I walked to the two girls, and they were just children ages of my grandchildren after all. The poor souls must've been looking for food or something.
I squatted down next to them with my Warhammer on my shoulder. I saw them heavily open their eyes. It's like their whole energy was sucked out by the bloody thing.
Since I wasn't wearing the helmet anymore as it had become quite useless I wasn't scaring anyone.
The blond girl opened her eyes then looked at me and then at her friend. She realised she was alive and started crying. The other girl also saw this as they hugged each other.
"Are you two alright?" I asked happy to see them being fine. Humanity will need every single woman in order to recover. The current population must have dropped by more than 99% or it will reach that number quite soon.
The blond girl was the first one to stop crying as she looked at me with those big eyes. Oh dear lord, don't do this to me.
She jumped up to hug me, "Thank you for saving us."
I pushed her back, "Don't worry about it. What happened to you two?"
I then noticed their lips dry and coarse like they didn't have water for a while.
I got them some water as they downed in an instant, I gave them another cup each.
They gave back the cups and then started talking, "We were working here over time as our product design submission was due. When all of a sudden we felt pain all over our bodies and then woke up the next day.
Thankfully we were the only ones left on our floor. We thought it was strange that we would just fall asleep like that. We then took the lift to go to the bottom floor and go home.
That's when we saw the zombies or whatever those things are. They were attacking and eating some other people.
We got scared and immediately started clicking every button on the lift. We still regret that to this day.
We saw people getting ravaged on multiple floors. In the end, we got back to our floor and been living there ever since." She said as she was about to start crying again.
Sunlight was shocked, "How did you survive for almost two weeks here?"
"We have a small cafeteria on our floor so we had enough water until now and just a little bit of food. We lost a lot of weight..." The other girl said in shyness.
I nodded with my head. It was so unrealistic for people to die or start eating each other a few days after the Apocalypse. In the first place, Humans have lived in jungles for hundreds of thousands of years and sometimes wouldn't eat for weeks. In one week of not eating one could only potentially lose at maximum 7 or so pounds. Of course, that's only if they had water. If one had food but not water then no matter what one will die in weeks time no matter how many humans one ate. Cannibalism was one of the biggest bullshit ever. It was only ever done for ritualistic purposes or being bad in the head. Humans would more likely die then start eating each other.
Even then, one could survive for at least a month without eating if one was of not too bad of health. If one was overweight but in good health, it wasn't too weird to be able to not eat for 2 months. There were many studies done on this as I researched it myself when I was fasting.
"Why did you leave then and got caught by the Blood Ghost?"
"We had run out of the water, so we used the fire exit door to walk here.
Then as we walked in here our legs caught by the whatever that thing was. We tried to struggle and escape but energy quickly left our bodies." The blond girl said as she started shivering in fear.
"Well, you are now safe with us." I looked at everyone.
"Let's go clear this place and find some backpacks or something. These two can carry their own food and water." I said calmly. If we are bringing the two together then we had to make them useful, as it was at least a weeks journey to the centre, if not longer.
Just by feeding these two 5 crystals they would become as strong as horses and would be recovered and ready to carry our stuff. It was the Apocalypse and there was no need for freeloaders. Not to mention that without having to carry everything all the time we would be able to clear the Deviants more safely and efficiently.
The two girls swallowed hard when they saw my eyes glisten. They weren't sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing.
"If you two are rested then follow us and don't get too far unless you want to get killed by those Deviants." Jason said as they helped them up.
I saw Telos taking a few looks at the blond girl. The cheeky bastard was already on it, he better not force himself on them otherwise I'll spank him hard. Kids these days have too strong of a libido that's why population kept increasing like crazy.
I clapped with my hands as the sound reverberated through multiple floors. Sneak attacks were the worst so it was better to walk in tight spaces as loud as possible so that the Deviants would come out rushing at you.
Right after my clap Deviants rushed at us from different locations.
