Chapter 36: Temptation and New Threat
Five people stood silently in front of Travis. They knew their leader was not in a good mood, so they decided to wait until he permitted them to speak, so as not to anger him...
Their leader was good-looking and easy to communicate with, but the last time someone angered him and tried to rebel against his leadership, those people were forced to do the most dangerous jobs in the group, and several of them lost their lives. What was more frightening was that even one of the men who had gone to do a simple and low-risk task also ended up meeting disaster...
Many of them had consumed crystals and gained a lot of physical strength, no longer being considered human, but only Travis had this kind of paranormal instinct...
They all watched as the boss’s girl, Maggie, brought out a glass of wine and poured it for him, all smiles and flattery. After drinking some of the drink, Travis’s face finally changed, and he turned to the group and pointed at the big gangster, who was the same guy who had been humiliated by the visitor on the motorcycle less than a day ago.
"You can start..."
"Boss, I went with some men to the gallery near the city center, and the place was completely cleared of zombies. There were corpses everywhere, and many stores had already been looted, including all the restaurants... When I checked some of the corpses, they were the same as the zombies in the locker room, dead, but without crystals or extraction wounds."
Travis’s face contorted in anger again, and he downed the entire glass of wine, making Maggie pour more. He nodded to another man, and he continued:
"I went to the police station, but there is a group of survivors inside. I tried to trade them some weapons in exchange for our resources, but they refused. In the end, they only offered us some revolvers in exchange, but they only want the crystals of the most intelligent zombies, the ones that have a darker red tone."
"It seems that more people already know about the use of the crystals; this is going to be problematic," Maggie said, looking at Travis’ reaction.
"The police also gave us a radio frequency to contact them... Not that it is very useful, but we can finally make use of the radios we fixed and communicate from a distance now..."
Travis nodded at the good news, but remained silent and just looked at the next man.