After the Dark Zombies had learned of what had occurred, Humfree had made the decision that it was time for them to move out. So far they had been building up their strength, not making large movements, and mainly focusing on the demons.
However, from the information they had gathered, it appeared that allowing others to take each other out wasn't going to work. So, they gathered the helicopters and a large chunk of the team was on the move.
A good 90 percent of them had gone out on this expedition, it was the bulk of their forces, leaving just a token group behind, and that token group didn't really have anyone of significance either.
Those that had arrived with Zain were leaving, Carl was going as well as the two Chained Zombies that would always be by his side.
"Hey!" Humfree said as he was boarding his chopper, along Carl and the Chained Zombies. "You, come with us."
Zain was split from Anna and the others, as he boarded the large helicopter along with Carl and Humfree. They soon took off, and they were flying over the city once again.
"What do you think of all this?" Humfree asked, looking at Zain who seemed to be sitting there with no expression at all.
"What do I think?" Zain said. "The truth is, I was going to leave anyway, so the fact that you're giving me a free ride is great, but if you're asking me something else, as in whether the right time to strike is correct or not, I think it's a big risk to your group."
Humfree let the words settle in for a while, until a smile appeared on his face.
"I can see why you've survived for so long." Humfree said, "But, it's because your viewpoint is… let's not use the word wrong, but different."
"Right now, you're in survival mode, and all you can think about is making the best decision to survive. Now, if we were to look at the current situation I would say you are right."
"If someone took out the Reborn group, then we are also unlikely to be strong enough to take them out. So there is a big risk there, but then what? If the Reborn group gets taken out, then next would be the military, then after that the Zombie Hunters, and lastly, it's us."
"There's a reason why the demons have yet to make big movements, because they're waiting for all of us to take on each other. With their powers of disguise, they can manipulate the situation so they don't have to do the work."
"In truth, we need to act now, and as a way to make sure of our permanent survival and not temporary survival, the best choice would be if we were all to work together."
For the first time, Zain felt like he actually had his eyes open up a bit. What Humfree was telling him made a lot of sense, but he also wanted to take the advice with a grain of salt.
After all, this was the person who refused to work with his partner, and abandoned her because they both had different paths. Maybe because she was in danger, he was having a change of hearts and was making all these excuses just to help her.
'I wonder… Humfree is still human, my intelligence has increased, but I still don't feel so emotionally attached, if anything less so.' Zain thought. 'Will things always be like this.'
It was an odd feeling of almost loss, he wanted to feel sad that he had an inability to feel an emotion, yet, he couldn't even do that, which was making him feel as if there was something partly wrong with him.
The helicopters soon came across the area the Reborn group was once in, and it looked as if they had gone over a battlefield. The large apartment buildings had huge chunks missing and rubble on the floor.
The ground was littered with dead zombies, and humans as well. Many buildings were set ablaze, continuing to burn, while others were charcoal black, no longer able to burn.
From a distance they could see the Reborn building and it looked the same. Out of the corner of his eyes, Zain could see that Humfree's knuckles were turning white once again.
"Hey wait!" Zain said, as his system had popped up with something. They were down one street away from the main Reborn building. "Can we land here, there's something I want to see."
If it was a request from anyone else, then Humfree would have declined straight away, but this zombie had been surprising him lately in more ways than he could imagine, and if he was to make a request, then surely it would be something interesting once again.
As the helicopter landed, the others continued landing in different areas yet close together, with most of them being based around the base of the Reborn group. Before the helicopter landed, Zain had jumped down confident his legs would take the fall and rushed off.
"Keep an eye on him!" Humfree shouted through the loud sound of the blades above, looking at Carl.
Carl jumped off and went after Zain, but he was sure if Zain wanted to, that he wouldn't be able to keep up with him. After running the street for a while, Zain continually looked at his system, until he took a sudden right turn.
It was a crumbled apartment building, he lifted the large piles of rubble throwing them behind him as if they were styrofoam. He continued and continued until he had reached the foundations of the bottom floor.
Up ahead, he could see them.
"The system was right." Zain mumbled to himself.
The sound of footsteps were heard coming toward him, Carl appeared by Zain's side and could see what he was looking at.
"I'm assuming you know these people?" Carl asked.
"I do." Zain replied.
Out from the apartment building, Skittle, Pink, Kun, Kelly and Dab were all alive and well, and were surprised to see Zain in front of them.
"Zain!" They shouted and ran over, as they did, many of them grabbed onto Zain tightly, especially Skittle who wrapped his arms around his waist.
"What a surprise this is to see." Carl smiled. "I thought someone like him would have no friends."
The group had a moment, before they started to correct themselves, as they brushed rubble off their clothes and pretended to be nonchalant about their meeting, However, Skittle had a serious look on his face.
"Zain… there's something you need to know. The Zombie Hunters, their leader, it's Buke… and he did all of this." Skittle said.
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