It was a huge force. To these beings, they were seeing Lazy's group as some flickers of lifeforces that they need to take for themselves. There was something in these survivers that the infected wanted so much in such a way that they were running on each other just to have a taste of their flesh.
It was a sea of infected humans. They wriggled like maggots to reach where they were with their hideous appearances. Some of these beings still had some worms within them which were feeding on their rotting flesh but they didn't care. The only thing in their minds was to have a taste of these survivers. All around every building where these beings had been slumbering, was turned upside down as waves upon waves scurried towards them. They growled and snarled showing their sharp teeth to them while savouring the feeling of munching on their flesh.
"Here they come." Lazy Wafula reminded everyone with a straight face without twitching. He had been waiting for this time and there was no backing out of this. It was better to finish this ones and for all.
"These disgusting things! Let's show then that we are not pushovers. They will not have an easy meal out of us. Mu! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Come close motherf*ckers, let me have a taste of my hammers piercing into that rotten flesh." Master Chen hollered at the oncoming infected before he took a cold snort. His shout had agitated the hungry infected making them even more hungry. They like an active food because it was more tasty, Master Chen for example with his large build, was even more tastier that the others. The infected hoped around the buildings like grasshoppers just to reach them quickly.
"This is going to be a hell of a fight. I hope everyone is fine. If there is someone among us who is feeling unwell just move in the middle of the formation. We will protect you. I don't want anyone among us to miss a chance for the next life." Madam Ross said concerned about their welfare. Her words were aimed at everyone but her gaze was on the old hag as if what she had said was for her. Even if this old mama was strong, she can not help but feel conflicted about her well-being. To her, even if the world had changed and the survivers' physic had been improved drastically, the mentality that the aged were always weak was still deeply rooted in her mind, she can not help but feel sorry for this old hag but when she thought from another perspective, this old hag was not to be trifled with, she had saved their group for so many times. For her to have survived until this moment, it was not a joke, she was sure that a big percentage of the survivers around her age all over the world had mostly died.
The old mama simply grinned, showing her toothless jaws which only had four incisors remaining that had made the teenage boy to nickname her a "Rat."
"Are you alright?" Lazy Wafula tilted his head to the side as if trying to glance at his back and asked Queen Nakhumicha with a concerned voice.
"Will you allow me to play with those pets?" Queen Nakhumicha ignored his question and asked the same question she normally asked him when he met these infected in the way. Hearing her question, Lazy sighed inwardly and said, "you are still a little girl. A small person is not allowed to play with those things, wait until you grow up to a big person. Right now, you should be cute, adorable and a sweet child, alright? I will buy for you a lolipop when I finish playing with these pets." Queen Nakhumicha just sneered and hid her face on his back not wanting to talk to him anymore.
The whole conversation lasted for mere seconds and in the next moment, the infected had already reached them and swung their claws while others lept in the air with their teeth showing with the intention of ripping them apart. In the meantime, the sky which was dead turned bloody red. The world had absorbed so much blood of the dead, right now it was manifesting its ominous nature by blood. This was not a good sign especially to the survivers. The world didn't just left things there, it went further and unleashed illusions around them. They can hear them, the voices reverberating in their ears with echos following up. If they were normal people, they would have already wetted their pants and jittered because of the overwhelming otherworldly eerily voices that were ravaging their minds.
"Lazy! Lazy! Lazzyyy!"
"Whatever Genesis had promised you is all a lie, we will all die and no body will survive. Give up now and you will be free."
"Do you think that you are strong? Just look at the waves of the incoming infected, no one among you will get out of this alive."
"Son, don't you miss us, we your parents? Stop fighting a losing battle and come to us. We miss you so much. We are dejected so much for having left without you..."
Lazy Wafula was like an immovable rock on the riverbed. Nothing can move him, he knew that all those were just made up stories of this desperate planet. He will not waver, he had gone through much to reach where he was and to want to move him with those simple words was like underestimating him. If this had happened to him fifteen years ago, he would have been moved but not right now. That protective feeling of his parents disappeared a long time ago and he will not feel a thing even if his parents came here with their real self. His feeling for them was just empty like a hollow basin.
Unlike Lazy Wafula and the other elderly group who were firm and collected, the teenage boy had a scrunched face as if he was fighting with himself inside, his hands were shaking. Madam Ross hit him on the head and snapped him from his daze which helped him a little. She then tossed him in the middle of the formation because he was the weakest among them and he can easily be fooled by the world.