Chapter 110 – Zombie Apocalypse 2 (18)

The man leaning against the rooftop door seemed to have lost strength in his legs and slumped down on the floor.

In a dark space, a man who had lost the will to fight against me swallowed his saliva and spoke to me.

“If I tell you what they ask, will you save my life?”

“First of all, those who can be called your companions may have difficulty moving, but they are all alive.”

The guy whose face was hit by the iron bat was also breathing.

Since it was reported that even the fourth man who collapsed due to the presence detection just used was alive, I kept everyone alive for now.

“So, let’s give it a little nudge.”

“Huh? Kaaaaah!?

While other people stabbed and twisted the spear, this man simply stabbed it and pulled it out.

It will still hurt a lot, though.

“Come down slowly.”

I came down to the first floor while retrieving the weapon that had fallen on the floor.

There are a total of five weapons with kitchen knives attached to long sticks.

If you only want to deal with people or zombies, it can be said to be the most effective weapon at present.

In the case of the supermarket, the end of the iron bar was made sharp by hitting it with a hammer or something like that, and it is thought to be more durable.

As you use this side, the tape wrapped around it will become loose.

I was a little annoyed by the guys coming down while quietly discussing something.

“Quickly come down and do what!”

“I’m going… I’m going!”

It’s much easier to just kill them.

There is a lot of information that can be found by killing.

Cian Raven’s personality seemed to flow in.

‘And there is a smartphone.’

It occurred to me that if I really had a colleague, I could call someone on the phone or send a text message.

Then I should call you too.

“Leader, are you sleeping?”

“No. Mr. Sian, what is happening right now, at this hour?”

Seongtae Choi’s voice was heard.

“I found and subdued five people following the patrol team. Could you please send someone?”

“Where are you now? I’ll send it to you right away.”

“It’s a commercial building in the direction of the car wash, so you can see it from the entrance.”

“Yes. I will send it right away.”

And the call was immediately disconnected.

Let me do what I have to do before Mart’s troops come.

The man whose face was hit by a metal bat was holding his nose with one hand, as if something was wrong with it, and the other four people were all putting their hands on his thighs.

I spoke to the men standing in front of the stairs with such a hesitant look.

“It would be better to give away all smartphones.”

“Fuck…”

The man who attacked me first took out his smartphone and dropped it on the floor.

I don’t know if it’s because I’m dizzy from the blood loss or if they’re doing it to lure me in, but I confirmed that it was turned off.

The rest of the people watched as they took out their smartphones and dropped them on the floor. Are we rebelling as a group?

“Looking at it, except for one person, they can’t walk properly, and that one person is bleeding badly, so we can just leave them like this.”

“They’re going to kill me anyway!”

Unlike the man who was stabbed weakly at the end, the man who was bleeding heavily screamed.

“Fuck you! If you hadn’t started the fight, this wouldn’t have happened!”

Man number 5, remembering that I had agreed to spare his life in exchange for information, screamed.

“What? Fuck? I stood at the forefront of what you guys didn’t do and what I got back was fucked?”

They weren’t particularly close, so it seemed like they would have bitten each other like dogs if their bodies were healthy.

I continued to watch the five people splitting up and biting each other like this, and when I glanced in the direction of the mart, I saw search teams running towards me with spears in hand.

The response is faster than expected.

As soon as the spearmen arrived, they aimed their spears and the search leader asked me.

“Mr. Xian, are these guys?”

“Yes. I was hiding in this building while following the returning search team.”

“Why don’t we just kill the leader? You couldn’t have followed along with good intentions, right?”

My complexion, which was already not good, got even worse after hearing the story of a search team member who was a little more extreme than me.

“Well, I said that if that person answered well, I would let him live!”

At least the sane person pointed to me and I nodded.

“Yes. So please answer me. Where are you from?”

The men fell silent again at my question.

Since the spearmen were aiming their spears, I walked forward, picked up the smartphone, and held it up.

I tried pressing the smartphone one after another and confirmed that there was nothing other than the screen lock.

“These days, most people use fingerprint recognition instead of passwords, right? There’s a really easy way to find out. Let’s just say it.”

I know that if you take your life and then use fingerprint recognition to unlock the password, things will go much easier.

In a world where machine civilization was not as developed as the Xian Raven or Han Xian, people would have to be tied up, tortured, and made to spit out information, but now most of the information is contained in these square machines.

When I hinted that I could access information about more valuable things beyond the group, the man standing in the middle said.

“I’m from Hyorim High School.”

Seeing other people being silent about those words gave me a clear feeling that it was true.

