Chapter 18 – Zombie Apocalypse (15)

The two men guarding the entrance continued to guard the entrance, and a man named Geon-woo followed us.

I’m not sure exactly how many people are in this building, but I think I know that he is the leader or leader of the action.

There were at least three strong men. With that in mind, I went up the stairs, but the situation was miserable from the first floor.

“They tore down all the doors.”

I think they tried to use the front door as a building resource while gathering the residences upward, and it felt like it was much more developed than our officetel, which looked like it could be something but ended up in disarray.

On the second floor that we came up to, all the front doors had been removed, and Naeun walked briskly and entered room 203.

And I spoke so that I, who was outside, could hear.

“You bastards!”

After hearing that, I glanced at Geon-wu, who was following behind me, and he said with a grin.

“If you want to survive, you have to make the most of it. You know that, right?”

And if you wink slightly, are you going to rip off all the piercings in your ears? I really thought about it.

After shaking my head and entering room 203, the first thing I noticed were footprints.

The floor was completely messed up, probably because she had been walking around with her shoes on, and a few of Naeun’s bras and underwear were seen lying around.

Unlike the officetel where I live alone, the living room was a bit larger as it had one room, but the living room was a mess.

The refrigerator was already empty, and looking at the clothes lying around, it felt like everything useful had already been taken out. There seemed to be a little bit left, but Naeun, who was squatting down, was throwing some of the remaining items into the bag and kept muttering, perhaps cursing in a low voice.

I opened the laptop with the charging cable plugged in, and the screen was broken.

“Oh. That’s because I don’t know the password.”

“They’re really crazy kids? What kind of evil is it that they destroy things they don’t know about?”

When Naeun shouted, it seemed like he was talking about the state of the laptop.

“This was definitely too much. There was no need to destroy it, right? Did they really assume that anyone who didn’t come back here yesterday was dead?”

Someone might know how to unlock the laptop’s password, and since communication is still active, I could use a reset method, but I thought it was too much, so I told Geon-woo.

“Hmm. When I told them that it was a pretty girl’s room, they got a little crazy. They stuffed all their thin panties into their pockets and left.”

“It’s crazy. For some reason, all that stuff is gone. All my lipstick and lip balm are gone. Could it be…?”

“Well, it’s indirect. Is your boyfriend okay? Being a daughter-in-law isn’t a crime, right?”

“You know that if you say that out loud, it will make the listener feel dirty, right?”

I felt like swinging the baseball bat and breaking one of my body parts, but I held back.

“Ah. You guys are so crazy. Sian, let’s go. I don’t want to stay here any longer.”

I was about to leave the room with Naeun, who glanced at Geonwoo with a cold look, but I had no choice but to stop.

[The world proposes to the Lord of Plague.]

“What are you going to propose now?”

Geon-wu said sarcastically.

“I think he’s thinking of taking us in a good direction.”

[The Lord of Plague suggested stopping the practice of generating Plague Seeds in populated areas and creating them randomly.]

“Oh. Was that something like that?”

For some reason, I thought there were fewer zombies in places like our officetel where there were fewer people living.

There were videos of the United States and other countries full of zombies, but were the seeds of the plague being sowed indiscriminately in countries with large populations, such as China or leader?

While I was thinking that I was doing something really systematically bad, I heard a voice again.

[The Plaguelord proposes extending the modern firearms limit by 30 days in exchange for accepting random generation.]

[The world rejected it.]

[The Lord of Plague proposed the evolution of Plague.]

[The world rejected it.]

[The Lord of Plague suggested tripling the amount of Plague Seeds produced. It was emphasized that no further proposals would be made.]

[The world accepted the conditions.]

“Wait a minute, what are these bastards doing on their own?”

Geonwoo said what I wanted to say first.

“The world seems to think that humans have a better chance of surviving this than dropping zombies in densely populated areas and causing group infections. Because the problem of forming groups has been solved.”

As I was summarizing the reasons why the world accepted those conditions, Naeun grabbed my arm and dragged me.

“Sian, let’s go back quickly. You mean more zombies may appear from now on, right?”

“That’s right. The way back won’t be easy.”

As he walked down the stairs at a fast pace, Geon-woo shouted so loudly that the entire building could hear.

“You bastards! You heard it all! Grab your tools!”

This place, which has some defense measures in place, is being prepared right away, but I don’t know what will happen to us.

The two people guarding the entrance also blocked the entrance as soon as we left.

‘Was it complacent to just hold on?’

Yu Xian’s quest, in order to survive for 5 days as a possessed body, I only thought about surviving in a small space by gathering food to survive with a trustworthy person.

