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Chapter 4 - The walking corpses (i)

The old hag was all smiles showing her toothless jaws. You may think that she was the weakest among them due to her hunched back but this hag had been buffed up until her punches can blast through concrete walls unhindered and furthermore, she will not be injured or feel uncomfortable. She was like the mercenary of the group. Both her and the teenager were lucky to have been spared by the system of the obligations by those torturous quests. The only quest that they have was the current one requiring them to survive this final battle.

The old hag took out her steel whip which had a shinny diamond on its end. Don't look down upon this whip of hers, just like the weapons that her fellow survivers in the group were using, this whip wheighs around five hundred kilos. The teenager had two daggers which he was fiddling with. Madam Ross on the other hand had two hand axes. They formed a battle formation and waited for what was brewing to come out. They were in a circle formation so that each one of them can look for each other's back.

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Booom!

The earth quaked violently as if it was an earthquake of magnitude 12. The survivers outside bomas were unshakable, no one among them fell down, they were stable and stiff while scanning around where they were as if they had became a part of the world itself.

These survivers were not using those long ranged weapons like guns and blasters because the manufacturers of those items stopped making those weapons. After all, in a situation like this, who will dare to open business? Unless they are nuts because money at this moment was useless and not only that but the world will not sit back and wait for them to make those weapons. They were competing here where the strongest person survive, it didn't matter whether the world or the survivers were shameless enough to take out the other when they were not ready yet, they will do that especially when they found out that the other was weak and careless. Even if the guns would have been here, they may have been useless to them, the entities that they usually fought with were not normal beings, they had a very hard carapaces covering them that a bullet can not penetrate. Only these modified weapons which they had forged them themselves can be of use.

The survivers who had survived up to this moment were much stronger compared to the humans of the past before this Genesis thingy came into existence. They were an improvement of the previous human, a human that had evolved to adapt to the current situation. As a matter of fact, the souls of those people who died because they had failed the quest or didn't manage to persevere until this moment, their souls didn't get a chance for a second life and they were refined to remove their wills then those souls were used as buffs to help those who had survived by strengthening their souls. This was something that was against the laws of Earth which had even added to the deterioration of the planet. The planet Earth was a very weak planet that can not give habitat to upgraded beings like these ones. The Earth was stressing out and strained.

All over the streets of Nairobi, there were rotting corpses everywhere as nobody can find time or pleasure to bury the dead. They themselves were struggling, how can you expect them to tire themselves with those ceremonial things? It was a matter of survival not to play around, ok. Even if they were to decide to bury them, how many of them will they bury? The dead were countless and the survivers were only a few. At the beginning of Genesis, they used to bury them but it reached a time where the death rate was too high and coupled with the fall of governments and powerful organizations, no one no longer stressed themselves out to bury the dead even if it was their family member, they would just leave the corpse to rot either in the streets or elsewhere. That was why Nairobi city was encompassed by a fetid stench of rotting corpses even until now, though some corpses had utterly corrupted leaving behind only bones and tattered pieces of clothing that the deceased had worn the last time before they met their end.

Booom!

It sounded again shaking some buildings while the ones which were unstable came falling down forming a big mushroom-cloud of dust to appear all over the city. The place where the surviving group was, was a little distance away from those towering buildings so, they were not affected and the only thing that was getting on their nerves was the waiting and the dust which had reached close to where they were. Time was moving so slowly as if there was an entity in the background who was stretching it for some reasons.

All around them just like they had expected, the world had not changed its tactics, just like in all the previous days they had been living, the minions that the world was sending to finish them was the very same infected creatures. These are the people who died a long time ago from the various viruses that ravaged the planet that time. In the mix, there were also some animals corpses and the people who had died due to other causes like failing the quests.

There were skeletons and walking corpses with some of their limbs missing. Lazy's group can clearly smell the air which had turned heavy due to the pungent smell of the death filling their nasals but they had became used to this presence and nothing can scare them.

Although the world was using the same tactics, this time round the number of these beings that were attracted to them was not a force to be reckoned with.

calm and write something...