It was a strange radio with buttons and slides that Ellianor had never seen before. For what purpose they served was unknown to him.
All he hoped was that the radio worked like one from Earth. 'Let's see if it works…'
Ellianor managed radios once when he was a kid, with his father, but it was so long ago that he didn't recall how many of those lessons he still remembered.
Ellianor tried to make the radio work. "H… Ehy! We… icked … gnal!" He succeeded. The signal cleared a bit With more tunings of the slides and buttons. In truth, he didn't know exactly what was working, Ellianor just kept doing what he thought worked.
"Are you listening, guard Altair? We have picked your signal!" A voice called from the radio, Ellianor shared looks with Kissenn. A silent question if she recognized the voice.
She shook her head, and Ellianor sighed.
"The base was turned into a mess. I and the other Wardens have not found any life signal in the base after a few hours! Did you lose your life signal tracker? Where are you so we can extract you?"
The person on the other side was a man, a man who could rapid-fire words. Ellianor sighed and brought the radio close to his mouth.
"Sorry to disappoint, but we are not that Altair… he has been dead for quite some time."
The man on the other side gasped, his voice almost sounded crushed. "I see… state your name, and what has happened to you, and your current position. We will try to push through the corruption and find you."
The voice reverted to a resolute tone, firing words at Ellianor.
"My name is Ellianor, I don't know, I was at my house, and awakened here. We are on a food court…" Ellianor stopped to analyze how things went down further.
There was a distinct landmark to that food court. "An alarm about Primordial Corruption was fired, and a bunch of gates shut down whole corridors. We ran from it and landed in a food court."
Kissenn stared at the gates that blocked their path. Those gates were thick and reinforced, in the likes that they shouldn't be able to be cut, even with their swords.
"That narrows down… but not enough. Any further information you know?"
Ellianor rested the handle of his blade against his chin. There was more information now that he thought about it. "We came from a destroyed reception hall full of corruption, bursting with it, with zombies."
"THAT narrows it down. Okay. Give me a few seconds." A camera moved, it confused them.
"Found you. We can't send people there, we have… a nasty problem on our hands, and you guys are in a tough spot."
"Yeah, we realized that once the gates tried to crush us to death." Kissenn hit Ellianor on the shoulder, a silent reproach to his words, although the guy on the other hand had access to the cameras.
The man on the other side just laughed it off.
"That's the spirit to survive. Altair, the dead guy, has a tablet. Take it with you, I will upload the map with the layout of this place and mark where you need to go."
Kissenn went for the belt of the guard, she undid it and holstered the belt on herself, alongside all the tools and gadgets on it.
For a moment, the black-haired man was surprised by how spontaneous she was.
Ellianor kept his stare at Kissenn. "What? It looks kind of cool, and the tablet is here." She picked up the tablet and showed it to him.
Luckily, just some parts of the screen were broken, while others were blackened.
The tablet was intact enough to be used. The map jumped on it, updated to their next target. It made a line toward where they were needed.
"An amphitheater is nearby. Go there to meet a member we will send there. Beware, that whole area is crawling with corruption."
Ellianor readied his sword, and fortunately, his map was updated as Kissenn held her tablet before her eyes, inches away from her face.
"Alright. Saw where we need to go." Kissenn started to walk ahead of him.
Before advancing, Ellianor decided to ask a question to the person on the radio. "Where are we exactly?" The guy hummed something, he took sweet seconds before deciding to answer.
"An exploration and scientific base on the edge of the galaxy Boreas. meant to study stars and the Stars' phenomena. It is under attack by Primordial Corruption, as you can see. You're quite literally near the ground zero of the invasion and corruption spread."
The information was not bright or uplifting in the slightest, but it was expected given the scenery before them.
It also painted a grim light. Without much choice, Ellianor followed after Kissenn.
"Since you guys are busy on the corruption thing… we are separated by those gates, right? Two sides of a coin."
It only made sense, a ground zero meant that the bulk of the invasion was there. The guy laughed loudly.
"Yeah. You are taking a roundabout way for us to extract you guys out there. Everyone else native to the base is literally dead, or near death." Ellianor sighed.
There were children there, which means that there were fathers and mothers. 'If this is truly a space station, grandparents are not out of the question…' Such a massacre.
"There will be zombies on the way ahead?" Ellianor shook his head, there was no time to waste thinking about those things. There would be a time to mourn and think about it later.
"Positive, as there will be the ones that brought this corruption… if you can, destroy the whole body with flames, or in utilizing it. That is the only way to stop a zombie."
Ellianor expected a bullet to the head or destruction of the brain, but he saw what a zombie looked like. 'Mutated and hard to destroy.' Decapitation or bullets to the head wouldn't do.
"Holster that on your belt." Ellianor tossed the radio at Kissenn.