Chapter 23：We Are a Team (1/2)

'This is way worse than I expected...' Calvin swept his gaze at the newbies.

He knew beforehand that this would happen, but he didn't expect that their reactions would be this violent.

”Calm down now, calm down... Suppress your fears, we can't stay here any longer...”

Calvin patiently advised.

Apart from the Butcher and that patient from earlier, they still haven't seen a single soul.

However, Calvin knew from his experience that the patients of the asylum were always roaming the asylum in search of something that even Calvin didn't know. Fortunately, their routes were pre-determined, and Calvin had already made his own plans on how he could avoid running into them.

Of course, this didn't mean that he could avoid danger altogether.

His plans just minimized the risk that he needed to take in order to achieve his goals and escape from this place.

'That Butcher may be quite scary but he's easy to avoid. As long as we run the moment that he chases after us, he will not be able to capture us.' Calvin's eyes flashed with seriousness.

”Come on, let's go now...” Calvin urged the others.

”What... are you...?”

Scarlette turned to look at him and suddenly asked him this cryptic question with tears welling up in her eyes.

”How can you stay so calm in front of something like this?” Scarlette continued.

Calvin furrowed his eyebrows and with the art of bullshitting...

He promptly explained, ”I am not used to something like this, I just know how to suppress my emotions in order to survive. Now, if you want to live then conquer your fears and remember that in the future, seeing a dead body would be a normal daily occurrence...”

”Huh? What are you saying?” Scarlette turned to look at him in shock.

Scarlette still had no idea about the true colors of Las Felipinas. However, Calvin had no intention of spoon-feeding everything to her, so he only shrugged and said, ”What I am trying to say is you must suppress your emotions for now so we can continue and move on. I want to get out of this place as fast as possible so we can't delay things any longer.”

”Can't you at least wait for a while? You can clearly see what's going on with us, don't you even have a heart?” A pale-faced Philip complained. He wiped the vomit that remained on his lips as he shot Calvin a glare.

”I see... Fine, I'll go ahead then.” Calvin casually said and he then walked towards the nearby corridor.

The corridor ahead had a turn to the left, and another turn to the left for the stairs that anyone could use to go to the ground floor. He walked without any hesitation as if he wasn't afraid that there was an enemy waiting for him in the next corridor.

”W-Wait! Where are you going? Are you not going to wait for us?”

Roy cried out upon seeing Calvin walking away.

The others turned to look at him and Calvin finally felt irritated.

”Danger is everywhere in this place. We cannot stay in a single place for too long. Didn't we already discuss that in the meeting that we had earlier? If all of you are going to stay there, then count me out. I'll go and explore the area by myself.” Calvin stared seriously at the others.

Roy fell silent.

The others fell silent.

They had decided that Calvin should be their leader, yet they were actually defying his very first order.

At that meeting, Calvin would help them in this asylum, and whenever there was something dangerous. He would be the first one to meet that danger head-on.

But in exchange, they needed to obey all of his instructions without any hesitation.

However, before their journey could even begin.

They already forgot the promise that they made at that meeting and they were even refusing to move right where they were standing.

All of them were crestfallen.

But Calvin had no time to waste, so before they could even say something. He started walking again.

He turned left and disappeared into the corridor.

”Wha... What should we do...?”

Jane asked in a soft voice.

She wanted to go over and follow Calvin at this moment, but the fear of the unknown was gripping her heart.

Rendering her unable to move.

”How can he do something like this? Didn't he say earlier that we are a team and that we should stick together? Now, why is he leaving us alone and why is he trying to explore this place by himself?”

Nicholas uttered in confusion. He keeled over, heaved and vomited once more when his eyes grazed past the mutilated bodies on the ground floor.