Chapter 343 – Zombie Apocalypse 4 (17)
‘Originally, this should have been done by removing the possession and liberating the class.’
A repetitive task of attacking and recapturing a factory with zombies and collecting edible food from there.
Originally, it would have been easier to leave such a task to Lee Sian through class liberation, but without Shadow Mastery and Flame Magic, the difficulty level became impossible.
With the power that Isian has, he can catch even evolved zombies by covering them with mana, but it is very dangerous to deal with many, many stronger enemies.
No matter how many allies with guns followed me, I had to move more to save bullets.
Following the smartphone navigation, I ran to a nearby food factory and saw several zombies.
‘I can’t tell when it happened.’
In Korea, a zombie outbreak broke out at 12 o’clock at night, quickly paralyzing society.
At that time, will the raw materials needed to make food be in the factory or will the manufactured goods be in the factory?
If you think about it, there was a time when the government got rid of zombies to the point where they had to supply twice.
Seeing as there hasn’t been any recent posts from the government, it looks like he died or went bankrupt somewhere.
“Sian. There’s a zombie ahead.”
While I was thinking about various things, Naeun hugged my waist and said.
“Yeah. I saw it too. I’ll take care of it right away.”
I held the motorcycle handlebar with my left hand and threw a bido made with Shadow Craft.
Phew!
As soon as it penetrated a zombie’s head, a new secret passage was created.
Phew! Phew!
As I slowed down a bit, I didn’t get off the motorcycle and instead threw a raincoat at the head of a nearby zombie, killing everything in sight.
“I’ll go slowly!”
I rang the crunch button twice so that the truck drivers behind me could hear.
This modified motorcycle was made with the goal of making as little noise as possible, but the cracktion was still alive.
Slowly slowing down, I parked the motorcycle near the entrance to the food factory and activated presence detection.
There were many signs of slow-moving zombies, but no one seemed to be holding their breath.
To make sure we searched once more, we used presence detection-waves and confirmed that there were no living people.
As I parked my motorcycle near the entrance, trucks began to stop and the gunmen sitting in the passenger seat quickly got off and approached me.
“It looks like there are only regular zombies. I think you can use the window, but come up slowly from the entrance with Naeun.”
“I understand.”
“Then what are you going to do, Mr. Xian?”
“I’ll drive you out from inside. Naeun-ah, please do me a favor.”
“Okay. Come back.”
I burst out laughing and jumped over the factory entrance.
I looked around while floating high in the sky, and fortunately, there were things that looked edible.
I saw the flour and the finished product, but the packaging was slightly torn, and I thought it might not be intact due to the rain last time.
‘Still, I can save quite a lot.’
He lightly landed among the zombies, grabbed the shadow sword in his hand, and blew off all the zombies’ heads.
“Waaaaa!!!”
When I shouted loudly with all my mana, the zombies who did not notice that the heads of their fellow zombies were falling off and the zombies inside the factory started to come rushing out.
It looks like the people at the entrance have also started rushing into the factory, so feel free to sweep them all away.
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After confirming that there were no zombies detected by my presence detection, I called everyone from the supermarket and checked the warehouse at the factory entrance and the flour lying outside.
Fortunately, only a small portion of it was damaged, so most of it was usable, and the good thing was that it was flour.
As the saying goes, Koreans eat rice as their staple food, but wheat flour is also a good carbohydrate.
I couldn’t be this happy if all these bags were like sugar.
“Wow. This is a huge benefit right from the start.”
“If I just transport this, it will last for a few months, right?”
The people who came with me to collect supplies from the unit were also worried that they would make a fuss, but they smiled brightly on their faces, probably because everything went well from the beginning.
“Let’s organize the zombies, so the truck can come in and move them right away.”
If a ton of flour is stored properly, 60 people will be able to live well until next year.
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We brought back from the food factory four trucks full of flour and another truck full of snacks made at the factory.
Although it has a lower density than wheat flour, it still scores a lot of extra points in that it is a finished product.
“Wow! Flour!”
“Is the expiration date okay? I can’t keep it frozen, right?”
“What should I eat with this? Is there anything I can eat with just flour?”
The youngest, Park Eun-seo, was happy to see the flour we had brought, but the ladies in charge of the meal seemed to be worried about how to eat that much flour without us getting tired of it.
Since it would be difficult to make bread using the military base’s cooking facilities, should we at least make flour rice cakes and eat them? Wheat rice cake, tteokbokki? Is red pepper paste enough? I thought about the things I could eat with flour and then shook my head.
