522 At the Police Station, The Beast of Makepeace Lake (1/2)

Day 127 - 6:32 PM - Atlantic City Expressway Station, Hamilton Township, New Jersey, United States of America

By the time that the first flakes of snow fell, Mark already started the one-sided fight against the raiders. Mei, on the other hand, was left with the role of guarding the [Queen Type], [Empress Spider], and the survivors from Bally's Casino.

And for some reason, Arnold and the others were quite troubled by this.

Although they had noticed it before, with Mark leaving them this time, the issue became more apparent.

Mei was not interacting with them at all. At first, they thought that the issue was the men in their group. However, she was also not paying attention to Felicia and Sandie.

The most that she would do was to smile at the three children with them. Aside from that, there was nothing else.

Of course, she was diligent in following what Mark said for her to do and was keeping guard on them and the surroundings.

Still, Felicia and Sandie wished that Mei would at least sit near them.

Before the snow even fell, the temperature of the surroundings was already decreasing. At this time, the cold started to become a little unbearable. Being in a place surrounded by forests added further to the coldness of the night.

Felicia and the others already huddled around the fire, while cooking dinner. Mei, on the other hand, was sitting just behind the door of the police station, not minding the cold. They could not help but worry.

Unfortunately, they did not know that Mark and Mei were Blood Demons.

Blood was one of the main factors of the body to keep the right temperature. And for Blood Demons that had innate abilities related to their blood, regulating their body temperatures was already a reflex.

Mei was not feeling cold, and that was why she was fine sitting there. Nevertheless, she looked like a maiden sadly waiting for the return of her husband that had gone to war.

”Miss... soup.”

Sandie bravely came to Mei to give her a bowl of soup they cooked for dinner.

”Thank you.”

Mei replied and received what Sandie gave her.

And there, Sandie could only retreat with a sigh as no interaction followed after.

Mei ate the soup while looking at the snow falling outside the broken glass door. Unlike Mark, it was not her first time seeing snow. Coming from a well-known business family, they spent vacations and holidays out of the country.

Unlike before, however. This time was different.

She was not feeling cold anymore.

The night was silent as the snow gently covered the surroundings. Or that was how it was supposed to be.

Now and then, Mei had to come out. It was because their presence in the police station was attracting some of the infected to roam the area. With her guarding the place, the infected could not pose a threat at all.

Aside from the infected and a few feral evolved animals, there was no other threat that they would expect around here.

That was what they thought.

Just twenty minutes after Mark left, they heard a loud sound.

BUUUZZZZZZZ!!!

It was only coming from a single creature. Nevertheless, the sound was getting louder and louder, closer, and closer.

The group of survivors from Bally's Casino could not help but become alerted. They immediately readied themselves if there was a need to fight.

Mei also prepared. Taking out Oracle from her bag, the clear-colored [Blood Child] turned into her armor.

BAM!

All of them fell silent. Even Mei immediately hid once the loud sound in front of the police station echoed in their ears.

Peeking out from hiding, Mei warily stared at the beast outside.

”A dragonfly...”

Mei murmured.

Outside the police station, a gigantic and strange-looking dragonfly landed.

Nevertheless, unlike most of the evolved animals and insects they had seen today, this one looked threatening, even more than the [Queen Type] infected.

Its sheer size could make anyone feel threatened. Just the dragonfly's head was already as large as a human's torso. Its thorax was as large as a family van. Including its tail, the whole body of the dragonfly was as long as two and a half provincial busses.

Not to mention the span of its wings that was longer than its whole body.

Just the size of the beast was already frightening.

But its appearance could make anyone flee.

The dragonfly's black-colored mandibles looked-like it was steel. Its two forelegs looked like black claws of a mantis. A black, spiky, and sinister-looking armor covered its whole thorax like a robe. The end of its tail looked like a scythe, ready to behead its prey. And unlike a regular dragonfly, its tail was moving sideways like a serpent's body.

As it landed, the snow blew everywhere because of its wings. The cold wind entered the police station. Nevertheless, everyone could only stay silent as much as possible.

Even though it was cold, they did not hesitate to extinguish the fire they had. If it could make things safer, a little cold was nothing.

Mei warily watched the beast outside the police station. It wandered the place, looking around. When it saw nothing else, it walked towards the dead bodies left bleeding on the snow.

Sure enough, it was attracted to the smell of blood from the bodies.

The gigantic dragonfly started to eat the dead bodies. It looked like it would not go away anytime soon.

After all, there was quite a large number of corpses outside. Aside from those that Mei killed, some were the ones they eliminated when they arrived in this place.

Mei watched while trying to hide as much as she could. However, there was some lingering feeling that there was no need to hide at all.

It was as if...

Mei looked up, she froze.

The dragonfly was also looking at her.

...The dragonfly was aware that they were inside the police station.

However, why was it not attacking?

And there, Mei thought of something ridiculous.

Readying her sword, she came out of the police station.

”MISS!!!”

Felicia and the others could not help but panic.

Mei came out.

The dragonfly looked at her for a second. Then, it continued eating. Using its mantic like forelegs to grasp the dead bodies, it bit off the corpses and swallowed piece by piece.

Mei sat down at the steps in front of the parking area. Watching the bloody scene in front of her.