Chapter 85 – Zombie Parade

It was early morning the next day.
Me and Cloudy were waiting for Copson.

“Why isn’t this bastard coming?”
“Maybe you didn’t come in yesterday?”

Cloudy said as if it didn’t matter.
No, you just left yesterday.

“Is it.”

Copson, who had fallen asleep on the street last night, was dragged away by murderous robbers, robbed of his property his, and had a party … Well, that would not happen. Since it was a festival, the church was also focusing on safety management, so the Paladins were patrolling even at dawn.

Due to the nature of the religious people of the other world who have no mercy, it is a piece of shit to hand over to the City Guard immediately upon discovering a criminal. You’d be lucky if you didn’t kill him. Paladins were people who saw evil humans as equal to monsters and hated them.

Those crazy guys know that if they kill a robber, they will go to heaven. I don’t know heaven, but it seemed clear that the robber would end up in hell.

“Hey, hey… Barbarian…”

As I was thinking about it, I heard a very husky voice. He turned his head to see Copson, his hair frizzy, approaching. He looked very tired, possibly from a hangover.

“I must have kept you waiting. Let’s go quickly…”
“Uh. Yes, good morning. But can I go? I’m not in a good mood?”

What is a farmer’s child?

“There’s no problem… They’re at least undead.”
“You’re just an undead right now. You crazy bastard.”
Hehe… It’s okay if you move a little.”

Judging by the appearance, it seemed that he had entered the centipede’s house. Then, let’s start today with a three-person party. It’s a pity that Elise isn’t there. I’m running a religious stall from today, so I can’t go with you.

“Amton, let’s go out.”

So they formed a party of three and went out. Although Copson looks tired, he is an E-class adventurer who can take matchless against zombies or skeletons. He has nothing to worry about. With Cloudy in the yard, the three of us could make a profit similar to yesterday.

“Kat, shall we go the other way this time?”
“Another way?”
“It won’t be too bad if we go the way we’ve always been. Let’s explore a new path.”
“Well, that’s a good idea. Well, let’s go.”

As Cloudy said, I went in a slightly different direction than I usually go. Come to think of it, I also encountered ghosts yesterday. There was nothing good to catch those ten birds, so going that way is not recommended.

Ghosts’ habitats need to be avoided as much as possible.

“The situation here is similar.”
“Flies are coming… I hate bugs.”

I came the other way, but this one didn’t seem to be anything special either.

The corpses of headless zombies and rotten bone fragments of skeletons are scattered here and there. It’s been a long time since this place was also devastated by adventurers who were no different from a swarm of hungry locusts. The undead, who sang joyously of death with overflowing vitality, had long ago been devastated.

Isn’t it getting dangerous to collect talents?

The undead were not regenerated, but had a limited number, so it became more and more difficult to find them. In the meantime, they had been killing them with pleasure, so the number of objects had decreased by that much. Now it’s my job to find it.

—-Ororolong.
—Orolong.

However, after searching for a while, I was able to find two attached to each other.

“There are two, yes.”

Copson drew his sword and moved on. Zombies walking slowly and lazily are not dangerous opponents at all. He swung his sword and skillfully cut off the zombie’s head. The reality of zombies is that their levels are lower than drunken ones.

—Degur, chin.

I also easily slit the zombie’s neck. She picked up the fallen neck and put it in her bag. Copson said as he stretched.

“It’s starting to feel a little energized.”
“That’s good.”
“If you’re in the right condition, there won’t be a problem even if a ghoul appears.”
“It’s a ghoul.”

Ghouls are rare monsters like treasure goblins that give you 5 talents per head.

Unlike the weak undead who were half decayed, they had living muscles. They heal their decaying bodies by chewing and swallowing human flesh. It is literally a cannibal monster. They are obsessed with cannibalism because their bodies will gradually rot if they don’t eat people.

People are said to become ghouls when they die due to some kind of curse, but I don’t know much about that part. All I know is that they are agile and stronger than humans. There was probably nothing in his head other than murder and cannibalism.

Just hearing her words makes her look quite dangerous, so I don’t really want to meet her. No matter how many talents you give, it would be a hundred times better to kill five zombies at once than to deal with them.

“Cloudy. Have you ever seen a ghoul?”
“I’ve heard of the story, but I don’t think I’ve seen it myself. Actually, I’ve never seen zombies here. The only undead in Shurdik were skeletons and mummies.”
“Really? Hagisa Well, the sun is so bright, but it wouldn’t be a very good place for undead to live. Even zombies won’t dry up.”
“Um, is that so?”

Anyway, the undead, which were quite visible until yesterday, had dried up. The ecosystem collapsed. The festival will end when the dead are gone. It seems it won’t be long. If that’s the case, you should pull out as many mulberries as possible before doing that.

“Shouldn’t we go deeper? There must be undead isolated in places where people are rare. I think we can go somewhere where people know about it.”
“Well, that’s a plausible opinion.”

I decided to do what Copson said. Orientation was delegated to him. It will be the same no matter who does it anyway. He confidently made his way through the bushes to and fro. The lack of hesitation in their steps implied that the future would be positive.

Long time to do that again. We arrived at the foot of the mountain where there was no human presence at all.
Surprisingly, the undead were nowhere to be seen.

“Hey, Copson. Come to think of it, the undead tend to pursue those who have life, right?”

I asked Copson what came to mind.

“That’s right.”
“Then there would be no way to be in a place where there are no people.”
“…”

He couldn’t answer.
He turned to Cloudy.

“Silly.”

Damn it.

The reason I found the undead yesterday was because it wasn’t a completely uninhabited place like this, and it was at least a people’s path. Cloudy spoke again with a strange expression.

