“What’s going on? Are we actually having an ideology class?”
Mark nodded at the quiet Dale who was carrying a gray body bag with one hand, gestured him to go back and asked jokingly as he started jogging at the front.
Ronald laughed and said, “Allen suddenly made a cold joke so Peter and we teased him back. And, he fell for it. Dude was almost crying to explain for his joke.”
Looking at Ronald who was patting the shoulder of Allen not far away, Peter put on the helmet and asked, “Mark, how are the things going on at your side? Have you found their bodies?”
Mark turned his head to look at the body bag in Dale’s hand and said, “We have found them. And, we have a good news and a bad news here.”
“Don’t make the things complicated, Mark. Just tell us about your situation and we are going to make decision about what we are doing next depending on your story.”
Peter didn’t wait for him to finish speaking. He hurriedly stopped him in the middle and told what he wanted. He felt that they were already wasting a lot of time and should step on the return journey fast.
At the other side, Mark slowed down and raised his left fist as he wanted to stop and discuss with Dale.
To his disappointment, the latter didn’t even stop and continued jogging forward.
Mark looked up at the already dark sky in silence for two seconds before he quickly ran forward to catch up with Dale who had already distanced himself a lot and said helplessly,
“Brother, you can’t blame us for this. When we found their remains, there were still coyotes feasting at the scene. Yes, a group of coyotes like twenty heads. They only left after we killed six or seven in a short battle. No, we were too late. Actually, there are still some flesh left on the skeletons.”
Peter on the other hand stopped talking as he got the thing he wanted to know. Then, he speechlessly dropped the lit match into the pit and watched the quickly spreading flame in silence.
He shielded the messy conversations falling into his ears and watched the burning corpses patiently.
He just stood still like that until Ben walked over and patted his shoulder after a few minutes later.
“Hey! You hear me? The smell isn’t good for the kids. Let’s get out of here.”
Only then, Peter remembered about the two kids and Lady Rosewood. He didn’t think about it much at first since he couldn’t smell anything due to him wearing the helmet after all.
He looked at the already charred corpses under the still burning flames with the helps of diesel and he decided to go. He felt that these corpses were already useless and would be getting worse soon with the burning flame as the time passed.
Now, the probability of someone maliciously using the corpses could be crossed out.
“Let’s go, brothers. Coming next is the jogging class. Haha.”
Peter resumed the communication system and shouted as he walked towards the only truck at the scene.
When he reached to the truck, he looked the opened cabin windows and then looked at the woman leaning against the truck and asked curiously, “Why didn’t you close the windows and open the AC for the kids? Isn’t it good for them?”
Lady Rosewood looked up at him and asked blankly, “What’s AC?”
Peter speechlessly looked at her and wondered from which rural place she came out from.
After a while, Lady Rosewood got into the pilot seat, started the truck, closed the windows and opened the AC according to Peter’s instruction.
As cold and fresh airs blew towards them, the two little girls giggled happily. Lady Rosewood also had a rare soft smile on her face while silently blaming herself for not knowing about AC earlier.
Peter, who had a short discussion about the return trip, contacted Lady Rosewood to follow the plan.
At that time, the two officers also slowly woke up and got up from the cold ground.
“What’s going on? Damn! Am I still alive?”
They hurriedly checked their bodies while murmuring. They noticed that their uniforms had became rags but they didn’t have a single wound nor injury on their bodies.
“Fred, you are still alive. I remembered that I had watched you dying. Was it all hallucinations?”
“Jared, I also saw that you’re dying with dozen of wounds and injuries. And, I also remember that I was feeling pains all over my body and was dying.”
The two officers rejoiced and hugged each other. But shortly, they were interrupted by Peter.
“Gentlemen, you’re indeed dead but Lady Rosewood and I resurrected you guys. You’ve to thank Lady Rosewood for that. Because of her secret knowledge and help, you can be resurrected.
Yes, Lady Rosewood is the mother of that two girls. They are actually the victims of a cult who specially torture and kill easy targets. Your two colleagues were killed because they awakened the beast spirit of that mutated bear. That was unfortunate. I hope that you won’t blame the little girl for that.
As for that mutated bear, it was killed and kept by me. I will show it to your chief later. Alright?”
