The sun had risen after some time.
We were still on the road long after we left the base. There was nothing around us. At least there was nothing useful for us.
The whole scenery consisted of destroyed buildings, trees on the side of the road and zombies running around everywhere.
We tried to avoid them. Not because we couldn't take them on, but because I was bored fighting them.
I knew we should leave this town to find other people, but walking to another town would be a bit tiring. So we needed a vehicle.
We got into one of the buildings that was not completely destroyed yet.
"Why did we stop here?" Yuuki said.
"I am going to try to find a car to take us away from here. You stay here and take care of Miko."
"You are going to release her?"
"Yeah, I can't let her stay locked up there for the rest of our trip."
So I put the big black block between Yuuki and me. I dissolved the cube and as soon as Miko was free, she tried to attack me.
She formed an invisible blade with her left hand and tried to slash my neck. I had already expected something like this to happen, so I casually dodged it by tilting my head to the left, catching her arm, and flinging her to the ground. Without much force, of course.
"Okay, Yuuki, you take care of her while I am gone. I assume her memories of you are still intact."
"Yes, she remembers me."
"Good, I'll be off then. Take care of yourself." I said and went on my way.
"And if you can try to make her understand that I am not her enemy," I said.
"No problem, leave it to me. I have thought carefully about what to say."
Why do I feel uncomfortable now that he said that? Anyway, I will find out what he will do when I come back.
I left the building to find the thing I was looking for.
I walked for a long time, but I still did not find a working car. Each one I found was missing something. The first was missing the engine, the second was missing the wheels, and the third was missing the steering wheel.
Why the hell would someone steal these parts of the car. It doesn't make any sense at all. If I catch the ones who did this, I am going to kick their butts.
I kept moving forward till I came to a gas station. Finally, something useful. I guess we will need gas for the car. I'll quickly go in search of one... Wait, can't I make the fuel for the car myself? I can control matter, so I should be able to do something like that.
[Yes, you can.] I heard Eyva's voice in my head.
"And how does that work? Can I make anything I want, or are there any limitations?"
[You can make anything as long as it's not a living organism].
"Hmm, I see. And what's the deal with the black material? Everything I make will be made of that material?"
[This material is called gorvium and is the hardest material that exists in this universe.]
"And how do you know that?"
[When I connected to the Harnej's central computer, I scanned all the information I could find. So according to their research, Gorvium is the hardest material they could find in their universe.]
"I see. So how exactly do my powers work? Do I just think of what I want to create and it's done?"
[You have to come in contact with the object to recreate it. You have to analyse its molecular structure first, and then you can create it.]
"So that means that all this time I was able to touch a car and was able to make a copy of it?"
[Yes, that's right.]
"Oh, one more question I wanted to ask. How is it that I can create things out of Gorvium? I have not touched it in my whole life. This is the first time I have seen anything like this material."
[That... I do not know.]
"You don't know? I didn't expect that. I'll ask Ayuri if she knows anything."
I turned my head to look for her. But she was nowhere to be found.
"Oh, crap. I forgot to check if she followed us after we left the base. She wasn't with us when we stopped at the building. What if she got lost?" I said out loud.
{You do not have to worry so much about me}.
I turned my head and saw Ayuri sitting on the rubble of a building to my right.
"Oh, thank God. I thought I had lost you. Where have you been all this time?"
{I wanted to learn about your world's culture, so I went to every shop I could find to try your world's foods} she said proudly.
Oh God, I would so love to beat her right now. But looking at her now, she's pretty cute. Oh for crying out loud, I'll just find a car to copy and get out of here.
I went back to the car that was closer to me.
It was an off-road car which is pretty handy right now.
I walked over to it and touched it with my right hand.
{What are you doing? You want to pet the car?}
"Eh? Why would I want to do something like that?"
{I don't know. You're touching it with passion}.
"What passion are you talking about? I am just waiting to analyse the structure of the car. But something is wrong. I don't feel anything different..."
At that time, a black liquid began to flow from my hand, slowly covering the whole car. It stayed like that for a while, but after some time the liquid flowed back into my hand and the car remained as it was before.
"What the hell was that?"
[Analyze completed.]
"And how does that work? Do I just have to think about it?"
[Yes, try to think about what you want to create.]
"Um, okay?"
I thought about what the car would look like if it was like a new one and suddenly the plans appeared in my head. I could see everything that made up the car. From the wheels to the engine to the exhaust. Everything was right in front of my eyes and in my head.
I raised my right hand and opened my hand. The black liquid appeared again and began to take the shape of the car in front of me. Shortly after, there was a brand new car in front of me, made of this black material.
To be honest, it looks pretty awesome.
But wait...
"Eyva, why can I create the swords without touching one?"
[That's because the structure of a sword is simple and you can just imagine the shape. A car is different because to be fully functional you have to create each part].
"Oh, I see. Then let us go get the others."
I sat down in the driver's seat and Ayuri in the seat next to me.
I drove to the building where I left Yuuki and Miko while smashing every zombie that got in my way. Either way, the car could not be damaged, so why not?
Shortly after, we arrived at the building. I got out of the car, but as soon as I did, I saw the building explode and Milo and Yuuki were thrown into the air.
Miko caught Yuuki in midair with her powers and they both landed safely.
I ran to them and asked what had happened.
Yuuki replied that as they sat there eating, Miko sensed the presence of a psychic zombie nearby. But apparently it sensed her too, because it attacked them out of nowhere.
At first, Miko and Yuuki were victorious, but then a second zombie appeared that was even more powerful than the other. But the reason they were not able to fight it was because the two of them were working together. Which is uncommon for zombies.
One has hypervelocity and the other has electrokinesis.
While he was telling me all this, the two of them emerged from the rubble of the building.
"Shall I leave you alone now to take care of them?" I said smiling.
"Well, Eve, you see, your girl here was hurt by those zombies."
"They did what?" I said angrily.
"Look at her arm."
I looked at Miko and saw that her left arm was bleeding.
Yuuki sure knows how to trigger me.
"Hoho, well then. You just signed your death warrant."
The zombie with the hypervelocity tried to rush towards me, but no matter how fast it was, it's not even worth mentioning in front of my ability.
I trapped its legs with the black liquid so it could not move. Then I approached it, formed a small ball and put it in its mouth.
As I walked toward the other, the ball I had put into the zombie behind me exploded, forming spikes that penetrated the zombie's body from the inside.
The other one shot a lighting ray towards me, but I blocked it by building a wall in front of me.
Then I formed a sword and hurled it towards the zombie, hitting it in its heart. It took a step back and then I made six rods and threw them at it. This was an instant kill because the rods penetrated it completely and stuck in the ground.
After I finished my work here, I went to Yuuki and Miko.
"I am done here, how are you two doing?"
Yuuki was bandaging Miko's wound and as soon as Miko stood up, she lowered her head and said, "I am sorry about earlier when I attacked you at the base. I didn't know what they had done to me. From now on, I will try to be the best girlfriend for you."
"E-eh? Yuuki, what exactly did you tell her?"
"You'll find out as time goes on." He said with a smile.
I knew it wasn't a good idea to trust Yuuki with something like that.
But there's nothing I can do about that now. Let us just get out of here and go to the next town.
The four of us got into the car and set off to our next destination.