Hearing Shark's question, it looked like Zain was now at least getting somewhere. He always had a theory that the crystal around his neck might be the thing that saved him when he was attacked by the zombie for the first time. Moreover, it looked similar to the crystals that the zombies had in their bodies.
This theory of the person he crashed into being the same person they knew was like an arrow shot in the dark, but from their reaction, it looked like it had hit a target.
,m "I met her once while I was heading back to my dorm after buying a game. But that was out of pure coincidence," Zain answered.
Shark raised an eyebrow. He wasn't sure if Zian was telling the truth because the latter's response was quite unexpected. However, they were sure that he was like them. Either Zain worked for a private organisation that dealt with similar affairs and knew of the situation or was just part of the military.
'Is he sticking to his student story? I mean, buying games sounds like something kids his age would do. And if he is really an agent, he is a good one and has done his homework." Shark thought.
"Did anyone else bump into a girl of the same description?" Zain asked.
"I mean, I meet people that look like that every day, it's hard to say, but I've never met a scientist," Pink replied.
"It's the same for me." Fingers replied.
"Me doesn't know," Jelly added as well, but Zain wasn't holding out much hope after the other two spoke.
Moving his gun slightly, Zain motioned Kun to carry on his story. After taking a deep breath, he started again with a gulp.
"Most of the club looked normal, how anyone would have imagined it, but the office was set up before we came here. The Radio station and the labelling of all the trays. We asked Jelly if he saw anyone, but you know what he's like."
Even now, Jelly had drooping eyes, and his mouth was wide open, saliva was just trickling from it onto his shirt. He certainly wasn't like the other Reborn but was better than Skittle and Cobra in terms of being more human.
"I assume that the scientist is still contacting you then and has given you a job?" Zain asked.
"Not quite. It's true that someone else contacted us through the Radio. After confirming a few details, it seems like they work for the same private organisation...called the Reborn group, which is where we got our name from."
"They told us things that we didn't know about during our trial, about the Evolved zombies, about the demons that were coming at night, and what we needed to do to survive. They are the reason why we knew about the Brains as well as other things."
"None of this we knew beforehand, but they stated that as long as we help them, they will continue to support us as well, which is why we've been collecting crystals. For now, they have just asked us to continue doing this, and they will soon send help to us."
"I wasn't lying to you, Zain, when I told you we didn't know what the Crystals could do, that is something that only you found out, and we never asked why they needed the crystals either. We're stuck in this situation, and they are the only ones that we can rely on."
"Is it our turn now?" Shark asked. "We told you everything we know, so why don't we ask you? Why are crystals important? Why did you steal them from us, and who are you really working for?"
Zain smiled after hearing this question as he repeated himself once more.
"I already told you who I am. I'm a university student. That's all I am. The crystals, I figured out that we could absorb them to make ourselves stronger and make it so we can survive. In fact, I even showed Kun how to do it.
I don't care about the crystals, you can give them to others or use them to make yourself stronger, but doesn't it make you think? Why was your organisation hoarding them rather than telling you their use? I'm sure they already knew what they could do. Besides, I'm not done with my questions."
"Why were you gathering us? Why were you gathering the Reborn and not telling us all the truth about who you were?" Zain asked.
There was silence in the room. Pink and Fingers wanted to know the answer to this as well.
"Because...they were our orders. To gather those like us, bring them to a safe place, teach them how to fight while being careful of the other side, like you." Shark replied.
Like an excellent agent, Shark was someone who just did as he was told, and it seemed like it was more out of fear than anything else. If they didn't listen to that organisation, then they would be abandoned, and he was uncertain what would happen to them.
At the same time, since they were contractors for the military, there were sure to be others involved who knew the truth, not just this small organisation. Which was the other side that Shark talked about.
Not wanting to correct the latter that he was a student again, Zain decided to do something else since Shark would never believe him anyway.
"Let's head to the office." Zain requested. "We can get in contact with them and see if they'll speak to me."
"We can't do that!" Shark said.
Instantly, Zain moved the gun and pointed it right at Shark's head.
"Since you love following orders so much, I'll use your language so you can understand a bit better. That wasn't a request; it was an order."
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