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CHAPTER 14.5 - The Refuge. Part 2.
Well, false information, you tricked me again. Damn it! This is the last time I trust strangers!
"It's full," said Mary, disappointed, helpless, sad.
Her tone of voice is normal, but I'm very sure she feels that way. After all, this trip took her son from her. Why did I give her false hopes?!
… Ah… You'll keep blaming yourself later, Zei, there's no time right now, much less with thousands of zombies.
It doesn't take a genius to realize that the city is infested. There are thousands of zombies everywhere, and the only reason they haven't attacked us is because we killed the zombies that were at the city entrance.
We are right at the city entrance, right in the booth where people pay to enter. The road stretches one kilometer further before officially reaching the city. One of the three cities in the country that cannot expand, they will always be the same size due to their limitation: the Dog forest, one of the three forests of the Dog church. It surrounds three-quarters of the city, and we are located right in the only quarter that has no forest, destined to receive visitors.
We see thousands of zombies in the city, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were thousands in the forest too, full of animals to eat.
At least on this road there aren't that many, they all went to the city. I think there are about 100. I don't think they pose a threat.
"It was in vain. So much walking... And the information was false."
I was about to mention Mary's son, but I stopped in time. This situation still hurts me. Better to think about our safety first.
The cars near us are destroyed. They exploded. And there are many zombies and corpses on the ground. Clearly they tried to defend themselves with bombs or grenades, but failed… Or they fell into desperation and preferred to commit suicide.
We are hidden in the booth, we could be safe here for a few hours, but Mary will be in danger if all those thousands of zombies decide to come here together. There are thousands of zombies, possibly with super strength like me, with superhuman resistance. Protecting her from so many will be impossible.
Kiasan and I could take turns killing zombies, while one stays protecting Mary, but zombies aren't the only danger. Fantasy beings could attack us too. Kiasan couldn't defeat an Orc or a goblin, and I'm still recovering from the trauma that shitty orc left me. The best would be to find a safer place.
"For now, our only options are: leave here and look for a new refuge elsewhere, or risk it and search for a refuge in the city.
"But, considering all those zombies, there's no place we can use as a temporary refuge in the city. Entering the city is dangerous," said Mary.
Kiasan and I could hide Mary in the trunk of some car and go killing zombies along the way. They would only see two zombies in a car and wouldn't do anything. But doing that would attract unwanted beings, like Orcs.
"A-a spider woman zombie?" said Mary.
Spider woman zombie?!
I quickly looked in the direction Mary was looking and, indeed, it's a huge spider woman zombie! And she's naked! Wow, how... flat she is. I imagined them more erotic, but her appearance is very simple. Flat elves, flat spider women. What's next? Virgin succubi who don't want to suck me off in the first minute of meeting us?
"She's using her web to store her prey. I see animals for now, but there might be humans in those bags," said Mary.
Now that I notice, yes, there are huge web balls accumulated, and the animals she's storing seem to be alive, or zombified.
"A zombie acting differently? Is it acting on instinct or is it like me? I'll go investigate."
"W-wait. L-look," said Kiasan.
She's pointing at something. It's... it's... Hundreds of spiders?! At first I couldn't see their shape, it looked like black water running down the road, but definitely spiders! They're carrying more web bags!
I glanced at the girls. Kiasan is trembling and Mary is... in shock, very pale.
"M-Mary?"
I try to move her, but she doesn't react. She has a phobia of spiders! I thought it was a myth that women are afraid of spiders and mice, but I see it's not so erroneous. Since my mother used to kill spiders and mice even with her bare hands, I always saw it as normal. Was my mother the weird one?
I shake my head. No time, those spiders must be hundreds of thousands. Are they poisonous...? Huh? What?!
"H-how is... p-possible?" said Kiasan.
