Chapter 114 – Merchal Zombie
“Can I go and take a closer look?”
“Water, of course…” ” .”
Can I get closer and take a closer look at the person I’m taking? When asked, Merchal Zombie readily agreed.
I didn’t let my guard down as I walked towards the Merchal zombies and towards the survivors.
There is nothing strange at all if you attack while you are off guard.
But didn’t he have any intention of attacking me from the beginning? When there was no action, I became even more suspicious.
That’s when I started to think that they were targeting something.
If… Maybe.
Could it be that he was trying to attack me with regular zombies when I escaped with the women?
Thinking about it this way, I feel like I understand Mercial Zombie’s favorable reaction a little.
I can’t guarantee the odds of winning, but it’s better to aim for a 1-to-many situation than to go for a surprise attack and aim for a 1-on-1 situation.
That’s why he said he would hand over nearly half of the survivors, who were like precious food, to me.
Putting these reasons together, the puzzle of the unreasonable behavior of releasing me obediently began to slowly come together.
An inevitable fight.
I was worried that if I left it like this anyway, I would have to take the risk of killing it just in case it would grow and become stronger than me, but now it seemed like there was no need to worry at all.
Even though the physical abilities were constantly uploaded in the status window, they seemed similar to the physical abilities of that Merchal zombie.
However, they appear to be equal because they have intelligence and good physical abilities, but in reality they are different.
That’s because I had the deceptive elements of good weapons and skills.
I thought that this was enough and that I could easily kill him.
It’s just an unknown variable that puts me in danger.
“Worry… Ha, don’t… Fight… I don’t… Have… “
Did he read my thoughts and heart? Merchal Zombie is saying things he doesn’t mean to reassure me.
No, that would be correct.
Right now. However, it was obvious that the moment I chose three people and left, all the zombies around would gather and attack me and us.
I will never be fooled.
The world has become one where even humans can’t be trusted. Would you believe a crazy zombie?
So, I slowly looked for opportunities without letting my guard down.
I think I can win… No. You can definitely win, but the problem is that you’re not sure that you’ll win without any damage, so you either kill them in one hit with a surprise attack or inflict so much damage that the balance is completely off. The key was to succeed in one of the two.
“What are you going to do with all the dying bitches out there?”
“Dying… Going, going… ?”
For a moment, Merchal Zombie didn’t understand what I was talking about, but then she remembered the woman she had kicked out.
“Ah, ah… The ran away… Rat, rat… You mean… Are you… ?”
Merchal Zombie smiled at my question.
“Anyway… Soon, soon… She’s going to die… All, all. Take her… Go… See… It won’t… Help… So… That girl… I’ll… Eat… Eat… “
Even if I took her with me, she would probably die anyway and it would be a hindrance to her movement, so she said it as if she was considerate of me.
If you hadn’t noticed, you might have been slightly moved by Merchal Zombie’s kindness her her
“You’re losing weight… The amount of food you’re eating is decreasing… It’s a bit… Unfortunate, but… Uh, uh… I can’t help it…”
A slurred and frustrating tone of speech that makes you feel like you’re running out of breath.
“Well… That’s right. Let’s take her. She looks like a bitch who will be left behind anyway.”
I looked at the survivors with their hands and feet tied with an affirming face and an attitude that I didn’t care as it was none of my business.
“Ha, haha… Haha…”
Merchal Zombie laughed heartily, as if he found it amusing that he shared feelings with me.
I tried my best to pretend not to care and looked at the survivors.
The survivors were struggling with their hands and feet tied, trying to get my attention.
The men were just begging, and the women couldn’t eat anything, so they tried to seduce me with their scrawny bodies.
He makes tempting remarks saying that he will accept any kind of sexual activity, but he has an ordinary appearance. Now that I say something like that with a shabby appearance that doesn’t look normal because I’m skinny, my excitement cools down right away.
Even if you don’t beg like this, if that zombie dies, you will be free.
In the end, the way they were fighting and blaming each other to be chosen by me seemed comical.
The important thing is not them.
As they laughed as if they were enjoying fighting each other and fueled the fire to fight more, Merchal Zombie slowly began to relax and let down his guard.
