Chapter 13 – Zombie Apocalypse (10)

After defeating two zombies in an instant, I looked around.

When a zombie’s head explodes, is there little sound spread to the surrounding area?

I swung the baseball bat like a sword and got some pretty good results.

I don’t know if I lacked strength, but if I swung a blunt weapon with all my might, it would cause fatal injuries, so I think a baseball bat would be better than a sword that needs to be maintained after use.

“Sian, you shouldn’t move thinking you can do it! You have to be careful!”

Naeun, whose tolerance to corpses has increased since he once killed a zombie himself, came up to me and said.

“I think there will be up to two. If there are more than three, I will have to run away.”

Although it is strong, it is not resistant to infection.

In fact, it was as if he wanted to quickly strengthen the rules of survival.

If there wasn’t a risk of infection, I would have increased the quest count by killing the zombies buried in the zombie corpses at the department store.

If I find and kill four more, I will be strengthened, so I thought I would like to move a little more actively.

“Yesterday, I went out early in the morning and saw him killing a female zombie. Did he hit her several times?”

Since Jung Jun-ho lives next door, he must have heard us leaving last night and came out to the hallway to see what we were doing.

Until then, it would have taken two or three hits to the head, but now I can take it down with one blow.

“I guess I’ve gotten the hang of it after doing this. Let’s keep going. If zombies appear in the future, I’ll kill them.”

“Yes. I feel reassured. Let’s go.”

For a moment, I felt like they were wary of me, and I thought that I might be the same.

The person who can destroy a zombie’s head in one fell swoop lives next door?

You may feel reassured, but you may also be afraid.

I followed the path led by Jeong Jun-ho and arrived at a camping supplies store on the side of the road.

People had already been here, so the windows were all broken, and there were blood stains on the floor, as if a fight had occurred.

“It seems like it’s not just a little bit late, it’s a lot late.”

When I entered the store, many of the expensive-looking tents had disappeared.

Unless you are staying in a building or room like us, you will have to settle down in a large supermarket or a playground. In that case, having a tent will make your life much more comfortable.

At first, I thought there was a reason why people were gathered together in a group.

As long as the Lord of Plague didn’t use the damn zombie drops, he had the advantage.

Naeun and Jung Junho searched every nook and cranny for camping supplies.

Fortunately, there were about three lanterns we were looking for, and we were able to find batteries.

“Even things like manual generators were completely wiped out.”

There were traces of a generator and a few large auxiliary batteries on display, but since they were not there, it seemed like the person who came to the store first took them.

“Ah. We also need a generator.”

The light, which looked like a toy and was pressed firmly with the hand, was left in the corner as if it had been swept away and dropped. It was a tool that was guaranteed to increase in value significantly the moment the electricity was cut off.

“I guess they took everything they could to light a fire here. We’re very late.”

After searching through a camping supplies store, all we found were four lanterns and a portable light with a built-in generator.

It wasn’t a very satisfactory result, but this was still the amount of supplies left 15 hours after the zombie apocalypse began.

“What’s next? Auxiliary batteries, medicine, and armor?”

I said this to myself to remind myself of what I came out to get, and Jung Jun-ho, who heard it, said.

“Should I at least go to a cell phone store for an auxiliary battery?”

“It’s a name that would 100% be stolen from a mobile phone store.”

As Naeun said, if I didn’t have a special purpose, I thought I would have rushed over and swept away the cell phone first.

As we were coming out of the camping supplies store, which had disappointing results, we encountered four men who were moderately armed like us.

A subtle war of nerves.

I spoke to them first.

“I had nothing to take with me because everything had already been ripped out. My bag was empty, right?”

He said while hitting the empty bag with his hand.

Then, a man who seemed to be in good health, perhaps the representative of that company, spoke in a deep voice.

“Is that the woman’s bag over there?”

“There are four lanterns.”

Naeun said as he attached the bag to his body.

The man frowned and puffed up his body a little before speaking to us.

“Couldn’t you just keep one per person and give the rest to us?”

A man who threatens and demands negotiation at the same time.

Naeun and Jung Jun-ho waited for my answer, saying that even though I was one person short, I would easily win if I wanted to fight.

“Give me one, Naeun.”

Naeun opened the bag and threw a lantern into the box, and the man easily caught it.

As we left the camping goods store, four men ran in.

There’s nothing inside?

We decided to quickly get away from the camping goods store before those people who noticed this became our greedy enemies.

“The numbers are scary.”

“That’s because we have gathered at an appropriate level.”

The number of people suggested by Professor Seo is 10, but even if there are only 10 people, it still feels like a group.

“Lee Sian could have won, right?”

Jung Jun-ho asked me a question carefully.

