378 Manipulating the AI of the Enemies, The Battle at the Bridge and Meeting the Leader of The Horde (2/2)
It was a more efficient way to talk through minds than saying it word by word.
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”So, this is why you made your group intercept the infected on the bridge.”
Major Lopez's amazed voice sounded beside Mark.
Not only the major but also some other soldiers atop the south walls noticed it.
The number of infected being thrown over the walls lessened greatly.
”Those [Catapults] are only throwing the infected over the walls for one reason.” Mark spoke. ”They wanted to enter the settlement but can't find a way to do it.”
SWWWOOOOSH!
A small but strong tornado suddenly appeared at the center of the bridge. It caused the already unstably walking and running infected to get pushed away and fall off the bridge.
”Since they found a way to enter, they will swarm that way and stop throwing. If we deliberately opened a path for them, we can manipulate the state of things and have more ways to deal with it.”
Mark smirked and then said something that the Major and many soldiers could not understand.
”I video games, learning how the AI of the enemies work can help in dealing with them.”
'But this is not a video game!'
They all exclaimed the only thing they understood in their minds.
Nevertheless, there was no doubt that his method was effective. Every one of them was only thinking of not letting the infected into the settlement and did not think of something like this.
Now that the number of infected being thrown inside the walls was lessened, they would have more hands to block the infected on the bridge and make them fall unto their demise.
***
”Gege, what are we going to do?”
”Mei'er.” Mark caressed her head. ”Follow me but remain flying in the air. We're going to deal with the ring leader.”
Hearing that, Mei nodded.
Opening their wings, the two flew off after telling their plans to Major Lopez. He also told them the weakness of the [Catapults] to lessen the load on the soldiers at the other walls of the settlement.
Seeing the two leave, Major Lopez had a stern face. They also had a hunch that the infected in the horde was being manipulated. However, as the settlement was already surrounded, there was no way for them to find the culprit that was obviously not within the horde. Now, they could only rely on Mark and Mei to do the job that they could not do.
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Day 59 - 3:21 PM - Aseana One, Bradco Avenue, Parañaque City, Metro Manila
Flying over the horde, Mark and Mei reached a tall building just three hundred meters away from the gates.
It was a corporate building occupied by several businesses before the apocalypse.
On the rooftop, however, a figure was watching them as the two flew near.
Mark and Mei also did not have a hard time finding the figure. Its body could be seen from afar because of the visible black aura around the figure's body.
”There you are.”
Mark said as he landed in front of the figure. Mei, on the other hand, stayed in the air while wielding two sub-machine guns on both her hands.
While looking at the figure, Mark tried to see if it was an intelligent infected by talking to it first. Unexpectedly, he was not let down by the male infected clad in black aura.
The figure stared at Mark with a menacing expression.
”You... Smell... Queen... Have... Queen... Where...”
Although the sentence construction was rough and there were a lot of pauses, there was no doubt. Those were human words.
Just by those words, Mark roughly figured what this attack was about.
This infected was looking for something, probably a queen or someone named queen. The former was rather more possible. Because of how this infected was able to amass such a number of infected and had such level of intelligence to roughly converse, it was likely to be a King.
No, it was more appropriate to say, a [King Type] infected.
Another important thing Mark noticed as he landed.
The black aura around this guy...
It was actually miasma.
There was no doubt about it. This infected was created because of him.
Mark saw quite a number of infected with demonic flames around their bodies among the horde. Strange enough, he never saw a single one affected by miasma. It would be good if there was actually none.
Nevertheless, it seemed that there was infected that absorbed miasma inside their bodies. And Mark immediately knew why there was only one.
The nature of miasma was to absorb. This [King Type], for sure, absorbed the others.
Seeing that Mark was not answering and was just staring, the [King Type] was infuriated.
”QUEEN! WHERE!”
It shouted.
BAM!
The muscles on its feet bulged and it kicked the ground causing the floor to crack. It charged towards Mark.
'Fast!'
Mark exclaimed as he hurriedly dodged.
The infected was fast as a certain blue hedgehog without even rolling into a ball.
In an instant, it was already in front of trying to grab him.
RATATATATA!
As Mark jumped back, Mei unleashed a barrage of bullets towards the [King Type]. Feeling her killing intent and the danger of the bullets coming towards him, the [King Type] stopped charging forward and kicked the floor to jump back.
The infected glared at Mei who was still flying in the air.
GGRRAAAAAAAHHHH!!!
And it let out an ear-piercing roar.
”Holy sh*t.”
Mark cursed as a group of black shadows flew into the from the surrounding buildings. He immediately opened his wings and flew up beside Mei.
”Gege, just how many were there?”
”Can't count. Probably around five hundred or more. Also that thing.”
Who would have thought that the [King Type] would have reserved troops hiding?
The worst part of that...
There was a four-meter tall infected that was capable of flight among the infected's reserved forces.