The World Cataclysm - Chapter 38: A Scheme

At his words, Rebecca only looked at him puzzledly. She didn’t understand what did he meant by baiting zombies out, yet she still tried to trust him.

Dave glanced in the direction from where they came on a van, spotting a dense crowd of zombies in a frenzied state. They looked like a beehive which was disturbed from the outside, thrashing violently on their places.

Next, his eyes fell on other zombies slowly wandering on the streets. It should be zombies which were far away from them to heat noise from engines, yet even then, their numbers were high enough to block the van, so he said. “Better to move by our legs.”

Well, he wasn’t so much surprised by their numbers since he knew that their current location was previously popular among other students, explaining large numbers of zombies. However, it also had a large number of resources since most of the stores were located here.

“What about others? Were they able to reach our base?” After a slight silence, Rebecca asked him concernedly.

“Better worry about yourself! They should already be in the dormitory building. Don’t worry! Adam is smart and rational, so he won’t do anything rash. Moreover, I already told him not to be a hero.”

“Did you already know that everything will end this way?” Rebecca noted sharply. In a week, she already felt familiar with Dave since they hunted together and he taught her different things, so she felt less scared around him. Though he was still terrifying in some ways like when he smiled evilly back then.

“Well, let’s say that I always have a contingency plan in case something goes wrong” Dave responded calmly while observing their surroundings.

He was satisfied with her questions since he thought that Rebecca was slowly adapting to the new world and building courage to ask questions as well as respond to them without being meek and timid.

Rebecca paused slightly to reorganize her thoughts and asked. “Then, how can I help you with baiting zombies away from us?”

“Don’t worry! We don’t need to do anything.” He chuckled lightly and smiled lightly at her question.

Confused by his answer, she only looked at him oddly, wondering what he meant by it, but when she tried to ask another question, he had already finished scouting and headed downstairs.

***

Waiting till Dave and Rebecca enter a three-storey building, fatty was the first one who broke the silence.

“Brother Damien, are we truly going to join them? What the fuck! What about our safety?” Fatty exclaimed in anger, immediately reddening in his face. He was hot-tempered by nature, so he couldn’t tolerate a threat from Dave.

“Fatty, don’t be stupid! We don’t need them if we could get a van.” The tall student said, scolding an angered fatty near him. He looked rather sinister while saying it.

“What do you think about it? If we could steal a van from them, we can easily leave university boundaries and reach my father’s place.” Noticing support from both of his friends, Damien glanced at Rachel and Katelyn.

Even though Damien didn’t suggest the idea itself, he didn’t object it in any way since such a result was his intention all along. The only thing he needed was approval from everyone, so they could proceed to the next step.

“Yeah, join us! We’ll treat you much better than him!”

“More people, better it will be!”

Both fatty and tall student tried to pull them to their side, looking lewdly at them. They couldn’t help it since both Rachel and Katelyn were beauties in their way. Rachel had her unique charm, while Katelyn had a slim and well-proportioned figure. It felt bad to leave such beautiful girls behind.

Listening to their conversation, Rachel stiffened uncomfortably, feeling bad while talking about it. Even though she also wanted to reach a safe place, the idea of leaving Dave and Rebecca made her uncomfortable.

“Isn’t it bad to leave them behind? Shouldn’t we discuss it with them?” Rachel questioned them.

“It’s much safer in my father’s company and it’s also close to our university, so there shouldn’t be any dangers. Moreover, both of them are strong enough to wander in university by themselves, so they won’t die easily.” Damien tried to convince her.

“I’m in!” Katelyn said as she was tempted by his proposal. Furthermore, she wasn’t on good terms with Dave to start with, so she didn’t feel so much wrong about it. Compared to them, she knew that she was weak, further fuelling her desire to seek shelter.

“But he saved our lives! We can’t do that to them.” Rachel said. She didn’t want to leave them behind since she had felt that they were leaving them to death.

“Just drop your act! Do you seriously want to trade your chance to survive just for them? I know that you also want to live just like me, so stop it!” Katelyn said in irritation.

“If you don’t want to go with us, then just give us a key to the van.” Fatty also exclaimed in anger as he stretched his hand towards her.

However, a hand had caught fatty’s wrist, stopping it in the air. Damien threateningly glared at him and said. “Shut up, fatty!”

Caught by his guard, fatty retreated backwards and listened to him, cautiously looking at Damien. Even though they had killed zombies together, Damien was a level higher than them and also was physically fit before everything happened, giving him a higher start.

Therefore, both of them didn’t dare to cause problems around him and acknowledged him as their leader.

‘Damn, fatty! He was close to spilling everything out.’ Damien thought as he glared at fatty. He also wanted to leave university faster than anyone here, yet they shouldn’t put Rachel on guard. They needed her cooperation.

“Okay, then! We won’t do anything, just don’t tell your friend otherwise it would be awkward for us.” He asked for assistance from her. They can’t allow her to tell everything to Dave.

Of course, only Rachel was relieved at that time, while others gazed at Damien in confusion. Even though Rachel was surprised that he backed down so quickly, she didn’t want to escalate it even further, so she nodded her head.

At the same time, Dave and Rebecca could already be seen coming out of the building. It only took a short amount of time for them to get back to them from scouting.

Spotting them, Damien pulled fatty closer to him and whispered to his ear. “Keep an eye on that girl!” Moreover, he also leaned closer to others and whispered something to them.

When both Rebecca and Dave came close enough to them, Damien asked them. “So how is it? Did you find anything out?”

“It seems that we should wait here for some time. Zombies around us are in a frenzied state, though they should calm down later. Let’s settle here for a day.” Dave shared with everyone what he had found.

“Then, come with us. I’ll show the way!” With such words, Damien led everyone into the internet cafe.