Chapter 112 – Expansion
Things you won’t eat anyway.
Sweets, chocolate, etc. We decided to give away everything except what Seungi would eat.
Since the quantity is so large, not only will we not be able to eat it all, but if we leave it out, it will definitely spoil in the upcoming hot weather and we will not be able to eat it at all.
In that case, it would be possible to use it more efficiently just by distributing it.
However, if all of that were to be given away, the power of the search team would naturally decrease due to the abundant life, and there would be defectors within the search team, and the search team would not even think about moving.
To be honest, it’s none of my business, but they absolutely should not have disappeared in order to create an atmosphere where people live for the first time in a long time and to guarantee our safety.
Therefore, we decided to distribute only the minimum amount each day and maintain the current system as is.
Of course, even though I was giving it unilaterally, people inevitably said that it was petty.
I expected complaints, but hearing them actually made me feel bad, but I held back for the sake of Seo-ah, Seung-i, and the children.
Because humans are inherently like that.
Even though they feel grateful, they are selfish creatures that show their dissatisfaction knowingly or unknowingly as time goes by.
Perhaps my choice was close to the correct one, and it was running well without much impact on the system that Seo-yoon Kang had created.
Time passes.
The sweet holiday passed by and I went out again with my weapons.
I was planning to go a little further today.
I’ve dusted off the surroundings, and I’ve earned a few points by hunting zombies, but I can’t hunt regular zombies, which only give me 1 point each.
“Now… I have to hunt mutant zombies. Don’t I, too?”
Even though there was no one there, I spoke to myself.
Then a status window with a blue background appeared in front of my eyes.
[Jaewon Han
Level: 22
Strength: 30 Stamina: 30 Agility: 30 Magic: 20
(Skill)
『Basic Swordsmanship』 『Basic Defense』 『Beginner Swordsmanship』 『Beginner Defense』
Points held +333]
The status window is very different compared to before.
The level has reached a whopping 22, and all except abilities magical power have been set to 30.
Lastly, I have learned not only basic swordsmanship and defense skills, but also beginner swordsmanship and defense skills, and now I feel like I can hunt any mutant zombie without any problems.
This is how I feel. Still, I still didn’t want to fight against mutant zombies safely.
However, there is no guarantee that you will ever be able to encounter the regular zombies or mutant zombies you have encountered so far.
It wouldn’t be strange at all if a mutant zombie suddenly appeared with a power so strong that it couldn’t even produce a living being with my current strength.
Therefore, even if I took risks, I felt like the answer was to find mutant zombies and defeat them because the rewards were generous.
“Whoa…”
No matter how strong you have become. I can’t be scared, and I can’t be nervous.
Still, for my sake and for Seo-ah and Seung-i, I just completely exclude these feelings.
“Shall we keep going?”
Regular zombies are no longer impressed.
If they attack you or are on your way, you will kill them and exchange them for 1 point, but since you only get 1 point, it is not worth going there and hunting them in person.
Therefore, I moved quickly while hunting down a small number of zombies.
And then I found a place where zombies were particularly concentrated.
“It’s a department store… “
I found a place where zombies were concentrated, and that place was a department store.
Like a department store, before the world turns into a zombie apocalypse. There seemed to be a lot of people inside the department store.
But now, those people turned into zombies one day and were constantly wandering around to covet humans.
If it’s a pity, it’s really pity, but there’s nothing you can do.
It’s not like I knew in advance that things would change like this. How can we avoid zombies suddenly popping out and turning us into our own people?
I couldn’t bear to open my eyes and look at the young zombies who looked like they were visiting a department store with their parents.
Clicking my tongue, I climbed the pipes of the department store building and entered the window.
“Khaaaaa!”
I think I entered the bathroom, but as soon as I entered, there was a zombie here.
As soon as they found me, the hungry zombies rushed at me, but regular zombies, not even mutant zombies, were no match for me.
In an instant, her head was blown off and she started rolling around on the floor, and the headless zombie body flailed around her and soon fell to the ground.
