As soon as Alex and everyone went near the city, they were flocked upon by tons of zombies!
They had to change roads again and again. But, with Alex's luck they soon found a closed out lane with few zombies.
Alex ordered everyone to charge forward with their vechiles until they reached the Mall.
They crushed few zombies in their path.
But, the noise attracted zombies.
Everyone felt fearful, as they could feel that there were endless zombies inside the city.
Even this closed out lane wasn't safe.
But, still no zombies could catch upto them because their speed wasn't enough to chase the cars.
Soon, they were in front of the Mall.
In front of the mall, in bright letters was written 'VACACION'.
It was the famous company whose branches were in almost every city of the Country Albigion.
As soon as Stella and everyone parked their vechiles in the outside parking they charged towards the insides of the mall.
They seemed to have been here before as they with familiar ease reached till the main gate.
Stella carried Alex on her back, as his running speed was simply shameful.
While, Madison massacred any stray zombies that came near them.
" The gate is closed, " Stephanie informed in a hushed voice.
She could see some zombies running this way, but they hadn't yet attracted much attention.
Alex turned towards Scarlett.
She said with a teary look, " W-We escaped from the underground parking on the other side. I don't know why this place is closed... "
Alex tsked.
That parking area must be filled with undeads.
But, seeing that wasting time here will be harmful he gave an order, " Circle around the Mall, we will find some way inside. "
Everyone obeyed Alex, they quickly made their way towards the back of the mall.
And it wasn't long before they found a small door.
With few kicks from Stephanie the door broke open.
She had the highest Strength Stat amongst all of Alex's girls.
Scarlett was dazed for a moment, as she saw that the sturdy door actually caved in and broke apart after third kick of this small girl.
She now felt hope for seeing her parents again.
'If Alex really helped her then she might actually consider willingly becoming his... ' Scarlett thought.
Stephanie then pushed aside all the stuff in the way and then gently looked at Alex who had gotten down from Stella's back.
" Let's go. I'll keep you safe, " She smiled sweetly at Alex, while low-key bragging about her strength.
" I'm his bodyguard. Don't try to steal my place, " Madison who saw Stephanie's acting glared at her.
Stephanie glared back.
It seemed that, Madison somehow disliked Stephanie.
Perhaps it was because she thought of Stephanie as the strongest in their group and was afraid of her overpowering her.
Stephanie snorted, but didn't reply as she cleared the way in front.
Madison became irritated with Stephanie's disregard towards her, but she followed besides Alex while making sure that there wasn't any potential threat to Alex's life.
Jovie, Ivanna and two girls under Stephanie whose names were Julie and Perrie quickly covered the door they had broken.
It happened as if there was never a door there.
After that they followed behind Alex and others.
They were directly able to enter the clothes section through this door.
The Theatre was at the end of the ground floor.
But, they were soon surprised to see, the corpses of zombies at some distance.
" Someone not too long ago, passed by here he or she is at least level 10+ , " Alex said as he saw the swift cut on the nape of the zombies.
Also, even when they made some noise no zombies were attracted.
It was clear that, all the zombies were cleared here.
All girls relaxed, as they started looking at beautiful dresses in clothes section.
After all as a women, they wanted to look pretty and make Alex look at them!
Everyone right now was in their school uniforms with some extra clothes which covered their bare arms and legs, Drittney and Stella also were wearing their old dresses which were quite stuffy and worn out by now.
Alex did not stop them, as he admired their shapely figures.
Scarlett gritted seeing all girls undressing right in front of Alex.
She had previously felt that relationship between Alex and all girls here wasn't simple.
But, she now became more sure of her thoughts.
Everyone here were in love with Alex!
" Brother! You shouldn't look at us while we undress! Turn around! " Alina who had taken off clothes under peer pressure couldn't stop her beating heart.
She scolded Alex with a red face.
Alex smirked, " Sister, It's not like I haven't seen you naked. Why are you being so fiesty. We even used to sleep together. "
" That was when we were kids! " Alina cried.
Alex laughed, but for his sister he turned around.
