Chapter 46 Chapter Forty Six - Raiding a Supermarke (2/2)

The cheap plastic door had a broken glass window that looked into a small room. That room also had a door, but that door was of wood and was no longer whole, small fragmented pieces sat upon the hinges in the frame. There was no signs of movement within the first room, so after testing the outside door, which remained silent upon its hinges, they placed a brick to keep it wide open for an easier escape. Jonah entered first; he'd always been the type to lead, but this time he had Ren Zexian beside him. The oriental man was the strongest of the ability users, so this was not unexpected and even welcomed.

Ren Zexian had Jonah pause before the broken door and murmured softly that he was going to attempt an old trick, but he needed a moment and would be vulnerable. Jonah looked at him with slight disbelief in his eyes, but as Patrick nodded profusely with trusting eyes, he indicated that Ren Zexian should go ahead.

The Cultivator closed his eyes and released a breath. With it, he stretched the swirling mass of spiritual energy within him and felt the current of the air. Zombies were unbreathing things, he would not be able to detect the movement of their lungs, however, he could easily note the movement of their bodies. Before, he had not used this ability; raiding properties that were small did not require him to exercise it, the core inside him had been enough. Also this ability used spiritual energy, most of which would return to him, but a bit of which would be wasted and could only be let go in resignation, even with his practiced control. It wouldn't take much effort, even with the weak spiritual energies within this world, to gain it back, however.

There was much that blocked the stagnant air within, thick walls that stretched the length of the building... and yet then the air would spill through gaping holes or thin air gaps in between not sealed areas. There was a few small rooms, still objects in each; he almost missed a Zombie in one, but for the putrid gases that suddenly leaked from it. They would have to be wary with the rooms, but he doubted that there were too many monsters hiding within. And then there were two larger spaces, one bigger than the other. Just strangely, that the largest space had thick lines of blockages, a kin to walls, yet not reaching to touch the four walls surrounding them nor to the ceiling above them.

In both large spaces, he could feel the presence of moving forms. ”There is at least one zombie nearby, trapped in a small room,” Ren Zexian advised them. ”I do not know if any others have escaped my notice. Otherwise, I can say that there are of around seventeen undead within the larger of two greatest of areas and nine in the smaller of them.”

”Large areas?” Cole questioned.

”Oh probably the store and the warehouse!” Patrick suggested brightly, before tugging on Ren Zexian's robe. ”How did you do that? Can you teach me?”

”Alas, ''tis a trick of the air,” he opened his palms in helpless gesture, weak against the smaller man's enthusiasm. Although Patrick was a grown man, he ever reminded Ren Zexian of a child newly accepted to a sect sometimes.

”I get it,” Jonah said, rubbing the stubble upon his cheek, also hoping that they could grab some cigarettes while they were in here. ”Then the small rooms must be offices and one with a Zombie inside.”

”What I want to know,” huffed Monika, ”is how there came to be so many zombies inside! I mean didn't an army supposedly come and clear them out, according to the rumours?”

”Hmm, but I heard that they were not entirely without losses,” Arthur mentioned, lightly. If they did not come back for the bodies nor destroyed them once they left, there was a chance they would simply rise again.

”Considering that one in the offices,” Jonah sighed, ”I reckon that so called army didn't do a complete job either. The rest probably wandered in and couldn't get their sorry asses out again. Right, we deal with any in the offices first. I don't want any threats lingering at my back. Then we deal with the mass inside the store. Huddle together, Ren and I will watch for movement at the front, Cole and Arthur, the rear. Monika, Patrick and Tyler, ceiling, floor, walls... I don't want any fucking surprises, ya hear?!”

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