Chapter 14: Danger arrives

“What is it?” Alice asked after seeing his expression worsening.

Phew!

Luke took a deep breath and solemnly said, “It seems the zombies have started moving around. There are more than a few dozen outside on the road right now.”

“What?” Ben’s face paled when he heard this and stuttered, “Does… doesn’t this mean we aren’t safe in this neighbourhood anymore?”

Hearing this, Alice also peeked outside and her expression also turned serious.

“That’s right.” Luke nodded. “Therefore, we need to leave the city as soon as possible.”

“But how are we going to do it? The city exit is a few kilometers away from here and we will encounter more than a hundred thousand zombie maybe even more.”

“If it was only the three of us, perhaps we could leave covertly. But we also have professor Nina, the store lady and that boy from before who aren’t evolvers like us. Since we can’t leave them here to die, we have to take them with us, and this will make it many times more difficult to leave without being found out by the zombies.” Alice said. Her eyes flashing with worry.

“Since leaving through the city exit is too difficult, we can only take the other route, but it’ll be equally, if not more, dangerous.” Luke said after some thought.

“You are saying we should exit the city through the forest?” She asked.

The city was situated just outside a forested region. It would be accurate to say that a part of the forest was cleared to establish the city.

Because the forest had many wild animals that could harass the city’s populace, a huge wall was constructed around the city for protection and there was only a single entrance and exit in it.

In fact, most of the cities on the four smaller continents were like this since the forests or mountains occupied most of the terrain.

The rulers could kill the wild animals to make it safer for the people, but they advised against it, saying that they shouldn’t slaughter them and it was necessary to keep the ecosystem in balance.

Many people had agreed to this because before the ‘calamity’ the human population had almost annihilated the forested areas and wild animals, which caused many problems to the environment and the ecosystem.

Since the ‘calamity’ had reformed the planet for good, they shouldn’t repeat the same mistakes. Furthermore, they would be safe inside the cities.

As for the travelling, the latest transportation vehicles were fast, safe and were equipped with weapons and many safety measures in case some animals attacked.

“Yes. That’s the only way, because by now the transport station should also have been run over by the survivors and the zombies.” Luke nodded.

“What you said makes sense, but how are we supposed to climb 20 meters high walls? You know only the city exit, city guard building and the college have the lifts that can take to the top of the walls? But we can’t go to any of these places without encountering loads of zombies.” Ben asked.

Right after he spoke, he broke out in curses, “Those Rulers bastards. They really didn’t make it easy to escape when designing the city. They clearly wanted us to die here when the apocalypse descended.”

“There is no use becoming angry at them right now.” Luke said to calm him down before saying. “Although it is quite difficult to climb the walls with our current capabilities, we should be able to make a small opening in the wall.”

“How? The walls are almost two meters thick.” Ben asked in frustration.

“I’ll tell you later. First, let’s return to the store before these zombies reach there.” Luke said and immediately ran out of the house with his sword in his hand. Alice and Ben also followed.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

As they dashed out, they immediately attracted the nearby zombies’ attention, who then started moving towards them.

“I’ll be in front. Ben, stay in middle and Alice, you cover us from behind.” Luke barked the instructions while brandishing the sword in his hand.

Slash! Slash! Slash!

In three strokes, he cut off three zombies’ heads who were charging toward him from the front. Ben hit a zombie coming at them from the side with his club and pushed him back while Alice cut off the heads of two zombies who were right behind them.

“Don’t slow down. Keep moving!” Luke shouted.

Thankfully, there weren’t many zombies in the store’s direction. After killing and dodging a few, they were able to escape their attacking range.

Whoosh!

After running for a while, Luke suddenly stopped in front of the house where they had found the boy.

“You guys hurriedly go, pack some food and move toward the south wall. I’ll be meet you on the way with the boy.” He barged into the house after shouting his instruction.

Alice and Ben nodded in acknowledgement before rushing in the store’s direction.

Meanwhile, the boy had run down to the ground floor after hearing Luke’s shout. When he saw Luke’s urgent expression, the boy became worried and asked, “What happened? Why…”

“Shut up and follow me if you don’t want to die.” Luke didn’t have time to explain. He directly grabbed his wrist and rushed out of the house.

Just as they came out, Luke saw the zombies were about to catch up to them and his expression worsened even further.

By the look of things, it wouldn’t take this horde of zombie more than a minute to reach the store and it wasn’t enough time for Alice and Ben to reach the store, pack enough food and then rush to the wall.

“Ahhh! So many zombies! We are going to die.” The boy shouted in horror when he saw the zombies chasing after them.

“Calm down!” Luke shouted. He then pushed the boy in front of him and said, “Run to the store and tell my companions to don’t waste any time and immediately move toward the south wall. GO!”

“You… what are you going to do?” The boy asked in panic when he saw him stop running.

“I’ll try to delay them for a while. Go. Don’t stop!”

“O-Okay. Be careful.” The boy said before running in the store’s direction.

Phew!

Luke took a deep breath and turned around to face the zombies. After a glance, he counted 22 zombies running in the lead. Behind them were more than a hundred others.

Seeing this, he wanted to run away for a moment but he needed to buy some time for Ben and professor Nina to escape even if it was only a few more seconds.

“Since this is the case, let’s test my skill and see if I can kill these 22 in 10 seconds or not.” He smirked. When the first group of zombies was only a few feet away from him, he activated his [Berserk] skill and rushed toward them.

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