Chapter 223 – Zombie Apocalypse 3 (8)

[The Lord of Plague presented conditions to the world.]

“Ugh… I can really hear it.”

Naeun woke up while rubbing her eyes.

[Proposed an increase in the duration of plagues conditioned on the cessation of random generation of plagues that humanity can handle.]

“Increased the duration of the plague?”

Stopping random generation will definitely give us some breathing room, but what will be the effect of increasing the duration?

Are you saying that you are trying to extend the lifespan of evolved zombies because there are many surviving humans who can deal with regular zombies?

It looks like they are planning to provide a continuous supply of magical energy so that the most evolved zombies do not die in vain without finding their target.

[The world has asked for a clear time for the Lord of Plague to increase its duration.]

[The Lord of Plague suggested 46 days.]

46 days means that one month is added to the period that should have ended.

But doesn’t this mean that zombies will definitely disappear from the world in 46 days?

[The world accepted the offer.]

“Does this mean that no more zombies will be created? Instead, the lifespan of those currently existing will be extended.”

Instead, regular zombies may become stronger as they continue to receive mana, but I think the end of the complete zombie apocalypse is a good enough deal.

“If we do this, if we last just 46 days, we can return to a world without zombies?”

Naeun thought the same as me. He looked at me and said with a slight smile.

“Perhaps? After 16 days, the seal on modern firearms will be released, so you only have to hold out for a month after that, and it will be over.”

Naeun got up from the bed and came into my arms.

[Twisted Death has visited again.]

“What? Why is he coming again?”

“Why? Again?”

Naeun also got a little angry because he kept hearing voices that should have ended.

[Twisted Death has given the bloomed plague the possibility of a second bloom.]

[Twisted Death has left the world.]

[The world questioned whether this was what the Lord of Plague intended.]

[The Lord of Plague smiled and disappeared.]

“Sian? What is the second flowering…?”

“First… It’s clear that this is bad for us.”

With a conversation between higher beings that lasted about two minutes, the end of the zombie outbreak began to appear before our eyes, but everything was thrown into disarray due to the sudden, twisted death.

I don’t know what to do now.

At that time, Seongtae Choi called me.

“Mr. Xian, can I see your face now?”

He sounds very tired. I forced him to sleep this morning and healed his face to some extent with a healing magic circle, but he seems to be feeling more tired than that.

“Yes. I’ll go now.”

“Choi Seong-tae called you?”

“Yes. You too, let’s go together.”

“Okay…”

Naeun also followed me out of the car wash office looking very weak.

*

The people inside the mart also seemed somewhat helpless after hearing the story just now.

In the case of a plague that humanity can handle, they confirmed that they could deal with it by increasing their strength, but the evolved zombies had no problem.

But wouldn’t it make you feel helpless when you heard that the evolved zombie could evolve one step further?

Without saying anything else, I entered the customer support room.

Everyone, including the three patrol leaders who saw each other often and Choi Seong-tae, were sighing.

“Can I summarize roughly what I heard and thought?”

“Yes.”

“Normal zombies will not appear from now on. However, zombies that appear in this world will not disappear naturally for 46 days.”

“It was pretty good up to that point.”

It was really a good deal up to that point.

“The evolved zombies that have appeared now have the potential to become stronger. This is the problem.”

The problem was that the twisted plague suddenly struck and disappeared like a hit-and-run.

“Our group has Mr. Lee Sian, so we can deal with regular evolved zombies. However, most groups probably don’t have the strength to deal with them yet.”

“In the meantime, it’s evolving once more.”

People looked at me while saying that.

It seemed like I wasn’t sure whether I could deal with the secondary evolved zombies or not.

“I guess I’ll have to fight it once to find out. Still, I think the best thing is to fail to evolve.”

“I didn’t say that everything will evolve, but that it gives possibility.”

At that time, there was a knock on the door of the customer support office.

When Naeun, who was near the door, opened it, Jaeyoung Park slightly lowered her head and stuck out her body.

“Hey, have you seen this? It’s a real-time video, right before the army comes into contact with the zombie horde in Korea.”

“Ah! The group said to be approaching has arrived?”

I held out my smartphone, and it was brightening up at night and loudly broadcasting the scene of preparations for battle with a horde of zombies coming from afar.

“Yes. I’m watching to see if second-evolution zombies or anything like that might appear there.”

“It would be troublesome if something happened. It’s close to us.”

“Since there is no clear solution, shall we just part ways?”

“Yes. I feel like I’m being played by those guys, but I can’t see what we can do right away, so it’s better to take a break.”

