38 Sister-in-law? (1/2)

'3rd timer.' My face fell as I looked at the title.

All the theories I had thought about fell apart.

'If there is a 3rd timer, then does that mean there are fourth and fifth timer as well.' I thought 'What purpose do they serve. Why have they come back to life. Who did this to them?'

I knew who did this, who sent their souls back to the time when the apocalypse about to start.

It must have been the people who created the apocalypse in the first place. Who else could do such a thing.

But if so, then what do they want.

'Do they want us to survive?' No, they've already wiped out almost all of humanity. How can I even think that they want us to survive.

But if they don't want us to survive, then why send these 2nd and 3rd timers back and back again to fight in this apocalypse.

What is their goal?

A silent breeze passed by as I felt a faint chill on by body.

I had no answer to that question. I will probably never get the answer either.

'I guess there's no point in thinking about things that I understand.' I thought and closed Chen Li's profile.

After that, I used 50 1st tier crystals to buy 5 2nd tier ones.

The price was unfair. So was life. But who gives a fuck.

I ate 4 of the 5 crystals and kept 1 for later on.

After that, I sold all of the remaining crystals and got 688 white coins in return.

Upgrading my Basic Defensive Suit took 665 white coins. So in the end, I was only left with 13 white coins.

I opened the hologram and looked at the interface.

User name:- Ashok Singh Rana (Enhanced Human I )

Stats:-

Strength - 4.4

Agility - 2.3 (4.6) - Skill Recuperation penalty

Endurance - 4.4

Perception - 4.4

Mana - 0.7 (4.6) - Skill being used.

Skills:-

Agility Booster (2nd tier)- Skill recuperation time left= 9 hours 17 minutes 34 seconds, Advanced Vision (2nd tier), None

Equipments:-

Basic Sword (2nd tier), Clipping Glove (1st tier), Basic Defensive Suit (3rd tier), Basic Helmet (2nd tier), Spatial ring (1st tier)

Wealth:-

13 white coins, 1 crystal (2nd tier)

I looked at the Heavy Machine gun once again. No one has bought it so far. Well… I guess I have to be patient with such a thing.

I gave one last look to the horde and ran back to the town.

I wanted more crystals, so that I could upgrade my equipments and buy a skill book.

I also wanted to buy a new skill book for myself.

But I was too tired. Both mentally and physically.

I wanted more of everything, but not today. Not right now. And thus, I planned to go back and sleep.

It was still 3:00 am so the night was still dark, but I had Night Vision so such a thing would not stop me.

The return journey was uneventful. No stray abnormals. No mutant dogs. Nothing.

I landed on the rooftops and started my jumping routine.

I sneaked in a look at Big Bro and realized that he was still sleeping soundly.

As for the two bodyguards, they were talking about something. But from their expression, I could tell that they wanted to sleep as well.

'Well, I guess this is what ordinary men must do to earn more crystals.' I thought and broke into one of the empty house across the streets.

Those who cannot fight on their own must rely on the strong ones to live and become strong themselves.

At this point, almost all of the houses in the town were empty so I faced no problem in finding myself a good bed.

I laid on top of it and fall asleep before long.

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'Ashok. Wake up. Wake up Ashok.' I heard a sound in my dreams. But after the sound persisted for a long time, I felt that something was wrong. When I realized such a thing, my dreamworld broke in an instant and I opened my eyes to meet a pair of large eyes with brown pupil.

”Sera?” I asked in puzzlement as I rubbed my eyes and hoped that I was not drooling in my sleep. That would be embarrassing. ”What are you doing here?”

”Rahul is calling for you.” She said.

”Rahul… umm… what time is it?”

”It's around 10:00 am in the morning.” She replied. ”He asked you to meet him as soon as possible.”

”Is that so…” I looked around an asked ”How did you know I was here?”

”The windows of this house were broken. Just like the past few houses. I got lucky that I found you sleeping here.” She said.

So that's how it is. Well, it's not important.

”Let's go meet Rahul…” I said and was about to jump out of the window but realized that she was not following me. I looked at her in puzzlement and she replied.

”I cannot jump out of the window. I'll break my legs if I fall from such a height.” She said ”You go first. I'll walk out from the door.”

Only then did I realize that she had not eaten any crystals, unlike me who had already eaten hundreds of them.

'Well, I guess I'll do something about that later on.'

”Climb on my back. We'll get there fast this way.” I said and bent down on a knee as I motioned her to climb up.

”Huh!” she was a bit surprised by after considering it for a while, she climbed up on my back and I jumped out from the window to the roofs of the buildings.

Soon enough, I was standing before Rahul's room.

When I reached there, I found three guys sitting outside the room and having a conversation about crystals and abnormals.

I realized that all three of them were rather young and were holding some kind of weapon.

One was holding an axe, the other was holding a hammer and the last one was simply holding on to an iron rod.

I was sure that they would not able to kill any abnormal with a weapon like this.

But they were Rahul's new subordinates so I knew that they would become strong enough to face an abnormal pretty soon. If they don't die before that.

When I arrived in front of them, they all stopped talking and stood on the side with a fearful look in their eyes.

'What the hell are they so afraid of?' I thought but soon realized the reason.

I had not cleaned the Defensive suit when I came back so it was stained with blood and bit and pieces of organs.

There was a heavy stench of blood and death permeating around me.

The fact that they three were not running away in fear already showed that they were much braver than I had previously anticipated.

Or maybe they were just too scared to move.

I walked inside the room, followed by Sera who was standing behind me now.

I entered the room and found that Rahul on a chair was sitting behind a large desk.

He was currently talking with a survivor whom I've never met before.

It was a middle aged guy who was wearing some old and torn clothes.

Seemed like he didn't get a good treatment in the survivor camp.

They were talking about something like electrical generator which was out of my area of expertise so I decided to not meddle in their affairs and stood beside the door for a while until Rahul asked the person to leave.

Rahul then stood up and looked at me with a gentle smile.

”You're hard to find little brother.” He said.

”You slept on my bed, so I had to find some other place to sleep.”

”Yeah… I guess it's my fault this time.” Rahul said with an amused expression which then turned a bit serious.

”Come. I was waiting for you. We need to talk about something.” Rahul said and rolled out a map on the table.

”Yesterday, I sent a person to keep an eye on the army base.” Rahul said as he circled the area where the army camp was situated.

”Today, he told me that they had started to pack their supplies and were getting ready to move.” He said ”My guess is that they want to make this town as their permanent base and are getting ready to move.”

”So, are we going to leave this place?” I asked in a calm manner. But even though I showed a calm facade, I felt a bit sad and powerless over the fact that we were being chased out of our own town.

This was my hometown after all.