing the chain from hitting his head. Then, before Wendy could pull back the chain, Zain thrust his sword up from underneath, hitting it in the perfect spot to block the chain.

The chin started to swirl around the sword a few times, wrapping around it, but that was exactly what Zain was aiming for. With a tug and his strength, he yanked it out of her hand. Wendy's strength turned out to be futile against him as the chain was pulled, and in an instant, she had lost her weapon.

"Damn you two, I don't understand why a human would protect a zombie, but I have had enough of playing with your games!" Wendy shouted in frustration.

The energy ball appeared around her hand once more, and Zain's guess was right. Wendy's ability did allow her to have storage to put weapons, food, medical supplies and all sorts of necessities for her.

At the same time, she could take them out and place them in her hand whenever she wished, and this time, she had brought out a handgun. Lifting it in the air, she pointed it right toward Zain with her finger on the trigger.

"It looks like you got weapons on yourself as well, but just like me, you decided not to use them, just in case it would attract others," Wendy said. "Unfortunately for you, I have a few special powers. You see, even if you are skilful and powerful, I will win this fight."

Instead of continuing to point the gun at Zain though, she directed it towards the zombie instead.

"No!" Zain shouted as he moved and stood in front of her bullet path.

"What are you doing?" Wendy asked again. "I don't even care about you, but that zombie. It's special, don't you understand? If we were to take it, then-"

"I can't," Zain replied. "If you are going to attempt to kill him, then I promise that you won't make it out of this place alive. I promise you that."

Wendy could see the intensity in his eyes, he was serious about it, and she didn't know who he was and why he was doing this. In fact, none of this made any sense. But if she just waited for her friends to arrive, then for sure with them, they could take them out.

It was then that Zain had made a choice. It was very risky and borderline reckless, but there was something that he could do that maybe would get them out of this situation. Pulling the scarf off around his neck, he slowly revealed something as he turned his head to the side.

"You wanted to know why I'm trying so hard to protect him? It's because I know he is special. It's not just him that's special, but I am as well." Zain stated.

What he was showing to Wendy right now was the bite mark that was on his neck, it was there clear as day, and confusing thoughts were going through Wendy's head.

Could this person not get infected? Was he saying he was a zombie, or was it something else? That's when she could also see the zombie from before standing up, it walked over to where Zain was as the protection mode was placed on it, and it stood right in front of Zain, without biting him or doing anything.

'A bit mark is nothing special, some of the others have been bitten before, and it was fine. This…this is something else, why is the zombie protecting him…this is portably a huge secret, a secret that he doesn't want to reveal. Judging by his eyes, he was serious about what he said before.'

Wendy was making up in her mind what was the best thing to do, and that's when she could hear voices from bending as well.

"Wendy, where are you? Are you okay?!" A man's shout came from outside.

She glanced behind her and looked deep into Zain's eyes once more. Trying to figure out what to do.

"I'm fine!' Wendy shouted out loud at the top of her lungs. Depending on what she was going to say next, Zain was getting ready to act.

"The zombie, it escaped. There's no one here, let's just leave this place and continue on."

Putting the gun down, Wendy started to back up out of the shop without showing her back to the dangerous two. For her sake and those with her, she thought it was best if they left Zain alone.

At the same time, Zain thought it was best that he didn't try to get involved with them either.

"You, you and I owe one. If you ever see me again in the future. Remember this." Wendy said as she left the shop.

Smiling and letting out a big sigh, Zain felt relieved. Because he honestly didn't know if he was going to make it out or not, and when checking his system, he noticed the rest of the horde was only around twenty seconds away from here, and there was a large chance that there would be a big fight on their hands.

"I wonder…if we will ever meet again." Zain sighed. Honestly, he wasn't looking forward to it.

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Leaving the small convenience shop, Wendy had to avoid all the possible urges to look back when she noticed that her group members had also arrived. However, they didn't look panicked or worried as they were confident that whatever or whoever she encountered, she would be able to deal with it.

After all, she was appointed as the squad captain of this small team because she was one of the most powerful members of the group, which called itself the Zombie Hunters.

"That zombie, you let him get away?" Hazel asked, having heard Wendy's earlier response and seeing her walk out alone.

"I didn't let him get away," Wendy replied in a matter-of-factly way, "He got away, you know how smart he was, and besides, I don't think it's wise for us to chase a zombie that is smart enough to talk without investigating the matter properly. We never know what we might be getting into. After all, there could be an evolved zombie or worst, it might be leading us into a trap. So we should understand the situation first."

They nodded at Wendy's words, and if she thought it was dangerous for the rest of the group, then the rest felt like it most probably was, and she did the right thing. Still, they couldn't help but think about just what type of zombie they had encountered. How was it possible for a zombie to act human?

"It would have really done us well if we had caught that zombie, don't you think?" Sharp said with a smile. "I didn't even give him a few cuts for hurting me like that. Next time he won't be able to escape."

Sharp started to spin his blade using just his fingers, which was something he would do whenever he tried imagining a scene playing out in his head.

"For all of us, it's best if we don't tell others about this," Wendy said, which caused a few eyebrows to be raised. Looking at their expressions, it was clear that they believed they should report this to their base and make the higher-ups look into this matter.

"I can understand why you all are giving me strange looks, but we don't know what the case was with that zombie, and not to mention the fact that we weren't able to catch it, which might just bring more trouble for us. So for now, we should keep this to ourselves until we find more clues and understand the situation better."

Right now, all Wendy could think about was the other person who had come out towards the end, the man that had protected the zombie. It still didn't make sense in her head as she thought about everything that had happened. However, she could only guess that he, too, was probably a zombie, and the two of them had a relationship somehow.

As for why she had let them live or decided not to try and take them on, she didn't know herself fully. However, what she had done at that point and time was quite possibly because she was treated as if this event had occurred in a game. She thought back to what she would have done in a game situation.

An encounter like that in a game would be one that would create two paths for the player. Either she could fight and attack the strange zombies or let them live, and in her mind, the more interesting path in a game was to let them live and find out what would ensue in the future.

'Redhead Zombie, we might be meeting again in the future.' Wendy inwardly smiled.

"Alright, let's clear up this place, we have five more days here, and after that, we are to head back and get our next assignment," Wendy said, and the others nodded as they headed back to the apartment building. Maybe they could find something else or some other clues.

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After making sure that the group chasing after them had decided to head back inside an apartment building, Zain quickly scouted the area. He was marking in his head where they were.

He didn't want to cross paths with them again, and since the female leader knew what his face looked like, even if the two groups were to meet in the future, Zain had already revealed something to a person he would have liked to have kept hidden. And anyway, in this case, he could not pretend he was human.

'Judging by that group, they aren't the type to work with others. I'll have to ask Brandon or Ryan if they know anything about them. Speaking of which, I should make my way to the others. There could be trouble.'

Zain was on the move towards the hospital, only this time, he was moving with his entire horde and had the scarf wrapped around his neck.

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———

After waiting outside the hospital for a few minutes with their hands raised up, Dave and Brandon were getting somewhat tired, but the fact that guns were pointed towards them, and nudged forward every time their hands started to falter, had gotten rid of some of the tiredness.

Eventually, the man who had gone in had come back out.

"The doctor has agreed to see you. However, you must hand in all your weapons before entering the hospital."

It was hard to tell what the current situation was for Brandon, and he was happy that Kun had suggested that they leave their guns behind.

'This was one of the groups that Ryan was unsure about. There were some strange rumours from the people who had come out of the area.' Brandon thought.

After handing in their weapons, they stepped inside, pulling Pink's mother along the way. There was a guard inside with a gun as well. While trying to gauge their strength, Brandon noticed that the group wasn't particularly short of weapon supply.

However, when they reached the end of the double doors, the guard told them to take a right instead of heading to the main reception, where Brandon could see quite a few people through the glass. The guard then instructed them to take a large elevator on the side.

"Please, wear these masks." The man said, handing them over. He was the one leading them.

"Due to the severity of the case, it is possible that you might spread the infection to others, so only the doctor can see you." The man informed them.

Understanding the situation, they all went into the elevator and pressed the number 6, as the 6th floor of the hospital was where the doctor's office was known to be located. The tension was heavy in the elevator as it began to move up.

No one said a word as the elevator slowly moved up, and Brandon was just looking at how the guard was standing inside. Although they had weapons and were seemingly disciplined, he clearly knew they were not professionally trained and were most likely normal citizens.

The guard had his back facing them as he stood near the front, and at any point and time, Brandon was confident that he could disarm him and take control of the whole situation, but they needed the doctor's help, so he restrained himself for now.

-Ding!

As soon as the elevator made the noise, it began to slow down. They had reached the 6th floor, and upon stepping out of the elevator, they found themselves in a long hallway.

It was intimidating, to say the least, as they noticed a set of brown double doors at the other end. Although, there was no need for them to head down the hallway of double doors because the doctor was already waiting for them.

"Welcome, welcome." The doctor greeted them with open arms. However, he had gloves and a mask on. "I heard that there is a sick patient here with you."

Although Brandon couldn't see anything, he was sure that the doctor had a big smile underneath that mask.

At the same time, Dave was getting shivers as the hair all over his body stood up in surprise. There was an odd feeling that he was getting from this doctor that he had never sensed from anyone else. It was an intuition, and the intuition was telling him to get out of this place as soon as possible.

"Please, I think it is best if we all head to the treatment rooms together. There is a need for an x-ray, and based on your patient, there is a chance that the two of you are infected as well. So please, if you could follow me to one of the rooms, I think we can get to work straight away."

Although he felt the danger, Dave started walking forward as he wished to deliver Pink's mother. He was carrying her like a piggy bank, and he wasn't exactly the strongest person regarding these things.

"Wait!" Brandon said. "This treatment, are you willing to look at her and treat her for free?" Brandon asked.

It was then that the doctor started to shake his head.

"I see you don't understand how things work around here. When a favour is made, there is, of course, always a debt to be paid, and depending on the severity of the case from where you guys have come from, the debt could be very high, very high indeed."

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Brandon was well aware that even before the world had changed to how it was, people weren't so quick to trust each other. It was the society and the rules put in place that controlled the people because if everyone naturally had true freedom of their actions, then the entire world would have long turned lawless.

Now they were starting to see parts of this lawless world coming out, and Brandon wouldn't be so quick to trust everyone. In the first place, how could a doctor become a leader of a large group and have full control over it? There were certainly hidden factors leading to this situation, and Brandon strongly felt that things might go wrong at any wrong step.

After all, even Ryan managed to control people only due to the secret supply of resources he had gathered, which was why people were willing to listen to him. As for Brandon, he had skills and strength, which helped him gain the respect and position he had within the group.

"What do you want from us?" Brandon asked, still not moving forward while also keeping an eye on the guard in front of them. "Weapons? Supplies? Medicine? Although I doubt you would need the last one."

The doctor pulled down his mask, revealing a smile so wide that it created wrinkles on his face and squinted his eyes in the shape of crescent moons.

"I am a fair person. And I will only ask for a debt if there is one in the first place. It would be completely unfair of me if I were to ask for something without even helping with your problem. But if I were you, I would hurry up or else forget about the ones at your base. You might not even be able to save the one on your back."

Dave turned his head and looked at Brandon. Although he was worried, he was concerned for Pink's mother more than anyone. She was still coughing even now, and although he had yet to tell the others because he didn't want to worry them, she had been coughing a bit of blood for a while as well.

It was hidden underneath her sheets and her hands. Dave could only imagine the pain she was suffering from and why she had hidden it, not wishing to worry her daughter. In the end, he took a deep breath, firmed himself, began to walk forward, and passed the guards as he headed through the hallway to the other side.

It was then that Brandon realised that even if he wanted to do something, it would now put Dave and Pink's mother at risk, so he decided to stand down and just let things transpire without interfering.

After a while, Dave placed the woman on the floor. The doctor clicked his tongue, and two men stepped out from the side doors, each with weapons. They weren't in any uniform like those at the museums but just looked like average citizens.

However, even if they weren't trained in some ways, people with no training at all with guns were more dangerous, and Brandon was relieved he hadn't made a move or else the situation would have turned into an ambush.

"Alright, you two, put her in operating room three, and we will get to work." The doctor ordered the two men.

One knelt but stopped a few seconds before touching the mother.

"Will we be okay, touching her, I mean? Won't we be infected by whatever she has? I mean, you didn't even give us masks."

Before the man heard a reply, the doctor lifted up his foot and kicked the man right in the face.

"Did you forget your current position?" The doctor sneered, "Besides, if you do get unwell, I will be the one helping you out, so I don't think it's a good decision to start talking back to the person who can save your life."

It was as Brandon expected, so he wasn't too surprised, Dave looked like he wanted to say something, but Brandon kicked the back of his leg before he did. This wasn't their place to get involved, not yet, anyway. But Brandon was going to make sure to report everything back to Ryan, and only then would they plan about further business with the Hospital group.

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The pair continued to follow the guard that had brought them to see the doctor, and as they waited for the doctor to go through the checkups and examine the woman's condition, the guard brought them to the reception area.

This was a large hall with several hundred seats. It was where patients would wait before being called into different sections of the hospital. At the same time, it looked like it was also the place where most of the hospital group was staying. Their numbers were quite huge, however, almost all of them seemed like normal citizens.

Everyone had formed their own little groups as they talked amongst themselves. However, there was a strange tension in the air. No one came to greet or talk to the strangers, and at the same time, there were those that had been allocated guns and were guards in the room, as well as a couple working behind the reception desk.n0𝑽𝗲𝓵𝐔𝓈𝔟.𝒸0𝓶

'They all have their positions in this place, but it seems like everything is assigned out of fear more so than anything else.' Brandon thought.

Some people were sitting in the seats on their own, not part of any group, and that's when Brandon noticed a young man seated alone at the very back. Brandon walked over and sat in the second back row, with the teenager just behind them.

Leaning back, he noticed that the teenager was bandaged up here and there but had this worried look on his face as his knees were trembling up and down.

Dave was wondering what they were doing but didn't say anything, believing that Brandon was onto something and it was best for them not to attract any attention.

"There is something wrong with this place," Brandon whispered. "We are from around here, and from the looks of it, you aren't part of this group as well. Someone in our group is unwell, so we have come here to take them to the doctor. Do you know what's going on?"

After whispering those words, Brandon was expecting a response, but instead, even after a few minutes had passed, the teenager didn't say anything. Then, just when he was about to ask again, the latter suddenly stood up and started to walk towards the bathroom without saying any word.

