Apocalyptic Rebirth: With a repairman system space, she rises again. - Chapter 391

Chapter 391: Two beast tango.
As Adam was thinking of a plan to expose the Quinn group and Sunshine Quinn for having dishonorable intentions, another superhuman took charge of the moment.

She was Majorie Gooding, a superhuman that awakened thermal vision abilities. At the age of seventeen, she was more rebellious than some of the superhumans that were willing to follow Adam’s lead.

It helped of course that her father Billy Gooding was also a superhuman with geokinetic abilities and a short temper. People thought twice before talking back to Billy.

She rallied some people to start distributing the cream and medicines. As for weapons, her father and his group took them all.

Power in Silverdale was cracking.

But the residents did not care much about that. They could not see anything beyond what they needed at the moment. In fear for their lives, they began to apply the cream and go indoors.

Soon, the entire town was like a ghost town, with only one man outside, shouting for everyone to return and listen to his commands.

Meanwhile, in Busker, residents had applied cream too but most did not go in doors. Until the fever wasps actually attacked, they planned to continue farming.

Westbrook was in a different kind of trouble. One that almost made the frost stones look like nothing. Sunshine was unaware as she was off in a corner, flirting with her husband.

The affairs of a town that had attacked her people were not of her concern.

“Ma’am,” Carson called out sharply, rushing to her with a tablet in hand. “We have managed to get another drone and camera in Westbrook. You need to see this.”

Hades let go of Sunshine’s hands and she stood up. Carson gestured to Lisha and she tapped her fingers on a keyboard, connecting the video on the tab to one of the screens. Everyone’s breath caught instantly.

Drone K-281 as it specified on the screen showed chaos.

A crocodylus_ massive, scaled, and roaring was storming through the already broken, weary town. Its thick, spiked tail slammed into a half-standing building, sending the top floor crumbling like sand.

Dust burst upward. Its jaws snapped open, revealing rows of dagger-like teeth dripping with steam.

But it wasn’t alone!

Across from it slithered a snake the size of a train. It was twice as thick as the one they had killed in the forest. Its scales shimmering like black metal plates. Two horns curved out of its head, jagged and wicked. The way the scales lifted and shifted with each coil made it look armored.

Some humans escaped from the remains of the crumbling building the crocodylus had struck.

The snake struck first. It lunged with terrifying speed, its jaws swallowed three survivors in one gulp.

“Oooh!” Lisha turned away.

A comms officer ran outside, covering her mouth.

Unexpectedly, the crocodylus struck the snake with a sharp claw. In turn, the snake hissed and bit the crocodylus on the shoulder.

The two beasts tangled and impact shook the ground so violently that the buildings closest to them trembled and pieces fell off.

The crocodylus roared in agony and fury. Its massive claw swiped upward, catching the snake across the face and ripping scales free. The snake recoiled, hissing a sound so sharp the drone’s audio crackled. As it pulled back, its tail whipped around and tore through a metal shelter. The roof split open like it was paper, collapsing on screaming civilians below.

People ran in every direction, some stumbling, some frozen in terror.

“That’s…” Hades gripped the back of a chair so hard. “What are we looking at?”

Sunshine’s eyes stayed glued to the screen, her jaw clenched. “A fight for dominance.”

Lisha came closer, one hand over her mouth. “A monstrous crocodile fighting a horned serpent the size of a building… these truly are the end of days.”

Sunshine pointed at the snake. “This mountain has been designated snake land. The snake queen won’t allow mother beasts to settle here.”

“How many of those things are around us?” Warren shuddered. “My God, they could be inside the bubble shield with us. Inside our walls. In the sewers!”

Sunshine shook her head. “Not here and not on the mountain. The drones scan for their presence everyday. But there are many of them out there in the world.”

The people in the room stiffened. Some swallowed nervously. The giant beasts were nightmare by just watching them. Many had not encountered them yet, and knowing there were more wasn’t comforting at all.

“Should we go and help?” Carson asked.

Sunshine kept her eyes on the screen, withholding a response. She wanted to see who was stronger between the mother beast and a snake queen. Besides, what if after helping, the people threw grenades at them again? Also, who knew how many snakes were lurking nearby?

Maybe this was a plot by the watchers to get the leaders of Fortress four to come out so that the fever wasps got them. It was best to wait.

The crocodylus attempted to bite the serpent’s tail, but the snake twisted with impossible agility, wrapping its coils around the beast’s torso. The pressure made an audible crack_ several ribs snapping under force. The crocodylus roared again, flailing violently. Its tail smashed into a concrete building that somehow remained standing until that moment.

It folded in half, collapsing in clouds of gray dust. People sprinted out of alleyways, clutching children, bags, or nothing at all.

One man tripped, and a woman yanked him up, dragging him through falling debris just in time as the snake’s horn pierced the pavement where he’d been.

Tears pooled in Lisha’s eyes. “Suni, should we send help?”

“No,” Sunshine said immediately, voice cold with resolve. “We offered help before and they acted stupid. I’m not sacrificing my people for those who attacked us.”

The room fell silent. Some people judged her and others agreed with her.

Hades understood her,

Her words were not heartlessness_ it was leadership. Hard leadership.

At that moment, Hadrian jogged toward them, slightly breathless. “Nala and her team are back safely,” he said. “They brought back the trucks which were stranded on the mountain.”

Sunshine rubbed her forehead. “That was good thinking.”

She turned to the soldiers in the room that were looking at the screen with unwilling eyes. They wanted to help but even they knew that getting between the two beasts was a deaths sentence.

“Those who wish to help us set up the filaments should get ready to leave.” Sunshine said firmly.

Within thirty minutes, humans and superhumans climbed into trucks and left the base. As they drove out, Sunshine noticed more watchers on the expanded bubble, clearly lounging and napping.

But Pink was missing.

They reached the base of the mountain and stopped the trucks. Hades hopped out beside her as she opened the box containing the metallic spheres_ the laser filament tubes.

One by one, she lifted a metallic ball, entered coordinates on the device, and released it. Each one zoomed off, streaking through the cold air with a silver-blue flash before burying itself into the ground exactly where she intended. Another.

And another.

And another.

By the time the last sphere disappeared into the distance, a full circle around the whole of Fortress Four had formed.

Hades exhaled. “That’s it.”

Sunshine looked out past the bubble, where the frost drizzle was thinning to nothing. “Now,” she whispered. “Now we wait and see if all the gold we spent was worth it.” And waiting, she knew, was always the hardest part.