Pati cursed inside his head when he saw the messages from the system crowding his vision, and upon reading each of the messages from top to bottom his expression turns worst and worst. It peaked when he saw that there was a time limit of 6 hours until the event ended.
Every happiness that he felt immediately got washed away, he was immediately in a bad mood.
Although the harvest he did from eating Abby's friends' brains excited him, it was still a tiring endeavor since he needs to fight the unbelievably strong Three-eyed Screamer that surprises him.
It's only been ten minutes, but the world deliberately did this so he couldn't rest.
With a slow and lazy movement, Pati sits on the edge of the table while still facing Abby. The others also got the same messages from the system as Pati, Dinda and Abby unconsciously look at Pati after reading the messages.
Pati undoubtedly becomes their pillar as he's the strongest amongst them, and it's rather burdening but this is just the start of his new life to not get bullied by others.
Taking a deep breath, he then stands up while cracking his neck to loosen up.
Glancing to the side out of the window on the second floor of the restaurant, Pati didn't see anything that can tell him about the pinned location, 'Where's the pinned locations?', he thought inside his head in confusion.
But then suddenly, a holographic map appeared in front of him with 4 blinking red dots.
Just from studying the holographic map for a second, he realized that it was the map of the entire Jayarta City with four blinking red dots that should be the pinned location. There's also a white arrow on the map that is his current location, it's completely the same as a game map.
While looking at the red dot that is the nearest to them, Pati glanced out of the window.
"The nearest red dot should be the Jericho Paradise Beach...", he mutters to himself while looking at the northwest dot from his place, it's the nearest out of the four just a couple of blocks away.
Abby who is also looking at the holographic map then asks, "I've never been there..."
"It opened just two years back so it's relatively new, the day of its opening makes people go crazy. Who wouldn't, it's the first man-made beach in the middle of the city", Pati replied while shaking his head, he remembers that he was about to try and go there for the first time.
But the long line that reaches the street curb changed his mind instantly and made him go back.
Pati then walks to a window and glances outside to see the situation, his eyes scanned the surroundings and find most of the Zombies around the restaurant are lying on the ground. They look to be sleeping but from the message before, it's clear that they're undergoing some changes.
Upon looking at the situation, he then immediately glanced back.
"Dinda, quickly heal me. We're going to Jericho Paradise Beach right now"
"Okay...", without even arguing back or even questioning him, Dinda immediately went to work and started casting her Light Heal skill slowly healing Pati's hp back up.
While she was doing that, Pati glanced over at Abby, "Tell the others to get ready to leave"
A moment later,
Pati opened the entrance of the restaurant before he peeked outside, he saw the Zombies that are wandering around the street is still lying on the ground unconscious. Signaling the others on his back with his hand, Pati walks out of the restaurant carefully.
The others walk out after glancing around carefully, Jeff is right on Pati's back followed by the girls.
For Kian and the man that still carries the bag containing the half-eaten harvested brains, they are on the back-most of the line since the leader is hurt and his walking is quite slow. Abby looks to her back a couple of times feeling pity for the injured Kian.
Biting her lips, Abby then taps Dinda's back which is right in front of her.
"Can you heal him a bit so that he won't be left behind?"
"No, Pati wouldn't like me wasting Chaos on him. If you want me to heal him, then you go talk to Pati yourself", Dinda replied whisperingly with a cold tone, she has a sight of disdain while looking at Abby.
Receiving the cold response, Abby shuts her mouth once again as she can't do anything.
Pati just killed her friends that are as strong as her rather easily, she already knows that crossing with him will just mean death so she doesn't pursue the matter for too long. Kian can only survive with his injured chest until he can do something about it.
Walking along the streets, they all met a couple of survivor groups.
Many of them came out from the stores and buildings on the side of the street, but the biggest group reaches more than twenty people wearing office attires. They must've been hiding in the building waiting for the perfect moment to leave.
Since the messages got sent to everyone, these people also gain access to the holographic map.
Knowing the location where they can survive and be protected from the Zombies outbreak is definitely enough motivation for them to get out of their hiding, if they stay then they will surrender themselves to the constant fear of getting caught.
It doesn't matter how cowardly or fearful a person is, they can't live in constant fear.
This area of Jayarta City is closest to Jericho Paradise Beach, and everyone heads to that place since the other nearest place would be the Mercury Financial Tower which is at least four miles away. Upon getting closer to the man-made beach, the group of survivors becomes even more abundant.
Many of them joined together forming a large group while traveling through the street, Pati looks at their leaders and finds some of them having weapons that are clearly not normal.
Despite the quality of their weapon should not be as good as Pati's Peacekeeping Sword Grinder, they are still decent enough compared to the butcher knife or machete that he and the others used before visiting the Pershala Merchant, 'Those weapons should be dropped items, lucky them...'
While walking through the street for 15 minutes, Jeff on Pati's back gets closer to him.
"Should we also join a group? It's going to be hard for us to get in if these groups are fighting to get inside the beach"
"That's a good idea..."