'Is he a spy? I'm sure there are people seeking rewards for telling on each other in this place. That would make sense. Otherwise, how do they decide who is responsible for what?' Brandon thought.

As Dave turned around, he noticed a small piece of paper and picked it up.

Pulling it open, there were a few words written on it.

[Don't trust anyone in this place, don't talk, or you will pay, and the most important thing: Never trust the doctor. But, if you really are like me, then follow me.]

After reading these words, Dave quickly showed the piece of paper to Brandon, who looked up and saw that the teenager had turned back at them before entering the toilet. After waiting a couple of minutes, Brandon stood up and stretched his arms.

"Stay here, and if anything happens, try to get my attention, if not mine, then of those outside, but hopefully it won't come to that," Brandon whispered to Dave, who nodded.

Then heading off, he too had entered the toilet. Although there were guards near the other entrances, there weren't any by the toilets, and when heading inside, he could see the teenager standing by the sink, staring back at the entrance.

"So it looks like you really aren't with them. I thought you might have been a trap to lure me in or something." The teenager said.

"No…as I said before, we had someone sick." Brandon replied. "What's with this place? Why does it seem so strange, and what's with the doctor?"

Clenching his fist, the teenager grumbled.

"This place… And that doctor…I hate him…and I hate that she keeps getting in trouble with me around, if Zain was here, I bet nothing like that would happen."

"Zain?" Brandon said with a raised eyebrow, "Wait, what? You know Zain? The guy with red hair?"

The teenager's eyes lit up hearing this, and he started to get somewhat excited.

"Yeah, that Zain, the university student, you also know him? Is he here? He can definitely help me."

Brandon didn't know what to say and just shook his head.

"He's not with us at the moment, he rushed off to do something else, but yeah, I know Zain, though I am not close to him, he recently joined our group. Well, he kind of joined us. To be honest, it's complicated with that guy."

The teenager chuckled because he felt the same way since he also had a somewhat similar relationship with Zain in the first place.

"The name is Cody." The teenager introduced himself, "If you know Zain, and you're still alive, I can only believe that you are either strong enough to survive with him or you're a good person. Whatever it is, I need…I need your help! Please help me and my friend get out of here... this place is hell!"

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Earlier that day, Cody had arrived at the hospital, and with him was Kelly. The two of them had travelled together after separating from Zain, who had saved them from their situation. In truth, Cody was hoping that Zain would come back and try to find them, but in the end, due to Kelly's careful nature, she had convinced him otherwise.

She even said she was somewhat afraid of Zain, and although at times Cody did feel that way, he never felt any of the threatening vibes directed toward him. And as they continued their travel, Cody suddenly began to show symptoms of fever.

At first, he thought it was a simple cold and would go away with time, but as time passed, the fever started to get worse and worse. He could hardly move and felt deenergized, and his body was sore, making it harder and harder for him to move.

With no choice, Kelly had picked him up over her shoulder, and they came across the hospital. Since she also noticed there were people here, she had hope. In the end, upon meeting the Doctor, he told them that he could help Cody but that there would be a price that they must pay.

From what Cody could gather, his fever was the result of the multiple wounds and bruises he had received on his body due to the severe beating he had taken from the Cobra gang. Due to his strong will and the adrenaline rush, he was able to ignore it for a while, but it slowly overpowered him, and his state got worse.

He didn't know what the Doctor had done, but whatever it was, it had worked. However, upon coming out of the hospital, he couldn't find Kelly. She wasn't in the reception room, and when he ran around the place asking the others about her, the second that Cody had gotten too noisy, the guards had pulled out their guns and told him to shut up and sit down.

At that point, Cody had tried to call a meeting with the Doctor again, but the Doctor refused to see him. It had left Cody in a difficult situation because, from what he could gather, Kelly was still here somewhere in the hospital.

Cody quietly attempted to ask the others for help, but it was futile, no one was willing to talk to him. Slowly Cody started to observe the place and realised that they were spying on each other, watching out for mistakes that any of the others would make.

That would be reported to the reception and then, from there, to the Doctor. Although the strange thing was, even if they did step out of line, nothing happened to them, but from listening and observing the conversations around him, he heard that their debt was increasing.

Also, from listening in on other people's conversations, he had gathered that those with the biggest amount of debt would be forced to go outside. At the same time, the weapons that were given to them to fend for themselves would be practically useless if they had too much debt.

It was at that point that Cody found out that he was now sucked into this strange system, and with the way people and the things outside were, even if they went out, they would always come back, but if they had left earlier with the intentions of leaving this place, it was just another reason for the Doctor to increase the debt.

Instilling this fear in them had led to not even one person had thought of running, much less attempting to run out, because at any point and time, those that you thought were your closest friends would backstab you to rise up the ladder.

"And that is everything that I know of this place. Right now, I have no clue where Kelly is. She's the one that saved my life, and I couldn't even help her once. I'm not sure what this debt is that the Doctor always talks about, but some of the faces of others look horrified, and the reactions are worse when the Doctor calls them up.

"Everyone is living in trepidation, complying out of fear in this place, and because of the weapons, I can't even fight back."

After listening to Cody's story, Brandon somewhat understood why the former wanted someone like Zain to help. Having seen what those three could do, he believed that maybe an attack from outside could work.

"I want to help." Brandon replied, "And if this debt that the Doctor is talking about really is a big thing, then it will be worse for us if he actually finds a cure. For now, though, our group needs the help of this Doctor, so I can't act straight away, not until I get the full picture.

"Also, if we stay in this toilet for any longer, they're going to get suspicious, but before we get out, I want you to listen to a plan I have… but we will need help from outside as well if anything goes wrong."

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On the top floor, the Doctor had run a number of things on Pink's mother, including an X-ray scan, ultrasound, and heart rate monitor, among other things, but after just a few tests, it became apparent what the condition was.

'That's certainly interesting, I guess a case like this, with the way things are, it could easily spread throughout the city.' The Doctor thought. 'The good thing is there are plenty of things that can be used to treat her and all of those at the museum.

'But first, I will have to take care of my people and isolate them first so they don't continue to spread this. Although the medicine is plentiful, we don't want a dire situation on our hands.'

The Doctor then went into the pharmacy section of the hospital, an area that was locked off and only able to be accessed by himself; after grabbing a few of the boxes from the shelf, he walked back toward where Pink's mother was.

He was ready to hand it to her until a thought came into his mind, and a large smile appeared on his face.

'Now, let's start adding up their debt, shall we? They stayed safely in the hospital for a few hours. On top of that, they have used my equipment, and I am doing an emergency treatment procedure out of hours.

'A consultation fee, and the price of medicine, as well as all the information I will be giving them to save their people. Well, that just means that this is going to be an extremely, extremely large debt that needs to be paid. So it makes me wonder, what exactly should I ask for from them? What could they possibly give me to cure this large debt?'

He handed over a glass of water along with the medicine to Pink's mother, who drank it in one gulp without any hesitation. After all, the person in front of her was a doctor. After going through everything together and all the tests, she would trust him. Just like she would have done in the world before.

"This medicine needs to be taken daily. There are two pills." The Doctor explained. "Now, here is the important part. The medicine needs to be taken for six months every day; otherwise, there is a high chance that it won't go away completely.

"Now, here is six months' worth of medicine. For now, just rest up here while I go inform the others of your successful diagnoses."

After saying those words, the Doctor proceeded to leave the room.

"Thank you, doctor, do you mind telling me what it is that I have?" Pink's mother asked.

Shaking his finger, the Doctor opened the door.

,m "Now, we can't be letting people find that out now, can we? Otherwise, it will ruin my plans."

With that said, the Doctor shut the door, leaving Pink's mother slightly confused but still grateful to the man.

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"Tell those two newcomers to come up to the office in around… let's say 30 minutes." The Doctor ordered one of the guards. "I have something else that I need to take care of first."

Heading back to his office, the Doctor turned down the corridor and entered one of the operating rooms. As he entered, he could see a certain person lying on the floor.

"Ah, that's no good. Did the tranquilliser wear off? I guess you must be getting used to it." The Doctor let out a sigh as he lifted the female off the floor and back onto the operating table. "Well, I will just have to give you a higher dosage, right?"

Holding onto her arm and the Doctor jolted the woman.

The woman was none other than Kelly, and on the table, she started to feel weak again. Her eyes were still open, but it was as if her mind was going to sleep as she was unaware even of where she was.

"I asked you when you got here if you knew anything about strangers getting extraordinary powers, and since you were unable to satisfy my answer, your debt has to be paid in another way. And since I also saved your life, that means your life is now mine.

"So, let's start the experiment. It's time to make a superhuman!"

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With somewhat of a plan in place, the two walked out of the toilet at separate times, and when Brandon went to sit next to Dave, Cody went ahead and took the very first seat in front of the reception area. The front row was mostly empty for a number of reasons, one of them being the fact that everyone could easily keep an eye on your movements.

"So what happened? Is everything okay? Did you speak to him?" Dave asked nervously as he looked around the room.

Brandon was unsure whether he should say anything or not or how much of the plan he could afford to reveal. After all, Dave was just a student, and it was easy to crack him. In fact, just being here had put a lot of pressure on him.

"Look, the only thing I will say is that in this place, it's best if you don't trust anyone," Brandon said. "Keep to yourself, keep quiet, and if worse comes to worst, I think you will know what to do. You're a good kid, and you have a good set of instincts on you, so trust your instincts when in the clutch."

Dave smiled, he liked the compliment, and since he had never heard such words from Brandon, they meant a bit more to him. The effect was so good that he was suddenly brimming with more confidence.

At that moment, the doors opened, and one of the men with a gun walked down. Without paying heed to anyone, he headed over to where Brandon was.

"The doctor would like to meet you about the results of the patient that you brought in." The man said.

Taking a deep breath for the first time and sliding his pair of dark sunglasses on even though they were inside the building and he could see fine, Brandon was getting in the mode to react to whatever was going to happen next.

The elevator ride was the same as before. The only difference was, Dave was told to stay downstairs. Honestly, Brandon preferred it this way, and before entering the elevator, he looked toward Cody.

Whatever happened, the two of them would need to work their hardest to get out of the situation. While in the elevator, Brandon started to think about a particular person.

'That's an interesting kid you know, Zain. I wonder what's the story between you two.' Brandon thought.

When the elevator door opened, Brandon headed down the hall and walked to the office and double doors that he was in before, but before he reached the door, the guard pulled on his shoulder and stopped him.

"Not yet. You're not allowed to go in yet." The man said. "Just wait here till the doctor comes out."

Brandon felt like it was a little strange, but what could he do? When darting his eyes around the place, Brandon was trying to look for clues, clues about where that teenager's friend would be kept, it might even be the same place as where Pink's mother was at the moment.

With only one guard on him, Brandon was confident he could take him out but then what would he do? He still needed the medicine. While he waited there and guessed multiple situations in his head, the Doctor had finally come out of one of the rooms.

"Oh, it looks like you are here already. My men do quick work, and they are trustworthy as well, just like me." The Doctor smiled as he walked over.

"I have some good news for you. I can cure the old woman you brought in. However, the bad news is that she will need to continue to take medication for the next six months. On top of that, this infection can be passed through the air.

"Which means that all those sick people that are at your museum, they too are in need of treatment for the next six months."

In Brandon's head, this was one of the worst-case situations. For one, it was the fact that they needed to rely on the Doctor for a long time. Even if they had the name of the medicine, what if something went wrong? What if the people got worse?

A disease or illness that took six months to heal was nothing to scoff at. Of course, there was also always the chance that the Doctor was lying just to get them on the end of their stick.

"Thank you for that," Brandon answered. "What is the name of the disease? And you spoke before about wanting something. What is it that you want."

The Doctor didn't speak straight away, pretending to still be deciding, even though he had thought about what he wanted to ask for a while now.

"I was thinking, I want to talk to your leader and talk about our two groups teaming up." The Doctor requested. "I mean, after all, we are a large group of people, we have a lot of supplies and my knowledge, and I'm sure it is the same for your leader as well.

"So, in return for helping your group, I suggest that our two groups become one." The Doctor smiled.

Immediately, Brandon had a bad gut feeling, but maybe this was the best outcome. Maybe they could use this to their advantage.

"And…who would be the leader then? You should know that too many cooks spoil the broth. It would be the same here. In the first place, there are those that follow me, and those that follow Ryan, adding one more would be.."

"We can sort out the finer details later, don't you think? Anyway, if you accept, the medicine for the first month will be delivered at once."

When thinking about it, Brandon wanted to say no, because he knew how the general public would react. The people would feel indebted to the Doctor, and they would start looking up to him, and at the same time, the current control that Ryan and he had would start to fade bit by bit.

Just this was enough for Brandon to judge the Doctor as a dangerous man who understood his means and power well.

"Anyway, if you can't decide now, then I will give you the time to think about it." The Doctor said, not saying anything else at all, and began to walk away back to his room. "The old woman has taken her medicine and will be fine, she has supplies to last a while, but whether you believe me or not about the situation you have on your hands, that's up to you."

Closing the door behind, Brandon wanted to cook up a storm there and force the Doctor to comply, but in his work, he had dealt with these types of people before, and that just didn't work. And since threats wouldn't work with these people, there was nothing he could do for now.

'I should be patient. When I know what is happening, when I have more answers about where the medicine is and what the disease is, then Cody and I can act out our plan. I just hope everything will work out in the end.

Walking back, Brandon was going to exit out of the elevator. Although it wasn't worded, it was clear that Pink's mother was a hostage. Since they weren't told what room she was in, and even if they did have her, she was now a hostage to the medicine as well.

The plan was to stay there for a few days. And try to work things out. This was the plan that was going through Brandon's head until he had walked past a particular room.

"Stop! Stop! Just Stop it!" The sound was quite weak, maybe most people wouldn't have heard it, but for some reason, Brandon was able to hear it instantly.

'That voice belonged to a woman, and it sounded young. I can't be sure it's her, but for someone to scream like that… they're in danger. Everything is telling me in my body not to do a deal with this man, so then why am I hesitating!' Brandon shouted in his head, trying to convince himself, but he never needed it in the first place.

Using his leg, he kicked the back of the guard in front of him, causing his knees to cheek and for him to almost fall over. After that, using his arm, he had gotten the other in a chokehold. Pressing tightly on one arm and pushing his head forward, the man's entire face was starting to glow red.