Peter took off his helmet and had a nice chat with the two officers just like that.
At first, Peter had planned to put these two guys into the storage cabin of box truck. Since they woke up early, he had to take out their patrol vehicle from his storage ring and let them drive it back.
Soon, Mark and Dale got back with a body bag. Peter solemnly informed the two officers about their unfortunate colleagues and handed over the body bag to them.
The two officers opened the body bag to check the conditions and fell into a short silence.
But soon, their gazes became firmer as if they had made some decisions.
After the duo put the body bag into the backseat of patrol vehicle, they came over and promised Peter that the story would be as what Peter said. In fact, they also knew that the real story had not much difference from Peter’s version of the story.
Since they realized that they really died once and were resurrected, they were also glad to take out Luna’s existence from the story. Blame the two brainless dudes for finding their own death.
Moreover, they are so unlucky that they couldn’t even meet the requirement for resurrection.
After the duo went back and got into their patrol vehicle, Peter told them and Lady Rosewood through the spiritual communication that they were going back to the town.
The team then left the temporary parking place and went back along the road leading to Frendo town.
The two vehicles moved along the road at the constant speed of twenty miles per hour.
Peter and his guys ran along the truck with big noises and left footprints on the dirt road.
At first, the duo wanted to ask Peter why they were not driving the pickups instead of running.
Then, they remembered about the previous scary ambush and almost wanted to get down and run together. Nevertheless, they forcefully calmed down themselves and kept driving in silence.
When they arrived at the town, it was already over seven o’clock and the sounds of vehicles and heavy footsteps quickly brought the folks’ attention.
Since the great change started, the town has been without electricity so many folks usually sleep early.
Only those with solar panels have a good time during these months. Although many people have electricity generators at their homes, they dare not waste diesel for daily things.
Of course, some didn’t sleep yet and they were still reading the books with candle lights.
When they heard the sounds, one by one opened the windows and looked at the street curiously or vigilantly. They had already known about the team being ambushed from Blake and Bane brothers.
Then, they saw the two vehicles and the heavy armored guys moving along the street.
“What’s going on? Are we actually having an ideology class?”
Mark nodded at the quiet Dale who was carrying a gray body bag with one hand, gestured him to go back and asked jokingly as he started jogging at the front.
Ronald laughed and said, “Allen suddenly made a cold joke so Peter and we teased him back. And, he fell for it. Dude was almost crying to explain for his joke.”
Looking at Ronald who was patting the shoulder of Allen not far away, Peter put on the helmet and asked, “Mark, how are the things going on at your side? Have you found their bodies?”
Mark turned his head to look at the body bag in Dale’s hand and said, “We have found them. And, we have a good news and a bad news here.”
“Don’t make the things complicated, Mark. Just tell us about your situation and we are going to make decision about what we are doing next depending on your story.”
Peter didn’t wait for him to finish speaking. He hurriedly stopped him in the middle and told what he wanted. He felt that they were already wasting a lot of time and should step on the return journey fast.
At the other side, Mark slowed down and raised his left fist as he wanted to stop and discuss with Dale.
To his disappointment, the latter didn’t even stop and continued jogging forward.
Mark looked up at the already dark sky in silence for two seconds before he quickly ran forward to catch up with Dale who had already distanced himself a lot and said helplessly,
“Brother, you can’t blame us for this. When we found their remains, there were still coyotes feasting at the scene. Yes, a group of coyotes like twenty heads. They only left after we killed six or seven in a short battle. No, we were too late. Actually, there are still some flesh left on the skeletons.”
Peter on the other hand stopped talking as he got the thing he wanted to know. Then, he speechlessly dropped the lit match into the pit and watched the quickly spreading flame in silence.
He shielded the messy conversations falling into his ears and watched the burning corpses patiently.
He just stood still like that until Ben walked over and patted his shoulder after a few minutes later.
“Hey! You hear me? The smell isn’t good for the kids. Let’s get out of here.”
Only then, Peter remembered about the two kids and Lady Rosewood. He didn’t think about it much at first since he couldn’t smell anything due to him wearing the helmet after all.
