章節 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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章節 11: Chapter 11 Chaos
Everyone was like a headless chicken and it was a complete chaos.
Two of Duke's men who have normal signs named Eagle and Hawk, immediately went into action and dealt with the zombies that were within a 5-meter radius near them. They even want to deal with two of their brothers named Sparrow and Vulture thinking that since they will turn into zombies, they better kill them while they still have human consciousness because they know that those two would want that too.
The two members of Duke's team that were twisting around on the floor have yet to finish their transition so Kisha does not allow Duke and the others to make a move because it is still unknown if this is an early awakening. After all, she has yet to see the symptoms that they are transforming into zombies.
This possibility is only 10% because there are times that a transition will happen silently without much shaking and jerking like normal.
Besides, an awakening can also cause severe pain in the body as if the internal organs are being stirred violently. The blood vessels would bulge because of the increase in pressure for blood circulation. Especially in the head.
It would feel like their head would explode at any minute as it forcefully and quickly stimulates the brain. Which will then create the central hub of the awaken's source of power. The Crystal Core.
After explaining this to Duke, she made him call all his executives so that they don't accidentally kill the awakened.
Duke made a conference call to his executives, once they started answering the call one by one, he turned it into speaker mode and made Kisha repeat her explanation.
After the explanation, she asks them to send those who fit the bill for a few days of quarantine. If they do not turn, that means they are successful. If they turn, they need to be killed.
One of the executives asks. "Why is the awakening similar to transitioning to a zombie?"
"It's because the virus and crystal core are one. If the virus eats the brain, then they become zombies and after it eats the brain, the concentration of the virus in the brain will then create a crystal core but if the virus successfully integrates with the human brain, positively. Then the human evolves and the crystal core will be the power source like a battery." She stopped and thought again because she thought that it was kinda messy so she said. "You can just think of it as Evolution, the other has a negative impact while the other is beneficial to us."
"And the only difference with their crystal core is that the zombie core will form after they turned and so, their core is impure. On the other hand, the awakened's core will form during the virus's stimulation, and in turn, the core is pure and has more energy in it."
Everyone understood what she meant and started working. These people are Duke's most trusted people that will not turn on him, Kisha has seen their trust and devotion towards Duke. He once said that these people were kids from orphanages, Duke decided to nurture his own people when he was just 10 years old, they all grew up with him and treated each other as brothers.
This is the reason why Kisha was so open with the information with them, she knew that they would not share this information with anyone without Duke's go signal, even if the one questioning them were his family.
These people are Duke's limbs, eyes, and ears. They all covered all kinds of industries that Duke would only need to relax and let them work without telling them what to do.
Kisha wished to create such a squad before but it was hard to find elite people that could be trusted, most of them wanted to be the head of the power and not be a mere subordinate so she gave up halfway.
Seeing Eagle and Hawk busy dealing with the zombies nearby, she looked around to see the situation in the store and it was a bloody mess. A woman ran in their direction shouting for help but Duke kicked her in the stomach, the impact of the kick sent her flying a few feet away.
Duke can't be blamed on this one, because the woman has a few gushing bite wounds on her thigh and arms. It was 2 inches deep and a palm wide, it looked like it was bit and forcefully pulled. The muscles are visibly twitching and the blood vessels spray blood every time the muscles move.
The wound was starting to turn purplish black and she was weakly crying and repeatedly asking for help even when she couldn't speak properly from pain. But Duke did not even bat an eyelid when he kicked her and just looked at her indifferently.
When the woman met Duke's eyes, she was eaten by agony and kept asking in her heart why no one wanted to help her. She was just a weak woman who wanted to help those who fell but was attacked instead. She doesn't understand what's going on or what she has done wrong.
She was asking for help from Kisha's group because she saw them dealing with these crazy people with ease but they didn't want to help her. She was wondering why, she was not crazy like them. She just wants to be safe.
She cried and cried until her tears turned red and her sobs turned to grunts and low growls. Her limbs turned stiff, and the nerves in her eyes became even more visible, like purple centipedes. Her porcelain white skin turned purplish with a green hue, just like a corpse. And the wounds turned black and the blood coming out of the wound turned coagulated black blood too.
But the woman still has little consciousness left in her as she still looks pitifully at Duke and turns to Kisha thinking that as a fellow woman, she would sympathize with her kind.
She was hoping and praying until her vision turned dark, she was no longer the kind and pitiful woman she once was but a ferocious beast that would never feel full and is now only roaming to kill and eat any living creature.
The female zombie roared and stood up stiffly, not feeling any pain, only hunger. She looked at Duke and charged, with the only thought of eating her food. Even though her body was a little stiff she was a little agile, however, Duke is a well-trained man and well-versed in mixed martial arts and military close combat.
Before the female zombie gets too close to him, he does a really fast tornado kick with his long legs and he looks like he is flying, Kisha could only hear the loud cracking sound of a bone. She did not know if it was the zombie's spine or skull that snapped and broke from the kick.
It was an Insta kill, the female zombie never crawled back up after the blow.
Duke took care of the zombies in the storefront with his swift and deadly kicks aimed at the weak heads. When he came back and stood next to Kisha, he looked indifferent but if you looked up a little, you'd see his smiling eyes full of smugness.
He's just short of directly asking Kisha if she has seen his cool moves.
Kisha held back her smile, but this was the first time she had seen Duke like this and it was tugging at her heartstrings. His image and his cute antics don't match up and look kinda funny.
She smiled. "That was a cool move. Keep up the good work!" She immediately turns around, her shoulders shaking but she forcefully held it in. And she went inside the store. "Out of sight, out of mind." She thought
She waved her hand and put everything in the store inside her inventory. Then she went to the back where the warehouse is located and made sure to get all the supplies from it, accidentally, she saw two fuel transport trucks parked nearby, each had two tanks installed.
She checked if it had gas stored in it by opening the manhole assembly and poking a long steel stick to see how much it has. Luckily, all two trucks were new. They must have just arrived this morning to refill the gas station. She stored all of it in her inventory and went back to where her group was with a big grin on her face.
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