Chapter 31 – Zombie Apocalypse (28)

I carefully touched Naeun’s arm to prevent her from waking up.

“Ugh…”

As if it was painful for me to even touch him, he slapped my hand away with his left hand.

Fortunately, it doesn’t seem like any bones are broken.

Would putting a splint and bandage on it work? If my muscles are swollen, do I need to apply a paste?

I’ve thought about it carefully, but I’m not sure.

In times like this, it’s the internet.

Yesterday, I left my smartphone behind because I was in a hurry, but if I had taken it with me, it would have been crushed to dust.

When it’s swollen, it’s something like lymphoma… ?

It looks like there are no bruises from just getting hit.

I stopped searching and turned Naeun’s face.

But shouldn’t this be washed cleanly and applied with medicine first?

Now that I think about it, it seems like there is something like an irritating smell coming from our bodies.

I held up my pants just in case, and um…

I cried and cried and begged for my life, but there was no way not a single drop would come out.

It was a normal physiological phenomenon.

Naeun seemed to be like that too, so I stuck my nose between her legs and smelled her.

A familiar smell to what you just smelled.

I have to wash it first.

I shook Naeun gently because I felt like I needed to rest after treatment even if I had to rest.

“Naeun, wake up. Naeun.”

“Ugh…”

“Na-eun. You peed…”

Naeun’s knee came aiming for my head.

Her calmness was activated, and she even used her insight to barely block it. As a result of using the insight, her head felt like it was going to break.

Just when she thought it would have been less painful to just get hit, Naeun woke up.

“Huh…?”

“Yo!”

“Yoo? Yooo?!”

After Naeun managed to raise her body by holding her painful right arm with her left hand, she glared at me as if she were going to kill me.

And took her left arm from her right arm.

Wow

He slapped my cheek.

“Huh…? It hurts?! Why all of a sudden?!”

I put my hand on her right cheek and rubbed it to relieve her pain, but she slapped my left cheek with the back of her left hand.

Sigh!

This side hurt more.

I wanted to ask him if he was out of his mind after getting hit by an evolution zombie yesterday, but it didn’t seem like that.

“Huhhhhh.”

Naeun shed thick tears and began to cry like her child.

I woke up earlier and cried all the time?

She took her hand away from her sore cheek and held Naeun in her arms.

When she killed a zombie, she gave him a slow pat on the back, just like she gave him a hug.

“Ugh… Huaaaaa… What should I do if I die alone? What should I do to live alone…”

Naeun was crying so loudly that I had nothing to say.

She noticed that there were still tears in my tear ducts that I thought were completely dry, so she kept her mouth shut and hugged Naeun.

*

The two of us were tired, so we decided to take a shower first.

When the evolution zombie came to the officetel, she ran around so hard that she started sweating and shed a lot of water afterward.

After taking off all her clothes and turning on the shower, Naeun slightly pulled her face back from the water.

“Oh, it stings…”

“Still, I have to wash it thoroughly. I scratched my face in the front yard where the zombie corpses were.”

I have some level of immunity due to homeostasis due to survival rules, but Naeun is in trouble.

“Ugh… If I become a zombie, will I break my head off at you?”

“I too will become the strongest zombie and create a world of zombies.”

Naeun asked playfully, and I responded playfully.

Since I knew that the type of plague was a type of black magic, it was clear that it was probably a type that spread slowly through the soil.

It is a type of black magic that grows by eating a person’s life force, so even if there are plants with a lot of life force in the area, it will have little effect on the ground.

After taking a clean shower, I changed into new clothes and applied medicine.

Both Naeun’s right arm and mine had large, blue bruises.

“Hmm… I thought your condition was extremely serious when I saw you yesterday…?”

“Didn’t I see it wrong?”

“Ugh… I started crying as soon as I saw it. Did I see it wrong? The bones on my left arm were all broken to the point where it was shaking like a squid arm, and my right body had a huge, deep wound that looked like it had been scratched on the asphalt. All the zombies. “I think I cried without realizing it when I saw Sian, who looked like she could beat him, crying.”