My job is to bring various materials, but it is the ladies’ job to combine them and satisfy our tastes.
However, when the flour was unloaded from the truck, the restaurant’s warehouse attached to the unit ran out.
The first floor of the barracks was mostly used as a warehouse, except for the company commander’s office, my room, and the utility room, but since it was not that spacious, there was a need to expand the warehouse.
I came here for just one day today and achieved this result, but wouldn’t there be one more jackpot in the remaining time? The first time I make it, I have to make it big, right?
“Those remaining in the unit will have to build a warehouse.”
“Ugh. I think it will take quite a while without Sian.”
“I think I can quickly erect the pillars, but you’ll have to fill in the rest yourself?”
The lamp and frame could be made from wood that had been dried using a soft dye technique, but there was a lack of material to cover the roof and walls.
It also seems ignorant to do it all with wood.
First, we moved the restaurant seats to make more space and piled the flour inside.
The people at the supermarket who had learned martial arts could easily lift and carry 20 kg bags of flour, so there was no frustrating situation like the people from the waterworks I met a few days ago.
The material expedition team had lunch at the base and went out again.
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On the morning of day 43, I woke up early thanks to my combat sleep, but there was no need to go outside.
“I thought I would have to spend the remaining 23 days outside…”
I patted the chest of Naeun, who was sleeping soundly next to me, and thought about what had happened in the past few days.
The supply of supplies was so much better than we expected that there was no time to bring in other items to the unit.
If you think about the reason, it seems that the big thing is that the number of survivors has decreased significantly.
The personnel who participated in this supply expedition usually spent time inside the unit, so they could not immediately adapt to the quiet atmosphere when they went outside.
Since I was hanging out with 60 people, I didn’t really notice it because there were always people around. But when I went out like this, I felt like I realized that there were only 2% of the world’s population left.
Also, when I expanded the scope of collecting supplies, I took food that could last for a long time, but I was able to find many traces of people who died early due to evolved zombies.
I took food and supplies to the outskirts of the city where there were no people and secured a safe place by killing zombies, but an unanswerable creature called an evolved zombie invaded. I collected enough food to last a year, but I was also able to find traces of dead people.
There was a mountain of canned goods, and I never imagined that I would find a place where the walls of the building were broken and exposed.
As I drove around and collected unclaimed food by truck, I collected so much that there was no empty space in the unit, and I also helped with the construction work again yesterday.
Since I didn’t have enough materials, I roughly made a simple shed by building pillars and surrounding it with a tarp, but now that summer was in full swing, the rainy season had begun, and I was a little anxious because I thought it would blow away if a typhoon blew.
I got out of bed, grabbed my smartphone, and went outside.
The parade ground right in front of the unit felt cluttered with cars and makeshift warehouses, but it was reassuring because it was full of food.
I looked at the gunmen standing guard from afar and accessed the Internet, which could be disconnected at any time, to look at a place a little distance away from our unit.
The area near the unit where I was stationed, called the lower village fortress, was quite quiet perhaps because I was there.
However, in other regions, there were people who somehow secured guns and threatened people with them, and it seemed like murders often occurred due to the use of uncontrollable force.
The reason this happens is that the ‘government’ has disappeared.
The government, which somehow continued its existence in the beginning, disappeared after 30 days.
The government also got caught up in the incident when it escaped from the bunker to go to a military base it thought would be safe in order to secure modern firearms.
Survivors of that unit poured out testimonies that high-ranking government officials had died, so people gathered in the village below to seek some form of protection.
There was no big fuss because the people were friendly, perhaps for protection, but I don’t know what will happen if the food runs out.
‘It’s said that you know what’s inside water, but you don’t know what’s inside people.’
The people at the mart are also wary of changes over time, so the only person I still completely trust is Naeun.
“Whoa.”
While I was thinking about such nonsense, I visited a community where posts were still being posted well among the mostly dead bulletin boards.
Powerful countries like the United States gradually began to create safe places for people to live while exterminating second-evolution zombies by firing missiles.
Our country did not carry out any special operations after the government ended, perhaps because the military command system collapsed.
Well, even if there is no separate military operation, I think the metropolitan area is now safe because I hunted secondary evolution zombies and evolution zombies.
‘Is it peace found in destruction?’
Just when I was about to enjoy this peace a little more, a quest appeared.
The quest is given to Yoo Sian, not Lee Sian.
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【Lee Sian-(100%)+(EX 25%)】
【Level: 5】
【Combat power: 1500+(268)】
【Holding Skills: [Skill] Rules of Survival (S)】
【Awaiting Quest (11/11)】
