"Finn?!"
"Kid, where were you hiding yesterday?"
"Yeah, you were nowhere to be found. We thought you..."
People from the same settlement as Finn immediately asked with concern.
"Everyone!"
Finn waved his hand to quiet everyone down, then said, "I arrived here with everyone yesterday, but due to my awakened ability, I accidentally discovered a secret here. Because of that, I was locked up until just now when Elijah rescued me!"
"What secret could be so serious that it required imprisoning someone?"
"Yeah, what gives them the right to imprison people? We could just not join them!"
Faced with the newcomers' questions, Finn took a deep breath.
"Some of you may have already guessed the secret. Elijah just described it, and it involves the meat you've been eating!"
"The meat we've been eating?"
"Could it be spoiled meat?"
"Or zombie meat that's been frozen for years?"
"None of those. What you've been eating is actually human flesh, and it's from zombified humans!"
Finn's words struck like a bolt from the blue, leaving everyone stunned and dizzy.
"Impossible!"
"There's no way we could have been eating...ugh..."
Although they couldn't believe it, the facts were undeniable. They couldn't refute it.
For a moment, the sounds of vomiting filled the hall, and the smell quickly became unsettling.
"Cough! Cough! I know this is hard to accept and very distressing, but there's no need to keep vomiting. After all, what you've eaten has mostly been digested. What you're vomiting now is the normal food from lunch, which is a waste!"
Elijah's words brought a momentary silence.
Seeing this, Elijah nodded in satisfaction and continued, "The person responsible for all of this is the man at my feet, the true leader of this group, Matthew!"
"Damn it, I'm going to kill him!"
An enraged newcomer immediately rushed forward to kill Matthew.
"Don't move!"
The awakened ones guarding Matthew quickly stopped him.
She had witnessed Elijah's battle with a third-tier zombie and was aware of his combat prowess and abilities.
If he could handle a zombie capable of wiping out an entire settlement, it made sense that he could subdue a larger one.
Nora was thrilled to be in the hotel, as it was the first time since the apocalypse that she had seen so many people.
Abigail had hidden the mutated zombies Elijah controlled nearby and didn't bring them to the hotel, accompanying Elijah instead.
Now, Elijah had fewer than ten zombies left under his command, all with crucial and unique abilities such as invisibility, strength, speed, etc.
These were his last cards and necessary for the journey back to Azure Isle.
Currently, there was strong aversion towards zombies within the YLK group, with even Kylie being subtly ostracized.
If not for Elijah's presence, Kylie's situation would likely be dire.
This was also why Elijah didn't allow Abigail to bring the zombies over.
Wendy wasn't surprised to learn that Elijah had more people nearby.
After discovering that Elijah had the same abilities as Matthew, she had already figured it out.
After all, Elijah had used several different abilities, which implied that there were several people he had contracted with nearby whose abilities he could mimic—or zombies!
What surprised Wendy was that she couldn't read the minds of the three newcomers.
At that moment, she realized that one of these people must have the ability to counter her powers.
This person was the reason she could never read Elijah's mind.
"You're... Kylie?" Lillian was surprised when she first saw Kylie after being brought to the top floor of the hotel by Elijah.
"You know her?" Elijah asked curiously.
"Of course, Kylie's YLK company is one of our partners. Many of our cosmetic products come from her company, and Kylie is also a VIP client of ours!" Lillian explained.
"Oh? That's why you look familiar!" Wendy immediately recognized her after Lillian's explanation.
"I used to go to your shop for beauty treatments, but I didn't see you very often!" Wendy began to chat casually.
However, Kylie didn't react much to Lillian's recognition.
Lillian found this strange, so Elijah explained the situation, and she understood.
Trusting Elijah, she hadn't used her ability initially, so she hadn't noticed Kylie's condition right away.
When she activated her good and evil perception ability, she found that Kylie emitted the same glaring red aura as Abigail.
No matter how harmless Abigail and Kylie appeared, they were zombies and had a natural hunting instinct towards humans.
This was the reason for their red aura.