Bab 9: Chapter 9 Changes
"We're almost out of gas, we'll stop at a gas station for refill." She sent it to Duke while munching on potato chips.
Keith looked at his sister's relaxed and carefree appearance in the passenger seat. He, on the other hand, felt dreadful, his palms were sweating while anticipating the upcoming chaos, every second passed felt like a decade and butterflies fluttered in his stomach.
He inhaled and exhaled deeply to relax his nerves, and cleared his mind.
"Stop thinking about it, we'll cross the bridge when we get there." Kisha stated with a deadpan expression.
"I'm trying but we only have more than 6 hours before then." He mumbled like a child, pouting.
"By then, we'll be in the base Duke prepared. We have a great headstart than everyone else."
"What if unexpected things happen?" He feels pessimistic even before it happened.
Grandma slapped his arm with knitted brows. "What's wrong with you?! Don't jinx it."
"Son, a soldier can't run in a war. It's okay to be nervous but don't let your anxiety kill your will to fight, else, you wouldn't even know how you died." Grandpa patted his shoulder, trying to comfort him and give him strength. "We have each other. Don't overthink things."
Feeling that they were right, he relaxed a little and parked the car at the gas station.
While Keith was filling the tank, Kisha and her grandparents went to the store to buy some more snacks and other necessities they needed.
Duke also followed suit and let his people fill their tanks and went to follow Kisha inside the store. He filled Kisha in on the progress of the supplies.
"We've got hundreds of livestock of different variations, It was all sent in the valley along the fruit trees and seeds." Then showed her his phone screen showing the pictures of the livestock and other items being pulled to the big warehouse. "I got them to lock the place down so that the animal will not be affected by the blood rain or be attacked by zombies just in case."
Her brows raised and looked at him up and down. "You're meticulous." She commented.
His eyes twitch. "Why do I feel like this woman is making fun of me?" He thought to himself and cleared his throat.
So he decided to tease her a little. He dialed Tristan and in a few seconds, it was answered.
"Do you have other instruction, master?"
"Let the animals bask in the sun and take a shower in the rain later."
Tristan and Kisha were surprised.
Tristan was aggrieved and a little resentful as they just finished pulling the animals inside and he wanted them to pull them out again? He pursed his lips
"No! no!" Kisha was flustered and immediately held his arm that was holding the phone.
"This guy is so petty! If I did not know better, I would think that he has retained some of his memory." She thought as she glared at him.
Duke was enjoying what he was seeing, he smirked. "I thought you were not satisfied with my arrangements earlier so I want to rearrange them again."
Kisha smiled sweetly and acted fawningly. "What are you talking about big brother? Haven't I just commended your meticulousness?!" But she can't stop her eyes and the corner of her lips twitching.
"I thought you snorted at me and thought I was incompetent?" He acted as if he was wronged.
"Who said that?! Aren't you the most capable?!"
Tristan on the other side of the phone heard everything and was in a state of shock. "Where was the Duke Winters that never jokes around and is 24/7 serious?" He inhaled but suddenly clasped his free hand in his mouth trying not to make a sound.
Kisha complained in her heart. "He used to be stoic and just a plain iceberg. Why is he acting chummy now? Did he hit his head?"
Having enough fun he told Tristan to continue storing the important items in the warehouse and told him to always update him on the progress.
After picking what to buy, they went to the counter to pay.
But before the cashier starts calculating the purchase, an earth-shattering tremor shakes the whole place.
Duke pulled Kisha into his arms and tried his best not to lose his balance as he walked slowly toward the pillar.
"My grandparents!" Kisha worriedly said.
Duke whispered in her ear. "Don't worry, they are hiding under the table."
Only then did Kisha relax, she also noticed Keith was fine and was protected by the guards outside.
The earthquake was really strong, everyone was having a hard time standing and all the items in the store were being thrashed from the shelves. The light posts falling to the ground one by one and cracks from the walls and floor slowly getting bigger.
Dark clouds starting to block the sun and the sky is getting darker and darker.
Kisha was having a bad premonition about this.
She looked up at Duke and met his gentle eyes, devoid of worries. But it somehow made her feel guilty.
She did not know what was happening because it never happened before, she's having an inkling of feeling that things would go off course starting now but was it a butterfly effect? Why did it never happen before, it is not that there was no butterfly effect before but there were no major changes in big events like this.
She knew in her heart what would happen next but she still had a small hope that it was just a false alarm. She tried her best to calm down and waited for the tremor to stop.
