Chapter 25 – Zombie Apocalypse (22)

I went to sleep a little late, but woke up early in the morning.

Is it because I didn’t do any proper outside activities yesterday?

At 6 a.M., I checked the quest and there were 18 hours left.

102 hours after the zombie outbreak, what is the state like elsewhere?

I was curious about that, so I went to the community site.

It’s a bit old, but there was a personal message posted by a person working in a foreign country.

[With the electricity cut off, the water supply will soon be cut off, and communication is very slow due to satellite, so only posts can be made. Articles with pictures took too long to load. Since you can’t charge it, your smartphone will become a brick when the battery runs out. You should be thankful to Korea.]

Be thankful to Korea.

Those words made a little bit of sense.

Because of Professor Seo who pointed out the unrealistic elements, we were able to quickly avoid the zombie drops and the water and electricity were not cut off yet.

When I read the statement posted by the government early in the morning, I found that the current situation was well analyzed.

He listened closely to the words of Professor Seo, whom he thought was a pseudo-expert, and divided the soldiers.

It is said that the unprepared group, which was considered the most dangerous task in the zombie apocalypse, was swallowed by a few zombies, survived the situation by dividing into smaller groups, and after the seeds of plague were changed to random generation, they increased their size and recaptured the infrastructure. .

It is said that they have secured some power plants and water purification plants, but perhaps because the number of people has decreased, they have been able to make a sufficient living with some power plants and water purification plants.

The large zombie army has not yet entered the city.

Those who could join the military before the zombies struck were appealing for help.

‘I’m surprised you’re good at your job.’

It was expected that the incompetent government would collapse, water and electricity would be cut off, and there would be chaos, but since it is a plague that humanity can overcome, it seems that we can survive this well even without modern firearms.

What would have happened if the use of fire had been blocked as the Lord of Plague first suggested?

Speaking of fire, the scope is so broad that I’m not sure exactly, but it would include modern firearms and considering basic heating, the Southern Hemisphere may not have been able to endure the cold winter.

As a result, the world negotiated well.

After charging my smartphone again, I looked out the window.

There was a bit of a mixture of zombies and people that looked like green corpses.

As the fifth day approaches, it seems like this is what happens to people who have not secured enough food and are wandering around outside.

Since supermarkets were advertised loudly as being worth living in, aren’t there quite a few people who couldn’t resist and ended up trying to go to the supermarket?

Then I opened the door, came out, and looked down at the yard in front of the officetel.

The zombies were walking around without touching the poorly made entrance that had been blocked by roughly tearing off the front door.

Since this is a small officetel with 8 people living at most, it doesn’t seem to appeal to zombies.

I returned to the room, but Naeun was still sleeping.

I couldn’t stand being alone, so I turned down the sound on my smartphone and started looking for something to watch on YouTube.

I saw a pretty girl doing a live broadcast.

[What happens next on the 5th day of the apocalypse?]

A blonde woman was talking in a flashy outfit and was discussing the future more seriously than she thought.

People were gathered together in groups and discussing what to do next once they had achieved some level of safety, and her opinion on growing food received quite overwhelming support.

The counterpart was to secure oil for electricity, but there are many countries that do not have oil.

“Food is important.”

That’s why I bought potato and vegetable seedlings, but I haven’t been able to plant them yet.

Although there was a small flower bed in the front yard of the officetel, an elderly zombie that came out on the first day was placed there.

Now, other people living in the officetel come out and collect the zombie corpses lying around in the front yard near the entrance to see if they are periodically cleaning up the zombies, but I was reluctant to plant potatoes in land that was likely already contaminated.

Since I have no hobby of growing plants, the potatoes are still left in the room.

“It’s English. Are you understanding?”

Naeun asked me in a sleepy voice when he woke up.

Fortunately, the blonde woman, with her breasts half exposed, was lying down, so I couldn’t see her, and I think she only caught a glimpse of the discussion going on in English.

“Yes. They say securing land to grow food is the most important thing in the current situation.”

I said to Naeun while turning off YouTube.

But it’s English.

Understanding language was one of the privileges of someone with a status window.

Just by having a status window, I was able to understand the essence of language and learn, speak, and write easily.

So, when I was in high school with Seoyeon, I didn’t take tests for language-related subjects because they had a status window.