Those spiders gathered and formed another spider woman. Those spider women can divide into hundreds of thousands of fragments! No, the most incredible thing isn't that, the most incredible is... that she's a GILF! Not a MILF, she's a GILF! She's wrinkled, but she has the biggest and most perfect breasts I've ever seen in my life! Those things are the size of two 20-liter water jugs! They're three times bigger than Mary's! Incredible! I'm going to grope those breasts right now! That's a true monstrous woman!
Ouch! Huh?! Who hit me?! Hehe. Mary, don't get jealous on me... Huh? She's still in shock. Kiasan? No, she's taking notes in her notebook.
Who hit me? Huh?
Maybe... guilt hit me. What stupidity! I-I mean, yes, it's insensitive of me to start thinking about that while Mary suffers, but... Ahhhhhh! No buts! I'm an insensitive monster!
B-better think about the refuge. We must leave here and... Here? This city, the Dog forest...
That's right. Now that I remember, wasn't there a refuge in that place? Yes, there is!
"Mary, do you remember the earthquake two years ago?"
I shook Mary's shoulders until she reacted. Sorry, but I think I found our salvation!
"Earthquake? Yes... Oh... That's right!"
You remembered it too! You'll be safe!
"E-earthquake?"
"Kiasan, two years ago, an earthquake left many families homeless in this city. I don't remember the exact figure, but I think it was more than 1,000 families."
"And they built a temporary refuge for the affected families on the east side of the forest."
"Maybe they're there."
I came out of the booth, with energy at maximum. Military protection, here we come!
"Let's go to…! Hmmmmh?!"
Who covered my mouth…? Huh? But if Mary and Kiasan aren't using their hands, who covered my mouth?
Kiasan is trembling and Mary is in shock. And this thing I have in my mouth is… Oh, not again.
I slowly turned to my right. Wow, her breasts are bouncing so much that they even hit her face! How delicious…! No, idiot, they're seeing you as prey! They're running toward me! We're going to be attacked by fantasy beings again!
I removed the web from my mouth and shouted.
"I'm a zombie, I'm a zombie! Uwaaah!"
They divided into hundreds of thousands of fragments!
What do I do, what do I do?! Uwaaah! They surrounded me and I closed my eyes tightly! I don't want them to enter inside me…! At least not this way. You have to experiment in life, friends. Hehe
Uwaaah! I feel them in my ass! Noooooo!
Fire magic, fire magic, use fire! Burn me alive…! Well, dead. Just burn me!
"Use the damn fire!!"
How disgusting, they got into my mouth! Why did I scream?! Ahhhhhhh! To hell with everything! Die!
I chewed them quickly. Die, die…! Mmm… Wow, they taste like pizza. How weird.
I kept eating. Wow, they really taste like pizza! Nom, nom! So delicious!
Nom, nom! More, please!
I eat them by the fistful. So delicious!
Huh? I can't find any more. I don't feel them on my face anymore, so it's safe. I open my eyes and… Huh? They returned to their "normal" form, but something weird happened to them.
The spider women became very small. They still appear the same age, but their bodies are now the size of a cat. Before they were twice my size, but now their bodies measure a quarter of my leg. How adorable! Hehe. What if I keep them?
"I want to eat them up with kisses!"
I caught them in my arms. Wow, how soft they are! Hehe. Their breasts feel great on my cheeks… Their breasts… Oh, I look like a pervert.
I looked at Mary and Kiasan. I can feel the disgust in their gazes. Oh, I know, I'm disgusting… Wait… I ate zombie spiders!
I quickly moved away from them.
"Kiasan, go with Mary!"
She nodded and I moved away from them with the spiders in my arms.
I look at them from below, they're looking at me with an expression of… Nah, they have no expression. Possibly they became small automatically after losing so many fragments.
Two pocket-sized monster women… Hehe. A lot of things come to mind to do with them at night. My member will look enormous over their bodies… Ahhhhhh! Don't fall that low!
I dropped them. Go away, bye, don't follow me!
They moved away immediately. Bye, babies. Maybe in another reality ours happened.
Ah, I'll be left wanting.
