Chapter 126 – Zombie Apocalypse 2 (34)

He hid in an empty building near the warehouse where he fought a female zombie.

There were a lot of zombies gathering in the warehouse by that sound, and as they sneaked into the building, the moment Naeun and I were safe, survival rule EX1. The effect of the savior has disappeared.

I don’t know if it was just mental fatigue as the effect of the savior wore off, but the last Shadow Circle I used seemed to be putting a strain on my body.

First, the problem is that I didn’t use the mana I had, but instead used the shadows and mana around me as much as possible.

Should I call it Yang Qi? No, this time it was the opposite: the negative energy invaded my body.

The balance between yin and yang keeps breaking down. Is this okay?

“Sian, are you okay?”

“It’s not very good.”

We closed the door to the building and sat in front of it when Naeun saw me shaking slightly and said,

Naeun turned around and hugged me.

“It’s okay. You just fought it and got over it, right? It’s okay.”

“Yes. Yes. Because I won.”

‘Because I won… ?’

While holding Naeun in my arms, I brought up the status window.

『Quest』

〈Be victorious over the being that fell from the tower.〉

-Completed: Survival Rules (A+) -〉 Survival Rules (A+2)

Be victorious.

I completed a subtle quest where I couldn’t confirm whether I defeated it or not.

That said, is it still difficult to become an S-class survival rule?

Shadow Mastery also went up to E+2, but it would have been better to express it hastily, like the Smoke Flame Godk.

Still, I looked at the survival rules just in case, and there was one thing that had changed.

【5. Homeostasis – Resistance to disease becomes very strong.】

I think it was originally just said that the resistance would become stronger, but it has become very strong.

I always thought that it would be nice to receive the effect of becoming very resistant to diseases, but I also felt that it was a bit lacking as a quest reward.

With that thought in mind, whenever I had a little mana in my body, I spent time converting it into heat and removing the negative energy remaining in my body.

After some time had passed, people could be heard outside the building.

“Naeun, it looks like someone came outside?”

“Because it made such a loud noise, maybe you heard it at the supermarket too?”

I thought it was a loud noise, but was it that loud?

I thought that a sensitive person at the supermarket might hear it.

Naeun gave me a little kiss, released her arms from her embrace, got up from her seat, and walked to her window.

Naeun, who carefully looked down at her, came up to me and said.

“It looks like it’s a search team from a supermarket when you see it holding a silver spear.”

“Shall I call you?”

She took out her smartphone and called Seongtae Choi.

I became convinced that this person would not be sleeping even in the early morning of the 11th day of the zombie apocalypse.

“Mr. Xian, didn’t you say you wouldn’t go today?”

And as soon as she answered the phone, she told me.

When she heard the voice full of fatigue, she felt a little sorry.

“Ahaha… I confirmed that the search team was nearby. But since I can’t move right now, I think it would be better to pull the search team back. There was a really loud noise at the scene that was heard in the supermarket. That’s why the zombies Quite a number of people came.”

“I sent all three search teams. Is it difficult?”

“Yes. It’s night now, and it’s dangerous.”

“Okay, I’ll call you right away.”

When Seongtae Choi hung up the phone, Naeun ran to the window again.

After straining her eyes and looking down, Naeun came back and relayed the situation.

“The search leader answered the phone and went back. But wouldn’t it have been better to ask them to save us?”

After hearing Naeun’s words, I thought about calling Seongtae Choi again, but I just shook my head.

Once you are able to use Skill Link, you can recover your mana and remove the remaining negative energy in your body at once, and then you can break through the zombie horde alone, so it was thought that it would be more detrimental for the search team to get injured while fighting the zombie horde.

“Sian, can I ask you now? Should I say it was the last thing you did? What was that?”

Naeun, sitting next to her, asked carefully.

Strengthening strength with mana can be hidden, but Shadow Circle was a skill that was clearly visible.

“It’s true that I used it. It was also the first time I used power.”

“Really? Then you can’t deny that you are the chosen one?”

Naeun seems to be thinking of subsuming all strange phenomena into the word chosen person.

In this strange world, the only person you can rely on has changed with an unknown power, but it is an amazing word that allows you to accept that change.

“Okay. Let’s do something like that.”

“But you know. Is that power something I should be around?”

“Huh…?”

I asked about the identity of the power I expected and the activation conditions that were different from Naeun’s question.

And because it was somewhat involved, I felt like an idiot for a moment.

Naeun probably recognized that sound as positive and leaned a little closer to me.

“Sian, then let’s survive together.”

“Yes. Together.”

I closed my eyes as I stretched out my arm and pulled Naeun towards me.

***

Day 11 of the zombie apocalypse, 5 a.M.

