Based on his experience of killing Zombies for a day, Pati finds that only Walkers-type Zombies didn't drop anything whatsoever, other than that they always drop items. The Brawler, Runner, Heavy Walker, and Zombified Black Cat dropped him crystals that increase his stats.
The Brawler and Zombified Black Cat also dropped him parchment containing a skill.
Aside from the crystals and the old parchment containing a skill, they all also dropped the black coins that doesn't seem to be of any use until he saw the black-robed figure in the middle of the green light.
Call it his intuition, but the huge backpack behind this figure shows that the figure is somekind of a merchant or something. But to know that for sure Pati needs to go there and check it out.
"We need to get there, but it's better to be safe than sorry", Pati mutters.
Hearing this, Jeff looks down from the window and saw just outside of the university's gate lies many Zombies starting from Walkers to even other types of Zombies that looks even more menacing than the Zombies they fought.
Not only that, the distance to get to the green light is quite far if they're going there by walking.
Jeff then nodded his head in agreement seeing that they will not survive outside with the current strength they have. The Brawler is already monstrous enough, but the outside is way more dangerous.
Since the classroom window they're in is facing the north of the University, just beyond the gate is the main road that always hosts traffic before this apocalypse happened.
In front of the university's gate, just opposite the street is a supermarket.
Quite big actually for a supermarket, it's a spacious two-floor building. The second floor is used for the public to hang out, but for the students, that place is the Art Major students' turf. Well, let's say that it used to be the Art Major's turf.
Right now, half of the second floor is destroyed dumping the building in rubble.
There are about four Brawlers walking around the supermarket, and this itself shows how dangerous the outside of the university really is. Even one of the Brawlers is holding a power pole twice the size of its body.
With their current power, they would still find it hard to kill a Brawler much less four Brawlers.
"Let's take out all of the Zombies in the university first before starting to move, just to be safe", Pati mutters, even though they're safe staying here Pati knows that he needs to keep getting stronger to survive.
For someone to cramp inside a safe place, they will just be waiting for their impending doom.
'If the city has fallen to this state, then it's safe to assume that other places are also turned into ruin. I don't believe the Black Wind only happened here. So I need to get stronger, let's not be a sheep in this new world', Pati thought with a hint of determination.
Life for him before this sucks, getting bullied for his favorite food and also dressing like a nerd is just a regular day of his life. Even if he wanted to, it's already too late.
But within this new world, he's given the opportunity to start all over again.
Pati's eyes flash as he looks at the walking Zombies violently while clenching his jaw, 'The journey starts here, I will not become prey for the second time...'
Later that night,
After deciding to get stronger first before deciding to leave the university's ground, Pati decided to rest his body from the exhaustion he felt fighting those Zombies all day. With the 7300 Chaos in his pocket, Pati decided to increase his strength and agility first.
Ideally in a fight, he wanted to be fast to dodge the Zombies' attack and also strong enough to hurt or kill the Zombies. So he will need to focus on Strength and Agility stats to achieve that.
[Pati Sinaga]
Level: 6
Race: Human
Class: Brain Eater
Title: None
[Stats]
Health: 400 (100)
Insanity: 0 (-)
Chaos: 7300
Strength: 46 (10)
Agility: 39 (10)
Vitality: 23 (10)
[Skills Window]
Active: Hammer Fist Lvl 2, Leap Lvl 2
Passive: Zombie Mind (Max)
'Let's increase my strength to 70 points first, that should be enough to match the Brawler's strength', Pati thought before spending Chaos to increase his strength stat.
But after raising his strength stat by 4, a message from the system appears.
[You have reached 50 points in strength stat, the cost to increase strength stat has risen to 200 Chaos per point]
Upon reading this, Pati is not surprised.
Even from the first time he realized that Chaos can increase stats points, he already knows that eventually, this kind of thing will happen, 'I've played games before, this much is predictable', with that Pati spent 2400 Chaos to raise his strength stat to 70.
Pati then spent another 3100 Chaos to raise the agility stat to 70, and spend another 800 Chaos on the vitality stat. The rest of the Chaos will be reserved to use skills later.
After doing that, he tries to activate both of his skills to find out their Chaos costs.
Using his mind, Pati activates his Hammer Fist skill and feels his fists become hardened like a rock. He then follows by activating his Leap skill, and a light feeling instantly emerges in his legs.
Inspecting his status window, Pati finds that Hammer Fist and Leap skills use 40 and 25 Chaos respectively. Now his status window looks like this,
[Pati Sinaga]
Level: 6
Race: Human
Class: Brain Eater
Title: None
[Stats]
Health: 400 (100)
Insanity: 0 (-)
Chaos: 935
Strength: 70 (10)
Agility: 70 (10)
Vitality: 31 (10)
[Skills Window]
Active: Hammer Fist Lvl 2, Leap Lvl 2
Passive: Zombie Mind (Max)
From how the system works 70 points in strength and agility should mean that he's now seven times faster and stronger compared to normal humans, and that should already put him in the superhuman realm.
Pati can feel the power coursing inside his body and this brought a smile to his face, the feeling somewhat intoxicated him and he can't help but be excited.
