《I Can Respawn In The Apocalypse》 Chapter 1: Im back The moment I regained consciousness I heard this sound that is quite hard to describe, there is also this shaking in my surroundings and I started to feel light headed. The moment when I opened my eyes I found myself seated on a plane. In front of me I see a seat with a tray attached to it. When I look around me I see a beautiful Asian lady who is on her phone taking pictures of the scenery outside the window. My eyes widen because of the deja vu. I can''t believe it because the last thing that I remembered was just fighting against the god of plague, the God of plague is Tier 9 super Zombie that had the Skill Gluttony. It was the strongest Zombie on the Planet after the Apocalypse. The Zombie was able to steal the skills from the ones he ate. Although there were limitations such as the probability to obtain a skill from his prey. Also the amount of skills he could obtain. But despite that After becoming Tier 9 he had Hundreds of Skills at his disposal. While fighting against the monstrosity I was actually the first one that dealt real damage to him. But I was also the first within the Top 10 in humanity that was defeated. Although I was defeated I survived and witnessed the whole fight from start to finish. But you couldn''t even consider what I witness as a fight, it was more like an all out slaughter. The Zombie God of Plague had hundreds of skills and among them he had plenty of Recovery Skills. The skills he used the most was Life Drain. As long as he drank a beings blood he would Recover at a super fast pace. That was a skill of the Vampire Race. But after the Zombie Lord Consumed all of the Vampires he got the skill. The last 100 experts of humanity banded together trying to rid the world of the strongest Zombie in Despair because the Zombie had already left the humans no path for escape in the Apocalypse World. But instead of slaying the monster we didn''t even deal much damage. The strongest Zombie was such a terrifying existence that the thing was playing with us. It was simply cutting down the experts that attacked it and killing all that tried to get away from it. It was cornering all of us without breaking a sweat and was eating all his kills in a leisurely manner. The Zombie Plague God was just that horrifying. Humanity had lost that fight and I also died of Blood loss.The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation. That was the end of humanity. Among the Human Experts Rankings I was ranked number #7, but I died only after the rest of humanity''s experts died because I wasn''t even worth him trying to purposely eliminate. I survived till the end and witnessed the end of humanity. I still remembered how the Plague God looked at me. A look of indifference. He didn''t even bother to consume me because he already had my ability to control water. After I shut my eyes and died of blood loss I thought about all the regrets I left behind. But then what I felt was relief because I was finally free from the pain and suffering I had to endure when my family died off one after another. But suddenly as if God was playing a joke I ended up here. I was supposed to meet up with my family in the afterlife and catch up on the last 20 years of my life. Or at least that was what I was waiting for but... Why am I here. Wait, this place looks familiar. I reach into my pocket and pull out a flight ticket. From Chicago IL to LaGuardia New York Plane arrival 12:00AM This! I check the date and it is 8/23/XXXX. The date of the start of the Apocalypse! I call for the status screen but nothing happened. So I have to wait until that voice sounds before the status screen becomes accessible. Why, I just got out of that hell hole called the Apocalypse and now your sending me back? Why are you doing this!!! Haven''t I suffered enough!!! I was a expert ESP controller of water. But due to being only a single ESP ability user I wasn''t able to advance in the rankings as fast as others. But with my hard work and crazy Ideas of how to use water I soon became the humanity expert ranked 7. Titled Demonic Lunatic. I was the only human that despite having only 1 ESP talent was able to get into the TOP 10 Ranking of humanity. Despite trying so hard and getting so far I still paled in comparison to that monstrosity called the Zombie Plague God. I was defeated with a single blow. Being able to get to the Top of the Human Rankings with my Hard work and wit is what I would like to say but that isn''t actually the complete truth. I Obtained a Ancient Secret Cultivation Manual of water controlling arts back in the day and with that Manual I was able to Cultivate my soul to the Maximum Point. Because I trained my soul Force to a level that only a Demi-God could I was able to control my water arts to a level of way past the level that I originally should have been able to. It''s like someone using water ball and me being able to use water cannon on the