As the people around busy speculating about his strength, Croco had already closed in towards the person closest to him after deploying his blade arms and the spikes on his back.

Swoosh!

After his evolution, Croco's height and size had shrunk. Right now, his overall height was only below the man's chest. However, his legs had definitely become taller and more flexible.

Like a whip, his left arm traveled towards the man's neck.

The man had just woken up from his momentary daze when he noticed a glint moving towards him. He shivered in fright realizing that it was from the crocodile's blade.

His thought was then ended along with his throat getting sliced in half.

"Attack!" All the men around said in unison as they pounced towards Croco in the middle.

Meanwhile, at this point in time, the man who came along with Nile was already sweating bullets. His beggar clothes had already started to get wet from perspiration.

He realized that he had fucked up big time.

He slowly reached his hand on his back, trying to get the weapon he had hidden there. He planned on helping his struggling companions.

For fucks sake we only want the carabao, where did this crocodile come from?

Life in the town was really hard. A few days ago, there was a sudden influx of mutated animals passing by the town, they thought they would no longer have the problem of food supplies for a week. They didn't expect that the two factions would suddenly arrive, killing the animals for themselves, leaving nothing behind for them.

That's why each of them was tasked to go look for some stray animals around the town. They consist of 15 members in total. All of them are level one. But their circumstances were really difficult, they needed to avoid the hybrids, the two factions, and then the strong zombies just to survive.

At first, they considered joining one of the two factions, however, they were afraid of being killed by that level two human who stared daggers at them during the recruiting process.

They could not join the other gang either as that would mean they are offending the other. Hence they decided to survive on their own.

The two factions agreed but ever since then, their life had become miserable. They could no longer freely hunt zombies, the food in their surroundings was a sweep by the two factions, leaving them to barely survive by the day.

This morning, they're supposed to be leader voiced out his idea. They were supposed to scatter around and lay in ambush in case a stray animal would show up.

There are 7 of them tasked to go around while the remaining eight would stay at the school.

Their leader had also stated that if ever they saw a person who is not donning the two factions bandana while having enough goods, they should lead them to the school and rob the person of his belongings.

He did such a thing, he even spouted some lies just to lure the said person who doesn't have the two faction bandana with goods to the school.

It is just that they didn't expect that a crocodile would suddenly show up, killing some of their members in an instant.

"Don't think about it. Just stay there and watch the show!"

The beggar like the man was forced to halt on his track, hearing Nile speaking above Maximo.

He forgot that aside from the crocodile, they still have this unknown man and his carabao that they should deal with.

He gulped a mouthful of saliva as he realized how fucked they are right now. He suddenly recalled what this man had said earlier,

'Don't dig your own grave.'

His face contorted in fear. 'I'm sorry brothers, I can't help you all right now.'

'Do your best, okay?'

He could only support them in silence, as he was also fighting his own inner struggles.

He was rooted on the spot as he felt cold all over his body. He was eyed by Nile and he couldn't even move an inch due to the fright and pressure he was feeling. It's as if he was stared back by the cold abyss. He imagined that if he ever moved an inch, his head would definitely separate in an instant.

…

All this time, Nile was only observing the fight lazily. Before he instructed Croco, he had already inspected each one of them. He deemed that Croco could deal with them just fine, and if he could not, it wouldn't be too late for him to butt in as he was just literally a few meters away from their small battlefield.

The reason he let Croco deal with them was that he wanted for him to get used to his strength soon.

He coldly watched as Croco slowly plucked the men's life one after the other.

The man beside him could only watch his companions getting butchered one after another. He could not even speak a word and could watch in silence.

Even before they arrived at the school, Nile already knew what the man was up to. His guard was up from the start.

Although he did suspect it from the start, he started to believe it slowly. However, his facade was revealed when he started his story.

His daughter went to school before the sudden apocalypse? What a blatant lie.

It must be noted that before the apocalypse, the government had issued a community lockdown. Only those who were working and those who have something to do can go outside their house.

To take the second medicine, they were only supposed to go towards the Village Hall or the Town Hall. If they couldn't, then the officials should find a way to distribute it to the villagers or townsfolk, it is for everyone's 'cure' after all.

If the man didn't spout some nonsense, then he might still have a chance on fooling Nile. Nevertheless, he was always on guard, so he thought that he would still be able to react in time if ever something happens.

'You think I'm a fool? Tsk!' He said inside his mind proudly.

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