Chapter 8 – Zombie Apocalypse (5)

As I recalled the memories of Lee Sian’s parents, other memories that I had blocked after being possessed began to pour in.

From the past that I vaguely knew about due to my poor memory when I was young, to my life before entering university, and to my parents who continued to raise me.

I was also in a very emotional state and picked up my smartphone to call my parents.

And that feeling suddenly diminished as the quest was cleared.

『Tutorial Quest-2』

〈Achieve a 70% assimilation rate for the possessed body.〉

-Completion: [Skill] Establishment of Self (A)

The blue window that said the quest was cleared showed that I had acquired a new skill.

Establishing one’s self, that must have influenced the current emotional change.

【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)】

It was a skill that helped her not to lose herself so that Yu Xian would not be swallowed by Yi Xian.

I am worried about Lee Sian’s parents, but they are not the parents of the world where Yu Sian originally lived.

In addition to calmness, it seems like you gain a lot of skills related to the mental aspect by possessing this world.

Still, I called.

I could talk about the changes that occurred in the world starting at midnight and the zombie outbreak that was more bearable than I thought as long as I didn’t do something stupid like go out unprepared.

“Is it Xian? What in the world is going on?”

Lee Sian’s father answered the phone.

If I hadn’t acquired the self-establishment skill to speak in a tone full of worry, I would have been moved to tears.

“Yes, father. Stay home as much as possible and don’t go out. Do you keep a certain amount of food at home?”

“I recently bought rice and went grocery shopping. What about you? If I ate only a few meals because I was living alone, wouldn’t it be enough?”

Although I bought quite a bit of emergency food, it wasn’t that there was no food in the refrigerator at home.

As someone who works out, I ate a lot of healthy food like chicken breast, but at times like this, I’m thankful to have even that.

“I also wanted to buy groceries today, so I went to the grocery store and this happened. Please stay at home with your mother as long as you can. You don’t know when the water will run out, so take it.”

When I gave advice about the current situation to my father, my mother’s voice changed as if she had picked up the phone.

“Okay, Sian, don’t worry about us. You’re young too, so don’t even think about doing anything dangerous.”

“Yes, Mom. They say I can use modern firearms in 30 days. And I think it will be over before then.”

I ended the phone call with her parents on such a positive note.

The assimilation rate has been adjusted through self-establishment, but parents still play a big role.

Naeun, with a little red around her eyes, finished her call before me and sat down on the bed to look up her real-time news.

“Is there any other news?”

“The government recommends staying at home as much as possible through disaster messages and asks people to refrain from criminal activities such as looting.”

“Ah. Disaster text message? I didn’t want to receive that message, so I turned it off, but now I have to turn it on. We already didn’t follow both of those. What else?”

When she went into the messages section of her smartphone and turned on disaster text messages, texts started pouring in real time.

I turned it off because I don’t like this kind of thing, but since this is an emergency, I’m sure there’s information I need.

“It doesn’t seem like it will be resolved as easily as you think? Isn’t that a zombie on the stairs earlier? It’s spreading like crazy?”

There was a community on a site that dealt with zombie movies and zombie games, and Naeun went there and looked at the information.

[My younger brother was bitten and became a zombie.]

[A certain broadcaster became a zombie while making jokes lol.]

[The situation in countries where it is currently daylight.]

[Zombie suddenly appears from the ground JPG.]

[A quick review of the pretty female zombie.]

There were many posts with provocative titles, but what caught my eye was the situation in countries where it was daylight.

“Naeun, what is that in broad daylight?”

Naeun, who was trying to scroll down, heard me and entered a post about the situation in countries where it is broad daylight.

“Ugh. Is it real? Is it synthetic?”

“It feels like a scene from a movie.”

There were quite a few zombies in the photo in the post.

There were pictures of what could have been a group of zombies along with buildings from various countries, and I thought they were taken from a variety of movies.

After going through a pile of realistic photos, I arrived at the comment.

There were a lot of comments ridiculing people, saying ‘This is from some movie lol’, but someone who was very sensitive to the source posted links to all the photos in the comments.

It’s all real, it’s a real situation that’s happening right now.

“I guess we liked it better at night.”

“Most of us were preparing well at home. Look at this. A zombie suddenly appeared. We couldn’t avoid it.”

There was a video of the part where zombies appear.

I was leisurely walking as if I was filming a vlog, but the person filming was standing there blankly.

And the person filming the vlog cursed into the air.

The next thing I say is, ‘I heard a strange voice in my head. Is this real?’ That’s what I said.

While on the road again, the space suddenly became distorted and a zombie appeared, and the person filming the vlog saw the zombie and started running away.

A lot of things happened around the world in that short period of time when I killed a zombie, and we robbed a convenience store.

“Ah. What should I do with the zombie corpses?”

Suddenly it occurred to me that I had left a zombie with its head exploded in the corner of the stairs.

When I came up after robbing the convenience store, there was a zombie with a broken head left in the corner. Should I just leave it where it is?

I was concerned that the Lord of Plague called zombies the seeds of plague.

I don’t think there will be any repercussions if I burn something like that, right?

