Chapter 36: 36. Almost caught the culprit

Dexter walked to the soldiers who were smoking at the entrance, and surprisingly, the smoke didn't affect him.

'Looks like my heart sickness is gone too. Becoming a vampire is ALMOST a great thing.' He thought.

Flashbacks of how he always visited the hospital every month replayed in his head and he just shrugged it off.

"Where are those people headed?" Dexter asked one of the soldiers.

"Oh. They are part of the cooking section. So they are going to get more wood." The soldier replied.

Dexter nodded and followed behind the group of people at a safe distance of 50 metres.

...

"I'm so stressed. Why do we have to get the wood at night?" A guy among the group of three asked tiredly.

"Because, Jake, those monster pigeons don't fly at night. It's safer."

"Have you guys heard the rumors of people missing around the wood tree?"

"Lary, you don't have to worry. Those are just rumors. It's not confirmed yet." Jake said and they proceeded to the tree.

Dexter climbed a tree and gazed at the surroundings from below to see if anyone followed the group and he didn't see anything.

'Maybe they wouldn't show up today?' Dexter thought as he then sat down to wait for the group to return while being atop the tree.

"I don't feel sleepy. Weird." Dexter mumbled, looking at the lonely star in the sky.

All of a sudden, a loud shout resounded from behind the buildings where the wood tree was and Dexter immediately sprung up from the tree, dashing towards the area.

But he got there too late.

Dexter's eyes widened as he saw the three individuals bloodied and battered with bleeding wounds all over their bodies.

His vision the flashed red and his pupils turned bright red like a flash light.

'No no no.' He shook his head as the smell of blood began to cloid his senses.

He then pinched his nose, closing it. It immediately worked as he was able to see clearer and he saw words painted with blood on the tree.

'Stop looking for me. Or else you're next.'

Dexter only raised a brow at this and he sighed as he began to investigate the issue.

Unbeknownst to him, someone saw him coming in.

...

*8th day since the apocalypse began.*

"You saw that?" Zain asked as he listened to Dexter's report.

"I wouldn't want to see that." Rina said, nauseated at Dexter's descriptions of the killed people last night.

"Hmm. The person could have some kind of teleportation ability if you didn'tfind any trace of them when you got there," Zain said while stroking his chin.

"I was thinking we should announce that no one should leave at night. So many problems at once." Dexter slumped back on his bed.

Leo wasn't saying anything as he was in deep thought about the whole situation.

...

After that, Zain went to report the incident to Laurence and Rina went to meet Beatrice to gather the recruits to continue training.

Dexter just stayed above the roof of their small building while still thinking about how life has been treating him.

'From working hard, bearing the insults hurled at me. Ignoring the pain of losing Dad. Now I gotta fight zombies, still working hard to survive.' He sighed. 'I wonder if a time would come when I won't have to work for anything.'

Of course, he knew that his imagination was not going to be easy to achieve.

From the corner of his eye, he saw a light flashing and he turned to the light to see a person in a hood waving to him from behind The colonel's building.

Dexter sighed as he ignored the person.

'Don't stress me. If you can't come to me then leave me alone.' He thought as he continued looking at the sky.

It continued and he continued to see flashes of light beside his vision and he got angry and jumped down from the roof before walking towards the colonel's building in rage.

As he got there he saw Leo resting his back on the wall with a calm expression.

"You didn't come yesterday." Leo said and Dexter wondered what was going on.

But then it dawned on him.

"You're the one that wrote than note?" Dexter asked with a raised brow and Leo nodded.

"I know your secret, Dexter. But why did you do it?" Leo said and surrounded them in a thick ice dome.