“It’s hard to give a definite answer because I feel like I have to subdue a person. If it was a zombie, I think I could win.”

He said that if it was a fight where he had to die, he would definitely win, but if it was a fight where he had to be defeated, he didn’t know.

“You weren’t thinking about dealing with them alone, right? You should have included me and my girlfriend.”

“Then I think subduing it will definitely be possible.”

Without realizing it, I assumed 1:4, but it was 3:4.

Thinking back about the four men from before, except the representative man, they didn’t look like they had really exercised and some of them had bare hands.

Even if Naeun was a woman, we had the advantage because she could subdue a man without a weapon.

It looked like he was threatening us, but wasn’t he actually shouting for his life?

While walking with that thought in mind, I found a cell phone store, but the glass there was shattered and the store was empty.

I went in just in case, but could only find outdated items such as a 5-pin cable.

“Sian, there’s nothing here. Even the free toilet paper was taken away.”

“I see. It looks like the supermarkets around here were robbed.”

Would it have been better to just stay up all night and move at dawn?

Even though I was sleepy, I might have been able to pack more supplies if I had kept thinking.

With a feeling of regret, I headed to the pharmacy for the last time.

Of course, this place was empty too, with only a few strange items left, such as knee pads.

“When I came to the pharmacy, I thought there was a lot of junk, but I never even thought about how empty it all was.”

It was a place that had everything from simple fatigue relievers to jellies and toys that children could eat, but there were none.

After leaving the pharmacy, I went near the supermarket and saw people holding long iron pipes standing at the entrance.

It seems like they’ve found a good leader and are already building a fortification.

Thinking that it would be difficult to join that group unless we collapsed inside, we decided to go back to the officetel.

“I bought a lot of food here.”

On the way back, Jeong Jun-ho saw a small snack shop and said.

The shutter was put down, but it was broken and there were traces of someone entering through the broken part.

Lee Sian also remembered that this was a place that sold cheap food for college students.

I was eating food like chicken breast, but once I tried the tteokbokki here, it was amazing.

That’s why I don’t think the tteokbokki was that appealing when I last delivered it last night.

Because Naeun was secretly eating it.

“Are there any food ingredients left inside?”

“I’m done with being a housekeeper. Let’s go in.”

I turned on the lights in the store and searched the kitchen, finding a half-eaten bag of rice.

Isn’t this a great harvest?

We took everything that could be easily cooked and eaten, such as dumplings, sundae, and rice cakes, but we also had red pepper paste, which was heavy compared to its volume, and made a pretty good harvest.

I packed the red pepper paste in Naeun’s bag, organized the rice bag and put it in my bag, and then Jung Junho carried it.

I could hear that it was difficult to lift because it was too heavy, but since I have better fighting power, this is the right distribution.

As if to prove that it was right to divide the work like this, there was a zombie wandering around, and I ran over and hit its head.

Pow!

Jeong Jun-ho, who saw the zombie’s head explode from a single blow for the second time, did not react as loudly as before.

Maybe it’s just that the rice bag is heavy, and it’s hard to react?

After defeating the zombies (7/10), we returned to the officetel.

There was a corpse of a zombie in the flower bed, an elderly zombie with an exploded head that had been left on the stairs.

“Sian, look at this.”

Someone wrote something in large red letters on the front door of the officetel.

“Officetel survivors’ meeting. Scheduled to be held in the front yard. Be sure to attend at 8 p.M.”

“Should we go too?”

Naeun asked my opinion, and I asked Junho Jeong, who unloaded his bag and took a break.

“Will Jung Jun-ho attend?”

“It would be nice if the remaining people could come together, but I’m a little reluctant when the topic of sharing supplies comes up.”

There are 6 rooms per floor and 4th floor, so how many people are left in this officetel with room 24?

“It gets annoying if you open the door and come in just because you didn’t participate. Let’s go show your face.”

When I thought about the most unpleasant thing that would result from not participating, forced entry came to mind.

Then we will have to fight now, so it would be better to fight less.

We went up to the third floor and shared the supplies we brought.

Jung Jun-ho had a container for rice, so he poured rice into it and handed over a container of red pepper paste.

I returned to my room after handing over a lantern.

Naeun was tired, so he washed his hands and feet and lay down on the bed.

15 hours after the zombie outbreak, 5 hours left until the survivors’ meeting?

It would be good to quickly strengthen the survival rules before that.

The gas station that caught fire in the morning has now calmed down, so is it okay to gather in the front yard in the evening?

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【1】

【Lee Sian-(75%)】

【Level: 2】

【Combat Power: 310】

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

【Quest in progress (2/3)】

『Quest』

〈Kill (7 / 10) zombies.〉

-Upon completion: [Skill] Strengthening Survival Rules (F)