Year 2099, Apocalypse year 80…
By this year, mankind has long ceased to exist…
In a place that can only be called a land of the dead...
Mountains of corpses decorated everywhere. Corpses of creatures that seemingly came out from some kind of fiction novel; Insidious looking demonic beings that looked like something that you could see from ancient books and scriptures, alien-like creatures that looks like the universe's fiercest predators like those on Sci-Fi movies, gigantic corpses of beings as big as small mountains, and many more.
On the surrounding distance of the death land, many flying and crawling creatures of various sizes could be seen frantically coming to the area. Like hungry demons seeing food for the first time in years.
At the center of the place, is a ruined temple that looks completely out of place; broken and cracked yet still emits an ancient and sacred aura, majestic and holy. All the creatures seem to be gunning for the temple, like their lives are on the line.
As the creatures came near the temple and started fighting chaotically with each other, a huge beam of light came from the top of temple that seems to pierce the high heavens...
Blinding light then came from the sky that seems to purify the world that turned into the land of death.
During that moment… someone in there was filled with boundless determination.
'I will do it right… no matter what it takes!'
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Painful!
How Painful!
A painful headache, a headache that seems to split his brain… like being stabbed by a giant fork, then being thrust by it back and forth, is what he is currently feeling. The head-splitting headache then seems to evolve even further and turned into something that seems to split his soul, like the one holding the fork on the previous back and forth motion suddenly did a skillful maneuver and did a forceful twist that seemed to hit all the spots that enhanced the pain several times, even alternating between clockwise and counter-clockwise motion. Soon any further and he felt like his head would explode.
Because of the soul-stirring headache, all his senses are currently numbed which makes him really anxious. A single moment to him can be really fatal, and to think that he couldn't muster the ability to even check his surroundings already for a good amount of time. He felt so vulnerable, he didn't know when was the last time he had these feeling.
After a few seconds of suffering that somehow felt like years, the soul-splitting headache started to lessen, albeit somewhat still painful.
'!? Did I succeed?!'
Checking his body, he realized that because of the pain, both his hands are now on his head roughly. As the painful headache subsided, the feeling of pain with a hint of relaxing pleasure slowly replaced the sensation. Realizing this, he put his left hand down, and used his right hand to massage his head gently. Touching his temples, he could feel that his head is currently burning hot.
As the pain continues to subside, he's starting to recover more of his senses.
"Haha, did you hear?! It seems like there is an animated show about zombies performing as idols and it is now trending on the web"
"Really?" "Heh that was last year, the current trend this season was about a group of zombie girls exploring what's under Bermuda triangle and fighting against a megalodon"
"Blearg~, zombie this, zombie that... why don't you all go die and revive as zombies?"
"Hahaha" "Haha" …
Gaining clarity, he could hear some people talking and laughing. And from the sound of it, the people talking should be on the mid-late teenage years. He slowly opened his eyes to take a look around the surroundings.
Several teenagers wearing black uniforms with somewhat familiar faces... Moving his sight in front of the room, there exist a blackboard that gave him a feeling of familiarity; excluding the huge words 'SELF STUDY!!!' written on the center, doodles filled the blackboard everywhere; clumsy drawings of animals, cartoonish drawings of male reproductive organ, and lifelike drawings of sexy females. On the far top right corner of the board, his name 'Ray' could be seen as one with four others, with the words 'cleaners of the day' written above it. A date is also written below their names 'Jan 7, 2019'.
Taking everything in, he now knew exactly where he is... The same classroom and classmates he had 80 years ago… Room 3-4, the room assigned for year 3 class-4 of St. Mary's High School, City 2 of Region B of Country X.
Checking his face using the reflection of the screen of the smartphone he found on his pockets, he could see the young face of a mixed-blooded teenager with black hair. He checked again the faces of the other teenagers, and each second, he would remember a bit about them. How long has it been? How long has it been since he last seen a human alive, he thought to himself. He succeeded.
'I'm back'
Ray then checks the current time by looking at the wall clock above the black board.
2:59 pm
Seeing the current time, bad feeling suddenly swept him as memories about the start of the apocalypse filled Ray's mind, "January 7, 2019. 2:59 pm". A frown formed between his brows for he knows what's coming.
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[You have been chosen]
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[Pick between the two]
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[Lvl1 Common Iron kitchen knife] - sharp weapon / [Lvl1 Common Wooden Bat] - blunt weapon
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Hearing the familiar mysterious voice, and seeing the words that appeared like that of a game's, it confirmed his speculation.
