Nah, it wasn't Zahar. The guy was busy saving his own hide.
The people who summoned random box were nothing but disappointed as it turns out the random box really lived up to it's name as it gave miscellaneous things like ropes, stones, stone slabs, woods, planks, hell someone even got a new variety of food source. Only a small minority got weapons and they had no choice but to run for their lives, but they weren't the only ones.
Trisha and Eva homed on the people who were trying to flee with their weapon and 'kindly' requested to borrow them.
Any thoughts of protest was thrashed when they saw the duo running towards corrupted, their determination to grow strong as fast as they can etched in their mind.
Fortunately for them the horde did not include any runner. Unfortunately for them, none of the corrupted died in a single strike. Looks liked they were more resistant than zombies.
Eva with her sword cut down any corrupted that tried to surround Trisha, or she tried to. Trisha too didn't had any hands on experience for this kind of stuff. Luckily they had each other. And their meat shields? One ran away and one was too busy shadow boxing.
After what felt like hours, they finally cleared the hoard. Most of the survivors were standing far away cowering in fear, some ran away, some dead and the ones that remained were thoroughly exhausted.
The only good news was Trisha among with few more got leveled up and started customizing any face, happy to change their face as they see fit.
After catching their breath the group finally agreed to form a temporary shelter some distance away from this carnage along with the distant survivors.
Thanks to Zahar the duo learnt how to access the mystery box and got themselves some berries, noting that some of the wild bushes shared similar fruits. Thanks to this information the remaining people started gather same food source.
Just like that, ight fell and the ones who ran away were 'volunteered' for night watch, even though no one slept thanks to all the howling and growling that kept everyone on edge. Clearly showing that no one trusted anyone in the group.
The sound died down at dawn, signifying the arrival of the day, along with a new message from Lord Ding. No one paid attention to that grim announcement as they all were more focused on devouring the food.
After breakfast the group disassembled to find something useful, each going their separate way, something that will help them build a shelter or better, find a sturdy ones with walls. Trisha and Eva decided to search separately to cover more area, get some peace of mind but like a fly, two people followed Trisha, clearly intended to tag along.
They tried to strike conversation but only met silence from her. The third member, Nux, one with short temper on the brink of insanity finally snapped and couldn't help but attract attention.
It's around that time they met another survivor, hoping to bait him and make a run for it. His face was covered but Trisha saw it clearly.
She was half convinced that creature might not be human, regardless of that, she was angry and half expecting all the pests to die. Little did she know that's what exactly going to happen.
Just as the morons were about to ambush the new guy, he staggered and fell, or that's what he made it looks like until a pained scream could be heard from near them, a spark of surprise flickered in her eyes as she saw Zahar falling while clutching his leg.
What surprised her more was that the new guy turned and started killing the corrupted runners. The remaining two stopped and just like stupid crowd enjoying in the middle of a danger zone watched the show in awe. He wasn't just killing them, he was slicing them in a single strike each! Something that none in the camp did. Were the runners that weak or he that strong?
After the clean up, the guy walked towards Zahar, it was clear that he won't live long and unlike what one would expect, there was no crying or begging for mercy in this drama, he clearly he gave up.
"You reap what you sow." muttered the new guy and stabbed Zahar in the neck, the scene made Trisha instinctively cover hers. It looked like a well rehearsed script by how he killed another person. No hesitation. No second thoughts. No mercy. Just cold....amusement? Wait, was he smiling?
They didn't had time to ponder as he grabbed Zahar's dagger and walked towards them, "Y-You're a murderer! You killed a person." suddenly she heard her teammate. Only then she understood what was going on.
"Yay! Great Discovery! You must be a genius to figure that out." said the guy mockingly.
"Didn't you said you will tell on me to cops?" he said, his tone amused. I thought drama wasn't part of the deal? What changed?
"W-Wait! We can talk! There's no need to get physical here." stammered Nux while taking steps back.
"Ah, what a political way to say don't kill me. Don't worry, I won't." just as he said those words, he disappeared from his place and stood right in front of Nux.
"I'll just send you to Jesus." and the next thing they knew, another person died and everything fell silent.
[You just couldn't help it, could you?]
...Other than this guy of course.