- So it was your iron dickhead who pierced me, wasn't it? - he hissed.
- I was the one who pierced you, the one who'd break your dick with a glass dick," I corrected him. - I corrected him. "No one wanted to attack, but my golems seem to take commands literally. They wanted to threaten you back, but it didn't work out that way.
- So now what? - He slumped back onto the pillow, which the girl had tucked under his arm.
- I don't know.
- ???
- I really don't know. I do not really understand why I came. In the village I had a violent fight with the management an hour ago. I was told, almost by order, that I and my golems should kick you out. They reminded me of who I am and how I came to be here.
- And how was that? - He asked.
- Oh, pretty much the same way you are...
The short story took about three minutes, and included a short retelling of the recent meeting.
- Yes, you live here very dashing," said the master sergeant with a chuckle. - Ain't no life to be had here. Feels like another crisis for your settlers.
- They ain't mine.
- Never mind," he waved his hand. - What's next?
- I wanted to know where you're coming from, where you're going, and what happened. It might be on the way.
- On the way... we wanted to settle down here. The place is convenient, you can see everything for kilometers, and the forest is not far from here. Although the settlement is large, but it is possible to equip with stakes and "hedgehogs" if everyone is working together. Plus, we've seen cars come to you with different things, like planks, insulation. So you can still roll out and bring more, make a wall...
- A wall from who? - I interrupted him. - You've got a lot to say, I reckon.
- From goblins. You don't believe me?
- I've seen zombies, and I'll believe in goblins, too.
- Fi the zombies," the girl snorted, breaking her silence for the first time. - The kid would chop them into pieces.
- That's right," the policeman said, and then walked away from the entrance, where he'd been standing the whole time, and sat down on his knees next to the right wall. - They look ugly, but they don't look dangerous unless they're a ten-man crew, you know. The only thing is, they don't take well to bullets. You have to shoot the skull, the spine, the bones in the arms and legs ... in short, easier to chop with an axe or a machete.
- "Alex, tell him," said the magician.
- Alex? Ha, we are namesakes, - I pulled my hand, which with a second hesitation senior shook.
The girl's name was Nansy, the mage - Eduard, and the civilian left as soon as he escorted me to the tent, so he remained incognito to me.
The entire unit, which numbered more than a hundred people came to the village, was assembled from scratch. From the plague-stricken megalopolis, from a small settlement, someone was transferred right on the road, ripped out a piece of territory from the Earth and moved the asphalt road with a dozen cars. The starlet was in the settlement on a call about a family scandal and a fight, when deep into the night (it was about three o'clock) he felt dizzy and suffocated. The sensation lasted three or four seconds and disappeared in a flash, but then things began to happen... An hour later the village was attacked by dozens of pseudo-cabanas, flying creatures were falling on his head while the sun was out, tearing at his neck, face. There were so many of them that about thirty people, mostly single stout young men, managed to escape from the hundred and fifty settlement. All those who had tried to pull out family, friends, loved ones, remained there forever.
It was a hundred times worse in the metropolis. The already familiar creatures of flesh and blood were joined by zombies (they even ate boars if they got their hands on them), some creatures made of body parts that were quickly dubbed chimeras, and shadows. The latter were the most terrifying opponents. Even the chimera could be handled, with difficulty, but the shadows were invulnerable to weapons. Neither bullets nor axes and cleavers, nor wooden clubs, nor chains and homemade brushes could touch them. As soon as they touched a man, he was in great pain, oblivious to everything. No one tried to save him, and the shadow gradually sucked him into itself, killing and drying his body to a mummified state.