Day 51 – 6:23 AM – Central Business Park, Bay City, Pasay City, tro Manila
Dawn had co as the sun rose from the east. It marked the start of a new day. But of course, a new day cowering in fear inside the walls of the settlent of the infected outside was not that well appreciated. In the least everyone was glad that they survived the past day and night without being food for the infected.
It had been three days since the disaster where mission the military led to clear the Infected Nest in NAIA failed miserably. The number of casualties they suffered amounted more than the deaths they had for two whole weeks by two tis and it even included the number of deaths incurred during the mission in Philippine General Hospital. That was how serious the situation was back then.
However, no matter what the reason was for the failure, the people with ill intent took advantage of the matter to saw the power and the support the military had. In this past day, rumors after rumors that denounced the military spread like wildfire. Despite the fact that none of the common people knew about who started to spread the rumors, their trust towards the military started to falter.
It was the worst thing to happen since the military heavily relied on the manpower from the common people to maintain the most important things in the settlent like man power for construction. Not to ntion that while the numbers of soldiers were being reduced after almost every mission, the number of combatants from the common populace was increasing. Every day, there would be people that would awaken their abilities as and Evolver after falling ill with a high temperature fever.
Right now, if not for the firearms and equipnt in the military's arsenal, the common populace could overwhelm the soldiers and take over the settlent just by the number of Evolvers and Mutators among them.
Fortunately, that was yet to happen. Wishfully, it would never do.
Now, the current power in Bay City started to tilt towards the factions of the politicians, especially the faction led by Senator Estrada.
Fortunately, it was not all bad news that the military received in these past days. The next day the participants of the mission returned tired and dejected, they received good news trice until yesterday.
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Day 51 – 8:15 AM – Recovery Ward, Military Laboratories, Bay City, Pasay City, tro Manila
General Miguel Perez walked along the white halls of the laboratory towards the recovery ward despite his heavy schedule. He totally freed his morning and late afternoon schedules to visit the recovery ward these past two days. It was because of the first good news that they received.
The Bay City's Military Princess, Angeline Perez, finally woke up from her coma.
When she suddenly had a high fever after a month of being stable, the military entered a panicked state after learning about what was happening. It would not be a good thing to make the general experience more stress from what he was already having after the failure of the mission and the slander that started to spread around the settlent.
Fortunately, her fever only lasted until midnight and few hours after her fever receded, Angeline finally woke up. The General and his sons were overjoyed at the sudden good news. Unfortunately, there was no way for them to conduct a celebratory party for this event.
"Dad!"
Angeline imdiately called out when General Perez entered the room. She was currently walking around the room with the help of a walker and was being supervised by her elder brother's fiancé and her best friend. After more than a month of lying down on the bed, she needed to recuperate and practice her body to move around. Fortunately, her body was recovering strangely fast that she was already able to walk around even if it was assisted with so tools just the next day after she woke up.
"It's early in the morning and you're training your body already. You should sleep more."
The General reprimanded his daughter.
"Dad, I'm already fine. I already slept a lot so I don't feel like sleeping too much now."
Angeline joked which made her father turn the two other won in the room who only shook their heads in exasperation. It seed that Angeline was being hardheaded and was doing things as she liked.
"Dad, is there news about i?"
Angeline asked as she already heard about what happened in the failed mission in NAIA. It was one of the reasons why she was too hasty in recovering herself.
Unfortunately, even though it was related to the second good news the military received, there was no traces of i or even those powerful people.
The second good news that they received was the mysterious destruction of the Infected Nest in NAIA. Due to being close to Bay City, they managed to see the thick almost black smoke that was rising in the sky the next morning. On the night of the day the mission failed, several accounts of people with sensitive hearing said that they heard explosions during the evening. Due to the sudden signs, they sent several scouts back to the site to confirm what was happening despite how dangerous it was.
When the scouts returned, they brought back the good but mysterious news that the whole nest was destroyed by a large fire. No one could fathom what happened but in the least, the threat of the Infected Nest was no more. Unfortunately, the news was limited to that and i's whereabouts was still unknown.
The general started to spend his ti with his daughter chatting and laughing as he tried to forget the current state of the Bay City that was giving him too much stress.
It was when Paula brought out the question regarding the good news that many people in Bay City was talking about and was kind of celebrated by them.
That news was about a survivor group that suddenly went missing yesterday.
"Uncle, we have several strange occurrences these past days don't we? First, although it's not bad, Ange who had not signs of waking up woke up abruptly. That Infected Nest in NAIA suddenly got destroyed and now, a group of survivors are MIA."
