Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday - Chapter 118

Chapter 118: Rune’s Half-Truth (I)

A hand reached out and took hold of Grace’s wrist, pulling her behind a huge wooden shelf. Turning around, she found Dr. Kian standing behind her, his hand still holding her wrist as he signaled her to remain silent.

The two of them then shifted their attention toward the back door of the building that was shoved open and a group of five stepped in. While the place was filled with absolute darkness, Grace and her people were able to see their surroundings because of their now-heightened senses.

It was her heightened eyesight that allowed Grace a clear view of the five hooded figures who just broke into the building. She would have considered them some random people who were there to rob the place, if not for their long black cloaks and the hoods that were hiding their faces.

There was something about these five people, not just the way they were dressed but more, that put Grace on high alert. She immediately gave 2025 instruction, through their shared mindlink, to run a scan on the group to see if the system could detect anything unusual about the five of them.

Right at that moment, she heard one of them speaking to his companions. “Are you sure this is the place?”

It was a female who answered, “The location is correct. What we are looking for… is here.”

A frown appeared on Grace’s face as she peeked at the group of intruders. Her feeling about them not being normal was growing with each passing minute. She shifted her glance to the shelf opposite her, locking it with Davian’s as the two of them shared a quick look.

“If that’s the case, then why I can’t sense it?” Someone from the group asked, his voice filled with a tone of frustration. “We have been wandering around for way too long, and we haven’t seen even a glance of it so far. And let’s not forget about the current situation of this place. The end is near, and we need to hurry.”

The frown on Grace’s face deepened as she failed to get a clear understanding of exactly what these people were talking about. Listening to them, it didn’t really seem like they were here for robbing supplies. But because of the lack of clearance in their talk, it was hard to summarize that they were after something entirely different.

She felt a hand tapping her softly on her shoulder and when she turned her head around to look at Dr. Kian, she watched him asking her what to do next through simple signs.

She let out a small breath and looked around, taking in the concentrated and ready stances of her team. Everyone was ready for either fight or flee, they were just waiting for her orders. Her gaze once again shifted to Davian and she realized that he too was waiting for her order.

They had no reason to really confront this group, and yet, if they wanted to head to the next supermarket, the easiest way was to walk out of that door. There was the option of waiting patiently until the second group would either leave the building or head upstairs, that would give them the time and chance to step out.

Just as she was contemplating on the available possibilities, she heard another woman from the second speaking. This one sounded older compared to the rest, and stronger if that could be sensed through just her voice.

“Since we have no time to waste, let me use my way to locate what we are are here for. We will get both and leave immediately.”

Grace peeked through the gap in the shelf, trying to take a closer look at whatever that woman was about to do. However, at that very moment, 2025 spoke to her through the shared mindlink.

[The system has detected different energies in the five of them. But it’s hard to tell exactly what these energies are. At least, they aren’t the ones caused by the DNA alterations due to Shadow Rain. These people… they aren’t simple. You need to be careful about this.]

She felt both surpised, and not, as she heard 2025’s words. She did feel that these people weren’t simple, but at the same time, she wasn’t sure exactly what to think about them.

Since she couldn’t tell whether it was or wasn’t a good idea to confront these people, she decided to take the safer route as she wasn’t looking forward to getting her team into trouble.

She turned her gaze toward Davian once again, ready to tell him to open the portal back to the apartment so that they could leave immediately, but before she could have done so, she sensed something.

It hit her all of a sudden, a shift in the air around her that she noticed immediately. It was as if her entire body registered that swift change. Her eyes darted to the group of five, and she noticed that – the same woman who just spoke moments ago – was spreading out her arms while the air crackled with another shift.

For some reason, Grace realized that the two shifts in the air were due to two entirely diffrent reasons… or people.

As the realization hit her, she looked around, her gaze scanning the place to find that second source of energy. And then… her gaze stopped on Rune. His expression was hard, his gaze focused on the second group while his the fingers of his right hand moved in a weird way.

“Rune, wait!” She called out loudly when she realized that he was about to attack the group of five. Her cry didn’t do anything to make the man stop, but it surely alerted the other group.

However, no one had the time to stop or defend as Rune’s launched the powerful attack that hit the five people in seconds, immediately turning them into dust with bunch of sparks that lit the place for a moment and then disappeared into nothingness…!