Nate's eye twitched a few times before his consciousness was restored.
Opening his eyes, Nate was greeted with a sight that he had long forgotten a long time ago.
"Ah...! Why does my head hurt?" Nate muttered, holding his aching head.
He was currently lying on the floor, with a cloth covered in blood all over his body.
Seeing this sight, for some reason, Nate was not disgusted like someone who sees blood on their body would be. Instead, it felt more natural to him.
But that was not the main concern here. The main thing was that the sitting room he was in now was somewhere he could never forget.
"Am I in some type of dream or what?"
"This place is my former house in the slum," Nate couldn't help but mutter under his breath.
It was just a room that barely fit the things inside it.
Looking around, Nate could see that the room looked like a fight had gone through it.
The refrigerator was stuck into the wall, with its handle on the ground.
Beside the refrigerator handle, lay a body with its head crushed like a tomato, making it difficult for Nate to recognize the owner of the body.
Regardless of that, Nate still found things a bit strange.
"But wait, am I not supposed to be in the game? Why am I here?" Nate's brain started to run wild, trying to make sense of what was happening.
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the zombie apocalypse game system.]
[Host status will be quickly presented.]
[Host status]
[Name: Nate Way]
[Age: 18]
[Race: Undead]
[Class: Zombie]
[Level: 0]
[Exp: 0/50]
[Horde members: 0]
[Strength: 5]
[Agility: 5]
[Endurance: 0]
[Intelligence: 0]
[Energy: 100/100]
"It says 'ZOMBIE GAME SYSTEM'."
'Wait... don't tell me this is the game I bought.'
"But how is it possible? Or is the game programmed specifically for me?" Nate still couldn't believe that this was the game he bought.
It was understandable, because not only did it not start with his family's life story, but it also felt more realistic. If not for the system message, Nate would never believe that he was inside a game, and even after seeing the message, he still had doubts in his mind.
Nate tried to get up but felt something on his chest.
"A knife?"
Nate noticed a knife stuck in his chest, but what amazed him was that he felt little to no pain at all. It was as if there was nothing stuck into his chest.
"Just what happened here?" Nate couldn't help but ask.
'This is a game, right? And based on the storyline, this might be me transmigrating into someone's body. Shouldn't I have some memory of the host?' thought Nate.
Although Nate loved playing games, he still did a few things besides playing games. One of them was programming games that were still related to games. But for him to program a game, he needed fantasy, which he got from reading novels and watching action movies. So he had an idea of what happens when someone gets transmigrated into someone's body.
Grabbing onto the knife, Nate pulled it out, and a river of blood spilled out from the spot where the knife was stuck.
Just then, something appeared in front of Nate's line of sight.
[First quest]
[Consume flesh in the next hour]
[Reward: Instant level up]
[Countdown starts now]
[59: one hour]
"Well, I still have some time."
"Let me go and check out the appearance of this host whose body I'm wearing."
With that thought in mind, Nate went straight upstairs.
When he stood up, he smelled the sweet smell of blood, but he ignored it and went upstairs.
The upstairs consisted of just two rooms.
Nate went directly to the room he and his brother usually used.
Inside the room, Nate found out that nothing had changed. The room was still as plain as it was before. No fancy design, just a bed that he shared with his brother and a bag of clothes in the opposite corner of the room.
The first thing Nate did was change his clothes, and then he took a look at himself in the mirror.
After seeing himself, Nate was left shocked.
My zombie game., [8/14/23, 8:28 AM]
"I have a really bulky body in this game. Such a cool thing!" Nate started flexing his muscles in the mirror until something appeared.
[10% energy remaining]
"What?"
Nate didn't understand why such things were happening until some thoughts popped into his mind.
"Low intelligence zombies can't stare at the mirror. How could I forget such a thing, even after playing the apocalypse game for so long?" Nate blamed himself as he quickly went downstairs to look for the flesh he saw earlier.
Nate found the dead body, and without wasting any time, he dug into the body and bit off a mouthful of flesh.
[Quest complete]
[Level one]
[Host has been granted two attribute points]
[100 exp = level two]
[Skill]
[Horde builder]
While the system was busy sending many notifications to Nate's interface, he was still busy enjoying the taste of the flesh.
But soon, he stopped feeling the sweet taste. It was replaced with a sour taste.
Nate couldn't help but spit it out.
"Why the sudden change in taste?"
But soon, he started to smell another sweet smell.
Nate followed it with his sense of smell and soon found the source of the smell.
Without even taking a look at what he was about to eat, just like the previous body, Nate dug into it, starting from its neck. But something strange happened.
[Host has successfully created its first horde member.]
"What the fuck is this?"
This time, Nate was able to notice the notification, because shortly after he bit down on the body emitting a sweet aroma to him, they all disappeared.