… Ah… Mmm… Usually this is immediate.
I don't feel weird, nor does my head hurt. Maybe it works differently with other species. Yes, it's possible that my perfect zombie side only works with human zombie blood.
Hmm? The ground is trembling slightly. An earth…? Uwaaah! It's not an earthquake!
The zombies from the city noticed Mary's presence. Shit, more than 100 zombies are heading toward us!
I reached them in less than 5 seconds. God, how I love my new speed! Don't worry, girls, I'm only fast when running. Wink, wink.
Zei, stop with the stupidities! The zombies are just as fast as you, idiot, they almost reached us!
"We must leave!"
I picked up Mary in my arms and started running as fast as possible.
"Kiasan, can you keep up?!"
"Y-yes!"
It's the advantage we zombies have, we're fast, and they have the same advantage! You already thought about that once, don't waste time double-thinking and think of something useful, brain!
I must get away from here and think of a way to kill them without endangering Mary.
Let's look at the surroundings. Cars with crash damage, even one crashed head-on against the right side of a car. Ouch, the co-pilot must have been turned to mush… Wait a second… I got an idea! Brain, thanks for thinking! Is it that hard to plan a strategy instead of thinking about hot matures 5 kilometers away?
"Mary, listen carefully. Don't be afraid, we're going to protect you. Just don't panic."
We reached the car and… Good thing, no dead ones inside.
I destroyed the car window with my fist and opened the door. I'm surprised it withstood such a strong crash. Thanks, you made me look really tough in front of the ladies.
"Get in."
Without doubting me, Mary got into the car and I closed the door.
"Kiasan."
"Y-yes."
Kiasan took two knives from the backpacks and I lifted her onto the roof of the car, so she can easily kill the zombies from that height.
I pulled out the knives I had stored in my pockets.
"Mary, stay away from the windows."
The advantage we have that differentiates us from the zombies is that we are more intelligent. The spider women react on pure instinct, that's why they store their prey in webs and attack their prey by dividing. The human zombies attack directly, without reasoning, which allows us to know where they will attack since they are so obvious. They go straight ahead, simple as that.
The zombies surrounded us and tried to get into the car.
Zombie that approached me, I killed it.
I took care of protecting the left side, Kiasan protected the rear side and Mary protected the front side.
There was no need to protect the right side, because the car protected it.
Thanks to my [Agility] and [Strength] skills, I can kill zombies quickly, because I can see their movements in slow motion. Thanks to my strength, I have no problems killing them in less than a second.
Mary is shooting. The sound worries me, but I don't see more zombies approaching. It's just these... And they gradually decrease.
The bodies pile up in front of Mary, making it hard for the zombies in front of her to move, giving me time to protect her from the front. Her bullets run out, and in that reload interval, I jump to the right and kill them for her. When I do it, I jump back to my left and kill another.
If this is how I am with my agility at low level, I can't wait to raise it to max level!
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After a minute, I climb onto the roof of the car and make sure no more are coming.
Wow, using the bodies to cover the front worked really well. After the first ten seconds, Mary only had to use the bodies to resist the charges. We saved bullets and time.
"Nothing. There are more zombies in the distance, but they're not approaching."
Mary got out of the car, very sore, and wiped the sweat from her forehead. Resisting the hard charges wasn't easy at all, the impacts hurt her, but apparently nothing serious, just her body aches.
"We have 50 bullets left. I used 43."
Although she used more than necessary, her bullets hit various parts of the body, not the head. If she had the [Agility] skill, this wouldn't have happened. Can a normal human have magical skills or is it something only for zombies?
"Fewer than I imagined. Kiasan, how many points do you have?"
"130... S-skill... n-new... A-agility."
"We have almost the same. But I have [Steal] and you have [Spirit]. Congratulations! A little more and we'll be invincible!"
Next objective after keeping Mary safe: Kill an Orc with my own hands! My revenge will be sweet.
"Now let's continue on our way."
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