I saw the two girls get scared as I put on a cheeky smile and gave them side view of my face. Then with my thumb, I brushed past my nose and sprinted out.
Damn this old man is so cool. Well, that's what I thought about myself.
I span my Warhammer in my hand and hit an ugly one-handed Deviant. It had a horn for his chin and ahead until I brushed past it with my hammer.
To my right, another Deviants' head was sent flying by a flying disk. I kicked the headless body and sent it flying knocking down two other Deviants. Archi ran towards them with her baseball bat and finished them off while I dashed towards another Deviant.
Just like that, we finished off ten Deviants. Then I looked at the two girls and shock could be seen on my face. Their whole bodies were covered in purple blood from our fight. They were shaking like they were about to collapse at any moment.
Ah, damn it, I think they got more scared of us than thinking of us as being cool.
I saw them drop on the floor and start vomiting. They couldn't take the pungent smell of the blood and the gory scene.
Poor things I went and patted them, "You'll get used to it." I said with a gentle smile and then went and stabbed the deviants putting my hand inside. I took out their hearts and then the red crystals from inside of them.
I looked at them with a smile on my face with a heart in my hand. Why do I always end up looking like this?
The two girls literally fainted after seeing that. Their poor young hearts couldn't take it.
"Aish, people who weren't raised by my family are not the same quality after all."
Although they did have a long day, almost dying once and then seeing this. I asked Sunlight to carry them and fed them another crystal each.
Then we walked around looking for food, water and backpacks.
We thought that the rest of the day would go quite calmly, but then we entered the restaurant area of the building. The restaurant area was on the third floor and was quite fancy having the modern art style with a lot of black and white to it.
The cooks who would work here would be top quality chiefs. I was absolutely right, as when we entered the place one would expect to see a lot of people in a place like that. Which meant a lot of Deviants, but I was very wrong, because there was only one.
"Put your stuff down, prep..." Before I could finish The Deviant sprinted at us with Lightning quick steps. It was like he was floating on air. The Deviant was very skinny and actually wielded a knife. It wore white Chiefs clothing which the Deviants' legs were deformed and bent looking like that of a demon spawns. This only made the bastards speed even faster.
I humped and waved my hammer to hit it, but the fucker bent down. Good thing it was a spinning swing so the other end of the hammer hit the Deviant Chief. It sent it Flying back as the guy flipped multiple times in the air. It crashed down pushing multiple tables and chairs back.
A disc flew past me to hit the Deviant, but the thing jumped out from laying down to standing as if it was pulled by an invisible force. I then sprinted towards the guy who landed on its feet. On the guys, arms were broken as I snickered. I kept waving my hammer while the guy kept jumping around me trying to get close to me. It was quite literally impossible though.
While the Deviant was focused on me, Jasons' flying disc rushed from behind it again and tried to kill it. Unfortunately in only grazed its neck.
While the Deviants attention was split that was my moment. I kicked the guy and followed it right away and when it was about to land on the ground my hammer came. It hit the Deviant on its legs and crushed them. It was over for this guy.
I stepped on both it's armed and it kept struggling to bite me, but obviously couldn't reach me. I lowered my hammerhead to the Deviants's head, slowly crushing it while it growled with the most disgusting sounds. I didn't even know when I had become so cruel, but honestly, it felt very satisfying. It was like ASMR where people would cut the thing in an orderly fashion or make a perfect circle.
For some reason, it felt very right to kill these monsters and release their souls. They were once human after all so they should go to the river of souls to be reborn again.
I took out the Crystal from inside the Deviant. It was also the size of a finger. This place was literally a treasure trove.
We found the resources we needed here. Which avoided us the trouble of looking them everywhere. We also found some high-quality knives which were always nice.
I then saw the two girls wake up right in time.
"What are your two names?" I asked gently.
The blond girl said, "A-amelia and, and my friends' name is Crystal. W-what about you sir?"
I gave the two of them a bag each and spoke, "You can call me Dr, Dudley, I am a Philosopher."