'The apocalypse'
'It begins now'
As Ray postponed picking for a weapon, he turned his head around to check his classmate's reaction.
"What!" "Hell yeah! Hey everyone look at this!" "Did you also hear the voice?!"
"Wow cool!" "What's happening?!" "Am I dreaming?! What's this?!"…
His classmates has varying reactions, some were excited and are showing off the items they received, some confused, some scared. The class began to become noisy and chaotic because of the mysterious phenomenon… listening carefully, the other classes nearby seems not to differ.
But then, a commotion suddenly started on the left side of the class.
"DIE!!!" "ghH!!!" "DIE!" "DIE!" "DIE!!!"
"Hey!!! The fuck are you doing!" "Stop!!!" "Oy! Hold them off!!!"
Bang!
"What are you doing you nutjob?!"
"Fuck! You Sicko!!!" "Ronald is dead!" "Kill that fucker!!!"
Bang!
"Agh! Fuck, fucker got me"
"Kya!" "Mommy!" "Someone call a teacher!" "Call the police!"
"Damn you fucking loser!"
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!!!
"Stop! He will die!" "Fuck! That fucker stabbed me!" "Help, I'm bleeding"
Turning his head at the left side, Ray saw what's happening.
'I remember this scene'
Ray remembered what happened for he caught the scene on the act on his past life. His classmate, someone named Eric suddenly started stabbing Ronald, another classmate who was seated on Eric's front as revenge. Eric seems to have built a lot of grievance from Ronald's frequent bullying. In executing his vengeance out of nowhere; Eric manages to stab Ronald to death and critically injured one of Ronald's friends.
When Eric stabbed Ronald's throat out of the blue, Ronald's friends were too shocked to register what happened on their minds, and by the time that they did, Eric was already stabbing Ronald's chest repeatedly. Seeing Eric looking like someone possessed by a demon, one of Ronald's friends smashed Eric's shoulder with a bat then tried pushing him away from Ronald, but doing so earned him a stab in the process, the last friend of Ronald then started to smash Eric's head repeatedly with a bat when Eric was pushed out of balance. Ronald was very unlucky, he's death was so fast that the only thing that he could do was hold his throat for a moment trying to hold the blood off, though still futile in the end.
Looking at Ronald who got stabbed first to death, he is now currently sitting lifelessly on his chair with his bloody hands left hanging down. His bloody head from vomiting blood like a fountain on his face was looking at the ceiling with his bloodshot eyes still emulating the pain he suffered. There was a huge cut on his throat where blood seems to fall like a waterfall, many stab wounds are present on his chest area telling the people how much hate he garnered from Eric.
In front of Ronald, is Jake, currently sitting on the ground with his back leaning on the chair in front, Jake is currently with a pained expression as he's trying to hold his stomach as an attempt to stop the blood from flowing out of a knife wound where Eric manages to stab him one time.
On the other hand, Hummer, the last of Ronald's friend is completely unhurt. Looking at Hummer, who was now on tears because of the death of his friend, he is currently holding a bloody bat. On the floor in front of him is the body of Eric, and because of being repeatedly smashed, his head was now cracked open, decorating the floor with blood and brain matter.
Because of bloody event, a few of the girls on the class have already lost consciousness, while some run outside. Because of the noisy commotion, some people from other classes entered the room to look up what's the commotion is about.
The trio, Ronald, Jake, and Hummer are notorious bullies throughout the whole school. They were the type who bully the weak and fear the strong. Ray too, was once been targeted during elementary by them, though the bullying prematurely ended due to them being knocked out by Ray.
Remembering the cause of being bullied once, Ray remembered his past. He used to live in an orphanage; he doesn't know anything about his biological parents except that he had a nametag which probably came from them that has the name Ray written on it when he was picked up on the trash near the orphanage.
Remembering his adopted grandmother, Ray felt sadness again, an emotion that he'd long since forgotten. But he shook this off immediately and put his mind on the scene to the side again, for he knew that during the apocalypse, the dead would return.
During the apocalypse, a kind of virus that would turn the dead into walking corpses has been born. During the first 3 days of the apocalypse in particular, the zombie virus named z-virus would be on its first stage, a strong airborne virus.
Those with exposed open wounds would be attacked by the z-virus slowly until infected and the dead would become man-eating zombies. Those with low immunity in particular would be infected even without wounds; the lower the immunity the faster the infection and the higher the chance to undergo a secondary mutation, in fact it was said that 99% of those with HIV died during the first five minutes of the apocalypse and have undergone a secondary mutation named h-mutation, a mutation that enables regular zombies to run.