"Right?! I know I'm smart, there's no way we can get through with that many people in front of us"
"Yeah, that's a good idea. We need expendable members if these Zombies woke up, it's good to test the water before engaging in a fight. Good thinking, Jeff!", Pati taps Jeff's shoulder giving him a confirmation nod as if Pati is proud of Jeff.
But Jeff on the other hand was stunned, they were not on the same page at all!
What Jeff proposed is to join with a larger group so they can get space on the beach and not stands out, a small group of people will definitely stand out and brings more attention that the larger ones. They can cover themselves in the crowd.
Pati has completely different thinking, he wanted expendable people as a meat shield.
Upon seeing a man that seems to be well-equipped with the kevlar on, Jeff glanced at Pati that puts on the brightest smile in his life. It's only been a few days of them together, but that smile is surely trouble, "Don't you fucking dare... just decline! We're going to be fine on our own", he whispered.
Instead of answering, Pati completely ignored Jeff as the man arrives in front of them.
"Hello there, I'm sorry for approaching you guys randomly but I see that you're still in a small group. Why don't you jo-"
Before the man can finish, Pati already answered with a bright smile, "Yes!"
"Eh...?", the man was caught off guard by the sudden answer that Pati throws before he can even finish his sentence, but the man quickly recovers as this is what he wanted, "Then welcome to the group, don't worry we're going to keep you guys safe until we reach the beach"
"I'm counting on you! Thanks!", Pati replied before the man guides them to his group.
While following the man, Salsa can't help but commented, "Pati's smile is very disturbing... he never smiled like that"
"What is he up to? I'm sure it's something bad", Dinda asks.
Jeff shakes his head as what Dinda suspected is spot on, with a heavy sigh he glanced back at the girls and replied, "I told him that we need to be in a group to not stand out, and Pati agrees. But not that he doesn't want to stand out, but he said he needed expendables people in case the sleeping Zombies woke up"
Although they already expected something bad, this is just plain evil.
But then again, joining a larger group to have meat shields to protect them from the potential stronger Zombies is such a Pati thing to do. With their slow and careful pace, this crowd of survivors is already nearing the beach.
"Guess we didn't need to join this group after all"
Jeff mutters to himself but loud enough so Pati can hear, but just after he said that a smirk appears on Pati's face, "Damn it, Jeff! You jinxed it", he said seeing the sleeping Zombies starting to tremble.
Their entire bodies start to shake like having a seizure and let out a light purple aura.
Many of the survivors that are completely helpless and has never killed a Zombie before start to panic as their expression turns pale, it's easy to differentiate them from the ones that have killed Zombies before. Their eyes expose them easily.
In just half a minute, Pati's eyes shifted to a Zombie that suddenly sits up. It was a Walker.
Upon sitting up, the light purple aura surrounding the Walker becomes calmer and condensed until finally, it created a fine thin layer of light purple aura around the Walker's body. It then stood up abruptly before snapping its head towards the survivors.
Pati's group is on the other side of the street, watching carefully every move this mutated Walker made. Its body makes disturbing cracking sounds that are uneasy to hear before suddenly,
Graaaah!!
With one swift leap, the Walker lunged at the nearest survivors.
Out of all the survivors present around it that have already created some distance, the Walker picked one of the leaders of a large group of survivors that are holding pointy edge brass knuckles.
This leader's eyes don't waver seeing the Walker leaped at him, they even contain a bit of ridicule showing that he has dealt with numerous Walkers before. Another Walker-type Zombie is something he can easily beat.
Lowering his stance, this man strengthens his fist before driving it into the Walker's stomach.
Such a strength that can be seen from the bulging muscles should allow the man's fist to penetrate through a measly Walker, but out of his surprise, the fist didn't even manage to push the Walker two steps back.
It's like hitting a Walker for the first time as a regular man, the Walker's body is steel-like despite the man's strength already enhanced by Chaos. This alone shocked the man to his core.
But in the next second, the Walker slashes both of its claws.
Two gruesome bloodied scars cross the man's body as the Walker tear through his skin rather easily, and after crippling the leader another swipe arrives decapitating the leader's head off cleanly. It takes a moment before the situation registered in the survivors' brains, and when their minds clicked with the situation...
"KYAAA!!"
"RUN!! EVERYBODY RUN!!"
Shrill screams can be heard from all directions as the survivors started running disorderly.
Everything turns into chaos once again seeing one of the leaders get butchered easily by a Zombie that should be the easiest to deal with, the people that haven't embraced Chaos started running for their lives.
The selfish nature of humans protruded as survivors started pushing and shoving everyone blocking their way in order to survive, their fear amplified when they heard the Walker that killed the leader roar mightily that reverberating to the surroundings.
Pati and the others that are watching this started to frown, the increase in strength is impeccable.
But soon every sleeping Zombie that is scattered through the street started shaking like the Walker before, and this makes the frown on their faces become even more evident, "The increase in strength is much more than I expected, and you're saying all of these Zombies are waking up...?"