The search team, and we left the customer support room.

Naeun and I returned to the car wash and turned on the battle scene that Jaeyoung Park had told us about on our laptop.

Because it has a wider screen than a smartphone, it feels like there is a bit more to see.

Because of the light, I could tell that most of the people blocking the barrier were soldiers.

Although it wasn’t clearly audible from the Korean letters seen everywhere, I could even hear Korean.

So, a situation like that being attacked by a group of people is happening in real time not too far away in Korea.

“I killed quite a few zombies, but there are too many.”

“It must be over a thousand, right?”

“I will overcome it.”

Most of them were armed with spears, but it seemed like other weapons were also prepared to deal with large numbers of zombies.

When the zombies got beyond a certain distance, they started throwing firebombs.

The burning bottles flew and broke and began to spread fire to the zombies, and the burning zombies were running without much change in the battlefield.

Since it takes some time for zombies to burn to death like that, it would be right to throw them from that distance.

The zombies, which glowed on their own to the point where lights were not needed, approached the cordon and the soldiers began stabbing and retrieving spears.

The broadcasting camera was filming from quite far away, so I couldn’t hear the sound properly, but wouldn’t I still be able to hear the sound of a zombie head breaking?

No matter what happened to the zombies in front, they rushed over and stepped on the zombies behind them.

Naeun said as the zombies, like a swarm of ants, rushed towards them without fear of death.

“Sian, it looks like too many zombies have died. Can’t they evolve if they do that?”

“Yes. It will come out soon.”

Kwahaha Ah !!!

There was a collision so loud that even distant broadcast cameras could hear it.

Part of the barrier was destroyed by the evolution zombie’s rush, and the soldiers above were captured flying away.

And the heavy equipment that was out of the camera angle began to move.

An excavator attempted to subdue the evolved zombies by pressing them down, and another piece of heavy equipment filled the hole in the barrier with its large body.

Because it was not completely filled, one or two zombies escaped through the gap, but the soldiers with their weapons lined up again killed the zombies with spears and filled the gap with the corpses.

After a long skirmish of almost 30 minutes, the battle reached a lull.

Wow!!!

They began to celebrate their victory with loud shouts, throwing their spears and hugging those around them.

“Wow… I won.”

“There’s one left. What do you plan on doing with that?”

The evolved zombie has been pressed down with an excavator.

If you push it with a heavy excavator like that, you can stop it from moving, but you haven’t completely killed it, so what are you going to do?

Tadak tadak tadak

The sound of stepping on the iron stairs was caught on camera.

“We won! We won! The Republic of Korea Army is strong!!!”

Then, while shaking the camera while screaming, the broadcast ended abruptly.

“Hmm… I didn’t find out how to kill evolved zombies.”

Naeun heard me and expressed concern about the remaining evolved zombies.

“Wouldn’t it kill you if you poked your head in with a drill or something? If you had an excavator, you would have one.”

“Still, I’m glad. I think there’s some hope. If we fight this way, we’ll be able to drive out all the zombies someday.”

Naeun said while leaning towards me.

“Yes. There are many people who can fight now, even if it’s not us.”

“Why, talk like someone who is retiring? You have to protect me for the rest of your life.”

“Na-eun, did you say with your mouth that it would be your whole life?”

“Tsk… Yes.”

I grabbed Naeun’s cheek and gave her a deep kiss.

For some reason, when I was about to talk to Naeun, YouTube started playing another video on autoplay.

“Oh Shit!!!”

We turned our heads and looked at the screen immediately as we heard foreign real-time broadcasts and swear words that appeared as soon as they started.

Because of the time difference, the bright daylight and the scenes that came out of it could immediately cool down the atmosphere that had improved at best.

“Bone? Skeleton…?”

Necromancer, the one she met a while ago who fell from the tower was also a necromancer, but she used bones to arm herself.

However, what appeared in the video was something different.

A zombie, not much different from a human, was standing with her hands outstretched, and skeletons were creeping around her.

Is it black magic like Raise Skeleton? If a zombie undergoes secondary flowering, it can have that kind of power?

“How should I kill that thing…?”

“The answer is to deal with the zombies in the center over there.”

Isn’t it too much to deal with a bunch of skeletons like that in a world where there is no such thing as holy magic?

Skeletons are less durable than zombies, but if you cannot defeat the main body, there is no answer as they will continue to respawn.

“It’s going to be really hard to get through the remaining 16 days.”

I felt like if the time came to fight them, I would have to use all my skills.