"D-Demon!"
Her eyes narrowed looking at what is left of her friend from being absolutely destroyed by Pati, there's a big hole on the corpse's head from Pati biting through the skull and savoring the brain.
From the moment they took the items and ran, the woman has a bad feeling.
But despite the bad feeling that she's having from taking the items from someone that can even kill the screamer, she has never thought that this kind of situation happened.
They didn't just take the items of a strong person, but they took the items belonging to the devil!
~
A moment ago,
Erry raises his hand to stop the woman on her side before pointing at his front, there's a store on the side of the street with its front utterly destroyed, "Abby... do you see what I'm seeing?", he asks while still pointing at the store.
There was a man inside the store kneeling just beside a Zombie corpse, it was Pati of course that has just finished fighting the Three-eyed Screamer.
Upon squinting her eyes to see the corpse, Abby's eyebrows were pulled and raised together.
Although there is still quite a distance between them that is peeking from an alley with the corpse, she still felt electricity run down her body when she realized the Zombie corpse is the screamer.
"That's the screamer...!", Abby exclaimed whisperingly.
Hearing this, Erry also nodded his head as he too finds the Zombie corpse similar, "How the heck does that guy manage to kill the Screamer, is he a part of the Ivory Posse Gang?", he asks while keeping his eyes on Pati's direction.
But Abby grabs Erry's arm pulling his attention to her before she shakes her head.
"Whoever that guy is, we can't take him on. He single-handedly killed the screamer when our group finds it hard to even escape the screamer, let's just leave", Abby warned, she's already sweating.
Erry looks back at Pati before he said, "I bet he's very weak right now, this is an opportunity!"
"What do you mean an opportunity... do you really think that we can fight a guy that can even kill a- Hey! Come back here!", Without even waiting for Abby to finish nagging, Erry sneakily advances closer to the store seeing that Pati already stood up and went out of the store.
Since Erry is eager to see the corpse, Abby can only follow along from the back.
"I hope this ends up well...", Abby mutters while advancing slowly, but she unconsciously rubs her neck seeing how Pati easily killed the Walkers and Brawlers with a swing of his mighty sword.
~
Back to the present,
Remembering just a moment ago when they tries to steal the items dropped from the Three-eyed Screamer, a sense of regret starts to well up inside her chest seeing Erry's fresh blood dripping from Pati's mouth.
It doesn't even take that long for Pati to catch up after them despite after killing the Screamer.
This just shows how powerful Pati really is and the disparity between their strength, but she doesn't intends to die just like that and takes out two handguns and pointed them at Pati.
"Oh...? Fiesty, I like it", Pati remarks with a condescending smile.
From the fight he had with the group of five before, he already proves and knows that modern firearms such as handguns, shotguns, or even machineguns will not be able to kill him. His reflex from the passive skill is already reached a terrifying level.
So seeing two measly handguns in Abby's hands makes him tilt his chin up nonchalantly.
With shaky hands that are trying to keep a steady aim at Pati, Abby then warned, "Don't move or I'll shoot... I'm being serious!", her voice is a bit shaky while saying this.
The sweat and trembling body show that she's fearful of Pati.
Pati glanced to the side and finds a crowbar lying on the ground randomly, he moved from his spot and slowly takes the crowbar with his other hand, "I told you to not move! I'll shoot, I swear I'll shoot!", Abby shouted.
But Pati ignores her completely and gazes at the crowbar before shifting back his eyes to Abby.
"Are you confident that your bullets can reach me first before this crowbar reaches your head? Do you want to bet?", Pati said playfully while tossing the crowbar and flipping it a couple of times.
Upon hearing this, Abby can feel her neck being choked as she finds it hard to swallow.
From how fast Pati moved and take Erry out by surprise, she knows that Pati might just kill her with the crowbar before she can even pull the trigger. Her body trembles even more as it started to become visible to the eyes.
Just as she was about to surrender, her eyes suddenly sparks seeing something on Pati's back.
Trying to keep her expression steady, Abby saw one of his friends that backed out earlier from the fear of meeting the Screamer peeking through one of the windows of the building behind Pati.
Signaling with his hand, the man takes out a sniper rifle and aimed it at Pati.
Pati saw Abby lift both of her handguns up showing that she has given up, and this made him grin even more but he suddenly notice something, 'She kept glancing at my back...'
'Another one eh...?', realizing this, Pati kept his body still waiting.
Without even looking back he already knew that there was not one Zombie or even anyone behind him, so this person that Abby puts her hope in should be hidden inside the surrounding building. Finding this person will be hard without any sign, so Pati kept still and waited for this person's move.
In the moment of thinking that, Pati widens his eyes, 'Since when am I this calculated?'
'The Street Fighter Champion passive skill is fucking awesome, I thought street fighters only need to know how to fight dirty but this is just something else...'
Just as he thought of that,
Bang!
A loud banging sound can be heard coming from the back that should come from a sniper rifle.
The sound echoed to the surroundings as Pati's body moved in reflex to the side, it was so quick that he reacted to the bullet in a fraction of a second swiftly. Most people's brains can't even process information that quickly let alone reacted to it.
Splat!
[You have been damaged, - 40 Hp]
Upon seeing Pati manage to react making the bullet only shoot his arm, Abby's face drains from all colors as she can't believe what she just saw. Her shock is portrayed clearly on her face.
A person that is able to react to a sniper bullet? That's unheard of even in this kind of setting.
