Chapter 652: Black Gatekeeper (1/2)

After the car driven by Riri-senpai entered the highway, I felt relieved to have shaken off the horde of black zombies for the time being. However, I feel uneasy.

Those black zombies run so slowly, and with us riding a car…… there shouldn’t be any way for them to catch up with us on the highway.

However, this is an ordeal that Shiro-san prepared…… This isn't something that should be easy to complete by just riding a car.

Perhaps, they were thinking as I was, as Alyssa and the others were still carefully watching the surroundings with their weapons in hand.

[ ! ? It looks like they're following us.]

Hearing Fae-san's voice from the rear seat, we all looked at the back of the car at the same time…… and saw a horde of black zombies riding motorcycles coming towards us.

[Hey, the heck is that…… Why the heck are zombies using humanity's technologies!? No, well, we're technically not sure if those things really were zombies but…… Do these zombies not know how to act like proper zombies!?]

Well, zombies chasing us on a motorcycle would certainly be kind of weird, but anyway…… the black zombies (temp) in this virtual world seem to be able to use humanity's technologies.

Putting aside our impressions towards them, it is quite tough to escape from a large horde of motorcycle-riding black zombies with a one-box car that has seven people in it.

[I'll intercept them. Riri, please open the sunroof.]

[Alright.]

In order to intercept the black zombies that are chasing us, Liddy-senpai stood up from her seat with her archery bow and arrows in hand.

[Liddy-senpai, why don't you use a rifle instead?]

[I'm not as versatile as you are, so I prefer using this bow that I'm used to using.]

Refusing the large rifle offered by Alyssa, Liddy-senpai stood on the rear seat and leaned out of the sunroof, and with fluid motions, she released an arrow.

Despite her unstable footing, the arrows Liddy-senpai fired one after another accurately hit the heads of the black zombies on the bikes, knocking them off their bikes and stopping them from following us.

[As expected of a master. I guess you can clean them up without any problems…… wait, don't they look kinda strange?]

[It doesn't look like they're caught in an accident huh?]

As she was handing over additional arrows to Liddy-senpai, Alyssa seemed to have noticed something, to which Erina also suspicious looked towards those black zombies. As we looked behind us, some motorcycles with black zombies on it we're moving in a strange way.

As three motorcycles collided with each other, the three black zombies on the motorcycles mixed together…… and transformed into a black tiger-like creature that started running down the road.

[They fused with each other!? Seriously, is anything possible with these zombies!?]

[……Hmmm, this virtual world may be like a game. Each one of those black zombies was weak because they don't have high resources, but their resources would increase by merging together~~?]

Talking in a somewhat relaxed tone, Fei-san operated her laptop at a very fast speed. In contrast with her relaxed tone though, she typed at a tremendous speed with the force of a squall.

[Riri-tan-senpai, please use maximum speed to pull away from them for a bit…… Also, don't move over to the right lane.]

[Fae-san? What are you doing?]

[Hmmm? Well, I thought I'd just wipe all of them out at the same time…… Alright, ”fire”.]

Fae-san answered my question in her usual insipid tone as ever…… wait, fire? She's firing what?

As such a question came to my mind, I heard something…… flying past with a speed that made it impossible for me to see it.

[……Umm, Fae-san? What did you just fire?]

[Unnn? It's a ”tactical tomahawk”.]