He remembered that this world's Alex's and Alina's relationship wasn't so strained when they were children.
Alina treated Alex like her own little brother.
Even his step-mother even though not loving was indifferent to him in the start, but as he slowly grew up that bitch of a women started bullying him more.
She even forced her thoughts upon her daughter.
Later on she made even Alina bully him and hate him.
Alex didn't think that Alina was all pure white even though she was good to him at childhood.
So, he didn't mind teaching her a lesson which she will never forget.
Alex then slapped Scarlett's butt and said, " Come on Scarlett, while they change why don't we go look for your parents? "
Scarlett who snapped out of the cordial environment around her, got to her senses.
Her expression became sorrowful as she nodded to Alex.
Alex ordered Madison to follow him, while he wrapped his arms around Scarlett's waist with domineering air.
Unfortunately she was a head taller than him, so he wasn't able to enjoy the situation completely.
Madison even though was checking out a cute dress to impress Alex, stopped whatever she was doing with a pout and followed behind Alex and Scarlett.
Alex wasn't worried about his safety, because even if he was alone he could easily survive in a place like this mall where he had enough space to showcase his dexterity.
He led Scarlett around confidently without any fear.
Scarlett who was numbed with uncertainty and fear of loosing her parents didn't know why but felt safe when Alex touched her... Even though he did so very inappropriately.
Madison who saw this quickly became jealous.
She held Alex's other hand and brought it to her body.
Alex enjoyed the feeling.
But, he vowed to fuck as many women as possible and regain his best physique!!!
As Alex, Scarlett and Madison went through the checking of first floor other girls quickly packed all the dresses and other essential stuff they needed.
They had at least 20 bags packed of this all stuff!
" Thank God Alex has that Inventory otherwise we would have needed to wear same clothes everyday, " Drittney sighed.
Even though she always looked reserved, she alone had 5 bags packed behind her!
" What did you stuff inside those bags teacher? I think they are going to burst out... " Julie asked.
" She is right, " Perrie like her usual self quickly added.
Drittney smiled wryly, " It's just some day to day use stuff... You also took 6 bags with you Stella, what are they for? " Drittney changed the target.
" I took some clothes for Alex and also some things that he might like... " Stella said sweetly.
Everyone drew a deep gasp as they now looked at Stella with irritation, respect, fear and admiration.
' This witch... ' they thought.
They then started getting gifts for Alex, hoping that he will get pleased with them.
Alina was shocked to see their enthusiasm, as the number of packed bags gradually doubled.
She felt that these girls were just too enthusiastic. Unfortunately she was the only one who Alex cared for. Alina thought as she satisfiedly looked at her own bags.
In their search Alina and others had streamed through entire ground floor area from where shopping could be done.
They found no one there, but they found quite a few zombie corpses.
Alex with Scarlett and Madison had by now reached the theater.
There they found even more corpses and felt that traces here weren't that old.
Each of the zombie was clearly killed thoroughly.
" Alex... Shouldn't we get everyone here? " Scarlett asked hesitantly.
" It's okay, until I'm here nothing will happen to you, " Alex confidently said as he streamed forward.
This confidence helped to calm down Scarlett.
Alex suddenly had a feeling as if he was being spied upon. He traced back the feeling and looked up at the first floor.
There he saw a dark figure completely shielded in darkness, looking at them from above.
Alex was surprised for a moment and then gave a friendly wave towards the figure, but the figure disappeared the next moment Alex saw it.
Scarlett didn't even notice anything, but she felt the grip of Alex around her waists strengthening.
Madison also didn't notice anything, but she saw Alex looking up.
" Was someone there? " Madison asked.
" Perhaps, but they are not our enemy, " Alex smiled at Madison.
Scarlett on the other hand was getting more and more nervous as she said, " Please let's look for mom and dad... "
Alex nodded.
They now started seeing some zombies who attacked them at the moment's sight.
But, Madison did quick game of them.
" As I said you don't need to worry... Hey! Where are you running? " Alex was causally bragging, but Scarlett suddenly got out of his arms.
" Madison follow her, " Alex said as he motioned Madison to pick him up.