He looked at the already charred corpses under the still burning flames with the helps of diesel and he decided to go. He felt that these corpses were already useless and would be getting worse soon with the burning flame as the time passed.
Now, the probability of someone maliciously using the corpses could be crossed out.
“Let’s go, brothers. Coming next is the jogging class. Haha.”
Peter resumed the communication system and shouted as he walked towards the only truck at the scene.
When he reached to the truck, he looked the opened cabin windows and then looked at the woman leaning against the truck and asked curiously, “Why didn’t you close the windows and open the AC for the kids? Isn’t it good for them?”
Lady Rosewood looked up at him and asked blankly, “What’s AC?”
Peter speechlessly looked at her and wondered from which rural place she came out from.
After a while, Lady Rosewood got into the pilot seat, started the truck, closed the windows and opened the AC according to Peter’s instruction.
As cold and fresh airs blew towards them, the two little girls giggled happily. Lady Rosewood also had a rare soft smile on her face while silently blaming herself for not knowing about AC earlier.
Peter, who had a short discussion about the return trip, contacted Lady Rosewood to follow the plan.
At that time, the two officers also slowly woke up and got up from the cold ground.
“What’s going on? Damn! Am I still alive?”
They hurriedly checked their bodies while murmuring. They noticed that their uniforms had became rags but they didn’t have a single wound nor injury on their bodies.
“Fred, you are still alive. I remembered that I had watched you dying. Was it all hallucinations?”
“Jared, I also saw that you’re dying with dozen of wounds and injuries. And, I also remember that I was feeling pains all over my body and was dying.”
The two officers rejoiced and hugged each other. But shortly, they were interrupted by Peter.
“Gentlemen, you’re indeed dead but Lady Rosewood and I resurrected you guys. You’ve to thank Lady Rosewood for that. Because of her secret knowledge and help, you can be resurrected.
Yes, Lady Rosewood is the mother of that two girls. They are actually the victims of a cult who specially torture and kill easy targets. Your two colleagues were killed because they awakened the beast spirit of that mutated bear. That was unfortunate. I hope that you won’t blame the little girl for that.
As for that mutated bear, it was killed and kept by me. I will show it to your chief later. Alright?”
Peter took off his helmet and had a nice chat with the two officers just like that.
At first, Peter had planned to put these two guys into the storage cabin of box truck. Since they woke up early, he had to take out their patrol vehicle from his storage ring and let them drive it back.
Soon, Mark and Dale got back with a body bag. Peter solemnly informed the two officers about their unfortunate colleagues and handed over the body bag to them.
The two officers opened the body bag to check the conditions and fell into a short silence.
But soon, their gazes became firmer as if they had made some decisions.
After the duo put the body bag into the backseat of patrol vehicle, they came over and promised Peter that the story would be as what Peter said. In fact, they also knew that the real story had not much difference from Peter’s version of the story.
Since they realized that they really died once and were resurrected, they were also glad to take out Luna’s existence from the story. Blame the two brainless dudes for finding their own death.
Moreover, they are so unlucky that they couldn’t even meet the requirement for resurrection.
After the duo went back and got into their patrol vehicle, Peter told them and Lady Rosewood through the spiritual communication that they were going back to the town.
The team then left the temporary parking place and went back along the road leading to Frendo town.
The two vehicles moved along the road at the constant speed of twenty miles per hour.
Peter and his guys ran along the truck with big noises and left footprints on the dirt road.
At first, the duo wanted to ask Peter why they were not driving the pickups instead of running.
Then, they remembered about the previous scary ambush and almost wanted to get down and run together. Nevertheless, they forcefully calmed down themselves and kept driving in silence.
When they arrived at the town, it was already over seven o’clock and the sounds of vehicles and heavy footsteps quickly brought the folks’ attention.
Since the great change started, the town has been without electricity so many folks usually sleep early.
Only those with solar panels have a good time during these months. Although many people have electricity generators at their homes, they dare not waste diesel for daily things.
Of course, some didn’t sleep yet and they were still reading the books with candle lights.
When they heard the sounds, one by one opened the windows and looked at the street curiously or vigilantly. They had already known about the team being ambushed from Blake and Bane brothers.
Then, they saw the two vehicles and the heavy armored guys moving along the street.
