It was the next day after Venus ate the type of suit and at this time I was repeating my routine for the last 3 days.
As I planned to go to the city in search of a laboratory to find the equipment that Shizuka need and also the materials that I required to be able to use the transmutation parchment, I thought it would be better to take she with us too.
But since the place we would go can be dangerous, the best thing was for Shizuka to get a little stronger if something happens then she has a better chance of surviving, so I had been concentrating on training her… well, I can't deny that I did it for pleasure and can see her in different poses too.
The only regrettable thing is that since I focused on her I had not been able to break my 4 limit. I'm a level 39 now, maybe I should also try to reach 40 before we go.
"Stop! If you all go further then we will open fire !! "
"Stop!!"
While thinking about that, loud screams are heard from above the walls. When I turn around I see several cars escorting many people who walked here, it must have been the amount of the whole group that led those who are up on guard with machine guns to worry.
But it does not seem that they come with bad intentions, I can say that because of the aura that people emanate and that they also obey the instructions of the soldiers in the walls immediately. Then in the next moment, someone gets out of one of the cars and speaks in a loud tone so we can hear it clearly.
"Something important happened and I need to see your leaders !! So call them quickly to can talk !! "
"Komuro, Yamada and Hirano, go find Yuriko-san, Soichiro and Yoshioka ... Shizuka, Saya and Scythe, we will have to postpone your training"
""All right""
"Yes"
"Yay ~"
"Haa… well, it seems that today I saved myself from having to do this for a longer time. If it weren't because my mom would make me do more embarrassing things if I didn't do this, I wouldn't come... i-it's not like I don't like spending time with you Alexander-san ... is only that this is very embarrassing. "
"..."
The three men who also had nothing to do but enjoy the show leave without complaining since the girls would not exercise for now for what it seems. Shizuka then listening to what I say, jumping for joy celebrating ... 50% of the reason why I do this is to you will be stronger, you know? ... well, perhaps is 30%?
Saya, on the other hand, complains with Yuriko-san that seems forced her to come here, then when our eyes draw together she stars to get nervous and saying that last thing, so I smiled for her can calm down.
Scythe just walks silently to the pile of zombie bodies, she should have acquired a routine of making it because lately, I don't need to tell her anything to she do it.
"Come here if you want to discuss something, soon the other three leaders of our camp will also arrive"
When those who were with me leave to do their other activities they had to do, I speak to the man who stood waiting for an answer. Now he was looking in my direction since the soldiers on the walls when they heard what he said, quickly set their eyes on this place that I was sitting.
The man listens to me and walks to where I am, when I pay more attention to this I realize that he was the Dark-Soichiro. Something bad must have happened in his camp seeing the red aura of fury and the depressing gray of the people in his group.
"I remember you, you are Alexander. The boy that Yuriko presented to me previously as one of the leaders of this camp, I thought she was joking with that, but seeing how those men from the top of the wall saw you for directions, then it must be true. "
"You are…"
I was going to say the Dark-Soichiro, but seeing how angry this one is, didn't seem to be the best thing to do now, so those words just stay in my head while I keep seeing him trying to remember his name ...
Unfortunately, no matter how hard I try, I don't remember... maybe they didn't tell me? No, if I'm not mistaken, Yuriko-san mentioned it when I was looking at her butt at that time... oh!, I remember it. His name had to do with that part of the body and that's why my eyes couldn't help going in that direction, it was ...
"You are Gluteus!"
"... it's Gloterus"
"..."
Well, it would certainly be a bit awkward to named someone as I said earlier... besides, I don't think there are parents so cruel to do that to their son. So that name is more reasonable, but you must admit I was close.
"Right, you are Gloterus. Hahaha, I'm sorry about that, I'm not very good with names. So Gloterus, what happened to you to come with so many people to my camp? "
"I don't care, don't worry. My camp was attacked and we practically had to flee bringing with us the people we could, but… maybe we should wait for your companions to explain the details "
"Okay, then let's wait for them. They should not take long to be here since a moment ago I sent someone to inform them to come "
Gloterus makes a nod by listening to me and then we wait for the other leaders of MLDW. Meanwhile, I start thinking about the information he told me, if a group of his number had to flee, I can only think of two reasons that are the most possible for this.
