The World Cataclysm

Chapter 35: Seperation

'Here comes the most dangerous part!'

Perhaps, returning safely to their base would be the most dangerous and difficult part of their operation since zombies will be naturally attracted to the noise of engines.

He already warned Adam about the dangers of driving a vehicle surrounded by zombies, but he told nothing to others since telling them won't make their trip safer. It will be dangerous only in the beginning and will be safer after they picked up a speed.

Preparing himself for a bumpy ride, Dave sat on a passenger's seat as he stared hard at Rachel who was shaking as she started engines of the van.

"Rachel, remember to follow close behind Adam, okay?"

Noticing that Adam had also started engines of his van and was already driving forward, Dave reminded her to follow after him. It shouldn't be a difficult task for her.

As engines were roaring loudly, several zombies could already be seen from the alleys, rushing towards them. At the sight of them, Adam had already started driving his van through a narrow road, but Rachel was clearly shaken as she looked blankly at zombies.

"Rachel! Start driving now!"

Quickly noticing her abnormal state, Dave shouted at her as he grabbed her shoulder and started shaking her. Leaving from her stupor, she hurriedly slammed gas pedal and followed after Adam.

Their van followed behind another black van as they went to the main road. Attracted to the noise of engines, zombies swarmed towards their vans, trying to stop them but were crushed by Adam's van. Their van only followed close behind Adam through the cleared path.

However, one zombie slipped between the space of two vans, so it slammed into their van as it was stuck to their front windscreen and blood covered it. It shouldn't have caused much of a trouble, but at the sight of a zombie right before her, Rachel panicked and lost control of the van as she tried to throw a zombie from the front windscreen.

Dave felt like the world was sent spinning as everything blurred around him. Rebecca and Katelyn, who was sitting in the back, slammed into each other as the van suddenly changed its direction.

Resisting rapid turns of the van, Dave stretched his hand and reached for a drive wheel as he balanced it. Finally, it stopped in its hectic movements.

Losing control over the drive wheel, Rachel finally came to her mind and understood what she had done as blood rushed out from her face. She pressed the gas pedal and tried to follow after Adam, but quite a distance had already been opened between them.

Their van was surrounded by zombies, which were growling and roaring as they hit the exterior of their van, and a swarm of zombies chasing after Adam's van turned towards them, giving up on Adam's group and cutting off their path forward.

"Hurry! Drive forward and turn to the right! There are fewer zombies than in any other way."

Dave had been sensing their surroundings with Mana Sensing right from the beginning, so he made a quick decision to give up on following Adam and to save their lives first. If they could survive this, they could meet with others later.

At his words, Rachel gritted her teeth and drove according to his orders, while ignoring the blood and other zombies around them. She didn't know what to do except to follow his words.

At this moment, Dave regretted that he didn't learn how to drive heavy vehicles in his past life. It wasn't that he didn't want to, but most of the vehicles in his past life were strictly regulated by city officials for military purposes, so he didn't have a chance to learn it. The number of such vehicles was heavily limited even for high ranked soldiers, not to say, for an ordinary soldier like himself.

Their van slammed into zombies in front of it, yet, not wanting to make another mistake and endanger their lives even further, Rachel resisted her urge to vomit. She clenched her jaws tightly as van cut through zombies, finally breaking free from their encirclement.

After they had left encirclement of zombies, they were able to pick up a speed and leave zombies chasing after their van behind them. However, due to the unplanned change of their route, they only went further into a university campus, growing further from their dormitory.

There were countless cars further down the road, scattered chaotically, showing that their owners left them hurriedly to survive, so it became harder to drive further. Dave had also noticed that Rebecca wasn't feeling well to drive further.

"It's okay now, Rachel! You can stop here."

Parking the van right before an internet cafe, Rachel let out a sigh of relief, but, gazing at Dave, she looked apologetic for troubles she had caused.

"I'm sorry that everything ended this way!"

"Ahh...It's okay now! I'm also at fault for not preparing you for it."

He was gravely mistaken this time since he forgot that Rachel had never approached a zombie to a close distance, not to say, killed one before. He should have trained her as he did with Rebecca; he needed to drag crippled zombies towards her and force her to kill it. He shouldn't have expected more from her since it was already praiseworthy that she didn't threw up during her drive.

Therefore, he decided not to blame her as he smiled gently to her. However, remembering blood and rotten faces of zombies from before, Rachel started vomiting on the ground right after she hurriedly opened the window on her side..

'I wonder if Adam had smiled at her, would she have vomited as well?'

Even though he knew that it wasn't because of him, he still felt strange and wronged when a girl, to whom he smiled gently, threw up right after it. He wondered would it have been the same for Adam with his stunning looks.

However, he quickly chased away any distracting thoughts and his displeasure as he exited from the van right after Rachel had started vomiting. He still needed to kill zombies which were attracted to the noise of the engine.

They had stopped in a place with several buildings surrounding it. Most of them were two story-buildings built for various purposes. As for them, they had stopped before a fancy internet cafe built in the modern style.

Quite a big group of zombies had gathered in the street as several dozens of zombies were rushing towards him, but he had killed more than a hundred zombies before, so it wasn't a big deal for him.

Furthermore, his level had already far outstripped the strength of zombies, even low rank 1 evolved zombies wouldn't threaten his life. Activating his Mana Enhancement, he barged into the ranks of zombies, easily slaughtering them.

As he was busy killing zombies, Rebecca and Katelyn had exited from the van, holding their heads with their hands. It seemed that ride wasn't comfortable for them, which was understandable since they were sent tumbling at the backside.

"Have we reached the dorms?"

"The most uncomfortable ride I ever had."

Mumbling something under their breaths, Rebecca and Katelyn started looking right and left, trying to identify their location, but, understanding that they weren't in their base, they sent glances to each other.

Since backside of the van wasn't connected to a front side, Rebecca knew nothing about their previous predicament, yet seeing Dave dealing with zombies, she felt relieved and decided to leave her questions for later. But Katelyn wasn't as reserved as her.

"Hey, where are we? Haven't you said that we would be safe? Why did you even drag me here? I knew that I shouldn't have trust you!"

She started shouting at him and complaining to him as her commotion started attracting more zombies towards them. She had been dissatisfied of him for all the time she met him since she thought that he lacked gentleness and manners, so she didn't miss a chance to criticize him.

Annoyed by her, he let one of the zombies slip by him. It dashed towards Katelyn, trying to gnash its teeth to her flesh, and when it was close enough to reach her, a bat suddenly dealt a heavy blow to its head.

Noticing a zombie rushing towards them, Rebecca naturally killed it with her Survivor Bat, but even then, the sense of nearing death had effected Katelyn as she paled a bit. When she saw a zombie dashing towards her, she was scared to move and was petrified, unable to shift her body.

When she saw how its head was crushed by a bat into a bloody mess and realized it was a corpse lying right before, she had a natural urge to threw up as she joined Rachel in doing it.

Glancing at her, Dave only smirked in satisfaction. Even though he acted a bit evil-minded, he thought it wouldn't harm her, on the contrary, it would help her to overcome her fear of zombies. Then, he continued to kill remaining zombies which were left with more than ten of them in the street.

At the same time, three pair of eyes were peeking from the windows of the internet cafe, observing their actions.