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Chapter 16 - Real Survivors

'If eating 20 Walkers gave me that much stats, then how about Brawlers...?'

'Runner...'

'Or all the other Zombies, how much stats will I get from them?'

Pati started to drool over the thought that his brain eater class will make him stronger very fast if every 20 Zombies' brains of the same kind gave the same effect, if Walkers gave him 20 strength and vitality then who knows how many stats he will gain from stronger Zombies.

As long as he keeps eating their brains then he will without a doubt become stronger, but then Pati shakes his head after getting too into his thought.

Now that his plastic bag is already full, he needs to digest it first and gain their Chaos.

In just almost two days his stats raised from a single digit to almost reaching the three-digit mark, but it's hard to say if that is considered fast compared to the survivors out there that are hit by this apocalypse harder than him.

For the apocalypse to happen in the middle of the night, the casualties must be catastrophic.

Pati and even the others that are inside the protection of the university are very lucky considering there are hardly any people in the university or even animals, but calm water never birthed a strong warrior.

To be able to survive in this setting, Pati knew that he needs to dwell outside of the university.

After turning his body around Pati headed back to the university feeling curious if the guy and the brown-haired girl manage to kill the Walkers, if they did then he will let them stay with him temporarily until they find a safe place.

Since the front part of the university also hosts a parking lot, the distance between the gate and the entrance is a one or two-minute walk. About a dozen cars are still here, mostly they are the university's property.

While walking back to the university building, Pati looks down on the asphalt.

Usually, prior to the apocalypse, he would exactly walk through this exact route after getting down from the bus in front of the gate. He still remembers the laziness and pressure he felt every time he headed to the entrance.

It's all because of the mocking he receives daily from the students of his class, but now all of that has been destroyed by the Zombies. This is the second day of the apocalypse.

Everything will not be back to usual anymore, the world has turned into hell.

Pati walks past a black sedan car while holding the plastic bag in his left hand, he's walking leisurely toward the entrance. The night air is breezing his skin with coldness, he then rubs his left arm trying to make it warmer.

With hurried steps, he reaches the front entrance of the university's building before stopping.

The stop is rather sudden and that is because his body suddenly tensed, it's not because of the cold air of the night that pierces his skin. But it's because of something else,

Something that is standing just in front of the front entrance, and it's not a human.

Why does Pati instantly recognize this figure as not a human?

Well, that is because the figure that seems to be once a woman wearing a black t-shirt that is already torn and jeans have a pair of green glowing eyes in the dark. That's not all, this Zombie woman has an unnaturally hanging low jaw with a long sticky tongue.

Because of the darkness of the night, Pati can only see the woman's entire body in shadow.

Everything about her is only a silhouette of blackness except for its glowing green eyes, and unconsciously Pati let go of the plastic bag alert by the sudden appearance of this thing.

"I have never seen this one, it's a different Zombie", Pati mutters with a frown.

The way this Zombie woman is standing still with eyes fixated on Pati makes the situation even more uneasy and disturbing, it's just standing there blocking the front entrance creepily.

Just from a glance, this Zombie must be very strong, at least as strong as the Brawler.

Pati clicks his tongue in displeasure as his expression turns serious, he doesn't have a weapon that he can use and this one has claws. The other Zombies he fought don't have claws, getting scratched by them is unlikely.

The walkers are very slow, Runner is fast but he manages to beat it easily without a scratch, Brawler fight with a fist so it's safe, while the Acidic Fatso uses green acid to fight.

Out of all of them, none pose a significant threat of scratching him.

Even so, he still needs to be careful fighting those Zombies lest he turned into one of them, but this one has claws that will definitely be able to scratch him easily. Without a weapon, Pati needs to not fight this Zombie.

Looking around the place, Pati slowly devises a plan to run away.

But it's almost like an instinct just like the Acidic Fatso did earlier, this Zombie woman attack first using its tongue as a whip. Pati widens his eyes seeing that the tongue's movement is very fast.

With the addition of the earlier brain eater class effect, his agility stat lies on a solid 92 points.

This means that he has speed 9 times than a normal person before the apocalypse, and even then he almost got lashed by the sticky long tongue. From this alone, it's clear that this Zombie woman is stronger and faster than any other Zombies he has fought.

Crash!

Pati looks to the side seeing one of the concrete pillars got destroyed.

Just from a whip of the sticky long tongue of the Zombie woman, a concrete that is at least one meter thick got destroyed just like that. It's a tongue! But it's freaking rock hard!

Clenching his jaw, he then looks back at the Zombie woman and doesn't find it anywhere.

Feeling an essential crisis building up in the situation he's in, Pati looks around trying to search for the Zombie woman. He then looks up and saw the Zombie woman crawling like a spider on the roof of the front entrance.

With a roar that doesn't resemble a human's voice at all, the Zombie woman lunged at him.

In the tension of a battle, Pati opens his status window and pours 1600 Chaos into his agility stat raising it to 100 points. He feels a surge of energy inside of his body right after he did that.

Using the Leap skill, he dodges the Zombie woman that tries to claw him.

Swish!

Pati looks at the wall that got scratched by the Zombie woman and finds four claw marks that are steaming, this alone indicates that one claw attack might just be the end of his life. He needs to be very careful fighting this one.

Looking at the front entrance that is now cleared, he makes a dash for it.

With his 100 points in agility stat, his legs explode with power that even surprises himself. Even though he had such speed he never tried to exert himself to the fullest extent, there's no need for him to do that since the Zombies are relatively slow.

But now that he met his match in terms of speed, he just realized how fast he truly is.

If he were to have this kind of speed prior to the apocalypse, even the fastest man in the world will be able to see the dust from his feet. He would completely obliterate him.

