Reaching the staircase was easy, but going up them was where the difficult bit started to come into play. As they went up to the second floor, Zain could hear that there were people up ahead near the top of the staircase.
"Just stay behind me," Zain whispered, holding both of the handguns in his hand. As soon as he turned a corner, he immediately fired. It had clearly hit one of the men in the arm and then the head.
The man was killed in a single shot as he slid down the stairs. The others were confused, but before the man next to him could pull a shot, a few more bullets shot through his body and rendered him useless.
Storming through the hallway door of the second floor were more people with guns, but as soon as they saw the blood, they started to just fire randomly. In a panic, one of the female women, standing behind the man in the doorway, had shot her ally, causing him to fall to the floor, allowing Zain to carefully aim and take them out.
Upon reaching the platform, they found four dead bodies on the ground.
'He took out four people just like that?' Cody thought. 'I knew he was skillful with weapons. We saw him at the supermarket, but with guns as well. And there's no hesitation when pulling the trigger either.'
Zain handed one hand gun to Cody and the other to Dave.
"This is where we split ways, and you guys need to do what we discussed earlier. Cody, you need to save Kelly, and Dave, you go and find Brandon. While I need to look after my people. I showed you what needs to be done.
"When pulling the trigger in this type of situation, the one with the least hesitation is most likely to win the fight. These people aren't trained to use guns, so all you need is a strong mind to win. Once I'm done with what I need to do, I'll try my best to come to where you guys are." Zain explained.
The two nodded, and with Cody and Dave continuing to head upstairs, Zain went through the hallway.
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"It looks like we're trapped between a rock and a hard place right now," Kun said, and if he was in his normal body, he was sure he would have been covered from head to toe in sweat from the nerves he was feeling.
Currently, both Kun and Pink had entered the main reception hall on the third floor. It was a large oval platform with an escalator to go up one floor or four sets of staircases in each corner down the hallway to enter the place.
This was, after all, a relatively large hospital. The problem though, was not how to get up to the next floor but even if they could. There were several strange creatures in the room, exactly like the one they had just fought to get into the palace.
There were disfigured mutants that didn't quite look like zombies, nor did they look human. Someone had switched different body parts for medical devices. Their flesh had been reformed and looked to have grown other strange objects making it part of their body.
In total, there were eight of them. Four of them were blocking the doors that would lead to the staircase, then there was one at either of the escalators and lastly, there were two of them heading towards them right now, although they were moving relatively slowly.
A loud bang was heard as the doors behind them were slammed open, and the man with the razor-sharp tool, which was now spinning, was right behind them. His head was bleeding from the wound Pink had inflicted on his head.
"We will have to pick a direction and deal with one of them. Otherwise, they will all surround us, and we'll be dead!" Kun shouted.
Pink looked at Kun strangely for a second.
"Fine, we will be dead 'again'!" Kun corrected himself and rolled his eyes.
Running around the overall room, one of the creatures moving towards them had several knives, blades and syringes stuck in the belly of its body. As the two got close, it pulled a syringe from its body and hurled it right towards Kun and Pink.
The two of them dived in opposite directions to avoid the syringe. It landed and pierced on the floor, being stuck upright.
"That thing, it was as fast as a bullet. How much strength does that one have?" Pink was alarmed. They had barely gotten out of the way. If there was a normal human, or may they themselves without having upgraded their powers through the crystals, then the syringe would have definitely hit one of them.
"Super strength, feels no pain, has lost all sense of reason, and can't be killed. It's almost like we're going against a new type of super zombie." Kun suggested. "Don't waste your bullets. Focus on the task!"
The creature started to pull more medical tools from its body and was hurling them towards the pair. One hand was throwing items at Kun, who just continued to run around the creature, and the other hand was targeting Pink.
However, unlike Kun, she had decided to run by the side of the wall, then placing her foot on the wall, she ran it up as a trail of weapons was being embedded into the wall as they targeted her, and she flipped right over them.
"Show off," Kun smirked as he reached the escalator.
"I was just trying to make him get rid of all those weapons he has," Pink shouted back. "If we have to fight one of these other guys, we don't want this one trying to throw stuff at us. You just get rid of the other one."
Pink continued to run in zig-zag-like patterns, as the creature now was slowly focusing on pulling out scissors from its body and hurling them at Pink.
"I was actually counting on your strength and kicking powers to take this one out, but I guess I need to figure out how to take this one out myself," Kun said as he took a good look at the one in front of him.
It was a large human-sized body. Its face looked somewhat burnt, with its eyeballs nearly hanging out from its head, but now that he was closer, Kun realised that this human had no top on, and he hardly had any changes to his body, apart from the fact that around his chest, where his nipples would be there were two round barrel looking things sticking out from them.
"What s*ck f*ck worked on this?" Kun said, but there was something very familiar about those barrels, and it had finally clicked in his head. "Don't tell me… those barrels there!"
Loud bangs were heard as Kun dived and rolled off to the side, and the bullets made a large hole in the ground, and now he was sure. Without a doubt, what was in the man's chest was a pair of guns.
The bullets continued to fire, and Kun didn't know what to do other than run, however, the bullets eventually caught up to him, and he was hit in the side of the leg, but having lost his sense of pain long ago, he didn't falter and continued to run as fast as he could.
"At this rate, I'm going to die from holes in my body, we need to do something, and we need to do it fast!" Kun shouted.
Pink wanted to help, all of the objects had been removed from the creature's body, and it screamed in frustration. However, there was another problem now, all of the other creatures that were blocking the way had somewhat surrounded them.
"I guess we have no choice but to fight, but how do we kill these guys!" Pink squinted her eyes.
"Everything can die, even us, so there has to be a way!" A voice shouted.
Turning her head, Pink couldn't believe her eyes as she saw the familiar red-haired figure.
Zain was running across the room and had the sword held in his hand, he threw it out as strong as he could, and it pierced right through the head of the zombie shooting at Kun.
It caused the bullets to hit the side and miss, and a few seconds later, Zain was seen jumping towards the creatures in the air. Using his body weight, he grabbed onto the sword and pushed it right through the creature's head. The crash was strong, causing the creature to fall to the side.
Immediately, Zain pulled the sword out and looked at the creatures on the ground.
'No exp…does that mean it's not dead?'
"Stabbing it and hosting it through the head doesn't work!" Kun shouted.
Quickly, Zain then moved away, and as Kun had just said, it started to move and get up from the ground. Sniffing the air, Zain tried to figure out what these creatures were because they weren't zombies.
"I…have an idea to take these guys out. There is always a way to kill something." Zain smiled. "And it looks like backup has arrived."
Just then, the noise of growling came from the hallway. It was the sound of incoming zombies.
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