103 Waking up in the Middle of the Nigh (2/2)

”No! I'm f*cking sure! I saw a shadow standing on the roof of a house on the other side! Its eyes were glowing red!”

Seeing how scared his partner was, the man snatched the binoculars from his partner and went to the window.

”Now, tell me where it is.”

”It should be on that house.”

The younger man hurriedly pointed at the house where he saw the silhouette.

BAM!

He was hit on his head by the older man.

”F*cking bastard, there's nothing there!”

”What?!”

He took the binoculars from the older man and looked once more.

”It's gone! I f*cking swear I saw it!”

***

The two people inside that house argued while the culprit had already jumped off the house to the street while chuckling.

”I will call this [Emotional Induction] then.”

Mark tapped on his chin. It was his new ability that he knew by instinct after he woke up. He was now able to use different kinds of emotional energy to stimulate and affect the inner emotions of his target. What he did to the man observing outside was send a strand of energy containing fear and stimulate his inner fear. It was easy since everyone had fear planted in their subconscious since the apocalypse came.

He knew that the effect would be lesser if the emotions the target was feeling were highly contradicting to the emotional energy he induced to that person. Mark thought that he could use this to his advantage at many circumstances. One of the examples was to stimulate fear on his enemies or let despair sprout inside the subconscious of people going against him.

With that, he decided to go back. It was not the right time to deal with the people observing outside. Besides, this place was not his to begin with. He would leave by tomorrow and the job to deal with those people would fall on the hands of others. In that case, he might was well not involve himself in this.

On his way back, he passed by the house near the gates. It was being used as the outpost by the police that secured this subdivision. It was because he felt a distinct fluctuation from this place. If he was correct, that person was the police Madam Lanie was talking about, the Mutator of this place. Nevertheless, Mark had no notion to show himself and would rather not involve himself with that person. It was because of the reigning emotions on that person's subconscious was kind of disgusting.

It was heroism.

Mark left the outpost and made his way back to the townhouse where his team was staying. At the last corner however, he overheard two patrol guards who were both exuding lasciviousness in their emotions.

”That black car looked amazing but the women riding the car was even more superb.”

”Yeah, the woman driving the car looked hot.”

”For me, the youngest lady looked like a fairy. The other women didn't look bad either. It's a pity, the Madam is protecting them.”

”Hah, even if they are not, they already belong to someone else. Remember how they looked like when they were transporting that blood covered man? How envying.”

”That's right, if I can replace that man, I'll be playing with all those girls every night.”

That was the end of their conversation. It was because the two fell unconscious in the middle of the street.

In a fit of irritation, Mark's eyes glowed blood red as he sent a sequence of different emotions using his Emotion Induction. The sudden changes in their subconscious emotions along with being caught off guard, their brains were not able to keep up and overloaded with the two ending up unconscious.

Mark pulled the two unconscious men away and left the two at a vacant lot not far from where they fell. The arms and backs of the two men got scraped became filled with bruises after being pulled on their legs at that distance on the rough cemented road. Mark then left the two with their faces tucked between each other's legs facing the crotch of the other.

'Since you two were in heat, spend your heat with each other you damn bastards.'

The two were lucky as Mark did not want to cause much disturbance. Mark had plans in the future and this survivor camp became included in it. He might need a place for his friends that he managed to find to stay while he searched of the others he had yet to find. This place was a good candidate for that. If he did not have this plan, the two perverts might have died without them knowing.

When Mark arrived outside, he noticed the disturbance at the house. He shook his head. Mei probably woke up and became hysterical after finding out that he was missing. But before he could even step near the gates, the door of the house opened abruptly and Mei came out staring at him through the fence.

Her eyes were a bit teary and she looked angry while being worried at the same time. Mark scratched the back of his head. He'll probably get scolded this time. But, he would not mind it. After living alone for several years, he was quite happy to be scolded by someone out of pure concern.

With that thought in mind, he strode into the gates and got welcomed home by Mei's embrace. The other people who were woken up by the frantic Mei also went out and watched the scene with warm eyes.

”Can you all stop staring like that? I'm hungry so get me food to eat.”

Mark looked at the gallery in annoyance. He then went into the house with Mei pulling him in.