The guard tried his best to break free, but he was an untrained man, and against Brandon, it was useless until, in a desperate attempt, he pulled on the gun in his hand, and a loud bang resounded throughout the entire area.

———

Downstairs, the gunshot resounded, and everyone stood up in a panic and huddled within their groups. They were already at the edge, and the gunshot had made it worse.

"Did you hear that...it sounded like a gunshot. What is happening?" One of them asked.

The guards seemed distracted, unaware of what was going on, and before they knew it, without anyone even noticing, the double doors by the entrance were pushed open. Cody had escaped, and he only had one thought in his mind.

'I must get help!'n0𝒱𝗲𝐥𝑢𝗌𝔟.𝚌0𝓂

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When Kelly first walked in front of the hospital with people surrounding it, she thought it was a godsend. She was already extremely worried about Cody's health, who seemed to be hanging on a thread for his life.

They had been travelling together for days now, and he had always helped her a lot, but she never felt like she had done anything to return the favour.

In the first place, Cody was only around 15 years old, he was a teenager, and yet in this world where she was an adult and a teacher no less, it felt like she was being a burden on him.

However, after everything that had occurred, Kelly soon learnt that this wasn't a godsend at all. In fact, it was a complete nightmare. After Cody had gotten treatment and she was informed he was now safe, the Doctor set up another meeting with her.

She was sitting in the office, directly opposite the Doctor's, but rather than in his seat, he was standing up and walking around as he talked. They had already talked about a strange subject, whether or not she knew about these beings that were superhuman.

Although one person's face came to mind, she decided to ignore that as an answer and just said she was unaware of any of that, which moved the conversation onward.

"Your friend is recovering well, and there will no longer be any problems. It was a good thing that you got him to me in time. Otherwise, with a fever like that, outside, the zombies would eat him up in seconds.

"I would say that I did a pretty big favour for you, correct?" The Doctor asked with a grin.

Kelly didn't know where this was going, but she assumed that the Doctor might want her to now do things around the place and Cody as well once he gets back on his feet. So she just put on a fake smile and nodded.

"Great, so you agree that I was the one that saved his life, so in return for saving a life, then it means that another life is now mine, correct?" The Doctor was now directly standing in front of her saying these words, and a strange feeling was being given off.

Immediately, Kelly stood up. She had felt this feeling from certain people before, one of them being Cobra, and she immediately wanted to get out of there, but before she could stand up, the Doctor put both hands on her shoulders.

She was ready to fight through, kick, bite and scratch her way at the person in front of her to get out of this place. There was no longer the chance to play nice, but she never got the chance to fight back.

Because immediately after being touched by the Doctor, she could feel a strange motion coming over her. Her pupils started to enlarge, and the feeling around her whole body was getting numb. Before she knew it, control of her mouth and other parts of her body felt foreign to her. It was as if someone else was controlling her body, or for the lack of better words, it was as if she was in a theatre, watching a live telecast of her life through her eyes.

Kelly, although awake and there, wasn't really there in front of the Doctor, she was almost absent from her mind, and when she finally got a hold of herself, she found herself in one of the operating rooms.

There were several bright white lights, trays of equipment and tools next to her. When she tried to move, she found herself strapped to a chair and couldn't even budge from the spot. She tried to tug, twirl, and pull, but it was impossible for her to break free.

"Ah, you're awake!" The Doctor's voice entered her ears, making her flinch. The man then walked in front of her, snapping on a glove and now in scrubs compared to the normal long white overcoat that he had on before. "Honestly, if I could, I would like to make this as painless as possible

"Unfortunately, for this experiment, I will need you to feel everything for this to…work." The Doctor added as he went to grab a tool.n0𝗏𝗲𝗅𝔲𝓈𝒷.𝓬0𝑀

"Remember our small talk about superhumans? Well, what if I told you they exist? Reports from groups and from similar observations have been coming around that there are people with different abilities all over the place.

"What type of abilities they have, I don't really have the whole picture. However, I plan to find out how and why everything happened. Was it due to the current caution, a mutation of the virus or something else? Maybe there might even be a way to unlock this power in others.

"Fortunately, you and your friend are a small group of two without any backing, so no matter what I do to you, it most likely will only anger one person, and we can deal with that. Don't worry though, I won't kill him no matter what happens to you.

"I just saved his life after all."

Right now, unstrapped Kelly was on the table, and the strange dopey state she was in was starting to wear off. Honestly, she couldn't remember much of what the Doctor had done to her. However, her body was heavily damaged in places.

Her hair was wet, she no longer had her own fingernails either, as well as multiple scratches on her body, but worst of all, she felt sick and weak. Only slowly was she remembering the Doctor taking blood samples and comparing them with other blood, as well as some of the torture procedures she had gone through.

That quickly left her mind as her brain attempted to delete such a horrific event. As she finally came to, though, she knew that she needed to get out of the place.

She was strapped in once more, but her mind was in a better place.

'I see no way out of this.' Kelly thought. 'There's nothing I can grab, kick or spit out of my mouth like in those movies together…I guess there is only one thing I can do.'

With this thought in mind, Kelly screamed as loud as she could, hoping that maybe someone could hear, that something could happen that would help her out of the current situation, and a moment later, a few gunshots were heard.

'What's going on? Don't tell me it's because… of me?' Kelly frowned.

——

After the gunshots resounded, it was time for Cody to spring into action. He was told by Brandon that maybe this plan would take a day or so, or perhaps half a day. Yet, Cody had decided to be ready to go at the drop of a hat, and if he needed to, he was going to go ahead with the plan.

This was why Cody had sat down right at the front of the reception, and during that time, he had kept his eyes off the metal doors. During the chaos, Cody found an opportunity and ran forward while everyone was just thinking and turning their heads, looking at one thing.

It was the exit hallway of the hospital, with two metallic double doors with glass windows, but not only that, there was a problem outside as well. Knowing this, Cody opened the door and kicked it as hard as he could, swinging both of them outward.

Upon reaching halfway of its max opening, the door hit both of the guards in the arm. It had surprised them both, and they fumbled with what to do.

Reaching down to his ankle, Cody pulled out a small knife that he had hidden just underneath his sock. Immediately, turning and looking at the man, Cody threw it as hard as he could, and it pierced the man's neck. Blood splurged out of it before he could no longer breathe and passed out.

'I thought I would be okay with killing a human after killing so many zombies, but it's still a vastly different feeling to what I expected.' Cody thought. 'Either way, to save Kelly and my own life, I need to act and deal with both of the guards' Cody thought.

After taking out one guard, Cody picked up his small blade and threw it at the other, stabbing him in the thigh. But only a small amount of blood came out from his thick tree trunk-like thighs.

The guard pulled out the blade and didn't seem bothered, as if Cody's attack had done nothing. In the next moment, the guard threw the blade back at Cody. The latter's fast reflexes allowed him to dodge the attack, but now he was in a dangerous situation.

Because, for one, the guard had pulled out the gun on the other hand, and now Cody was just standing there with his hands up as the gun was pointed at atheism, ready to deal with him at any second.

'I needed to take out both of the guards..and call the others for help that Brandon had…now..now, what do I do.' Cody thought.

Looking at the relatively large man, Cody imagined kicking his head, but it was too high and the man too large. Regardless, before he could even act, he saw a foot hit the man the next second right in the side of the head, knocking him out completely.

"I didn't think I would see you here." A woman appeared in front of him with a smile, standing behind the fallen man.

It was a familiar face for Cody.

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It took a second look for Cody to realise who was in front of him. He panicked and was ready to fight whoever was coming towards him that he had nearly lashed out at his saviour. As he slowed down and looked at the person carefully, he finally recognised her.

"You... wait, weren't you part of the group that came into the Cobra gang's hideout?" Cody asked in a surprised tone.

Hearing footsteps from behind him, Cody spun around and swung his arm out, but before it hit the person, he felt his fist being grabbed and stopped. Whoever could stop his sudden punch had to have two things, good reflexes and powerful strength.

When speaking about who it was, it was someone that Cody didn't quite recognise.

"You have quite good reflexes, Kid, I don't know who you are, but you should say thanks to the pretty lady since she asked us to help you out."

Both Kun and Pink were keeping an eye on the place. Kun had a feeling that something was about to go wrong. It always did in these types of situations, so they were waiting to see if anything would happen and just as they said that, they saw Cody kicking the entrance and running out.

When Pink recognised the human, a smile appeared on her face upon realising that he had survived, and from the impression she had gotten from the person, he didn't seem to be a bad seed. However, his actions were rash as he went outside.

Although he had managed to kill one of the guards, the other had easily overpowered him. Pink had to make a decision, and trusting her intuition, she decided to act.

"Thank you for helping me out, but I need to go, I need to find the people who came here with Bradon!" Cody said as he ran off, but Kun grabbed him again.

"Hey, did you just say Brandon? I think the ones that he might be talking about are us. Why don't you go and tell us what exactly is going on inside." Kun asked.

Two groups, who had somewhat of a connection with each other and even though they didn't really know each other, Kun and Pink had come to this place with them, not to mention that if Brandon was in danger, Pink's mother was as well.

While this was happening outside, Brandon was in a struggle. The man he had a grip on had just shot a bullet, and he was sure that everyone must have heard it and that soon there would be many guards coming after him.

Putting more force behind his choke hold, Brandon knocked out the guard and took his gun. Shortly after, he started to run towards the room where the sound was coming from. Pressing on the Handle, he attempted to open the door, but it seemed to be locked.

Turning his head, he could hear the sound of the elevator moving as well, and the number above it was changing.

"You two just go out there and see what is going on!" A voice shouted on the other end, and it was clear it was from the doctor.

'I've made a lot of noise already, so I guess it honestly doesn't matter too much.' Brandon thought as he pointed the gun towards the door and shot a few more times after that. Kicking the door open, he entered one of the many operating rooms.

He was wondering if he would see Pink's mother here, but instead, it was a sight that he could never imagine. Blood was dripping on the floor, and a young man was lying on the table, strapped to a make-shift operating table, crying in pain, with her clothes drenched red in blood.

"Is...who is that...I don't know who you are, but please help me, please save me... It hurts so much. I don't want to go through this anymore, it really hurts, just kill me, please."n0𝑽𝗲𝓵𝐔𝓈𝔟.𝒸0𝓶

Quickly running towards the young woman on the table, Brandon was stunned. He stood there for a second as he looked her up and down and looked at the tools by the side of the table.

"What the f*ck did that sick doctor do to you?" Brandon could barely control the volume of his due to the shock. There was almost no clear skin on her body that appeared to the normal eyes because there were cuts and burn marks all over her body.

It was clear to Brandon, as he had seen this type of thing a few times in the past, these were signs of torture. On top of that, from the wounds inflicted on the woman's body, it was clear the doctor had tried various tools, as if he was trying out different methods, to see if he could get a different result, or maybe just for fun.

"That doctor..." Kelly replied in a weak voice, barely holding on to her consciousness. "He was trying to create a superhuman...trying to test and see if I would become one."

"Superhuman?" Brandon repeated the word.

Thinking about the reports of other groups, there were some talks of superhumans, but even in their whole group, there currently wasn't a single one. Although, some face did come to his mind that he had met recently who perhaps could be referred to as superhuman.

Either way, it wasn't the time for him to think about these things. Brandon grabbed some of the tools by the side and started to work away at the straps. There were sharp tools, and they still had traces of blood on them.

It looked like the doctor didn't care too much if there was an infection or if Kelly would have died.

"What's your name?" Brandon asked as he used the metal stick to try and break away the straps. He wanted to keep her awake and distract her from the pain, thus was asking the question. Meanwhile, he was also going back and forth as quickly as he could but didn't want to harm the woman anymore. She had already been hurt enough.

"It's Kelly...there was a boy...he was with me," Kelly spoke.

"Yes, don't worry about him," Brandon replied, breaking two of the straps away. "I met him. In fact, he was the one that asked me to come and help you. So don't worry, you two will be back together. I'll make sure of that."

Finally, breaking off the last strap, Brandon freed her.

However, he didn't immediately get her out of her room. He had wasted a lot of time in untying her, and there would surely be people outside. Therefore, he kicked out the operation table to its side, turning it into a small barrier, and as soon as he heard the door knob turning, he started firing the gun without giving any chance to the people outside.

The bullets went through the door and hit several men in the stomach and limbs, making them scream in pain.

"I've been hit... I've been hit!" One of them shouted.

"Who cares about that? Just fire back!" Another shouted.

Bullets started to come out from the other side as well after that shout. They hit the table, but the two had already moved to the side. The table was just a temporary safety measure.

"Every time I'm going to fire, I will move. These guys aren't trained, so it should give us a chance to get out of here." Brandon explained to Kelly, making her aware of what would happen.

The only thing was, there was a lot of firepower coming from outside, much more than he had expected. Making him wonder where they get so many guns suddenly from.

'They must have more guns somewhere. Where are they hiding them? Have they given them to those people in the reception just to take me out?'

Right now, the two of them were in the corner of the room, he asked Kelly to move first along the side of the wall, and then, while continuing to fire back at them, he would get to her shortly after.

It seemed to work since there was one location for Brandon to shoot at, and he could hear by the sounds he was successfully hitting others on the other side. Truthfully though, he didn't like it. He didn't like the feeling that he was hurting others who were most likely innocent in this. They weren't fighters by any means.

And, from the sounds of it, someone was forcing them to continue firing.

"Get in there now!" Regardless of their injuries and such, the next moment, they stormed the room.

"You don't want to fight!" Bradon shouted, warning them one last time. "If you do, a lot of you will lose your lives. I'm a squad captain, highly trained and have been using a gun for years. So even if you manage to take me down, there will be a lot of you who will go down with me."

Shooting the ground by the feet of those that had just entered, Brandon also made a warning shot to show them just how skilful he was with a gun. If he had hit them, there was a higher chance that they would panic, so this was the only option he had.

"Just let us through," Brandon said. "Look at what your doctor did to this woman, he will do the same to you, and you don't need to stay here. We have a place, a safe place for you all."

Soon after, in the hallway, just behind those with guns, there were several with strange-looking rifles, and without hesitation, they fired away at the two of them. Brandon had avoided most of them, thinking they were bullets, but suddenly, he felt a small prick in his arm.

'A dart...and I feel so sleepy..is this a tranquiliser?" Brandon thought, but it was strong, and before fully understanding what had happened, he fell to the floor unconscious.