same level. Everyone has the potential to do so but don''t know how while I was despite not reaching all the original requirement to do so. But I guess now that I''m back I should prepare to deal with all the mistakes that humanity made in the past. I''ll kill off the Zombie Plague God before he has enough power to become invincible. I''ll obtain all the valuable Treasures before any other races could get them and also make full use of the BETA Period. I look towards the time and it''s 9:47PM. I''ve got 13 minutes before the world enters the first stage of the Apocalypse. Chapter 2: Soul 999! The change starts once the plane lands. I only remember that our plane didn''t crash and landed safely at the airport. But that was after the voice sounded, and before it landed a passenger in the back economy class changed into a Zombie and started biting people in the plane and people rushed out of the plane. I''ve got 13 minutes before the world enters the first stage of the Apocalypse. I need to prepare myself to kill the Zombie and find a safe place to evolve. I remember the Zombie appeared first in the back of the Economy class so that means he''s behind where I''m at. I get up from my seat and first take my Suitcase out from the top of my seat compartment and drag it with me to the back of the plane. I quickly head towards the back toilet. After I got into the bathroom and locked the door I opened up the suitcase and started taking out all the items that I could possibly use. I took out the backpack I left with clothes in there and started taking out everything in the bag. I next pushed the button on the handle of the suitcase and then pulled it out revealing the 2 long rods connected to the handle part and then I reached into my backpack and pulled out my keys. On my set of keys I had a mini multi usage key chains and I immediately pulled out the screwdriver part and started to unscrew the points connecting the rods to the suitcase and After I was done I had 2 soft metal rods that could be useful when I''m gonna kill the zombie. I mean a weapon is better than no weapon. By the time I was done I heard the sound that I would never forget. [HELLO HUMANS OF EARTH, THIS ALMIGHTY GOD NOW WISHES TO PLAY THE GAME APOCALYPSE, PLEASE DON''T DIE TOO FAST. ] [YOU WILL ALL UNDERGO EVOLUTION UNDER THE POWERS OF THIS ALMIGHTY GOD. THIS WORLD SHALL ALSO UNDERGO AN EVOLUTION, NOW THE WORLD POWERS WILL BE RESET THE BALANCE OF POWERS WILL CHANGE. THIS WILL BECOME THE ERA OF THE APOCALYPSE!] It''s here! The Voice of God or The Devil''s Voice; that is what people called the voice that mysteriously appeared in our heads. Many people thought that it was a joke at first but once the zombies broke out everyone knew that this was not a joke.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. I patiently waited for the plane to land. But the people in the plane were in an uproar. They were wondering what that voice was talking about. A man suddenly became extremely pale in the face and started to cough. "Cough, Cough!" "Honey? What''s wrong!?" Suddenly the man started coughing up blood. "Honey! AH QUICK CALL A DOCTOR!!! Quickly call a doctor! My husband is coughing up blood!" Without anyone realizing the man''s brain stops to function and then his heart stops. The man had just died. The man suddenly opens his eyes and with a growl and roar he grabs the nearest being that is emitting Life energy. "RAWR!" "Honey?" With a look of confusion she looks at the man that was her husband just moments ago roaring at the top of his lungs. The man that was her husband suddenly lunged at her. A hand grabs her throat and drags it towards his throat. "Honey let go your hurting me!" The man who had turned into a Zombie didn''t understand a single thing that was said to him and had instead been overcome with a feeling of hunger. He quickly pulled her head forward at full force. After the neck of the woman was but a couple of centimeters away he bit down hard. The Zombie had just bit into the front of the woman''s neck leaving blood trailing down her cleavage and onto her dress. "AHH!" The grotesque scene of blood and gore scares the man sitting next to the woman into freight. What was originally a lovely couple had became a scene that would leave you awaking from freight in your sleep. Soon after the Zombie bit into the woman, the man sitting besides them unbuckled his seat belt and takes off running. The man who was just moments ago coughing blood turned into a bloodthirsty monster. He immediately grabbed the arm of the woman trying to get loose and started to bite into it. Blood splattering everywhere and the screams and cries of the woman trying to break loose continued. "Ahh!" "He''s biting her arm!" "Crazy Son of a b*tch!" Cries of fear erupted all of a sudden. The woman eventually stopped screaming because she had died. But the screams of shock and disbelief didn''t stop. The people at the back of the plane were thrown into