509 Not Holding Back, Dispatching the Enemy She Hated as Fast as Possible (1/2)
Day 126 - 1:27 PM - Monitoring Division, Great Island Military Base, Great Island, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States of America
The sudden flash of light was clearly shown in the video feedback from the military drones. Most of the monitors inside the monitoring room were focused on the area of the battle. That light caused most of the monitors to flash, causing the whole monitoring room to brighten fiercely.
And the next scene put the soldiers in awe.
Most of them were men, and most men were easy to be fascinated by a woman's beauty.
”A valkyrie?”
One of the soldiers could only mutter.
Soldiers were not innocent about mythological things, especially the ones that symbolized soldiers and war. And in this State of New Jersey, paranormal things were often witnessed even before the outbreak started. The most common one was the sightings of the Jersey Devil.
The word valkyrie was also being used as squad names often.
And this time, accompanied by blinding light, a beautiful woman clad in crystal armor, with a large, white weapon on her back appeared. Of course, they could only associate her with something out of this world.
When her armor melted and her face was revealed clearly to them, they were even more mesmerized. Some of them even began to fantasize.
But their fantasies were crushed when the woman embraced Mark. And furthermore, instead of a pair of wings of an angel, she sprouted those of a devil's.
Still, they could not help but watch the scene in the central monitor more than before. There was no doubt that the beautiful woman came because of Mark. With the display Mark had shown them, they could not help but anticipate how she would do in this battle.
However, a sudden outburst from one of the soldiers broke the monitoring room's silence.
”Major! This is bad!”
The soldier immediately pointed at his screen.
His hurried expression made everyone feel uneasy.
”Bring it up on my monitor!”
The Major ordered as he took his seat.
Seeing the feed that was shown to him, he could not help but frown. It was the same for Maurice, who was standing behind him.
”Hear me out! This is an emergency order!” The major shouted to get everyone's attention. ”Check all the critical monitoring targets and report!”
”Yes, Sir!”
The loud reply of the soldiers echoed inside the room as they followed the command given to them.
And as soon as they all did, the atmosphere inside the monitoring room became stifled.
The situation was more than enough to be called an emergency.
It was because the battle that was currently happening at the Bally's Casino had drawn the attention of almost all infected in the whole city.
Because they were all focused on the happenings at the Bally's Casino, they neglected this part.
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Day 126 - 1:29 PM - ?????????????????
”Interesting...”
A creature said in a sharp, monotone voice.
It was none other than the real Professor Alston.
This place was not inside the Atlantic City Highschool, and it was his real body. The professor was sitting at the center of an empty space with only floating screens all around him. No one could tell where he was just from this scene.
And the scene in the screens was no other than what was happening inside the area of his jurisdiction. Specifically, what was currently happening at the rooftops of Bally's Casino.
He had been fascinated by the unknown being that was called Mark. Now, another one had appeared beside him.
”A level of beauty that even gods would want... When was the last time that one of them was born on earth again?”
”The last one recorded in Earth's known history was born in 69BC.”
A mechanical voice answered his question.
”Oh, right. That Cleo-something. Who would have thought that another one will appear at this time? Unfortunately, she's already taken. Or else, I might have coveted her beauty. Although I can't wait to have my hands on that Unknown being, it is better not to poke at something dangerous.”
The Grey alien continued speaking while watching the floating screens in front of him.
”Scholar Oldreilic, Earth Name: Alphfa Alston. Your orders are to study the infected in your area of jurisdiction. Doing anything that is outside the orders you received is not recommendable and would not be tolerated.”
The mechanical voice spoke once more.
”I know, I know... Seriously, who programmed this Artificial Intelligence.”
Oldreilic's eyes squinted.
”It is you, Scholar.”
The mechanical voice retorted.
”Uhg...”
Without anything to reply, Oldreilic returned to watching the scenes on the floating screens. This time, he did it quietly.
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Day 126 - 1:30 PM - Lower Rooftop, Bally's Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States of America
Mei charged towards the horde of infected without fear. She was not like Mark, who had a hard time to actually feel emotions. However, she did not care enough about the infected in front that she could not feel such emotion.
And as a woman, she could feel if someone was targeting her man.
It was more acceptable if it was human or any of the Spirit Races. She would not react this way either if other women were feeling genuine admiration towards Mark.
However, she would not, and never accept that another woman was targetting Mark for the sake of nothing but breeding.
She would not accept it, no matter what race the woman came from.
And thus, she felt angry at this infected.
Many spider-latched infected got on her way. Every single one of them was protecting their Queen, contrary to their previous goal of consuming human flesh.
Even those originally aiming to climb the tower also climbed down as fast as they could to surround her.
Mei's killing intent towards the Queen was felt by her underlings. Unlike with Mark, who was just playing with them, Mei was emitting killing intent that was enough to alert all of them.