Chapter 127 – Zombie Apocalypse 2 (35)
On the way back to the supermarket, I called Eunyoung and asked her to prepare a meal for us.
I heard that the search team came after having breakfast, so by the time we leave, breakfast time at the supermarket will have already ended.
And last night, there was a noise so loud that even the supermarket could be heard, so everyone in the supermarket knew that I had done something to make the noise.
Since the search team had cleared the patrol route to the mart, they were able to return to the mart relatively quickly without encountering zombies.
When I went into the customer support room with the search team after eating the breakfast prepared for us, I could see Seongtae Choi sleeping face down on the desk.
“Choi Seong-tae? Are you alive?”
“He was awake just a moment ago… So he must be alive.”
At that time, Naeun touched me.
Does this mean that now is the perfect situation to inject heat?
I haven’t completely eliminated the yin energy in my body yet, but in the interest of saving one person, I changed the mana into heat and placed my hand on Choi Seong-tae’s back.
As I slowly sent heat through my hand and shook him to wake him up, I felt Seongtae Choi startle as he lay face down on the desk.
And after a while, Seongtae Choi woke up, rubbing his eyes.
“Uh… Uh. I guess I fell asleep for a moment. Sorry.”
Seongtae Choi said that after checking the people standing around him, but no one said anything.
Regardless of what anyone said, the busiest person in the supermarket was Seongtae Choi, the leader.
“Leader, have you seen the photos we sent?”
“Photo? I didn’t see it because I seemed to have fallen asleep right after eating. Just a moment.”
Seongtae Choi turned on his charging smartphone and checked the photos sent via messenger.
“What is this?”
He asked me when he saw a picture of a place full of headless corpses turned into a place full of only bones.
“The zombie was able to create a bone weapon using a corpse as a medium.”
Seongtae Choi looked at me silently as I said those words, then turned his head to Naeun.
“Naeun, can you explain? Were you together that night?”
“Me? Yes. Um. When we first went there, there was a female zombie sitting on a pile of zombie corpses. At first, I was just going to observe the situation and then go back, but did Sian say he felt something sinister? I decided to fight anyway. And he When the female zombie came down from the pile of corpses and reached for the headless corpse, the flesh on the corpse fell off, leaving only the bones, which she used to make a large knife.”
The four people who were listening to Naeun’s neat eyewitness account were unable to even add insult to injury.
When Naeun, who was by my side and experienced mana and learned that I could use it, and the search team members who had been fighting zombies that had only physically attacked in this strange world until now, felt that I had fought a fight on a completely different level. I think I’ve figured it out now.
“Xian was fighting so hard that his baseball bat broke. At that time, in a situation where even zombies had difficulty defending themselves, he threw a spear with all his might in a surprise attack. To block the flying spears, he made all the zombie corpses like that and used some of them to make shields with bones to block them. And…”
Naeun explained up to that point without hesitation, then looked at me carefully.
The last attack is difficult to explain without my power, so I decided to take it there and fool everyone.
“I threw another spear, but the zombie must have used too much strength and exploded upon hitting it. It looks like that noise reached here early yesterday morning.”
When Naeun and I told him what happened last night, Seongtae Choi thought quietly and then asked me.
“So, you’re saying that a zombie made a bone weapon out of a zombie’s corpse? He’s not a necromancer from some game.”
“Does the leader know that too?”
A search leader asked with a look like Lee O-yeon about what the leader knew about the beings in the game.
“I know you know. And you’re saying he blew himself up?”
Seongtae Choi smiled slightly, nodded his head and asked me.
“Yes. Naeun, you said that, right?”
“Yes, I did.”
Unless there are witnesses, no. The words of the two of us who have the power are law.
“Okay. Search team, please spread the word about the current situation and inform the supermarket of the source of the noise. You can say that the noise came from Mr. Xian dealing with a potential threat.”
“Yes, I understand.”
Seongtae Choi asked me after the three search leaders left the customer support room.
“Are you hurt anywhere like last time? Now that I think about it, it looks like your right hand is healed as well?”
When I mentioned my right hand, I unconsciously looked down at my hand.
My right hand is now completely healed after taking a nap in the early morning. Naeun and witnesses said it was completely broken, but now it is fine, so I can’t help but have doubts.
Did they send the search leader out first to ask me about that?
“And does the healing of my right hand have something to do with what you did for me earlier? If I wasn’t mistaken, a warmth spread across my back…”
I thought he wouldn’t know because he was sleeping, but he clearly felt it.