Even now, the hundred feet gap was closed in less than a second.

Pati's eyes widen in excitement but he can feel something ominous approaching his back, and trusting his guts he immediately ducked before the Zombie woman flew past him. Its speed is still even faster!

'Shit! I can't fucking die like this!', he cursed inside his head seeing the pair of green eyes.

While the Zombie woman turns around slowly, Pati saw a slight smirk appear on the Zombie woman's face which surprises him, 'I must be insane, there's no way it smirks right?', Pati thought blinking his eyes a couple of times.

Shortly, the Zombie woman makes a move again.

It's been a couple of minutes since Pati and the Zombie woman play cat and mouse, Pati being the mouse while the Zombie woman is the cat trying to catch him. No matter how much Pati tries, he can't escape the Zombie woman's pursuit.

Having to dodge the Zombie woman's attack while searching for a window to escape, Pati's stamina slowly got sapped making him breathe heavily taking a deep breath at a time.

On the contrary, the Zombie woman doesn't really seem to be tired.

Since Zombie is basically Undead that has different structures or that defy normal person's logic, they seem to have endless stamina judging from the Zombie woman right now that is still the same as before.

Or perhaps they still have stamina but just a ton more than a regular person.

Either way, Pati doesn't find an opening to escape or even counter-attack because of how nimble this Zombie woman is. With tired eyes, Pati fixated his eyes on the Zombie woman.

But then his eyes widen seeing the Zombie woman smirk but this time it's clearer.

'What the hell is going on?! It really did smirks at me!', Pati exclaimed inside his head, but out of nowhere, he feels something grab his leg. Looking down, he found the Zombie woman's tongue already wrapped on his leg.

Pati wanted to stomp on it but his leg got pulled instead,

Brak!

"Shit!", he cursed out loud as he falls to the ground, his eyes then dilated seeing the Zombie woman is already above him intending to give a final blow. Without having no other choice, Pati charges his Hammer Fist skill to fend off the Zombie woman.

Just as his arms turns rock solid, a shadow flew past him before hitting the Zombie woman.

Crash!

Upon looking at the Zombie woman that got blown away crashing to the wall near the front entrance, Pati sits back up before he saw a man showing his back to him. There is an air of absolute power around this man.

This man has dyed light turquoise hair that is tied into a ponytail.

Aside from the eye-catching color of the man's hair, the man is wearing a tight leather jacket that boasts his muscular frame while holding a charcoal black sharp black sword in a reverse grip.

Looking over his shoulder, the man made eye contact with Pati.

Pati finds the man is also wearing a black mask perfecting his ninja-themed look, "Are you scratched? If you are then just tell me, I will grant you a swift death", the man said with a muffled voice because of the black mask.

Hearing this, Pati blinks his eyes a couple of times.

But before he can even reply, the man already looks back to the front seeing that the Zombie woman is already up on its feet. Its green devious eyes are glaring at the man before it lets out a mighty roar with its tongue dancing in front of it.

The man scoffed before he lower his stance putting the sword in front of him.

Under Pati's gaze, the man's body started glowing with subtle turquoise energy before in the next split second the man closed the distance in the blink of an eye. It surprises Pati to find that the man is way faster than him.

Even the Zombie woman was caught off guard by the man's speed, it's terrifying.

In retaliation, the Zombie woman tries to whip the man that is already on the side with its sticky long tongue. The man then swings his sword before the sticky long tongue got cut into a dozen pieces instantly.

Roar!

Looking at the man fighting the Zombie woman, Pati feels like he's watching a movie.

Not just because the man's movement is precise and strong, but they were like a symphony of experience and art at the same time. The man didn't stop, he rotate his waist and stab the Zombie woman right on her neck.

But since Zombies doesn't feel pain, the Zombie woman tries to scratch him.

Just like before, the man with his insane speed manages to dodge it easily by jumping away and landing in front of Pati again. Shortly after that, Pati finds that the turquoise energy on the man's body spread to his sword.

After the sword got cloaked completely, the man then slash the air.

Under Pati's surprise gaze, the sword sends a turquoise color energy slash that blitzes past the Zombie woman in less than a second. The Zombie woman's body becomes stiff and unmoving.

The man waves his sword beautifully before slowly unsheathing the sword.

Right after he did that, the Zombie woman's body got split into two before sliding to the ground. Just like that the Zombie woman that give Pati some trouble got killed.

'Strong... he's damn strong', Pati thought in surprise.

Without wasting any time, the man then took the items dropped by the Zombie woman. Roughly Pati finds there is a green crystal that is more vibrant, more than five black coins, and other things that he can't quite see.

After taking the items, the man approaches Pati again.

The man stopped right in front of Pati looking down with his cold eyes, he then grabs the hilt of his sword before Pati widen his eyes, "Wait! I'm not scratched by that thing!"

Hearing this, the man stopped.

Giving Pati a look for a moment, the man then dashes away jumping over the university fence easily before disappearing. The man comes and goes as he pleases, he's strong so he can do that.

Just from this alone Pati finds his thought before is true,

The people outside in the open who survived are all very strong people. With how the situation outside looks, what Pati thought should be true and the man just confirms that from how easy he killed the Zombie woman.

Real survivors of the apocalypse.

Even Pati himself is not sure if he will be able to survive out there, probably not. But then Pati looks back at the Zombie woman's corpse that is already surrounded by a puddle of blood.

Soon the corner of his mouth quirks up into a smile.

After looking at the Zombie woman's corpse, Pati then looks back in the direction where the man had just left, 'You're strong, losing a few Chaos is not a problem right?'