33 Mind if I Take a Bite?
Meanwhile, inside a very spacious room that seems to be a manufacturing warehouse with big and heavy machines all around, there are at least sixty or seventy people hiding grouping together with pale faces that clearly show their fright.
These people are not wearing workers' outfits, so they should be just hiding inside the warehouse.
Aside from the wounded that are shivering and also sweating, there are a group of people that are armed with gear all over their bodies. Starting from handguns to shotguns, every member of the group is packed with firepower.
With the gears, they are wearing it's clear that they're the leader here or at least the protector.
This group of people consists of seven people with five men in their middle twenties or thirties and two other women that are also around the same age, but the one that stands out the most is the man sitting on a crate smoking a cigarette.
From how the others act around him, this man should be the leader of the group.
"Bob, I saw some of them manage to kill Walkers along the way here. Make sure to ask them for the tax, don't get ripped off by them", the leader of the group glanced at a bald head man on his side and instructed softly.
Hearing this, the man called Bob takes the shotgun on his side and stands up.
"Okay, boss. Just leave it to me", Bob replied before looking at the shivering and wounded people that felt a chill upon seeing his cold eyes, he then walks towards them leisurely with the shotgun on his shoulder.
While Bob heads to the others, the woman that has quite the figure with red hair frown.
She kept looking at Bob that is walking toward the others before he started asking for the tax, the tax is paid with Chaos. Bob kicked a man that has his arm broken before demanding the Chaos, and without having any other choice the man grabs Bob's hand.
Upon grabbing Bob's hand, there's purplish energy that started to sizzle around their hands.
This purplish energy slowly transfers from the man's hand towards Bob's hand, it went on for five seconds before Bob finally smiles and retracts back his hand.
"Boss, they are people. I know you're mad with Mathian but this is wrong", the woman said.
Looking at the people that they are protecting in a mess, the red hair girl started to feel empathy for them especially since Bob is literally kicking them and punching them if they refuse to give the tax. These people are already wounded, they don't need to be treated rougher.
The boss glanced at Bob who seems to be enjoying his job before he shifted his eyes away.
Even with the people crying and whimpering under the rough treatment they get from Bob, the leader doesn't seem to be fazed at all, "We kept them alive, so they better pay. Nothing is free, especially in a world like this"
"Besides... if I want to beat Mathian and reclaim my throne, this is a must", he added grimly.
Although the red hair woman still wanted to rebut the selfish way of thinking, she knows that pushing it further will just bring trouble to her so she kept silent.
While Bob is collecting taxes, the others that waited their turns shuddered.
Growling and loud banging sounds can be heard occasionally leaving their hearts no time to rest, it's the time of the dire and now humans are not on the top of the food chain anymore.
But just as the group is resting, they suddenly heard a loud crashing sound.
The crashing sound still sounds far from the warehouse but it's nevertheless near, the leader frowned when he heard the high-pitched screams that reverberated through the air reaching here, "It's that bastard screamer again, why does it keep coming our way?", the leader clicked his tongue in displeasure.
Knowing what the leader referred to, the others also shuddered.
One of the guys that only has one arm holds the machine gun in his other hand tightly in response to what the leader said, it seems this group of people has met with this Zombie they called screamer.
Waving their hand, two guys stood up and stands in front of the leader.
"Go check the perimeter and check if the screamer is nearing the warehouse, make sure to not get too close to the screamer or you'll get caught and die", the leader instructed firmly.
Hearing this, one of the two men nods his head while the other looks hesitant.
Since they saw what the screamer is capable of first-hand, it's natural for this man to be scared to check the perimeter lest he met with the screamer. One of his friends got attacked and lost one of his arms, this is enough to scare any adult.
The leader takes a deep breath intending to get angry but was stopped by the red hair woman.
"Let me go then, it's better for me to move rather than stay here and watch that pussy beat up helpless people", the woman with red hair said and stood up.
Without waiting for the leader to reply anything, the woman walks outside of the warehouse.
"Come on, Erry. We're going to check the perimeter", she said leaving the group with two handguns strapped to the holsters on both sides of her waist, the leader watches the woman with red hair leave with a meaningful look before focusing back on his cigarette.
Meanwhile,
After killing the Three-eyed Screamer, Pati sits on the ground for a moment.
Fighting the Three-eyed Screamer zapped every ounce of strength inside his body, the fight lasted way longer than he expected. He thought that he will be able to kill the Three-eyed Screamer easily but turns out he's not.
'Next time, I need to keep in mind that size doesn't equal strength', Pati thought with a sigh.
With how frail and small the Three-eyed screamer figure is, he thought that it will be a piece of cake as long as he won't get caught by the soundwave but oh boy was he wrong about that.
Just as he sits for half a minute, Pati already saw other Zombies approaching him.
Stabbing the Peacekeeping Sword Grinder onto the ground, Pati uses it to support him to stand up before his eyes land on the Brawlers and Walkers that are growling at him, 'Let's take care of this first...'