confusion, they were scared of the screaming and started to get out of there seats. They started leaving the back and started running towards the front of the plane. I make my way out of the bathroom with my weapon in hand and while everyone was busy running towards the front I stabbed the sharp edge of the rod through the eye of the Zombie piercing into his brain. [Fun Fact: When a Zombie is focused on consuming its prey it doesn''t pay attention to the things around it but rather to finish off it''s prey first.] (PS. This is only for Non Intelligent Zombies) That''s also why I was able to stab the brain of the Zombie so easily. [Congratulations you have killed a Zombie.] [You earn 100 Evolution Points] Open Stats Menu Name: Li Xin Ability: [!] [Soul: 999.9][Max] [Strength: 9.6] [Intelligence: 9.5] [Wisdom: 9.2] [Agility: 9.4] [Vitality: 9.9] 100 evolution Points The moment I looked at the Stats menu my jaw dropped. SOUL 999!! WTF how is this possible. Wait, maybe it''s because I was sent back in time with only my soul. Is that why my soul stat is the only one that remained unchanged!? Chapter 3: Chaos [Ladies and gentlemen we will be landing shortly, there are rough winds so it''ll be a shaky landing. Please stay in your seats and have your seat belts on. ] Due to people in the back of the plane heading towards the middle section of the plane I am alone in the back area. That is good for me as the less people questioning what I''m doing with there luggage the better. But the walkway in the middle of the plane was stuffed with people. The people that were scared off by the Zombie attack quickly ran to the front of the plane aiming to get off the plane as soon as possible and to stay as far away from the Zombies as possible. Due to this the walk way is stuffed full of people and they won''t go back there seats no matter what is said. This became quite a problem, the men in there seats don''t know what was happening and they couldn''t understand what the people were talking about. They were telling everyone that there is a man eating lunatic on board and that someone was killed. But would someone simply believe what you say because you said so? They could understand if you said that someone died but not the other half. This is simple human psychology. If I told you some lunatic killed someone by biting out there throat would someone simply believe what you say because you said so? Humans tend to believe only what they see and even then they might think it''s a magic trick or something if it seems to go against their logic. Therefore the walkway was blocked, the people were in a panic and the communication wasn''t going anywhere. Those that wished to get to the back couldn''t and those that were in there way wouldn''t budge. Therefore the walkway was blocked, the people were in a panic and the communication wasn''t going anywhere. People that wished people would just get back to their seats were starting to get annoyed. The people who made there way to the front to escape from the zombie wouldn''t budge. Suddenly the curtain to the back Half of the room moved. The person nearest to it that came from the back half of the plane jumped backward in fright wishing to get off the plane faster. He went as far as to jump into a group of seats that had people sitting in it to get a little further away from the monster. The people who he jumped onto received a big freight, this is because when you are faced with a situation where your sudden jumped on by a grown man you would feel scared as well.Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author. But the head that popped out after the curtain was pulled back surprised them. "Who are you!? Where is that lunatic!?" I coldly look at them and then took out my phone. The time was 9:55PM. 5 minutes until we land. "Hey that''s my bag! Thief! That man stole my bag!" Suddenly it seems the owner of this backpack recognized that I took it. The man was fairly young had black curly hair and was wearing glasses. Seemed to be the perfect kind of person one would call a nerd. Ignoring him I looked at the passengers and say in a cold voice. "I will not repeat this a second time so listen closely. The world has just underwent a great change and the man that was biting others in the Economy class was a Zombie. Those who get infected by him will become zombies within 3 days or instantly if you die. You need to cut off their heads to kill them. Upon landing you should look for food and shelter as your first priority. Be prepared as the airport is full of these Zombies." "What!?" "Are you crazy!?" "Zombies!" "Young people these days, sigh* just wish for an apocalypse..." The people where suddenly in a frenzy discussing about the things that were just said. Ignoring them I go back into the Economy class. I started opening up all of the compartments that had peoples luggage and started opening them up. I saw bags, backpacks, and some small suitcases. I started