Chapter 29 – Zombie Apocalypse (26)
I barely managed to pull myself together and got up.
My arms hurt so much, and I feel like I’m on the verge of having a back problem, but I still have a lot of time left.
I’m not sure if they’ll give you the skill to break the possession after 25 minutes, but if you’re in this state, I’ll definitely give it to you.
[Skill] ? Said he would give you what you need right away.
“Grrrr!”
“Gwaaaaa!!”
The refrigerator and front door blocking the entrance to the officetel were blown away, and even though we had cleared the street, two new zombies started running towards me with red eyes.
“You little bastards!”
I put all my strength into my right hand and hit the zombie’s head.
Whoa!
At the same time, one guy who was running used a baseball shield to block his approach.
Whoa, whoa!
And as soon as I had time, I swung the baseball bat and smashed his head.
Okay. These small bugs are a ‘plague that humanity can handle.’
Just watching me kill two zombies is a plague that humanity cannot bear.
You should stay away from officetels.
With just that thought in mind, I ran out of the officetel.
Since the streetlights were brightly lighting up the street, wouldn’t it be possible to buy time if those zombies were so obsessed with light that they destroyed everything that emits light?
Tung
What? I think I’ve heard it before.
Shadows began to fall on the brightly lit street.
“Does this make sense?”
If you think about it, it is an evolved zombie that jumped from the 1st floor to the 3rd floor.
How much more can I jump if I run forward?
I quickly flew away and avoided the landing point of the evolved zombie.
But that wasn’t enough.
The guy approached me at a fast pace and swung his legs.
Calmness.
Using my composure, I managed to lift the baseball shield.
And I thought a little more.
You must not block it.
I am at an overwhelming disadvantage in terms of strength and stamina.
So, rather than blocking, I lifted the baseball shield at an angle as if I was going to throw it away and slightly changed the direction of the attack.
Kagagagak
There was a scraping sound as the aluminum baseball bat was kicked.
Is this correct? First, it’s a human body, right? Is it a corpse?
As I quickly retreated from the evolved zombies, I was able to get a detailed look at the evolved zombies for the first time under the brightened streetlights.
4 days? 5 days? Although it appears to be a zombie that has been around for quite some time, its body was firm and without any rust or cracks.
Balanced and muscular body.
This is a body from a higher class than this class.
Rather than having a bulky body with physical skills like Vulcan Ludric, I thought I had a body with compressed combat ability like Julian Loa or Asumi Miyama.
The evolution zombie’s clothes, which have a body that I would like to achieve with Yu Xian’s body someday, had black ends as if they had been burned.
The direction this guy came from was a gas station.
“Burned zombies…”
The gas station exploded, and the fire spread.
Zombies would naturally have gathered, and in that situation, the burned zombies would have needed to replenish mana.
Now, what if the zombies on day 5 started predating their own kind faster than other zombies?
So what if it evolves faster than other zombies?
No. If you did it, you didn’t.
Because it’s standing right in front of me.
The result is here.
“Haaa…”
Time slowed down once again.
Calmness is at a level where it is activated with every attack, but you cannot use Perception.
The difference in power is so great that I can’t do anything even if I read the attack?
Kakagagagak!
Still, I tried to shed it with a baseball shield, which was at least effective!
Kaaaaang!!!
He hit the zombie’s head hard with the baseball bat he was holding in his right hand.
Really. I hit it with all my might, but the evolved zombie only slightly bent its head.
“Ha. Fuck… You have an iron head.”
I attacked to the point that my right hand was numb, but the evolved zombie just waved its remaining hand indifferently.
Whoa, whoa!
The attack didn’t work, but since she couldn’t give up her right hand, she desperately twisted her body and gave up her left arm.
I felt like my body was floating.
I turned my body to land on as wide a surface as possible on my back, and the bag on my back helped a little.
The nutrition bar must have been perfect.
And then her left arm started to hurt like crazy.
“Click ahhhhh!”
It was broken.
It must be broken.
“Ah…”
I stood up with my fist holding a baseball bat on the asphalt.
The back of her hand seemed to be completely scuffed, but it didn’t hurt as much as her completely mangled left arm.
Tung
The evolved zombies are running once again.
This time, instead of jumping high, move in front of me.
I decided to aim for that speed this time.
If it moves that fast, if I swing the baseball bat with all my might to match it!
Even though I only had one hand, I believed in my strength and swung the baseball bat with all my might.
Whoa, whoa!
The attack was successful.
If the baseball was flying, he swung it so perfectly that it would have been thought to be a home run that would have cleared the fence.
But why?
Is it all just a little bit pushed out?
My right hand hurts so much that I almost want to put down the baseball bat, but why did that guy get attacked with all his might…
“■■■■■■■■”
The evolved zombie used an unknown language.
Even if I was gifted with the status window and blessed with language, I wouldn’t know how to cry like that.
No, did you really say what you said?
“Burrrr”
Then he scratched his neck and let out a low voice.
The evolved zombie took a step and extended his fist.
I feel like crying, but I choose not to cry…
The left arm does not rise.
Whoa, whoa!
She quickly twisted her body and gave away her left arm again.
“Kuhuhuh…”
This time it didn’t fly far, but it ended up scraping her right arm on the ground.
Her right arm was cut and blood was flowing.
My left arm is damaged to the point where I can’t lift it, and my right arm is no longer normal.
“Haaaaa… Why…”
It’s a tutorial…
I felt like I wanted to go back quickly.
The thought that I felt a bit regretful about breaking up with Naeun also disappeared from my mind.
I want to quickly return to the Global Academy and improve Yu Xian’s strength with good armor and equipment.
