Curse the Mainframe! 172 Four Makes a Party

[Potential: 7]

[Intelligence: 8]

[Luck: 7]

[Determination: 10]

Huh. That wasn't that great, but it wasn't completely terrible either. The stat that Alec liked the most was [Determination].

Alec was lucky that they were speaking in one of the universal languages that was rather widespread, which made this more convenient. Even without the unknown System translating it for him directly in his head, which, annoyingly enough, caused him to feel like he was listening to his thoughts echo, he understood them fine.

Alec started talking before Lukas' expression became hostile, but it wasn't to explain who he was, or how he was able to survive in that horde of zombies without a scratch.

Instead, it was to admonish them. If he was going to stick around them, then he wouldn't condone such behaviour in the future.

He smiled at them; his voice cool. "Did you really just pick up someone out of nowhere without checking who they were first? What if I'd been a zombie?"

Surprisingly, Lukas, who'd been the one that was glaring at him, shifted his attention when he started speaking, glaring at Karen.

"He's right. Karen, you're too careless."

"Hmph. Fine."

[Lukas Roberts Intimacy Increase +100]

Lukas looked straight ahead, introducing themselves. "Lukas. That's Karen, who grabbed you. My brother, Liam."

Alec was baffled. Where had that come from all of a sudden?

"Alec."

Alec stared at the Main Character. Sure enough, he was handsome and had a mature aura about him.

Even when his face was fresh and still youthful, his eyes carried a deeper and more serious feel that didn't match his appearance. It made him seem charming to those around him.

With his dark hair and dark eyes, his face was set in a cool look that was quite stoic. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

In comparison, his twin who was driving appeared like a young university student. Where Lukas was stoic, Liam was quite playful in comparison.

They had the same appearance, but the one who'd been vigilant to him was obviously the Main Character instead of his twin.

Like the two other university students, Karen also appeared like a freshman university student, but the stress over these couple of days had obviously taken their toll, and her eyes were slightly red rimmed as if she'd been crying.

"You're not going to ask?"

Lukas looked at him with a piercing glance for a moment before he shrugged. "I figure no one with bad intentions would admonish Karen first thing if they were going to do anything bad. Besides, I can handle you."

Alec just continued smiling. He wasn't sure what the setting of this world was, but one thing was for certain.

If they were shooting at zombies, then they didn't have any 'powers' that were so common in this type of apocalypse setting.

At least, not yet. In that case, Alec would be fine. He'd already checked, and his Awakening worked just fine.

This jeep was under his command now.

"Where are you headed now?" Alec asked casually. "Do you have a plan or are you just recklessly driving in the middle of a city no less?"

The university students in the car and one regressor looked at the child.

Lukas thought about how much he should reply. Despite knowing that the child likely had no bad intentions towards them, he couldn't let down his guard. That was what had gotten Liam and Karen killed in the last life, after all.

"We're trying to stock up on supplies before the government moves in."

Alec nodded. That was a sound plan, and they weren't completely terrible at fighting. There was another reason that they weren't saying, but it didn't seem like they were willing to talk about it with someone they'd just met.

Lukas understood what that subtle look meant, and his evaluation of the boy went up a few notches. "If there are survivors, they should peek out," he offered as a compromise.

"You only have that gun?" Alec said, pointing at the pistol that was in Karen's hands. "That isn't very efficient."

Lukas' look was evaluating. "What do you think we should do, then?"

Alec looked at the crowbar across Lukas' thighs, and the aluminium baseball bat that was stashed in front. "Nothing close-ranged. Since you don't have any powers yet, then you should stick with a long-range weapon."

Lukas grew more alert when he heard the information that the boy unintentionally let slip in his advice to them. Humanity wouldn't even discover about their own powers until roughly a year later, where they finally managed to 'evolve' as well, yet this boy knew about it?

Was he like Lukas as well?

Was he another regressor?

The vigilance in his heart increased, but for some reason, he felt a faint liking towards the child as well. His advice was well intentioned, and his gaze was pure, unlike so many others who had muddied and vicious gazes that seemed to want to claw into his flesh without letting go.

[Lukas Roberts Intimacy Increase +100]

Why was the intimacy increasing so quickly when he wasn't even doing anything??

Alec shrugged inwardly and placed it aside.

He had no intention of bringing around another person that he couldn't even take out from the stage, so he would just allow it to increase or decrease as it would.

"Where are we going to get that?" Karen said dryly. "In a time of relative peace before this, our city doesn't even sell weapons."

"…Have you already acquired provisions?"

The number of zombies that were behind them were slowly decreasing as they travelled. It was almost a miracle that they were able to continue driving at all considering that the path was blocked in many ways.

Alec pulled out a seal under the three's incredulous eyes and stuck it on the wall of the jeep.

"Hey, hey! What do you think you're doing?" Liam asked curiously. His eyes were wide and pure, and his tone was purely curious instead of confrontational.

"It's a seal," Alec said casually. He didn't think that sharing that with them would cause many problems.

Liam and Karen seemed to take it as a little prank, but Lukas was wary. He could feel the faintest hints of magic from that 'seal'. It just lent more credence to the idea that this child was a regressor as well.

How many more people like him were there?

A few minutes later, they suddenly realized that the zombies that had been doggedly staggering after them had stopped, as if confused, allowing them to continue unhindered.

"What is that? Is that how you were able to avoid the notice of the zombies earlier?"

"Something like that. Instead, you can use your magic to copy the feeling of the zombies. Then they'll think that you're one of them."

"Huh!"

Lukas made an expression that was rather stiff, as if the very notion of doing something like that had never occurred to him. He immediately closed his eyes and started moving what little of the magic that he had inside him.

If this really worked, then what had humanity struggled with for such a long time that they were on the verge of extinction even years later?

Alec moved his gaze from the Main Character and instead looked at Karen and Liam.

As the Main Character's identical twin brother, Liam should have roughly the same potential as him, so there was no problem there. Karen, on the other hand, he had no idea about.

Alec channelled a bit of his magic, zapping both of them at the back of their necks.

The two let out twin yelps, causing Lukas' eyes to fly open and glare at Alec dangerously, fingering the crowbar as if he was about to swing it at Alec regardless of Liam and Karen's opinion.

Alec remained unfazed because he had only been helping.

It was only when Lukas confirmed that there was nothing wrong that he calmed down slightly.

"What was that for?" Liam asked curiously. His free hand rubbed the back of his neck as he concentrated on driving.

"That's magic. Now that you know how it feels, look for it inside yourself."

Although their magic wasn't the same, the properties of magic spanned across worlds and universes, sharing similar properties.

This was as much he could do for them as far as magic went. They would have to do the rest themselves. Let it be said that Alec always returned good to someone who tried to help him in kind.

Chapter end