Chapter 49:Hurt

'Summon'

Anik put the F-tier essence in his mouth from his right hand which was still able to move but barely.

And he slowly closed his eyes as he heard the helicopter sounds coming towards his way.

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IN THE HELICOPTER

"Old man drew, quickly land there on the open ground near the half standing building." Luna said the old man drew.

The old man nodded and flew towards the half standing building. The team were very scared for Anik's life after seeing him jumping into that mutant mouth.

But somehow he killed that thing and survived.They are still in shock however they are more worried about his life for now.

After landing on the ground luna and the team quickly run towards Anik to see a fully burnt and unrecognisable face and body.

Sophia immediately checked his breathing and pulse to see if he is life. Sophia just sighs in relief and tells them to carry Anik to the helicopter.

Ace and Jonathan carry Anik carefully while Luna and Holden keep an eye on the surroundings for any zombies or mutants.

*Step*step*step**Step*step*step*

"Quick,run" Luna said while aiming her gun to running zombies towards them from afar.

*Bang*bang*bang*bang*

Luna and Holden distract the zombies as Ace, Jonathan and Sophia carry Anik the helicopter.

The old man already started the helicopter and after a few seconds the ace, Jonathan and Sophia carrying Anik.

"Oh my god,what happened to the kid." Old man drew said with a worried face.

"Old man drew, just fly up quickly."Ace said while looking through the window seeing hundreds of zombies coming towards them.

"Sh*t,We didn't think they would come after us this quick." Jonathan said worryingly.

Ace immediately throws a rope as the helicopter hover away from the group signalling luna and Holden to retrieve quickly.

Luna and Holden quickly run towards the helicopter as they were getting circled by the zombies.

Seeing the rope from the helicopter,he immediately jumped high to catch it and were successful and tightly hold them.

Ace and Jonathan them quickly pull them in the helicopter.

"Take us outside the city towards the forest." Luna said and then the old man flew towards their destination.

"Luna,wash your hands with sanitizer and help me remove his remaining clothing from this body." Sophia said to luna after sanitising her own with the sanitiser and giving it to Luna.

Sophia then immediately starts to slowly remove his remaining clothing carefully with her equipment.

Luna also quickly stands by to help Sophia give anything she needs and help removing or cutting by scissors.

20 MINUTES LATER

"His clothes are all sticking with his skin and we are only a quarter way there." Luna said with a worried face.

"He heart is barely beating and he is taking time to heal very slowly after I gave him an essence too. Did that mutant fire be poisonous too." Sophia said with a concern and worried face.

"Should we land here?" The old man drew asked Luna and she nodded after seeing the surrounding first which was all forest around them with no real man made structure.

"Everybody started building camp for now. We are staying here for tonight." Luna said to the team.

After that, everyone on the team started unloading the things while they were still removing small pieces of clothes from Anik body carefully.

After 5 hours,they were able to successfully remove all the clothes from Anik body and bandage his whole body up.They are inside a tent.

"Ah--" Both feeling tired after bandaging Anik fully just sit down with silence.

"Oh,did you finish treating Anik.I have brought food from you guys." Jonathan said peeking from outside with two MRE bags which were hot and opened.

Both then quietly leave the tent to eat outside.

"He will be fine. Don't worry. Didn't you see he was healing ." Luna said to Sophia in a reassuring way.

"I know but still he is healing very slowly." Sophia said with a worried face.

"Just eat for now.He will wake up soon and you will be able to angrily complain to him all you want."Luna just smiles too again reassuring her and starts eating her share .

Sophia just started eating her share without refuting Luna.

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AT NIGHT:-11:54 PM

"Eh..Agh.. Sophia" Anik said feeling pain all over his body and seeing Sophia with a tired face beside him inside the tent sleeping by putting her head on the military bed he was sleeping in.

He just started looking towards her thinking deeply about something.

*BEEP*BEEP*BEEP*

Anik got out of his thoughts after hearing the beep sound from the watch Sophia was wearing.

Sophia wakes up after hearing the alarm for somehow she fall asleep to wake her up for bandage checking if it was hindering the healing.

But she didn't think waking up to see Anik looking at her with deep look.

"Ahh-"Both were shocked to see each other wake up and Anik looked away quickly

"How are you feeling?" Sophia asked with a bit of worry.

"Alive and kicking" Anik said to her with a smile to lighten the mood but his smile soon fade away looking at Sophia angry look with pain.

"How are you thinking light of this situation when you were barely alive.Your whole body was burnt to crisp and there was no skin left.Your heart was barely beating." Sophia said to Anik with a angry and worried face.

"I am sorry." Anik could only say sorry to her without any excuse.

"Sorry doesn't cut it. Do you know how worried your friends were and I would lo-se y-you..." Sophia said crying at the end.

Anik for the first time started to fill pain and guilt in his heart for others in this world seeing her cry for him. He didn't know why he felt to comfort her and painfully lift his right hand to hold Sophia hand resting on the bed.

"I will be fine.Don't now."Anik said in a reassuring way.

Feeling touch on the hand, Sophia looked at Anik holding her hand tightly ans hearing him saying her he will be fine financially but her to some comfort.

After some silence looking at each other, Sophia give Anik some painkillers and started checking his bandages.

"How are others doing?" Anik asked Sophie while she he was changing his bandage.

"Luna and Ace are patrolling the area and others are sleeping.We will tell them in the morning about you waking up." Sophia said to him.

He just nodded.

'Aafai,was I barely alive back there.' Anik said with some concerns.

[Yes]

'So, that's why you told me to eat the F-tier essence quickly.' Anik thought.

[If you didn't eat that essence you may well be dead a few minutes later.]

Anik for the first time thinks,his plan should have being more well thought out .

'I should have been more careful about my planning and strategy.' Anik regrets his decision.

[You aren't always going to win and something backing could be more beneficial.]

'I think the power get to me.I should have let other zombies and mutant tired it out and then attack him. I have underestimated it even more.' Anik thought to himself.

"Why you look so regretful.The past is gone. What you did wouldn't change,just be more careful about your actions. And what impact it can cause on you and others near you." Sophia said to Anik who was looking depressed.He nodded.

*Grumble~*Grumble~*

Sophia seeing Anik stomach growling,try to cook a self heating MRE but Anik summon a hot canned food.

Sophia was shocked to see an hot canned food to appear out of nowhere but she has seen many ridiculous appear out of nowhere from Anik.

She looked at him just to see him smile. She finished checking his bandage quickly and added another pillow to his head to make it easier to eat.

She then pick up the caned food which was still hot but cool enough to eat and scoop it with a spoon and cooling it slightly by bowling it with air.

Anik just quietly eating with her help without asking anything.

To be continued...