276 A Discovery of the Death Valley Settlement, The Reason Behind the Existence of the Berserk Mutators (1/2)

Day 41 – 6:22 PM – Residential Area, Death Valley Settlement, Barangay Poblacion, General Nakar, Quezon

Although no one could see it due to the storm, the sun was about to set in a few minutes.

Mark was currently surrounded by dead bodies of the Mutators he had just killed. With a large rice sack in his left and the blade on his right hand, he started to behead each dead Mutator. To scientists, they might be precious research material while to normal people, these were just dead bodies. In Mark's case however, these bloody heads were precious resource.

As he stored the heads, Mark thought about the ambush that failed. For sure, the ambush was a total impromptu scheme to deal with him. Since they came from the military, his existence was very likely to be disclosed to many of them especially those with high positions. A person like the leader of the spies totally fit those criteria. Knowing that Mark was doing a move against this place, those that were highly affiliated with this settlement would not like it.

The scheme was not bad at all and was well thought even though it was made with a little bit of time. Sending several small teams as sacrifice to gain trust and lower the guard of the target and lay a huge ambush in the end, other people might have fallen to that trap. Not to mention that they were actually willing to make a large number of people withdraw from the frontline of the defensive battle which would be a very much unexpected thing to do.

Mark wondered why the first groups were sent as sacrifice. Thinking about it thoroughly, it was not hard to find several answers. First was might be because those people were just useless cannon fodder but considering their abilities, Mark found that the possibility of them being cannon fodder was very low. This led him to the other answer. Those people were likely to belong or support other factions different from the person that made the scheme. So send those people as sacrifice while weakening the other factions was like hitting two birds with one stone.

”He still failed though…”

Mark muttered as he stuffed the last head into the sack and vanished from the place leaving more headless bodies scattered around the settlement.

It was not wrong to say that he was not only turning this settlement into ruins after he lured the Mutator Whale here but he was also slowly turning this place into a graveyard of headless corpses.

It did not take long and Mark appeared near the battlefield. Unlike before where both sides were in a stalemate, the current situation started to tilt towards the Mutator Whale and the dismayed defenders of the settlement were being pushed back. It was all because of the scheme made to kill Mark failed and the loss of the elites of the settlement backfired.

”Ready the rockets!... Fire!”

SWWWOOOOSHH!

BOOOM!

A barrage of rockets flew towards the whale causing a massive explosion on its right side. The smoke and fire from the explosion dispersed fast due to the wind and rain and revealed the broken armor and scorched skin of the whale.

UWWWWOOOOOOH!!!

The pain it felt from the wound it received caused the sixty feet whale to become even more berserk.

BAM!

One of the berserk Mutators holding the whale back was kicked forcefully and flew towards a house. The force from that attack was too strong that the wall the Mutator hit cracked from the impact. Blood spurted from the Mutator's mouth as an obvious sign of severe injury. As the Mutator fell unconscious, the stone like armor in his body crumbled into dust and his body started to wilt. Soon, a dead body that looked similar to a tree root, due to being almost dried up, remained on that spot.

This caused Mark to frown. Those Mutators becoming berserk was already strange but to become like this after being defeated. It was very unnatural. However, the truth was soon revealed in front of him.

”Sh*t! One died! Bring another one!”

A man who seemed to be in command shouted with anger. Following his orders, one of the subordinates with strong and agile body ran off. The subordinate entered one of the intact houses near the school.

Mark was confused hearing about bringing something when the subordinate that heeded the commander's order returned forcibly dragging a female slave with him.

”Let me go!”

The slave cried.

”A b*tch?”

The commander asked which made the subordinate talk.

”Sir, we already used the last man.”

”Alright, do it.”

With the commander's command, another subordinate approached the struggling woman and took out a syringe filled with murky looking liquid. Under the yells and cry of the slave, the needle of the syringe was plunged into her neck and the contents were emptied into her body.

Following that, the woman was kicked towards the center of the battle, in front of the whale while yelling in pain. Despite the whale moving towards her, she did not react. Her screams intensified until a stone like growth covered her body. The stone that covered her body strengthened and became her armor.

With red eyes filled with nothing but killing intent, the woman charged towards the whale and attacked.

Mark frowned even more at that scene. It seemed that he was mistaken. The berserk people that were stalling the whale were not Mutators but were normal people that were somehow turned into Mutators forcefully.

The key to that transformation was the liquid injected into their bodies. It seemed that the people Death Valley Settlement were rather competent to be able to come up with this drug. Being able to forcefully turn a normal person into a mutated human could bring a good amount of advantage to them in battle.

They were able to create disposable but strong human weapons. Although there seemed to be no way to control them, just throwing some of them unto the ranks of the enemies were enough to cause a good amount of damage.

The strange thing however was that the Military Settlement seemed to have no idea about this since Mark did not hear anything about this from them. However, with the existence of the spy leader being a double agent, it was no wonder.