Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse-Chapter 64: Personal base acquired!

"Hey, I got an idea! Why don’t we make this our base? I mean sure, we could go back to the stadium or even go to the university, but wouldn’t our own private base be a lot better than those crowded places?". Jade suddenly said, prompting everyone into thought.

And honestly, no one was against it. They had gotten used to the company of each other so much that living in a crowded area with a lot of strangers didn’t sound very appealing to them.

"Hmm, what about our family members if we find them?". Emily asked, she still had the hope of finding her family members.

"Simple! We just bring them here; this place can house at least fifty people from its large size...quite frankly, no offence, Chloe, but I think your father was crazy when he built this mansion and left you alone in it". Jade replied to Emily while conveniently cursing Chloe’s dad while at it. Which made Chloe smile wryly since she couldn’t disagree with her words.

"If it’s like that, then I accept, I also don’t like living with thousands of random people if it can be avoided. But we’ll have to at least go check the university out just in case some of our family members are there". Emily agreed to Jade’s idea.

"Then I guess we might as well go gather food and some other necessities for the rest of the day. It’s still only midday after all, and we don’t have anything else to do anyway" Layla chimed in, expressing her agreement with her words.

Muku, who had chosen to take a back seat in the discussion, just nodded in agreement along with Hope and Audrey. He quite liked it when they didn’t always look to him for every decision. They were living in perilous times, so the group shouldn’t depend on him for everything. As it would be broken the moment something happens to him that way, which he didn’t want to happen.

And so the group got to it. There were a few food shops close by, so it didn’t take long for them to collect what they needed.

"Hmm... unlike Chloe here, the rest of us still need clothes; any idea where we can get them, Chloe?" Layla asked while looking at Chloe.

"Well, the closest is the mall....the same one where the spider lived". Chloe replied then left the decision of what they will do to the rest of the group.

"There’s no way it could have covered the whole place with webs, right? So let’s go check it out" Emily gave her opinion.

"I want a phone, so lets go check it out!" Hope gave her opinion as well, her reason making the others smile wryly. Though they couldn’t disagree that they also wanted one, modern-day people basically can’t live without a phone after all.

"Well, we still got a bit of daylight left, we might as well go". Muku spoke, and with that, they went...

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I’m in front of the mall...

Scorched earth, craters and smashed cars...the place looked like a war zone.

"Wow, did Emily and Layla do all of this!?" Hope exclaimed looking at the ruined area. This was the first time they revisited their battle scene after all.

"Hey! You were part of that battle, too, you know!". Emily shouted out.

"True, but...have you ever seen poison that burns the ground or stabs it, leaving a huge hole in it?". Hope retorted with a smug smile that made Emily want to throw a fireball at her face; even Layla gave her a side glance before looking away. But neither of them could deny her statement.

"Yeah, we know Emily and Layla are destructive, but....where are the bodies?". Jade spoke, and that’s when Emily said Hope realised that there wasn’t even a single beast body on the scene, from the spider queen to the unranked spiders; everything was gone.

"They’ve probably already been devoured by other beasts; it’s been a while since we left after all", Layla spoke, answering Jade’s question, though she knew Jade was just asking a rhetoric question since it’s quite easy to come to such a conclusion without even thinking much.

"Yeah, it makes me wonder if we can also eat beast meat...sure, not the spiders, but that lizard and snake meat seems quite tasty". Jade said soon after Layla finished speaking.

"So that’s was your aim from the start huh!?, I already told you that no one is going to be eating alien meat in our group! Who knows what it will do to us!?" Muku quickly shut Jade down again. He was wondering why she’d asked an obvious question before, but after her follow-up, he realised she was just building up to the matter she’s been mentioning every now and then ever since a while back.

"Come on, man! You know I have beast instincts, right? So if I feel like something is okay, then it is.. probably". Jade defended herself, but her last word made those who were planning to support her quickly lose confidence.

"Fine! We’ll do it like this: as soon as our current food ends, we’ll try some beast meat, okay?". Muku relented a bit, he knew she’d keep on saying it until she got her way, so he might as well compromise for the sake of peace.

"Yay!, I can’t wait!" Jade was happy. She could accept waiting for a while since evolvers like them ate a lot of food. Their consumption had been getting even higher the stronger they got, so even if they managed to gather a lot of food, it would only last them a few days at most, and she’d finally get to try beast meat!

"Good, now shut up so we can get to business and quickly return home". Muku said to her as he began walking toward the mall, which was still as dark as ever. The rest followed behind him. Jade didn’t even argue with what he said because she was afraid he might take back his words about beast meat if she argued with him.

"Did the spiders break all the lights or something?". Hope asked after stepping into the dark building.

"Hmm, let me try something". Chloe said then walked toward a certain corner then...

Click!

After a little sound, the lights of the whole building came on. Then they noticed that all the windows were covered with webs, which was why the whole building was so dark even though it was daytime. It appears the spider came in during the day when the lights were turned off.

"Oh, that’s a lot better...or not," Hope said with a smile that quickly disappeared.

The first floor was covered with spider webs left and right. And there were human-sized cocoons all over the place, along with large spider eggs that were a lot more than the cocoons. The sight looked quite horrific as the human-sized cocoons had humans in them who were likely the food prepared for the spiders that would hatch out of the hundreds of eggs lying around. So Hope’s short-lived happiness was understandable.

"Should I burn everything?" Emily said her eyes already glowing fiery gold, anger visible in them.

"Do that and you’ll burn down the whole mall, might even burn down a few other buildings as well," Muku spoke, indirectly saying no.

"Layla", Muku called out; Layla nodded, then...

"Frozen world". Layla said in a low voice, and then frost spread out all over the room, freezing everything in place. Only the area they were standing wasn’t frozen. Not because she has great control but because Muku set up a field.

"Break". She said again then..

Crack! Crack! Crack!..... Boom!

All the spider eggs that had been frozen exploded into frozen chunks that went all over the place. Everyone including Muku were startled by Layla’s display. He thought she was going to toss ice arrows that would freeze in place at them or something.

He could have taken care of it, but no one wanted to see how the spider eggs looked like squashed or with swords going through them with juices flowing out of them. Even Chloe could have killed them with her lightning, but that would have cooked them. But again, no one wanted to know what they smelled like after being cooked. The place was already stinky enough.

"Interesting spell". He couldn’t help but comment.

"Thanks". Layla said, a slight smile surfacing on her face for a second before it went back to being neutral.

"Can we continue now?". Jade said, visibly jealous. He had never complimented any of her spells!.

After that, they headed for the frozen escalator to the next floor. Basically ignored the first floor, barely could stomach looking at it. The second floor was mostly filled with clothes stores, so they looked into that. Luckily, some shops had their doors closed, or the bad smell from the spiders would have gotten on the clothes like most of the clothes on the floor. Everyone, including Chloe, who already had clothes back home, filled up a huge bag with as many clothes as they could. She was a girl, after all; how could she ever say no to clothes?

The third floor was filled with utility and tech shops. Everyone got what they wanted. The latest mobile phones and laptops even got spares. Another big bag was filled. The girls tossed in everything they found appealing; after all, Muku was going to carry everything with his telekinesis, so they didn’t have to worry about it causing them problems. As for causing him problems?...well that’s his problem.

After getting everything they wanted, the group left the mall and returned to Chloe’s mansion, or is it their mansion?...