Chapter 8: Army Attack!

When they got distracted by the commotion outside, they failed to realize when did Ziv approach Kenny that close while allowing his left hand to become close enough to his face.

Ziv didn't hesitate any longer as he immediately activates his skill that lead to his Energy to flow towards his left hand that resulted his palm to become warm and gentle.

At the first attempt of his use, there was no reaction to Kenny's face or body, but when he uses it twice there was much intense reaction that before.

While he jumped backwards to avoid getting caught from counter attack and also observed the result of his experiment.

"Y-You! Ah! W-What have you done to me!?" Kenny shriek in pain while holding his mouth to stop the blood from flowing.

The people in the room saw Kenny's skin on his face started to boil like water as his scream could be heard constantly intensifies until the blood started to flow on his eyes that portraying a man that was shedding tears.

"You will regret this.." Kenny said in a tone that comes from the depth of hell on his last breath before he died.

"Huu.. Huu.. That was close." Ziv was gasping for some air after looking at Kenny's body.

When he started gasping for some air the people in the room was pulled from their daze as they got stunned at what they saw.

Not because of the kill that just happened as they witness it on normal occurrence while staying here instead of the process on how the kill happened.

"W-what the hell is that!?" someone exclaimed surprised.

"I-I saw him touch Kenny's face then.. He's now dead." someone involuntarily said still in disbelief.

Claire that got knocked out of the ground didn't see the whole process of the fight when she was thrown to the side, but from their reaction she knows that Ziv won the fight.

"Are you okay Ziv? You're losing a lot of blood!"

When Claire approached, she exclaimed worried while looking at his pale face from blood loss as she try to tend his wound especially his severed right hand.

"Haa.. Q-Quickly p-pass me my hand." Ziv weakly said while requesting her to get his hand that was on the floor.

'My injury was worsening and the exhaustion, giving a huge toll on my body when my hand was severed by that fat guy.' Ziv bit his dry lips while looking at his remaining Energy.

[Energy: 147/200]

"Here!" Claire passes his right hand to him.

When he receives his right hand, he stopped the bleeding from the wound by placing his left hand on top of it while applying his Synthesize to close it. Before attaching his right hand using Synthesize while the muscle, joints and bone started to connect.

'Ahh-! It hurts so bad!'

The excruciating pain that could be felt when all of your joints reattaching to each other overwhelm his mind as he gritted his teeth to stay awake.

"Oh! Why that hurts so bad!"

When the pain started to fade away while looking at his hand that was slowly healing he sighed in relief.

"Thanks, Claire." Ziv was supported to stand up by Claire that was beside him.

By exploring the extent of his skill he discovered that modern day knowledge could apply in the same degree of the skill that he acquired from the system.

There was a study in chemistry about Synthesis reaction that involves of the breaking of existing bonds or elements to form a new complex compound.

The complex compound that was formed may involve a considerable amount of reaction that lead from the sequence of the given materials to the desired product.

And by exploiting the synthesis reaction while including the decomposition reaction in the process which is the opposite of it resulted into something wicked.

When he touched Kenny's face the used of synthesis reaction formed a blood clot that blocked all of the blood from flowing towards his brain.

While using the decomposition reaction to squeeze out the blood from his head towards his orifices that led to the lack of oxygen in his head as the brain cells from his brain started to disappear that caused his death.

'No matter what humans do. Brain was still the most delicate part of the body.' Ziv thought smugly while looking at Kenny's body.

"You got beaten by a person who earnestly listening to his chemistry teacher."

Ziv still couldn't let go of his grudge on chopping his hand as he ridicules him even in his death that will make Kenny spurt blood from his grave.

The only voice that could be heard in the room was Ziv that was constantly ridiculed Kenny's body while the people were all silently look at him without moving an inch away from their position.

They couldn't escape or make a sound as they been hesitating to do some action from the gaze of this monster.

But Ziv actually didn't have any luxury to waste any energy from these people as he was too tired instead he focus on checking Kenny's body to search for useful items before discovering a black crystal shard similar to the Tier 0 Energy Crystal near his heart.

