Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse-Chapter 104: There’s something wrong with the stadium?

Three days later....

The journey had taken longer than they’d expected. Every kilometre or so they’d come across R2s. Each battle took a sizable amount of time since there were MR2s in every group of beasts they met.

Some groups even have two or more MR2s. Muku had to get involved in some of the battles to speed things up. Not wanting to drag out the battles too long and draw even more trouble. Which, of course, used a decent amount of his mana, meaning he couldn’t move the mansion for as long as they would have liked.

Of course, it wasn’t all bad. As after all the battles. Muku’s KP reached 2.5%, Audrey’s 3.5%, Jade’s 3%, and Layla’s 3.5%. Chloe 4%. Emily at 3%, and Hope also at 3%. Although they hadn’t managed to reach even 5%, it took a lot of killing for them to even reach their current numbers. They couldn’t help but feel a bit disheartened remembering the number of beasts they killed compared to the Kill points they got. Reaching PR2 seemed like a faraway task at that point.

Unfortunately, they still couldn’t find even a single unranked beast. Though it made sense considering how numerous R2s were in the area. Any unranked beast that cared about its life would definitely run as far away from the area as it could. Or live as deep into the ground as it could.

"Finally!, The stadium!" Jade exclaimed while looking into the distance.

They had finally made it after the longer-than-expected journey. Although they wanted to get stronger, fighting so many beasts in such a short time after a long "drought period" was a bit overwhelming for them.

Soon, they reached two kilometres away from the base and stopped there. This time they wanted to get closer but they could sense that something was wrong. Not the fact that there was no grass around the area since it seemed the grass only grew in the area covered by the rain from before. What seemed out of place was that there were now a couple of guards in front of the stadium, at the edge of the barrier.

On top of that, unlike last time. No people were loitering around the place. They would have thought that the place was deserted if not for the guards. These things were enough for the group to be vigilant since there was no way so many people would want to stay inside the stadium all day. They’d at least move around the barrier since there were a few metres to move around outside the stadium but within the barrier. Which they had been doing before.

Also, the guards didn’t look like good fellows. Although their appearance didn’t scream "we’re bad guys" like the punk gang, they still gave off the feeling. Just like how you can just look at a person once and feel like they are nothing good. Jade was the first to notice something weird then notified the others and Muku.

"So, what are we gonna do?" Emily asked Muku. The others also looked at him waiting for him to decide.

"Hmm, Since we don’t know what’s happening, why don’t we do this. Me and Audrey will go look around first while the rest stay here?" Muku suggested.

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"What, no fair! I want to go too!" Jade immediately objected to the plan; she wanted to go, too. What if something was interesting going on like last time?

"Brother!, I want to go as well!" Hope spoke resolutely. She also didn’t want to stay behind. The others gave Muku a look that suggested that they wanted to go too.

"Sigh, you guys, we need people to watch the mansion okay?" Muku tried to reason with them but the look in their eyes didn’t change. They really wanted to go along. Again, he was reminded of how he was surrounded by children, which made his head hurt a bit.

"Sigh, fine, we’ll do it like this. You’ll all have rock-paper-scissors matches, and the first two to reach ten wins will come along" Since he really couldn’t take them all, he chose an alternative where at least some of them would be appeased.

And so, the girls had their matches. Chloe reached ten wins first and, with a gleeful smile, went to stand beside Audrey. Her face became a bit smug as she looked at the others. Which made the others feel like beating her up, but they managed to hold back. Who would have thought that she would display such Jade-like behaviour? But then again, they probably would have done the same in her position.

Another round of matches was then carried out. Surprisingly, the winner this time was little Elsa, who had somehow weaselled her way into a match she shouldn’t have been qualified for. Maybe in the heat of the moment, the others didn’t notice the extra hand. Jade tried to complain about it but Muku silenced her with an immortal saying that’s undeniable...."A win is a win!"

And so the little team consisting of Muku, Audrey, Chloe, and Elsa left for the stadium. All under the gaze of the jealous gazes of Jade, Hope, Emily and Chloe. Surprisingly little Elsa wasn’t anxious about leaving Emily’s side anymore, which was likely because she had gotten really close to Audrey in the past few weeks.