“Still, I think it’s worth looking around this area. We’ve never been here before. Let’s find the people’s way. Follow me. I think it’s better for me to find the way than for you guys to find it.”
“Okay…”
“I’m sorry about this…”

It’s far out, but it’s a mountain near the city, so there must be a road for people.

We decided to activate our sense of the wild to the limit and search for it. However, Cloudy was from the desert and was not familiar with the mountains, Copson was an idiot, and I couldn’t find my way either.

“Sir, where are you again?”
“Well…”
“I don’t know.”

To my surprise, I got lost. Cloudy, who was leading the way, led us to ruin. If you look closely, you can see that the ears are hidden behind the hood.

Well, it’s okay since I remember the road in moderation… But today’s business is gone.

“Cloudy. What the hell are you doing?”
“…Look over there!”

Cloudy, his face her flushed red, pointed. He seemed terribly ashamed to be lost in a subject he had confidently taken the lead on. He checked the direction he was pointing to.

—Kuhuk, Kururuk.

It was the Mummy that was there. The horses are mummy, but they are just dried up and twisted undead monsters wrapped in bandages. He was nothing more and nothing less than a walking mummy.

The only difference, if anything, was that the zombies were wearing bandages while the zombies were wearing old clothes.

“Mummy.”
“Yes, I found it.”
“But it’s not just one, Ms. Cloudy.”
“…”

Mummy was unable to do anything because the bandage got caught on a tree branch. He looked fucking pathetic, but he had to be killed anyway. The three of us approached it.

ㅡku, hook! Kuhook!

As soon as Mummy saw us, she screamed wildly and reached out her hand. But the bandages were so tangled that not a single step could move her.

“Such an asshole.”

She simply swung her sword and knocked her head off. She picked it up and she put it back in her sack. It seemed that she was isolated alone because she probably got bandaged here while moving.

“Certainly, it seems that there are no undead here, let alone people.”

Said Copson, who ran a hand through her hair. It was already past noon. However, it wasn’t too hot because it was overgrown with trees.

“Let’s go down. There’s nothing more to see if we stay here.”
“The seed of the undead has dried up.”

This hunting ground selection seems to be a failure. It would be better to go down quickly and make up for the damage.

So I decided to descend and went down quickly. Due to the nature of the terrain around this area, it was possible to get out of the mountain once you descended.

Cloudy, who was walking next to me, said as if making excuses.

“…If this was a desert, none of this would have happened.”
“It’s okay. Not knowing the way is all the same.”

But this is not a desert.
What can a person do I have no intention of blaming.

It was time to come down again. I felt like I could see the city if I crossed just one hill.

I thought about taking a break for a while, but Cloudy grabbed my shoulder.

“Kat. Wait a minute. Stop him too.”
“Huh? Hey, Copson. Pause.”
“What’s going on?”

I called Copson to see if he had something to say. As he got closer, Cloudy looked around slowly and said,

“I can feel the presence around me.”
“Pretending to be popular?”

Are there any other adventurers around?

ㅡSureung.

Without thinking further, he drew his sword. Seeing that, Cloudy nodded his head. Since you don’t know what will happen on the field, it was right to prepare for battle first if anyone was there. Because this world is overflowing with robbers and bandits.

Copson also drew his sword and looked around.

“One, two, three… Six. Hehe, is it suitable…”

What did Cloudy mutter? I hope you are ordinary adventurers.
I don’t want to see blood on the festival day. Standing behind the tree like that, with our backs to each other, I heard footsteps.

ㅡ Jerobeok, jeobeok.
ㅡ Jerking and bucking.
ㅡsssss.

What was finally revealed was the strong men of the six men. If you look at their line, they are invincible adventurers. They were people of very ordinary character, wearing weapons and hoods. In terms of rating, it’s about E-class. They too came to purify the undead…

While checking their equipment, I realized something.

“Sir. Those bastards don’t have a bag.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“They’re not the ones who came to catch the undead.”

None of the six of them had a sack or bag.

Then what would it be
They must be the bastards who came to catch people.
Please don’t

“Whoa, did you see it properly?”
“Are you laughing…”

Cloudy seemed to have the same thoughts as me.

This is a rather remote place. It meant that it was not very good to have six people gathered in a place like this. Seeing that he didn’t have a sack, he probably didn’t come here to catch the undead, and seeing that he didn’t have any luggage, he wasn’t going to travel elsewhere. Of course, it would not be college students who came to camp.

Then there are two things I can think of.

One is that it is a party of adventurers who have come to carry out some kind of different quest, and that it is simply criminals hiding in a remote place with the intention of robbing. Those are the two. Personally, if it was the former, I would have no wish.

But when I thought about it that way, their faces looked very ugly.

Although the original adventurers looked ferocious, they looked like they took two or three more drinks there, let alone one drink.

Just by looking at their appearance, they were 100% homicide robbers.

If those bastards weren’t murderers, the world must have looked like something was wrong.

“Looks like they noticed us too.”
“…”

The six men came closer. The distance is not too far.

“Cloudy, is there an ambush?”
“No. Six is ​​the end.”
“That’s right…”

There didn’t seem to be any guys with arrows or slings. They were all ordinary people armed only with swords and axes. As they got closer, I was able to get into more detail.

He’s shorter than me, and his forearms don’t look that thick.
What if six

“Hey, those bastards behind the tree! I know they’re there, so get out of here!”

At that time, the man in the green hoodie who was standing in the lead said in a gruff tone.

“Hey bros, nice to meet you.”

You already know, but there is no need to hide.
I immediately came out in front of them with my sword drawn.