No, what kind of memory is this good?

I think I remember everything because I didn’t get hit on the head, but seeing as my body was in pretty good shape, there was enough confusion that I was remembering it wrong.

“I’m glad. You’re okay.”

Naeun said that and held me in her arms.

I also held the soft Naeun in my arms, and I heard a cold voice in her ear.

“It was because of you, Sian, that my face got hurt, so take responsibility.”

“The wound has to be that big so that no one else can touch it. And since it is shallower than you think, it will heal without a scar.”

“You fool.”

Naeun seemed to not like my answer and immediately acted like a fool.

“You were responsible from the beginning, right?”

“You should have said it one more time, idiot.”

After kissing Naeun briefly, we warmed up the retort oatmeal we received as a tribute and shared it.

It’s a shame there’s no kimchi, but the oatmeal still tasted good.

And after I finished eating, I spoke to Naeun.

“Let’s join our mart.”

“Yes. I think we should do that. There is too little unity here. This oatmeal is not enough to replace it.”

“Considering what we did.”

If we hadn’t stepped forward, only the first and third floors would have been damaged to some extent, but there is no guarantee that things would proceed smoothly.

The evolved zombie could have suddenly gone crazy once more and tried to kill everyone in the officetel.

After solving that problem, I was treated similarly to my colleagues, but it wasn’t enough.

And considering that we had lost quite a bit of weapons and supplies, we needed to take a leap forward.

Wouldn’t the people at the supermarket now tolerate the fact that three people died in hostage negotiations due to my unreasonable demands?

I was thinking of lying down and sleeping to recover from my messed up body, but Naeun’s smartphone rang.

“Who is it? It just so happened. It’s Youngeun.”

As soon as Naeun received her smartphone and switched it to speaker mode, Youngeun’s excited voice was heard.

“Isn’t it Sian?! You killed that zombie that appeared yesterday! Isn’t it Sian?!”

“Huh? Yeah, maybe?”

“Oh. That’s right. I was lying down next to you. I saw it on one side of the video.”

“Video? What video? Young-eun, I don’t know?”

“Wasn’t it filmed by your group? Check out Batman and BAT MAN on YouTube.”

At Youngeun’s words, Naeun ordered me with her face.

I took my smartphone and typed BAT MAN and there was something on the #1 trending video.

A video that appears to have been taken from above on a dark night.

“Isn’t this me?”

Kang. Kang. Kang. Kang. Caen.

There was a video of me and a zombie fighting at incredible speeds, exchanging baseball bats and fists.

The beginning of the video was filmed shortly after I was resurrected, showing me winning without almost getting hit.

It was fascinating to see it from a third person’s perspective as he ran when his baseball bat broke and threw a zombie that attacked him from behind.

And at the end, the video ended when the zombie’s head was broken and the baseball bat was thrown.

“Is he a BAT MAN because his weapon is a baseball bat? It’s because everyone just wins…”

Naeun frowned and muttered softly as she remembered my still dire state, but Yeongeun’s voice, who could not hear the muttering, was bright.

“It’s the first object that humanity can’t handle, right? And didn’t you hear that Xian killed it, and the Lord of Plague was shocked, and the world praised it?”

“Did you?”

I really don’t remember. My head hurt so much that my memories of that time were completely gone.

When I looked at Naeun, he shook his head, but Naeun seemed to not have heard him because he was also unconscious.

“So there are a lot of foreigners in the comments. I think they just have hope that humanity can do it.”

“Oh.”

There were definitely comments from people all over the world.

There were a lot of comments saying “BAT MAN” For swinging a baseball bat, but the comment that said HOPE, the hope of humanity, caught my eye more.

The person who uploaded the video before that… What. It must be the 4th floor beep.

Rather, I thought it would be strange if it weren’t for him.

“Mart.”