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After hearing about what had happened in the Hospital from Cody, it was time for Kun and Pink to decide what to do next. It was clear that Brando needed their help, but the thing was, Kun was really hoping that Zain would have returned or arrived by now, but the latter was still missing and hadn't regrouped with them yet.

Thinking about this, Kun smiled to himself.

'I guess I didn't realise how we have started to rely on him so much. We have gotten strong because of him, stronger than we were before. And it's time to use our new strengths.'

With this thought, he suggested some things to Cody and Pink before they headed in.

"We need to move now. If there are gunshots and several people under the doctor's control like you said they are, then it means we need to hurry. Otherwise, there will be a lot of trouble."

As the other two nodded, Kun took the gun from Cody's hand and gave him a quick guide on how to use it, although he could only tell him the basics for now.

"In all honesty, it would be best if you didn't have to use it since most people inside are just scared and cautious," Kun said.

With a determined nod, all three of them ran into the hallway. They sprinted down the hallway, and in doing so, it looked like there were quite a few panicked people inside.

"Everyone, we have received an order from the Doctor!" The person at the reception yelled at them, "We have to attack the people who have come today with that patient."

At the same time, one of the guards pulled out a large crate from behind. And soon, they began to hand out guns to the general public. As that was happening, many of those in their seats had turned and looked toward Dave, who was still sitting in the back.

"Wait, I haven't done anything. Why are you guys looking at me?!" Dave shouted. "You can see that I have been here the whole time. There has to be a mistake."

Without giving a chance for Dave to convince them, one of the scrawny men, who looked weak and possibly also a university student, leapt towards Dave and tried to punch him, but Dave didn't sit still.

The training that Dave had received at the museum had kicked in, and seeing his hand cocked back, he waited for the latter to throw the punch since the direction of where it was going to be easy to read, and so he easily avoided it, then throwing a punch fo his own right in the scrawny guy's face.

It was a hard hit that had hurt Dave's knuckles and hand, but he had a sense of achievement as he looked at the student on the floor.

"Look at that smile on his face, he just hit one of us, and he acts like that!"

"He must be evil. That's why the doctor has told us to get their group."

The commotion suddenly resumed as if the people were trying to convince themselves. It was obvious that Dave hadn't thrown the first attack, yet they were making it seem like it had happened that way.

A group of around seven people walked towards him, all intending to kill. Dave's punch might have allowed him to knock one person down, but the question was whether or not he could survive seven at once.

'Think about your training.' Dave thought.

"Remember now, if you are ever in a situation where you are to face multiple people at once, the best thing you can do is run." The voice in Dave's head told him. But this information was useless to him now because he was completely surrounded.

Bang *Bang *Bang

A small burst of bullets was suddenly heard from the hallway, making everyone freeze. There were many in the queue to get their guns. Around ten already had weapons in their hands, while others were in the middle of getting their guns, and some had grabbed melee weapons since there didn't seem to be enough guns for them all.

Bullets were shot at the feet of those towards the front and closest to the reception. Everyone froze as they saw guns pointed at them.

n0𝐕𝖊𝐥𝑢𝐒𝗯.𝐂0𝔪

"Don't you even think of acting smart, if you do, then there will, of course, be a price to pay." Kun ordered.

One of the men with a handgun finger was twitching, he was nervous in the situation he was in, unsure about what to do, but a strange thought was running through his head.

'If I get rid of these attackers and all three of them now, I will be by the doctor's side. I can get rid of all my debt in one go and start collecting debts from others!' The man thought.

So he turned his gun and pointed it towards Kun, but the latter instantly noticed this and pulled his trigger. A short burst of bullets came out and hit the man on his knees, causing him to fall to the floor.

Blood streamed from the man's knees as he was on the floor, as he wailed and screamed in pain.

"Save me. Someone save me! Call the doctor! Quick, save me!" The man shouted.

"If any of you move, then there will be another bullet in you. I'm a good shot, I hit the knees on purpose. Now, drop the guns!" Kun ordered.

They all were reluctantly looking at each other, and after two seconds of them not following Kun's order, he lifted up the gun again, pointing it toward the entire group, causing them to immediately drop the guns on the ground.

Soon, the guns were gathered and placed in the toilet, and the room was then locked with a key by Dave, and after that, he took one gun for himself as well.

"Dave, now listen up, you did well back there, but now you're going to have a bigger job. You have to make sure these people stay here and don't go for the guns. Make sure everyone stays in line, and that means, even if you have to shoot them." Kun said, as he looked at the injured man on the floor who was bleeding out, he looked pale.

In truth, Kun didn't want to kill anyone, but they needed to make an example of someone to put a bigger fear into them compared to what the doctor had set. Dave didn't know if he was up to the task, but the truth was he needed to be. It didn't matter how he felt.

After that, Kun Pink and Cody continued down the hall, making their way to the elevator, hoping to find Brandon, and Kelly, saving them just in time from the chaos that was appearing.

"Hey!" Dave shouted. "They said don't move! If you move, I will shoot."

The people were slowly shuffling out, and Dave could hear a lot of talking between them.

"This is the guy from before, right, and he only has a handgun. He can't shoot us all if we rush him at once."

"But should we go after him, I mean, what if these guys get rid of the doctor? Wouldn't that mean we will be free from our debts?" Another one said.

"I can't believe you just said that. I will tell the doctor what type of person you are!"

It was starting to get rowdy, and Dave made up his mind as he pointed the gun toward a particular person and fired two shots. Everyone instantly stopped, and silence fell in the hall. When looking at where Dave had shot, they could see that he had killed someone.

'He.. he's dead.'

The person who Dave had shot was the man who was already bleeding out. He was screaming the most, and was also the main reason why the others were getting agitated. But now, without a doubt, he was dead.

Dave knew this needed to be done because after this, no one was going to step out of line.

The others had reached the elevator, but it turned out to be useless when they pushed the button. The elevator was out of service, and now it seemed like getting up to the doctor's office would be impossible this way.

"We are just going to have to take the stairs," Cody said as he ran ahead and started climbing the stairs quickly.

He was fast and agile, and even Pink struggled to keep up, but they weren't too far behind him. At that moment, as they turned around the corner of a staircase, a door was heard slamming open, and on the other side, there was a man with a gun.

Immediately, he fired, and the bullets headed towards Cody. But the next moment, Cody saw Pink appear before him, with her back facing the other way. The bullets went through her, and blood could be seen coming out of her mouth.

Cody's eyes widened as he saw this.

"Why...why would you save me? How will you survive now?!" Cody shouted.

Wiping the blood away from her mouth, Pink smiled as she turned around and fired bullets back, hitting the man cleanly and pushing him to slide against the wall.

"This is fine for me.. because I'm a zombie." Pink smiled.

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The bullets plunged into Pink's back, and when she turned around, Cody noticed the two blood holes appearing on the back of her clothes. Without a doubt, she had been shot. Two bullets had penetrated the skin, and blood was beginning to soak her top.

Yet, Pink wasn't screaming in pain. Instead, she acted completely fine as she continued to walk up the stairs along with Kun.

'That's right...I almost forgot what I saw her do. When she bit that Corba gang member, she turned him into a zombie as well, and that can only happen if one is infected.' Cody recalled the incident that happened when the woman in front of her fought one of the Cobra gang men.

Thinking about it a bit more, Cody remembered what Zain had told him, and the last time he had seen Zain, he had seen Pink as well. It was quite possible that they were all in the same boat. All of them were some type of special zombies who could still think freely and do what they wanted.

"Are you going to be okay?" Cody asked, still looking at her blood-soaked back. "I mean, I don't really know how your body works."

"I'll be fine. You just worry about yourself. I can take a bullet or two and will recover after a nice meal, and anyway, after we're done here, there will be plenty of meat to eat around." Pink joked.

However, listening to this, Cody could only think about one thing, that Pink ate humans, and it was somewhat true as well, although the joke didn't really showcase the seriousness of the situation.

As they continued to run up, Kun, who was leading the group, heard the commotion ahead and the sound of doors opening.

They were on the third-floor staircase, but from the sound of things, there would be quite a few people with weapons up ahead to stop them.

"Detour. If they rain down bullets from above on us, I don't even think we are going to survive that," Kun instructed the other two.

They went through the next set of double doors leading to the hallway of the third floor. The hospital was quite large and had four staircases in total that led to the top. One in each corner. It had four hallways as well as the main reception room that led to multiple rooms as well.

So as soon as they ran through the halls, with the trolleys in the hallway, and the several doors and rooms, they noticed how strange such a place looked. A hospital was usually filled with patients at all times, and nurses moving about everywhere taking care of the patients.

But here, there was nothing, there was no one, and to top it all off, there was a lot of blood. Now that it would be weird considering the state of the world, however, this whole group was centered around a doctor, so it was at least expected to have some other staff as well.

"Okay, let's take a break," Kun said as he turned to one of the consultation rooms and opened the door, closing it quickly behind him after the other two stepped in.

There were a couple of seats, a drawn curtain, and a chair for one to lie down in, as well as a broken computer. The room looked unused, to say the least. As for Cody, he was happy that they were taking a break.

His hands were on his knees, and he was panting heavily, trying to catch a breath. They had sprinted non-stop, and with the panicked situation they were in, Cody was feeling somewhat nervous as well.

For the zombies, however, this was somewhat a normal situation, but he needed a break.

"Alright, so let's have them wait and look for us for some time, and then we will continue ahead up from there. Most likely, the Doctor will stay at the very top of this place, away from the commotion, while sending others down." Kun said to the other two.

At the moment, as Kun had guessed, the Doctor was indeed on the top floor. He had asked some of his men to deal with the situation, and while they did, he didn't stay in his office but went to the CCTV room, looking at the live footage throughout the hospital.

There were cameras in the hallways but not in the patient rooms themselves. However, they were enough for him to know what floor they were on.

Grabbing onto the microphone in front of him, the Doctor cleared his throat and began to speak.

"It looks like the young kid brought some people back." The Doctor revealed it to his people. "And there's something strange happening at the reception. This is such a shame, but I understand that these things happen.

"Everyone, you have done well so far, continue at it, and anyone who manages to catch one of those that is disrupting the place will have their entire debt cleared. On top of that, you will be able to apply debt to others for helping run the place and making such a great community.

"Because, of course, if you're able to stop the intruders, then it means that the rest of the people that live here will owe you a debt for helping them."

Kun was just shaking his head as he heard these words because he had figured out pretty quickly how this entire place was run. The people were practically brainwashed, living in a new and different society from what they were used to.

"Anyway, I see that the intruders are on the third floor, but I ask that no one is to head to the third floor, I repeat, no one is to head to the third floor. You are to stay put where you are, and if they manage to escape, only then are you to act. I doubt that you will need to be put to use because they won't make it out alive."

The message was broadcasted, and it ended there, but Kun was starting to wonder why the Doctor was so confident. Eventually, they decided to leave the room after a few minutes. They tried to use their ears to listen out for anything people or the sound of guns, but there was no such thing.

"Should we head back to the staircase or head to a different one?" Pink asked.

"I'm not sure. Let's just keep walking for now." Kun replied.

The three continued to walk, and up ahead, there were the double doors that would lead to a large main reception area where all the hallways intersected. When they slowly opened it, they saw something strange. It looked like a hospital bed that was standing on the bottom half and held upright.

There were multiple straps on it, but they looked to have been cut, and worse for all, there was blood all over the hospital bed.

"Can you smell that?" Kun asked.

"Yeah...I can." Pink replied. "But I can't tell if it is human, or...is it dead."

Kun was getting a strange tingling feeling, and he didn't like it at all, which was why he had turned back around and slammed the double doors shut. Soon after that, he started running and looked at the thick windows by the side.

Using his hand and drawing all his strength, he punched at it with full force. Several cracks appeared on the window panel, but the glass didn't break.

'That rancid smell is coming closer to the door. Whatever it is coming from, that thing will be here at any second.'

A loud bang was heard, and glass shattering all over the place and falling to the floor could be heard as well. The window now had Pink's foot there instead, as she had kicked the window open.

"I thought I would help you out a bit," Pink smiled.

"Okay, look, Cody, you have been a big help to us so far, but in order for us to fight without worrying, we are going to have to get you out of here," Kun said. "Find another way to the top, maybe from the bottom. Just get out of here!"

Cody didn't know what was going on and why Kun was so scared, but from the looks of the strange hospital bed, they had seen it had to be something bad. When peeking out the window, Cody could see several ledges and remembered the days when he was extremely into parkour. Perhaps he could do something to help them out as well, without putting anyone's life at risk.

The next second, another loud bang was heard, and it had come from the double doors. Before Cody knew it, he was pushed by Kun out of the window. Reaching out his hand, Cody grabbed onto the ledge, slowing himself down but slipped.

He then banged his back into what looked like a dustbin. And several glass shards pierced him as well, making him cry out in pain.

"Arghh...that wasn't a good landing," Cody muttered to himself as he slowly got up from the floor. "But...I need to help them somehow, I need to find that damn Doctor and stop all of this."

Cody rolled off and slowly got up. His whole body was aching, and he was also bleeding from his back.n0𝐕𝖊𝐥𝑢𝐒𝗯.𝐂0𝔪

"I...need to do something," Cody said as he walked forward and headed back around to the front of the hospital. When he finally reached it, he stopped there for a few seconds as a young man walked up to him.

"Please...help me," Cody said, instantly recognizing the young man. "Please...Zain."

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Looking out of the window and seeing that Cody was still moving, Kun was happy to see that the other was safe and sound, but now they had their problem to deal with. Immediately, he turned towards the door, and by now, the nasty odour had also reached the hallway.

"I believe the two of us will have to be on top of our game to get out of this one," Kun said while holding the gun up.

Hearing this, Pink actually put her weapon away, as she was much more comfortable and confident with using her own body to fight. And with this, the two took a fighting stance.

The next moment, a screeching cry came from the other side. And instantly, breaking the door, and cutting through it, bit by bit, it looked like some kind of a saw that was spinning and cutting through the door.

A few moments later, half of one of the doors fell to the ground, and now both of them could see what they were facing.

As soon as they saw the sight in front of them, they were shocked. Pink involuntarily brought her hand over her mouth as she cried in confusion and stupor, "What..is that?"

It was hard to tell just from looking at it whether it was a human or if it was a zombie because it didn't look like any of the two. The creature had a somewhat human body-like shape, but there were blood-soaked bandages wrapped around it from head to toe.