When he picked it up there could be an unbearable hot feeling that comes from the crystal while dropping it instantly without hesitation before a notification popped up in from of him.

[Warning! Your radiation level is decreasing!]

[11.3%.. 5.3%.. 1.7%..]

[Energy Resistance blocked the invasion.. Issuing safety measure.. The critical condition stabilizes!]

"What just happened right there!?" Ziv suddenly panicked while seeing the red warning that popped up in front of him.

He just wants to inspect the black crystal shard that came from Kenny's heart when his radiation level suddenly decreases after making a contact

'Considering that the warning popped up there was something really bad will happen when the radiation level went down, right?'

He was full of doubts about the situation that was happening, but having no idea of the crystal let him feel hopeless while decided to look for it later.

"What's wrong? Why you dropped it?" Claire curiously asked when looking at him dropping the black crystal shard while she tried picking it up to pass it to him.

"Don't pick it up." Ziv tries to stop her from picking it up, but it was too late to remind her.

"What's wrong? Nothing happened." Claire stare at him doubtful.

"D-Did you feel anything weird? Hot or something?" Ziv hurriedly asked her condition while being worried about the effect of the crystal.

"Except you acting weird, I think there was nothing else." Claire ponders as she answers while caressing his jaw.

'Why can't she felt something? What is happening here?' Ziv was confused at this point as he deeply ponders about this topic that he didn't notice a black light that shines in Claire's eyes.

"We could get out now. It was dangerous here, especially that the army started attacking this area."

He suggested to leave this area while he was being supported by Claire on the way out of the explosion and loud gunshots that could nearby.

"Yes, we need to get out." Claire stares blankly in the direction of the gunshots as she mutters before she added on her mind, 'I'm sorry Ziv I have to do this.'

After getting away as far as possible from the shop with Claire's support while arriving at the alley two street away from Larry's place.

She suddenly abandons him half way through their way there as he stares at her departing back before she leave him alone in the dark and gloomy alley.

"Karma." Ziv mutters before resting on the ground for a moment as he limps his way through Larry's place.

...

Before the gunshots and the explosion was starting to happen the orders came from a command post that was situated a few kilometers away from the shopping district.

In the centermost part of the camp, there was a large tent that becomes the command center of the army that was used to communicate and order the soldiers on the field to perform their different task.

Inside the tent there was a big table with a map of the whole area of the shopping district that pointed out the various attack points that the soldiers should take.

Beside the table was a stern middle aged man that has frowned on his face while staring intently at the map seemingly troubled by something.

There were also a few soldiers that were seated on a chair near the radio and communication device that relaying all the orders from their superior to the soldiers on a mission.

"Sir, we have a report, a soldier spotted Antonio from the 3rd gathering spot that we marked." a soldier saluted as he approached the middle aged man that was pondering while respectfully reported at him.

"So, he decided to show up now. What about the man that we're looking for?" the middle aged man asked the soldier that reported with the tone of authority.

"There was no sign of the target, but when we analyze the structure of the building there was a basement under the building and there was a high percentage that he was locked there, sir." the soldier respectfully reported everything.

"Any news on our soldier?" the middle aged man asked again.

"The soldiers were delayed by the zombies on sector B intersection. They should be arriving late in the designated are, sir." the soldier saluted as he stood there waiting for his superior's response.

"I've been a general for 8 years and I saw people fighting for independence, rebellion and freedom. But this was the first time I saw a group of people mass murdering a lot people for the sake of what? Pleasure!? Business!?"

"They didn't know the current situation of the world right now!? 60% of 13.5 billion people in the world got affected by these zombies!"

"While these degenerate jelly ice popsicle peanut sized brain vertebrates just straight murdering a hundreds of people right this time." the middle aged man was growing infuriated and angry whenever he kept thinking about these type of people.

When the capital has fallen the communication that went through each garrison that was deployed on different cities were interfered by something. It was chaos when the people started unleashing their inner desires while doing wicked things to their own kind.