“Just. Let’s hold on and not go out. We have a lot of food, right?”

Naeun said while pulling the collar on my side.

Since I had my girlfriend, emergency food, and condoms in my room, I could survive as long as the water and electricity were not cut off.

If you eat ramen before you stop eating and then eat a nutritional bar afterward, you will be able to survive for a long time even if your nutrition is unbalanced.

However, the quest I received as Isian required fighting.

『Quest』

〈Kill (0/5) zombies.〉

-Upon completion: Improved physical ability

I have to keep hunting zombies to become stronger.

However, I don’t have the strength to go to a place full of zombies and fight.

Also, I was a little reluctant because I still don’t know how to break the possession.

While I was thinking that, another quest arrived.

『Tutorial Quest-3』

〈Survive the possessed body.〉

-Time remaining: 119:24:59

-Completion: [Skill]?

The third quest you receive as Yusian is 120 hours long, so it seems like you just have to endure it for 5 days.

But as soon as I received that quest, I felt a tingle of electricity in my head.

I became convinced that it would definitely give me the skill to break the possession and return to Yusian.

First of all, I don’t know how many zombies there will be nearby, but at least this officetel is mostly populated by college students.

If she runs away with all her might when a zombie appears, she will have the stamina to ensure everyone’s safety.

“Okay, then let’s take some more time and watch. Let’s get some water.”

“Yes. That would be a good idea.”

Even though I want to keep a lot of water, it’s a shame that there is no bathtub.

So I found as many plastic bottles as I could and filled them with water, but that ran out quickly.

I have enough food to last 5 days, but I never thought I would run out of drinking water.

In this situation, the choice you have to make is the same as before.

“Na-eun, let’s go find plastic bottles. You need water to survive, right?”

“Is this really the end? Really? I promise.”

“I promise. I don’t want to go out either.”

“And then he naturally picks up a baseball bat.”

Naeun, who saw me holding a baseball bat at the entrance, opened the bag I had stolen from the convenience store earlier and poured it out on the bed.

I hadn’t organized it yet.

She came back out into the hallway with Naeun carrying the empty bag on her shoulder.

It seemed like everyone went into the house and watched the situation, perhaps because they had actually seen a zombie appear.

Those who act quickly will have already robbed the convenience store, so it would be a good idea to prepare to survive with supplies at home.

As I walked slowly down the stairs, I saw a headless zombie lying in the corner.

There were many footprints left, no matter how many times it had been trampled.

“I want to burn that too when I can afford it.”

“Sian, let’s quickly pack what we need and go home.”

Naeun nudged me with her cardboard wrapped arms.

When I came out of the building, I saw a few people walking around at night, but no one seemed to be looking for the waste sorting station like us.

Drinking water is an important factor for survival, but if you don’t secure enough food, drinking water is secretly invisible.

There were many college students living in officetels who often ordered delivery, so there were a lot of plastic bottles for drinks that came when ordered.

I wonder what will happen if I wash away some of the remaining beverage, but why did you put the cigarette ash in here?

I threw away those trashy plastic bottles outside, selected usable plastic bottles, put them in a bag, and the moment I was about to leave the recycling bin, I heard the sound of stepping on a plastic bottle.

Pajik

Naeun, who was standing behind me, stretched out her hand to stop me from going forward, and Naeun hid behind me.

She held the baseball bat with both hands and slowly put her head out.

The culprit was a woman with long hair who walked unsteadily as if she was drunk.

Walking around like that at this time and in this situation?

Should we first check if it is a person? Or should we rush out and strike first?

While thinking about that, I just used a baseball bat to lightly hit the stand where the gunny bags were hung for recycling.

Kaaang

“Hey?!”

The sound spread louder than Naeun expected, so loud that it scared him, and the long-haired woman responded.

The woman’s eyes were unnaturally dark as she looked back at her.

And as soon as she saw me, a red aura appeared in her black eyes.

“Kiaaaaa!!!”

He raised the bat towards the running female zombie, screaming in a voice higher than that of the elderly zombie, and then struck it down.

Whoa, whoa!

The zombie fell behind her as her head caved in from the blow.

Is this an effect of increasing combat power due to leveling up?

To ensure a clear quest count, I hit the head of the fallen zombie once more.

Whoa, whoa!

『Quest』

〈Kill (1/5) zombies.〉

-Upon completion: Improved physical ability

After confirming that he had been defeated, he called Naeun in a low voice.

“Let’s go, Naeun. More might come.”

“You’re crazy! You’re crazy! Were you that bold?”

“Because they have weapons. If they had guns, they would have moved more actively.”

“It’s cool because he’s my boyfriend, but I think it would be 100% scary if someone else saw it.”

There will already be someone watching us from the officetel.

There may still be many people who see him as a fearless crazy person, but later on, he may become a crazy person with a lot of supplies and become a public enemy.

After erasing those thoughts, I went back into the officetel and on the way home, I heard a sound that sounded like something was hitting the door.

Thud. Thud. Boom.

I remembered hearing that someone had been bitten by an elderly zombie that had appeared earlier.

Was it real and not a joke?

Like I said to my parents, I don’t think this is going to end easily.