173 The Stone Clad Woman (1/2)

Day 6 – 8:17 PM – Southbound E3 Expressway, Parañaque, Metro Manila

Using the dump trucks and the military trucks as the outer defensive cover, the smaller vehicles managed to hide in the inner rows. The soldiers and policemen hid behind the trucks observing the two large monsters fighting just two hundred meters away from them. Not a single one of them wanted to shoot even a single shot at the monsters. The same was for the refugees and other personnel. Everyone felt nervous but all they could do was cover their own mouths trying not to make any sound.

Just a single loud sound they made could lead to everyone's demise at this moment.

Mark, hiding behind the MB Sprinter was tightly frowning. Everything deviated too much from what should have happened.

The scene in his dream, the crushed vehicles, the disembodied Irene, the killed Captain Dela Rosa and Keene, the death of Odelina, Abbygale and Iola… Mei's body that was punched with a hole on her chest…

All was done by that woman in clad in stone.

He could never forget that…

Yet, what in the world was that frog head?

Mark was gravely mistaken…

The future changed in a horrible way. Futhremore, he judged the enemy from his premonition wrongly. The stone clad woman was not an infected but was actually a Failed Mutator…

No wonder…

Mark felt laughing.

It was no wonder why that stone woman killed everyone first before trying to kill him. Not different from normal Mutators, the savage consciousness of Failed Mutators also had a dominating emotion or trait on their minds. That consciousness also had intelligence and mindset different from the ones the original consciousness had. Like Odelina's who was ”Bloodthirsty” and Laelaps' who was ”Ferocious”. When the two were saved before their consciousness was fully consumed, Odelina changed into ”Loyalty” and Laelaps with ”Independence”.

What the stone clad on her subconscious was…

”Torment…”

She wanted to torment her enemies as much as possible before killing them.

Irene was killed before Keene and Captain Dela Rosa to torment the two. He was the last one to be killed because that stone clad woman wanted to torment him the same way.

However, how could that stone clad woman knew the torment that the others were feeling? Unless…

That woman was also an Empath! It was also the reason that the frog headed infected was attacking her!

”Sh*t!”

Mark's eyes dilated in that realization and he suddenly looked at that stone clad woman from behind the vehicle.

The woman threw a large debris towards the frog headed infected and was facing her enemy. Yet, Mark could feel that most of her attention was actually targeted towards them! He now noticed. Their fight was closing in towards them not by chance but because the stone clad woman was actually approaching their direction despite being hindered by her enemy.

She knew that there were people here!

Mark's grave expression did not escape Mei who was beside him.

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Mei's voice snapped him back.

Mark looked beside him and saw Mei, Odelina, Abbygale and Iola staring at him with worried and scared expressions. He patted the head of the two girls and gave a tight hug at Mei who did not feel happy at that hug at all. That hug however, was not just to try and cheer up Mei but to also calm him mind.

The people around them who saw Mark did that were not confused at all. Rather, they thought that Mark had already given up and were saying final words to his loved ones. They felt the same. Those two monsters in front of them was not something they could survive.

Mark released Mei and did not speak and just patted her head. Mei on the other hand stared at him as he took out a radio.

”Captain Dela Rosa, are you there?”

Mark spoke at the radio. During the time they were lining up the vehicles into formation, he heard from the radio that the soldiers had already called for reinforcements from Bay City. They also made another contact after they finally had visuals of the two Unknowns in front.

”This voice… Mark?”

Captain Dela Rosa's voice sounded from the radio along with the noisy background.

”How long will it take till the reinforcements from Bay City arrive here?”

”They said that it would take about fifteen to twenty minutes.”

Dismay filled Captain Dela Rosa's voice.

”That's too long.”

”We know but we have no choice but to wait.”

Mark did not speak anymore. He knew far more than the soldiers knew about what was happening.

The road was blocked and returning was not possible. To escape on foot? The stone clad woman was an Empath. It was very likely that she could also detect people like how he did. The last option was to fight and it would surely lead to everyone's death. Even escaping while a few people stay behind to defend was also not plausible. It would be easy for the enemy to annihilate the people that stayed before pursuing the ones that escaped.

The only option left was for him to distract the two away from this place and there was no other person that would be able to do that aside from him. If it was a normal person that would do that, the frog headed infected might follow but not the stone clad woman since there were more people here. If Mark was the one to do it, he could make that woman detect that he was also an Empath and it was likely for her to chase after him. For the same reason, the frog headed infected would surely come after him.