Madison happily did so, as she picked Alex on her back.
Scarlett soon stopped in front of the, door of the theatre.
She tried opening the door, but it was locked from inside.
" There is another door from backside, we can use it-"
" Madison open the door, " Before Scarlett could complete her words the door was destroyed.
As soon as that happened zombies rushed out from inside.
Madison was just about to enter inside, when she felt a special aura.
It was from Stage 2 zombie.
Alex also felt it, " Scarlett move back. "
He said as he took out his gun for self defense and directly fired three bullets into the zombie's eye sockets!
Scarlett was quick on her feet as she did so as Alex told her.
The normal Stage 1 zombies overwhelmed one with numbers and speed while Stage 2 zombies did so with their sheer size and strength.
Madison killed few of them before the Stage 2 zombie appeared.
" Hold out for a minute, " Alex ordered as he ordered all girls to drop whatever they were doing and come here.
Alex took out a knife from in his inventory and threw it at Scarlett.
" Stab its brain with it, " Alex ordered as he held down one of the half-dead zombies, which was maimed by Madison.
" W-What! " Scarlett was shocked as she caught the knife.
She was taken over by fear, but then she saw Alex glaring at her.
Scarlett felt intimidated and didn't want to go against Alex.
She stabbed the zombie's head.
It died in one hit and she got the notification that showed her half filled Exp bar.
Alex next helped her kill some more half-dead zombies until she became level 2!
By this time all girls had reached here, they quickly started supporting Madison with their everything.
Madison slashed the zombie again and again, while Stella and Stephanie hacked at it with their axes!
" Damn it.. These stage 2 zombies are too strong... " Stephanie sighed as she looked at now almost dead Stage 2 zombie.
Everyone was mildly injured, it would have been horrific fight if Madison wasn't there.
Madison had high recovery power and she didn't need to fear zombie infection. So, she became perfect meat shield while others gave her auxiliary support!
Alex took a good glance at the huge body of this Stage 2 zombie.
It was different from the one they had killed previously.
Its defense and attack were higher, while its speed was even slower than the previous one.
Madison seemed to have ripped apart its joints and it could now only crawl toward Madison.
Madison killed it directly and levelled up twice.
She was level 11 now!
Stella and few others went back to their shopping spree while others entered the mall to kill zombies.
Scarlett became downcast as she hadn't met her parents yet.
She didn't see her parents' amongst these zombies and that was the only thing keeping her going.
Alex reassured her gently as he held her hand.
For Scarlett this was very heart touching, she for a moment even forgot about how Alex forced himself upon her.
" Let's go to the second floor, they must be ther- " Alex was about to say so but then he got a call from Stella who had gone back with few gi
Communication system wasn't jeopardized yet.
" Alex we found some people, come here fast. Scarlett's parents are here, but..." Stella said from another side.
Alex nodded and cut off the call.
He then looked at Scarlett who was looking back at him.
He then didn't wait before pulling her hand towards where Stella had said they were.
" What happened? "
" They found your parents! "
" For real!? " Scarlett was overjoyed.
Alex didn't say anything as they soon reached the place where survivors in the mall were huddled up.
Amongst them was a middle aged women who as soon as saw Scarlett ran towards her.
" Scarlett! " The women cried.
Scarlett as well was stunned as she with tears in her eyes hugged her mother.
" Mom! "
Scarlett's mother was a beautiful women even though she was in her late thirties.
It was clear that Scarlett got her looks from her beautiful and mature mother.
Scarlett's mother after hugging her daughter looked at Alex and Madison.
She bowed deeply and thanked them profusely.
Alex gave a cool smile as he looked at Stella.
She came to his side.
" Scarlett's father is dead. He turned into zombie and bit another one of the survivors. If not for the noise, we wouldn't have found them, " Stella said as she pointed at the small room where everyone had been hiding till now.
It was the small storage room.
Scarlett as well seemed to have gotten the news from her mother as she cried in her embrace pitifully.
Alex looked at them and decided to take care of this family instead of Scarlett's father.
He will be a good daddy for Scarlett, won't he?