211 The Mountain Base, A Smooth Start in the Past Days (1/2)

Day 28 – 10:31 AM - Barangay Daraitan, Tanay, Rizal

Mark sat at the roof of an empty house while watching Jollene fight off several infected below in the middle of the earthen street. They were at the detached area near the river, this was the area Mark cleared up of infected the first time he came here at this place. The area was quite a distance away from the center of the barrio and was separated by vacant lots and mango orchards making Mark quite confident that the dangerous infected in the barrio would not wander here aimlessly. Furthermore, Amihan who was yawning on his shoulder was masking the smell and noise in this area.

SHWING!

Jollene swung her weapon decapitating the head of the infected in front of her. Her weapon was a short Japanese sword with a reddish black color which Mark made for her. The sword was called a Wakizahi which similarly shaped to a katana but shorter since her build, strength and skills was not yet suitable for a larger and longer one.

The decapitated head flew to the side splattering blood to the ground and the body fell down. She then staggered a little before retreating away as one of the Biters tried to pounce at her.

”I told you. Don't resist when your body moves on its own. Just compliment the movements with your own after the feeling stops. If you continue that, it will bring more danger to you.”

Mark said after he saw Jollene stagger.

”Yes! Sorry!”

Jollene replied with a lively voice. Her forehead was sweating and she was panting faintly but her eyes were shining as she fought. The pampered aura she had before had been long gone and was replaced with an aura of a real survivor of the apocalypse. Well, at least, if there was no [Blood Child] around her.

Mark watched her move and entangled with infected once more. This was their daily routine these past days. At first, Mark tried to spar with her to test her ability and he was kind of amazed. It was really [Danger Sense] and her body would automatically move to avoid the danger she could feel. Even if she could not see the source of the attack as long as the attack was going to hit her body, her body would respond on its own. Her ability could even perceive feints and would not move on fake attacks.

Her ability however was something she had a hard time to get used to. After all, it felt like her body was being controlled by someone else making her resist it on reflex creating her awkward looking movements. However, she had already started to get used to it though there were still lapses where she was still resisting the danger avoiding movements.

Now, her movements were better and Mark brought her to fight with a few infected since yesterday. At her first try, she was still afraid but when she killed the first one easily, her confidence was boosted and even wanted to fight more after she eliminated the first batch.

It did not take long for the fight to be concluded and Mark jumped down from the roof while Amihan fluttered down before returning on his shoulder.

After the fight however, she would run away and hide. It was because Mark took out Crimson, the very first [Blood Child] he found by the riverside several days ago. With Crimson's help, Mark drained the blood of the infected before stuffing itself back into Mark's backpack with a wobbly bounce. As the training was over, Mark and Jollene carried their backpacks filled with things from the houses in the vicinity and went back home.

Mark had given each of the [Blood Children] names. Aside from Miracle and her cousin he named Oracle, the others been given the names Crimson, Cherry, Rose, Red, Ruby, Merlot and Currant in the order he found them. Of all the eight slime bodied [Blood Child], their genders were equally divided. How could Mark tell? There were no physical traits to tell but he knew because of the connection he had with them. It was the same principle as how he could differentiate the emotional fluctuations of people.

As for Crimson now being able to bounce from place to place to move different from before where it moved like a slug, it was because of Mark's training. He found it inconvenient that the [Blood Children] moved too slow and thus trained them to propel their bodies by force upwards to move like how it was for slimes in fantasy anime and stories. Mark expected it to be hard to train them but the little critters actually grasped it in several hours.

Unfortunately, Miracle had not woken up yet. Mark was wondering why. He was not worried however since his connection to her was rather strong telling him that the sleeping blood bodied girl was healthy.

After a trekking up the mountain, Mark and Jollene arrived at the vicinity of the spring. They did not return to the village but to this place.

Before, there were only a tall crevice, tall trees, thick bushes and stones in the area around the spring. Five days after the event inside the airplane, the area had already changed. Around the spring, there was a three meter tall wall erected made with stones and wood while being supported by reddish black metal foundations and frames.

The whole area enclosed by the wall was about two thousand five hundred square meters with each of the three existing walls measuring about fifty meters while the last wall was the tall crevice at the east of the base. Of course, the walls were not fully finished with only the frames and foundations made of [Blood Metal]. After all the quantity of blood Mark could collect in this past days from the infected at the barrio was still not enough. Instead, many parts were affixed with rocks and tree trunks.

With Mark and Jollene's arrival, the metal grated gates facing the path near the small river opened. The person who opened the gates was Huey who was waiting for the two to return.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.