I think my acting worked well.
Little bit more… If it loosened up just a little bit more, that was the opportunity.
For example, like now, when he ignored me and tried to grab the leftover human meat from earlier.
A mercial zombie who has great intelligence and can speak like a human, but he still seems to have a lot to learn.
I decided that this was the most careless thing I had ever seen, so even before my brain could give commands to my body, my body already moved reflexively and swung my sword towards the Merchal zombie’s neck.
The sharp blade was shot quickly, cutting through the wind.
If you hit like this, you will not escape death.
But.
“… ?!”
As expected, the mutant zombie read my movements with a transcendental sense as if it were a mutant zombie.
Nevertheless, it is already too late to avoid it.
Even though Mercal Zombie knew that, she hurriedly raised both arms, thinking that if she tried to avoid them, she might suffer even more fatal injuries.
Suddenly!
Saying that it is better to lose than to die, she extended her left hand to the sharp blade that was swung quickly.
It just has lower defense compared to other mutant zombies. It was a mercial zombie with superior defense compared to humans.
Therefore, it was easy for my blade to cut off the hand stretched out in front, but it was eventually blocked by the hard bones that followed.
A blade deeply embedded from the hand to the shoulder area.
This single attack didn’t kill her, but it caused a serious wound that split one of her arms in half.
It was easy enough to cut through a railway, but looking at the blockage, I could indirectly tell that the bone was that strong.
“K, kkeut…” “?!”
Merchal Zombie hurriedly distanced himself from me and groaned, clutching his arm that was torn in half.
“Tsk… That’s a shame.”
I could have killed her in one go, but it was a shame I couldn’t.
By the way.
“Do you feel pain too?”
I don’t know why her facial muscles were so distorted.
Pain? Or because of anger? Only Merchal Zombie knew the answer to this.
“…”
The arm was still attached to the body, but the problem was that it was split straight in half, and black blood was dripping from the cross section, which was a disgusting yet cruel sight.
In response to my question, Merchal Zombie didn’t say anything and just looked at me as if he was going to kill me.
“J-what are you…” “Doing…” Right now… ?”
“Well, all I have to do is do it.”
Merchal Zombie frowned.
“Just because we broke up cleanly here and now, there’s no guarantee that if we meet again later, we’ll break up cleanly like we did today, right? So, kill it while you can. Isn’t that right? “
“…”
He tried to do the same, but all his plans went awry because I hit the player.
“You were going to betray me anyway, right?”
An act of betrayal that never goes away in humans.
In thousands of years of history, humans have committed countless betrayals.
Through this act of betrayal, he drove countless people to death or took over the throne.
Therefore, it was natural that Mercal Zombie, who had high knowledge, also learned it.
The problem was just learning. It means that it was not utilized well.
If I had tried it, I would have had to get the timing right quickly or move without me noticing, but this guy didn’t even know that and gave me time to think, which ended up betraying me.
This was the first time I tried to do the act of betrayal that I had learned from humans, but I was caught in the wrong way before I could do it, so it is no wonder that my pride was damaged.
“Oh, no… It is… “
I swallowed my anger and shook my head.
“Now I see you’re even lying?”
It’s so absurd that he even lies so shamelessly that I’m almost laughing.
If only their appearance had resembled humans, the surviving humans in many places might have collapsed even more quickly.
Even me.
“Honestly, I wonder what would happen if I let you learn more, but I can’t keep you alive because of that curiosity.”
If we increase our knowledge, we may become another human race that will rule the world instead of humans.
Furthermore, it could be envisioned as an ideal future in which we live in coexistence with humans.
The problem is that there is no way that mercial zombies that eat human flesh will be of any help to humanity or to me.
“What are you doing?”
I got closer to the Merchal zombie, who was backing away little by little and widening the distance.
“You’re not going to fight?
I would have tried to accumulate knowledge, but it was futile.
It’s clear that I’m going to die like this.
“Aaaaah!”
Deciding that he could not run away, the Merchal zombie rushed towards me while screaming.
And to those zombies, I…