I was thinking about how to explain it, but I decided to tell just a little bit because I thought I could trust Choi Seong-tae.
“This is the power I gained after becoming a world like this. The power to become healthy. Beyond being healthy, I can become a little stronger, and like I just did, I can make others a little healthier.”
“Is that so? I thought Mr. Xian wasn’t an ordinary person, but I didn’t know he had that kind of power.”
“Did Seongtae know or not suspect?”
When I told this to Choi Seong-tae, who pretended not to know, he smiled with a slightly bitter expression.
Then he began to unwrap the bandages covering his face.
A face full of scars that explains how he was treated by the Fire Light Sect that day.
There were three long knife marks on the face, and the bones were slightly broken, making the face unbalanced.
Since his face was still covered with blue bruises, I understood why Choi Seong-tae covered his face with bandages.
“I thought that if I thought that Mr. Xian really had special powers, I would resent him, so I thought there was no such thing as special powers. Since I am an ordinary person, I don’t even know how to use it, so it is too much of a price to pay for becoming the leader of a group, and the scars I will have to bear for the rest of my life are like this. Because it remained on my face.”
I’ve developed a bit of a tolerance because I’ve constantly seen horrible creatures called zombies, but Choi Seong-tae’s face can be compared to a zombie.
Naeun, who could be said to have improved her stomach as she adapted to this strange world, looked at Choi Seongtae’s face and lowered her head to avoid her gaze.
“So I just thought it didn’t exist, but there it was…”
Seongtae Choi looked back at the bone grave on his smartphone with a wry smile.
It is certain that it can make people healthy, but can it also heal scars like that on the face?
I don’t know if I can use Seo-yeon’s healing power, but I am not learning any healing skills.
Then, it is internal energy. If you train your internal energy, it is true that your appearance improves compared to before training, but it does not change significantly.
I don’t know if we reach the level of complete transformation, but it’s a very difficult level.
“Let’s earn a lot of money later and get plastic surgery.”
In this world, we must borrow the power of the good thing called modern medicine.
“That’s the way it is. You have to earn a lot of money to fix your face, but the world is like this. I have no idea how to make money, and even if I earn it, I don’t know if I can use it.”
“It will get better with time.”
Seongtae Choi took out a new bandage from the drawer and started wrapping his face.
I must have gotten used to it by wrapping it often, so I quickly wrapped the bandages while exposing my eyes, nose, and mouth.
“Then I’ll go get some rest. I overworked myself early in the morning.”
“Yes. I will call you when I need help. And Seongtae, please lie down properly and get some sleep.”
“That’s right. I should go back to sleep too.”
When Naeun and I left the customer support room, Naeun asked me.
“You can’t fix that?”
“Yes. It’s beyond what I can do.”
“I see. I feel a little pitiful.”
“Me too. I thought it was just a serious bruise.”
I could help make the bruises on my face disappear, but I couldn’t do much more than that.
I should have suspected Choi Seong-tae’s condition when he covered his face for over a week.
Still, I can help with physical strength, so I’ll just focus on that part.
It seems like it gives the feeling that we should work hard and not die, but we are helping each other by managing the mart and me eliminating threats to the mart.
*
Naeun, who sat on the hard floor in the early morning and slept with his back against the wall, must have been so tired that he stretched out as soon as he lay down on the bed in the car wash office.
Thanks to the improved sleep quality that is the effect of combat sleep, I had no accumulated fatigue, but the yin energy still remained in my body.
‘Yang energy touches the human spirit, and yin energy blocks the circulation of mana.’
Now that I’ve gotten some information I didn’t want to know, it’s time to make a decision.
There are only 5 days left until the return of possession is possible.
There was so much to do in that time that it seems like it’s been a month, but it hasn’t even been 5 days yet.
It seems like all the big events have passed, but it’s a strange world where things happen every day, so tomorrow’s events will happen again.
And I thought that I wanted to use the skill link properly in Yu Xian’s body.
Lee Sian’s body was still very restricted, so free skill linking was not possible.
‘First, let’s remove all the negative energy remaining in the body and think about it.’
Although I wasn’t tired yet, I decided to collect mana while looking at Naeun who was sleeping with such a lovely expression.
Skill Link-Boost
Shadow Mastery. Yeonyeom Shingong.
‘I think I work harder on fortune-telling than when I was really Hansian.’
I think it was because I was still in the baby stage and even small growths were easily felt in my body.
When I was Yusian, physical training every day was really painful, but it also helped that it was incomparably more comfortable than back then.