She walked, putting her feet on the ground, avoiding the cold corpse of a zombie as if she was used to it.
As I was inside the bathroom and looked outside the bathroom, numerous zombies caught my eye.
“…”
There are too many.
The number I can see right now seems to be about 30, but if you count the number I can’t see, I think there are about a hundred on this floor alone. I dare to guess.
Even if about a hundred of them attack at once, you can handle them without much trouble, but there is an emergency.
Perhaps because it was inside a department store, there was a lot of stuff.
For example clothes, mannequins, objects etc. Since there are so many places for zombies to hide, you never know when they might suddenly pop out from an unexpected place and attack you.
What… I think I can handle even that well if I am the way I am now, but there is a what if, so if I’m careful, there won’t be a big problem.
Above all, with so many zombies gathered together, it is not strange at all if there are mutant zombies, so a surprise attack by mutant zombies must also be considered.
I looked gently around her.
You can’t stay in the bathroom all the time, and there are limits to examining the interior of the department store from here.
Even if you deal with zombies, it is not too late to first check whether there are mutant zombies or not and then deal with them.
I moved as unnoticed as possible by the zombies and scanned the floor I was on.
If you are unlucky enough to be caught by a zombie, you can quickly dispose of the zombie and prevent it from making any noise.
I had been hunting zombies for so long that I couldn’t help but laugh when I got to the point where I was assassinating them.
“It doesn’t seem to be here.”
I searched everywhere I could right now.
Changing room, restroom, lounge, etc. I searched so thoroughly that I couldn’t find anything, but I couldn’t find anything that looked like a mutant zombie.
If so, it means that it could be on the first or third floor or higher, just below here.
To be honest, I don’t think it will happen.
In any case, I would have to hunt mutant zombies and fill my hungry stomach, so I couldn’t stay here forever.
However… If you think like that, another question arises: why do zombies only hang out inside department stores?
No matter how much I cleaned around the house, zombies kept coming over to look for prey.
Naturally, it seems natural for zombies inside a department store with nothing to eat to find an exit and go outside in search of food.
There were an unusually large number of zombies inside the department store.
It wasn’t like he could not find a way out due to his lack of intelligence, so he just loitered around inside as if there was no reason to go out.
Questions kept coming in, but I shook my head and went up to the third floor and started searching.
Of course, here too, there were only regular zombies.
And countless zombies.
“There is something.”
My senses are speaking.
There must be something here somewhere.
That’s because the number of zombies seemed to be slightly higher on the third floor than on the second floor.
I decided to search the 4th floor as well and climbed out the window and entered the 4th floor bathroom using the pipe.
This time, as soon as I entered the bathroom, a zombie came in, but I dealt with the zombie without much trouble and looked out of the bathroom.
“Ke haaak!”
However, there were far more zombies on the 4th floor than on the 3rd floor, so as soon as I put my head out, the zombie that found me let out a loud scream and rushed towards me like crazy.
“Tsk!”
I quickly dealt with the zombie that was clicking its tongue and screaming, but that wasn’t the only zombie.
I could feel other zombies, as well as zombies who had heard the sound, coming in.
Should we fight? Then, my intuition told me that this place was dangerous, but I thought it would be dangerous to fight without any countermeasures or information, so I went into the bathroom again and went out through the window.
“Kaaaaa~!”
The zombies that followed me and threw themselves at the window fell down and their bodies exploded when they touched the ground.
The skin was already rotten, so I couldn’t help but frown as the body exploded to the point where its shape was unrecognizable even though it was only four stories high.
“The 5th floor is the last…”
I pushed my upper body against the window and climbed up the pipe to the 5th floor, paying no heed to the zombies struggling to catch me.
I came inside through the bathroom on the 5th floor.
But the interior of the 5th floor looks very quiet compared to the 4th floor.
I said it was strange, but is it still true?
I held a sword in my right hand and a gun in my left, fully prepared to fight at any time.
And it wasn’t long before I looked inside.
“Please save me…”
I soon found a woman who looked nothing strange even if she died.