But for some reason, this earthquake took longer than before and was stronger. Some parts of the building wall are starting to fall off. The rain cloud was also darker, thunder roared and there were even strong winds blowing, as if a storm was coming.
Her heart felt heavier every passing second felt like an hour.
The moment the earthquake stopped, the woman next to them reached for the door and started running but before she got far, the store's signboard fell on her, squashing her to the ground.
The man behind her, who might be her family member, screamed in agony. He cried and slumped to the floor.
Others couldn't take the gory scene so they looked away, some with weak stomachs even vomited on the spot.
Kisha checked her grandparents and only felt relieved when she saw that they were fine. She led them outside with extreme caution and regrouped with Keith and the others.
Duke never let go of her hands but Kisha did not notice because she was deep in thought.
She uttered. "I think the apocalypse will happen ahead of time." She looked at Duke and told him to inform his people to be prepared for the rain to come and be more vigilant. The virus's effect might have increased and is different from what she remembers.
By now, she has realized that she has been fighting a battle that seems impossible to win. As if an invisible entity wanted humanity to perish.
"Host, I also feel like, something is manipulating the happenings on earth." 008's weak voice sounded in her mind as if afraid of something.
"008, we still have enough points right?"
"Yes host, we still have 25 thousand points. Plus the current mission is still gaining points, currently, we have earned 100 thousand points."
"Only 100 thousand? Not millions?! Are you sure you counted correctly?" Kisha was agitated.
It was rare for them to have this kind of mission where they could earn points like selling pancakes. But why is it only 100 thousand? Did people treat their warning as a hoax or a prank? She was fuming with the people's stupidity.
She adjusted her emotions. "Either way, 008 use 1000 points to upgrade yourself, in a few days, we need to upgrade again. We need to unlock the other features and functions. Especially the item exchange in the shop."
The item exchange feature is where they can sell or exchange items to different worlds. She also needs to unlock the feature Item Modification so she can modify and strengthen their current item.
Although they can't sell things to other worlds because no one wants what they sell, they could still try so that she can continue to upgrade her system and she can go to higher realm's sales channel to buy more useful items.
Having formed a simple plan in her head, she led her people to wait for the rain to come just outside the store while discussing with Duke their next step.
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Bab 10: Chapter 10 It Started
"So before anything happens, what do you have in your trunk?" Kisha probes Duke.
Not getting annoyed with her probing and seemingly bossy attitude, he opened his SUV's trunk and showed her his collection.
The trunk was full of black boxes, each box was full of high-end guns. From pistols to rifles, there are even sniper rifles.
He looked smugly at Kisha as if waiting to be complimented.
Before he left to fetch Kisha and her family, he made sure to select the best of the best from his collection of weaponry from his private collection. He won't even let his close friends touch it and they could only enviously look at it. All of his collection was customized and modified to be better than the regular model.
But what he saw in her eyes was a mocking and taunting look.
It puzzled him. So he asked. "Why don't you have a look?"
She rubbed the tip of her nose, trying not to laugh because he looked earnest and cute like a child waiting to be complimented for doing good. She did not want to burst his bubbles but she had no choice as they were lacking time.
"They are indeed good guns." She smiled which made Duke smile proudly. She continued. "But we don't need them." His smile froze. Feeling guilty she patted his shoulder. "Not for now."
She rummaged through the other boxes but did not see what she was looking for. "Did you not prepare any cold weapons?"
He looked a little dejected, that's why Kisha felt down, thinking that he had not brought any and they might have to improvise using the tools they could find in the gas station store.
But Duke walked to the other SUV's back and opened it. Kisha followed and just like the other trunk, it was full of black boxes.
Duke silently opened each one and murmured. "You can choose from here." His voice was so low that only Kisha heard it because she was standing next to him.
Feeling bad for him, she tried to appease him. "Don't worry, we'll use your gun in the future, let's just save the best for the last."
Only after hearing that, did Duke's expression improve. His subordinate not still used to his change in expression and mood felt like this was very novel and wanted to gossip about it with their other bros but they held back because they were well aware of his temper.
After checking the boxes, Kisha's face lit up, a smile blossomed on her lips, and her eyes turned to a crescent shape.
Duke was silently watching her expression change and he completely recovered from his earlier temperamentality and smiled too.
After looking around, she chose a really sharp katana, the blade had a cold sharp glow and had a long Chinese dragon engraved on it that covered the whole blade, the Guard before the handle had a cherry blossom design on it and the handle had the same design. It's craftsmanship is indeed top-notch.
She took the 75 cm long katana and a small version like a dagger. She also took a double-sided dagger and hid it in her boots.
