More questions than answers.

Chapter 25

We lined up with the last car in line.

Talita: "Would it be better to look for another route? "

"I'm just curious about the reason for the blockade, if it takes too long we'll get out of here"

Talita: "maybe like in the red umbrella movies, they want to contain the infection in the city? "

" perhaps "

I don't think that's the case, the president wouldn't have warned on television if it had been possible to cover it up like in the movies.

We spent twenty minutes bored in line, the gonsalves were surprisingly quiet, they're going to do something.

When I was about halfway to the roadblock, a soldier approached us.

Soldier: "Good morning, the government is recruiting awakened people, if you are awakened, please follow me, otherwise just move on"

"let's move on, thank you"

The soldier lost interest in us and moved on, thankfully he jumped the gonsalves after looking at him for a while.

Maria: "it seems that the government is already wanting to tie up those who unlocked the system, even though it is not very difficult, there is a very high level of risk"

"It's normal, the rulers want protection, they must have already seen that zombies are evolving"

Talita: "I'm not very comfortable with this place"

"Do you want to go another route? I already know what they're after, there's no reason to stay here"

Talita: "can we go alone? I don't feel comfortable with Claudio, the rest of the family is fine but he isn't"

I exchanged a look with Maria and spoke.

" Maria? "

Maria: "I, I think it's okay, they'll be fine here"

"decided then"

I turned the bike's handlebars to the side and got out of the car slowly so as not to scare anyone.

As soon as I no longer saw any soldiers, I stopped to adjust the route on the GPS to take less busy streets.

"With this detour, if we don't have any more unforeseen events, we will only leave the city tomorrow"

I see some zombies approaching and I start following the GPS route.

Around noon I stop at a gas station, I stopped because I'm stiff from maneuvering in these streets full of crashed cars and living dead people trying to catch us.

My motorcycle's gas gauge is half full, I'm going to top it up.

When I park near the fuel pump.

I put my hands on Maria's waist and lift her with relative ease, placing her on the floor.

"Let me know first", she complained with a pout.

Me: "you embarrassed and cute"

She spoke quickly to cover her embarrassment.

Maria: "Talita and I are going to see if we can find anything useful in the shop and prepare something to eat"

Talita gave me a gentle squeeze and got off the bike, standing next to Maria, silently agreeing with her and pulling out the knife she had attached to her belt.

"I'll join you soon, be careful inside"

Talita: "you too be careful"

I let them go without any problems because I only see a few zombies inside, the side facing the gas station is completely made of glass.

I can't be with them all the time, especially when we find a permanent place to stay, we'll have to go looking for supplies and someone will have to stay behind.

I was going to fill up the gas but then I remember that you need an employee badge to activate the pump at this station, I have to enter the shop anyway.

I turned to follow the girls when I felt a look on my back, then I took a step to the side as I felt danger just before.

In the place I was before I see a different zombie, use it quickly.

Zombi level 5: midway through evolution into a first-stage organism, inclined towards the agility status, capable of infecting through a bite, low chance of infection through spiders.

Same as the big zombie more inclined towards agility, I'm going to call him a newbie killer.

Jokes aside, it's a little tricky because normally it would be difficult to hit before it hits you, and you know, one bite and that's it.

But after losing the element of surprise for me, it's easy to kill him since I'm a little faster than him.

After killing him, I'm finding it strange that every time I kill a new zombie it drops a treasure box.

I checked with the system if there was any answer for that.

' programmed response 22: when killing (according to the system rules) the first of a certain species variant always drops a treasure box '

System rules? Could you tell me more about that.

' programmed response 2: the system works mainly according to the rules of a game system in the current world, with a peculiarity that the user is rewarded only with hand-to-hand battles. '

In today's world, in other words, we are not alone, this was already quite obvious from the system, but I don't think it will answer me about this anymore.

'programmed response 99: there is no registered response'

I didn't say it, the more I ask, the more questions I have, and the more fearful for the future I become.

I took the badge that was on the novice killer's neck, as he is wearing a uniform that I think belongs to an employee at that station, I believe it belongs to the fuel pump.

I went back to the gas station next to my bike and swiped my badge, luckily it worked and I filled the tank completely.

I went to join the girls in the shop after placing the motorcycle near her door.

When I was about to enter I heard a click.