Swoosh!
A moment later,
Graah!
Pati slash down his sword toward a Brawler's head before splitting its head into two, he did it with relative ease as he was now way stronger than a normal Brawler. The highest level Brawler he killed here is level 22, there are no level 30 Zombies that he met.
The closest one was the Three-eyed Screamer which is level 29, but it's still not level 30.
'Just how do you find level 30 Zombies and above, there should be a section that has many of those Zombies, right?', he thought before slashing the void with his sword to splatter the blood.
With that slash, an arc of blood was created on the ground.
Pati then looks back intending to take the items dropped by the Three-eyed Screamer, but when he stepped into the rubbles his eyes widen seeing that the items are gone.
'What the fuck...?! Where did it go?''
Since he needs to take out the other Zombies first, he let the items there to chill.
But now that the items that he saw clearly there before were gone, he looks around before he squints his eyes seeing shadows running away followed by hurried footsteps, "Some fuckers try to steal what's mine?!"
Upon realizing that someone stole his items, Pati's expression darkens.
As if there's a surge of energy inside of him that numbs his entire body from that pain inflicted by the Three-eyed Screamer, Pati uses his Leap skill and runs after the shadows.
Swosh!
Pati takes a turn following the shadows that he saw earlier.
At the end of his vision he saw two people that seems to be a pair of a man and a woman running with the items from the Three-eyed Screamer in their hands, this makes Pati even angrier as he puts more strength into his running.
No matter what is trying to block his path, Pati moved efficiently without any hindrance.
From how the pair is pulling cars or even making streetlight falls down to hinder Pati's pursuit, it's clear that they're also already enhanced by Chaos. There are no normal humans that can do that.
BAM!
The man grabs a taxi before pulling it into Pati's way.
Without even slowing down his movement, Pati charges through the car smashing and sending the car crashing away. This makes the pair look back in surprise, Pati's strength is out-right monstrous even for them.
Upon reaching close enough, Pati gathers strength into his legs.
Pati then lower his stance and jumped while holding the Peacekeeping Sword Grinder with both hands, this made the pair look up before jumping to the opposite sides. The man jumped to the left to dodge while the woman jump to the right.
Crack!
Even though he's fighting with other people, Pati didn't hold back his punches.
That slash from his cracked the ground as the force is too much even for the concrete ground, if one of them got hit by that then their body will surely cut into two like a sandwich.
"Give back my items or you'll regret it", Pati said while straightening his posture.
Seeing that Pati is emitting killer vibes makes the woman that has red hair steps back, the glaring eyes are very sharp and somewhat make her breathe hard showing that this pair of eyes are the eyes of a killer.
Not just someone that killed Zombies, but someone that killed a person or maybe even more.
"Erry, just give the items back. We're not here to steal but just checking the perimeter", the woman with red hair shouted with a hint of begging in her tone trying to convince Erry to give back the items.
But before Erry can even say anything, Pati turns his head towards Erry.
There's a maniac look on his face that shouldn't belong to a man his age, it's like a bloodthirsty maniac that just smells the scent of blood, "So you're the one that suggested stealing the items... if that's the case"
Swoosh!
Pati dashed in swiftly, he arrived just under the man like a ghost.
Upon seeing this, the man grabs the machinegun strapped to his body intending to shoot but in the next second the man widens his eyes in surprise seeing the machinegun got halved.
With a slash of the Peacekeeping Sword Grinder, Pati cut the machinegun in half.
The pale expression of the man brings a devious smirk to Pati's face, he stretches his hand and grabbed the man by his bald head before lifting the man off the ground. Even when the man tries to break free, he can't shake off Pati's grip.
It's like being grabbed by a giant, and he can't do anything about it.
"Stop! Let him go or..."
Pati didn't even give the woman with red hair any courtesy to finish her threat, "RAARGHHH!!", the man widened his eyes upon feeling the grip on his head become even stronger and stronger.
Even his skulls started to make cracking sounds just from Pati's grip alone.
"I-I'm sorry! Please!! Kyaarghh!", the man tries to plead for mercy but Pati is having none of it, he gave the man a devious smirk just like the smirk of the angel of death before out of their expectation Pati opens his mouth and bites through the man's cracked skull.
Crunch!
The woman with red hair can't believe what she was seeing, Pati bite through the skull and started munching on the man's brain as if it was a delicacy of the world.
Unconsciously the woman's mouth started to quiver, her heart dropped to her stomach.
Pati ate the entirety of the man's brain without leaving anything left inside its skull except for hollowness, he then glanced back at the woman with red hair with his mouth filled and dripped with the fresh blood of her friend.
It's haunting to look at, and this is supposed to be something that should only be in a nightmare.
With blood decorating his mouth, Pati lets go of the man's corpse before turning fully towards the woman with red hair, "You look like you made a good dessert, mind if I take a bite...?"
Looking at this gruesome scene, the woman pale in horror, "D-Demon!"