Even though students of various nationalities gathered at the Global Academy, they were able to understand what was being said and English was basically used.

Of course, since I am from Korea, I feel more comfortable speaking Korean after hearing it a lot.

“I guess that’s because preserved food isn’t infinite. But there’s no farmland around here, right? I think it would be more efficient to go down south.”

“You will need national-level power.”

I thought that farming would be possible only if the scale was at least the size of a supermarket.

It would be impossible to provide meals for a year just by growing a vegetable garden.

“I guess you don’t think that if you just wait 30 days, the government will take care of everything?

“How condescending can you be? You might even say you want to be king instead of president.”

Naeun laughed slightly as if that was funny.

“That’s right. If I can end this situation now, what’s a king? I could call myself a god. Ah. Is God just some weird guy talking in his head? I don’t like it if that’s the case.”

The lord of the world and the plague, a god-like being, has appeared, but they are like the plague god.

I don’t like both the world that failed to protect the Earth and the Lord of Plague who seems to be playing with the Earth.

It seems like he is a being from the upper world like me, but if he can interfere with the lower world like this, how strong is his main body’s power?

After concentrating my power to see through the hierarchy that had permeated my left eye, I looked up at the ceiling, but I felt nothing.

It seemed like it was because the assimilation rate reached 75%, and it got closer to Lee Sian.

Naeun rustled through the food box under the bed and handed me a nutritional bar.

“Maybe it’s morning?”

“That’s right. Morning.”

I want to eat fatty meat.

*

While I was quenching my desire for meat with affection with my lover, I once again heard an emotionless voice in my head.

[The world warns humanity.]

“What else?”

“Ah. I really hate this.”

Naeun, who was in my arms and giving away her breasts, also expressed her dissatisfaction.

[What the Lord of Plague spread is the seed of plague.]

And as usual, we did not bring anything beneficial to us by exchanging words with the Lord of Plague.

No, did that also provide benefit in the form of a warning?

“Because it’s the seed of a plague, wasn’t it meant to spread the zombie virus to people? What else is it warning you about?”

As Naeun thought about what the world had said a moment ago, one possibility crossed her mind.

“Because it’s a seed, does it grow over time?”

“Ah. Was it not a good idea to leave it like that?”

There are quite a few zombies wandering around our officetel right now.

We have passed the stage of swinging the bat and aiming for individual blows.

Because Naeun and I didn’t go out for about 3 days, it ended up like that.

“I think it took about 5 days for the world to be warned. The zombies around here have been around for 3 days at most.”

If you want to check this information right away, the Internet is the best.

I was thankful that communication was still working well, and when I entered the community, a short video appeared in a post that received a lot of recommendations.

[I can’t answer because I have to run away during the zombie evolution.]

A zombie as skinny as a corpse is eating another zombie as if it were a predator.

“I guess it’s real.”

Naeun said blankly while watching the short video repeatedly.

“I had to keep dealing with it.”

When I saw that, I felt a little confident.

The Seed of Plague is probably a type of black magic that delivers contaminated mana.

By passing contaminated mana to other people in the form of infection and people carrying that mana in their bodies, ordinary people gradually lose vitality and reason, but the body does not collapse immediately due to the effects of mana.

This could be explained if the reason why infected people are not much different from living people is because of the suddenly created mana.

Zombies grow by maturing such mana into human life force and cultivating it in a way that amplifies the level of pollution, and being eaten by zombies, who can be said to be the seeds and harvesters of the plague.

“It was a plague that humanity could handle, but only if we were very diligent.”

Naeun continued to check the reports that were starting to come up.

I thought the zombie would kill itself because it ate the zombie, but some people said they were feeling better, and others started posting that the zombie broke down the door at once.

Since Korea was good at blocking things in the beginning, there was a high possibility that it was a lie, but translating examples from overseas articles was a little more reliable.

“I guess it’s basic for the body to become stronger and stronger.”

Usually, zombies were hunted by hitting 5 blows, but there was an article about hunting by hitting more than 10 zombies, and there was also a story about a zombie rushing and destroying a vehicle.

Isn’t this enough to release the seal on our modern firearms?

“We need to clean up the front yard too. I’m 100% sure something will happen.”

Naeun said as he got up from the bed and looked outside.

If we are unlucky, we might also encounter reinforced zombies.

『Tutorial Quest-3』

〈Survive the possessed body.〉

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