Chapter 571 - The Oriole Behind (Part 2) (2/2)

Already aware that nobody would offer to help, the young girl put down her backpack, and headed into one of the building's dark corridors

As she left behind a rooh one dark hallway after another, until finally, several minutes later, all that was left for her to hear was silence Finally alone with her thoughts, the girl was finally able to start observing her surroundings

In just athis exploration was either locked, orblocked by an insurmountable pile of rubble And while at first she did not think 's corridors, the more she felt like a rat stuck in a labyrinth

For a few h severallight, and with enough broken glass to step on toa way out was disappearing Yet, just as she began considering going back, the now fah the now visible door, and reached her nostrils

Reassured, the girl turned around and prepared to go back to report to her co, the loud sound of hurried footsteps cas' dark corridors

”They found us!” The roup appeared fro in her direction as fast as they could ”Start running!”

I wo, but, alas, her hopes of getting out of this situation alive started falling apart as she noticed a lone figure standing by the entrance

With his appearance hidden by a full body bike arun, which he iroup of fearful individuals that cairl expected hi, however, he did not Instead, he reuard, and with it reached for so behind the door, which he then pulled on with a swiftthe man's actions, the door closest to the back entrance opened, revealing athat reached all the way to his left hand With his now free hand the irl and the rest of the group ran into without second guessing him Behind them, the door closed just in ti fired

Pah! Pah Pah Pah! Bratatat!

One shot becaroup of survivors could hear the noise of rounds being fired taking over their pursuers' crazed screa their targets

After an interminablean eerie silence that was periodically interrupted by the sound of footsteps

Clank The door once again opened, revealing the figure of thea word ”Co towards the exit and walking off, not even giving the survivors a chance to respond, or to thank him

The survivors, stuck in an unknown place that had now become the center of attention of any raider or criminal within a two miles radius, decided to follow the man In their minds, even if they couldn't trust him yet, they would at least follow him until he would take them out of this labyrinth of rubble

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For what felt like hours the group walked through alleys and edifices, until finally, they reached an enclosed area between relatively intact buildings In it, around a hundred individuals orking on erecting walls, clearing the buildings' interiors fro seeds on flower beds

To the group of survivors this view appeared like a roup within the hellish city they lived in, was no different than finding a source of water in the desert Yet, as stroking their eyes did nothing to change as in front of the was real

”The yard is a bit craing his rifle strap to his shoulder, and reaching for the gasthe face of a handsome man in his early thirties With his scruffy beard, messy brown hair, and valiant eyes, he appeared like a er ”Feel free to occupy any empty room you find, we have water to clean yourself and food to share for dinner just ask any of the good people here I would give you the tour myself, but I a a brief s to suffer the burnt of the curiosity that the group of a

Starstruck by this man's appearance, as well as by the stable co for uard down, and allow themselves to be taken away by one of the members of this community to wash up before supper, to which they had been invited with more kindness than they had ever seen in irl in the blue tracksuit, too used to being alert of her surroundings, looked at the soldier with suspicion It had not escaped her attention that this hidden base was at the very end of a path that led straight into a raiders' base How they had not been discovered yet, she could not help but find odd

Unfortunately, be it due to fatigue, or the illusion of having found souard, the soldier decided not to entertain the girl's suspicion, and said, ”I knohat you're thinking But that guy could have killed us too if he wanted If things don't add up, we'll leave after getting a night's rest and putting so in our stoirl and the soldier talked, the man in bike arolden hue had, at some point, appeared