Hearing Kun's words, Stu was left speechless. His mouth was hanging wide open as his brain went through a complete meltdown. The images in front of him were starting to become distorted, and he didn't know if it was because he was turning or because of what he was seeing right now.
"You… you're a zombie! Wait, do you mean you always have been?" Stu asked, confused. Whatever the case was, he realised something he could now cling on to as hope. "You mean there is a chance I can become like you?! Can I still keep my mind? Tell me! Tell me what to do!"
Kun looked at Stu up and down, who was on the ground. The latter held his hands together as he begged for the secret to becoming a conscious zombie.
"Did you just forget about everything that you attempted to do? The fact that you just tried to gather a whole horde of zombies to storm your own group?! Did you have a memory loss, or do you truly think I will pity you and help you survive in any way?"
While these words, Kun noticed that more significant changes were happening to Stu, his skin was turning more a dull grey, his eyes were starting to hollow out as well, and the veins on his neck were beginning to bulge.,
"No, I won't save you...you will now turn and become what you hate," Kun said as he kicked Stu's chest and pinned him to the ground with his leg. Around twenty seconds later, Stu had finished his transformation and had turned into a zombie.
It was strange that he had lasted this long. Perhaps a person's willpower can affect the rate of transformation, and when Stu found out that he had lost and caught, all of that willpower holding him on dispersed, and he gave in.
The truth was, Kun had no clue how to turn others like him, but even if he did, he would have never done a favour for someone like Stu. Kun just wanted to make sure that while Stu turned, he thought about his actions and the fact that he could have been saved if he hadn't acted so stupid and betrayed his own people.
"We don't need another zombie like you in this world," Kun said, lifting his leg and using all his strength to stomp on Stu's head, breaking the skull and killing him in one go. The man, the person who had caused all of this mess, was finally dealt with.
It was somewhat pathetic and scary at the same time that a single person could cause so much trouble. In a world where there was danger all around them, they still had to worry about other humans the most.
When looking around, Kun noticed that the horde of zombies was still there. They were still large in numbers, reaching close to a thousand. Now that there weren't anymore gunshots, it would mean the number wouldn't increase by too much.
However, with a group of hundred people, most of them being untrained, they would have to take out at least ten zombies per person.
'That will be impossible for them, and the others are still shooting even though Stu stopped. Hopefully, Brandon will notice it soon. He's a smart guy, he reminds me of Shark. Still, something needs to be done, or they'll all end up dying, and I don't really think Zain could care less if they survive or not.' Kun thought as he started to rack his brain and began to look around to see what or where exactly Zain was.
——
Zain had been swinging his sword nonstop. Ever since he had found out that the mutated zombies he killed would give him 20 exp, he had been rushing through them all.
The mutated zombies no longer posed a threat to Zain. He could take them out in a single swing with his sword skill. This was making his task easier, and slowly, seeing the exp go up, he could see how close he was to level up.
Using the system, he spotted another mutated Zombie and ran right towards them, thrust his sword in its head before it could do anything.
[+20 exp]
[9,713/17,721 exp]
'I am already past the half and have only been fighting for around fifteen minutes. Will there ever be a chance to get this sort of exp boost? This sure is fun.'
Zain's emotional senses had long dulled, but for the first time in a while, he felt alive as he looked at the exp increase rapidly. This reminded him of playing all those survival games when the world was normal.
That rush he had before was again here right now, only it was much more potent this time.
'But I need to get more.' Just then, Zain noticed a Spitter within the horde. He hadn't seen one in person for a while, but in a situation like this, where there was a horde around them, if the strange liquid was to get on him or anyone, it would worsen the situation.
However, Zain wasn't thinking too much about that and instead was just focused on the exp.
'I killed you in training in a child's body, with a weaker sword mastery at that time, so taking out something like you here is not going to be a big deal.'
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At the museum entrance staircase, the group had lost three people so far. One man was bitten on his shoulder before he could push the zombie away. It was an older gentleman, a father who had already lost his children but was too afraid of death to do anything.
It was in this battle that he had decided to offer himself up to protect against the horde in the hopes that the younger ones could live.
When he was bit, he knew it was his end, so instead of doing nothing, he ran forward, pushed the zombie off the staircase, and leapt, crashing himself and the zombie into others incoming from below.
A group of zombies seemed to swarm the man, choosing to eat him rather than let him turn.
The other two that perished faced a similar fate. They were a university couple, a young man and a woman. When the situation took a bad turn, the woman who was tired abandoned her partner.
He was eaten and bitten down before anyone could come to help, and while she was getting away, a zombie grabbed her leg and dragged her across the ground. It was only because of her partner in the first place that the zombies were unable to get to her.
However, these three were a small number of losses for what they had accomplished, but everyone knew that if this battle prolongs, more people would begin to give up and will begin to slip up more and more, and with every death, the pressure on the others would also increase.
That's when Brandon noticed something.
"Everyone, cease fire!" Brandon shouted.
He had been looking out on the field for a while now and observing the whole battlefield. Earlier, he had noticed there was no more flash of light or a bang heard in the distance. He had been keeping an eye and waited for a few minutes just in case.
'Did he do it? Did he really manage to stop Stu? Or did he just turn into one of those zombies?' Brandon thought. "Everyone, pick up your weapons. The shooting has stopped, this is the last of them."
Ryan, hearing this, smiled as he looked back at his people.
"If we can get through this, then we can survive!" Brandon shouted as he swung his baseball bat, killing one of the zombies on the platforms and went towards the end of the stairs to look at just how many zombies there were left. Still, the number was far higher than he imagined and truthfully, even he was finding it hard to stay positive in a situation like this.
That was until they heard gunfire once again. Several gunshots resounded a bit further and far off in the distance. The flashes were away from them, and the shots were getting further away.
The zombies towards the bottom, and even those on the stairs, were turning their heads.
Immediately, Ryan took this opportunity and turned to everyone putting his index fingers on his lips and alerting all the others to be quiet.
As the bangs continued, the noise began to attract the zombies, and they started to walk down the stairs. The few closer to the top could smell the humans and were still coming after them, but the numbers were far fewer.
"I think we were just saved." Brandon's words reached everyone's ear.
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Off in the distance, Kun had come up with a plan, he would make them go away the same way they were brought here. He didn't have to worry about getting bit, so running in another direction, he continued to fire and would split off from them and join the rest later.
At the same time, Zain could also tell the zombies around him were leaving. The Spitter was there on the ground, dead.
[11,713/17,721 exp]
[Quest has been completed]
[A gold card will now be rewarded]
'It looks like they made it.' Zain smiled. 'And I got another card.'
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