Chapter 224: Back to the base
Aiden and his team were now done with collecting all the cores from the zombies they had killed in the morning, and now, after removing the cores from the bodies of the zombies, there was no time left for him to deal with the bodies of the zombies because of how he had been too much engrossed in killing them earlier that he had forgotten about the time.
'I had to deal with the bodies of the zombies tomorrow morning.'
While he wanted to deal with the zombies' bodies today as he feared the spreading of some new disease due to it, however, due to the conditions right now, he couldn't wait here any longer as the sunset was only a few minutes away from now, so he had to hold off taking care of the bodies and go back.
Aiden had decided that he would deal with the corpses first thing tomorrow and wouldn't hold them off as he had done earlier, so now he collected all the cores with Ava's hands in the backpack, which had become quite heavy due to the sheer amount of cores compared to before, but it was still not too much as even when there were more than a thousand cores, Aiden could easily carry them without any difficulties, and considering his physical capabilities were five times stronger than everyone else, it was even easier for him to do this.
He looked at the sun, which was about to go down, and without waiting any longer, he ordered everyone to head off to the base while quickly carrying the backpack on his shoulder in which all the cores were.
Hearing the order of their leader, all the others quickly assembled themselves and packed their things in less than a minute to head off to the base, and even they had now noticed how their leader had instructed them to go back at a similar time around sunset every day, which made them come to the conclusion that there must be something that was making their leader not stay to hunt after that time.
Ava and others didn't know how he had come to that conclusion. However, from everything they had witnessed and experienced until now being together with him, their trust in him was at its absolute peak, so without even questioning his decision one time or asking to stay much longer, as they didn't get too much today and only stood at the back while holding their guns in their hands, excluding the ones who didn't get the opportunity to join the physical fight.
However, even though they only got to fight at the start in the later part of the hunt their leader had become too engrossed in hunting, which caused them also to have the will to fight even more and prove themselves in front of him after receiving the big gift today.
Still, even when there was a fire burning inside them to fight more, they still didn't say or do anything and trusted their leader and started following behind him, who was slowly walking toward the direction of their base.
Aiden, hearing the footsteps behind him, knew that everyone was following, and looking at his big sis right beside him, like always, he said in a calm yet composed voice that exuded his command.
"Follow closely behind!"
Now, after saying what he wanted to say to them, he didn't wait for their reply and suddenly increased the pace of his walking and started running toward their base.
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He didn't just quickly go to a high speed but slowly increased his speed while making sure that everyone was able to follow behind, and after reaching a comfortable speed, which was quite fast for their earlier travel, at the rate they were going, they would reach their base in about 5 minutes.
Aiden didn't feel surprised by this at all, knowing how everyone's physical stats had reached their limit today. While walking, he started to think about the more than 1,500 cores inside his bag, which he had counted as he had told Ava to just collect them as quickly as possible without caring about anything as time was short for them, so he didn't get any information about how many they actually were. However, he still had a general idea because of the system as she had told him earlier that there was an 80% chance of getting red cores, a 15% chance for green cores, and the remaining chance of getting blue cores.
So he could roughly make a guess about how many cores he was going to get. He thought he would surely have enough cores to at least max out the stats like intelligence, defense, and vitality of others in this amount of cores. However, he had decided to hold off on making the decision of giving them the cores for now as he had just awarded them with the gift of maxing out their physical capabilities, which even he knew how hard it was to get strong before these magical things when he was preparing for the world evolution.
He knew they were soldiers, so they should be more than aware of this, and he had also noticed their will to prove themselves in front of him, which seemed quite reasonable to him and appreciated it and was also expecting it after giving the cores as if they didn't even show their enthusiasm after this, he would be upset. However, just like he had expected, they were more than eager to fight.
While it seemed like a good idea to max out their stats using green cores also, he had decided to use all these cores for him and him alone. He didn't know how strong he would be after using the cores but wanted to be as prepared as possible. While dealing with zombies was still too easy for him, he didn't want something unexpected that could cost some losses to his team as they were the people whom he was investing in, so he didn't want them to die, and there were Ava and Isla who had become an irreplaceable part of his life now, and he knew they would be sad if any of their other team members died as he knew they must have been together for years.
He didn't want them to feel sad, which was why he had to be as strong as possible and make sure even if some unexpected surprise came, he could deal with it as he didn't know anything about more crazy things he would encounter in the future.