"But these last 3 missions are too much! I don't have enough strength to make a survival base right now and I don't think a year would be enough for that. Isn't the System asking for too much!!" Matt said as he looked at the last 3 missions
'Even if I become strong enough to lead a survival camp, it still won't be enough! Without Mike's ability to grow strong enough that he could create a wall from stone we won't be able to protect ourselves in the wild and not only him, Susan and Rose's ability should be strong enough that they could help him in maintaining and protecting the survival camp as well. Even if the rewards from the last 3 missions are good the missions themselves aren't that easy to complete' Matt thought as he stared at the rewards of the mission.
"Aaahhh... Dammit! Let's stop thinking about it and go to sleep, there is an important mission to complete" Matt said as he closed the system interface and once again went back to bed.
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Next Morning
Matt woke up at 4:30 am as he and Ethan had decided to leave for the Manhattan Mall at 5 am it was important for him to freshen and deal with other important business. One of which was to eat the two Level 0 zombie gems to increase his stats like before. He had to wait for 22 hrs after eating the zombie gems for the first time was so that he doesn't get affected by the zombie virus inside the gems. If a normal human eats a zombie gem he has to wait for 24 hrs to eat it again and similarly those above Soldier level will have to wait for less time to eat the zombie gems but the number of zombie gems they would have to eat to increase their strength will also vary.
A warrior will have to eat 4 levels 0 zombie gems to increase his stats by 1 point each while he would need to eat 2 levels 1 zombie gems to increase his stats by 2 points. Every increase in level has the same effect just as their stat increases by twice from their previous level their appetite also increases by twice that's why there weren't many humans with strength above Hero level as the number of gems they had to eat increased and the powerful zombies that could help them in exponential growl became intelligent and started to hide from humans hunting them. This ended when the Level 9 zombies led the siege at the humans' last sanctuary and due to their large numbers humans were easily beaten.
'This time even if those zombies don't come at me I myself will find them and slaughter them until no one is left' thought Matt then looked at his stats and decided to distribute the points equally.
[Status]
[Strength - 23]
[Agility - 22]
[Vitality - 21]
[Spirit - 34]
[Ability - Teleportation]
[Fighter Class - Soldier]
[Survival Point - 2]
After doing all of that Matt met Ethan in the hallway waiting for him.
"Let's go," Matt said and after making sure that no one was following them the two of them entered the Elevator.
Once reaching the ground floor they stepped out of the hotel in the parking lot of the hotel. the hotels parking area was on both the backside and front side of the hotel so after getting out of the parking lot they were on the main street the 34th street, getting out of the parking lot they took a turn to the right walking on the empty road avoiding the mass of zombies that were on the left side of the hotel.
After taking another right turn when they started to walk towards the backside of the hotel, Matt looked at the map once again after enlarging it only to stop dead in his tracks.
On the map, Matt saw another Green light other than the one right next to him which belonged to Ethan and the other green light behind them standing around the turn they just took.
Seeing the green light Matt became pissed as he turned his head and said "Didn't I told you to not follow me, Mike! Why the fuck are you here?"
Ethan also turned his head to look behind but there was no one and thought that Matt may be overthinking.
"I know you are standing behind the corner come out you Fu#*ing Idiot" cursed Matt.
Matt had made sure that no one was following him when he entered the elevator, hell Matt thought that no one had even woken up around that time but there was another person who not only woke up before them but the person was intelligent enough to come to the ground floor before them and hide on the ground floor so as to follow them later when they came to the ground floor.
Matt thought that it was Mike but when the person came out of the corner he was tongue-tied and couldn't speak at all.
Not only Matt but even Ethan was stunned when he saw the person who came out of the shadow.
"Why? Seriously why are you here?" asked Matt
"I thought since you were going to the Mall, I could tag along and find some other important things as well," said Chloe sheepishly while walking towards them and scratching her head.
"What tagging along? You were following us like a stalker and that too without a weapon! Don't you have any fear at all" asked Ethan in shock if not for the fact that they were outside and couldn't make noise he would have shouted at her?
Matt wanted to tell her to go back but he noticed 3 red dots walking towards their hotels street from the right most likely going towards the place where other zombies have gathered.
Matt grabbed Chloe's hand and hurriedly walked away from there followed by Ethan easily getting away from the 3 zombies. They entered the lane behind the hotel, the backside of the parking lot had an exit in this lane but it was locked so they couldn't enter inside.
"Matt! Are we really taking her with us? You didn't even allow Mike to come with us because of how dangerous it was wouldn't it be more dangerous for her?"