I want to throw away the possessed body called Lee Sian.
Those thoughts kept coming up.
I have to run away.
Where?
The evolved zombie was walking towards me and stumbled slightly.
When she lowered her head and lifted the burned hem, I saw that her ribs were dented.
The attack from earlier worked, but that’s a zombie.
If you don’t explode her head, she won’t die.
Suddenly a zombie came to the side of the road and started eating the zombie’s corpse with her head exploded on the floor.
‘Recovery… It’s not recovery!’
“Aaaaah!!!”
I ran screaming.
I don’t know where I’m running.
If only I could avoid the remaining 4 minutes.
If the one that recovered from eating the zombie’s corpse only destroys the thing that shines again.
I will run away.
I’m going to run away from this damn world.
I will run away from that incompetent world where everyone except me has no power and where there is a plague lord who treats people’s lives as a joke…
“Why… Here?”
The place I frantically rushed to was the officetel.
The officetel where Naeun and I stayed with the intention of staying for just 5 days and then returning.
The officetel that didn’t want to meet people face to face, thinking it was a selfish, individualistic officetel.
In that officetel where the windows on the first floor, the windows on the second floor, and room 304 on the third floor were shattered…
Why? You’re back, right?
Tung. Tung.
It seemed like I had been running for a while, but the evolved zombies were quickly closing the distance.
This time…
20 seconds.
You can probably last 20 seconds…
Once? You only have to survive after being attacked twice.
I swallowed my saliva and looked back.
He threw away the baseball bat he was holding in his right arm and grabbed his left hand to pick up a baseball shield.
Still, it doesn’t work from the front.
A fist like a flash of light flew out at the same time.
“Chew.”
Wow
“Aaaaah!!!”
His left arm had completely become a rag.
This doesn’t work whether it’s a battle break or anything else.
The baseball shield is completely bent and has lost its meaning as a shield. No, it just hurts.
I wanted to stop.
I sat leaning against the wall of the officetel and waited for time.
The evolved zombie seemed to think I had no more strength to resist and slowly walked towards me.
『Tutorial Quest-3』
〈Survive the possessed body.〉
-Time remaining: 0 : 0 : 1
-Completion: [Skill] ?
『Tutorial Quest-3』
〈Survive the possessed body.〉
-Completion: [Skill] Return of Possession (C)
As expected, the return skill has appeared.
【Skill: Return of Possession (C)】
【Return from the possessed body to the original body.】
【Minimum possession period of 5 days until possession return activation】
“Haa… Haa…”
The minimum conditions have already been completed.
Now, if I were to abandon Lee Sian’s body and become Yu Sian…
『Tutorial Quest-4』
〈Return from the possessed body.〉
– Upon completion: [Skill] ?
Okay, until the last quest…
Tutorial quests should be this easy…
It seems like a mess at the end, but let’s finish it anyway.
Let’s go back.
“You fucking zombie bastard!!!”
Why is Naeun on the first floor? No, it’s in front of me?
Naeun turned around slightly to check my condition, and tears streamed down her face.
Naeun’s breathing was rough, perhaps because of fear, but she was holding the baseball bat tightly with both hands and aiming it at the evolved zombie.
I am.
For me, it’s over when I return…
You are.
What will happen to you when you are left behind?
Time passes slowly.
I swallowed my saliva.
But there is no answer.
Her left arm was shattered, and she lost her weapon.
I have no physical or mental strength.
What would have happened if I hadn’t been possessed by Lee Sian?
You might have been working out at the gym and making love as usual, but then you noticed that a zombie had appeared at night.
He may have stayed home to avoid the elderly zombies.
And wouldn’t he have joined the mart team where Young-eun was? Because there was a baseball bat.
Since he was quite strong, he might have become the leader of the mart instead of Jjakgwi.
Did they also fight against the Fire Light Sect? If I had lost, wouldn’t Naeun, who was the prettiest of the women, have been taken away by the leader of the Bulgwang faction, who killed her by blowing off her head?
If something like that had happened, would Lee Sian have remained silent?
Clink
Naeun threw her baseball bat back and raised her arms to raise her guard.
What’s the point?
The evolved zombie struck Naeun as if it was annoying.
Under… Am I, who is mixed with Yu Xian, just thinking about running away?
It is said that she was possessed, but her lover sacrificed her life for me and stood in the zombie’s way.
What if it was Isian without the impurities called Yusian?
【Skill: Establishment of Self (A)】
【The assimilation rate of the possessed body can be adjusted. (Up to 25%)】
【Increases resistance to mental attacks. (75% reduction)】
Raise the assimilation rate.
Reduces the proportion of weak Yusian who only thinks about running away with their original body.
80%. 85%. 90%. 99%.
Deep anger against evolved zombies soars.
I want to kill that zombie bastard who killed my beloved woman, Naeun, who spent five days with me in this ruined world and did everything with her.
I want to kill that bastard!!!
『Quest』
〈Be victorious over the enemy in front of you.〉
-When accepting: Physical recovery, stamina recovery, mental power recovery, [Skill] Strengthening survival rules (B)
– Upon completion: Survival
100%
I will kill that bastard and survive in this damn world together with Naeun!!!
“I accept!”
【Skill: Self-Establishment (A) has been strengthened.】
【Skill: Survival Rules (A)】
【Surviving is not everything.】
【EX1. Savior – Has an indomitable will when there is someone to protect.】
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【Skill: Establishing Self (A+)】
【The maximum assimilation rate of the possessed body increases. (Up to 25%)】
【The assimilation rate of the possessed body can be adjusted. (Up to 50%)】
【Increases resistance to mental attacks. (75% reduction)】