"The scrolls, the circle, nothing is working…" June mumbled.
"Someone doesn't want us to leave."
The group fell silent.
They didn't panic earlier because they thought they could leave as long as they completed the teleportation circle inside the outpost. But they were wrong.
The zombies trapped them, and were getting closer with every passing second.
How did they know?
By sacrificing the initiates.
To test their theory of entrapment, June sent several initiates in all directions. All of them died within ten minutes.
After some time, more people were sent away. This time, they died in eight minutes. All of them… at once.
It had been six minutes since the third batch was sent away. June had her eyes focused on her system prompt, and then it happened.
[Warning: your troops are under attack!]
[Your troops: 8x Humans have been slain by a Grade-4 hybrid zombie.]
Once again, they died simultaneously, not giving her any information regarding the zombies' positioning.
