While the survivors were having their own problems our Heroes were at the settlement having their own disagreements.

They already knew where they could get monsters to kill, but George was against doing so without a plan.

Tian just wanted them to go into the werehouse open the Hole and shout inside and then kill all the monsters that come out. This however was really risky, many people would be injured and some might even die.

George wanted them to set some sort of barricade and shoot from behind it as the monsters came out, this could be done, but it would take time. Of course they always had time to argue about it.

Samson and his goons wanted to just stand outside the werehouse and shoot at the monsters inside. It sounded smart, but they forgot that non of them had shot a gun before.

The main however emotion in the group of heroes was excitement. This was the first time for most of them to use their weapons, it would be their first real fight. It was understandable both for old and new players.

Before long all three groups of Heroes went on each doing their best to accomplish their own goal, mostly however it was George's small group trying to barricade themselves with some furniture inside the werehouse.

The Hole was silent and there was no sound coming from inside, since they had time Tian waited for them before he and his group would attack the hole by shooting downwards, if they were lucky they would kill those monsters before they could even come out.

Everything was ready and Tian and three others approached the artificialy made hole that looked not different than a well. He only shot once, but it was enough to alert te creatures underground, before long they could hear a strange sound as the creatures begun to fly up and the crazy barrage of bullets begun to accompany the creatures' ascent.

"Take cover!"

Tian shouted as he ducked, he had terribly underestimated the number of those things, they were like an endless flood rising from the darkness. Their bullet consumption could not keep up with the speed of the creatures and the need to reload was the main reason for that.

They had probably downed less than 20 of those things since one could take more than a single bullet to kill and unlike Tian who shot to kill, the others were just shooting at random into the darkness, hoping to hit something.

Tian cursed at the waste of bullets, but was reassured as he looked towards the makeshift barricade not too far away. They weren't alone, they had backup and if they wanted to run away, there was another group to support them at the door of the werehouse.

The first scream came from one of the people that didn't duck in time and was charged by one of these creatures. It wasn't large, but once it hit his face, it wasn't long before it begun gnawing off parts of his face. The pain alone was enough for him to scream and throw his weapon as he tried to take it off his face.

Tian was for the first time scared for his life, he didn't even give orders as he charged towards the barricades George and the others had made and jumped into their midst.

The first shot from George's team was a complete miss, but they did their best to not shoot at Tian and his people. Thus this much was to be expected, shot after shot was then heard as they did their best to hit those slippery flying bastards that.

Three people had lost their lives in front of the hole, Jonas was trembling as he gave up his last breath, looking angrily at the barricade, after seeing Tian's fleeting figure he tried to replicate the feat, only to find that his feet wouldn't move. The things flying out of the hole were all over the room and he had decided that not moving was better, since the shots from behind the barricade came as soon as Tian had arrived there.

Jonas met his end shortly afterwards as a group of these creatures swarmed him and begun to bite at him, they were small and agile, but their bite was a force to be reckoned with, before long the sheer weight from the number of creatures on top of him pushed him down.

These creatures didn't fear death, even as the shots from the barricades were focused towards the three lumbs of creatures on top of each corpse, they didn't seem to care at all.

George was anxious, the number of these monsters seemed to be endless as they came out from the hole. Leaving carnage and destruction in their path as they flew chaoticaly in search of prey.

The bullets in his gun were already running out, this was his last clip of ammo and he could only curse inside as he directed everyone to run towards the closed door not too far away.

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"Open the Door!"

George shouted full of fear.

Samson might be scum, but when he heard the signal he and his goons quickly opened the werehouse door only to be met with a dozen or so little critters flying towards them. On of the goons was unlucky as to lose his eyes to one of the critters, if not for someone shooting it off him, it would have been even worse.

The little critters once showered with light lost all sense of direction and was easily shot down. Samson and the others did their best to kill as many creatures as they could from their location while the people inside charged out.

The door was closed once everyone came out, the main problem was that they had run out of ammo, only Tian still held onto his assault riffle, holding some ammo inside.

"Now what do we do?"

Asked Jason, they had ran out of ammo and fighting those things with melee weapons, although completely possible was also really dangerous.

