236 Karlas Strongest Ability, The Arrival of the Infected Horde at the Port of Real Settlemen (1/2)

Day 36 – 10:32 AM – Port of Real Settlement, Barangay Ungos, Real, Quezon

”Karla… Karla… Karla…”

The other consciousness of Karlene born of the experimentation done to her, Karla, muttered the name Mark gave her over and over while giggling creepily. Her voice was a little gruff sounding with two different voice pitches echoing like how possessed people in movies sounded when speaking. Her creepy voice however did not hide her childish demeanor as she happily accepted the name given to her.

Right now, Karla sat at the right side of the backseat of a Humvee together with Mark while Joash drove the vehicle and Major Bautista sat on the front passenger seat. This should be the first time for Karla to ride a vehicle but she did not seem to care about it and was more focused on remembering her name. This behavior gained the confusion of the two on the front seats since she was obviously Karlene but in what reason would she accept another name.

Since the alarm sounded and with Mark enforcing the consciousness of Karla, it gave them the chance to see how Karla would behave and fight against the infected. It was actually easier if they would just bring an infected from outside however, they would not do anything like that in this settlement since they focused mainly on fauna of the area. Furthermore, bringing an infected inside the lab would result in unusual behavior among the evolved animals contained in the laboratory. It was as if they could sense the infected and wanted to eat them. However, since continuously eating the bodies of the infected had some effects on the animals on the long run, they would not try such experiments, at least, not in the near future.

They were currently in a convoy composed of military vehicles that boarded the general and his entourage and the scientists that would observe the session. Still, the scientists would not go on the field but would use camera mounted drones to record Karla's fight. Of course, since there was also the possibility of Mark fighting, they also wanted to capture his abilities on video.

”My Lord, what's wrong with her?”

Amihan asked as she peeked on the other side of the vehicle. Karla had her head lowered as if chanting her name in a prayer.

”Just ignore here. She's just happy about her name.”

”Hmmmm???”

Amihan was confused. She knew that the woman's name was Karlene and it was the first time she saw a transformed Mutator up close. Although Mark had already told her the situation, she could not help but feel curious. After all, she noticed that even though she was obviously human, she did not feel like one either.

While being curious about many things along with this being the first time she was able to ride a car, she was turning her head everywhere. It was then when she noticed the expressions of the people by the side of the road as they hurried to go back to their dwellings. To say, the people's expressions looked the same when they, the spirit races, were driven away from the human society.

Mark could sense Amihan's emotions as she looked at the people outside. He caressed her head with his finger.

”Don't look outside.”

”Yes.”

Mark was not fond of these people at all. These people were those that chose to stay in the safe confines behind the settlement walls and live on their fear of the outbreak. Although most of them were just normal people, it was not an excuse to rely on others to protect them while they hid inside their homes cowering in fear. Sure enough, this was the bad qualities of humans.

The convoy reached the walls after more than five minutes after leaving the laboratory. The atmosphere was surprisingly dark even for the soldiers.

”General!”

The soldiers on top of the five meter wall saluted as the General and his entourage along with Mark, Karla and the scientists went up the stairs.

”I need the report.”

General Faustino said which the soldiers hurriedly replied.

”Yes Sir.”

While the scientists prepared their equipment the soldiers on site gave their report.

Apparently the situation was not the usual infected attack they experienced before and the general, the other officers and soldiers could not help but frown hearing the state of the situation.

A horde of more than four thousand infected along with enumerable mutated ones was spotted by scouts on the southern coast about three kilometers away from the settlement. This number was very unusual in these parts of the country where the population even before the outbreak was way lower. The horde was moving along the main roads from the south and was speculated to be an accumulated amount of infected from several areas in the south.

Due to this behavior, the scouts speculated that there would be several [Leader Types] among the horde.

Mark who also heard the report could not help but think that it was the same with the wave of infected they encountered before. Since the accumulation of the survivors in the other areas was low, these infected followed the coast line to search for prey. Due to the fact that the infected would likely not be interested in the ocean or the mountains, it led the infected towards this settlement. What a strange time for this to happen when he was here.

It seemed that the military already gave these infected different classifications depending on their abilities. Mark started to inquire about these classifications and could not help commend the military on how easy to understand the characteristics of the infected using the infected classifications they had.

They only have about two hours to prepare, probably, even less. It was already what the soldiers could stretch out even if there were squads on the field already hindering the horde using blockades and traps.

The soldiers also prepared a few lines of defense outside the walls. After all, the walls should be the last line of defense they had against the infected. Once the walls were breached and they were not able to contain the breach, it would be the end for the settlement.