Chapter 115 – Zombie Apocalypse 2 (23)

Considering that no one was patrolling near the officetel where I was staying, I thought I would have to deal with quite a few zombies, so I went to see Seongtae Choi to get help from the search team.

“I heard there was a commotion at the entrance of the supermarket, but I heard that Mr. Sian took care of it himself. Are you okay?”

“Yes. Wouldn’t Seong Taehyung have made a similar choice as me?”

Choi Seong-tae smiled bitterly through his bandage upon hearing the name Seong-tae-hyung once again.

Even if Seong Tae-hyung is okay, the content behind it would be problematic.

“I would have done the same. Instead, I would have chosen to share the guilt.”

When Naeun heard those words, she grabbed my clothes tightly, so I turned around and saw a strong will in her eyes.

Did Choi Seong-tae’s words about sharing the sin resonate with you?

Feeling grateful for those eyes, I decided to get to the point.

“It looks like there are quite a few zombies around the officetel I was staying in. One of the reasons I moved to the mart was because there were zombies constantly appearing around there. There was no one to deal with them except us, so I moved to the mart, and it seems like that’s still the case there. So, can I borrow a patrol team?”

“It can be seen as necessary for the safety of the supermarket. Although the supermarket will not be included in the patrol scope, it would be good to organize it once. I will tell the patrol team.”

After telling my story like that, I left the customer support room.

“Then I won’t be able to get the supplies.”

“Because it’s better to be safe. Those people escaped earlier, but I don’t know the exact situation.”

It would be nice to have a reconnaissance tool like a drone, but it seems like no one at the supermarket has one.

If you don’t have it, you have to run.

*

Two patrol teams decided to provide support.

A fairly large group of 14 people, including Naeun and I, left the supermarket carrying weapons.

Each person wore protective gear, held a spear, stood at the front of the walkers, and roughly draped an iron bat over their shoulder.

“Someone might think I’m going to fight someone.”

“Aren’t we going to fight zombies?”

“You sure think that way now, right?”

As I walked down the wide street to get to where my room was, it felt a little clean.

It seemed like everything was fine as long as I left the officetel.

When I approached with that in mind, I encountered quite a few zombies.

“Krb!”

“That’s right!!!”

Zombies whose eyes turn red when they spot living people.

Most of the zombies were created with blue skin, but some of them were human-infected zombies.

“Let’s all start by being careful of infection.”

“Pick up the window!”

“Raise the window!!!”

About ten zombies came running with red eyes.

It’s a bit of a large space, but we have enough numbers.

And through presence detection, it was confirmed that there were no zombies coming out of strange places.

Rather than running ahead, I stood in line with the spearmen, and Naeun was also holding a spear instead of a baseball bat this time, so I didn’t think there was any need to worry.

Zombies running making footsteps were approaching close by.

Puff puff

The spearmen thrust their spears into the zombies’ heads and gave them rotational force, completely stopping their movement.

As expected, windows are good? I tried it last night, and it was really comfortable.

There were no zombies running in front of me, so there was no need for me to swing the metal bat.

The Mart’s spearmen, now skilled at killing zombies, pulled their spears out of the zombie’s head and prepared for the next move, but that was all they had just hunted.

“Let’s drop the zombie corpse and move forward.”

“Yes, Captain.”

The spearmen stabbed the zombie corpses with spears, then dragged them to the side of the road and laid them out in a pile.

It seems that in order for a synthetic zombie to be born, corpses must be gathered together, so taking such measures would be sufficient.

At that time, I suddenly remembered seeing an evolved zombie on the side of the road recovering from its wounds by eating a zombie corpse.

I think it was around here.

For Lee Sian, less than a week has passed, but for Yu Sian, a little time has passed.

After killing the zombies with ease, I returned to the officetel.

The refrigerator and front door that were blocking the entrance had been moved away, as if they hadn’t been repaired when the women and men from room 106 came, and there were fewer zombies wandering around than expected.

It doesn’t seem like a place to feel that much fear, does it?

The front of the officetel became clean after the spearmen repeatedly stopped the zombies by stabbing them in the head.

“Next is the back.”

“Okay. Let’s keep going.”

The spearmen felt a little tired. Would it be a good idea to take a break?

“No. Let’s rest here for a while. If you meet a lot of zombies when you’re tired, you’ll be in big trouble.”

The expressions of the search team members brightened a lot after hearing my words.

