Zerra knitted her eyebrows. It stood no reason at all to have such a life and death challenge like that in the apocalypse. Instead of sticking together...
However, she also understood Henry’s ambition to so degree. Otherwise, that man wouldn’t have sold Daniel as an experintal subject and exchanged him for so kind of information.
The ability users also ntioned Henry’s power increased a lot because of the resources they gave him. Was it human’s crystal cores?
If it was the case, she could already guess the scenario. In exchange for bringing the people from the village residential area to the Moon Cloud City base, Henry received the information about the human crystal core’s effectiveness.
"Do all people from the Brown family’s side know about this? The fact that human’s crystal cores can enhance their power better than zombie’s crystal cores?" Zerra asked. She had left her mom’s side and co over to the group just to ask this question.
There were only a few tasks left anyway, which was dividing the portion.
When they saw Zerra approaching, they didn’t seem to want her to stare at the grueso scene too much. Cassias imdiately stood beside her and was about to cover her eyes, but she sidestepped and glared at him.
Laziel still persisted even with his face becoming increasingly pale and uncomfortable. She could handle just this much.
Cassias pressed his lips together, and no longer insisted. He just took a few steps closer to her again.
"Answer the question!" Sean barked at the two n, who had fallen silent upon witnessing the strange interaction.
The two n with missing limbs were startled. They stuttered, "No, of course not!"
As if afraid that they would torture them by inflicting unimaginable pain again, the other fought to provide information. "Only a few of us know. The Brown family does not spread the news, fearing other human bases catching wind of their deeds."
Zerra nodded. No wonder these n were included among Henry’s trusted subordinates, even if they were such a reckless bunch. She glanced at Cassias a little aningfully.
If not for Cassias, these people might not have admitted anything at all. They would have kept their silence until death. He had used his ntal ability to manipulate these people into speaking the truth.
Her eyes suddenly glanced at Sean thoughtfully. The person seed to have sensed her gaze and nodded at her in acknowledgent. Eh? This person actually had such a sharp sense.
"Why didn’t the Valez family report this case to the Capital base yet?" Sean asked.
"They couldn’t find the proof..." the tall man trailed off. "Whenever we hunt ability users, we do it secretly. Most of the base mbers still didn’t know the truth. They weren’t killed by zombies at all."
"What about the challenge declaration?" Zerra frowned.
"The Brown family only said it to the higher-ups of the Valez family. Only a few of us know that." He paused. "Actually, although the Brown family challenged the Valez family, they have begun to make moves since two weeks ago too, provoking all sorts of conflict."
"Whenever so people die, the people taking care of the corpse will take the crystal core from it."
They all fell silent for a mont, digesting the information.
That was a lot of information they had gained from the n’s confession. But so things were still vague.
Zerra guessed that the scientist who had visited the village residential area must have co to visit Henry again. The person might also be behind the plot to get rid of the Valez family.
There was no need to ask the two n about the scientist. They probably wouldn’t know about it anyway. She was sure Henry would be cautious enough about showing his relationship to such a person.
His power boost was too sudden. Others would hail him as a late-bloor genius, while others were skeptical. If they found out his relationship with a scientist, people from the Capital might co to investigate him.
Especially when he wasn’t the only person who recently had a boost in power. Moreover, it was only his group that had such a sudden increase when there were two power factions.
After they were done with the n, they killed them. No matter what they asked them, they could no longer provide them with further necessary information.
Ida looked terrified when she heard all the n’s confessions. Her heart trembled even more upon seeing Zerra’s group disposing of them.
She gulped. "I-I promise I won’t tell anyone." Then, she shook her head seriously and decided. "After this, I will leave this place and never return again."
She didn’t want to be caught in such a battle between two power factions. From the way this group interrogated the n from the Brown family, she could already guess they were planning to interfere.
Those people would support the Valez family.
"Calm down, Ida. Let’s have dinner. You must be hungry." Zerra took her hand and dragged her toward the tables, where her mom had arranged the dinner for all of them.
Ida flinched slightly when Zerra touched her hand. She sent an apologetic look to her before obediently following her lead.
After dinner finished, so n went to fix the door. Zerra was quite astonished they could still eat after witnessing such a grueso scene. They must have been so hungry and tired.
As they were utterly exhausted from the journey, fighting, and interrogation, they imdiately went to sleep. Things had beco so ssy that they were thankful they didn’t imdiately go straight to the base.
Otherwise, if they were just going ahead without knowing the situation, they might have made the situation worse.
When it was still a little dark outside, Ida had already excused herself and bid farewell to the group, repeatedly muttering her thanks before she walked away.
It was unknown where she was going.
A few hours after Ida was gone, so people knocked at their place again. They were a group of people who must have been sent to investigate the disappearance of the dozen ability users.
Surprisingly, the one leading the group was none other than Henry. Enemies t on a narrow road.
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