The first 3 days of the apocalypse would have these 2 kinds of zombies, the normal slow moving zombies with the original z-virus, and the running Type H1 zombies with the 1st kind of the 2nd mutation, h-virus.
Boom!
At that moment, a loud explosion in a far distance was heard from the outside. All of the people's attentions in the classroom were grabbed by the explosion making them look on the windows. And as they were being distracted by the outside… they didn't realize that the dead Ronald's fingers began twitching.
The current room was located on the 3rd floor of the St. Mary's High school where the senior's class are held so looking outside they could see the city on a wide scope.
"No way" "Terrorist attack?" "Holy shit" "Damn"
"Wow, It's like hell we're on hell or something" …
Looking outside, there were buildings that were on fire; Because the sun is still shining brightly, they couldn't see the fires clearly, but looking up from a high ground, they could see smokes rising from everywhere, in particular, there was already a whole street where they could see the fire clearly for it has spread on tens of buildings, looking like a scene from hell. Most of the people in the classroom have families that were on the city so many of them began to get worried and started making calls. But they soon stop what they were trying to do for a loud shout suddenly reverberated on the room.
"AHH! Fuck!"
Looking at the place where the shout came from, everyone could see the supposedly dead Ronald standing with a bloody mouth eating something, on the side a good chunk of Hummer's left shoulder is currently missing, with blood gushing out.
Hummer caught in surprise by the bite, shouted in agony which attracted the people and smashed Ronald's head with the bat.
Bang!
"What the fuck!" "He got bit!" "No way!" "It's just like a-"
"ZOMBIE!" "Fuck, RUN!"
"KYAAA!!!" "Out of the way!" "Fuck Off!!!"
As everyone ran outside the room, it became so chaotic that some of the students got injured from being side-tracked, a few even slipped and got trampled on the way. And because many of them where holding knives and bats, the situation soon turned bloody, leaving some injured people on the floor outside, some seems to be unmoving, probably unconscious or dead.
Now as the people left, what's left on the room excluding the corpses are the 4 unconscious girls, 2 wounded guys (Jake and Hummer), one sleeping girl, and Ray.
Shaking his head at the chaos, Ray turned his head to look at the bitten hummer which was standing dazedly at the side. As Hummer felt the room become silent, hummer turned his head to look around and saw Ray looking at him coldly on his seat. As Hummer shivered, a loud voice started speaking from the announcement speakers installed on the classroom.
(Attention! This is Student Council President Erika Mayers! To all students and staff! Violence has broken out throughout the campus! Please evacuate according to your teacher's instructions! I repeat -)
Ignoring the voice on the intercom, Ray stood up and chose the iron kitchen knife on the system panel. Blue light shone on his right hand as an iron knife began appearing. As Ray gripped the knife on his hand tightly, the air in the room turned colder.
Seeing Ray holding a knife, Hummer started shivering. He was already sweating a lot, like he was on fever. Excluding the agonizing pain, he could already feel something spreading on him from his wounded arm that's currently making his blood colder. Now seeing Ray look at him with a look foreign to him; he began to feel several times even colder. Right now, Hummer couldn't feel the arm that was bit by the zombie Ronald, together with the fever that seems to get worse every second that passed, he doesn't know what is happening to him, he doesn't want to know either. Not knowing what will happen to his self, not even knowing what to think or do in this situation, fear crept into his heart, and looking at Ray whom he knew was stronger than him, he began being scared whether Ray would kill him like he just did to Eric.
But despite feeling really afraid, Hummer took his courage to look at Ray and said with mixed fear and pleading. "I won't turn"
As Ray looked at Hummer which was now starting to walk slowly towards the nearest unconscious girl, something happened.
The sleeping girl in the front of Ray's seat suddenly turned up and leaps at Ray like a leopard. Shockingly, unlike the slow moving zombie Ronald, this girl moved even faster than your average girl. But as if already anticipating the attack, Ray swung his right hand and stabbed the side of the girl's skull penetrating the knife straight into her brain. The force of the stab threw the girl on the side and as Ray remove the knife on her head, blood sprayed beautifully on the floor.
As the sound of the zombie girl's fall sounded in the room, words appeared in Ray's mind together with his body feeling a little warmer.
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[Lvl1 Type H1-Zombie killed… Received 10 exp and 1 lvl 1 black box]
[Lvl up! Lvl 0 -> Lvl 1!... Received 2 stat points and 1 skill point]
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[Unlocked skill/s!]
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[Lvl1: Storage Box]
[Lvl1: Inspection]
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