Chapter 126 – New Mutant Zombies
“In the end, we came this far.”
“…”
The zombie said.
I couldn’t hide my embarrassment when I saw that he was speaking more fluently than the merchal zombie I met at the department store the other day.
Even though I could definitely beat the guy I met at the time, I thought he would have to take the loss of getting seriously hurt.
I had no idea how strong a zombie that could speak so well would be.
In addition, the rank may not be particularly relevant now, but the military uniform had a rank with three Roses of Sharon on it.
Meaning that he was a human before becoming a zombie and was a colonel when he was a soldier.
I was in a cold sweat and felt a threat to my life, like when I first met the mutant zombie Merchal Zombie, or when zombies appeared in the world and a zombie chased me right in front of my house to eat me.
I felt anxious that if I made a mistake, I could die here.
The boss is like this behind all the little mobs.
No matter how you look at it, if this reality were a game, the balance would have completely collapsed and it would have been legal to curse the operator.
Only low-rap monsters appeared, and then suddenly a high-rap monster that only rankers could face, and even a boss monster, appeared. How could there not be a backlash from users?
I haven’t played the game, but it might feel like this.
But soon, when I thought about how I had experienced this situation countless times and was ultimately the only one standing on the ground, my heart, which had been pounding with fear, soon regained its stability.
“Sit down for now.”
Should I say I am fortunate? Colonel Zombie didn’t seem to have any intention of fighting me.
I wasn’t the type of person who took life lightly, so much so that I would blindly fight without being sure I would win or lose.
Because my life is not mine alone now.
It was Seo-ah’s, Seung-i’s, and the child in Seo-ah’s belly, so it had to be cherished more than anything else.
The same goes for the survivors who are working hard to live under my protection.
Anyway, he didn’t seem to have any intention of fighting, so there was absolutely no reason to fight, so he carefully laid his butt down on the chair right in front of the desk where the zombie was sitting.
I still didn’t let go of the tension when it came to help.
If he shows even the slightest strange behavior, he reacts immediately and is ready to swing his sword.
However, despite these concerns, the zombie, which still had no intention of fighting, handed me a nut.
“I can’t even eat because my body has changed like this. You eat.”
A favorable response.
It was very strange for a zombie to look like this.
Should we say that his personality as a human being is greater than his personality as a zombie?
I felt like I could end the situation well if I did well.
I thought that beyond ending the situation, I might be able to create a connection between humans and zombies.
I could never protect the safety of my women and children by myself.
Even if you constantly try to become stronger, you are bound to reach a limit.
Because of this, being able to have intelligent and strong zombies as allies was an advantage more than anything else.
I have children, so if it’s the path that can guarantee maximum safety, it’s probably right to go that way.
“You don’t like it that much?”
A zombie looks at me in confusion for a moment without eating the nuts.
“No. I like it.”
If you give it to them, they will eat it, but there is no such thing as liking or disliking it.
Still, I just lie and say I like it because I want to leave a good impression.
“…”
I tried to eat it as if accepting a favor, but I still wasn’t sure if I was a good guy. But when I tried to eat what the zombie gave me, I felt a sense of rejection.
The zombie, who was not unaware of this, smiled bitterly and said that if it was bad, there was no need to eat it.
“Anyway… I’m sure you have more than one question. If you have any questions, please ask.”
I still had doubts, but I couldn’t let this good opportunity go away.
In the first place, the only information you can get so far is the words that will come out of this zombie’s mouth.
It is an inevitable choice.
There may be more untruths than truths in what she says, but for now, she has no choice but to cry and believe.
“Then first… “
Me first.
“Are you a zombie or a human?”
I decided to check first to see if it was on my side.
At this question, the zombie drew a smile on her lips.
“Yes. That’s probably what you’re most curious about. But I can’t help but give a vague answer. That’s because I’m not sure either.”
She shrugged her shoulders and continued answering.
“The body is like a zombie, but unlike other normal zombies, the mind is intact.”
As the saying goes, the body was definitely a zombie.
No matter who you ask, 10 out of 10 people will answer with full confidence that they are zombies, so much so that they just look like zombies.
However, the way she spoke, her intonation, and her every action, which were not much different from humans, paralyzed her brain so that she could not judge based on appearance alone.
Actually, maybe they are humans and not zombies.
Enough to raise doubts.
“I don’t even know how this is possible. But I know very well the queen who made me… No, we like this.”
“Queen… Are you saying? “
“Yes, the Queen. The Queen selects zombies that will become stronger when they regain their intelligence, like me, and makes them her servants. The same goes for me. At first, I looked no different from any other zombie, but after being chosen by the Queen, I became good, but not particularly good. It has become like this.”
I thought she died and became a zombie. Should I say that I am fortunate that my human personality is alive even though my body has died and I have become a zombie? Or should I say she wasn’t lucky? She had a face that she didn’t even know.
“Still, it would be much better to die than to continue living as a zombie… “
With a bitter expression, she scratched her skin with her fingernails.
If it were an ordinary person’s body, his skin her her would turn red, but in the rotting body of a zombie, the more he scratched, the more little bits of flesh fell off her.
“Are there any other questions? “
On the contrary, they kept urging me if I had any questions.
Of course there are a lot. There are many, but I just remembered something even more curious.
“Why on earth are you trying to help me?”
“The reason is simple. I want you to catch the queen.”
“Can’t you catch it yourself?”
“Haha… I wish it were possible.”
If she became this way because of the queen, she would obey the queen’s commands. Is it because of such restrictions that one cannot rashly revolt?
“There are restrictions. Constraints placed on us by the Queen. Three main things. Obey the queen, not betray, and not be able to kill yourself. It’s like this. So even though I want to die, I can’t, and I follow the orders of the queen and those who were once my subordinates.”
“…”
“That’s why I’m asking you a favor. Can’t you make it easier by killing me and my subordinates who have turned into zombies?”
Anyway, he turned into a zombie. The thirst for life has long since disappeared.
He said that he wanted to die while In-gyeon was still this fine, and asked me to show a little mercy to his subordinates.
“I’m just saying in case you’re worried. I won’t attack you. The queen sent me to investigate this place, and there were no orders to fight the enemy or not to be killed by the enemy.”
He was full of thoughts of dying without offering any resistance to me.
“So, in exchange for killing me, I’m going to tell you everything you want to know, to the best of my knowledge.”
He’s giving me information so that I can do his favor his…”
There was something subtle about it.
I’m happy at the thought of gaining a huge amount of points, but I’m killing a friendly person who can never be on my side.
Considering what happens in the future, it’s best to get them on your side.
I can’t fight the queen he spoke of without killing her here and now.
I absolutely listen to the queen, but of course she will block my path and try to kill me against my will.
So, in order to reduce the queen’s power even a little, it was right to kill her on this spot.
“For your information, the queen is not strong. She only lays eggs, and the insects that hatch from the eggs crawl into the bodies of zombies and parasitize them, turning them into their own.”
As expected, the queen was like her ant her her her.
Unlike regular ants, it was a unique type of ant that gave birth to parasites and made them live on zombies, making them their workers.
“Instead, there are those who are as powerful as me, protecting the queen. Among them, there are some who are happy to be alive like this, and there are others who are not happy like me and want to die. However, as long as they are by the queen’s side. No matter what type you are, It’s a threat.”
Whether you like it or not, if it’s the queen’s order, you have no choice but to blindly follow it and fight.
“Is there anything else you want to know?”
I asked if there was anything else I was curious about.
It can’t be there. As if I had been waiting, I opened my mouth and started asking questions one by one.