Its head was twice the size of an average human, and it was hard to figure out the exact face since the head was wrapped around the most in bandages. Its legs were gigantic and split apart, making it look like a crab.

And, other than that, it also had its hand chopped off below the elbow, and replacing that limb was something that looked like a round saw. It had a sharp edge with spike ends and was circular in shape. One clear look would tell that it was a tool used by doctors to cut open the skulls of others during an operation or surgery. In addition, there were strange red tendons that had formed around it as if the hand had grown around the saw and it had become part of the creature's body.

"I'm still unsure if that's a zombie or a human...what the hell has this doctor been doing to the people here? How can they still follow him!" Pink was breathing heavily, almost in tears, because she couldn't believe that her mother was in the hands of the said person. And to make it worse, she was the one that had agreed to send her mother to this monster, and she couldn't imagine the things that were happening to the former right now.

"I'm sorry, I don't know if you are alive in there, but I need to get past you to make sure no one else suffers from the same thing as you," Kun said, not knowing whether or not the creature understood his words.

And upon seeing no response. Kun raised his hand and carefully aimed the gun. The head was a big target, and the next moment, he shot out a burst of bullets towards the head. They pierced it just like they would have done anyone else, creating several holes and pushing the creature by a few steps.

However, it didn't fall down but instead screamed. Then, running ahead, it bashed the doors open, throwing them off their hinges completely.

Shooting out more bursts of bullets toward the creature, Kun tried to stop it by targeting the brain, but it didn't look like the normal method was working on this creature.

"That isn't working!" Pink shouted as she charged forward. However, when she got close, the creature swung its arm, and the saw missed Pink by around an inch. Whatever this creature was, it was faster than a regular zombie. Nevertheless, she had also increased her agility since upgrading herself with the help of crystals.

Immediately, she kicked the saw hand as hard as possible, making the creature's body wobble to the side. And when its other hand was coming towards Pink, she chose to ignore it and was getting ready to deliver a knife kick toward the head because she was confident her partner had her back.

Just as expected, gunshots rang out, and the bullets pierced through the other arm, hitting it away and causing the creature to flinch. Now, when she jumped up and spun her leg, a blade appeared out of Pink's boot and landed right in the side of the creature's head.

It was a powerful hit, so hard that it tilted the large creature's body onto its side, causing it to fall to the ground.

"This thing... it's still alive." Pink said as she could see that it was still breathing, still moving and attempting to get back up.n0𝑽𝔢𝓁𝔲𝒮𝑩.𝐂0𝗆

"Then just ignore it, and let's keep moving," Kun said as he ran past them, and Pink wasn't so far behind either. However, when they entered the main reception hall, they found that the creature they had faced wasn't the only one they would have to deal with.

In the reception room on the ground floor, Dave was still holding his gun. But after the doctor's words were broadcasted throughout the hospital, it looked to have been changing the views and opinions of a few people in the room. The doctor's words had struck fear in their minds once again, and now, what Dave had done before was starting to disappear from their minds.

"Everyone be quiet!" Dave shouted. "If you keep talking, I will have to shoot this thing."

His hands were shaking again, trembling from the shock which he still hadn't processed of what he had done before. Shooting someone who was begging for life and someone alive and well were two completely different things altogether.

"Look, his hands are shaking. He's scared, we will definitely be able to do something."

These comments made Dave even more nervous than before, and he could tell if he didn't do something now, then the situation would only get worse.

'What do I do!' Dave was racking his brain for an answer, 'Who do I shoot? Someone how old, but what if they die? They will bleed out because of me...but Brandon trusted me, if I don't do this, then we all will die, and then what will happen to everyone else at the museum.'

At the same time, there were conflicting thoughts in Dave's head. This was a hospital with a doctor, and what had they ever done?

Brandon hadn't updated Dave on what was actually happening, and it meant the latter had no clue what was actually happening. He was just given an order that he needed to follow. But at the end of the day, he was just a normal university student, not a trained professional.

'I...I can't do this. Dave squinted, and before he knew it, he felt something heavy hit his hand. The grip around the gun had loosened, and it was heard falling to the floor and sliding across it.

Another thud was heard, and a water bottle could be seen on the floor. While he was distracted, one of the others threw it and hit the gun. Immediately, Dave could see the people coming towards him.

However, he knew what was dangerous and dived for the gun. His body was now on top of it, but before his hands could reach it, he felt a kick, a punch, and now a bombardment of hits rained down upon him.

Never in his life had Dave felt this kind of pain. He was getting stomped, hit, kicked, and punched, and he was sure his bones would break because everyone was hitting him as hard as they could. But if he moved away from the gun, he felt like he would die. However, staying in this potion as well would also only lead to the same outcome.

"Kill him! Kill him and tell the doctor!" A man shouted as he used his fists and hammered down right on Dave's head. He used the bottom part of his hands, but the good thing was Dave had been informed what to do in this situation, and it was to turtle up.

Both hands covered the back of his head, and he brought his knees close to his body to protect his vitals until the grip on his head worsened.

"You f*cker, you really pointed a gun at us, but you couldn't even use it!" The man shouted. "You made us fear for our lives, someone like you? I can't wait to make you do unimaginable things with the debt you will have after this!"

The man then went and lifted one of the chairs. The others moved away, allowing him to get through, then with the metal legs, he lifted it and was ready to slam it right on Dave's head.

"You should have killed me when you had the chance, you f*cking stupid boy!" The man shouted in anger, ready to hammer it down.

BANG *BANG *BANG

The man stopped with the chair midway as he looked down at his chest, and in the next instant, he fell to the floor. There were three bullet holes in him, and the man was dead.

"He might be afraid to shoot you all, but I won't hesitate to shoot you, and right now, I think all of you deserve to die."

A red-haired young man wearing a hoodie walked in with a gun pointed at them.

Instantly, silence fell in the room once again.

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Opening his eyes, the entirety of Brandon's body felt groggy. It wasn't hurting, he had only received a few scratches from the onslaught of bullets from before, but even then, it was hard to tell why his wounds weren't hurting in the first place.

The initial adrenaline rush should have been over by now, yet he could hardly feel and control his body. He just felt incredibly weak.

'Is it some type of drug, sedative maybe? That would make sense why my mind isn't complete there, and it was the same with that woman from before. What did that kid say her name was…Kelly?'

Just when he was thinking about this, he heard a few groans from his left, and it looked like there was someone with him, and it was none other than Kelly herself. She seemed to be more awake than him, judging by her eyes.

But that wasn't what stood out. Instead, it was the fact that they were in another operating room, different from the one before, this one looked a lot cleaner, and the two of them were tied and strapped up to strange chairs, similar to the ones used on mental patients or the prisoners on death row.

"I'm sorry. I should have told you before." Kelly said in a low voice, now seeing that Brandon was awake. "They have these potent tranquillizers that they can use. That's how they got me before, and the doctor himself has this tranquillizer in his body. I mean, It's happened a few times, but when he touches me with his hand, even when he's barehanded, I start to feel heavy-headed and sleepy."

It wasn't strange for the hospital to have some substances that could make one go under, but what was strange was Kelly's last sentence.

"Sorry, I know I'm not making much sense right now, but I was so panicked, and I think I'm just putting things together now." Then, she began to elaborate, "You see, the doctor, he was asking about superhumans and was running all sorts of different tests on me.

"I think...honestly, he was trying to turn me into a superhuman by torturing me, but now that I think about it, how could the doctor be such sure superhumans even exist? I haven't even really seen any for myself. Which makes me believe that he has to be sure of it for one reason."

"Because he is a superhuman himself." Brandon finished off her sentence coming to the same conclusion. "Well, knowing that information won't help us out now because we're stuck here. Either way, the only thing we can rely on is that teenager calling for help."

Hearing the word teenager had perked up Kelly's ears a bit. Regardless, her energy was incredibly low, and she had already suffered a lot when Brandon had tried his best to get both of them out of the situation they were in not too long ago.

The only saving grace was the fact that whatever was causing her body to feel this way was wearing off, and the time for her waking up was getting shorter and shorter.

"I don't think you will be able to rely on that teenager for long." The doctor said as he entered the room from the side. He then picked up a remote that was placed on the side of a table and pressed a button.

There was a screen directly above the two of them, it was one that doctors would usually use when performing surgery, but it had been set up for something else. After a few buttons were pushed, they could see surveillance footage inside the hospital.

In the hallway, they were able to see Cody, along with Pink and Kun as well. Suddenly Cody jumped out of the window as it looked like something dangerous was coming their way.

'This…is it live footage or something from before?'

Listening closely to the video, Brandon could hear the sound of gunshots, and he could only assume that this was going on at the same time while they were dealing with their own mess, which meant some time had passed.

"I can tell you are someone who had special training, and it looks like you were prepared for something like this, and even had two waiting outside to come in. I have to admit they are skillful, but they won't be able to reach this floor."

Pressing another button, it switched to the live feed, showing the two of them in the main hall, a large oval space that branched off to several hallways and stairs. Here they could see a number of mutated creatures, experiments performed by the doctor mashing up man and zombie, creating something horrid, and the two of them, even with their guns, seemed to be somewhat struggling to take them down.

n0𝑣𝓮𝓛𝔲𝓈𝑩.𝒞0𝑀

"Your reinforcements will fail, and rather than worrying about the two. I think the two of you should worry about yourself. You see, I have an experiment I have been working on, and so far, the results have been unsatisfactory.

"At some point, even I eventually give up, or my methods go a little too far, to the point where the only way of saving someone is turning them into something like that."

Kelly gulped as she imagined her body being meshed up like that. Thankfully, she had held out against all the methods used so far, but at one point, she did feel like her mind was on the verge of breaking.

Pressing another button, the camera switched to multiple views, allowing the doctor to see several different cameras around the hospital and on all floors. However, he didn't wish to pay too much attention to that as he turned around and was ready to put on his white gloves, snapping them on one at a time.

"Usually, we would sanitize everything before doing such an operation, but there is no reason for me to follow the rules and procedures anymore." The doctor said, walking closer towards both of them, but that's when he could see a smile on the two faces.

'What is this? Rather than fear, they are smiling instead?' Then, looking in the direction of their eyes, they could see that it was towards the CCTV screen. That's when the doctor noticed someone he didn't recognize on the screen.

"Oh, it looks like you have one more. But do you really think a single red-haired guy will change anything?" The doctor asked.

Hearing these words, Brandon started to chuckle.

"Yeah, I do." He recalled all the amazing feats this person could accomplish, things that should have been impossible for a human. He recalled how the same red-haired young man played a crucial role in taking down the zombie horde and saving the museum.

And after seeing him appear here, a ray of hope lit up in his heart, and he felt quite relieved.

He smiled while staring at the doctor and only added two more words.

"You're f*cked."

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Things had been hectic for the museum group, especially for Dave. Not too long ago, he had experienced a life-and-death situation on his outing. Having gotten out of that from the skin of his teeth, he had hoped that he wouldn't need to deal with a similar situation for a while.

However, fate had other plans, and once again, Dave found himself in a dire situation. Coming to the hospital, something that would have been a simple task, easy in the past, was now a nightmare, and the eyes of all the people around were those of monsters, worse than the zombies themselves.

Regardless of this, one person had managed to catch the attention of them all. Zain stood there with not just one handgun but two in his hands. They were both pointing toward the large group of people, and Cody was not too far behind him.

'It's...it's Zain, you finally got here. Where were you?' Dave asked in his head, but he didn't say those words out loud; he was too filled with joy to have his life just saved for that.

"I'm here to see the doctor, and if any of you get in my way, I won't be afraid to shoot. I'm not as nice as he is. " Zain stated, and as he walked over, the people cleared a clear pathway for him.

They then saw him step over the body he had just shot, lying on the floor dead with the blood slowly draining out of him.

"You did a good job," Zain said as he moved by Dave's side. "I got caught up in something, so part of what happened here is my fault."

Dave shook his head as he heard these words.

"You can't say that; it's twice now that you've saved me. I don't even know how I'm going to repay you."

In the middle of the two talking, Cody was getting ready to open the door. His hands were shaking as he was worried about what happened to Kelly, not just her but Pink and Kun, who had heard him as well.

"Come on, there's still a lot of us compared to them. What are we doing standing here? We should all rush and get them together." A voice was heard crumbling from the crowd, and many of them started to mumble after that.

Dave had seen this scene before because it was exactly what had happened to him. At first, they were all frightened, but slowly their confidence grew, and soon they would lash out and attack them again.

"Who said that?" Zain shouted out. "Bring out which one said those words right now, or I'm going to start shooting the front row of you all one by one."

There were darting eyes around the room, and unlike with Dave, there was confidence in Zain's voice, which eventually led to the older gentleman with a grey beard being pushed out towards the front.

"What are you guys doing!" The man said, turning around. "We should all go toward him together!"

BANG

"AHHH!" The man screamed as he felt the bullet hitting him; holding onto his bleeding thigh, he shouted,

"I've been shot! He shot me, he shot me!"

Zain walked over to the man and pointed the gun at his head.

"Stop making noise if you want to live," Zain stated, and the man immediately shut up.

"If any of you try to come forward, or go through these doors, once we pass them, I will shoot, and I will kill all of you. Because unlike my friend here, I am not afraid to pull the trigger, as you have seen twice now.

"Because there is one thing you should all know. To me, my life is a lot more important than yours, and I will do anything to survive."

At that point, Zain had turned his back toward them, a brave move because if the others were going to act, now would be the time, but not a single one did, as they saw the man holding onto his knee and the dead on the floor.

After that, he pushed open the double doors and continued to walk.

'That was a little lesson to you, Dave. When your life's on the line, this is how you need to act if you are to survive in the world.'

"Cody, lead the way. Take me to Kun and Pink, and then you go after the doctor if you're confident enough. If not, then you can always wait, but it might be too late by then." Zain honestly said.

Cody gritted his teeth and nodded. He couldn't just rely on Zain; he needed to do things himself.n0𝚟𝓮𝑙𝗎𝑠𝓫.𝕔0𝑀

As they were ready to run through the hallway and to the staircase on the other side, Zain stopped hearing a ding sound.

[The system has recognised the two Reborn Zombies as your allies]

[Would you like to add them to your party?]

'A party system, like in a game? Wait, if I add them to my party, then won't I be able to see things like their stats or health and where they are? Maybe then the other skill will be able to locate them as well.'

