57 Clean-up (1/2)
Some of the scouting group witnessed everything that happened. They stared wide-eyed at Jun.
”Did you see that?”
”I saw it! It was awesome! It made my heart race and I even felt something crawl on my skin!”
”What do you think? Should we follow them?”
”Eh? But shouldn't we stay with the police? Isn't that better?”
”They don't have guns. And look! That group seemed to know what they were doing, unlike these people. They even managed to kill that... that giant zombie!”
”Lower your voice. Look, the policemen are now looking at you.”
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The plaza was already cleared and the stragglers were being dealt by the others. Some police officers and civilians have leveled up in the process of defending and clearing the plaza.
Jun brought Edward to the innermost part of the safe-zone. He saw Sheila leaning on the rough stone statue, unconscious.
Jun run back to the Destroyer to do what he had to do. It would be tragic if the Destroyer reanimated while he was worrying about his group. He saw Adrian about to loot the body and he hurriedly stopped him. Adrian stopped and didn't asked why, he just stepped back and guarded the area.
Jun didn't loot the Destroyer's body nor did he extracted its essence into a crystal.
Jun borrowed Adrian's knife. He knelt down and started cutting the infected's flesh on its arms. Jun started from the shoulder joints. Because he wasn't knowledgeable about how to cut or where to cut, it took him a few minutes before he could cut off one of its arms. When the body shakes and showed signs of reanimating, Jun would stab it through the eye. He then moved to the next arm.
Though he tried not to show it, the stench and rotten skin really made him want to vomit. He at least manage to held himself back and cut off the remaining arm.
When suddenly, Adrian who was idly standing beside him raised his M16.
”Hands up. Stay where you are and drop your weapon.”
Jun looked up and saw a fat man walked towards their direction. He have a plump face, making him appeared cute. Though he looked like that, he's already in his mid thirties. He's wearing a dark red apron and had no hairs on his round head. He had a huge smile plastered on his face the whole time.
The fat man halted when Adrian pointed a rifle on him. He glanced at Adrian then turned back to Jun. He said while retaining his wide smile: ”Having trouble cutting up something?”
Jun smiled back. ”Yeah. This one's pretty tough. I don't know if you can handle it.”
”I saw you cutting the upper limbs, so I don't see any reason why I can't.”
Jun motioned for him to try and the man chuckled before continuing to walk forward. He ignored and passed by Adrian, who was pointing a gun at him.
”I want all of the bones inside its body. Don't damage them.” Jun said.
The man replied indifferently: ”Okay, you're the boss.”
He noticed someone stood beside him, it was Evo. ”I didn't know that you like torturing yourself.”
”I don't. I'm watching for research purposes. I might find something useful in this.”
The man payed no heed on their conversation and started butchering the infected. He started on the legs and sparks fly every time the butcher's knife hit the infected's body.
”How did you cut the arms again?” the man asked Jun, seemingly embarrassed.
”I dug the knife through the armpit, then slowly circled through the arm.”
”That's right! The soft and tender areas, the joints too!”, the man hacked at the infected's groin. ”Wow, this zombie is too weird! Its skin is so tough.”, the man took one of the legs to spread it over. Jun pulled back dragging Marianne away.