Even the man that just fired the sniper aiming for Pati's heart looks through the scope in disbelief, his brows creased together seeing that the bullet hits missed and only hit Pati's arms.
"How in the fuck-", the man cursed but then suddenly he can feel the touch of death on his back.
The angel of death is already caressing his soul tightly when he saw through the scope that Pati slowly turns around before looking straight into his eyes, the man pulls back his head from the scope and looks at his front in utter confusion, 'It should be around 500 meters... there's no way he's looking at me right...?'
'Aside from that, this building also has many windows. There's no way he can pinpoint my location without looking in my direction and only through the sound'
Because of the imminent fear he felt, the man's mind started to rationalize things.
Putting his eyes back to the scope, the man can see Pati smirking before pointing the crowbar right at him showing that Pati can really see him despite the 500 meters distance. It rattled his mind as he now can't even try to rationalize why Pati is smirking right at him if not for finding him.
Gripping the crowbar tightly, the muscles in his arms contracted powerfully.
Abby is looking at this from the back and she can feel the power just from seeing Pati's bulging muscles, and in the next second Pati's eyes flashed fiercely.
Swoosh!
A subtle blow of the wind caressed Abby's cheek as Pati throws the crowbar powerfully.
The man that is seeing through the sniper rifle scope widens his eyes seeing a black object flying towards him, but before he can even do anything the black object pierced through the scope and stabbed him right into his eyes impaling his brain in the process.
[Gained a level 9 Human Chaos]
Shatter!
Just after the message from the system, the surrounding windows around the window where the man was shattered from the pressured wind brought by the crowbar.
Pati looks at the building before he nodded his head, 'Bullseye, even my aim is improved'
After killing the man with a sniper rifle just like that, Pati looks back to Abby that is frozen in her place with a pale expression, "Now... Where were we?", he said with the same condescending smile.
"I- I already told them to not disturb you but my friends are blinded with greed"
"You will not see me ever again, so please let me go...", Abby pleads with her entire body shaking uncontrollably, her eye-catching red hair displaying her trembling body evidently.
With light steps, Pati approaches Abby while looking at the hole in his arm.
Even though he can hear react to the sniper, his body is still not fast enough to dodge a full-on sniper rifle. Pati sighs while wiping the blood from the hole, 'I'll have Dinda patch me up later, but man this is great'
'My pain tolerance is even way higher, that passive skill is a fucking jackpot!', he thought.
Pati stands towering in front of Abby that can only look at his feet in fear, she doesn't have the guts to raise her gaze to meet Pati's gaze. In her eyes, Pati is more monstrous than Zombies.
Stretching his hand down, he lifted Abby's chin gently forcing her to look at him.
"Answer me, how did your friend get so many Chaos?", Pati asks while gazing at Abby's eyes questioningly, he finds it very weird for people under level 10 to have such a high Chaos.
Erry in particular that he has eaten has more or less 20,000 Chaos in his pocket.
Because of the abnormal amount of Chaos for someone who is only level 8, Pati is quite curious as he also wanted to know the method they're using. Who knows, he may be able to integrate their method to also gain more chaos.
Hearing this, Abby tries to reply with her quivering plump lips, "T-Taxes..."
"Taxes? Explain", Pati asks again demandingly.
Abby then continues hurriedly lest Pati decided to also eat her brain too just as he did with Erry, "W-We gather survivors and pull them into our group, m-many of the survivors are still not able to use the system so we take advantage of it and force them to hand over their initial Chaos"
"If some of them manage to kill Zombies, three-quarters of the Chaos gained will also be handed over to us"
Pati rubs his chin while listening to this Tax method Abby just explained.
Basically, since many of the survivors are not able to use the system because of the dire situation they are in, Abby and her group will save them in order to gain their initial Chaos. There should be people like Jeff who got 5,000 Chaos at the start of the apocalypse.
Saving fifty or even a hundred survivors will gain them massive Chaos that they can use.
Not stopping there, if any of the survivors under their wings manage to kill a Zombie then they need to hand over three-quarters of the Chaos which is a lot for taxes. More than half.
'It's a pretty clever tactic, but there's something wrong', Pati thought.
After Abby finished explaining how the Tax method works, Pati then asks again in confusion, "If you gain so much chaos from the survivors, why didn't you use your Chaos to upgrade your stat points? You're too weak for someone that has thousands of Chaos"
"I- It's because of the Pershala Merchant, we're saving it for the Pershala Merchant", Abby replied.
Upon hearing this, Pati can't help but face-palm himself.
Just from this alone Pati knows that Abby and her group haven't fought many Zombies yet and prefer to just find survivors and scavenged for food, they haven't come across Black Coins.
Only high-level Zombies dropped Black Coins, and it seems her group doesn't know that yet.
'So they're not from the Ivory Posse Gang, that Mathian guy knows about Black Coins so this woman's group doesn't belong to the Ivory Posse Gang', Pati thought.
But this makes Pati smiles mischievously,
Upon seeing the smile, Abby can feel her entire body shudder in fear.
No matter how much the world has turned for the worst, she still values her life and doesn't want to die. So bracing herself, Abby grabs Pati's ankle with both hands before she looks up to Pati's confused expression, "Please..."
"I don't want to die, so please don't kill me. I'll give you all of my Chaos, and if that doesn't satisfy you... I'll do anything you want, anything!", she added.
Looking down to the ground once again, she then said softly, "Even... even if you want my body"
"Oh...? Now that tempted me a little, I can use someone like you"