Chapter 14

To all the wonderful mothers out there, sending my most heartfelt and warmest hug to you.

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"I need all the useful guys to fight alongside me. They are valuable members who would help me survive each night we will be fighting for our survival."

Resilience and resolve are the two things that keep Wil standing. There are only a few things that he chooses to stand back up again after falling. Most of the time, he would just give up without even trying or doing anything. If he deems it impossible to achieve but is reluctant to give up, Wil will do anything in his power to attain what's unattainable.

What's keeping you alive? Is it your wish to see yourself build a family? Or is it because people will get sad and you don't want that? Perhaps it is the individual's indomitable will to give up their life. I have another question. Would you be willing to sacrifice your life for the sake of someone you deeply cared about and loved?

As for Baron, who has a daughter, it is her that keeps him pushing forward despite having no knowledge of what awaits him and the fact that he just died. It was too much to digest, but he had to slowly register everything to have a full grasp of his situation.

"Right there!"

In a place where hunters reside, it is a must that you watch out for traps laid by skilled predators.

The metal trigger that when stepped on would snap, clicked, and the bear trap clawed onto Baron's right leg.

Its unimaginable pain made Baron let out an excruciating guttural groan, suppressing his scream, for it would attract the last brother's attention. But he did not know that it could have saved Berret.

"Mister!"

"Go on first! This will take a lot of strength to remove!"

"Then, I'll go ahead first."

Mary switched from using her flashlight, which she initially used to guide Baron to the cabin, to using her normal Techfly vision.

"Uwah! So dirty, and look at all those limbs lying around!"

Thankfully, Mary was using her Microdrone. She does not have to worry about being welcomed by the pungent rotten smell of human flesh deteriorating from bacteria and maggots eating through it.

As a woman who has pretty clean and strict hygiene, Mary was very much disgusted at everything vile she saw, feeling that down to her turning stomach. Nonetheless, Mary's goal was to help Berret, who was supposed to be in danger if Wil's hunch was right. Therefore, further flies around in the cabin with the intention of immediate assistance to Berret.

With the Techpad's easy controls and configurations, Mary gradually learned how to control her Techfly without it crashing into something. Her maneuvering skills have improved over a short period of time. A great pilot for drones.

"Rah!"

A noise was detected by the Techfly. It came from the bedroom, thus prompting Mary to hurry to where the sound came from.

There unraveled the state Berret was in, choking from the immense strength being exerted by the huge guy. Against all odds, even though he was being crushed, Berret still found the courage and little ounce of strength to keep stabbing the huge guy's arm. His relentless actions were not for naught. In fact, it was so effective that before Berret could lose consciousness, the huge guy let go of him and tended to his wound.

Limpingly, Berret fell to the ground, and Mary knew she had to do something about the insatiable anger of the huge guy.

"Now, open!"

Flashing using her blinding lights to completely catch their enemy off guard, Mary prayed that the malevolent Baron would hurry while the huge brother was being distracted.

Crashing through the termites-infested wall that had been food for pests for years, Baron thunderously showed himself. He let out a wild growl, pounding wildly on his chest, and then his eyes fell on Mildred's stomach, who had an ax stuck in her guts.

"I won't let this sudden burst of adrenaline rush go to waste! Hah!"

Disregarding the fact that Mildred was grunting from the exponential pain, Baron placed both of his hands on the ax's handle and tightly pulled on it. Without any concern for how Mildred felt, Baron kept on trying to pull it out, persistently insisting on using it against their enemy.

[Time Remaining: 2 Minutes 2 Seconds]

Every one of them was reminded of the allotted time. They were nearing the end of tonight's hunt, and what awaited them if they ended up running out of time was unknown to everyone.

"Why isn't it coming off?!"

"Grugh!"

The huge brother was blindly swinging his arms around him while Baron stopped pulling on the ax only to use his hands, putting them inside Mildred's stomach. Berret gathered every ounce of stamina left as he was dryly coughing. On the other hand, Mary violently flashes her flashlight directly at the huge brother's eyes. Covering them can only mean disabling the use of his hands.

"Ugh! Shit! This is disgusting!" Baron cursed as he scrambled Mildred's insides, who was losing all the strength to grunt. "There! You're fucking done for now!"

Successfully, Baron pulled out the ax, thus raising it in the air as he had just claimed the Excalibur.

"Turn the damn flashlight off, Mary!"

"Y-Yes! Turning it off. Turn it off!"

[Switching to normal mode.]

Holding onto the ax's handle with both hands, Baron formed a malevolent smile on his face as he posed like he was about to strike an incoming baseball throw.

"Hey! I still have enough strength left in me to swing a few times!"

"Gruh!"

All that shouting from behind the huge guy attracted his attention. As soon as he had rotated himself 180 degrees came crushing the metallic head of the wood-chopping ax, its sharp edge powerfully connected in contrast to how Baron expected it to inflict because what he thought would just strike the huge guy like a baseball and would fling its head. However, the head-splitting ax actually horizontally split the huge guy's head.

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