Chapter 14 – Zombie Apocalypse (11)

Naeun was lying on the bed and looking at his smartphone.

“What are you looking at?”

I also walked up to the side and asked, and Naeun answered.

“I asked my friends how they are holding on, but it seems like most of them are in groups. There are not many people who have prepared food like us.”

If you don’t move around with a clear goal, the group will grow as you move around and meet others.

Since our goal was to hold on, and we had a lot, we tended to refrain from meeting.

Fortunately, Naeun is also actively cooperating with me, so I am just thankful.

“Would you like to ask if any of your friends belong to a supermarket?”

If you think about it, the supermarket was close to the university.

If young female college students want to join a group, is there anyone who wouldn’t accept them?

Naeun’s friends were all good-looking, as the saying goes, they hang out with each other.

“Oh, there might be. Just wait a moment.”

As if it was difficult to use the smartphone while lying down, Naeun sat down on the bed and started sending messages to his friends.

After waiting for a while, a friend sent me a long message, which contained information about Mart Group.

“There is. They say there are almost 60 people in the mart? They say they are all in 6 groups, not just one. Furthermore, they say they are taking a seat on one side of the mart and acting as joint security guards?”

Just as there are too many heads and things don’t progress well, 6 groups are too many.

It would be better to form a group of 60 people and integrate well before taking action against zombie drops. Splitting them up indiscriminately is not the answer.

“Problems will arise later because the group has not become one.”

“I guess so…?”

Naeun said in a low voice, as if she was worried about her friend.

She said while gently stroking her back.

“Problems will arise, but they could end up as minor disputes. Everyone is currently aiming to survive for 30 days, so if we have supplies to last until then, it won’t become that intense.”

In times like this, it is better to have a clear leader set the system.

Here too, the person who decided to gather the survivors of the officetel seems to be thinking of becoming a leader, but he has no intention of following.

Considering the direction of the quest, I have to keep killing zombies, and the more I kill them, the more difficult it will be for the leader to handle.

I would rather be the leader and have no intention of living with envy and jealousy.

As I thought about that, my stomach growled.

Hehe. I guess the person who kills a zombie with one hit is also hungry?”

Naeun, who heard that sound, laughed and tapped my stomach, and I said while covering my stomach.

“I guess one nutrition bar won’t work. Let’s eat something.”

You can adapt by only eating nutrition bars until your stomach shrinks, but you should eat what you need to eat now when you can cook it.

“Yeah. I was hungry too. What should I eat?”

“Chicken breast?”

When I said those words, Naeun looked at me as if I were a strange person.

I brought it up reasonably.

“Other frozen foods are pre-cooked, so as long as they are completely thawed, you won’t get sick if you eat them, right? But chicken breasts require cooking. They have to be thawed and then grilled or steamed before eating, but since we don’t have fire, we have to consume them quickly.”〈 Br〉

There is only induction in the room.

I don’t know if there is a portable gas burner, but the only thing I brought from the camping supply store was a lantern.

“Are we going to eat things that are difficult to cook later? Are we going to eat them deliciously instead? Let’s put some red pepper paste on them and cook them deliciously.”

“I didn’t even think about eating healthy. I should eat deliciously.”

“Because there are a lot of cucumbers as vegetables. Shall we just cut up the cucumbers and eat them together?”

“Chicken breast with red pepper sauce and cucumbers…”

My diet seems to have deteriorated faster than I expected.

Naeun got out of bed and started gathering the ingredients, probably thinking he was going to cook, and complained a little about the small kitchen because of the water.

“Sian, I think you took too much water.”

“Later, after the survivors’ meeting, I’ll have to leave some supplies in the empty room.”

When I saw Naeun starting to cook without an apron, I suddenly saw Seoyeon.

Seoyeon also lived with me and cooked delicious meals every day, and she liked it when I ate delicious food.

I never would have guessed that Seoyeon, who cooks delicious dishes with good ingredients, and Naeun, who cooks survival dishes using leftover ingredients, overlap.

I shook my head slightly, erased my thoughts about Seoyeon, and stood up.

“Xian? Can I sit and wait? I can do this too.”

“If there are any zombies around, take them out and come back. The tenant meeting is being held in the front yard, so it would be a good idea to organize it in advance.”

When Naeun heard those words, he stopped moving.

“Are you planning on making me cook and going out alone? You were so hungry you were growling, right?”

“It’s okay. I’m used to hunting zombies now. I’ll be back soon without getting hurt, so make it delicious.”

Naeun, who was thinking about it, sighed and said.

“I’m not the kind of girl who waits at home. I’ll only allow this once today, so come back without getting hurt. Do you understand?”

