What they were doing was gonna benefit everyone in this academy. If they bring back the scroll, everyone would get to know the cause of the apocalypse. So he couldn't really understand why he could wish for them to get bitten by zombies.
Each of them talked about their challenging times, you know, the numerous zombies they've encountered going out of this academy to get foodstuff. Now that they were done talking, it was about time for Abner to speak,
"You know, I've come across numerous zombies going out of this academy, and I've battled and killed many. Some of those days can be very bad. But there was one really bad day, I'll call it the worst day of encountering zombies since I began going out of this academy to get foodstuff".
Abner stopped speaking, sighed, then began speaking once again,