Thinking of this, Zain immediately clicked on the [Yes] icon.

[A party has been formed]

[Party members will not use up slots in your Horde]

[A new quest has been received]

[Your party members are in trouble. Rescue and regroup with your party members and eliminate the threat.]

[Reward: Gold card]

'A gold card reward, that's quite the nice reward, but then that means that this quest might be a little difficult.'

Zain turned his head and looked back at the door with the people on the other side. Maybe there was a way to make this quest a bit easier.

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A gold card, so far, the rewards from the high-level cards had been more than helpful, and Zain couldn't lose out on this opportunity for more than one reason. First, he didn't know when another chance like this to get a gold card would come up again, especially in a situation he needed to complete anyway.

This wasn't like the platinum or other higher cards where he was going into the unknown. On top of that, he wanted to save Pink and Kun anyway. Since improving their abilities by using crystals to upgrade their bodies and strength, they have proven to be a strong and reliable asset for the future.

'If the system is making the quest a gold one, then that would mean it must think it's quite the difficult one as well. So let's not take any chances.'

Rather than continue walking forward, Zain turned around, and in doing so, he pushed the double doors open wide with his two arms, heading back into the reception room.

The people inside the room flinched slightly as they saw Zain. Cody and Dave were still in the hallway, and as he closed the doors, he said a few words.

"Just wait for me by the staircase for a moment," Zain asked as he closed the doors.

Upon turning around, he noticed the people were nervous, and one of them was wrapping a bandage around the thigh of the old man that had been shot before. Although it didn't look like it would do much since no one in the room seemed to have much medical training.

'I guess the doctor is the only one that can actually do something around here, but that's strange, shouldn't there have been other staff in the hospital as well.' Zain thought.

When thinking about it a bit more, and thinking about what type of person the doctor was, then it made sense. Because Zain would have done the same in the same position, in this world, everything was about resources.

If others could do the same job as you, then it would mean your job or task was less valuable, so the best thing to do was to take out all of those that could threaten your position.

To put it simply, the doctor must have ordered all of them to have been eliminated, which left regular citizens to help out now and then.

'We should have done more research before even thinking about asking for help from this type of person.' Zain thought.

Either way, Zain was still going to continue ahead as he walked over to the group and knelt to the old man that he had shot before. The others stepped back from Zain; there was just something about him screaming that he was a crazy person.

"The doctor might not live after today, so your life was unlikely to be saved, and anyone who did look after you, well, their chances of survival would have been lowered by you anyway."n0𝑽𝔢𝓁𝔲𝒮𝑩.𝐂0𝗆

Grabbing the man's head, Zain pulled it back, revealing part of his neck.

"Arghh What…what are you planning on doing?" the man asked.

"You don't need to know, but let me just tell you one thing, That little plan of yours, could have gotten me and the others killed. I don't take too kindly to threats."

Right there and then, in front of all the others, Zain opened his mouth, and in doing so, he bit down on the man's neck. It only took a few seconds as his veins bulge, and his eyes started to turn for the system notification to appear.

[An undead has been created, you have one new horde member!]

'This is good, I lost quite a lot in the fight before anyway, and I don't want to lose the others. I don't know what I will be going up against, but it's best to make an army of my own anyway.'

As the newly created Zombie stood up from the ground, the others were still confused about what had happened. Then without hesitation, Zain threw the man directly into the group of people.

Doing this, the man knocked a couple over, and immediately he started biting on those he fell on. Everyone heard more screams of pain, and the people were all too familiar with this scene. They had seen it many times before entering the hospital.

"You will all become the army I need to take over this place," Zain said as he got up and turned around. There were only so many horde members that he could control in the first place, so the rest of them would be free to do as they wished.

In Zain's head, it was easier to protect the few humans he cared about from the zombies than everyone in the building, so it was an easy decision to make.

The door opened once again, and Zain was seen walking through, wiping his mouth with the sleeve of his shirt and closing the doors behind him to nothing but the screams of the others.

"Zombies!! It's a Zombie!!!" The other two could hear muffled screams on the other side of the door.

"What… happened there?" Dave asked.

"Nothing for you guys to worry about. They will be the ones helping us get out of this place and ensure there are no more problems here." Zain stated as he walked past them and headed for the stairs.

From behind, Cody looked at Zain's sleeve and saw it was slightly darker in colour, having soaked up some of the blood.

'Zain…I have an idea of what you did. I'm not sure I agree with your methods or what you really are, but right now, I'm happy that you are on our side in all of this.' Cody thought.

[15/15 Horde members You have reached the maximum number of members]

'That was quicker than I thought.' Zain smiled.

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Reaching the staircase was easy, but going up them was where the difficult bit started to come into play. As they went up to the second floor, Zain could hear that there were people up ahead near the top of the staircase.

"Just stay behind me," Zain whispered, holding both of the handguns in his hand. As soon as he turned a corner, he immediately fired. It had clearly hit one of the men in the arm and then the head.

The man was killed in a single shot as he slid down the stairs. The others were confused, but before the man next to him could pull a shot, a few more bullets shot through his body and rendered him useless.

Storming through the hallway door of the second floor were more people with guns, but as soon as they saw the blood, they started to just fire randomly. In a panic, one of the female women, standing behind the man in the doorway, had shot her ally, causing him to fall to the floor, allowing Zain to carefully aim and take them out.

Upon reaching the platform, they found four dead bodies on the ground.

'He took out four people just like that?' Cody thought. 'I knew he was skillful with weapons. We saw him at the supermarket, but with guns as well. And there's no hesitation when pulling the trigger either.'

Zain handed one hand gun to Cody and the other to Dave.

"This is where we split ways, and you guys need to do what we discussed earlier. Cody, you need to save Kelly, and Dave, you go and find Brandon. While I need to look after my people. I showed you what needs to be done.

"When pulling the trigger in this type of situation, the one with the least hesitation is most likely to win the fight. These people aren't trained to use guns, so all you need is a strong mind to win. Once I'm done with what I need to do, I'll try my best to come to where you guys are." Zain explained.

The two nodded, and with Cody and Dave continuing to head upstairs, Zain went through the hallway.

——

"It looks like we're trapped between a rock and a hard place right now," Kun said, and if he was in his normal body, he was sure he would have been covered from head to toe in sweat from the nerves he was feeling.

Currently, both Kun and Pink had entered the main reception hall on the third floor. It was a large oval platform with an escalator to go up one floor or four sets of staircases in each corner down the hallway to enter the place.

This was, after all, a relatively large hospital. The problem though, was not how to get up to the next floor but even if they could. There were several strange creatures in the room, exactly like the one they had just fought to get into the palace.

There were disfigured mutants that didn't quite look like zombies, nor did they look human. Someone had switched different body parts for medical devices. Their flesh had been reformed and looked to have grown other strange objects making it part of their body.

In total, there were eight of them. Four of them were blocking the doors that would lead to the staircase, then there was one at either of the escalators and lastly, there were two of them heading towards them right now, although they were moving relatively slowly.n0𝓋𝓮𝑳𝓊𝓈𝐛.𝕔0𝓶

A loud bang was heard as the doors behind them were slammed open, and the man with the razor-sharp tool, which was now spinning, was right behind them. His head was bleeding from the wound Pink had inflicted on his head.

"We will have to pick a direction and deal with one of them. Otherwise, they will all surround us, and we'll be dead!" Kun shouted.

Pink looked at Kun strangely for a second.

"Fine, we will be dead 'again'!" Kun corrected himself and rolled his eyes.

Running around the overall room, one of the creatures moving towards them had several knives, blades and syringes stuck in the belly of its body. As the two got close, it pulled a syringe from its body and hurled it right towards Kun and Pink.

The two of them dived in opposite directions to avoid the syringe. It landed and pierced on the floor, being stuck upright.

"That thing, it was as fast as a bullet. How much strength does that one have?" Pink was alarmed. They had barely gotten out of the way. If there was a normal human, or may they themselves without having upgraded their powers through the crystals, then the syringe would have definitely hit one of them.

"Super strength, feels no pain, has lost all sense of reason, and can't be killed. It's almost like we're going against a new type of super zombie." Kun suggested. "Don't waste your bullets. Focus on the task!"

The creature started to pull more medical tools from its body and was hurling them towards the pair. One hand was throwing items at Kun, who just continued to run around the creature, and the other hand was targeting Pink.

However, unlike Kun, she had decided to run by the side of the wall, then placing her foot on the wall, she ran it up as a trail of weapons was being embedded into the wall as they targeted her, and she flipped right over them.

"Show off," Kun smirked as he reached the escalator.

"I was just trying to make him get rid of all those weapons he has," Pink shouted back. "If we have to fight one of these other guys, we don't want this one trying to throw stuff at us. You just get rid of the other one."

Pink continued to run in zig-zag-like patterns, as the creature now was slowly focusing on pulling out scissors from its body and hurling them at Pink.

"I was actually counting on your strength and kicking powers to take this one out, but I guess I need to figure out how to take this one out myself," Kun said as he took a good look at the one in front of him.

It was a large human-sized body. Its face looked somewhat burnt, with its eyeballs nearly hanging out from its head, but now that he was closer, Kun realised that this human had no top on, and he hardly had any changes to his body, apart from the fact that around his chest, where his nipples would be there were two round barrel looking things sticking out from them.

"What s*ck f*ck worked on this?" Kun said, but there was something very familiar about those barrels, and it had finally clicked in his head. "Don't tell me… those barrels there!"

Loud bangs were heard as Kun dived and rolled off to the side, and the bullets made a large hole in the ground, and now he was sure. Without a doubt, what was in the man's chest was a pair of guns.

The bullets continued to fire, and Kun didn't know what to do other than run, however, the bullets eventually caught up to him, and he was hit in the side of the leg, but having lost his sense of pain long ago, he didn't falter and continued to run as fast as he could.

"At this rate, I'm going to die from holes in my body, we need to do something, and we need to do it fast!" Kun shouted.

Pink wanted to help, all of the objects had been removed from the creature's body, and it screamed in frustration. However, there was another problem now, all of the other creatures that were blocking the way had somewhat surrounded them.

"I guess we have no choice but to fight, but how do we kill these guys!" Pink squinted her eyes.

"Everything can die, even us, so there has to be a way!" A voice shouted.

Turning her head, Pink couldn't believe her eyes as she saw the familiar red-haired figure.

Zain was running across the room and had the sword held in his hand, he threw it out as strong as he could, and it pierced right through the head of the zombie shooting at Kun.

It caused the bullets to hit the side and miss, and a few seconds later, Zain was seen jumping towards the creatures in the air. Using his body weight, he grabbed onto the sword and pushed it right through the creature's head. The crash was strong, causing the creature to fall to the side.

Immediately, Zain pulled the sword out and looked at the creatures on the ground.

'No exp…does that mean it's not dead?'

"Stabbing it and hosting it through the head doesn't work!" Kun shouted.

Quickly, Zain then moved away, and as Kun had just said, it started to move and get up from the ground. Sniffing the air, Zain tried to figure out what these creatures were because they weren't zombies.

"I…have an idea to take these guys out. There is always a way to kill something." Zain smiled. "And it looks like backup has arrived."

Just then, the noise of growling came from the hallway. It was the sound of incoming zombies.

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The sound of growling could only be heard by Zain because of his enhanced hearing, the others had yet to hear it, which just showed that Zain was perhaps still ahead of them in terms of evolving as a Reborn.

"We just need to hold off a little longer," Zain suggested.

The creature from before had risen again, and it looked like he was ready to use his weapons, but instead of running away as Kun had done, Zain went in closer and stood behind the creature.

It attempted to turn around, trying to shoot Zain, but each time, Zain would swing the sword toward the leg of the Zombies as he continued to pivot, duck and stay close.

'This guy, he always seems to amaze me in one way or the other.' Kun thought, watching this. 'The creature is large in size and slow, so it's harder for it to use its weapons. Especially since it's part of the body and is in a certain place.'

Kun started to think back to his training; they were always taught that the closer they were to someone, the easier it was to disarm them. In some way, Zain's actions were a perfect example of that.

In his panic, Kun hadn't thought of this, which was why Zain was so impressive.

'It's impossible to think that this person has never received any type of military training or anything of the sort before, and he's so skilful for his age as well.'

Even now, Zain was one step ahead; not only was he avoiding and not allowing the creature to use the strange weapons on its body, but his sword strikes were aimed at the legs to slow it down.

The human body works in certain ways, and just because one didn't feel pain didn't mean it could still work with tendons and certain parts of the body getting cut. Due to the thickness and the strange hardened skin, it was just taking a few more swings than it usually would have, but eventually, the creature fell to its knees, unable to turn its body as well as it used to.

Now that Zain was taller than the creature itself, it was a strange sight since previously the creature would tower over Zain when standing. It was as if Kun was seeing someone tackling the gods and bringing them down to his level.

Despite all the work Zain had done, they now looked to be surrounded by the other creatures.

"What do we do!" Pink asked as she ran over to the other two.

"Don't worry, we have a backup now," Zain replied.

Now, the sound of growling filled the halls, and bursting right through the double doors, was a number of zombies, around 10 of them rushed in first, but there were sounds of more growls coming towards them.

The creatures turned around as they reacted to the noise. The man with the round head cutter was closest, and a zombie leapt up with its arms dangling out towards him, Zain swung his arm, slicing off the arm of the Zombie, but two more had already jumped and latched on.

'These are the members of my horde, and I can still control them, but I don't think I will have to, I'm pretty sure this will work.'

Soon, nearly five zombies had jumped on top of the creature and were using their hands and teeth to dig into the creature, pulling part of its flesh into its mouth by breaking every muscle fibre they could pull and bite.

"Are the zombies...eating each other... Can zombies even do that?" Pink asked.

"The Doctor's creations, they are not quite zombies. I don't know what they are, but you should have been able to tell from the smell, right? They smelled more like a human rather than a zombie." Zain explained.

The zombies had worked quickly, and although these creatures seemed unkillable for whatever reason, once most of their bodies had been eaten away to nothing but only a few parts of flesh on a bone, they were no longer moving.

After the initial ten zombies had stormed in, more were coming through the hallway. These were all the people from the reception. Unlike the first group, Zain didn't control these since they weren't part of his horde, but now that his little test was done, he was sure it would all work out.

The zombies didn't attack the Reborn in the first place, but they were going straight for these strange creatures in front of them. A little battle on the third floor's reception was playing out.

