They were in league with the Osprey aircraft.
However, this time there was some difference - the AH-64 attack helicopter and its personnel were indeed from the military.
These were military members bought by the organization called "Syringe," and this mission was actually carried out under false pretenses.
The purpose seemed to be purely to launch retaliation against Ejie.
If they couldn't kill him, they would target members of his team for assassination to achieve some revenge against him.
Well then, with no useful intelligence, they could be discarded.
Such a big commotion naturally attracted many corpses, so he chose the more enthusiastic groups to go to - so enthusiastic they were packed like sardines.
The person he threw down was instantly pulled by countless hands, gnawed by numerous mouths that viciously tore off chunks of flesh, letting out piercing screams.
Looking at this situation, even becoming one of these things would make this guy severely disabled.
"Abandon the vehicles. We'll travel on foot from here."
"Eh? Why?"
The first to ask in confusion was the blonde school nurse with a bust size that normal men could hardly resist.
This naturally airheaded appearance also made one unable to resist wanting to deceive her into engaging in unspeakable activities.
"The target is too big, especially this Humvee. Such special vehicles are more conspicuous and easily blown up."
As the glasses girl said, the enemy had already locked onto this vehicle and seemed capable of using satellite surveillance.
The group's movements were taking place right under their noses.
"But my home isn't far now. We should be able to reach it before dark."
If the corpse crisis hadn't broken out, Saya Takagi could have walked there normally as a girl before dark.
Now with corpses everywhere, but because everyone was quite united and had the panacea's protection, they didn't need to worry too much about injury and infection. However, they still needed to be careful about being grabbed by corpses.
These things had great strength and could snap arms. If they grabbed the neck and twisted it, that would be the end.
Or being bitten on the neck causing massive bleeding - the panacea might not be able to save lives in such cases.
So besides needing to be vigilant about these things, everyone's courage had increased considerably and they could move faster.
Plus with him as a super soldier, they didn't need to take many detours or worry about being surrounded by corpses - they could directly fight through.
In a flash, it was already dusk—
"Another helicopter."
"Is it flying to the Takagi house?"
"Or searching for us?"
This was the second helicopter they'd seen, though it wasn't an attack helicopter but looked more like a disaster relief helicopter. Ejie's vision could see that what was suspended below should be some kind of equipment.
Combined with Saya Takagi's contact with her father back at school, asking him to prepare some equipment, this was probably one of the devices her father had prepared.
Due to some building obstructions, although they couldn't see Saya Takagi's house, from the helicopter's descent altitude, it seemed less than two kilometers away.
But in these less than two kilometers, the corpses were becoming increasingly dense.
Hmm?
Ejie's vision caught sight of something like lens reflection - were they observing this group?
Well then, time to exercise his body a bit.
He was too lazy to wait for someone to blindly come looking for trouble, thinking he was easy to bully, only to get slapped in the face in a conflict later. He didn't want that much trouble.
To him this was reality, not a novel - he wanted to minimize unnecessary complications that could lead to accidents.
"???" Saya Takagi, who had just shot a corpse's head, noticed his actions.
He who hadn't been taking action all along was now like a hungry wolf. No, like a well-fed wolf king maliciously entering a flock of sheep, massacring the sheep "corpses" that posed no threat to him whatsoever.
Was this because everyone's stamina was about exhausted, so he was finally taking action?
No, Saya Takagi's genius brain began working.
Everyone wasn't really at the point of being unable to move - they should be able to make it to her house.
His purpose for such high-profile action had one possibility - purely intimidating her family!
Saya Takagi wasn't particularly upset about this.
She believed her parents would believe her words and know he was an extremely dangerous and terrifying person.
But the problem was that others might not necessarily think so. Some of her father's subordinates were quite annoying - these people might blindly think he was easy to bully and come looking for trouble. Things would get complicated then.
So his sudden exertion, this superhuman performance, should prevent any fool from asking for trouble.
On the contrary, they would probably be afraid and not want such a dangerous person to enter.
Sometimes fear was also a kind of deterrent that prevented people from doing stupid things, thus avoiding some boring troubles.
Then—
"Blech!"
Saya Takagi vomited again. Not just her - others also couldn't bear it to varying degrees.
This guy had gone too far with the intimidation! Mom and Dad would be scared too!
Was he a dismemberment maniac?
Just blowing off heads would be fine, but this guy insisted on cutting them into pieces, leaving chunks of flesh everywhere - a complete hell of flesh chunks on the ground.
"Um, how long do I have to keep my eyes covered?"
"Just wait a bit more, Alice."
Because she served as the team's medical personnel and was also considered clumsy, Shizuka Marikawa didn't fight but was responsible for taking care of the child Alice.
Although Alice had a father, he had also joined the corpse extermination efforts.
Then, noticing Mr. Ejie taking action and feeling something was very wrong, Shizuka quickly sealed this child's eyes and repeatedly instructed that she could only remove the blindfold after agreeing not to look.
Otherwise, the hell before them would be too shocking for a child whose mind wasn't yet mature.
Speaking of which, as a mature adult, she could barely handle it herself.
Really, Mr. Ejie - what if this caused her to have nightmares?
"Okay."
Such an obedient child deserved head pats.
Shizuka's gaze also returned to this young man who seemed a bit younger than her, and she couldn't help but become a bit lost in thought.
Why would he have a vaccine against the virus?
No, that wasn't a vaccine against the current corpses.
When preparing the formula with Saya Takagi, Shizuka had also looked at that panacea operation page together and seen some introductions.
This panacea was more like an absurd medicine that could cure all diseases.
This didn't feel like something that belonged to this world or this era.
Right, she had noticed two intriguing statements:
First, panacea could cure almost all diseases from before the 15K era.
Second, how to manufacture panacea on Terra in the 2K era.
This vaguely revealed incredible information.
And what had he encountered to get those injuries before the corpse outbreak occurred?
He had burns, a severed arm, and that shocking wound on his chest - what terrible things had he experienced to end up like this?
Under such severe injuries, he was still protecting everyone.
For a moment, besides gratitude and concern, Shizuka Marikawa felt other emotions she herself couldn't clearly identify stirring her heart.
Hmm?
The distracted Shizuka came back to her senses because he had stopped dealing with the corpses.
They were mostly dealt with anyway, and they had reached a street blocked off with steel wire.
Additionally, she saw several figures in fire suits walking toward them.
One of them reached the steel wire and removed their hood, revealing a face seventy to eighty percent similar to Saya Takagi's.
This should be Saya Takagi's older sister - she looked not much older than Shizuka.
No wait, she hadn't heard of her having a sister. She was the only child in the family.
Then there was only one possibility - this should be her mother.
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