Ji Sang-soo and people from Hyorim High School who applied for reconnaissance found the source of the noise.

He did not report to his superiors that he had stopped by the ‘mart’ with his fellow reconnaissance team members and that he had met a ‘customer’. With the goal of finding the cause of the loud noise heard a little after 12 o’clock, volunteers were sought and a total of 7 adult men gathered. .

I thought about leaving for that location the moment the applicants gathered, but the pigs told me to focus on the safety of Hyorim High School, so I was released at 4 a.M.

Everyone was tired because they had stayed up most of the night, but since they didn’t know how many zombies there would be, everyone kept their wits about them and made their way down the road.

Since the ‘guest’ said what he was doing, I thought it was because of what happened there, and the closer I got, the more zombies gathered to see if it was the sound that originated from that place.

“Captain Sangsu, there are too many zombies?”

“For now, let’s leave without fighting. Since that sound came from over here, a lot of zombies must have gathered.”

Although we brought more scouts than usual, we chose to avoid an all-out war because it was no different from a mixture of four people whose skills we could not trust.

The ground crew and reconnaissance team members found a tall building nearby and climbed there, where one team member took out a smartphone.

Since it magnifies well, I used the camera, which is similar to a telescope, to take a look around.

“What is that? Could you please take a look at Captain Sangsu?”

Ji Soo Ji assumed that he would not know what it was because he was a scout volunteer who did not go to the supermarket with him, so he handed over the smartphone.

“What is this…?”

I thought I would be surprised to see a pile of headless zombie corpses, but it was very different from what I expected. A pile of white bones?

Yesterday morning, when the supermarket patrol found it, there was a headless zombie body. White bones?

To leave evidence of this incomprehensible situation, I decided to take a few pictures and then leave.

A mountain of headless zombie corpses seemed like something I could understand in this world.

Ji Sang-soo, who thought that even if there were human corpses mixed in among the corpses, that the world was ruined and could just move on, gave up on understanding.

‘It’s a line crossed that a pile of corpses turns into white bones in one day.’

It is a world where zombies jump out of the air and strange things talk to your head.

I thought there was good even in that world.

“Let’s go back. This is not something we can handle.”

“Yes, captain.”

And Ji Sang-soo thought that it would be much better to keep a distance from the supermarket that could handle this kind of work.

We need to control the pigs above so that they don’t become more greedy for supplies, but there is no one who can control that.

“Haa…”

The road back to Hyorim High School was not that comfortable.

***

After a sigh of relief, I woke up, contacted the mart, and used the mana accumulated in my body to erase the negative energy remaining in my body.

It wasn’t completely erased, but at this level, there wasn’t much of a burden when using skills that use mental power.

Today, I should focus on removing negative energy by converting mana into heat.

As I was looking out the window with Naeun, I was able to see that the familiar supermarket patrol team was nearby.

“Naeun, let’s go down.”

“Yeah. I’m a little hungry. I should have brought some nutritional bars.”

“It seems like you eat better than me?”

“You should consume it when you can. There is an expiration date, right?”

I remember there are still 3 more months left? I think they just want to make fun of me.

I held the spear and Naeun held the lantern and went down to the first floor to meet the search team.

“Welcome. Weren’t there quite a few zombies on the way?”

“Well, it was okay. The zombies that gathered last night dispersed due to a loud noise, so if you add them all together, the number was quite high, but since there were 3 groups, it was manageable.”

Since quite a bit of time has passed, it seems like the zombies that came to the factory have dispersed.

“Then, would you like to check the factory? I will help you.”

“Yes. Let’s go.”

I took the lead and opened the road to the factory.

Since the spear he was holding was swung wide and used to cut off the zombie’s head, the search team member tried to follow suit and almost got hurt, which resulted in him being scolded by the search team leader, but it could be said that it was not a big deal.

“Wow… What is this…”

A bone tomb with a large hole in the middle.

A big change has occurred in a place that until yesterday was a pile of headless zombie corpses.

The search team members who saw the photo and the search team members who checked this place in person yesterday looked quite embarrassed, but at that time, I used my barely recovered mental power to use the presence detection boost.

Skill Link-Boost

Yeonyeom Shingong. Presence detection.

A wave of presence detection, capable of detecting even the heat of an object, spread around me.

‘That guy is not around.’

Since the female zombie uses bones, let’s call it a bone zombie.

I used presence detection, but I couldn’t find the unique heat that bone zombies had.

If this is the case, it’s definitely dead, right?

“Now, let’s go back. It would be okay to take a few authentication photos and upload them. This is not related to the mart. We will return to the mart and share more detailed information.”

As I spoke, the search team members started taking pictures with their smartphones.

Still, seeing as everyone is paying attention to not showing the background, it seems like the rules made by Seongtae Choi are effective.