Chapter 31 – 31. Guys That Need to Be Killed

The scope of effect for quality maintenance was an ‘item’, not a weapon or armor.

This means that durability can be maintained indefinitely by registering anything other than a living creature.

‘This…’

The durability is a bit low, but if you get an item with great performance, Yeongsik’s ability will be extremely effective. It will also be useful in keeping things essential to daily life from breaking down..

Yes, this ability can be said to be determined by what item you obtain.

“First of all.. Ayun, give it to me.”

“Machete?”

“Uh..”

I received a machete covered in zombie blood from Ayun.

[Zombie Slayer’s Machete: A machete whose teeth will not fall out until its durability runs out and it is completely destroyed. Cuts down humanoid enemies more easily.] [Durability: 112/150]

Of course, the ‘humanoid enemies’ included zombies, and thanks to that, Ayun was able to cut off the zombie’s limbs like cutting tofu.

‘An item that is automatically destroyed when its durability runs out… It even has the function of not falling out until then… ‘

I handed the machete over to Park Young-sik. He was surprised when he handed over the knife.

“This.. I can see the description of the item..”

“It’s because it’s an item.”

“An item?”

“Uh, these are the items you can get if you go through the gate that appeared in your house earlier… I don’t think they were made by humans. There is a detailed explanation like this and awakened people can read it.”

“Huh.. It’s not some kind of game.”

“Maybe it’s the game.”

Haha.. If you call it a game.. It’s definitely a zombie apocalypse genre..”

“Yes.”

Park Young-sik realized why I handed over the machete without me having to tell him. He activated quality maintenance. A machete was registered in his quality maintenance.

“Kuheook..!!!”

Park Young sat down on the spot and vomited blood. I mean 0.5 liters, but it was quite a lot to vomit blood right in front of my eyes.

“Hey, are you okay..?”

“Use it.. Hehe. Haa.. Haa.. This… The penalty… Is a bit stronger than I thought.”

Yeongsik stumbled and sat down. She suddenly lost 0.5 liters of blood from her body in an instant, so she felt a little sick.

“If you can’t do it, go up and rest.”

It was written in the penalty that I would suffer symptoms of anemia. If you follow us for no reason and fall down in the middle, it becomes a burden.

If something like that really happens and we face a crisis, we can’t just throw away our quality maintenance skills, so we’ll definitely have to kill this guy. Then, the moment the skill is released, the machete will be shattered. That is a loss in many ways.

So, I think it would be better to just let him rest at home. To be honest, Park Young-sik does not need to raise his survival level.

I’m probably going to give this guy all the vague abilities I’ll get in the future, so I just want him to become a skill storehouse for me.

“I’m sorry.. Then I’ll go up and rest for a while.. Okay.. I’ll be on the 10th floor… “

“Okay, take a break.”

Park Young-sik walked up her stairs again with her pale face. She is worried that she might collapse from anemia in the middle of the day. If she fell down the stairs and died, there would be no greater loss than that.

‘This…’

As I looked at the blood stains that Park Young-sik vomited, I thought that this ‘vomiting blood’ penalty would have a very big effect in the future.

‘It is said that vampires track the scent of the blood of the living… ‘

Each time you use your ability, there is a high possibility that you will be exposed to vampires. Perhaps this penalty is why quality maintenance remains at grade B.

‘But now that I think about it… I think there’s some overlap between these skills… ‘

I don’t know if it’s a high-rank skill like ‘Skill Steal’ or Saeyeon’s ‘Inventory’, but most B- or A-level skills seem to have duplicate skills.

If so, what happens if the same skills are taken away through skill theft..?

‘I think the effects will overlap or be strengthened… ‘

If someone with the same abilities as one of our group shows up, I’ll have to test it out later. Then you might be able to strengthen your skills for freedom.

“Let us keep going.”

“Yes.”

We walked out of the apartment complex while watching Park Young-sik climbing the stairs.

******

“Ha.. Lee Hyung-sik, you bastard. “They told me I could go alone, but they even took my gun.”

Ten male students wearing school uniforms with the Dongyeong High School mark entered the butcher shop.

After eliminating all the zombies gathered near the butcher shop, they found the body of Lee Hyeong-sik, a high school student who had used bullet weaving. When they found the name written on the name tag of the corpse with its face horribly crushed, they realized that the situation was not very good.

“Senior Choi Il-gu. There is a burned body over there too.”

“Uh, I understand. Haha… I’m annoyed. They say there’s a guy over there who uses fire too. It’s too dangerous.”

Choi Il-gu, the leader of the 10-member group, sighed and looked at the remaining traces.

“You must have used up all the bullets here… So you only took an empty gun with you. Hmm.. Are there at least two people with abilities? There are more than four bloody footprints…”

He nodded his head, looking at the lead bullet lodged in the wall. From the moment he first picked it up, it seemed like he had fired every bullet in the revolver into the wall. His reasoning was almost correct.