The creatures were no longer paying any attention to the reborn; instead, they were all swinging their arms, and weapons at the zombies, smashing their heads in and tearing off their limbs, but the numbers were overwhelming for them.

Not caring for what would happen to them, the zombies leapt up, even with broken arms and missing limbs, they continued to bite at the creatures as if trying to get rid of them.

"How did Zombies come into the hospital in the first place? It was well guarded when we arrived, and for them to be this many. Were they attracted by the noise?" Kun asked. Thinking that it could be possible.

The Doctor and his men were comfortably using weapons, which should have meant they were confident enough to know that the weapons being used inside wouldn't attract anything from the outside.

Then the most likely case was that the people from inside had been turned into zombies. For Kun, there was straight away a number one suspect in all of this, and he looked at Zain.n0𝓋𝓮𝑳𝓊𝓈𝐛.𝕔0𝓶

"If I didn't do that, then we would have died," Zain replied. "We need to look at the bigger picture. Come on, let's get moving and give that Doctor some payback before getting out of here."

Kun looked at Zain walking up the escalator and smiled. Although Zain was acting like the big toughie why was he walking up right now. Sure, he could have come to save him and Pink, but that task was done.

Right now, they could just walk out of the hospital and return. The information that Zain wanted off Brandon couldn't have been that important, right?

'I guess you do have a soft side and want to help people, even if you don't want to show it.' Kun thought.

Walking up the stairs, Zain was gritting his teeth because there had been an update to the quest.

[You have rescued your allies! Congratulations part 1 of the quest has been completed]

[Find and rescue ally Brandon to complete the quest]

'This system never stated there was a part 2 to the damn quest, and now I have to save him as well. I've come this far anyway, and I said I would help out Cody, besides I want to meet this doctor who created these mutants in the first place.

'Then I can get the gold reward card and get out of this place.'

Halfway up the escalator, there was a sudden feeling in the back of Zain's head. It started off as a dull ring which got louder and the pain. Zain had felt this before. Falling to one knee, Zain held the back of his head.

"No, not now, why now of all times, this stupid Sh*t body!" Zain said as he tried to push through, his vision getting blurry and trying to stand up.

"Zain, are you okay? Is everything alright!" Pink asked as she rushed to his side. She wanted to check if he had any wounds, but he seemed fine. Then it hit her, she had seen Zain act like this a few times before.

'He's going to pass out again, but if that happens here...'

The fighting was still going on below between the creatures, and they were close to the top. The other problem was that if Zain did pass out, just how long would it be for? Would they continue the task without him, or would one of them have to wait with Zain while the others continued to go up?

Zain was pushing through, and sweat was running down the side of his face; the pain, the headache, all of these things were more human-like actions.

'Now is the worst time for this to happen. This is dangerous. My life could be on the line. Isn't there anything I can do?'

Thinking fast and desperately, the fact that Zain could feel pain, he pulled out the dagger from the belt he was wearing. Then lifting it up, he swung it down right into the middle of his hand.

The blade stabbed right through, and just like Zain thought, pain signals were running through his entire body; the veins on his neck were bulging, but after that, his vision started to clear, and he could see fine again.

Standing up, Zain wiped the sweat off his head.

"Let's go, we have to do this quickly before this happens again."

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A strange grating sound could be heard in a certain room, and it was coming from a certain individual who had his head held back, staring up at a particular screen. It was the doctor, grinding his teeth back and forth as he looked at what he was witnessing.

"All of my creations, they are being taken down just like that!" The doctor said. "Why, where did the zombies even come from? How did they enter the building?"

At the time, the doctor was paying attention to multiple things. Mainly focusing and watching those that had come in and were fighting his creations, rather than the red-haired student.

Even though the confidence in both Kelly and Brandon grew since they had seen this person, of course, the doctor wouldn't think much of the student, but he did soon realise that one of the reports he had matched up. The description of one of those at the other base.

"These people have come into my hospital, without my permission, causing chaos!" The doctor shouted at the top of his lungs and was heavily breathing in and out. If the others thought he had a screw loose before, it was safe to say they definitely thought he had one now.

"I don't know what he did, but it had to have been that Red head, everything changed whe4n he came, it was almost as if he knew the place was going to be overrun by zombies."

Brandon couldn't help but smile seeing the doctor this way. Even through watching the video, honestly Bradon wasn't so sure how they would deal with the strange creations the doctor created.

If a bullet through the head wouldn't work, then what would, but it was Zain, the person who seemingly had a solution for everything, and he had done so now.

"Doctor, we can still try and sort out something together!" Brandon shouted out. "Zain is coming to save us to help us, but if the zombies are inside the hospital, there is no telling what their numbers will be.

"There is a good chance that this place could be overrun soon, but if you let us help you, maybe we can defend and protect this place." Brandon pleaded.

Of course, Brandon had no intention of helping out the doctor after what had happened, at least not as an equal partner, but right now both him and Kelly were strapped down to chairs, and they needed to get out of them, before they could even attempt to do anything.

"You think your in control of the situation, I'm in control of the situation!" The doctor shouted as he pulled out a gun from his waist and without a second thought, pulled the trigger.

A loud bang was heard and Brandon bit his lip, as he felt the bullet go right through his foot.

"You are not in a position to negotiate, I hold all the cards here, and I always will. There are ten people on this floor with assault rifles and guns. Do you really think they can reach me!"

The doctor took a deep breath after saying those words and put the gun away under his belt as he calmed himself down slightly.

"You're right. Things have taken a turn for the worse, which means it is time that I get out of this place." The doctor stated. "If the zombies reach the top floor and there are too many of them, then I would have just been a fool and trapped myself.

"I thank you, for your great insight, which is why I have to make the big decision and leave this place."

After saying those words, the doctor headed towards the door, ready to leave

"Wait!" Brandon called out. "You're just going to abandon everyone just like that."

Brandon was starting to realise that the doctor was perhaps more selfish than he first thought. Not only that, but a confident person who felt like they could just rebuild everything that they built up here back up again.

"If you are going to leave, then at least tell us what the sickness was? What medicine do we need to help people!" Brandon asked. "I know we might not survive, but on the off chance we can, then it will save a lot of people. You're a doctor right, which means at some point and time, you decided to get this job because you wanted to help people, and this way, you still can."

"Help people?" the doctor repeated back. "If you really think every doctor becomes one to help people, then you really didn't even understand the way the world worked before it went to crap.

"I like this world that we are in now, because it's a lot more honest, and right now. I like the fact that what you need is in here." The doctor tapped the side of his head. "You should have spent more time studying you piece of sh*t."

Exiting the room, there were several people in the hallway standing there with guns just like the doctor had said. He looked to the staircase. Based on the video, if they were taking the escalator then they would have to run superficially down the front hallway to reach the office.

Which was why the doctor decided that he would take the side staircases to get out of the building. Then head out the emergency exit, on the third floor and get out from the outside staircase on the side of the building that were for emergencies.

"Sir is everything okay, there were quite a few gunshots heard earlier, should we head down and see what is going on?" One of the men asked.n0𝑽𝓔𝗅𝔲𝗌𝑏.𝑐0𝓂

"No need to, it's best if you stay up here. The most important thing is to keep the prisoners here." The doctor replied. "Anyway, all of you, after today, you will no longer have any debt, and I will grant you all permission to apply debt onto others as much as you like.

"You will practically have the same authority as me." The doctor smiled.

His words, he could see how much strength they had because in an instant, there were beaming smiles on the other faces. They were already imagining what they could do with this power, how they could control the others underneath them.

'I would have liked to have experimented on those superhumans, in all honesty, but due to the zombies being here, it might be difficult to survive this one, but at least it looks like one experiment was a success.' The doctor thought,

"Thank you, thank you so much, doctor!" Several shots were heard down the hallway as he went and exited the room.

'Yes, all of you are happy with the power I have given you. At least you will be pleased in your last moments before your death. Even if you survive the zombie attack, from those words, I know that you will fight with your life on the line for that position.'

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Two young men who were unfamiliar with each other were currently travelling together. This was Dave and Cody. They were carefully heading up the staircase, They weren't moving fast for fear that they would make noise that would attract others.

"I have your back, so we can move a bit quicker if you want," Dave said as he held the gun firmly in his hand.

Cody looked at the university student who was technically older than him.

"I'm sorry..I just don't know you that well, so I need to cover my own back as well."

The words had hurt Dave quite a bit because the one job he had been given by Branodn he didn;t do well, but he felt like since he was the older of the two in this situation, he would be able to step up to the plate when needed.

"I wish I was like Zain," Dave mumbled.

Cody took a glance and realised now his words might have deterred the other.

"You know, I had to jump out of a window and leave both Pink and Kun because I was unable to do anything, and when I landed safely and was okay, I felt the same thing, I said the same words in my head. I wish I were Zain.

"But, I realised that's not quite true,. Wedon't even really know much about Zain, what he has been through to be able to act the way he is. We just see certain traits that he has that we wish we had as well.

"So take what you want about Zain; is it confidence? Isn't that something that we can have as well then? Let's get through this together and save the people we care about." Cody said with a smile.

At that moment, their conversation was interrupted as they heard the sound of a door opening. A few seconds later, walking down the stairs, they had met each other. Cody and Dave were looking right at the doctor.

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When seeing the doctor, both Cody and Dave froze for a second. They thought they might run into people going up the staircase, but the last person they expected to see was the doctor himself. This was the main person they were aiming for, hoping to capture. Shouldn't there have been several guards, or perhaps a big creature protecting him towards the end?

Either way, both of them were too slow to act, as the doctor had immediately gone down to his waist to pull out the hand gun he had on him.

"Cody!" Dave shouted as he closed his eyes and started to fire away. There was no aiming from Dave, and all the training that he had before had gone out the window, as he fired in panic.

The doctor seeing this moved to the side of the door, and was hiding just behind the staircase that would lead them up to the roof.

"Wait!" Cody shouted. "We can shoot him, but we need him alive. We don't know where the others are?"

"Your right, sorry, I just kind of panicked, when I saw him reach for his-"

Before Dave could finish his sentence, several shots were fired back. Each of them missing, but causing the two of them to head back down the stairs as quickly as they could. Thankfully, the doctor didn't seem to be so much of a shot either, and was blind firing.

The doctor had only held out his hand and was firing, around the corner without looking at what he was trying to hit.

"You fools! You think firing at me, will help protect your friends!" The doctor shouted. "Well screw you all, screw you. When I get back up, I'm going to put a bullet through every single one of their heads, all because of you. You ruined my life, so I will make sure to ruin yours!"

The doctor continued to fire, and Dave was ready to fire back, until Cody put up his hand telling him to wait.

"I have an idea, when he stops firing, he has to reload at some point, if you can just fire away from me, make sure not to hit me, I can probably run up the stairs and get to him in time," Cody explained.

Dave looked at the staircase, they were quite steep, and since the doctor had the high ground it was a lot easier for him to hit them, then the other way round.

"You could die," Dave said.

"Remember what I said before. You said it yourself, you wanted to act like Zain right, well think about it, think what would he do?" Cody asked.

The bullets continued to fire down, and soon they both could hear a clicking noise, the doctor was out of bullets. It was now or never. Cody bolted out from the corner, and started to climb the stairs two at a time, getting up as fast as he could.

Dave counted in his head, one two, then pulled out the gun, this time looking at where he was shooting. Due to Cody running up the right side of the staircase it was very easy for Dave to just miss him.

"Please don't hit anyone!" Dave prayed as he started to fire.

The doctor, too scared of the bullets, wasn't going to just run out and head to the door, depending on where the person was shooting from, it was possible that they would have an angle of him, but what else could he do?

"Damn it, I'm just going to have to try!" The doctor stated as he ran toward the door.

As he did, he took a peak behind him, and that's when he could see that Cody was running up the stairs.

'Crap, he went for the door, it will be fine, as long as I can shoot him first!' Cody thought. Aiming carefully as he lifted the gun up.

However, running up and trying to get a good aim, Cody's footing was misplaced, he had missed the staircase slightly as his foot slipped.

'Crap, at a time like this!'

The doctor had a smile on his face, and instead of continuing toward the door, he aimed carefully, ready to pull the bullet.

BANG

Another bullet was heard, and the doctor immediately dropped his hand gun, due to the pain, because he had been hit, and it was right in the shoulder of his arm as well. Looking at the staircase, not too far behind Cody, was Dave, holding the gun with both of his hands firmly, and his eyes open.

"Shit!" The doctor said as he opened the door and closed it behind him, heading back into the hallway where he had come from.

"Hey, are you okay?" Dave asked.

"Yeah, thank you…I think you might have just saved my life." Cody stated.

"It's nothing." Dave rubbed the back of his head. "Like I said, I got your back, and I needed to do something."

Cody now felt horrible about his words before, but it was a lesson for him. To not always see everyone around him as useless, maybe this was a trait that he tried getting from Zain, but at the end of the day, in his own words he was not Zain.

There were those that needed people to help them, and those that could do everything on their own.

"Come on, let's go get that doctor."

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Going back through the door, the guards in the hallway were able to see the doctor holding onto his arm, and with his white clothing now a little red, it was also obvious that he was bleeding.

"Sir, what happened, is everything okay!" The man asked.

The doctor walked quickly to the patent room, where both Brandon, and Kelly were.

"Does it look like I was okay? Two damned kids, with guns are in the hallway and they shot at me!" The Doctor shouted. "Get rid of them immediately!"

The doctor was so angry, his head was beaming red and the veins on his neck looked like they were going to burst as he shouted. Huffing and panting he was losing his breath as well, and when things looked like they couldn't get worse for the doctor, from the other side of the hallway doors could be heard opening.

'That hallway, it's the one that links to the main hall, which means…'

The doctor guess was right, because the next second, bursting through the other doors on the other side, where three people in particular. Immediately, the red haired student with two hand guns fired at the first two men.

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Hitting one of them in the head, and the other in the chest sending them to the ground. On top of that, Kun had rolled in, holding his semi automatic weapon, and with no hesitation just like Zain was firing away at the people in the room.

Immediately, the rest turned to those on the other side, and started to shoot in a panic. While all the noise was going off, the doctor took a glance behind him to see that the other two had caught up, and had entered through the door.

It was clear now that the doctor was trapped. There was no way out for him, out of this entire situation, and it looked like the doctor was going to lose this one.

"Where is my mother!" Pink shouted, as she charged forward ignoring most of the raining bullets, both Zain and Kun were doing their best to cover her.

