Chapter 20 – 20. Damn Monday

If you ask me if I am completely ready, the only answer I can give is no.

Prevention or preparation is not enough even if you do it. No matter how much you prepare, the reality always pushes against a bigger wall.

“But… That’s enough…”

“The moment you think about it, it will break through. You idiot. Never be careless The one who is not careful will be followed by one stroke.”

If you’re not careful, you’ll die. This is a fact that has already been proven many times in games, dramas, novels or movies.

Of course, even if you weren’t vigilant, there were a lot of people who died.

“Not enough. Not enough at all.”

“Ah.. Yes.”

Ha Jin-seong, who had a satisfied expression on his face as he watched the cars parked at the entrance of the mart as substitutes for barricades and barricades lined with furniture, immediately shut up at my words.

I don’t know when that sloppy barrier that I built on my own will break through in a situation where the zombie cubs might do parkour.

I boiled oil and piled up a lot of things to drop if I climbed up the wall, but I am very anxious.

Even though they have been disciplined, I still wonder if this is true when I see bullies who look sloppy somewhere while smoking cigarettes, and women who look frightened at a distance from them.

“Whoa…”

Seeing this, the fact that there are less than 50 people who can be mobilized makes my spine run cold.

The moment it hits 12 o’clock soon, ‘Monday of the Dead’ will begin. I can’t erase my anxiety

I prepared hard over last weekend… But how far will it go?

You don’t know how many zombies will come and how many special zombies will be created. It would be nice if there was at least one person like the main character in a novel like a regressor or a possessor or something like that.

Unfortunately, all of them are the only ones who are facing disaster for the first time.

“The kids must be watching the surroundings, right?”

“Yes. I have warned you several times. The discipline would have been tight.”

“Yeah… That’s how it should be…”

In the end, we decided to spend the night with our eyes open.

From the moment it becomes ‘Monday’, that is, from the moment past midnight, normal zombies will start to turn into special zombies, and even ordinary zombies can greatly increase their intelligence and ferocity.

“Whoa…”

It’s fortunate that two more Awakeners came out of the female camp.

Only 2 out of 8 people became Awoken, but this is a lot compared to the overall statistics.

The two new Awakeners were Hwang Soo-min, who was strangely active, and Lee Eun-hye, a woman of very few words.

‘It’s a pity that I can’t use both right now…’

Surprisingly, Sumin Hwang was not a normal class like a warrior, archer, or fighter.

There is no such thing as a ‘mage’, but it was a fairly rare job, and judging from the skill tree, it felt like digging into one of the elemental magics.

The problem is that due to the nature of a mage’s job, it’s fucking useless when you’re at a low level.

First of all, the initial mana is so low that it is useless to shoot two or three magics with a base mana consumption of 6 to 7.

At least, as the level goes up, skills such as ‘increased magic power’ or ‘increased mana recovery’ appear… It seemed that I shouldn’t expect a high-level magic battle from a level 4 mage right away. It is a typical long-term plastic surgery job.

Still, thanks to his awakening, he was able to exert the power of an adult man with the body of a woman under the influence of his stats.

‘And Lee Eun-hye is an archer without a bow…’

Archer was an extremely equipment-dependent class. Without a bow and arrows, the archer class is just a watchtower, and it is said that it is necessary to wear a lot of equipment to the extent that it is nothing more or less.

Without a bow, the usable combat skills are zero. It’s really embarrassing and surprising.

Warriors, who are the same normal class, can easily break a zombie earthenware pot with just one metal pipe in their hand.

Although she has improved eyesight and body vision and has magnetic mobility, she still needs a bow and arrow to fight properly.

Of course, assuming a bow is given, archers have higher single firepower than normal warriors and are difficult to deal with, but there is only one most important bow…

Harin had only one bow, and it was naturally given to Minjun Kim.

It’s more efficient to give it to Kim Min-jun, who is at level 7, rather than Lee Eun-hye, who is at level 4. She was overjoyed when he gave me the bow.

‘A bow isn’t something you can make just because you want to.’

It is a sad situation in many ways. In my heart, I was expecting a hidden class like Eunji and Harin to appear. I can only see that my lucky 666 didn’t work.

“Whoa…”

Anyway, so there are a total of nine Awakeners.

Me, Eunji, Harin, and Ha’s brothers, 5th level warrior Kim Il-woo, 7th level archer Kim Min-jun, 4th level mage Sumin Hwang, and 4th level archer Lee Eun-hye.

Here are 33 non-awakened people. There are 42 people in total.

‘I need more people…’

I can’t erase the feeling that there are not enough people to defend the mart. As Monday approaches right away, I feel sorry for Park Seong-oh and the two warriors who died.

‘There’s enough to eat and drink right now, so I hope there are at least 20 more people…’

I think you need to exceed 60 people to be able to stand guard in the middle of the night.