“But that won’t be included in the patrol range?”

There was a university to the north, centered around the mart, and Hyorim High School to the west, a little far away.

Since I’m not from here, I have no idea how long it takes, but I know it’s a bit far.

“The high school felt like a temporary shelter, so a lot of people gathered there. We were scouting to find additional food before they ran out, and it looked like they were a group that could afford to patrol, so we followed them.”

It would be best to get it before the food runs out.

“And the supermarket said it was recruiting people not too long ago, so it means it has some room…”

“I guess I didn’t think there was a reason why Mart didn’t recruit survivors until now.”

While hearing those words, the man kept his mouth shut.

A new group, Hyorim High School, has appeared. Since it is a shelter, is it possible to say that there is a shortage of supplies due to the large number of people gathered there?

Although it was a high school, I thought that it might be the biggest force since it was not just students gathered together.

“What should we do, Mr. Sian?”

The search leader asked me.

I felt like they were expecting my judgment when I mercilessly put an end to the fire-light group and the Mart traitors.

“Smartphones can be used for many purposes. After you unlock them, you give them two windows and send them back.”

“Isn’t that the same as telling us to go out and die? You’re saying that we should make our legs look like this!”

“Then you had better make it clear now. Die.”

After saying that and walking back, the patrol members with murderous eyes stabbed the five men.

“Kwaaaaa!”

“You devil!!”

“I told you I would save your life!”

When I think about it, I thought that Geon-woo had lost his humanity after seeing his behavior at the officetel, but it’s been a long time since I lost it too.

Various memories are mixed together to form a Yusian, and that Yussian reacts more insensitively to killing than expected.

How many monsters and people have I killed, and would I be reluctant to kill potential enemies?

The screams of the men being stabbed by the spears stopped.

“Can you go somewhere reasonably far and destroy this smartphone?”

“I will leave it near the university.”

“Please make sure to destroy it because it may have contained other contents inside. I think it would be best to incinerate the body immediately.”

“Yes. Group 1 is to clean up the corpse, Group 2 is to destroy the smartphone.”

“Okay!”

After seeing the supermarket patrol team moving in perfect order, I returned to the car wash carrying a spear with a kitchen knife and two metal bats.

It seemed like a light was on inside, but I guess Naeun woke up because I didn’t come back.

“Naeun, are you awake?”

When Naeun heard my voice, he slowly opened the office door.

Naeun was holding a baseball bat in one hand, and his breathing was a little heavy.

“Why are you late? What were you doing here? Why did the patrol team leave?”

“I’ll go in and explain. Bugs are coming in.”

I closed the office door and went in and put down the window with the kitchen knife attached.

She picked it up without thinking, and thinking that she was lucky that there was no blood on the window, she washed the metal bat she used to crush his face with water and left it standing in the bathroom.

Naeun was sitting on the sofa with a slightly dissatisfied face. Seeing that he hadn’t let go of the baseball bat, I thought that if he said something wrong, I could get hit with that.

“Tell me a story about a person who went outside for some fresh air and brought back something like a blood-stained iron bat or spear.”

“When I went outside, there was a search team. So I said hello and looked around to get a good night’s sleep. At that time, I noticed that people I had never seen were secretly following the search team, so I stopped them.”

If I were to summarize what happened a little while ago, I did exactly that.

“Did you?”

Naeun put down the baseball bat after hearing my concise and sincere explanation.

“They said it was a group that settled down at Hyorim High School. They said they came out to secure food in advance.”

“I think I’ve seen it in passing. Isn’t it the complete opposite direction from where I used to live?”

“Yes. It’s the opposite because it’s on the west side of the supermarket.”

“There are more groups of survivors… No, of course there should be…”

We cannot just be happy that more people in our country have lived.

Because of the food shortage, you could become a potential enemy at any time.

“So those people were enemies?”

“Yes. It was an enemy.”

“But if anything happens, call me and take me with you. Also, don’t go alone. Sian, I’m scared if you’re not by my side…”

Naeun got up from the sofa and fell into my arms.

I held her in my arms, but Naeun was shaking so much that I could feel her body shaking.

I have diluted a lot of the fear I felt when fighting the evolved zombie while possessing another possessed body, but for Naeun, 3 days have not passed yet.

It must be painful to think that I will disappear from this world.

“I’m sorry. Now let’s keep going together.”

“Yes. Don’t leave me.”

As I was feeling the bond between me and Naeun becoming stronger, a thought passed through my mind.

‘Why did I only try to combine Shadow Mastery and Smoke Flame Magic?’