opening them up and pulling out the things I needed. I first pulled out a suitcase and started dumping everything out before I started to fill it up with the things I deemed useful to me. I took a set of clothes that I dumped out. I also took a large jacket that was lying around and draped it over my head. It''s chilly in an airport. The plane ride was indeed shaky. The planes lights first went out and then the speed of the plane seemed to decelerate after getting onto the ground. Some of the people from the front started to move back. There they saw that a lot of luggage had been tucked safely in the compartments for the luggage on the ground opened up. But before they peacefully consult me about it by screaming at me I took out my bloody DIY Spear and pointed it at them. I also grabbed the head of the zombie I killed and started to stab my spear into the eye socket. The expressions on their faces were priceless from the shock and fear. I mean I would''ve too if I hadn''t experienced gutting Zombies. The plane eventually came to a stop but only after the passengers got to there seats. The passengers were literally scared to look at me and I was busy hoarding all the items I deemed useful. The place the plane stopped wasn''t near a place where passengers were supposed to get off from but instead in the middle of a planes runway. But I know the plane isn''t gonna move due to my last life''s experience. There were zombies attracted by the sound that were in front of the plane. The captain obviously didn''t believe they were Zombies so he couldn''t just mow them over. I quickly moved to the emergency door on the side of the plane and open it up. Then I pulled the switch and a slide started to inflate. Chapter 4: Surrounded After the while slide completely inflated in a matter of seconds I jumped onto it. The slide ride wasn''t long at all as the height from where I was to the floor of the airport wasn''t really all that far. Upon contact with the floor I saw Zombies charging towards me. I immediately rushed towards the nearest door and opened it. I climbed up the stairs leading up stairs a bit but didn''t close the door behind me. Soon groups of zombies started crawling up the stairs but because the way up was to narrow it could fit at most 2 person to go up at a time. But since they were all rushing to get me it became crowded. I immediately took out a can of pop which I stuffed into my bad and poured it down the stairs I then threw the can at them. [Fun fact: Zombies have a hard time climbing stairs. They easily trip.] I poured a couple cans of coke on the steps to make the stairs even harder to climb then they originally were. The coke made the stairs even more slippery for these Zombies. Since they already slip easily I just need to make it even harder for them to climb up here. When one of the Zombies reached the top I grabbed my suitcase and smashed it at him. 1 Zombie falling down means the ones behind it getting hit by it. The Domino effect was quite successful here and caused the Zombies to tumble. [Congratulations you have killed a Zombie.] [You earn 100 Evolution Points] Some of the zombies at the bottom of them probably got crushed. "Add to Agility." [Agility: 10.4 -> 12.4] When I was about to attack the Zombies that fell I hear the sound of scratching and banging from the door behind me. I''m surrounded. Scratch* Scratch* Bang* Bang* The Zombies were busily attacking the door behind me trying to break down the door. This door won''t last very long... at most another 5 minutes the door will fall. I look down the stair way and it''s blocked by Zombies.This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. Both exits are blocked and it won''t be long before a group of zombies break through from behind me. I need to get out of here! I look down the stairs and the zombies that fell have already started to get up. I immediately rush down the stairs and using my make shaft spear I started to stab the heads of the Zombies. It''s hard to fight zombie''s like this. I was more of an ability user in my last life so I have minimal hand to hand combat techniques. Although my level of hand to hand combat should still count as a master level in this modern age. I should be a High level martial artist or a black belt. But this weapon is seriously useless! The makeshift spear I made has already started to bend. I look at the spear I made and it has already started to bend and the point has already started to become blunt. I drop the spear and grab my suitcase and started bashing it onto the necks of the zombies. [Congratulations you have killed a Zombie.] [You earn 100 Evolution Points] [Congratulations you have killed a Zombie.] [You earn 100 Evolution Points] [Congratulations you have killed a Zombie.] [You earn 100 Evolution Points] "Add into Strength!" [Strength: 10.6 ->13.6] I suddenly feel hot and a surge of strength suddenly burst forth from my body. I felt like I could break a