With 42 people standing guard, there are gaps everywhere.

‘I’m going to have to catch all the cubs who are said to have settled in Daiso…’

The distance to Daiso is about 10 minutes on foot.

Close distance As long as there are no zombies in the middle, there is no problem with coming and going.

‘Let’s skip tonight. Let’s make contact during the day.’

I don’t know what’s going on over there, but maybe after I’ve made it through tonight, I’ll be thinking about joining us.

It’s not even midnight yet, but the zombies gather one by one to form a group. In order to reduce the number even a little, he killed enough zombies in the vicinity, but zombies crawl out from everywhere, no matter where they were hiding.

“Older brother. Five minutes left.”

“Haa… Damn Monday is coming… You should go to your place now and wait.”

“Yes, I understand.”

The three of us, Eunji and Harin, were in charge of the front door of the mart.

Five minutes later, we had to wait and see what those crazy zombies would do.

‘Let’s see… The remaining zombie repellents are once for me and Harin. Eunji can use it twice.’

As Hwang Su-min and Lee Eun-hye became newly awakened, they achieved the ‘First Kill’ achievement and received 2 of them, so they can use zombie repellent 10 times in total.

Unfortunately, it is said that the Awoken pups in the mart have already used up the first and second days.

Stupid pups. It seems to have been spent without thinking.

‘I have to make good use of these 10 opportunities.’

First of all, I took Hwang Soo-min and Lee Eun-hye’s spray as if robbing them.

To be honest, those two are not my harem or anything. Unlike Eunji and Harin, she was just a slave, so she didn’t hesitate to take away the repellent.

‘Hmm… 2 minutes…’

Breathing becomes rough

My hands trembled slightly. I guess I was pretty nervous too.

“Brother.”

Eunji, noticing that I was nervous, squeezed her hand tightly. She turned her head and looked at her complexion. It was dark and hard to see, but she also looked nervous.

It was the same with Harin.

“Master, can we… Survive?”

“Of course… Honestly, I don’t know about the others, but the three of us will definitely survive.”

I’m a little anxious though. We will be able to live There are also sprays. If it doesn’t work, all the humans here will serve as zombie food and run away.

When the situation became urgent, I kept thinking that I should abandon the 40 or so survivors and run away, and the human sacrifice skill suddenly came to mind.

‘Should I have taken the human sacrifice skill…’

A bizarre skill that allows you to make sacrifices to accumulate karma and get closer to the gods.

I understand that this ‘up’ that can be obtained through human sacrifice is the concept of goods that are consumed when using other skills. Because I need up to use the Abyss Observation skill right now.

However, I don’t know what it means to get closer to God, so I’m reluctant to film it.

The existence of ‘God’ in the explanation section is too suspicious. It was because I wondered if the nameless unknown being was really a god, and above all, I felt like he was playing with me.

‘But my class is a cultist… Maybe human sacrifice is the same skill as the beginning and end of my class?’

As the crisis approaches, a thousand thoughts come to mind. Whether my choice was really right or whether I was on the wrong path.

‘For survival in the future… Why do I have such a strong feeling that I will have to make a human sacrifice? Should I follow my intuition?’

This is not a reasoning through rational judgment or situation analysis, but just an instinctive intuition. I feel a pull that makes me feel as if if I take a human sacrifice and look into the abyss, I will become incomparably stronger than now. As the anxiety in my heart grows, it feels like the skills are urging me to choose myself.

‘When I level up next… It might be better to choose human sacrifice rather than selfless demonic eyes…’

It was when I was thinking like that.

-Jing! Jing! Jing!

The cell phone alarms rang all at once.

It’s finally 12 o’clock.

The date changed and Monday came.

The shitty Monday I had been praying for would not come came.

Even when I was an office worker, I desperately hoped that Monday would not come, but time passed indifferently and let us know that Monday had come again.

And the moment 12 o’clock passed like that, the change that appeared to the zombies was so terrible that it was clearly visible.

“Uuuuu!!!!!”

“Kiaaa!!!!!”

“Keeeeeaaaaa”

“Damn it…!”

The zombies screamed with loud cries that were incomparable to those before.

And…

Fuhuaak!!!!

“Poem, fuck…”

“I-that’s what…”

A few objects twisted among hundreds of zombies, and the original body was torn and exploded, turning into a special zombie with a grotesque appearance.

The view of the street from the rooftop of the mart… There was no such thing as a living hell.

“Joe, a zombie centipede…”

Dozens of zombie centipedes twisted and roamed the streets…

“Lord, master… That… Those…”

Where Harin pointed his finger, huge, muscular zombies that looked to be 3 meters tall were roaring.

“Whoa, whoa boy…”

A special zombie that is said to have been discovered for the first time in the United States. On the 3rd day of destruction, when the Internet was still available, among the information on special zombies downloaded, they were evaluated as particularly dangerous.