The first would be that another better armed group attacked them, if I remember well what Yuriko-san told me earlier, their camp depends mostly on short-range weapons, so if a group with many weapons attacks them, then they had no other alternative to run away
The other reason would be that a zombie horde with a sufficient number of members invaded their camp, this must be most likely given that their camp was the most into the city.
It is not difficult to imagine that scenario, but if so, it is a little worrying that they will attract it to MLDW.
If it is the second reason then we don't have to waste time and we must prepare to face a horde of zombies, so it is a relief that the other leaders will not take long to come here.
"Gloterus-san ... what happened?"
"From your face, it seems that it is not a good thing"
"Did something happen in the city?"
When they arrive seeing the number of people outside the walls they quickly understand that something must have happened to their group, so Yuriko-san, Soichiro and Yoshioka respectively speak to ask for an explanation.
"Well, now all MLDW leaders are here, so now you can tell us what exactly happened."
"Okay, a few hours ago our camp was attacked unexpectedly. We tried to defend ourselves, but in the end, we could only flee to prevent more people from dying in vain. They are the only people left in my group ... "
We follow Gloterus' eyes to his group ... they must have been more than 800 people in his group, but there hardly reach 400... that means he lost more than half of them in the attack.
"What attacked you? Zombies… or humans? "
Soichiro, who must have reached the same conclusion as me, asks. Gloterus returns his vision to us and as we see the fury in him increase he tells us.
"They were zombies ..."
"Zombies?... How many of them? How big was the horde of these?"
"…Wait, Yuriko-san. There is something more important than that he must answer first. Gloterus, if you all fled that means they could follow you.
Exactly when did the attack on your camp happen? You must also tell us if these zombies followed you when you came here. "
Gloterus tells us the cause of the destruction of his camp, then Yuriko-san begins to question him for more information about the zombies that attacked them, but Yoshioka intervenes with a worried face while demanding that he answer his questions clearly.
When Yoshioka speaks, the Takagi couple understands that the danger may be coming in the direction of MLDW, but Gloterus's response is unexpected for us.
"No, it wasn't a zombie horde… there weren't so many in numbers. It was more a group of about 50, but that is not made it is less dangerous since although they are not many, they were all evolved zombies.
Suddenly they arrived and invaded our camp ... we tried to resist as I said before, but unfortunately, these were not silly zombies who only know how to walk and bite, in addition to their strength and speed exceeding that of the normal ones, therefore, the people who fought began to fall quickly.
When we decided to flee we had already lost many men and as you say, we thought they would follow us all the way, but they only did so for a short time until they stopped. Then I could realize that all that group of zombies was not gathered by chance ...
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There was someone or something that directed them and apparently, it was he who stopped the zombies from following us... he in the distance just watched us as we left the city.
Because of that bastard, half of my camp became food for the zombies ... that's why I came here. Earlier I said that I would not join you if you did not give me a leadership position, but now that does not matter to me.
As long as you 4 allow me to kill the one who led that group with my own hands, and I can take my avenge for all the people who died in my camp I don't mind being the same as the soldiers fighting against the zombies in your group. "
"... was someone leading a group of zombies?"
"Didn't you see if it was human or a zombie?"
When he finished telling the story of what happened in his camp, Gloterus clenched his fists tightly due to the fury he felt while talking about the events that occurred to them.
For everyone else here, what he says surprises and baffles us, then after a few seconds of silence processing all the things he described, Yuriko-san and Soichiro ask him their doubts.
Gloterus only answers by making a nod without saying anything else, apparently, he has no more information than he already gave us.
But I doubt that another person could tame such a large number of zombies, I do not rule out the possibility that another person can tame a zombie, as I saw in Haruna-san, that ability can develop in some individuals, so it should not be impossible for others to control a zombie.
But I can practically rule out that it is a human who did it, the ability to tame should not be very different from mine, so it must have a limited number of beings that can be submitted. So control 50 zombies exceeds by far the rank of the skill that people in this world usually have... or it may be an innate?
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[Mission / Optional "Prevention of the emergence of a zombie King" - H
Intellect-type evolved zombies have the ability to gather other zombies that evolved in other aspects under their mandate. If this is allowed to develop long enough, it will not take long for it to have an army of zombies to annihilate all the human groups around it.