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At the stadium gate...

"Hey look!, people are coming this way." (Guard 1)

"Oh!, you’re right. There are some girls too!" (Guard 2)

"Nice!, new meat!" (G1)

"Tsk!, like we’ll get to have even sloppy seconds while standing out here" (G2)

"Sigh, the boss is really cruel to us, keeping all the goodies to himself and his closest gang members" (G1)

"Yeah, but at least we get to eat our fill right"? (G2)

"Stop talking they are getting close" (G1)

The guards immediately stopped talking as Muku’s group got closer. What they didn’t know was that other than Elsa, everyone else in the group could hear them from the start. Luckily for them, Muku’s group wanted to find out more before acting. And Jade wasn’t around or they might have lost a few limps on the spot.

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"Which are you and what’s your business here?" Guard 1 asked seriously as soon as Muku’s group reached them. But his lecherous gaze would scan at the girls from time to time.

"We’re...what are we?...oh right!, we’re okay I can’t think of anything, do you have any ideas? I feel saying that were random survivors who came to seek shelter would be too easily seen through as a lie" Muku, who had never had to be sneaky before, couldn’t think of anything. And with how clean they looked and how rosy their faces were, it would be easily found out that they were lying if they said they were struggling survivors who came to seek shelter.

He could also see the look in the guards’ eyes that they wouldn’t believe it either if they said such a thing. Along with their twitching lips from annoyance. They were thinking, how could he so easily say such things in front of them? To think he didn’t even think them worthy of even a flimsy little lie. They’d have beaten him up and thrown him away if the boss hadn’t instructed them to let anyone who came in if they didn’t seem too strong. There’s no way this kid could possibly be strong with such brain problems?

"Umm, why not just tell them the truth then?" Audrey replied that she and the others also couldn’t think of anything believable on the spot. Hell, they were already suspicious looking at how she was carrying a blood-red suitcase and covering her face with a black veil.

"Ah, good idea! We don’t need to be sneaky anyway. You see, two sirs, we’re old friends of Tom and Dom; we came for a visit" Muku, who couldn’t think of a lie, chose to use connections instead. Of course, they could also use force since the two guards weren’t too strong, radiating auras around semi-MR1. But the situation hadn’t gotten to that point yet, and they weren’t brutes after all.

They might be wrong about something being wrong in the base, only to find out that it was just a change of rules. Of course, the words of the guards from before suggested that something was wrong, but who knows? There might be a misunderstanding somewhere somehow.

"Oh, you’re friends with leader Tom and his brother!? Why didn’t you say before? Anyway, you’re free to go in, I’m sure they would be glad to see you again. Especially in the apocalypse where when people separate even for a few hours, it’s not guaranteed that they’d meet again" Hearing Muku mention Tom, Guard 2 immediately interjected. He had been trying to find a way to get them to enter inside without raising suspicion.

After all, from their interaction so far, no guard would let in such sketchy people. So if he and his friend easily let them in, it would raise suspicions and might even scare them away.

"You’re right, you’re right. Thank you for not finding trouble with us; I’ll definitely say a few good words to Tom about you two," Muku replied enthusiastically, seemingly completely fooled by the two guards. And so, he and his group went into the stadium.

"Hehe, what naive idiots, to willingly enter a lion’s den with smiles on their faces" Guard 1 spoke after Muku’s group were a bit of distance away from them.

"Shh, they might still be able to hear you, you idiot", Guard 2 rebuked his dumb friend, who didn’t know when to remain shut.

"Don’t worry, they are too far to hear me. In a bit, we’ll likely start hearing the girls screaming" Guard 1 ignored the warning and continued talking.

"Tsk, whatever, I’m not talking to you anymore", Guard 2 replied with some exasperation; he felt that he’d lose some of his brain cells if he kept on talking to this idiot.

As they spoke, Muku’s group made their way into the arena. They were immediately greeted by a scene out of every woman’s nightmare as soon as they got in.