“There’s a bitch over there… Uh… Those are strangers… Lord, master… What should we do?”

Not only Zombie Centipede and War Boy, but also countless zombies turned into special zombies, roared, and started moving in search of a place where survivors might still be hiding.

What’s even more terrifying is that most of those zombies are targeting the mart we’re waiting for.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!!!

Big war boys mercilessly knocking down the barricade at the entrance of the mart.

A car parked in front of the entrance was ripped off by them, the entrance shook, and the furniture brought to prevent the intrusion was gradually pushed back.

In the meantime, even zombie centipedes climbing up the wall with dozens of arms wriggling.

“Tongue, brother!!! It looks like the first floor will be breached!!!”

“OMG!!!! Shit!!! Coming up!!! Pour the fucking oil!!!!”

“Gee, it’s gone!!!!”

Shrieking screams were heard from all directions. I feel like I’m going to lose my mind at the clamor of desperate survivors.

“Ha ha… Haha…”

The situation without an answer was so absurd that I laughed.

What are all the preparations for so far?

I thought I made an effort. Reality has brought even greater trials and disasters as if it were ridiculing my efforts.

The things I said I was prepared for were all in vain in front of hundreds or thousands of zombies.

‘The problem isn’t normal zombies… Those fucking special zombies…’

Will I be able to survive?

Against those monsters?

Against those many special zombies?

“Oh… Oppa… We… Uh, what should we do…”

“T-Wrong. In this situation… Run away, master…”

Despair fell on both of their faces.

‘Damn it… Do I have to use the spray now…?’

Me, Eunji, and Harin should live and watch.

Since the spray can be used 10 times in total… The three of us can use it for 6 hours each.

‘Abandon the mart… Should I rather run away to another place…’

To be honest, I settled in the mart because of the food problem, but it doesn’t matter what happens except for the three of us.

Awakener slaves are just good to use, not precious or necessary to live.

I am willing to cut the throats of thirty-three ordinary people if we can survive.

Then a notification popped up in front of our eyes.

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[Update completed!]

A new catastrophic week has begun!

I hope you get great loot and experience points among the more strengthened zombies.

[Details related to the update]

1. Changed zombies’ habits.

Zombies have become aggressive and intelligent!
Zombies become more aggressive when large numbers of humans are gathered.
Zombies are also more active at night to pursue and attack survivors.
Finally, some of the special zombies ignore the effects of repellent!

2. Increased zombie killing rewards.

So far, you’ve only received experience and coins! Rewards are increased with this update.
Special zombies now have a chance to drop items such as weapons, armor, and trinkets.
At this time, the dropped item can be sold to the peddler NPC.

3. The emergence of named objects.

Some of the special zombies that meet the conditions evolve into ‘named’.
When you defeat the named, you are guaranteed to receive a larger reward and additional stats.
Named objects are treated as quasi-field bosses and exert minor influence on the surroundings.

4. Conditions for appearance of peddlers.

If the number of survivors is 10 or more, a walking statue will randomly appear nearby.
If the number of Survivor groups exceeds 100, a peddler is guaranteed to be summoned nearby.
Also, if the player has more than 10,000 coins, peddlers will appear around the player.

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It was so urgent that I didn’t notice any updates.

Because right now it’s more important to kill the zombie centipede climbing the wall and run away.

‘Yeah, fuck… There’s no answer to this.’

I never imagined that it would come in such an insane amount.

The world always easily escapes my expectations.

Is everything collapsing like this in the face of a huge catastrophic storm?

‘Let’s run away.’

It was the moment when he was about to abandon the mart and choose to run away to plan his future.

-Phew!!!

In the middle of the mart rooftop.

A bright beam of light flashed and lightning struck.

“I-what is that!!!”

“Poem, fuck!!! Are you a shining zombie now?”

As the survivors screamed and fell asleep, the light faded and a man carrying a large bag walked out from the center.

A man with a bizarre atmosphere whose age cannot be determined, wearing shabby clothes and a beggar-like outfit with a mountain climbing hat deeply pressed down.

Carrying a bag much larger than a person, he glanced at the bewildered survivors and sat down.

“Huh. What a disaster.”

The man who sat down rummaged through his bag as if he wasn’t afraid at all, even while the crazy special zombies were screaming and climbing up, and then took out an item on the seat.

‘What is that bastard…’

All the items he took out seemed to have a foreign feel to them.

From a ring with a green jewel to a syringe filled with blue liquid and a strange card with nothing written on it, each one seemed like an ‘item’.

Yeah, those items from the game.

“Stop, no way…”

After laying out the items on the stall, he sighed deeply and then hinted at us. It’s like forcibly spitting out pre-determined lines.

“No matter how great the disaster, my mission will not change. It seems that the situation is very urgent. Take a look around, youngsters.”

He smiled and talked to us in front of thousands of zombies, and he was a ‘walker’.