It is better to kill these types of zombies as soon as possible and prevent them from becoming a greater threat than they already are.
Objectives: Finish with at least 30 zombies from that group 0/30
Kill the Zombie leader 0/1
Reward: 5,000x Crystals
50,000x Gold
System Store Extension : Objects ( Electronic Components )
Failure: Death, Destruction> 50% of camps: Current camps 90%, Escape from zombie leader]
"Hmn?"
As if wanted to solve my doubts the system voice sounds in my head announcing a new mission, when I read the description realize what we are facing, it was an evolved zombie of intellect type.
The bad feeling I had of these when we discovered them came to become true, it seems that they have the ability to direct other zombies. It is a great nuisance that they gather other evolved zombies in a single group, sometimes it is very problematic to deal with one of these, but now having them joining and following orders with some intelligence behind them makes it even worse.
"What's happen Alexander-kun?"
"No, I was just thinking about what Gloterus said, I don't think it's a person who directs the zombies. Most likely, it is an evolved zombie, one of those we find on occasions that escape immediately when they see our group arrive.
Although they do not seem very strong individually, like the other evolved zombies they should have improved in some aspects and most likely in their case is the intellect and ability to direct other zombies.
If so, we have to take care of this zombie that attacked to Gloterus´s camp as soon as possible, we cannot let it continue to increase the number of followers it has since otherwise our camp will even be at risk "
"Alexander is right, we have to deal with this group of zombies… but there is a problem. How do we find it? The city is not small "
While I accept the optional mission in my head, I tell others the information I received from the system as a conclusion I got from Gloterus' words, that way I avoid the trouble of explaining why I know that.
But then Soichiro who agrees to eliminate this group highlights a big problem ... as he says, this city is not small and looking for a small number of 50 zombies is not easy.
Also, as I said earlier, these types of zombies tend to escape when the risk they perceive is too great, so he probably avoids us if it sees us before us.
The only thing I can think is to divide into small groups and look for the city. So we can cover a larger territory and maybe the zombie does not feel so threatened and decides to attack us. The disadvantage of this is that the risk is greater... what we will face are not simple zombies but those that have evolved.
"As Soichiro-san says, looking for this group of zombies within the city is very laborious. And if we send our group of soldiers they can run away… why don't we use the radio system to deal with them? "
"What do you mean Yoshioka-san? How will we use the radios to find these zombies? "
Thinking about solutions to deal with this group of zombies, Yoshioka spoke... although the rest of us analyze what he says for a few minutes, in the end, it seems that none of those present understand how to find the zombie with the radios, so without another option, Yuriko-san asks to he explain the things with more details.
"Of the radios that our technology department has been able to repair, we will deliver one of these to each group with which we have had communication. In this way if they are attacked by this group, we can go to the place and take care of these zombies "
"... but that would be to make those people in a bait Yoshioka"
"No, Yoshioka's idea is good. Soichiro, we don't force these groups to be independent and the risk they have is the same as if we don't give them the radios, so we can say that we're helping them enough to go rescue them if that group of zombies attacks them.
But going from MLDW to one of the bases that are in the city would take too long, maybe when we arrive when they are exterminated and the zombies are gone. That is why we need to create a small provisional base in the city, so we will reduce the path to rescue those camps and be able to hunt that zombie. "
"..."
Soichiro does not say more and only remains silent, the other leaders then nod to my words and each one moves to carry out the following plan.
"I 'll go see how many repaired radios we have with Kurisu-san"
"I will send some men to make sure they haven't followed you Gloterus ... also if you want to join us, then organize your men to do the proper procedures for them to join MLDW"
"It's okay"
"Soichiro, you and I will go to find a suitable area to make a small camp in the city, we must make our groups prepare to go out to the city"
"I get it"
Apparently, the trip to the laboratories will have to wait until we deal with this group of zombies. I enter the camp and go to my group to report our departure, they should not complain since they had had some very quiet days while I training Shizuka.
After about an hour of doing all the necessary things, Soichiro's group, Yuriko-san and mine, are ready to go on their respective missions.
Soichiro and my group as I said, we will go to find a suitable place to make a base in the city, Yuriko-san on the other hand, is responsible for going to other people's camps to explain the situation and deliver the radios.
Finishing saying goodbye and wishing luck to each of the other groups, the cars move towards the city.
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