She knows that she is a woman who can take action if violence is necessary.

It is difficult to say that Naeun is a family woman.

I walked over to Naeun and kissed her briefly.

I came out carrying a cardboard box in my arms and a baseball bat.

Let’s just catch three and go back.

With that mindset in mind, I came out and saw a man coming up from the 2nd floor to the 3rd floor.

This man with slightly shaggy hair walked over with a bright expression on his face when he saw me holding a baseball bat.

“Hello! Room 302?”

“Yes. Room 302.”

“Have you seen the message I posted at the entrance? Officetel survivors’ meeting?”

“Yes. I saw it. What issue is that?”

“This is room 104. Are you coming out for dinner?”

“Yes. We need to check how many survivors there are.”

“Please come out. I’m walking around to see if there’s someone who didn’t go out and didn’t see the notice. Have you seen anyone else in the officetel yet?”

“There is someone in room 303, and he said he would come later.”

“Thank goodness. Then at least 5 people will gather now.”

“You went around the first and second floors?”

“Yes. There are only three people left, including me. I wonder if they will return when the sun sets… Have you seen the residents who went towards the department store? They must have followed that direction during the day?”

Is No. 104 one of the people who followed us?

Seeing that he said ‘toward the department store’, it seems he joined the group and moved together, but then separated and saved his life.

“There’s a zombie in the department store. If I don’t come back by evening, I guess I’ll have to consider it a disaster.”

“Ah. Yes… I understand… Are you going to pick up more supplies?”

“I’m thinking of going on patrol to see if there are any zombies nearby.”

“Patrol! It’s important. I hope to see you at the survivors’ meeting.”

The man in room 104 seemed to be going beyond rooms 302 and 303 and heading toward room 304.

If there are more people on the 4th floor, close to 10 people could gather.

I went down to do the zombie hunting I had originally planned to do.

‘I think it’s been roughly 24 hours since I was possessed.’

The first semester spent at Global Academy was physically and mentally more difficult, but how could the strength gained in just one day of possession be stronger?

“Status window.”

【Yusian】

【Level: 1】

【Combat Power: 98】

【Skills: Summer Possession (A), Establishment of Self (A), Rules of Survival (F)】

【Quest in progress (1/2)】

Isn’t this really too much? Survival rules were added, but it was so weak that it could not be compared to Lee Sian.

We are definitely growing through what happened here, but the growth rate was very slow.

Should we focus on the fact that the original body grows even when possessed?

Still, I had two more skills, but I didn’t understand why my combat power was still in the double digits.

‘I need to kill more zombies.’

I thought that maybe if we strengthened the survival rules, it would be in the triple digits.

I headed outside the officetel with quick steps.

Since there are no zombies on the main roads, should I try a narrow alley?

Even though the sun had not yet set, a low cry could be heard from the shadowed alley.

“Grrrr…”

I slowly walked towards the zombie, looking carefully in case it might jump out of the broken store nearby.

The zombie must have sensed me and turned its head.

A zombie that looks like a green corpse, not an infected person, but a person who brought the Lord of Plague.

“Cookooooo!!!”

The black eyes turned red, and the zombie started running with both hands raised.

Even at that moment, I checked my surroundings one more time.

After confirming that there were no other zombies, I raised the baseball bat upward.

Whoa!

The head of the zombie I hit with the tip of the bat exploded in an instant, and I looked around once again.

“Na-eun was doing this.”

I thought there wouldn’t be much of a difference if I went out alone, but it felt like the number of places I had to look at had increased several times.

Let’s catch two more and go back.

It would be an option to head deeper into this alley, but I thought it would be difficult because there was too much information for my head to take in.

I went out into the dark alley with a dirty baseball bat.

This time, I headed to the back of the officetel.

The zombies that had gathered may have dispersed when the gas station exploded.

As if my prediction was correct, several zombies walking helplessly caught my eye.

I guess I could hunt more by handing over the two?

I lightly rotated the baseball bat once and then held it tightly with both hands.

Before they come together, destroy them individually.

*

『Quest』

〈Kill (10/10) zombies.〉

-Completed: [Skill] Rules of Survival (F) -〉 [Skill] Rules of Survival (E)

【Skill: Survival Rules (E)】

【Acquire the abilities necessary for survival.】

【One. Calmness – Brain rotation speed increases in crisis situations.】

【2. Perception – Can read the opponent’s movements. When activated, mental power is greatly consumed.】

【1】

【Lee Sian-(75%)】

【Level: 3】

【Combat Power: 451】

【Holding Skills: [Skill] Rules of Survival (E)】

【Waiting for quest (3/3)】