250 The Loyal Aephelia, The Reasons for Her Existence (2/2)

Fed up, Chaflar roared a bit.

GRUUU!!!

Wargy let out a scared wail and sped off. However, it still came back about fifteen minutes later to annoy the big guy once more making Chaflar even more annoyed.

Everyone was working on their chores around the base. Near the area where Chaflar was resting, a new building was being prioritized and it was the dragon's stable. Ed and Ron could be seen working on it diligently with smiles on their faces.

After their evolution, Ed gained [Super Strength] which was very useful to him as he was doing hard labor. In the base, he was the strongest physically. As for Ron, he gained [Super Accuracy]. He able to move his hands with high dexterity and he were able to hit targets far away accurately with ranged weapons he could use. It was a very versatile ability that could be used in many fields.

”Huey, what do you think about them.”

Mark asked Huey about the people outside as they stood atop the walls. After all, he was the one in charge of the surveillance around the base because of his abilities as an Evolver. Since the people outside came, Huey had been spying on them and was listening to their conversations.

”To tell the truth, half is unsuitable.” Huey sighed. ”In that group, they were being led by a group of men. Three of them were our former co-workers including the guy you reprimanded yesterday. Those guys are scheming people and not good to let them in. Furthermore, it seemed that there are three families in that group along with several girls of different ages. The families and the girls seem fine. To be exact, they wanted to get away from the men leading their group. Boss should know why.”

”Alright. I'm in a hurry and just came back to check. It's good if we can let some of them enter. I'll check them personally.”

”Okay, Boss. We still need manpower. The things you brought back yesterday are good so we will need people to work on farming.”

Soon, Mark who was holding Miracle's hand and Huey went out of the gates and gathered the people outside.

There were a family consisting of the parents and a girl, a family with just a couple and a family of three siblings. There were also four girls with no blood relation to any of the group members and three men who looked like underdogs. Another was two children, a boy and a girl that seemed to be taken care of by the couple without children.

Lastly, the eight men that seemed to be the ones Huey was talking about. They all looked unruly and arrogant. Furthermore, they positioned themselves scattered around the group.

It was a total of twenty-five people.

Mark really hated standing in front of crowds but…

'Here we go again.'

He shrugged his shoulders and faced the people.

”I heard that you all wanted to join my base. However, I don't let people just enter and leave freely so I prepared some questions and conditions.”

Hearing that, some of the people gulped.

”First, how did you all found this base? It's more reasonable if all of you followed the river. If I'm correct, you all came from the west right?”

One of the women raised her hand. Mark let her speak.

”It's because of him.” She pointed at one of the three underdogs. ”He said that he noticed a trail that seemed to be used by people so we took his suggestion.”

”Is that true?”

Mark asked the man.

”Y-yes Sir. My father's hobby was hunting in the mountains so I learned a bit.”

”Alright.”

Mark nodded.

”Now, I wonder how all of you lived after the apocalypse. Anyone of you killed people before?”

Everyone became silent. However, Mark could tell that some of them wanted to speak but were very reluctant to. It was because of the men that scattered in their group.

Mark then looked at the bald man with muscles. He looked strong and Mark was sure that he was one of the two Mutators in this group.

”How about you?”

”Sir, why would you ask me? If you don't count the zombies, then I haven't killed anyone.”

He answered with a straight face. It might look normal but everyone that did not belong to that group of men had bitter expressions on their faces even though they tried hard not to show it. Even the children seemed to be afraid of the man.

Of course, Mark knew that it was a straight faced lie. Just how thick was this man's face?

”That's a lie!”

One of the four women shouted but she was immediately grabbed by the man beside her and her mouth was covered.

”Sir, don't worry about her. My sister here just liked to joke.”

The woman glared at the man and tried to resist but that man was the other Mutator of the group. There was no way for her to resist.

Mark smiled sinisterly.

'Good. The Biters I'm raising needed some fresh meat after all.'