"Haa…" The General sighed. He would not show this side of him to others but here, he was free to do so. "It might not be a good thing to say as a person but its good if that group will not return anymore, at least, I have less sources of headache to suffer from. We didn't really want to but we still sent a search and rescue team just for saving face. It's more of the person who contracted them to do that really."
There, a warm embrace was given to the General that worked hard this past month. It ca from his daughter that he longed to wake up.
"Don't worry dad, after I fully recover, I'll help you straighten those kinds of people."
"You silly girl. Just behave and don't add another source of headache for …"
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Day 51 – 11:32 AM – Harrison Plaza, Mabini Street Corner, Adriatico St., Malate, Pasay City, tro Manila
Led by First Lieutenant Rafael Perez, a group of ard soldiers were searching the mall infected by the infected as covert as possible. They were here for investigation and to locate the missing survivor group. If possible, make sure to make them return safely even with the fact that the soldiers did not want any ties from that survivor group.
[Leo Troops] was what that group called themselves. A group of arrogant scoundrels that was really good at throwing their power around. The worst part was that they were contracted by the business genius, Raver Guevarra, who was among the faction that was benefiting the failure of NAIA mission the most.
The [Leo Troops] were very unruly and always threatened those who was weaker and had lower status than them in Bay City Settlent. And even though they were highly protected, so of the mbers of [Team Fairy] were subjected to their harassnt especially the girls in the group that were working inside the settlent.
Unfortunately, the soldiers still had to do their job just for the sake of publicity. Their na was being dragged into the mud these past days and they could not afford to have more things thrown unto them.
"Sir! We found their vehicles!"
A soldier hurriedly returned and reported their findings.
"Alright, lead the way."
Rafael readied his squad and made their way towards the location.
There, they found several cars parked at the front of the mall which were totally the sa vehicles [Leo Troops] had.
"n, search the area. See if there are clues to their whereabouts."
"Yes sir!"
It did not take long and the soldiers found traces that led to where the mbers of the group were. Soon they found them…
The mbers of [Leo Troops] were either dead or turned into Z-type Beta commonly known as Eaters. They were not just dead and infected but they were all made to suffer in the most brutal ways.
Their mbers were tied up and hanged at the central area of the mall. However, the electric cables that hanged them were not the cause of their current states but the roaming infected beneath them. Their bodies were hanged in a height that the infected where able to reach and eat up to their waists. Right now, each of the mbers only had their torsos remaining that were still hanging from the electric cables and were attracting the infected below them.
Rafael and his n could also not help but notice that so the dead Mutators of [Leo Troops] had their heads bashed open and their heads were left hollow. Their brains were missing. Looking at the wounds on their heads, it was very likely that their brains were removed after they turned into Eaters after half of their bodies were eaten by the infected. As for the evolvers and normal mbers, they were left to beco Eaters that were forever tied up inside this mall brimming with the infected.
As they found all the mbers of [Leo Troops], Rafael and his squad had no reason to stay. They took the armored vehicles and also took a number of pictures to bring back as evidence for the investigation. They imdiately returned to Bay City to report what happened.
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Day 51 – 3:11 PM – Central Business Park, Bay City, Pasay City, tro Manila
"They already returned."
Mark said as he watched the vehicles entering the northern gates of the settlent. Right now, he was together with i in the open and was not concealing their bodies. Instead, they wore masks and protective clothing that was not really strange after the apocalypse started.
These past days, the two mingled with the survivors around Bay City as common survivors. Due to the large number of people inside Bay City, no one suspected the two as they gathered information about which people they needed to pay attention to.
Finally, he started his plans after gathering as much information as he could. He started with the [Leo Troops].
These people were under Raver which was one of the high status individual in Bay City and soone who wanted i to fall unto his hands. Furthermore, the mbers of [Leo Troops] harassed Elsa and Charmaine several tis already according to i.
Luckily, the group wanted so alcohol to drink and the military was strict about distributing alcohol from their stocks. Unless they took it outside the settlent, they would not have enough to endulge themselves. They never thought that that flimsy mistake of indulging in their desires led them to be the ones targeted first.
As Mark watched the familiar vehicles enter the gates, he smiled as he played with the two new crystals in his hand that he managed to get from that arrogant survivor group.
"Let's go."
Mark and i held hands and left the area.
For sure, the news about what happened to the group would spread like wildfire. Of course, as the first case, the people in the settlent would only think that it was an unfortunate coincidence.
However, it was just the start…
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