A few bullets had hit Kun and Zain, but not in the head, which was fine for them. On top of that, it would only take a few more seconds, before all of them were eliminated. Opening the door, the doctor had no choice but to head back inside away from the chaos.

"What's the matter doc?" Brandon asked. "You don't look to well. You really should have taken up my offer when you had the chance." Brandon smirked.

All of the shooting outside, it was lessening, as there were less guns being used, and it was clear the doctor had been hit.

"You still think this is over. I'll tell you now, no matter what that information will die with me, and there is a good chance that everyone at your base will die as well. I will die a happy man thinking of that." The doc said as he headed to a small room linked to the patient room.

A few seconds later, coming out he pulled out a syringe that was green in colour. It didn't look like anything they had seen before.

"If I'm going to die anyway, then I might as well go through with my final experiment. You see, I didn't want to resort to this without testing it on some other subjects other than humans first, but it would be a shame for all my research to go to waste.

"So the question is, which one of you two, will be a part of my final experiment!"

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The syringe held by the doctor in his hand was much bigger than any other they had seen before. It was almost as thick as the doctor's arm, and it was apparent, based on the experiences the others had seen the doctor perform before, that this wasn't going to be anything pleasant.

"So, do we have any volunteers?" The doctor slowly moved his head from one side to the other, staring into everyone's eyes.

By now, Kelly was mustering up her strength, trying to pull herself out of the chair. She pulled so hard that the skin had rubbed off around her wrist and was scratched slightly, but no matter what she wanted, she couldn't break free.n0𝓥𝑬𝓵𝚞𝗌𝑩.𝕔0𝗆

Kelly had already been through a lot due to the doctor's countless experiments, which the latter had performed to activate any superpower in her, but none of them had succeeded. Seeing the syringe and hearing the doctor's words, her mind went into flight and fight mode. She didn't want to go through it again; she didn't want to experience the excruciating pain like that again.

"You don't have to do this, I can convince them that we still need you!" Brandon pleaded. "You can keep the medicine and the disease that people have a secret, that way we have to keep you alive."

"And what will happen when you are all cured and don't need me anymore? Don't try to outsmart me, you monkey." The doctor glared at them as he looked back and forth between the two; there wasn't much time to pick.

"Pick me." Brandon volunteered. "I volunteer, and I'll take whatever crap you give me."

Brandon had seen the condition Kelly was in when he attempted to rescue her. He didn't want her to go through that again, especially since he had failed to help her.

"Great, it looks like we have our answer." The doctor smiled, but instead of walking towards Brandon, he stepped towards Kelly.

Seeing this, she began to scream at the top of her lungs, but as soon as the doctor placed his hand on her arm, she soon felt drowsy. It was an unusual feeling, the power of the doctor. Soon after, the syringe pierced right into her neck, and slowly, the liquid in it went into her veins.

"You Bastard! I said to pick me! I can't believe how evil one person can be!" Brandon shouted and screamed at the top of his lungs, "I said to pick me! Pick me!"

The liquid was halfway already into Kelly. There had been no changes yet, but who knew when or what would happen? That was right when the doors slammed open.

"Brandon!" It was Dave, and someone else also sprinted in

"KELLY!" This was Cody. He screamed and ran forward right towards the doctor. "Get your hands off her!"

Cody threw out a fist, but with his other hand, the doctor caught it. Cody was still a teenager, while the doctor was an adult, and the latter was better with his hands than expected.

"Go to sleep!" the doctor said, and Cody started to feel faint as he felt a strange energy enter him through the doctor's hand.

"Let me say the same thing to you, go to sleep."

Several bullets were shot out, hitting the doctor in the upper torso. His hand lost its grip, and the syringe came out of Kelly's neck, and he dropped it on the floor. It had surprisingly smashed to pieces as soon as it touched the floor.

Not the entirety of the liquid had gone into Kelly, but there was a good two-thirds of it that had flowed in her before shots were fired.

Stepping into the room, Pink had her mother on her back, Kun was in the room as well, and lastly, Zain walked over to the doctor with the handgun in his hand, the one he had used to shoot the doctor.

They were a little later compared to Cody and Dave because they were checking out the other patient rooms; that's where they had found Pink's mother, while Cody and Dave were closer to this room.

Kneeling down, Zain noticed that the doctor was still alive. He was bleeding and reached out a hand toward Zain.

"Save...me." The doctor mumbled.

"I don't think even a doctor can save you now," Zain answered. However, there was a chance that Zain could save him if he was to bite him right before his final moments, but Zain didn't want to.

Even if this person in front of him was superhuman, due to what he had done and the creations he had made, Zain didn't want to give the doctor any kind of hope. The others unstrapped both Kelly and Brandon while Zain watched the doctor take his last breaths.

Both Cody and Kelly had come to their senses, it took them a while to figure out what had happened, but it was clear they had been saved.

"Thank you...thank you so much." Kelly cried as soon as she could speak. Her eyes were teared up, but her eyes had light.

However, Brandon was watching Kelly carefully. It seemed like she was being her normal self at the moment. There was nothing strange about her yet; maybe it was due to the liquid not entirely going into her body.

Either way, he would keep an eye on her, as he was the only one who had heard what the doctor had said about the syringe. About it being his last experiment.

"We came here to get a cure from the doctor, and now he's dead." Brandon turned towards Zain as he continued, "The best thing we could do is take all the medicine in this place or make this place our second base with all the equipment inside. It's about an hour's walk from our base, so it's not too bad, but the problem is the zombies.

"Now that I think about it, it would be best if we were to get out of the place as well before the whole place gets overrun."

"There is no need to worry about that," Zain said as he stood up. "The Zombies, we have dealt with them. There will be no problem apart from getting rid of the bodies."

Brandon was trying to understand what Zain meant, but he could only imagine that Zain and his group had gotten rid of them all. Yet, based on the footage he had seen, that didn't make any sense.

How could they have gotten rid of all the zombies and headed up here at the same time? Of course, only Zain knew the answer to that, and that was due to his Horde Zombies. They had been given the task of killing the other zombies.

Due to the other zombies not attacking back, it was an easy task, and once all the zombies were taken out, Zain commanded the horde to head back to where Skittle and the others were, bringing his group back up again.

Although he couldn't directly see what the zombies were doing, the reason he knew the task was complete was simple, it was because he had finally received the reward from his quest.

[A gold card has been received]

Unlike before, Zain immediately decided to use the gold card.

[The gold card has been used]

[You have successfully acquired a new skill]

[Brain Eater]

[This skill can be used when consuming a human brain.]

[The skill allows the user to acquire a certain amount of knowledge from the brain that the user has eaten. It will also allow the user to filter through the last 24 hours of the brain.]

'It's just like I thought. All of the gold cards have been skills so far, and once again, it has given me quite a good skill to have. This skill is the same as what was used on Shark, but I guess it means I can use this on humans now as well.' Zain couldn't stop smiling as he thought about this skill.

There was no longer any need for him to ask people questions when he could get them from memory himself; the only thing that was limited was the time frame.

"Mother, did the doctor say anything about what your condition was or the medicine that he gave you?" Pink asked.

"No." She replied. "He just gave me the separate pills and some orange boxes."

It was a disappointing answer. She knew that, but it was the truth.

"Maybe we can take the pills and find another doctor or university student. If they know the medicine, then we could find out what is spreading to everyone back at the base."

"I think I might have the answer." Zain interrupted everyone again.

"Wait, Zain, are you a med student?" Dave asked.

"Umm... Not quite." Zain looked at the doctor.

"Why don't you guys make sure there aren't any more patients like Pink's mother? Rest up, and before we leave, I think I might be able to have an answer to your problem." Zain smiled.

Others noticed Zain was acting weird, but when had he not? However, a certain someone had gotten the gist.

"Alright, everyone, let's clear out of the room and do as Zain says, besides this room needs to be cleaned up as well. I'll leave that to Zain." Kun secretly winked at the latter.

Once everyone had left the room, it was time for Zain to try out his new skill.

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With everyone out of the room, Zain could finally feast on the brain peacefully. It was a weird thing to think about, even in Zain's mind, but it was something that he would just have to do. His body functionality would go up to hundred percent again even though it hadn't dropped down as much as last time, and more importantly, he would now get the added benefit.

Rather than using his hands to crack the Doctor's skull open, Zain decided to do things in a more humane way and used one of the medical tools to prop the head open. After that, it was time to do the disgusting act that didn't seem so disgusting.

It didn't take long for Zain to gobble it down. After the first bite, which would feel strange, his hand would flow the brains into his mouth. It was one of the acts that reminded Zain that he was, in fact, a zombie.

After finishing consuming the brain, a few notifications popped up in front of him, and the contents in them were a bit unexpected.

[The brain that has been consumed has a high level of intelligence.]n0𝗏𝗲𝗅𝓊𝒮𝓑.𝒸0𝗆

[5 Intelligence]

'This wasn't part of the skills,' Zain thought. 'I've gotten different signs from consuming brains before, but this is amazing. This is a huge improvement without the need to level up.'

It wasn't the only thing Zain got out of it all though. As he gulped down the brain, information started to flow in his head. It was a strange rush, and it wasn't quite clear what information it was that he was obtaining. When the feeling finally went away, honestly, Zain felt no different.

'The skill said I would gain some knowledge. Is that part of the stats or?' Zain started to look at the medical tool that was on the table and could tell it was a craniotome cutter. Then there was the autopsy saw that he had used to open up the skull in the first place.

Both of these things, Zain had no knowledge of beforehand, but now he did. It looked like the system's skills were coming through once again.

'How is this even possible in the name of science? I guess I shouldn't worry too much about that, I mean, how am I even alive, and this system and everything around me just can't simply be explained by science. Well, I guess the only thing that's left is to look through the Doctor's history for some answers.'

When Zain brought up the system, just like in Shark's case, there was a video available, and it allowed him to go through every part of the memory, and that was exactly what he was doing.

It didn't come as a surprise that some of the things that he could see the Doctor doing were forms of debt. For example, there were quite a few times when the Doctor had asked for sexual favours to pay off some of the others' debt.

At the same time, there were scenes of the experiments on the creatures he had gone through. None of these was practically helpful but made Zain feel less guilty about killing the Doctor, not that he had a lot to begin with.

There was no useful information, and although Zain could follow the experiments the Doctor was doing to some degree, he had no understanding of why the latter was doing certain things. It was clear that not all of the knowledge from the Doctor had been passed on.

Or it was more like he had the ingredients and understood everything but didn't know how to bake a cake. So the information was somewhat useless. However, eventually going through everything, he found what the Doctor was looking for from the conversation between Pink's mother and the Doctor.

Playing the video carefully, Zain heard every word coming from the Doctor's mouth.

'Now I see, I see how he was able to use this against us, but now with this knowledge, we can get past this.'

It was then that Zain was going to end the video there, right down a list of the medicine that was needed and go from there, but for some reason, he thought he would continue to watch the video just in case to the end.

As he did, Zain was able to listen to the conversation that had happened in the room before they had entered.

'The Doctor's final experiment. In the video, there was nothing about that. I guess he didn't work on it on the last day, but if it was something like his final experiment, it had to be something important, and now it's inside Kelly. Brandon saw the whole thing, but I understand why he didn't tell us.' Zain thought to himself.

The others were exploring the hospital in case Zain's plan didn't quite work out. Trying to see if they could find any survivors or maybe even some files on the computer system and more. As they explored the hospital more though, they noticed that most of the computers had been destroyed.

The Doctor had clearly ruled over this place with an iron fist, not giving a chance for anyone to rise in any way at all.

"This place has power generators, and the electricity is working quite well here. I don't know how long they will last, but it's quite a good base to stay at." Brandon said. "Also, there is general medicine that we can still use that the people and maybe even separate the sick from the healthy."

"Maybe we could move all the sick people to the hospital with a few of the guards," Dave said. "This way, the others won't have to worry about being sick."

"That's a good idea, but..." Brandon wasn't sure how willing people would allow themselves to be separated, and on top of that, the Doctor had stated it was a disease that could wipe out all of them. Meaning it was dangerous if they didn't know what it was or with no cure, people wouldn't just head to the hospital."

Either way, they continued to explore, and they also knew they needed to do more than that because when looking around their place, there were plenty of dead bodies everywhere. They needed to clear the dead bodies if there was any chance of them using the place.

"I can see the worried look on your faces, Pink, and I will clear the place for you. We can do the dirty work, so don't have to worry." Kun suggested.

"Ah, so very nice of you to volunteer me before even asking me." Pink rolled her eyes, but she knew why Kun was suggesting such a thing.

At the same time, the two of them could perhaps find a brain or so that they could store away and see for themselves. Whatever other opportunity they would get, the hospital would even have a freezer section to keep the brains, or maybe there were already several brains stored in a place like this anyway.

After searching all of the floors though, they realised that there wasn't any person alive in the place. The zombies had managed to get them all, and strangely, there were no zombies inside as well. Brandon was looking at the dead bodies that were on the ground, or more particularly, he was looking at the dead zombie bodies.

'How did the zombies die? They don't have bullets or large winds from knives and axes. It looks almost as if they were beaten and bitten to death as well. Did the zombies fight amongst each other?' Brandon thought, but he knew that was unlikely.

The original reception area where they came in was the biggest mess, and they were sorting bodies in a temporary room, for now, that was used to keep the dead in the hospital in the first place. It was easier than they thought with the tools and such for them to move, and with Kun and Pink's extra strength, the group was able to get to work fast.

They did wonder where Zain was and what he was doing since he had been gone a few hours, and unbeknownst to them, he was watching all of the video footage, trying to find the information or anything else.

The reception was cleared of bodies now, but there were still blood marks and more, but they were only planning to do a tidy-up for now, not do a thorough cleaning. Because once they return to Ryan, they could send more people here and get the whole place up to standard to convert this place into a second base of some sort.

The thought of returning came in everyone's mind when Zain had finally come down and was in the reception room as well with a piece of paper in his hand.

"I have some good news for you, we have enough medicine to cure everyone, and I know what the disease is," Zain said as he addressed them all.

The others didn't question how he knew about this. They were just happy that he did and were following the unspoken rule of not asking too much.

"The condition that they are suffering from is...is.." Zain's voice started to stutter there as his body began to sway, and once again, his vision was fading.

'Damn it, it's happening again! What was the trigger this time...and why now in front of everyone?' Zain gritted his teeth, trying to keep his senses.

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