107 Collecting the Spoils and the Reason for Marks Odd Behavior (1/2)
Day 4 – 7:07 AM – Firenze Townhouse Complex Subdivision Main Gates, La Joya St., Buhay na Tubig, Imus Cavite
”Amazing! Bro really pulled it off.”
Carlo said as he stared at the monitor at the back of the vehicle.
Everyone in the vehicle was watching what was happening at the gates of the subdivision on the monitor. Since they could not get close enough to watch the situation without getting involved with it accidentally, they launched the same drone they used to recon the area around the City Hall yesterday. The drone was being controlled by Mei who dutifully kept the focus of the camera on Mark as he did everything.
Since the start, from the time Mark was observing the situation to the time Mark killed the leader of the gang and even the current situation, they all saw it clearly. They watched the inhuman abilities Mark had as he jumped up and down the roofs of the houses and ran around like a specter haunting the despairing members of the gang. However, they could not understand why or how the mood around the members of the gang changed too sudden.
At first, they were full of vigor as their faces told what their intents were. Nevertheless, they suddenly fell into disarray after Mark started attacking. Furthermore, they wanted to know how he was able to evade the sight of the enemies and whittle their numbers little by little. With that many people, it was impossible that none of them were able to see Mark as there were times that he shot on plain sight.
As no one of them could think of the possible answer, the only way to know was to ask Mark directly. With the situation coming into closure, Odelina drove towards the gates.
No one noticed however, Mei's face looked worried while she stared at her Gege's figure on the monitor.
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At the moment, they could see the police take the remaining members of the gang into custody. Among the gang members who were lying down on the street, not all of them were dead as Mark prioritized on killing those who saw him and the others were just secondary targets.
Mark's plan involved the utilization of his new ability and worked successfully. It was just he needed to create a seed of the needed emotion into their subconscious for his ability to work perfectly. He noticed that he could not plant a non-existent emotion on the minds of his target unconditionally. There should be at least a tiny sliver of the emotion he wanted and make it bloom. That led him to do all those troublesome things with acting like a specter for example.
Furthermore, he might be able to just throw grenades at them but Mark got interested at the weapons of these guys. The person who saw him first and shot him when he was at the roof actually had a sniper rifle. It was fortunate that he had the ability to detect the killing intent targeting him and dodged or else, he might be a cold corpse already. Getting shot by a sniper rifle was something anyone should not joke about.
One thing however was bugging him at the moment.
It was because he felt nothing in the face of death. That shot almost killed him and yet, he felt that it was just like passing air.
'Maybe… because of that isn't it?'
Mark thought as he picked up several of the weapons scattered in the middle of the street. There were several things bugging him at the moment and one of those was the reason he knew how to use this new ability on the get go. He might know it from instinct but that was not enough for him to understand this much even if it was his own ability. After all, he had just gotten it after he woke up.
Mark approached the vehicle used by the gang members and pulled the trunk open. There, he found several bags of ammunition and other things. There was a lot. What he found were two HK PSG-1 sniper rifles, three USC Sub-machine guns, an SP5K machine pistol, three M4A1 Assault Rifles and a few more guns like AKs. There was even an M79 Grenade Launcher.
While Mark was storing the firearms he picked up one of the large empty bag from the trunk, two Policemen approached him.
”I'm Senior Inspector Tarongoy and this is SPO4 Herrera. We like to thank you for your help. If you didn't come, we're probably still in a serious situation and more of our men would die.”
The older policeman spoke introducing himself and pointed at the younger policeman before saying their gratitude.
”You guys don't have to thank me about this. I'll be taking some of these as payment.”
Mark replied without even looking at the two and raised a hunting rifle from a bag in front of him. The two frowned. Mark might have helped them but he should still show respect to them. None of the two voiced their annoyance however. Despite the fact that the gang members could not see anything when Mark attacked, the policemen managed to get some glimpse of his movements. And to say, they were nothing of a human's. They would never think that a human could jump about three meters high unless, the person in front of them was the same of their Acting Leader.
”Can you introduce yourself? I don't recognize you among the survivors we gathered.”
”If you don't know, just ask the congresswoman about it. I'm kinda busy here.”
Mark continued to check the contents of the bags not wanting to get disturbed. One of the things he hated to do was to introduce himself to other people. If it was not really necessary, he would rather not do it. Furthermore, he had no idea about the details of their entry since he was unconscious at that time. Another thing was that he wanted to leave the place as early as possible and they already got delayed because of this situation. He did not want to spend more time for other things like chatting with these people he did not even know. He already helped them with their predicament and that was already enough.
Still, what he said would sure be taken negatively by anyone. Like the two policemen who frowned even more.
It was then that two black armored vehicles drove towards the gates. The MB Sprinter stopped beside the sidewalk in front of Mark while the TYT Cadillac stopped in front of the policemen.
”Madam!”
The policemen who were dealing with the dead bodies and the remaining gang members immediately saluted as Madam Lanie stepped out of her vehicle.
”Don't mind me. Go back to your work.”
Madam Lanie said as she signaled the policemen with her hand. Afterwards, she walked towards Mark.
”Madam!”
Senior Inspector Tarongoy and SP04 Herrera saluted as Madam Lanie approached.
On the other hand, Abbygale, Carlo, Charm and Mei had already went out of their vehicle and encircled around Mark.
”Bro, you're amazing!”
”Just so-so.”
Mark gave a short reply and handed several large bags towards the others.
”Get these into the car. We'll have to hurry and leave since it's already late.”
Carlo received the bag and almost fell down because he did not expect that the bag would be too heavy.
There was someone behaving strange however. Mei just stood behind the group staring at Mark as if she was analyzing him with a slight frown.
Looking at how lively Mark's group was, the policemen around were speechless. There were a lot of dead bodies around but it looked like that the people around the person who helped them did not even care. Furthermore, their group looked like they were just going on an outing. There was no trace of fatigue and fear on their faces unlike most of the survivors they had seen before.
”Mark. Thank you for helping us again.”
Madam Lanie said after she approached.
”It's fine. I already got my payment.”
Mark glanced at Madam Lanie and pointed at the bags they were already loading into their vehicle.
”You're group is leaving already?”
”We are. We need to find other people and their families if we are able to. We don't have much time to rest until then.”
Hearing his reply, Madam Lanie nodded.
”I was hoping that your group could at least stay for a day.”
”Why?”