HBWnovel Chapter 123
Chapter 123
“...There’s not much here after all.”
Susan spoke those words as they
Then, in a voice low enough for only Aiden to hear, she muttered:
“It’s strange. There are no people or zombies in either of them.”
“Hmm...”
Aiden let out a quiet sigh.
An empty base, it seemed.
In the end, they wouldn’t encounter any survivors, but it wasn’t an entirely negative fact.
If it had simply been a battle between zombies and humans, leading to the group’s annihilation, there should have been at least some zombies left inside the base.
But with not a single zombie remaining within, it meant someone had intentionally cleared out this place afterwards.
In other words, even if this base was vacant, there were still survivors in the city who had handled the cleanup.
“Let’s move further inside.”
Aiden’s group entered those school buildings and quickly swept through the interiors.
The result was as Aiden had expected.
In the base where over 2,000 people had lived, hardly any supplies remained.
Additionally, the number of corpses didn’t seem to match that population either.
At most, only about half that number had died here.
The rest appeared to have survived and escaped from this base.
Aiden shared this conjecture with his companions.
There were no objections, and instead, Susan let out a sigh of relief at the prospect of survivors.
“Then next... we need to search for those survivors in the city.”
Naturally, their next task was decided.
Just as Aiden was about to declare their withdrawal, it happened.
“...Wait a moment.”
Arian, who had been surveying the surroundings, called out to Aiden.
“What is it?”
“There’s a person.”
“How many?”
“One. But I can’t tell if there are more further back due to the distance.”
It was unexpected information.
Aiden had thought everyone had already departed, but there was a survivor remaining at the base.
However, Arian’s next words negated Aiden’s conjecture.
“The location is outside the barricade. Do you see over there?”
Arian pointed beyond the school buildings.
In the opposite direction from where Aiden’s group had entered, towards the residential area.
The barricade on that side was also heavily breached, and Arian said there was a person in one of the houses beyond that collapsed barricade.
It was a rather strange location, with the residential area outside the barricade being dangerous yet unlikely to harbor anything of value.
“What should we do?”
Arian asked.
But for Aiden, who had decided to search for survivors, the answer was already set.
“We should meet them once.”