We decided to go inside the officetel, block the entrance, and then open room 106, which now has no owner.

She didn’t look for a key or anything on the woman’s body, so it was a pity that the only way to get in was to break the doorknob.

Kaang!

I swung the iron bat and opened the door.

A large garbage bag welcomed us at the entrance.

The inside of the house was still clean, so I guess it was pretty well organized, right?

First, I opened the refrigerator to have a quick meal, but there was only enough food left to last.

In addition to safety, food shortage seems to be one of the reasons for visiting the supermarket.

With 13 men and one woman trying to eat it, it seemed like it could be eaten as a snack.

I took out something edible and distributed it to the search team members, but Naeun hadn’t come out yet.

“Naeun? What are you looking for?”

“Sian, did I find this?”

Naeun opened the gym bag and showed the items.

There were quite a few sanitary pads that could be considered feminine products.

I think there were some at the supermarket, but since we tend to have personal supplies, it’s a good idea to keep them with you if you can.

“And I found two of these.”

Then he showed the pocket of his sportswear.

You had a condom? What were two left in the car wash office now have four.

“Good job.”

I lightly massaged Naeun’s shoulder to show that I had done really well, and we left room 106 to rest.

“Mr. Xian, then how many people are in this officetel now?”

“If there is no change in the number of people I know, there will be three.”

“Three people. Originally, this place would have been full of people, right?”

“Yes. There were no vacant rooms.”

On the 4th floor, with 6 rooms on each floor, 24 people lived there, but only 3 people remain.

“If you look at the entire human race, how much of it is dead now?”

One of the search team members asked cautiously.

I responded with a joke.

“If there were less than half of humanity left, the world would have said something. It wouldn’t be that far yet.”

“If it’s half, this is it.”

One of the search team members pretended to snap his fingers.

After searching through Lee Sian’s memories, I was able to figure out what it was. It’s a movie story.

“If it’s half of the human race, that’s true.”

We took a break, had a snack, and got up to hunt zombies again.

Wait a minute, should we try using the presence detection boost here?

Skill Link-Boost

Yeonyeom Shingong. Presence detection.

A wavelength of presence detection that can even read the heat spreading widely at an instant.

Starting with Naeun and the search team that were nearby, the number of people I could find increased.

Just as I knew, I could confirm that there were two men in room 206 and the 4th floor, and I could feel how many zombies were around.

Quite a lot, right? There were two zombies on the road we passed, as if they had just been created, and there were about a hundred zombies in the direction of the gas station.

“Huh…?”

Unlike presence detection, which can only sense presence or movement, presence detection boost can even detect body temperature.

Most of the zombies had low body temperature and showed strange movements, but one zombie felt quite hot.

A zombie whose body temperature was too low to be considered a human, but too hot to be called a zombie, and there were no other zombies around it.

When I discovered such a zombie, Naeun and the search team looked at me at the sound I made without realizing it.

“Sian, what’s wrong?”

If Naeun had been there, she would have said it accurately, but she could only vaguely explain it.

“It feels a little cold. Should I say it’s the same feeling as when I fought that guy before?”

Naeun knew my strength, so it was understandable that he took those words seriously, and the search team also took them quite seriously.

“Wouldn’t it be better to avoid them? Wouldn’t it be better to attack them all?”

“It’s probably not just a feeling. So let’s quickly wrap things up and go back to the supermarket.”

The search team quickly completed preparations as if my words were quite stimulating.

Only about two people who wanted to go to the bathroom entered the first floor where the front door was broken, delayed for a moment, and then we moved straight toward the gas station.

“There are definitely traces of evolved zombies here.”

There were still traces of streetlights and buildings destroyed by the evolved zombies.

No one would want to remove the streetlight, so even if they tried, they couldn’t see the broken house being repaired.

Did he die from an evolved zombie then? He wasn’t the type of guy who only cared about light.

“It’s dangerous because there are so many zombies. Raise your spear!”

“Raise the window!!!”

Many zombies from the parking lot started running towards us.

This time, instead of watching the spearmen fight, he stepped forward, tightened his hands and swung the iron bat he was holding.

Whoa whoa whoa!!!

I swung a metal bat larger than a baseball bat, and the three zombies that were hit flew away.

“I will take the lead this time. Please assist me.”

A slightly different zombie beyond those zombies.

While thinking about that guy, I went forward and swung the metal bat once more.