When I mentioned the supermarket to Naeun, Naeun nodded and opened his mouth.

“Young-eun, I don’t know if that one thing comes out, but I think it would be difficult if it came out with other zombies. We’re trying to get ourselves together and join the mart. Will it be okay?”

“Great! Be sure to come! Everyone will be happy!”

Perhaps because of this video, the response to me was quite good.

What. Hope. When I saw Naeun hanging up the phone with Youngeun, I burst out laughing.

“Why are you smiling? Did you get hit on the head yesterday?”

“It didn’t hit my head? Look at this.”

Among the comments, I showed Naeun the one with HOPE written on it.

“I feel like the hope you gave me as a joke has now become hope not only for you but also for others.”

“So. You’re the chosen one, right? There’s hope.”

It’s a choice. I just happened to end up in the body of Lee Sian, who has a high degree of fitness…

No. Yoo Sian chose Lee Sian.

When I thought that way, I felt much more at ease.

“Ha. Let’s get our weapons first. I lost everything yesterday.”

Although 5 of the 5 baseball bats have been smashed, wouldn’t there be one usable one left?

When I opened the door and came out into the hallway, there were four baseball bats lying on the floor.

When did you bring it?

Three of them were used as shields, so they were hollowed out like real Styrofoam, making them unusable. One had a strangely curved end, but it seemed like it could be used temporarily.

Looking at the entrance to the officetel through the hallway window, I saw that it had been blocked more properly than I had temporarily blocked, but it was meaningless if I couldn’t go out on patrol.

One day will be fine.

I came into the room holding a baseball bat with a broken end and lay down on the bed.

Since I changed the crusty sheets and pillowcase, it was okay to lie down.

Naeun also came and lay down next to me, and I decided to take a nap while holding her.

*

‘Let’s go back.’

I keenly felt that I lacked strength.

If Yu-sian is the only upper class person watching over Lee-sian, then I have to make him stronger.

I don’t know what will happen after I release the possession, but if I were Isian, I would equally choose to go to the supermarket.

Now that I have become 100%, I know.

How much Lee Sian loves Kim Na-eun, who tried to sacrifice herself for her, and how much he regretted not gathering like-minded people to form her group in the beginning.

If I hadn’t thought about barely surviving 5 days, I would already belong to the mart.

After lightly kissing Naeun’s forehead, she walked away and spoke quietly.

“The return of possession.”

*

『Tutorial Quest-4』

〈Return from the possessed body.〉

-Completion: [Skill] Synthesis, 【Skill: Summer Possession (A)】+【Skill: Return of Possession (C)】 = 【Skill: Summer Possession (A)】

【Skill: Summer Possession (A)】

【You can be possessed by a being in the lower world that meets the requirements or by a being that has been possessed.】

【To be possessed again, registration in the possession slot is required.】

【Minimum required possession period of 5 days until possession return trigger】

【Fitness requirement of 95% for new possession】

【75% fitness level required for re-possession】

【Possession Slot: 1】

*

“Uh…”

I looked blankly at my face reflected in the lake.

At the end, instead of Lee Sian’s face being a mess from shedding a lot of tears, it’s Yoo Sian’s face staring blankly at the lake.

I came back to my body.

“Okay. Did you see well?”

I shivered at the soft voice coming from next to me.

“Uh… Grandpa?”

“Yes. It may be a moment in the upper world, but it can be an eternity in the lower world.”

I looked for Lee Sian once again.

The suitability of Lee Sian, discovered in a stationary world, dropped significantly to about 30%.

After checking the fit, I looked up again.

“You are yourself. Don’t get too caught up in the underworld.”

The grandfather who said that stood up.

“Thank you. I found the way.”

“Yes. I’m doing well in school.”

“Yes, principal.”

“He said ‘grandfather.’ Tsk, tsk. I like it because it’s more comfortable.”

Since I’m an old man who spends time at the Global Academy, I took a rough picture and I think I got it right.