Chapter 103 – Zombie Apocalypse 2 (11)

“It is fortunate that the person named Twisted Death did not stay for long and returned right away.”

Leader Seongtae Choi confirmed what happened through the Internet broadcast and spoke.

“It might be stronger than an evolved zombie. At least it’s not humanoid.”

“If it weren’t for Mr. Xian, I wouldn’t think of fighting that thing.”

That is also true.

Evolutionary zombies still look like people, but synthetic zombies are truly twisted beings that deviate from the human form.

A person only needs to be careful about two arms, two legs, and a head, but I thought there were a lot of things to pay more attention to with deformities like that, but Naeun, who watched zombie heads explode next to me every day, didn’t look very good. It was a disgusting being.

People at the supermarket continued to find pictures of synthetic zombies and brought them to me.

Zombies with four arms, zombies with multiple legs, zombies with completely connected bodies.

“There are no headless zombies.”

There were zombies with multiple heads, but there were no zombies without a head.

It seems like the head is still the weak point, but does this happen mainly for those who don’t destroy the head when catching a zombie?

“I don’t know if our patrols using spears to shake brains would be effective, since we can’t just explode heads like Mr. Sian.”

I don’t know if he’s trying to keep putting pressure on me or if he’s just reciting the facts.

“Maybe… Was Batman your older brother?”

At that time, Jaeyoung Park said to me in surprise.

There was no need to answer, and I seemed even more surprised when Naeun said something instead of me.

“But who are those two people?”

“It is said that Na-eun escaped from the officetel where she was living alone. From the beginning of the zombie outbreak, they started living in separate classes. She refused to tell her to hand over her younger brother to move up from the lower class, and caught her running away at night and left them alone in a car wash. “I brought you here for some reason.”

“Did you know that the supermarket has no intention of accepting outsiders right now?”

“Yes. I’m thinking of just giving him a decent amount of food and leaving him in the car wash… Should I go on patrol?”

I said while looking at the patrol leaders who came nearby.

There are currently three patrol teams in operation, but no one seemed to want to leave.

“Now we have to protect the supermarket. We are the most important thing.”

Seongtae Choi firmly drew a line between my words and spoke.

The patrol team is a valuable troop of the Mart with actual combat experience.

Listening to that voice in your head, you have to be prepared for people trying to join the supermarket to protect themselves from threats, or people running away and bringing zombies with them.

Choi Seong-tae’s policy is the right choice if you think about mart first.

“I understand. It’s comfortable for me too. Then I’ll take a nap. Please wake me up if anything happens.”

“Yes? I will.”

Because fully recovering your body is the way to fight off other zombies.

After finishing the temporary meeting and heading towards Naeun, I felt that the eyes of the two middle school students who were looking at me had changed.

“Hey, is this really Batman?”

“At least I’m confident in my skills, so I dragged you two into the house. Naeun, get a blanket and let’s go to sleep.”

“Okay. Do you want to follow along?”

“Yes, sister!”

“Yes.”

Suddenly, with the two people who followed us, we found a spare blanket at the supermarket and lay down on the floor.

Naeun lay down next to me, and her siblings also lay down next to me.

The supermarket was still quite noisy, but I have combat sleep, so I can sleep if I want to.

*

I woke up pretty early in the morning.

Is it because my body has recovered to almost perfect condition? Sleep time, which was longer than usual, became shorter.

When I wake up and see that my body is not tired, it seems like my body has finally recovered.

【1】

【Lee Sian-(75%)】

【Level: 4】

【Combat Power: 910】

【Holding Skill: [Skill] Survival Rules (A)】

【Awaiting Quest (7/7)】

‘And. 910?’

I know that level and combat power are relative depending on the class, but Ishian really has almost no opponents in this world.

It was satisfying just to see Isian’s combat power become stronger, perhaps because I was able to control mana.

I got up from my seat, checked on Naeun and the Park siblings who were sleeping next to me, picked up a baseball bat, and headed toward the entrance of the mart.

“Sian, are you awake?”

The female spearman guarding the entrance saw me and greeted me.

“Yes. Thank you for your hard work all night. Did anything special happen overnight?”

“When something like that happens, it might be better to stay home. Nothing bad happened overnight.”

“That’s good. Then, please work a little harder until your shift.”

“Yes.”

The entrance to the mart was also quite quiet.

The male spearmen who decided to guard the supermarket instead of patrolling were yawning and guarding the entrance.

I guess something happened here overnight too.

“Hello.”

“Uh. Yes. Are you awake?”

I felt someone looking at me with eyes full of envy when I woke up from a good night’s sleep.

