Free Web NovelChapter 139: Turn Back
"Why are there so many zombies here?" Jocelyn had to move her body forward to confirm what was ahead.
Although there were also many zombies in the suburbs, Jocelyn had never seen them gathered in such large numbers in one place. Actually, Jocelyn’s group more often hunts humans for them to torture, then kills them.
Therefore, Jocelyn wanted to escape from her group because of their behaviour. Now, she was really dumbfounded that there were more zombies in the city centre, not to mention that the zombies were gathering around the entrance to the base.
Jocelyn thought that if she came here alone, there was no way she could get in there. Even now, she could see Theodore thinking of finding another way into the base.
"There are usually a lot of them gathered near the gate, but this is more than usual. I wonder what happened inside the base to make the zombies gather here like this," Theodore said, still reluctant to drive his car through the mass of zombies.
"Is it okay if we enter through the north gate?" Geoffrey asked Roxanne, given that Roxanne better understood the situation around the north gate.
"It’s actually quite risky to enter through the north gate. But we’ve been away from the base for over a week, so who knows if things are okay there," Roxanne explained, also unable to give a definite answer regarding the situation around the north gate.
"We’d better see what’s going on there first," said Theodore, choosing to keep checking the north gate first.
Their car wouldn’t be able to withstand the attacks from the zombies, especially since it would take some time to open the base gate, and their car would have to withstand the attacks from the zombies while opening the gate.
The others nodded their heads in agreement; after all, they didn’t have a better solution than that. freeweɓnøvel.com
With that, Theodore returned to driving their car to turn back to the north. With the help of Geoffrey, who was holding the map, they could get there faster.
Although the situation at the north gate was not very good because of the previous problem, which made the work there difficult, Theodore still thought it would be better to go there than to go through this group of zombies.
"There don’t seem to be many zombies here," Jocelyn said as she looked at the situation at the north gate. She could see that the area around the gate was quiet; there weren’t even any guard soldiers on top of the wall.
"Here, the problem is inside," Roxanne said with an awkward laugh because she had even been injured in this place before.
"There doesn’t seem to be any guards here. How do we get in?" Theodore did not see any soldiers standing guard on top of the wall or near the gate.
"I’m going out to talk to one of the guards. Can one of you go with me to watch my back?" Roxanne said, then asked her friends for help.
"Let me go out with you. I’m much better now," sought Jocelyn quickly as she raised her hand willingly to accompany Roxanne.
"Then please cooperate," Roxanne replied while smiling happily at the sight of Jocelyn volunteering to accompany her.
Theodore didn’t say anything about it; after all, he couldn’t go out because he had to drive this car.
Jocelyn’s guard, who, of course, had excellent combat skills because she was part of a group of crazy people who liked to kill people. Roxanne safely reached the front gate and was seen talking to someone inside. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com
Slowly, the gate began to open from inside. Theodore, who saw that he had immediately driven his car to enter the base, stopped in front of the gate to let Roxanne and Jocelyn get back into the car.
After everyone was in the car, Theodore drove it back into the base. As he passed the patrol post, Roxanne rolled down her window.
"Chief, thank you for letting us in!" Roxanne waved her hand at a middle-aged man who was accompanied by several soldiers inside the post.
"Come play when you are free," the middle-aged man said to Roxanne, who started to move away.
Once she was far away, Roxanne rolled up her window again. Honestly, she was still traumatized when passing through the streets in the northern area of this base.
"Do you know the guards there?" Theodore decided to ask Roxanne about this.
"Yes, he is the chief who leads the workers at the north gate," Roxanne replied while nodding her head.
"It’s a good thing we can enter through here. Otherwise, it would be hazardous for us to force our way through the west gate. Especially now that it’s almost night," Theodore said, feeling that they were pretty lucky today.
"They said they will be changing guards soon; it’s a good thing we arrived in time. Otherwise, it would have been difficult to get in," Roxanne explained, breathing a sigh of relief that she knew the person guarding the north gate.
"Why is it less guarded there? Whereas at the west gate earlier, I could see that there were many soldiers on guard," Jocelyn said later, curious about this difference.
"Considering that we haven’t been at the base for a long time, I don’t know what is going on there either," Roxanne replied as she wondered what could have happened at the base to make things so different like this.
The car continued to drive until they finally arrived at the military headquarters, which was the centre of their base. Theodore parked the vehicle inside the headquarters area; after all, they still had to hand over 20% of their loot to the military.
Theodore also needed to say something to Victor because Cassian told him to report what happened during their trip to Victor. However, later, Cassian himself would make a more detailed report.
"You can report to the military as a new arrival to the base. And They can help you be placed in one of the houses on the base. Or you can ask if there is a job for you," Theodore explained to Jocelyn, who was new to the base.
"We still have to hand over our loot to the military," Theodore continued to Roxanne and Geoffrey, who were in the back seat.
"How do we hand them over?" Geoffrey was confused about the problem of their belongings being kept by Theodore.
Theodore grinned when he heard Geoffrey’s words; indeed, he had thought about this matter beforehand.
"I will take out some items and store them in the back of the car so they can choose the items they want themselves; rest assured, I will make sure they will only get a few items from us," Theodore explained, still with his grin.
Geoffrey also giggled when he heard Theodore’s explanation, "For some reason, you can also behave slyly like this," Geoffrey retorted while raising his thumb at Theodore.
"Come on, do me a favour!" Theodore then invited them to choose what items they should take out.
In addition, Jocelyn had to part with them because she had to report to the military of this base.
