Temporary Base

Maria began to cry as she spoke, "But they will die out there. Your group was almost wiped out by the hordes and you barely survived yourself. Doing this is no different than sending them to their deaths."

Wiping Maria's tears, Tom caressed her face gently and lovingly. "You've always been kind, Maria, but I need to do this to take care of you and the children. It's kind enough to let them spend the night here instead of driving them out or killing them for breaking into our house."

Listening the couple's conversation, Matthew then ordered Little Black to go back to his neck. He had ordered her to leave, and if someone attacked him, she would retaliate while he was not paying attention to her.

He began to pet Little Black and said, "Thank you for your concern, ma'am, but we would leave tomorrow anyway. We just came here to spend the night. We did not know there was anyone inside the house."

Mary and Tom were surprised by the fact that Matthew had a python, but soon reasoned that it should be an invocation skill of the system.

"May I ask why you invaded MY house instead of entering your house? I did not hear any zombies out there for you guys to come in here." Tom asked.

Thobias, who had finally calmed down from almost got shoot, replied, "We are not from here. We came from Lubbock and we are heading towards Dallas. We choose a house that seemed safe to stay the night."

Tom looked surprised when he asked them, "How did you get here alive?"

Thobias wiggled his glasses and replied, "Most of the trip was carried out with a bus. Although most of the streets are blocked by cars, wreckage, and zombie hordes, we managed to get here. We tried to leave the city but we could not. All the exit streets for Dallas are interdicted."

"Do you know if any of these houses are free? We will not know when we can get out of this city and having a temporary base would be a good idea." Bethany stepped forward and asked politely.

Tom's expression changed as soon as he heard their plan. Sadness plastered on his face as he said, "Walk to the right of our house and enter the third house. It is free. As for getting out of town, I recommend that you stop trying this. Although the zombies are easy to handle, when they are in a horde, they become like a wave that does not stop coming towards you."

He paused for a moment to control his emotions and then said again, "They look like a plague and keep coming again and again until you get tired and die. That was what happened today with some of our neighbors when we were fighting one of the hordes. Fortunately I managed to escape or my family would be alone."

Terry was surprised hearing his statement. "If you fought a horde, you must have leveled it quite, right? What is your level?"

Tom frowned as he replied, "The first day we got exp for the zombie's death. Today we do not get more exp for the zombie's death. Maybe there's a limitation on how much exp we can gain from a monster?"

Thobias replied after a few seconds, "Not really, I just asked the system and he said it was a bug fix. Now only system weapons will give exp and to balance that decision, the monsters may drop diagrams of any kind weapon, from short-range weapons to long-range weapons."

Tom made a surprised expression and said, "Got it! You can spend the night here but tomorrow you will have to leave. More importantly, our neighbors and I form a group to eliminate the horde of zombies and facilitate the entry of the military when the government sends help later. Do any of you want to join the group and help us?"

All the members of the group looked at Matthew, waiting for him to make the decision. Seeing them looking at him and knowing exactly what they wanted him to do, Matthew sighed and said:

"Since we're going to have to leave, Bethany and I will join your group if you're opening a road toward Dallas. But if it's in the opposite direction, we'll need to leave and stay on our own."

Tom nodded and said, "We're opening a road that leads to Dallas. Welcome to the group then. Although we only have five members now, since some died yesterday and some left the group after we were almost exterminated when we drew more zombies than we could handle. "

After the matters between Matthew's group and Tom had been settled, Matthew separated from the group and walked to a separate room. Just like the night before, he sat down and began cultivating.