If I had thought about the future beyond that, I thought it would have been better to form a group like this to fight against the zombies and secure the area to plan the future.

“Xian! Over there, zombies!”

As seen in the video, a zombie walked out of thin air.

Naeun talked about losing strength when he held the baseball bat tightly with both hands.

“I’ll get ready to take a video in a moment!”

“Okay. Do it quickly.”

Ding!

I heard a sound as if video recording had started.

The moment I heard that sound, I ran out and swung the baseball bat upward.

Whoa!

As if hitting a home run, the zombie’s head flew away and the zombie fell backwards, losing its head.

Porong!

“Okay! I think that’s enough!”

Naeun finished filming a video that lasted less than a few seconds and ran straight to me.

I thought that since Naeun was now holding a baseball bat instead of a smartphone, the way back would be no problem.

“Let’s go home quickly. And then we have to come up with a defense plan.”

There were quite a few zombies along the way, perhaps because random generation had started or because there were now three times as many.

Unless I have improved my combat power a lot, do I feel like it would be easy for me to get attacked by others while trying to kill one guy?

Whoa! Whoa!

I ran over and smashed the zombie’s head before it attacked me, and then the quest appeared.

『Quest』

〈Achieve combat power of 500.〉

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

It’s good to continue to strengthen survival rules, but is there a way for me to further increase my combat power?

When I checked Lee Sian’s status window, his current combat power was 483.

I learned the combat sleep that came about as survival rules were strengthened, but contrary to what I had seen, my combat power increased only slightly.

Considering that the quests have been worth doing so far, I wonder if 500 can be achieved without much difficulty, but I’m not sure.

I hid in the stairs with Naeun and took a moment to catch my breath.

“Na-eun, next time you see one, deal with it.”

“Okay, I’ll try it. If I see just one thing, I’ll do it?”

Since Naeun has only killed one zombie so far, I thought it would be a good idea to let her gain a little more experience, so I suggested it, and she accepted it right away.

I plan to always be by your side, but the more practical experience you have, the better.

I reflected on my days of only physical training at the Global Academy.

When I return to Yusian after removing the possession, I will have to kill a lot of goblins.

After getting enough rest, I came down the stairs.

As I walked slowly, again being wary of my surroundings, a zombie caught my eye.

This time, Naeun decided to handle it, so I fell back a little.

“Grrrr!!!”

Upon seeing Naeun in front, a zombie ran towards me, making a scratching sound that I was getting used to.

A corpse-like zombie with bluish skin stretched out its arms threateningly, but the distance was shorter than that of a human using tools.

Naeun calmly raised the baseball bat upward and swung it vigorously when the zombie’s head came into range.

Kaaaaang!

A clear sound, like hitting a home run with a baseball, echoed through the alley.

Then, he swung the baseball bat again to confirm and kill the zombie lying on the ground.

Puck! Puck! Puck! Puck!

With my lips tightly closed, I struck the zombie’s head with all my concentration, making sure not to miss and hurt her wrist.

Pump!

After hitting the head of the zombie on the floor about five times, her head was completely broken.

“Haaaaa… It’s hard…”

After completely killing the zombie, Naeun came to me, sobbing.

After holding me in his arms, I patted my back slowly.

“How on earth are you going to explode her head at once? You guys are so focused on hitting it, it’s very tiring.”

“Do you have any aversion to killing?”

“We’re not even human. And we have to live.”

After giving Naeun a big pat on the back twice, I started to go back to the officetel.

Fortunately, I didn’t have to deal with more zombies than the four zombies I encountered along the way.

Unlike the officetel we stopped by earlier, our officetel was the same as it was before the zombie outbreak. We went up to the 3rd floor, being a bit wary, as zombies might have entered the building.

“Is this person trying to live alone?”

The hallway between rooms 302 and 303 was completely blocked.

It looks like Jung Jun-ho worked hard while we were away.

I don’t know where I picked it up, but I blocked the road with large appliances such as desks and refrigerators, and made a torn curtain and wrapped it around it with rope to make it difficult to clean up.

But I think all of this was in room 101?

After she died, he freely gave away her house and her body.

“True. Sian, look at this.”

[No. 303 Jeong Jun-ho, contact number 010-XXXX-25XX]

I put a phone number on the front door of my house asking me to call if I need anything.

“Never contact me.”

After saying that, Naeun crumpled up her note, threw it out, took her fingerprints, and went into the house.

“Should we block the entrance too?”

I looked at room 301 next to me and muttered quietly.

Assuming we block the entrance to the 3rd floor, do you think we can use room 301 as well?

Naeun, who went into the house first, doesn’t seem to have heard me, so let’s just think about it for now.