56 Tens of thousands of Abnormals (1/2)

'Gaurav has already reached Big Bro.' I mumbled in my mind as I looked at the field covered with tens of thousands of abnormals moving in a single direction.

'That he has.' Lily replied after a moment in a normal tone which increased my irritation for no particular reason. After a long and irritating moment, I finally sighed and shook my head in defeat.

'This whole mission to retrieve him becomes rather pointless if he goes back to my big bro on his own you know. And he did it without me even knowing about it.'

'Maybe.' She replied nonchalantly which made the veins in my forehead throb once more. But I controlled my anger and took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.

'Not much point in thinking about what has happened.' I said more to myself than Lily. 'But what the hell is up with these abnormals. It's almost as if they're refugees mass migrating to some other place. They're giving me the creeps.'

'Or an army.'

'Or a what???'

'Or an army.' Lily explained. 'They may not be an organized bunch but they would make a formidable army. Don't you think?'

'Yeah there's that too.' I replied, my words losing all the sarcasm from it.

A long silence followed that after which I asked. 'Do you have any idea who is controlling them?'

'They are just going in a particular direction. Doesn't necessarily mean that someone is controlling them.' Lily said, sounding not too sure herself.

'Forcing so many abnormals to move in a particular direction is all the control a person would ever need. He/she could just point these abnormals to go in the direction of a human settlement and you can be sure that all the humans in that settlement won't survive the day.' I said as used the advanced vision to once again search the whole horde as closely as I could.

But just like the past forty minutes, I was not able to find anything or anyone that stood out.

Except for the occasional 3rd tier tall abnormals of course. Those giants would stand out no matter what they did. And there were quite a few of them in this horde.

'Rahul told you not to worry about them.' Lily supplied as she tried to be helpful. As always. But watching the tens of thousands abnormals moving as one freaked me out more than I would care to admit.

After a long moment, I finally unclenched my fists and turned around and went back to the house in which Jasvinder and Upma were resting.

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”You're late. Did you met a particularly beautiful abnormal while scouting the area.” Jasvinder said in his indifferent voice as soon as I entered the house.

I looked at his expressionless face and wondered if he is pissed or is just being sarcastic. Knowing him, it's probably both. But oh well. It's not like you see tens of thousands of mindless killing meat bags walking in a particular direction every single day.

”Don't be rude Jass.” Upma rebuked gently as she came out of the room (what were they doing in the room anyway. I mean, they're just about eleven years old.)

”And stop thinking rude thoughts about us Ashok. We were just resting in the room.” She said as she looked at me while a gentle smiled and I chuckled awkwardly at her intuitiveness. Gods this girl can be scary.