Chapter 33: 33. Lily & missing people

Watching Dexter come back while wiping his lips, the soldiers stared at him with reverence, and some were looking at him in fear.

Dexter stopped beside the soldiers and then he looked back at the road which was littered by dead zombies.

"Hmm... You guys should take the dead zombies to one of the abandoned buildings. They will not allow for free movement. Passing of trucks, I mean." Dexter said and then turned around.

"Yes. Sir!" The soldiers immediately complied and went to clean the mess up.

Not just the soldiers witnessed this but also people within the camp as many of them were looking at him fearfully while some were just overjoyed to have someone as strong as Dexter protecting them.

Dexter enjoyed the free feeling of being in the sun for some reason and looked up while smiling.

He noticed that the others were still busy laughing and chatting in the eatery with other men and Beatrice was nowhere to be found.

Dexter went to their room and took out his phone from his bag along with some snacks before finding a quiet place to sit behind one of the buildings.

Switching the phone on, he saw the wallpaper he used; him hugging a beautiful girl.

He remembers that day clearly. It was her birthday that day and he surprised her with a very expensive present that day.

He chuckled as he looked up to the sky and deeply wished she was alright.

"Pretty."

Hearing a cute voice beside him Dexter turned to see a little girl in a pink gown holding a stuffed doll. She had short black hair and her brown eyes feigned innocence.

Dexter didn't mind her presence and just looked back up.

"She really is pretty." He nodded before looking at the girl. "What's your name?"

"Ah. Mom says to not talk with strangers." The girl said, kicking the ground while pouting.

"Well, my name is Dexter. Now What's your name?"

"I... it doesn't work like that." The little girl smiled at Dexter's personality.

"Also, you were amazing today. I saw how you beat those zombies till they weren't moving anymore." The girl said excitedly and Dexter chuckled.

He looked sideways to see Zain with a confused expression. As Zain turned to Dexter he looked away and walked towards his own corner of the room to rest.

"Ah. Dexter is here." Rina said, noticing him at the corner of the room.

"Is something wrong?" Dexter asked.

Zain cleared his throat as he looked at Leo who still had a cold expression and he looked at Dexter.

"There has been several complaints of missing people inside the camp." Zain explained. "People go out, and then they don't return."

"Huh? Is some kind of monster taking them?" Dexter asked in confusion.

"We don't know. We'll check it out tomorrow morning." Zain said as he picked up another book.

"If it really us some monster then we just have to kill it and come back." Leo said and Dexter dismissed his coat back to his spirit and laid down to sleep.

"You're sleeping this early?" Zain raised a brow and Dexter nodded, still with his eyes closed.

...

The next morning, after breakfast they heard that Laurence was already back but they decided to go and sort out the missing people case first so they left the camp.

"It's described as a bushy area with a tree where they extract wood from." Zain said and Dexter followed them.

Leo slowed down to meet Dexter behind and he reached Dexter's side with a confused expression.

"What did you do?" He whispered as he noticed that Rina started giving him more attention.

Dexter just shrugged.

"I only shifted her focus from me to you. Nothing much."

Leo nodded and now he respected Dexter for what he did with ease. He never had the gift of communicating with people, let a lone girls.

After a while they went behind a building where a small grass field was and they all stared at tree that was cut down with wide eyes.

"W... what? Who... what could do something like this?" Rina mumbled as she stared at the bloody sight.