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Chapter 12 - Chapter 11: Outsider

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Baekhyun

"Baekhyun-hyung! Wake up! I think something is happening outside!" I heard Taehyung's panicked voice as he shook my shoulders on my bunker. I stood up groggily as I registered what did the kid had just said.

I mean can you believe it? It's like midnight and-

"What's with those torches?" I asked as I realized that the people are gathered in the open area of the sanctuary using torches to light up the dark surrounding. I immediately hooked my weapon on my shoulder. Putting my handgun on the inside of my right boots and a hiking knife on the left.

"Take this." I quickly handed Taehyung a gun that's fully loaded with bullets as we headed outside.

"What's happening here?" I asked from the male that was looking somewhat worried and scared. He just pointed towards the gate with his hands shaking.

What the fuck is happening?

"Baekhyun!" Luhan's voice came into clearance as he came towards us with Taehyung.

"Something happened." He announced. I can clearly see the fear etched on his face as he held his weapon tightly, preventing himself to shake.

"What happened?" I asked, still clueless as I moved closer to where everyone is panicking with.

It led me to the gates and when I took a glance at it, I never expected that I would witness a bloody horrifying scene as disturbing and nerve-wrenching as this.

It was like the first time I saw a zombie in my whole life that made my hair in my whole body straighten.

In front of me were the three gatekeepers. Hanged their necks to death and turned themselves into flesh eaters. It was like a thriller movie scene where the killer hangs his victim and watches them struggle to suck in a breath until they turn cold. Their eyes, mouth, and ears pulsated with blood, gushing down on their awfully bloodied chests as they chewed on their own tongue and lips. Their white smokey eyes glaring at us.

I knew them. I once talked to them before about asking permission to go hunting.

They were fucking nice people. Who did this?

And the creepy thing was that the corpses have a message with only three words that's been painted one on each of them with their own thick blood on their clothes that reads, "You are next."

"What the fuck happened to them?" I said, my tough voice cracked in uneasiness. Looking around only to find that they're as panicked as I imagined.

"Someone murdered them and hanged them there in the middle of the night. Sending a message to us." Luhan answered, his eyes never leaving the kicking zombies on the air.

"The thing was that the murderer may still be stalking inside. Living with us right now. Watching us." Luhan gritted his teeth as he looked at me with worried eyes.

"Taehyung, come here," I ordered as I kept him beside me.

"Stay together no matter what happens. I'm just gonna talk to Chanyeol." I instructed and started leaving. But before I could move a meter away from them, two loud gunshots reverberated the silent surroundings.

"An outsider entered the walls." I heard Chanyeol spoke angrily while he stood beside me. He pulled the trigger of the gun, making the three newly turned gatekeepers stop groaning from the craving for flesh.

"H-How is that possible?" I asked, anger filling my nerves as I never expected that such a thing like this would not happen. I'm angry because of the message of the killer that conveys that we're next to die.

It could be anyone.

"Please go back to your cabins. Lock the doors and windows securely. Any sign of movement outside, just use your weapons to make a noise and to alert everyone." He managed to announce.

I felt nervous about this. I don't feel right.

Everyone scrambling in their places now, locking every single possible passage on their cabins.

"Get inside!" I sternly ordered as I pulled Luhan and Taehyung inside our cabin.

"Luhan, I know you're tired from watching on the south corner. Take a rest." I spoke, as I leaned my back on the farthest wall, holding my blade in my hands as I sat down on the cold wooden floor.

"And you're tired too, by scavenging earlier this morning." He pointed out. Yes, honestly I'm still tired but I can manage to stay up when it comes to them.

"I'm fine," I stated.

"Taehyung, take a rest too okay? Don't be scared. I'll protect you." I smiled. Taehyung rushed to the bed bunk beside me and laid there. I could feel him shaking and sniffling due to the horrifying scene.

"Thanks, hyung." He mumbled as he reached to hug my waist. I could feel his hands shaking and I could only do is to make him feel secured by staying up.

"I'll stay up too. You can sleep now TaeTae, we'll be here with your hyung." Luhan exclaimed in the dark. Only the bare light from the moon is our aid of sight as he sat next to me on the floor with his rifle on his lap.

I just stayed there, eyes open even though I couldn't make out almost anything outside due to the darkness and from the fog that covered almost all around the place.

After a moment of ruffling Taehyung's head to sleep, I felt Luhan's head rested on my shoulder with a soft thud. I sighed in relief as he finally got to sleep too. He took his job too seriously as a lookout the whole day at the southern side of the sanctuary and it's not a small job to do.

I slowly held his head and carefully rested it on my lap. His body followed the course as I let him sleep on my thighs. I can see that he's really tired and I felt bad because I can't achieve the security I wanted to give them.

Because I'm also bothered like them.

A madman entered the camp without us knowing, slaughtering people inside and sending a death message? Like what the fuck. I'm getting the shrills.

Who knows? They could be a team.

I'm disturbed by the fact that we're dealing with a person now. Not with a dumb flesh-eater.

However, I need to look and stay strong for them to feel secured.

Minutes passed and my eyes are attentively roaming around for any movement or sound outside.

I'm feeling a little bit relax now but then something caught my nerve and my attention.

It started when I heard soft knocks in front of the door outside our cabin.

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