Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday - Chapter 66

Chapter 66: Cooking Chicken (II)

The men had no arguments left, but they weren’t ready to give up yet. Their leader spoke up again. “Of course you can do whatever you want. We just wanted to come here and take a look. You already know the current situation outside. It has been so long since the rain started and we can’t go out to even buy food for ourselves. We were just wondering if you have extra food to share with us.”

Right at that moment, another person decided to join the conversation. It was a man who stepped out of the next unit, taking all six men by surprise. This man was also dressed in similar black leather as that of the young woman. But what really shocked the group of men was the knife that this person was holding.

“Is everything alright, Valeska?” The man asked as he shifted his gaze between the woman and the group of six.

“Everything’s fine. What are you doing here, Nathan?” Valeska asked the member of King’s team who was also staying in one of the units on the 20th floor.

“Oh. I just wanted to ask what should I do now with the body.”

The moment these words came out of Nathan’s mouth, the six men felt cold shivers running down their spines. They just stared at the man, then shifted their shocked gazes to the woman who was looking normal despite hearing that word, and then they finally exchanged looks among the six of them.

“B-body?” One of them finally dared to ask out loudly.

It was the woman who responded. “Please don’t mind him. He’s talking about the chicken. He likes to call it a body. We were cooking chicken when I heard the sounds you all were making in order to unlock the metal door.”

“You are making chicken? At this hour of the night?” Another one among the six asked, shocked by both revelations. While they were eating instant noodles to fill their bellies these days, there were actually people living in the same building who were enjoying the luxury of chicken. Besides who cooked chicken at two in the morning?

Valeska turned her full attention toward the group of men as she answered, “Didn’t I just told you that all three floors belongs to us? It means that there are so many of us, about three dozens. Coincidently, we went for grocery shopping the very evening before the rain started. We bought nearly a month of worth of food. Thankfully, that random decision turned out to be in our favor as such a catastrophe suddenly arrived.”

She stopped for a second before continuing, “As for us cooking chicken at this hour of the night… I’m sure if you guys can wander out of your houses at such an odd time, we can cook at this same hour as well, right? Just joking, we are pulling an all-nighter for a project and felt hungry. That’s why he’s cooking at this hour of the night. Do you gusy still have any more questions?”

As if these people were waiting for this very moment, the doors of all three units of the 20th floor opened and around six to seven more men stepped out, crowding the hallway with their huge frames.

If the group of six from lower floors wasn’t already feeling initmitaded enough, then they were now. Not one or two, but all these people from the 20th floor were dressed in those black leather clothes. They all looked like they were about to chop some real people instead of chicken.

“Is something wrong here? Want me to take care of them?” One of the men, who was the tallest among the group, asked in a deep voice that sent more shivers running down the spines of the six.

The group wasted no more time and quickly started heading back toward the staircase.

“We are sorry that we disturbed you guys this late. We just wanted to make sure that you guys are alright. Now, we should head back. Stay safe you all.” It was the leader who quickly spoke as he and his companions stepped through the metal door, and without wasting another second, literally ran down the stairs and disappeared.

“Why waste so much time on these people? I could have taken care of them on my own.” Nathan said with a shake of his head while the others started returning to their respective units.

Valeska headed toward the metal door to close it and put all the locks in places as she replied, “We can’t go around killing people yet, especially here. Wait for the right time, I’m sure you are going to get more than enough opportunities to kill people left and right.”

Nathan just shrugged his shoulders and left while Valeska made sure all the security barriers were back in their places. She then took out her phone and dropped a message in the group chat.

[The task is done.]

“What a pity, even I could have enjoyed exercising my killing skills.” She muttered with a sigh as she headed toward her own unit.

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By the time morning arrived, the entire Building K12 was aware of what happened the night before. Those six men made sure that everyone was aware of what took place between them and the residents of the 20th floor.

Everyone was surprised to find out that all top three floors of the building belonged to the same person and after hearing about how those people were dressed, there were further speculations about how these people didn’t seem normal.

All those who had been thinking about going upstairs to ask for food, immediately gave up on the idea. But the real question was – how long this fear was going to keep them away from the top three floors?

So far, only ten days had passed since rain started, but there was nearly about a month left before the rain would start slowing down. That was still a long while for people to change their mind once hunger would starve them mentally, physically, and humanly.