"If only we had some explosives"

George lamented, if they had a grenade killing a hundred of these monsters would be real easy, just throwing a grenade into the hole would be enough to kill dozens of them.

There were only three buildings in the settlement, that werehouse which was now filled with monsters, the central building that had mostly research data and the

"Listen up, we cannot give up yet, although we have no ammo, We can still kill a few of them by opening the door at set intervals, the strongest of us will go kill the creatures"

Tian said, full of confidence, of course mainly because he knew he wouldn't die by doing so.

"Bullshit, We should go back and take the guns from those useless survivors"

Samson said, confident that they could do so with Tian's help.

"Tian what about using magic, you still have that weird explosive light right?"

George suddenly remembered.

"It won't work, these creatures are too fast, at most It will throw them around, it won't kill them"

Tian said, he knew better than the others of his own limits.

"Can't we just burn these things?"

Mike suddenly asked after pointing at two containers nearby that had the highly flamable icon on them. Non of them knew what the thing inside was it could be the solution to their problem.

"It looks like some kind of gas canister"

George said as he looked closer at the two canisters, but he couldn't understand what was writen on them, not because it wasn't english, but because it was some sort of sci-fi gas that doesn't exist in real life.

"It's worth a try, but It's too dangerous, unless I use magic to make the canister explode, I can't see a better way of causing an explosion"

Tian said, he was sure that bullets wouldn't do and since it was a gas it would be really dangerous if they were too close to it when it exploded, even he himself was a bit worried about the explosion affecting him as well, they had no idea how powerful it would be.

"Then shouldn't we just use them to tear down the entire building?"

Samson said, causing a commotion again.

Mike had a headache, he himself had entered Samson's group, advising him at times, mostly doing what he was told to do. The problem was that all his arrangements failed, people were simply too unpredictable, the moment they were not bound by laws and rules they became even more difficult to predict. He really regretted not staying with the survivors, where it was relatively safe.

Although Samson acted like the big boss, deep inside he was soft and cowardly, Mike had seen those sort of people many times, they were softies inside and wouldn't go sacrificing people or risking their own lives unless they are in a really tight spot. Samson was much better in his opinion than Tian and George, but his behavior was really atrocious at times, causing common people to not want to be associated with him.

Mike could only curse as he was told to move the heavy canister inside, with the help of another person and a lot of rest, they finaly brought it towards the door.

"How do we bring it inside?"

Mike asked a bit reluctantly, because they could still hear the noise the creatures inside made.

Tian came close and put the canister down, he wanted to roll it inside with his foot. The two of them looked as Tian fearlessly opened the door and pushed the heavy canister to roll into the werehouse. The creatures that came out of the gap were punched and kicked by Tian and fell onto the ground blind and weak from the sunlight. Tian's next action however shoot them all, because he reached for one of the other goon and threw him inside, right into the canister as he begun to chant the spell.

The creatures swarmed towards the person forming a small hill on top of him, the chanting didn't take too long and while still dazed by the betrayal they saw a huge burst of light, followed by an even bigger explosion.

Tian had long jumped away from the entrance leaving only Mike there whom seeing Tian move also tried to replicate his feat. Only his feet didn't take him too far as the explosion from the werehouse sent stone and metal flying in all directions.

Those who were at a distance were shocked at the size of the explosion, it was far grander than they expected it to be. They felt however lucky to not be near to that door at the time of the explosion and even before since they could have been Tian's lure for the monsters instead of tht poor guy.

"Tian you motherfucker! how dare you use one of my men like that!"

Samson was enraged since he had lost one of his goons. Tian however didn't even look at him as he rose up and cleaned the sand off of his clothes.

Even the explosion however wasn't enough to kill the number of monsters they had to kill to meet the objective.

"What's the next plan?"

Tian asked as he looked at the second canister and then the half destroyed werehouse. Everyone felt a chill down their spines, Mike dug his way out of the debris that fell on him and looked at the destruction behind him. If he was unlucky maybe it would be him who was thrown there or killed by the explosion.

Before he thought that Nick was a bastard for leaving him behind in the previous mision, but now he couldn't tell anymore.

Wasn't this supposed to be a team survival game, what on earth was Tian doing?