She slowly opened the door towards the stairway. Luckily, the door was well oiled and made just slight airy sound.
She could literally hear the growling of zombies downstairs and patted her chest in fear. But knowing that she had the ability, she slowly descended. The floor under her was literally locked while she slowly walked even further and saw a small cluster of five zombies two floors under her.
They were scratching on the closed metal door and the sound was making her giddy and made her skin crawl. It really annoyed her.
Slowly step by step she went down and when she saw them clearly, she snapped silently her fingers and as threw the ball of light.
As soon the light ball hit the creature, it started screeching and turned slowly into a heap of dust. Strangely the other four didn't react at all.
Maria narrowed her eyes and had a sudden idea. She summoned two light balls and almost had a heart attack when she heard Zero's voice.
"You... Ahhh."
She quickly sent both balls of light as the creatures heard the voice and started running towards her. Right after that, she sent two more and as she missed the last one, he jumped but she summed one right after the others and he turned into dust that fell right over her.
'' Idiot! Are you trying to get me killed? Can't you go to silent mode and talk to my mind right away?"
"You are an idiot! I'm program. Not human. How can I connect to your brain? If if I could, how to know which of the brain cells is for thinking. You are weird."
Maria stilled. She remembered having wireless earplugs.
"Can you connect to these? I have no wish for too many questions. Humans ate greedy creatures. I might get killed if they knew about your technology. Literally."
"Fine. Can you hear me now?"
"Yes, lower the tone, I still want to keep my ears. Us humans are very weak, just like you said."
"Weak yes, but your powers..."
"What?"
"I had once belonged to species that had seven tentacles but could produce power only on one. You have only two. How can you produce on both?"
"Didn't you just tell me to concentrate and imagine? I just did that. We, humans, have a strong imagination. Our bodies are so weak that we used our brains to find a way to survive and live better lives. Maybe that is the reason?"
She slowly knocked in the door and called loudly.
"Anyone alive there? I will go and clear stairways!"
But no one answered.
"Too bad I don't have heat vision."
"What is that?"
"Wow, it seems you need to learn many things..."
"That won't be good. I have low memory as my mainframe blew up in nothingness. So I can gather just some information's."
"Later when I go back to laptop I will connect to the internet and we can check certain information's. OK?"
"Good."
"Now shut up. I hear growling. Need to concentrate."
Another group of zombies was gathered around a big metallic box. As it seems someone hid in one of those metallic closet's. She started concentrating and felt a bit fizzy when she sent a huge amount of lights at the whole group of zombies.
As they turned into dust she slowly went down, closed the big door and locked it. Then she slowly approached the box and knocked.
"Hello? They are gone. You can come out."
"I can't. The door is from the other side. I'm literally locked in." A young male voice could be heard.
"Sigh. It would take me too long to ho yo the top floor, let me see if I could find something to open this thing from back."
"Its one-piece block. You have to find a way to pick it up. Ask for help."
"Seriously?"
"Huh?"
"You do know it's the zombie apocalypse. Who the hell would help me now?"
"Oh, yeah."
She suddenly had wished to hit him so she just banged on the box. But right after that, a groan could be heard.
"Woman, are you trying to kill me?"
"If I wanted you dead I wouldn't even try talking to you. Now be quiet, I hear something outside."
She sneaked close to the door and heard people talking and rushed voices. The door was locked so she unlocked it and saw few people rushing between cars. One of them saw her and rushed towards her so she opened the door widely open and let him and a few others in.
"You are the woman from the top of the building?"
"Yes, you guys are from the opposite side?"
"Yeah. The evening is near and we wanted to gather some food before night. Wanna come with us?"
She nodded. But sudden bang made her remember that person. With a sigh, she pointed at that thing.
"There is someone alive inside, but I can't help him as the thing is to heavy for me."
"No problem. Every alive is helpful. Let's go. This is nothing for us."
Literally, they just picked up and straightened the thing and out came a tall youth in his teens. Grudgingly he looked Maria and huffed.
"I could have died inside."
She nodded. "Yes, you could have been eaten by them or died of hunger and suffocation."
He paled as he realized how dangerous the situation was.
"Boy, go home if you are near and if not, come with us and help us gather food. Your choice. "
The young man offered him friendly but strictly at the same time as he saw him acting up towards this woman naughtily.
"By the way, I'm Brian. These are my friends Jasek, Loni, Paul, Khan and Tyrone. " He introduced everyone.
"I'm Maria. I'm sorry I didn't ask this child's name." She pointed at the young teen that suddenly puffed his cheeks.
"Hey, I'm already thirteen!"
"Fine."
"My name is Nicolas, but everyone calls me Nick." He spoke in a smaller voice as he saw the few men staring at him.
Maria nodded calmly.
"Is your family nearby?"
"I guess. They just tried to eat me for breakfast..."
Maria's breath stocked. Did she just obliterate his whole family?