'Man-made zombie?' Nate was confused. 'Why will the system state the zombie as man-made, does that means the whitebonez were being created by someone, who would be able to do such a crazy thing?' nate questioned multiple times at the system but just as usual, he got no reason other than the gold medal notification.
Nate thought that creating a zombie was something stupid a human being would ever do. In a world that is suffering catastrophic dessert like the one, Nate was in. Getting rid of the zombie was the best option rather than creating them.
"Are you going to stand there and do nothing, his about to die, do anything you can to save him!" Zuni yelled out at Nate.
"Ohhh... About that," nate summoned the spear into his hand and it was carrying the heart along with it. 'The system said I should keep you, although I have no idea what I can do with you, I will still do as the system says,' Nate placed the whitebonez heart that has stopped beating into his inventory and then turned the spear back to axe before cutting off the zombies head. 'The brain was included as well.
After killing the whitebonez zombie, the system has advised Nate to retrieve the brain and the heart of the zombie. Although he has no idea how useful the two things were, Nate still took the two organs and walked directly towards Cab.
"Is there anything you can do?" Zuni asked.
Nate bent down to take a closer look at Cab's body. His skill was turning pale as all his veins were visible and were all having a black substance moving in them. Nate couldn't imagine the type of pain Cab might be feeling now. "A strong will, I'm still surprised that someone like you isn't superhuman," Nate muttered.
No doubt, whatever was injected into Cab's body by those snake tentacles was deadly and they are eating Cab up, it was even a miracle that he did not die instantly.
"Is there anything you can do to save him?" Max asked. Although sometimes Cab can be too annoying to him Cab and Zuni are the only people he knows that were still with him.
"I have a few options, just like you guys know, I'm a zombie and I can turn humans into a zombie, but the problem here is that I can't assure you that Can will be like me if I turn him, he might become crazy and mindless like a regular zombie and this can be the worse case to happen right now since we are in an environment that doesn't well come zombies," Nate explained.
He already knows what Max and Zuni are thinking. They were hoping that he can turn Cab into a zombie, and by doing this, Cab will form immunity to the poison. However, the downside of this is that Nate could not assure them that Can will be a high-intelligence zombie.
"They are other ways though, but this way will change His path in the future," Nate said.
"Do it if he will be saved," Zuni said that instant.
"No, I have to hear from the horse's mouth first," Nate said before looking at Cab.
Cab's gaze was in the sky. "I..do..t want ...to diiii," Cab muttered as his lips trembled while he was saying this. The poison was already reaching out to its brain and Cab's eye have changed colour to red.
[Initator activated]
[Initiating Cab...]
[1%]
[10%]
[50%]
[100%]
[Initiation completed]
[Congratulations host, you have initiated Can into your horde]
[Reward = 10,000 exp points has been granted]
With Cab now initiated into his horde, Nate could do something to save him. 'Should I contact Lynn to take his pains away, since her power could work on any member of the horde cycle no matter how far you are, she should be able to do that, right' Nate wondered.
After initiating Cab, the movement of the poison seems to have slowed down and some part of his body was returning to normal but Nate knows that this was not enough. It was all a matter of time for the poison to peek up again and start fighting and it was already happened, though this time, it was happening slowly and it gave Nate some time to think of the nate cause of action.
'I don't have to, if I contact her, this might warrant the others to link with me and at this moment, I don't want to be distracted,' Nate has initially promised himself not to mingle with the others until he is done getting his answers.
'It seems like I have no other choice than to do this,'
[Are you sure you want to assign the jigsaw power to Cab?]
[Yes/No]
'Fuck your system! Must you make me think twice?' Nate cursed the system. The system making him really angry. Asking him if he was sure of his action always make Nate think twice about his decision. He was starting to wonder if he should assign the jigsaw to Cab.
Although Jim who was the previous owner of the power did not use the power mostly in fighting, Nate knows that the power has great potential in fighting and if given to someone that can utilize it well, those potential will be shown.
'Yes,' nate still choose yes as an answer and just as he selected the yes. The crystal containing the jigsaw power turned into dust and went and enveloped Cab's body.
Max and Zuni took a step back as they were not understanding what was actually going on. "What's happening?" Zuni asked in a panic.
Just as he asked, the dust started to settle and Cab's body was revealed. However, this time, his skin has gained back its colour, and all the veins that were almost popping about due to the poison were nowhere to be found.
"Ahrn"
A moan was heard as Cab gutted up slowly. "I feel like I was reborn," he said before sitting up.
"It worked!" zuni rushed towards Cab and hugged him. "I thought you were going to die," He said as he hugged him tight.
"Although you are a pain in the ass, almost losing you was a huge blow to me," Max said coming over to smark Cab's head.
'That was meant to be painful, but I felt almost nothing,' Cab thought touching his head where Max hit.
"What do you do to me?" Cab asked Nate whose attention wasn't on them, he was looking at the top of the cliff.
"I think we should get out of here first before any explanation," Nate gestured to them and they started running towards the direction that leads to nate new territory.
Nate was not leaving the area for anything, rather was because of the message from the system.
[Danger sensed, evacuate the area now!]
'Never thought I will be seeing this message now,' Nate thought as he leads the others out of the cliff area.
Meanwhile, about ten minutes after Nate left, five whitebonez slowly approached the corpse of the whitebonez that was killed by Nate.
These five whitebonez were entirely different from the one Nate killed, they all has the same posture but the main difference was that the sake tentacles were about four heads, and then at their shoulder was another per of hands, which was smaller than their actual hands, but there is a reason the hands were there.
As the five whitebonez surroundings the dead whitebonez, a man in a suit walked over to them, the zombies for some reason were not attacking the man.
The man was dressed in a black suit with a red tie, his black hair was neatly dressed and it shined along with the black shoes he has on his feet.
Coming closer to the dead whitebonez, the man started inspecting it.
"Although you are not the best of my creation, when I brought you here, I was sure no creature capable to take you down wasn't around, so this brings me to this particular question,"
"Just who was able to kill you and how did he know that your brain and heart are quite an important treasure," The man said. Of course, he got no response from the dead zombie.
He glanced at the other whitebonez and they spread out looking for something.
"I don't know who you are, but for killing one of my babies, I will find you and I will make you feel pain!!!"