35 35. Evolved

''Emma, they are on their way to the appointed place.'' Oliver shook Emma that sat on her chair and nodded off for a while. He actually let her sleep a bit.

She was not sleeping really, or was she? The strange resonance she felt in her body was making her worried. In her past life, she never saw this. Or maybe the fact that she didn't live long enough was the reason?

The resonance was very steady. Like summing in her whole body. She looked at Aisa's place and saw her sleeping on the nearby couch covered with a thick blanket while someone else was in her place and kept talking.

Of course, she let them all change their positions as she needed them to be all ready the whole time. She looked at the watch on the wall and saw that they had to drive another two hours to the given destination.

In Hose's car, his older son took over the weel for a few hours as there were straight streets and no difficulties in front. He let his father sleep for a while. She looked behind the bus and saw still at least ten more cars following. Good, these people are still here.

They stopped two more times just to fill in their gasoline tanks and continued to rush the fastest they could.

Oliver came and gave her a cup with a strong coffee smell. She hated coffee, but for this, she needed to stay awake so she just gulped it down almost burning the whole troat.

He took away the cup from her as it was some dangerous weapon and stared at her with open mouth. ''Woman, it's hot... can't you see the steam?''

She just gave him glance with blood ridden eyes and opened her hand. ''Give...''

It seemed she wanted to threaten him but he found it cute. ''Let it cool down just a tiny bit. If you can't talk how will you give orders? How can you help anyone?''

He stared at her face and chuckled as he saw her pressing her lips tightly while she held back her curses. The way she patted her chest not to get angry was now the funniest thing ever. ''You still do that.''

Her curiosity woke her up. ''What thing? Oh, why are you two still not telling me anything?''

''He will be here soon. Knowing him, you will need a long rest after this episode. He was very overprotective towards you since childhood. If he knew you slept just a couple hours in the last few days...'' He got closer and whispered in her ears. ''...he might do things to not let you out bed for a long time. It's in our blood.''

These Santini brothers! Both perverted! She thought that Oliver was a bit different, but of course, not really. Looking at her with a big smile and meaningful scan of her body she was about to explode and suddenly coffee was in front of her face. ''Now you can drink it.''

The moment she took the coffee he rushed out and she could literally hear him laughing out loud in the floor area while entering the escalator, with guards this time.

Emma, on the other hand, had a bigger problem. Those THINGS stopped pulsing. Somehow they looked more like statues or something she hoped not to be real... Butterfly puppets. Like something will break and something horrible will crawl out and start murdering them.

And with her luck, things just started happening straight in front of her eyes. Those things cracked like eggs, broken from inside. Something definitely moved inside and it was still slow. Suddenly she saw something that made her hair curl in fear.

''Quickly enlarge the T32 picture.'' She suddenly saw clearly two long like nails poking through the tough skin and pressing against it. Not long after the creature poked again and again and broke through.

What they saw jumping out the cocoon was neither human or animal. A completely hairless creature looking like an ugly hairless rat crawled on all four and looked at the next cocoon. At first, it seemed that he wanted to help him get out but the next action scared them the most.

That thing poked with his nail straight trough the other cocoon and killing the creature inside.

He started killing but he was not alone. Like some kind of strange soldiers that killed those that are weaker, they started murdering not developed cocoons. On end just about few hundreds of these creatures were left. They seemed to be communicating and they started their feast.

Yes, they started eating those that they just killed moments before. Monsters that ate monsters.

''What is going on here? Is this hell? How can we kill those?'' Her distressed murmur no one could clearly understand as everyone concentrated on the strange behavior of these creatures.

But such feast was short. In a matter of 30 minutes, a few hundred new zombies murdered and ate their weaker companions. They literally at them all and the strangest thing was, on their rat-like body was not even a bulge. Nothing... Like they had an eternal stomach where they could stuff anything.

Emma stared at them and got an idea but she will use that idea later on. She stared at Aisa's sleepy face. For her future, she definitely needs to check if her assumption s real or not. If it is, their life should be really saved.

Those creatures suddenly started strolling, yes strolling. Not walking or running, then just strolling around. Suddenly they spread. Not anymore in the group they just started sniffing around and looking more or less like shopaholics that are looking for the perfect piece of clothes.

Emma didn't know if she should relax or be scared. ''Computer tag those. If you see them going close to some shelter that we know is still filled with people, we need to warn them.''

''Connect me to the world wide radio.'' She sighed while talking with closed eyes.

''Hello again. As I said before I am Emma Thomson, from Aislin Country shelter. Those creatures turned into some kind of cocoons and after that, they look now like rat-human mixture, without those teeth tho. Just hairless creature with long and pointy nails that as it seems are quite hard. They ate most of the surviving creatures inside other cocoons and are spread all over the place. We will try to keep track of those and if they enter some larger city or get in close proximity to shelter we will let you know. I have no idea what kind of evolution is this, but for now, be safe and stay alive.''

The connection broke off while Mario stared at straight street and Hose's jeep in front of him. ''They evolved?''

The driver with whose name was Michael was half awake when he heard the transmission. He started grumbling. ''Is she planning to save so many? Can she handle that? What if they choose to build a city or country where she would rule? Can she do it?''

Mario thought about it. ''You might not know as everyone in the world is laughing about this. But her place got officially recognized as Asilin country property. She has about a hundred miles of surroundings under her name. If she chose to build the country up there it would be just fine. It wouldn't be the first small country ever.''

Michael just sighed. ''As long she can handle it. From now on don't leave her side. Those people won't stay hidden for too long. I was working for the government as simple delivery man. But actually, what kind of files and information didn't pass my hands, I can't even remember all. But knowing those people that like to keep control in their hands, they might have set rats by her side.''

Mario just scoffed. ''Oh that, she knows.'''He saw his surprised face and just shrugged. ''Her IQ is so high, do you think she would not know their moves. She just let them be for moment. If they start moving their hands she will just murder them, officially in front of all others. She seems weak and cute, but inside her lies true dragon. When she is angry, she scares even me. So you have to trust her. She is worth it.''

Micheal just got more comfortable in the first two seats and mumbled. ''That is all I needed to know. Weakness is unacceptable in this world. Wake me up in one hour. I need some strength to transfer all the children safely to helicopters.''

''I will.'' Mario needed time as well to consider all the information he just got. He took satellite phone out and made a call...