Chapter 9 – Zombie Apocalypse (6)

When Naeun stopped walking after hearing the sound of what was presumed to be a zombie hitting the door with his body, Naeun spoke quietly.

“You’re not trying to kill me again, are you? Sian, let’s go up to our room now.”

If you think about common sense, this is correct.

It would be true according to the thoughts of the possessed Lee Sian, but as a Yu Xian, I felt like I wanted to defeat him.

I kept feeling like I wanted to hunt because the rewards were guaranteed for completing the damn quest.

“I don’t think it’s a good idea to live with things like that in here. I think it will be easier in the future if we organize them as much as we can when there are so few of them.”

“In movies, people like that always die quickly. You know that, right?”

“Isn’t he the main character who usually survives until the end? He’s up, and I’ll watch a little more before I leave.”

Even as we were having this conversation, the sound of bodies hitting the door continued to be heard.

Thud. Thud. Boom.

Squeak.

Kwaang.

I happened to touch the doorknob and the door opened, and a zombie came out and hit its head on the hallway.

From the moment I heard the screeching sound, I grabbed the baseball bat in both hands and hit the head with the bat, which was clearly exposed, unlike the body that was hidden by the door.

Whoa, whoa!

This time, the quest count went up as if I had completely smashed the head in one go.

Now, if I just kill 3 more, will my physical abilities increase?

As I was thinking about how to fill the remaining three, Naeun said to me.

“Go home quickly, empty this and come back. Let’s take something useful from the dead person’s house.”

Who would have thought that Naeun, who had just ignored the noise and said to go home quickly, would suggest farming.

If there is no owner in the house, the owner is the one who goes in first and takes care of the belongings.

After handing Naeun the baseball bat, I grabbed my bag and ran up to the house.

I went into the room with my shoes on, poured out the plastic bottle, and then ran downstairs again.

I’m glad there’s a height difference between my living room and the first floor. If it had been further away, I would have lost a lot of stamina going back and forth.

When I came back downstairs and went over the zombie corpse and entered the house, I saw that Naeun had already taken out things that could be used as food, so I immediately put them in my bag.

There are quite a few things like ramen, instant fried rice, and dumplings.

If this person hadn’t been infected, I think he would have lasted a little longer.

When I went to find Naeun, he went into the room and was looking at the monitor.

Instead of sitting down, she was watching the monitor from a distance, but when I got closer and looked at the content, I thought it was worth staring at.

[I was bitten by a zombie. What should I do? I feel itchy and my heartbeat is slowing down. What should I do? Am I going to die?]

The words behind it were full of meaningless words, but I couldn’t hold back my fear and struck the keyboard, so the keycaps from the keyboard were scattered around the room.

“Naeun, let’s go.”

“Yes. You took everything I took out, right?”

As he came out, he pushed the body into the room and closed the door.

I returned to my room with Naeun, who seemed to have lost all of his strength, perhaps because he had seen the horror the infected person had experienced.

Physical strength is physical strength, but for the sake of Naeun’s spirit, I thought that I should not go out any more today and strengthen my stamina.

We crammed as much of the food we brought into the small refrigerator as possible, washed the plastic bottles thoroughly, and then filled them with tap water.

I think she would have gotten tired quickly if she had been alone, but she felt really fortunate to be with Naeun.

The kitchen was filled with plastic bottles filled with tap water, so there was no room for her to step inside, and the room that was used as a clothing room was filled with food.

To signify that we had no intention of going out anymore, we took off the cardboard boxes we were holding under our arms, placed them at the entrance, and sat down on the bed.

Naeun, who was a little dazed and out of her mind, said to me.

“What time is it?”

“It’s 2:20 in the morning.”

He glanced at the charging smartphone and answered.

“Only 2 hours and 20 minutes have passed. When I wake up, I hope someone will solve this situation.”

When I saw the quest come out like this, I felt like it wouldn’t end easily, but I didn’t say that.

Just today, I found three zombies near this officetel and caught three.

Because you never know what will happen when you wake up.

Naeun went to bed first, and I tried to lie down too, but then got up.

“Sian, where are you going?”

“Keep the bat close by.”

It’s okay for now, but it’s a cliché of this zombie apocalypse that people are the scariest in the future.

