Chapter 96 – Zombie Apocalypse 2 (4)

When I returned, I carefully crossed the hallway and returned home.

I organized the supplies I needed to carry and looked around on the third floor while waiting for people from the mart to arrive.

Since I hadn’t gone zombie hunting in the officetel for about two days, I had to look a little closer to see the zombies created by the Lord of Plague.

Because of this, I don’t think it will work here.

It is possible to hold on and survive, but there were places and people gathered where that was impossible.

I chose this officetel with the same intention in mind, but now I have decided to change my mind.

While I was looking out the window toward the gas station, Naeun received a call on her smartphone.

“This is my first time seeing this number? Is it from the supermarket?”

While saying that, Naeun answered the phone.

“Hello? Ah. Yes. Youngeun gave me your number.”

After saying that to the person on the phone, he mouthed the word ‘mart’ to me.

“Yes. Yes. I understand. We are almost ready.”

After finishing the short phone call, Naeun looked at me and said.

“I’m asking you to prepare because I’ll be arriving soon?”

“Okay. Let’s move things out little by little.”

I received about five cardboard boxes worth of supplies, but I could just move this much.

Having the mart team escort us can be considered quite a privilege.

Because my physical ability was much larger than before, I felt no pressure carrying boxes full of supplies.

As Naeun and I looked past the entrance of the officetel after going back and forth a few times, taking out the boxes outside, we saw men pulling a green cart that was used to transport large amounts of luggage from the supermarket.

Having that will definitely make it easier to transport.

I was thinking about a supermarket cart, but now they have completely taken over the supermarket, right?

Phew! Phew!

The people sent from the supermarket must have practiced their spear skills after experiencing the fire buffalo attack, and they were able to easily pierce the zombies’ heads without having to stab them from a barricade.

I was just a little fast, but it’s a world where other people can also develop their skills like this.

‘But am I different because I grew up differently?’

It has a status window and skills that others do not have.

Now, although bodies other than Lee Sian are stronger, Lee Sian is also at a level that surpasses that of an ordinary human.

When I removed the refrigerator and the front door that blocked the entrance to the officetel in order to go out, the mart team arrived.

“Hello! I enjoyed the video! I never thought the person who helped us would be so strong.”

The leading spearman had a face I remembered seeing.

When the supermarket was taken over by the Fire Lights and the women had to be sacrificed, his expression was really bad at the time, but today he spoke to me quite brightly, and I felt like a completely different person.

“Well, I was lucky. It was my first time meeting an evolved zombie, so it might not have been perfect.”

I answered somewhat humbly and loaded the supplies onto the green cart.

After holding out at the officetel and moving boxes of food and light clothes I had brought from the department store, I nodded to indicate that I had nothing more to move.

There are still plastic bottles containing water and a few other small items left in the room, but I left a piece of paper at the entrance.

‘I’ll be back in a month.’

I thought about it as I put it on and left, but when I think about it again, wouldn’t it be the same as telling me to get rid of it because I’m not around?

I just hope I don’t break the doorknob.

“And you said you needed a weapon? I had a lot of trouble getting this.”

The object the man presented was an aluminum baseball bat.

It’s definitely a tool that’s hard to find, but…

“Pfft… You finally came back?”

I didn’t know I was going to get a baseball bat, so I accepted it with a slightly awkward smile, and when Naeun saw it, she burst out laughing.

“Well, I was planning on using whatever I was given. Really.”

I put my arm around Naeun, who was smiling, and pulled her slightly before letting her go.

And finally, before leaving, I turned around and took a slow look to get my eyes on the officetel.

On the 4th floor, a man came out into the hallway and saw us upstairs, as if he was curious about the person from the supermarket who had suddenly visited us.

The women on the first and second floors were not seen coming out, probably because they were planning to survive alone.

“That’s it. Let’s go now.”

Without any more regrets, I decided to leave the officetel.

I tried holding a brand-new baseball bat while twirling it with one hand, and I thought it felt good in my hand.

Still, since it’s a baseball bat, should I at least do some tuning later?

The spearmen’s spears looked to be in better condition than the ones I had seen before, and they seemed to have gained some skill in making weapons.

