Chapter 199: The Snake?
As the large metallic gates were closing, a few more zombies entered inside. Aiden, noticing this, quickly put strength into his feet as his figure became blurred once again, and after reaching the zombies, he used a single, quick, and strong slash to decapitate the heads of the two zombies with his sword. Like always, after killing them, he didn't forget to put his sword back in his scabbard just as fast.
After seeing the gates had finally closed, he now focused on the other important things he had to do before leaving, which was to collect the cores of the zombies. Seeing the large number of corpses of zombies lying around, he knew it would take some time, as the number of zombies was too much.
According to his guess, it would be more than 1,500 zombies. Seeing the corpses lying on the ground, which had painted the ground deep red, he now fully realized the horror of the apocalypse, as all these corpses of zombies were once actual people.
He could see the different types of ragged clothes on them. There were some whose age might have been very young. While he was feeling a little emotional, that was only it, as he had known for years that a large number of people were going to die, and seeing it happen just opened his eyes a little bit.
'Such unfortunate people.'
Compared to these people, who were not even given the chance to set things right as their fate was already written the moment the evolution happened, it was quite cruel, according to him.
Seeing how his thoughts had trailed off, he quickly focused on the task in front, as there was no time to waste right now. He didn't even think they could worry about practicing their magic today, as after seeing his watch, he knew there were only 15 minutes left, and he had to take their cores as soon as possible.
That was why he couldn't waste time anymore and quickly ordered Ava to start extracting their cores as fast as they could without worrying about using their magic.
He also looked at his big sis's eyes to tell her that they had to be as fast as possible.
Aiden had only spent about half of his stamina on killing the zombies, and even now, he had quite a bit of energy left, which was why he was going to make use of his stats fully to extract the cores as fast as he could.
While Aiden and his team were doing their best to extract the cores of the zombies as fast as they could, one particular zombie outside the same metallic gate inside a mall was banging the gates with all its strength, and the loud booming sound could be heard. However, it didn't seem like the gates would open anytime soon.
However, it looked quite exciting now. Compared to its previous shallow attempts to open the door, now it was doing its best to open it while growling loudly from time to time. Other zombies beside it, like always, were attacking with madness inside their eyes, but their attacks were quite weak compared to this other zombie.
There was a strange excitement inside the eyes of one zombie who seemed to be waiting for something.
Inside the school auditorium, Chloe and the vice president were standing in front of each other. The Vice President didn't have a good expression on her face as she was counting small circular red, green, and blue cores to divide among themselves.
She was looking at the small doll-looking, pink-haired girl in front of her, who had an excited expression on her face as she was waiting for her share of the cores, which was about 60% of the total amount of the cores they had gathered today.
That was also the reason Xu Ling was not looking good, as this cute little twerp had hunted the zombies worth 60% of the total amount.
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They had hunted a little over 250 zombies, and this was their all-day worth hunt for eight people who had volunteered to hunt and gather supplies, including her and Chloe.
Which meant she had to give about 150 cores to her alone. While she knew Chloe deserved these cores, knowing someone who was clearly stronger than her getting even stronger didn't sit right with her.
While she didn't think Chloe would do harm to them, that didn't mean she shouldn't try to trick this little girl, as she didn't look that clever.
She didn't feel good tricking this cute little girl who was her age but still looked very cute. She hadn't done anything wrong to her and had even helped them, but her own survival was what mattered most to her. She didn't know what she would encounter in the future, so she had to get as strong as possible in any way she could, even if she didn't like what she was going to do.
Seeing the clueless expression on Chloe, she was even sure this was going to be easy, and the others who were following were mostly members of the student council and people who were under her.
Even if she put up a good front, in the end, she would be the one to get the most benefit, as more than 250 cores were not a small amount—it was four times the amount of cores they had collected yesterday.
Only eight of them knew how valuable these cores were, and they were going to keep it as such, as telling the ones who only knew to cower in fear while they were facing danger was not something she would do.
She looked into the eyes of the other six in front of her beside her and signaled them while saying compassionately,
"Guys, why don't we split the cores in a better way so that we can create a much more balanced team, which can improve our chances of survival more?
"If we split 30% for both me and Chloe, and then the rest 40% can be divided equally among you guys, wouldn't it be much better? What do you guys think?"
Hearing the words of their beautiful and passionate vice leader, the other six beside Chloe quickly nodded. They had already realized by the strict behavior of their vice leader yesterday and how she had acted these days that she was not as kind as they had thought earlier.
However, it didn't matter to them how she actually was, as they were the only ones profiting from this deal, so there was no reason to not accept it. But seeing the sharp look the vice leader had given them a few times, they knew they were not actually going to get the amount she had said.
Yet it would still be better than the low amount of zombies they had actually killed, so matching the vice president's rhythm, they nodded in unison at the same time and said in a firm voice as if they were not going to change their minds on this one.
"Yes, you are right, Vice President."
Chloe had the same expression as before, which to others looked like that of a cute and clueless kid in front of them who didn't know anything.
Chloe, who was trying to make a cool expression that was failing miserably due to her overly cute appearance, was feeling quite excited after the little act she had witnessed just now.
'Took you long enough to show your true colors, you snake.'
Chloe had always shown her open irritation toward the Vice President, not only because she was after Aiden but even before she had met Aiden in this life. She had clear hate toward this venomous woman, who had taken advantage of her in her previous life many times, which she hadn't realized at first, and when she did, it was already too late for her. In the end, she was kicked out of her previous team by her order.
She had worked together with them for months. However, after realizing that she had been tricked by her many times, she asks her for compensation, but the only thing she gets, in the end, is mocking lines from her team, which makes her decide to leave them. However, she had thought they would try to stop her, but these ungrateful ones only laughed at her for being dumb.
She knew they were not bad people. Thinking about the bad people, an image of a person appeared in her mind, which made her blood boil, as this was the person she hated even more than her father, Anderes Shade, who had sent people after her to make her work under him, which she clearly didn't want.
She didn't know how many times she had to run and change her location with Mary because of him, which had increased her hate toward him even more than before. But it was still slightly below that bastard who had killed her.