I cleaned the baseball bat that killed the three zombies by spraying water on it with the shower, then placed it next to the bed and lay down on the bed.

Naeun took my hand, clasped our hands together, and then fell asleep.

*

I opened my eyes to the heaviness I felt in my body.

I fell asleep next to him with my hands clasped together, but the bed was narrow, so I think he was rummaging around and came on top of me.

I gently pushed Naeun away from my body and then checked her smartphone.

It was 8:30 when I woke up, and 8:30 had passed since the zombie outbreak occurred.

I sat down on the bed and checked the disaster text messages and messages from my friends on my smartphone.

‘This is different from me.’

Global Academy’s Yu Xian calls the guys in class Q his friends, but he has never really contacted them.

When I roughly checked the contents, there was a guy who heard a strange sound in his sleep and woke up and found the world was ruined, a guy who was wondering how to save the remaining food, and a guy who asked if he didn’t have to go to school anymore.

The disaster text message was providing information about temporary shelters, but there were so many texts that I was even more confused about where to go.

Now that I have plenty of supplies and the power to fight 1:1 with zombies, I thought there was no need to walk down a dangerous path.

In the end, there is no useful information.

Now I got up from the bed and checked outside.

Other people besides me must have killed zombies during the night, and I saw corpses lying on the street, but there were also zombies walking around in a daze.

I don’t know if the Lord of Plague continues to bring in the seeds of plague, or if the number of zombies increases as the infection begins, but I thought it would be impossible to completely stop it alone.

‘We had to supply more weapons.’

I paid attention to food and drinking water for survival during the night, and it reached a sufficient level, but no matter how much I gathered, it seemed like it wasn’t enough.

I tried clenching and unclenching a fist that wasn’t holding anything.

It seems like your strength has definitely gotten stronger as you level up, but the durability of a baseball bat may not be infinite.

If I were to bring the weapons used at the Global Academy, I would be able to use them better with my current power, but there is no such thing.

“Status window.”

【1】

【Lee Sian-(75%)】

【Level: 2】

【Combat Power: 157】

【Holding Skill: [Skill] Survival Rules (F)】

【Quest in progress (1/2)】

Naturally, I brought up Lee Sian’s status window.

Due to the effect of establishing one’s self, the assimilation rate seems to be limited to 75% if I do not take action.

I thought that if the assimilation rate was higher, it would be impossible to fight like yesterday, so I thought this level was appropriate for now.

This time, with a baseball bat in hand, I opened the front door and carefully walked out into the hallway.

Since I couldn’t see anyone, I comfortably looked down through the window in the hallway.

“Who cleaned it up?”

The female zombie that was defeated near the waste sorting station disappeared.

The zombie’s body doesn’t seem to disappear naturally over time. Who cleaned it up?

Or, because it was the body of a young woman, someone who needed it took it.

I didn’t want to understand, but I thought I could understand if I tried to understand because I am also a man.

Still, compared to the other side, this place is definitely cleaner with no zombies or corpses.

After taking a look at the road to the supermarket, the road to the department store, and the road to the university, I returned home.

Instead of waking up Naeun, who was still sleeping, I decided to look up news and overseas information.

I searched for information about zombies in Korea, but there seemed to be no zombies forming groups.

Since they move around in small numbers, is it possible to avoid them? He said that what you need to be more careful about are zombies that suddenly appear out of thin air.

It seems that the seeds of plague are not sown just once.

If you’re really unlucky, you could be attacked by a zombie that suddenly appears while you’re not paying attention, thinking you’ve completely purified the area.

And overseas, it was a little serious, but in some places it was serious.

In broad daylight, zombies started to appear in places where people were walking around, forming a swarm, and it seemed difficult to kill the zombies whose power had increased to that level.

If it weren’t for the seal of modern firearms, it would have been dealt with by shooting guns or missiles…

‘What is a seal?’

So I searched about it and there was something posted on the news.

There was a photo posted from a military base showing bullets, grenades, and other modern firearms colored white.

Strangely, it refused to be touched by people, so it was said that it was impossible to move it.

‘Are cars the best weapon now?’

I thought that there would be more people walking around using motorcycles and other vehicles as weapons.

I need to be most careful with my car until all the gas in the country runs out.