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Saturday 16.08.2024 12:38 pm
"crash"
"gul" "gul" "gul"
"Ahhh, that's better" - I sighed, finishing my Coca-Cola. I emptied the snack machine and threw them into my inventory. Luckily, I wouldn't run out of food for the next few days.
"Now it's time to get some points" - I need to get weapons and skills that will allow me to find my family.
"I will definitely buy a pistol and a silencer at the beginning" - for that alone I will have to pay 27 AP. 10 AP for the pistol, 15 AP for the silencer and 2 AP for a magazine with ammunition. I also have to buy a skill. Firearms proficiency or accuracy will be the most useful. If I want to buy two at once, it will cost me a total of 47 AP.
[Name: Mark Storm]
[Age: 18]
[Race: Human]
[Shop] [AP: 5]
[Skills:]
[1: None]
[2: None]
[3: None]
[Inventory]
"Heh, my humble 5 AP" I muttered mockingly, looking at my points. Assuming that I still had to kill 52 more zombies, I started to create a plan. I planned to use windshield washer fluid. Since the floor in the hallway is tiled, it should be very slippery after pouring the fluid, so the zombies with their awkward movements should easily slip.
I approached the first corpse I killed and began to remove his shoes and socks. Someone might ask me what I was doing? Let me explain, zombies aren't the only ones prone to slipping. So am I. I put socks on my shoes to increase friction. I don't want the saying 'He who digs holes under someone else, falls into them' to be true. Of course, we use this saying in other situations, but honestly, I think it could work here.
I'll also take the clothes off the corpses. I'll set them up so they stop the liquid from spreading. It might not be 100% effective, but it's always good to have a safe zone or at least a way to escape. Taking clothes off the zombies wasn't pleasant at all. Most of their clothes smelled rotten and were full of blood and saliva stains.
"I wonder what causes the infection to develop" - I have watched and read hundreds of works on the subject of the zombie apocalypse. There were many scenarios but the one that fit best was where every person has a zombie virus inside them and is simply dormant. There are 3 options for activating the virus causing infection of the entire body, i.e. turning into a zombie.
The first is inoculation route, which is exposure to infected blood or other infectious material through a tissue break (in short, blood, skin tissue, saliva, etc. enters your bloodstream through a wound). This is the most common scenario.
The second option could be direct contact, in short it spreads through sexual or vertical contact. I don't know about sex (I definitely won't try) but there is no chance that the virus spreads vertically because it involves passing the disease from mother to child during pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding.
The third and worst option is droplet transmission. Droplet transmission involves the virus spreading through secretions from our mouths. The simplest example is when you sneeze or cough, when secretions come out of your mouth. They are practically invisible because the drops are so small that we often cannot see them with the naked eye.
If the virus activator is transmitted through droplets, then we are totally screwed. Basically, humanity will not survive for several months. Only those who escape from all creatures that secrete secretions will survive.
"Let's start hunting" - back to priorities. I took zombie clothes and spread them a meter in front of the bathroom entrance. When I can't handle the approaching zombies I'll just run to the bathroom. Unfortunately in such a situation my whole plan will go to hell so I hope everything will go according to plan.
"We'll drip a little here, here too, a few liters here and the cherry on the cake here haha" - looking at the entire wet floor from the shop door to my clothes barrier a smile appeared on my face. I used 35 liters of windshield washer fluid for this piece.
"Ehhh finally time to call the team.." - I thought looking at everything I had prepared. Additionally, I hid the bodies of the dead in the inventory so that just in case a zombie approaches me and tries to bite me, I could use them as a shield.
"Let the massacre begin" I put on a determined face as I slowly walked towards the shop door.
"fffoooo"
"shooo"
Taking a deep breath I opened the door, prepared for any unexpected attack. As I thought, the slight noise the door made alerted more than one zombie that began to approach. I took a few steps back to give myself some space to fight. The first zombie to approach was a large black guy. He was over 200cm/7 feet tall and probably weighed over 120kg/264.554 lbs. I took a big swing to take him down on the first try.
"shooo"
"huk"
[You have gained 1 Apocalypse Point]
This time I hit the side of the temple perfectly, quickly killing the zombie despite its large size. It fell perfectly into the door frame. Each next zombie that goes through it will have to put in more effort and therefore time. Unfortunately, zombies are not so stupid that they fall over each other and cannot get up like turtles lying on their shells. But this small period of time was enough for me to defeat the next 2 zombies.
[You have gained 2 Apocalypse Point]
"This is how AP farming should look like" - The more zombies started to fall to the ground, the easier it was for me to deal with them. I didn't kill them all with a single shot, but the more corpses there were on the ground, the harder it was for them to get close to me. The wet floor didn't help them at all. There were already two situations when zombies quickly went over their own bodies, but fortunately they slipped when going down.
"I think I'm lucky today" - I hope it wasn't my luck but a good plan. If it was the other way around I would have a hard future because luck wasn't always with me. 20 minutes later I managed to clean the entire store.
"Now this system is starting to look something better this" - I said quite loudly as if I was trying to brag to someone. And my account balance looked like this:
[Name: Mark Storm]
[Age: 18]
[Race: Human]
[Shop] [AP: 43]
[Skills:]
[1: None]
[2: None]
[3: None]
[Inventory]
There were many more zombies in the store than I expected. Looking at the corpses lying on the ground, my heart bled. More than half of the corpses were teenagers my age and younger. I even had to kill a few children who were not even 8 years old. Even though I knew they were no longer human, it was still hard for me to hit a child. I was never a great fighter, but I took certain words to heart. 'Don't let yourself be pushed around, if someone is bullying you, you have to show them that you are not afraid of them and they should be afraid of provoking you'
Because of my obesity in elementary school, kids would always make fun of me or try to bully me. At first I didn't try to defend myself but when it started getting more intense I snapped and hit back. It ended with them continuing to try to insult me. But they never tried to physically bully me again. Because of that I started going to the gym as soon as I could. At first it was supposed to be because of the girls but when I started seeing the results of my work and also learned that it takes more than just a good figure to get a girl I started doing it for fun.
[AP: 43]
*Today we got to know our mc a little better, as well as his past and experiences. If you are or have been in a situation where someone has bullied or abused you, remember. It's better to get hit in the face once than all the time (If some old-fashioned parent read this, they'd probably hate me XD)*
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