“Victor, we agree to your terms,” Lisa Svyatova answered for everyone.

***

First of all, it was necessary to solve the most pressing problem: how to carry Lisa with her broken leg? But then I remembered that I saw a wrecked ambulance upstairs. These usually have stretchers for transporting patients, this would immediately solve the problem.

“You and you,” I pointed to the two closest girls. “Come with me, together we will look for a stretcher for your friend.”

Both girls looked at Lisa in fear, but she nodded in the affirmative, confirming my words. All three of us climbed onto the collapsed bridge. The seen picture shocked the girls, they immediately turned pale and froze. I crawled between two overturned cars, stepped over a charred corpse and went out to the ambulance.

- I won't go there! - suddenly declared one of my companions, the second also stood still with eyes wide with horror.

I turned to the stubborn girl and asked her name.

“Kotova Maria,” the frightened girl answered quietly.

- That's it, Masha. We just agreed on everything. Therefore, either you go and help me get a stretcher, or I refuse to take you to the boarding school. Such horror is now happening all over the Earth, so you have to get used to it.

Masha sobbed and looked at her friend for support. But her classmate resolutely stepped over the lying corpse and stood next to me. I praised the brave girl and said that she would definitely be able to survive in the new world.

“My name is Masha Gavrilova,” the schoolgirl replied, obviously flattered by the compliment.

- All right, Masha-Second. Go up there and see if a triangular ship is flying across the sky. If you see danger, immediately shout to us.

The girl obediently nodded and ran to fulfill the order. But her friend, left alone, suddenly burst into tears and ran downstairs to the rest of her classmates. I waved my hand in frustration and went to the ambulance myself.

There really were stretchers inside, but getting them out of the crumpled car was not so easy. It was necessary to climb inside and kick out the jammed back door. Finally, the stretcher was with me. In addition, I took a case with medicines from the dead doctor in the cabin. Together with Masha Gavrilova, we returned to the others and froze, surprised by what was happening. Kotova Masha was kneeling on the grass away from the group of other girls and whispering something barely audible. I looked at Lisa in bewilderment, she briefly explained:

- Punished for disobedience.

While the girls were helping Lisa Svyatova to get onto the stretcher, I sent one of the schoolgirls to watch the sky, and I myself opened the doctor's case and studied the contents. Inside there was an anesthetic in ampoules, disposable syringes, elastic bandages and a lot of unfamiliar medicines of absolutely incomprehensible action. Luckily, the girls in medicine understood a lot more and quickly dismissed me.

“We were trained to provide first aid,” explained a plump girl with long blond hair.

This girl opened a pack of bandages and made a neck bandage for her friend with a broken arm. With another pack, she tightly bandaged Lisa's leg, after which she gave an injection of an anesthetic. At this time, the rest of the girls treated their numerous abrasions and scratches with iodine. And then a frightened cry of the sentinel was heard:

- Danger! I see a flying triangular ship!

I immediately jumped up and ran upstairs. Indeed, far from behind the high-rise buildings, a moving dark object appeared. Space Hunter! The triangle was approaching very quickly.

Everyone under the bridge! I yelled in a voice that was not my own, pointing to the fallen slabs of the collapsed bridge.

I've been eyeing this shelter for a long time just in case of an air raid. Having gone downstairs, he helped the girls to carry the stretcher, let the others into the shelter and climbed in last himself.

- We did it! Everything is in place? I asked just in case.

- All. Although ... Kotova Masha is not here!

I turned around. This fool, although she heard the cry of the sentinel and the subsequent order to run for cover, continued to kneel and read a prayer! From her to the shelter was about twenty meters.

- Masha, hurry to us! the girls screamed in horror.

Maria Kotova fell silent, looked at us and shouted loudly in response:

- It's the end of the world. Only true believers will be saved. I'm not afraid. I believe and the Lord will protect me!

- Masha, don't be stupid! Lisa shouted, but the stubborn girl did not answer and continued to pray.

I appreciated the distance separating us. I can make it, but only if I do it very quickly. He jumped out and ran with all his might. He ran to Masha Kotova, grabbed her by the arm and tried to drag her along. But the girl, with an unexpected strength for a fragile teenager, began to resist and fight back. When I tried to grab the stubborn schoolgirl in order to carry her to the shelter in my arms, this fanatical fool bit my wrist until it bled. I jerked my hand away from the pain and released the girl.

You are a product of Satan! You can't destroy my soul! Masha screamed right in my face.

I met her gaze. Yes, she's not normal! Just like the woman on the bus who almost killed me. The girl's lips and cheeks were stained with blood, my own blood! I staggered back, turned around, and hurried for cover.

“Everyone keep quiet, no matter what happens!” - Lisa Svyatova ordered and asked her friends to examine my wound on my arm.

Blood flowed profusely. This psycho bit through my vein! A plump medical girl quickly took out cotton wool, moistened it with iodine and pressed it to the bite site. I gritted my teeth and turned around. Masha Kotova knelt down again and prayed. Suddenly ... the girl was gone! In the place where the schoolgirl stood a fraction of a second ago, a fountain of scraps and bloody dust appeared! Belatedly, my ears caught the now painfully familiar sound of “psssshshsh” - the hunter’s turret fired. The two girls behind me couldn't help but scream. Another one vomited right on the neighbors sitting next to her. I cringed in anticipation of death. And why only contacted these hysterics?! Why did you approach the damned bus?!

But the shot did not follow, life did not end. Somewhere in a minute the sound of a shot was heard already somewhere in the distance. I ventured out of my hiding place and looked around. The hunter flew away, the danger was over. Gradually, the girls one by one began to get out from under the bridge. Everyone approached the place of death of Masha Kotova. Some schoolgirls were crying, others were praying. One tall girl, probably the oldest of the whole group, said:

“God knows, when, as a punishment for disobedience, I invited her to read the Our Father a hundred times, I had no idea that such a thing could happen!

She punished herself! Lisa said harshly, stopping all conversations. – And if there are still those who are not ready to carry out Victor’s commands, it’s better to let them know right away. We do not want such tragedies to be repeated.

All the girls were silent and looked away, no one objected.

“Victor, our contract is still in force,” Lisa assured me.