Duke looked at her in appreciation. "Great choice, these mother and son swords are my favorite too. It is made of a combination of Chromium and Tungsten. The most durable metal." He rubs his chin as he reminisces. "I even went to Japan's number one family that crafts the best Katana personally to get this made."
"But why do you even want to make this, are you going to a war or are you going to hack someone with it?" Asked Kisha questioningly.
Stump, he answered. "No."
"You're lucky that we found a use for this in the apocalypse, else it will just be a useless collection and will collect dust."
"It's a collection, it doesn't need to be used. Collections are for novelty of the item, though." As he spoke, Kisha looked at him with a deadpan expression and his voice turned lower and lower until he stopped talking.
"Tsk, world of the rich." She then turned around and asked everyone to choose a cold weapon to prepare.
The people inside the store are all standing near the door and are looking at them, they do not know why and what Kisha's party is preparing for but they could feel they are not to be trifled with.
Once everyone had chosen and prepared, she looked around in satisfaction and said. "In a few minutes, the rain will fall and so I want everyone to be vigilant. Avoid using guns and loud-sounding weapons because it will attract their attention."
She stood next to her family and said. "Don't get too far from me and try not to fight a one-on-one battle and always aim at the head."
"Are we going to collect those things called crystal core?" Keith asked, enough for everyone on the team to hear.
"No, crystal core has yet to form in this stage. Once the virus is well concentrated on the body only then will a crystal core will be formed." She explained as she looked up at the sky. "Avoid getting the rain in your mouth and those among you who have wounds need to avoid the rain. Ingesting it as well as it getting into your bloodstream through the wound is sure to 100 percent transform you into zombies."
Hearing this, Duke made sure to send this information to his men to make sure to lessen their losses.
After a little waiting, red drops of fluid started falling from the sky, it started slowly and then it poured. The ground turned red and it was hard to see far from all the red raindrops but they did not stand together, they maintained a two-step distance from each other.
Kisha especially paid attention to the people Duke brought with him because she was sure that none of her family members would turn and neither Duke.
The people inside the store were shocked by the scene and they slowly went out, out of curiosity, they touched the rain wanting to see if it smelled like blood or rust.
The man whose family got crushed by the signboard started laughing which shocked the people near him. He ran outside and kneeled beside the diseased, he looked up at the sky and started shouting. "The heavens have eyes, it saw that my wife died tragically and it sympathized with her!" He continued to cry as he shouted.
"Sister, this." Keith pointed at the man as he worriedly looked at his sister.
He was worried that he would not only transform but would also attract the nearby zombies with his shouting. He's starting to get flustered as time passes by.
Duke took a step forward, wanting to take care of the man but Kisha stopped him and shook her head.
She did not want him to make a move because the people inside the store all went out to try and help pull him back inside. They are now all drenched and no one can't say who among them will transform.
Their own group still needs to be monitored so she does not want him to get distracted.
After a moment the rain stopped and Kisha made sure to time it, and just like what she expected. It lasted five minutes longer than usual, so she is afraid that the potency is stronger than usual too.
Not long after, a continuous scream reverberated from afar and nearby. It sounded like the roar of a beast rather than from a person.
"It started." She said.
The man who was shouting earlier started shaking nonstop, he fell to the ground and everyone thought that he was just having a health seizure. They surrounded him and pressed him down. A man even gagged him to make sure that he would not bite his tongue while having a seizure.
All four of his limbs were pressed by the healthy men, but another one fell, and then another. Of the ten people, half of them fell, one after the other, and started convulsing.
Their eyes turned up, their lips turned purple and they bled from their seven orifices.
A sudden sound that dropped on the floor brought Kisha and other's attention. Their heads turned like a whip and saw two of the men Duke brought fell to their knees. Nerve bulges in their forehead and their jaws clench tightly.
As if trying to fight it, they balled their fist, enough to dig their nails into their flesh.
The two of them closed their eyes, breathing heavily and letting out a muffled grunt.
Another scream from the front of the store caught their attention when they turned around. They saw the first man who fell, now turned to a zombie pounce on the man taking care of him. The guy held the zombie's collar to stop him from biting him but he was not safe from being clawed, his face was scratched badly and he couldn't stop screaming.
When his eyes got caught by the scratching, he squealed and momentarily let go of the zombie's collar, and because of it, he was bitten on his face. The moment he was bit, he tried to push the zombie away but the zombie's jaw seemed to have locked on him and wouldn't let go of him so he used his lower half to kick it hard but part of his face was torn off. He rolled on the ground from the severe pain and couldn't stop screaming.
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