After taking a satisfying nap, Pati opens his eyes before he sits down.
Looking at the dark sky through the window shows that it's already night, he then looks around and doesn't find Jeff anywhere, 'I hope he's leveling up, not going to those girls', Pati thought before standing up and stretching his body.
With the nap, he now feels even more refreshed but quite hungry.
'Should I check that fat Zombie inside the control room? It shouldn't be stronger than a Brawler right?', Pati thought rubbing his chin while trying to decide which brain to eat for dinner.
Deciding that he will try and fight the fat Zombie, Pati takes the butcher knife to the side.
Upon seeing the dent around the sharp edge of the butcher knife, Pati frowns as he only used it for a day and it's already reduced to this state, 'I need a new weapon...'
When he was about to exit the class in search of his dinner, the door suddenly opened.
Pati raises his eyes to look at the door and finds Jeff walking inside while touching his head, his face is pale and it seems he just finished hunting, "Yo, What's wrong?"
"I think I'm going to rest, I'm very dizzy", Jeff replied before sitting down on the floor.
Upon looking at this, Pati can't help but frown and approached him. The closer he got to Jeff the more his eyes widened, it was because Jeff is very pale almost as if he was sick and this made Pati stop in his tracks.
Although he doesn't want to be suspicious, the situation right now forces him to be suspicious.
"Jeff, don't tell me you got bitten or something... are you tuning into a Zombie?", Pati asks warily, the pale face and skin make it natural for him to be suspicious.
Hearing this, Jeff lazily raises his head, "I'm not bitten, I'm just dizzy and tired"
Even though Jeff tries to reassure Pati that he's not bitten, what he was saying is not helping at all. Slowly creeping closer, Pati inspects Jeff's body from two steps away fearing that he might suddenly jump at him.
But soon Pati finds that Jeff doesn't have any wounds or anything.
While still suspicious, Pati forcefully turns Jeff's body around. Feeling annoyed that Pati doesn't trust him, Jeff grunts lazily and lets himself get turned around. Upon inspecting Jeff's back, Pati doesn't find any wound that might indicate that Jeff is turning into a Zombie.
'Hmm... he really doesn't have any wounds. Maybe he's just sick', Pati thought.
Arching his back again while holding the butcher knife, Pati then shakes his head looking at Jeff who is already lying on the ground, "I'm heading out, if you turn into a Zombie make sure to get out of the classroom"
"Man, fuck you", Jeff replied weakly, but this brought ease to Pati a bit.
The fact that Jeff still acts like he used to makes him even more sure that Jeff is just sick, and with that Pati then heads out of the classroom to find himself some dinner.
A moment later,
While on the way to the sixth floor, Pati didn't find any Zombies at all.
All he can see is an occasional Walker's corpse lying on the ground. Jeff just finished his hunt so he might clear out the Zombies in the university or at least the upper floors, so Pati decided to go straight to the control room on the sixth floor.
Upon arriving in front of the room, Pati finds that the door is still in place just like before.
'That Zombie should still be inside', he thought seeing that there are no signs of the Zombie breaking out. It shouldn't have the capacity to open the door so it should still be inside', Pati thought before he tensed his body.
Gripping the butcher knife tightly in his hand, Pati then reaches for the door handle.
Slowly turning the handle door trying to not make much noise, the door then makes a light clicking sound and opened slightly. Pati peeks inside the room but he frowns when he didn't find the fat Zombie sitting on the seat in front of the monitors.
It should be still inside the room, so Pati opens the door wider trying to search for the fat Zombie carefully.
Looking left and right carefully, Pati finds nothing inside the control room.
Pati then steps lightly into the control room, the floor is made of wood so it's hard to not make a noise when stepping, 'Where is it? There's no way that it can open a door right?', no matter how much he tries to convince himself, the truth is the fat Zombie is not here.
The office chair in front of the monitors is empty, with no sign of the fat Zombie.
After finding that there is no Zombie inside the control room, Pati frowns before he finally decided to sit on the office chair. With the monitors connected to the CCTVs around the university, he can search for Walkers or even other Zombies that he can hunt.
"Hmm... there are no Zombies on the upper floors. There are a couple on the fourth floor"
Putting his hand on the mouse and started traversing through the monitors, Pati started to make a destination list in his head so he can hunt Zombies.
Soon his eyes landed on the CCTVs on the second floor,
"Oh! There are two Brawlers there! Let's see how much I fare against the Brawlers now with the stats I have", Pati thought out loud before taking the butcher knife and intending to leave.
But as soon as he stands up, he suddenly felt something land on his shoulder.
Tap!
Pati looks at his shoulder before he finds a green gooey thing on his shoulder, he frowns upon seeing this but then another droplet of the green goo landed on his shoulder.
The droplets of green goo filled his nostrils with miasma.
Upon realizing what these droplets of green goo are, Pati's body freezes in surprise. The ominous feeling started to down on him coming from above, he unconsciously gripped the butcher knife tightly in his hand.
'You've got to be kidding me, it's above me all this time...'