The threat of zombies wasn't an exception to this, especially when the zombies started to roam around the whole world with the desire to eat humans as the last report from the orbiting satellite.

But there wasn't always a bad news though, recently a large tower that was made out of unknown material with a thick fog around it just suddenly appeared in the middle of the city with full of mystery.

At first they thought it was something ominous and assume it was the source of the zombies as the surroundings of that tower were full of zombies, thus they decided to use a missile to destroy it but the suprisingly the missile just vanished in thin air.

When they tried sending scouts near the tower they discovered that the zombies couldn't reach or approached the mist as if its preventing them from going inside.

"By making a camp base there we can basically be safe from the threat of the zombies outside instead of building in this open area that only protected with walls and barricades." the middle aged man mutters while thinking some plan ahead.

"After the troops arrived at their assigned point. We can give them our 'warm' welcome." the middle aged man ordered the soldier beside him while busied himself to other things.

"Yes sir."

The soldier saluted while relaying the message of their superior to the captain of this mission.

...

When the sun fell and the darkness enshrouds the sky the soldiers from the army started to slowly surround the escape route of the shopping district.

"Alpha Team is in position." a platoon leader said in his walkie talkie while hiding in the darkness.

"Sniper support on standby." the snipers position themselves on a high building that overlooking the whole shopping district.

"Mortar support on standby."

"All troops hold your position." the middle aged man's voice could be heard on the walkie talkie instructing the soldiers.

"Roger that!"

The army platoons was each carried by Humvee or IFV tank while the sniper was silently taking out the guards on the wall and the mortar to ensue panic and chaos to the enemy.

"Tango down!"

"Proceed to follow the mission!"

*Booom!*

A mortar shell went straight towards the inside of the shopping district, while the tanks started blasting the walls.

When the explosion was started to bombard the place. The soldier that was camping on the building where Antonio was receiving an order to execute the target.

"Strong wind to west.. 350m from the target.. 60mm thick glass window.." Jones analyzes the information that the sniper needs to make the shot.

"This was an easy shot, but why do I feel that there was something strange about him?" Greg said to his partner while focusing on the target.

"Really? I didn't see anything odd about him." Jones replied at his doubts.

"Maybe he got nervous when the army started bombing his territory." Jones added while trying to reduce the tension of his body.

While looking at his scope and concentrating to his target, he notices that Antonio stood up from his seat and walk towards the window while leaning his body towards it.

'W-What the hell is he doing!?' Greg was startled by this sudden movement to not waste this chance he aim his gun on Antonio's heart before firing.

*Bangg-!*

When the bullet passes through the window and easily penetrate it the bullet went straight towards Antonio's heart.

Antonio got hit by the bullet while he kept staggering backwards from the impact of the bullet before collapsing to the ground.

Greg was relieved when the bullet hit his target and collapse to the ground.

'It wasn't my first mission why I'm so nervous.' Greg stares at the body of Antonio for a while before looking for Jones to celebrate their mission when an unexpected man was in front of him while holding Jones up in the air.

"Y-Y-You why are you here!?" Greg said in disbelief.

"I'm just here to welcome my friends." the man calmly said while smiling.

"No! How!?"

The tone of Greg's voice was despair and panic as he stares at the man in front of him.

That was the last memory of Greg before being devoured by the black tentacle that coming out of that man's body.

"Thanks for the meal." the man lick his lips in delight.

In the basement of the building where Reynold was locked up finally woke up from his sleep when it was getting noisy outside.

"They were becoming lively I guess! I need to greet them for sure!" Reynold lazily moves his body while yawning as he remove the thing that bind him on the chair.

Reynold aligns his fingers to normal while moving his wrist around to know its condition before approaching the metal door.

"I think I have the obligation to clean the basement." Reynold said while knocking the armored door.

*Knock* *Knock*

After knocking the door twice the guards on the other side got startled while curiously looked at the peek down of the armored door.

When the guard saw the pair of eye that locked on him like a prey his face paled as he unconciously move backwards.

"Nice to meet you." Reynold smiles while looking at the guards.