As soon as Light saw this group, he turned to his sister and Lawrence and started running, shouting, "RUN THE OTHER WAY! NOW" Lawrence quickly took Petunia on his back and began to follow Light.
The zombies weren't fast, just numerous. That meant that the group could escape easily, they just had to be quick.
After only thirty seconds of running, Light pointed his hand towards the empty part of the road and opened his palm.
Petunia and Lawrence were trying to figure out why they had stopped when a car identical to the one they had been driving appeared in the middle of the empty road and the two were stunned.
"ARE YOU CRAZY?! GET IN THE CAR NOW!" Light's shouts must have brought the two to their senses as Lawrence sprang into action and managed to get into the car with Petunia. Quickly stepping on the accelerator, Light shifted the gears and began to move swiftly down the road.
Luckily for them, the group of zombies were coming from the left side of the four-way because Light's house was a straight shot from the city centre. At the end of the road, it was possible to reach the safe house. It wasn't possible to get in, but that's what happened.
Petunia was in a great deal of pain, with a scratch on her cheek, some of her clothes torn, blood pouring down her legs and a broken arm.
Lawrence was in even worse shape, he had been behind the wheel and had hit his head directly on the door, causing a head wound. He might have sprained his ankle, because every time he moved, his expression changed dramatically.
Light was in a better condition than the other two.
Since the car that hit them had hit their car from the left side, the momentum of the group's car had shifted to the left, so Light had not suffered any injuries, he had only somehow managed to hit his right leg against the door, probably a bruise had formed on the spot.
"Are you both all right?" Light asked as Petunia answered "Yes" and Lawrence remained silent.
"I apologise, sir!" Lawrence suddenly uttered those words and both Petunia and Light were surprised to hear it.
"What are you talking about?" Light asked, suddenly curious, and when he looked at Lawrence in the rear-view mirror, he noticed that he was bowing his head and became upset.
"I put us all in danger, and only half an hour after I told you that I would serve and protect you, I am very, very sorry." Lawrence's words upset Petunia and angered Light.
"Don't talk rubbish, Lawrence! It's not your fault. There's no one to blame but the idiot who started zombifying and tried to drive. He almost killed us. And you were driving at a steady, slow speed so we wouldn't be affected by the snowy weather. You didn't do anything wrong."
Lawrence looked up at Light's words, still feeling guilty, but the sight of both Petunia and Light made him feel a little relieved that if he had driven faster, they might have been killed.
"No matter how dangerous it is, if we start thinking like this from the first mistake, we have no right to live at all. So calm down a little bit, please hold on, I will help you as much as I can as soon as we get home." After Light finished speaking, the car accelerated a little more.
In Light's mind, even if the blood loss in the group was not too much, there was still a blood loss, in short, it was obvious that it would be best to be treated as soon as possible.
"Yes, sir...I'm sorry." When Lawrence apologised with deep emotion and a hoarse voice, everything was settled, and the group began to head home at full speed.
He had to get them home as fast as possible.
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"Aghk!"
Petunia felt a small pain every time her arm was touched. Lawrence had already been treated, after all, unlike Petunia, he had a head injury, so there was no need for him to die for no reason.
That's why it would be much better for Lawrence, who was better at treating people than Light, to heal Petunia.
After all, Lawrence's recovery meant that the group would be in good shape.
"What are we going to do now?" Petunia suddenly asked and Light heard her and replied, "We're going to stay here, like I said, the blizzard will hit in just a little over a week and we'll be buried under metres of snow in just a short period."
Light knew what was going to happen, and he was certain that the house they were in now would be buried under snow. That's why he had built a not-very-tall tower with more than a hundred solar panels on it. If it didn't snow so much that the tower was buried in snow, they would always have solar energy. If it snowed too much and even the tower was buried in snow, they would still have dozens of tanks full of energy, so they would have plenty of time to run the petrol-powered generators.
"I see, but what about---" Petunia was about to ask another question when suddenly a news bulletin came blaring out of the television and the group suddenly turned back to the television.
-----> PLEASE LISTEN CAREFULLY <-----
"This is an automated news bulletin. If you are hearing this bulletin, please do not leave your homes. The temperature is about to drop to an unbelievable low due to the effects of the approaching solar radiation on the climate, if you do not have food stocks in your home, we are warning you one last time; PLEASE HAVE THINGS IN YOUR HOME THAT WILL KEEP YOU ALIVE!"
-----> PLEASE KEEP LIVING <-----
Light could feel his heart pounding amid all this heavy news, yet he knew he was safe, that's why he managed to calm himself down and muttered to himself once more:
"So it all begins...."