163 From Evacuation into Desperation (1/2)

Day 6 – 9:28 AM – Parking Area, Queens Row Elementary School, Queens Row Area A, Bacoor City, Cavite

Due to the emergency situation, the meeting was cut short and Mark's choice of route was accepted without much contradiction aside from a few questions.

After that, Mark was handed a radio that was set up for the bandwidth Captain Dela Rosa directly used and another radio what would be given to each vehicle driver. The second radio would be used to issue command to each of the vehicle in the convoy.

This time, the people in the settlement were even more restless. Though, it seemed that the soldiers still did not fully disclose the situation to the refugees as Mark could feel that most of the restlessness came from the soldiers. They were under pressure as they hurried the refugees into boarding their respective vehicles.

Mark at the moment was chaining the motorbike he asked Captain Dela Rosa to prepare unto the back of their vehicle. It was not the time for him to use this vehicle yet. He would likely switch to this one after they joined with the survivors in Citta Italia.

Around him, everyone was busy. Nikky's group was also moving their things into their jeep. The same were for Jason's group and the group led by the parents of the cat boy he treated yesterday. Mark really wanted to take away their infected daughter and observe her together with Janette but it seemed he would not be able to do so in the meantime. The only thing he could do now was to tell the Captain to do some arrangements to this and request some support from General Perez.

Emika's family on the other hand was already escorted into a military vehicle for their security and their vehicle would be escorted with two military Humvees to guard them all the way.

As for the rest of his group, they were already inside the vehicle. Even Mara was inside sitting beside Janette.

”Bro! There seem to be something wrong with Fein.”

Carlo peeked out of the open side door to call unto Mark who was working at the back of the vehicle.

After affirming the stability of the chains on the motorbike, Mark went to take a look at Fein. There really seemed to be something wrong. Fein was timid and easy to scare but that was when there was something scary, now however, the weak-hearted beetle was hiding inside one of the few vacant spaces under the sofa while weakly shivering. Mark could also feel that it was scared of something.

At that moment, Mark noticed that Mei who sat at the front passenger seat beside Odelina opened the window and was staring upwards. He followed where she was looking at and found that she seem to be looking at something at the sky beyond the gaps of the two buildings to the south east. Her pupils were dilating unstably as if she was trying to control her new ability.

There was also something wrong with the way she was behaving.

”Mei'er, what's wrong?”

Mark asked from outside the window.

”Gege, I see a lot of spots in the sky that direction. The spots were still far away and were blocked by the buildings so I can't see clearly but they look like insects. It looks like they are flying our direction.”

Mei replied making Mark frown.

”Mei'er, close the window and don't go out. Everyone! Stay inside the vehicle!”

Mark told everyone before looking at the gap between the buildings once more. He could not see anything but with what Mei said, and when he remembered the cockroaches back then near his house, there was a high possibility. Those were likely to be oversized infected insects.

He then approached Rollan and Nikky preparing the jeep.

”All of you, abandon, the jeep quick! Get inside ours!”

”What's wrong?”

Rollan asked.

”Infected flying insects are coming!”

”What?”

Everyone in Nikky's group was shocked.

Not wanting to waste time on unessential blabber, he started to push Rollan and Nikky towards their vehicle making Maverick and Delia follow. As there was not enough space in the vehicle anymore, Carlo and Maverick were forced to sit on the floor.

”All of you too, get inside your car! Quick! Close the windows and hide!”

Mark bellowed at Harvey and Monique who was watching his actions since their van was just a few meters away.

It seemed that the commotion he created took the attention of the people around.

”What's happening?”

A soldier approached, he was Oscar, the soldier tasked to drive the multi-cab containing the LPG tanks. Behind him were Irene and Keene who seemed to be helping with handing the radios to the drivers.

However, Mark just shoved them into the multi-cab without explaining too much aside from making them close the windows.

It was then some people started to notice small shadows on the eastern sky. First, it was confusion as they could not make a clear picture of what those shadows were but as the shadows grew larger, their confusion were replaced with fear and panic.

Mark could now make out what those insects were. On the sky was a swarm of flies. Human head sized flies. Furthermore, there were some odd looking and larger sized flies among the swarm.

Without hesitation, Mark entered their vehicle and closed the door. He could hear the radio issued by the military being noisy issuing emergency orders but he could care less about it.

A few seconds later, the swarm started to descend. The people Mark forced into the vehicles now knew why he did so.

Under their eyes, they saw the people remaining outside get attacked by the large number of flies.