“Yes. As expected, the patrol took care of the zombies in time, so it seems safe here.”

“I didn’t know that daily patrols would have any effect. We dropped as many zombie corpses as possible, so we wouldn’t be attacked by those monster zombies.”

After hearing such a boast, I went to the incinerator.

Since fires were not lit at night, the lights in the incinerator were turned off and only ashes could be seen.

And between the ashes, white human bones were visible.

Since it is not burned at a high temperature like a crematorium, some of the bones and flesh are bound to remain.

I used Shadow Mastery and Flame Magic to absorb the remaining contaminated mana around me.

It can absorb not only heat but also mana.

I need to refine this well.

That way, no matter what class I possess, I can quickly increase my strength.

If it is based on breathing like the general Neigongshim method, the growth rate is too slow.

We need a greed that can consume all power.

“Gluttony?”

When you say gluttony, it sounds like something bad. Greed? Desire.

I don’t know. It’s still difficult to define.

Still, if I can absorb all the power and offset its side effects, a very good skill will be created.

‘Whenever we can, we should make something that is most versatile and has the greatest potential for growth.’

The belly button may be bigger than the stomach, but the status window will organize it well in the form of skills, so it would be a good idea to put as much as possible into it.

I absorbed the contaminated mana and offset it again to make it my mana, but it’s still at almost zero level.

I once again felt grateful to Master Yeomwang for how much effort he had put into helping me grow.

I came back into the mart, checked on Naeun who was still sleeping, and headed to the customer support office.

“Choi Seong-tae, didn’t you sleep?”

I couldn’t help but ask when I saw Choi Seong-tae, whose eyes were sunken through the bandages.

“Yes. To collect information. If anything else happens, we have to respond immediately.”

I hope you don’t feel pressured by the position of leader.

Still, I was curious about the information he collected.

“Has any information been revealed overnight?”

“It was broad daylight abroad, so there were a few groups fighting. I haven’t personally experienced what level the evolved zombies are at, so I can’t judge by looking at them, but it still seems to be at a level that ‘humans can handle.’ Even though it looks gross.”

All the videos of people fighting against evolved zombies were of them losing, but there were quite a few videos of these synthetic zombies winning.

It’s really amazing that you film yourself fighting for your life and upload it.

The most impressive video was a video of four people, seemingly foreigners, using chainsaws to literally grind up a synthetic zombie.

There is such a good weapon!

The chainsaw showed truly incredible power, even though it is not included in modern firearms.

“There’s nothing like this in the supermarket, right?”

“Yes. If it’s a hardware store near the mountain, it’s usually not available.”

After watching the video, I felt that it was definitely weaker than the evolved zombie.

Since I’m out of the humanoid form, I have the advantage of being unexpected, but since I can use calmness and insight, I can easily avoid attacks.

Rather, I thought it would be easier to deal with if its durability was lower.

At that time, it became noisy outside.

Someone came running and burst open the door to the customer support room.

“Ah, Mr. Xian! I think you should come out and take a look! Some guy brought a synthetic zombie!”

“Yes. Let’s go.”

I put the baseball bat I was holding on my right shoulder and came out.

Choi Seong-tae, the leader of the mart, followed me out, and the atmosphere inside the mart was chaotic as people who had been sleeping had woken up as the rumor had spread.

I met Naeun’s eyes and said hello to her with just a quick glance and went out.

We hadn’t arrived at the entrance yet, but a strange-looking zombie was crawling towards the supermarket from the street opposite the car wash.

“Did that bastard just run away?”

“Yes. It seems like he was openly telling us to fuck him.”

At the entrance of the supermarket, I climbed up to a slightly higher place and looked at the zombies.

A human torso was stretched out where the arms should be, so it had countless limbs, and it crawled forward while holding on to those two large arms.

He’s a bit annoying to deal with.

I thought that waging a siege would cause a lot of damage considering its size and number of limbs.

Luckily, it seems like I only have one head, so what can I do about that?

I went down from the entrance, picked up the protective gear used by the patrol team, and put it on.

“Are you going to leave, Mr. Xian?”

“I’ll give it a try. He’s the strongest among synthetic zombies. Even if you start a siege at the entrance of the supermarket, you’ll definitely take damage, so it’s better to finish it outside.”

After putting on all the protective gear, I held up a baseball bat and spoke.

“It won’t take long.”

I slowly walked out from the entrance of the mart opened by other people.

The giant zombie also saw me and increased its moving speed a little more.

‘I don’t know if I can call them zombies anymore.’

Let’s kill it.