“Hey, that Mr. Lee Sian?”

Because the mart team had cleared the route, there were no zombies, so we had time to chat along the way.

“Yes, it’s Lee Sian.”

“Why exactly are you joining Mart?”

“It’s difficult to deal with the zombies that appear around me on my own. No matter how good my skills are, I can’t help it because I only have one body. I need to constantly clean up the zombie-like entities so that they don’t appear around me, and to do that, it’s better to join a place where there are a lot of people. It’s good.”

I was very lucky to win the last fight, and honestly, it was difficult to win without taking any damage if I fought him again.

Since I can’t properly use the skills I’ve learned at other levels, all I have is combat experience, and Yu Xian, the main character, actually has the most experience.

As an assassin, Xian Raven surprisingly did not have much knowledge needed for head-to-head combat, and Han Xian had little practical experience.

So, it was safe to say that he returned everything he had and returned to Isi.

“That’s right. We’ve been patrolling the surrounding areas more since that day. The advantage that marts have is their population.”

“Do you have enough food?”

“Hmm. I ate things that were difficult to freeze or refrigerate in case the electricity went out, but I ate them sparingly, so I still had quite a bit left over. There are more foods that need cooking. It’s not for nothing that so many people gather at the supermarket.”

And the next place with abundant supplies is the department store, but zombies appeared there in the beginning, so it was difficult for people to unite.

I remember that the food display stands were completely wiped out, except for a few vegetables, even under those circumstances. Now that the value of valuables has dropped, department stores can be said to be worse places than supermarkets.

But the reason why people moved like this in just 7 days is because things like zombie movies are spreading, right?

“Marts are just consuming what they have, right?”

“Yes. The reason you asked Young-eun to find a way to farm means that Mr. Sian is thinking about what happens next when the supplies are used up, right?”

I thought I had to prepare before it was consumed, so I looked for ways to farm.

“Even if modern firearms are liberated in the future, it is unlikely that trade between countries will resume immediately. Without oil, cars will stop at some point. Even if we recapture the southern plains, it may be difficult to get food supplies upstream, so we need to prepare in advance.”

In that case, I even thought that the capital could be moved.

A granary where food grows is a more suitable place for a capital than a forest of buildings.

Because survival is ultimately more important than history or tradition.

“Now that I can survive the zombie threat, I’m starting to think about it a lot. It won’t take that long until the world returns to its former self, but it’s a question of whether I can survive it.”

I don’t have any specialized knowledge, so this is something that anyone who can afford to survive can think of.

“It’s just that a lot of people died, and the world returned to the way it was. That would be impossible.”

We talked about various things on the way to the supermarket, and the conclusion was that we had to wait for the day when modern firearms were released.

Only time will tell whether the gun-wielding military will seize power and implement a dictatorship, or whether the gun-wielding military will end up disintegrating the country.

First, humanity must be able to kill the evolved zombies before the world can return to its original state.

‘If the evolved zombie evolves once again, can it be stopped?’

It was a bit of a scary thought, so I didn’t say it out loud.

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“The entrance has become even more impressive.”

The entrance to the mart was very different from a few days ago.

All I had to do was create a high place where zombie attacks could not reach and stab a spear from above, but the surrounding area was clearly reinforced.

There was also a grille in the front to clearly protect the spearmen, and the fence around the mart also felt taller to prevent them from easily climbing over.

Also, if they saw that there were no zombie bodies around, they seemed to be quick to kill them and then burn them or throw them away somewhere.

This would be possible because there are a lot of people and there is someone who can lead them.

“I’m here. Naeun-ah! Xian!”

“Young-eun? Young-eun!”

At the entrance to the supermarket, a woman holding a spear saw us and waved her hand, and it turned out to be Yeong-eun.

From that day on, women also seemed to have decided to develop the power to defend themselves, and it seemed like a good choice.

In a world like this, you have to be able to protect your own body.

After confirming that we and the mart team had arrived, the door opened.

Naeun and I, who were surviving in a zombie apocalypse world in a small space called an officetel, joined the supermarket on the morning of the 7th day.