“Lee Hyung-sik, that idiot… I wish you would tell me that you were searched before using bullet weaving… It would be a bit difficult if the gun with the bullets in it was taken away…”〈 Br〉

Lee Hyung-sik, who has a bullet weave, is an extremely cowardly and cruel person. He was probably hesitant to use his abilities due to the penalty of getting hurt, and was ultimately defeated by the opposing Awakened One.

Choi Il-gu reasoned as much as he looked at the bullet lodged in the wall. And to confirm his reasoning, he cut off Lee Hyung-sik’s clothes with scissors. Lee Hyung-sik’s bare body was revealed when he took off his school uniform.

“It’s fine. I tried using the skill to test it, but there’s no scars. It’s clean. It doesn’t even look like it’s on the head. I didn’t use this bastard’s skills. As expected, he’s a two-faced bastard.”

No significant wounds were found on Lee Hyung-sik’s body. Through this, Choi Il-gu was able to be confident. Before Lee Hyung-sik could use his powers, he was hit by something and fell down, and his face and head were crushed to death.

Therefore, there is a very high possibility that the person who went with a gun was holding an empty gun with an empty chamber. They’re probably trying to use it as an intimidation or threat. He or he may be thinking of where he can get the bullets.

“First of all, we’ve checked the bodies of the kids, so let’s go back quickly. There’s no meat or anything… Phew. It’s annoying. It’s annoying. I’m going to rob every store I see on the way. Do you understand?”

“”Yes.””

Choi Il-gu and his men came out of a large two-story meat mart. Choi Il-gu thought it strange that the shops around here were completely deserted, as if they had been visited by a swarm of locusts.

His B-grade skill His ‘Trace Observation’ hinted at the existence of an inventory.

“I think there are people who can attack from a distance, have fire management skills, and have the ability to store large quantities of items walking around here. Maybe all three are on one team? There were more than four footprints, so there must be more. Since it overlaps with our living area, I hope they catch it or kill it quickly… Sigh. It’s annoying. “I have to tell Minsik that there are skill owners around here… We need more bitches who can be used as slaves…”

Choi Il-gu wasn’t afraid of zombies at all. He doesn’t get scared, he stays calm and just hits them on the head a few times and they are behind him, so he doesn’t have to be surrounded. So, the ones who should truly be feared were the same awakened people. They are also soldiers who will oppress their freedom. Choi Il-gu was the most wary of fellow humans.

It was an idea that came about because we were still unaware of the endless winter and night, and the existence of vampires, ghouls, etc. That would appear soon.

******

“Huh..?”

Baek Ayun, who was cutting off the zombie’s head in the lead, hurriedly hid behind the car. We who were following her sudden action also hurriedly took cover behind cars or buildings to hide ourselves.

I lowered my waist as much as possible and ran towards Ayun.

“Haa.. Haa.. What is it? “What on earth did you see?”

“Hey.. Hehe.. There are kids running around. That’s about 10 people? There are quite a few.”

I looked in the direction Ayun was pointing with her finger. It was difficult to see them closely because they were quite far away, but they were clearly wearing school uniforms.

“It’s quite far.”

“Huh. Hehe… They look like Dongyeongyo bastards. “Are we going back to school?”

“Well. Still, if they go around like that… I’m sure there will be awakened people.”

“Inho oppa.”

“Huh?”

“Huh.. Are you going to kill them all?”

“Well, I can’t help it. Even if I couldn’t find it, there’s nothing I can do… Since I found it, I’ll have to kill it.”

“Kihi… For someone who says there’s nothing they can do, you look pretty happy, right? I guess you’re excited about getting the skill? No?”

“Hey, no.”

This isn’t about killing just for fun. I have no intention of keeping the Dongyeong High School guys alive.

No matter how much I think about them, they are absolute human trash with no room for improvement. Therefore, they had already reached an agreement with the party to hunt them as soon as they were discovered.

“Inho, what is it? “What did Ayun see?”

“Ah, sister. “There are kids from Dongyeong High School flocking over there.”

Hehe.. There are about 10 people, sister.”

“Ah… To kill me?”

“Yes. Because those guys are a threat.”

“Okay, I get it. That’s right. That’s right.”

Saeyeon nodded and told the rest of her group that she had found the Dongyoung Go guys and that she was going to kill them from now on.

Then Seunghee, who had no good feelings about Dongyoung High School, smiled and nodded, and Hyuna and Junho also agreed.

The opinions of the companions agreed. When discussing whether to kill Yeongsik or save him, everyone expressed the opinion that he should not be killed, but everyone easily agreed that they would kill the Dongyeong High School guys.

Although they were people I had only encountered a few times, that alone provided enough reason to kill them. They deserve to be killed because they are trash who catch and rape women and beat up all men.

‘I hope there is an awakened person..’

Now that the penalty has dropped to only 30 hairs, I can kill both awakened and non-awakened people.

I don’t know exactly how many strands there were in a handful, but at least 1,000 strands were pulled out, whereas 30 strands is enough for a person with hair loss to pull out while washing their hair, so it’s less burdensome.

“Let’s go..”

We quickly approached the Dongyeong High school students who were leisurely killing zombies and returning to school.

It’s time to give death to those who went out to hunt humans.