mountain in a punch but I know that this feeling is all but an illusion given to me when my strength was given a sudden sharp increase. The suitcase full of drinks became lighter so the speed of which I smashed the heads of these things became faster. I felt incredible because of how fast the efficiency of my killing spree was going. While killing I continued to add all the points into strength. Only with a stronger body could I fight off these Zombies faster and get out of this dangerous situation before they break through that door. The banging on the door behind me became louder and louder while the zombies I killed continued to increase. [Strength: 13.6 ->14.6] [Strength: 14.6 ->15.6] [Strength: 15.6 ->16.6] [Strength: 16.6 ->20.6] New Ability [Blood Boil] [Physical Ability] Rile up your blood cells inside of your body to give it a sudden boost in physical strength. Last 30 seconds. Defect: Exhaust the body and tires it out if overused will cause permanent internal injuries! Blood Boil... well it''s useful for me to use for now but the side effect... Sigh... It''s a self harming technique. But for now it''s perfect. [Blood Boil!] I suddenly feel hot all over and my body started to turn red, an incredible amount of strength started to surge out of my body. I drop the suitcase and directly sent out a punch towards the head of a zombie and... Crack! The skull of the zombie caved in and it flew back hitting the zombies behind it. [Congratulations you have killed a Zombie.] [You earn 100 Evolution Points] I can kill a zombie using raw physical strength now! Under the influence of this technique I could break out of here. My power has increased at an incredible rate and I could probably get out of here. Throwing out a barrage of punches I earned a bunch of points that I got lazy to count. The Zombies down here have almost been finished off but more are coming towards the entrance due to the loud noise of the fight. Bang! The door that was holding the zombies back was starting to creak and then... BANG! Suddenly the door which I knew wouldn''t last long finally broke down. Under the constant bashing of the zombies it broke and the zombies now came at me from both sides. Chapter 5: BUG! "Damn!" I look towards the place where I dumped a can of soda and knew that these things are going to trip down the stairs soon and will cover me with the ultimate zombie avalanche technique if I don''t do something fast. I quickly grab a Zombie behind me and threw him up the stairs towards the Zombies that have yet to touch the stairs. They got pushed back if anything from that one zombie hitting them. But I know that that isn''t going to stop them from trying to attack me. I quickly shoved the Zombies near the entrance to the stairs and finally got out of the staircase. I look at the Plane that is still stuck in place due to the zombies and got an idea. Killing the zombies like this one by one is extremely tiring not to mention dangerous. If the Zombies got one good bite on me although I wouldn''t immediately become a Zombie I would after 3 days if I don''t get enough resistance, increase enough of my Vitality or disinfect it enough. I don''t have any Resistance to this Virus as it''s the start of the Apocalypse, I don''t have any disinfectant with me as I just got out of the plane. I also need the points to increase my body''s agility first so putting all my stats into vitality is not going to be wise. I need to find an easier way to kill these motherfuckers and that plane seems to be my best bet. If I could hijack that plane and turn on the planes engine I might be able to suck the Zombies into it and get enough points to completely flip my stats around. Unfortunately I don''t know how to start a plane nor am I able to get into the cockpit. The zombies that were coming at me was never ending while the effect of Blood Boil was starting to wear down. "Dammit! My body is feeling weak! " I look behind me and there''s dozens of zombies chasing after me. Even after killing so many there are still that many. "Status!" Name: Li Xin Ability: [!] [Blood Boil] [Soul: 999.9][Max] [Strength: 20.6] [Intelligence: 9.5] [Wisdom: 9.2] [Agility: 12.4] [Vitality: 9.9] 2100 evolution Points 2100 Points. Hmm... 760 into agility 40 into strength and the remaining into Vitality! Name: Li Xin Ability: [!] [Blood Boil] New [Speed Boost] New [Health Recovery] [Soul: 999.9][Max] [Strength: 21] [Intelligence: 9.5] [Wisdom: 9.2] [Agility: 20] [Vitality: 22.9]The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. My body''s feeling of fatigue starts to fade and for some reason everything around me seems to have slowed down. Wait, then what is that [!]? I click into it and suddenly everything went dark. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [!] BUG! [!] BUG [!] BUG [System Alert!] [System Bug Detected!] [Connecting to world overseer...] {Hmm, whats up?} [A system bug has been detected, asking for termination permission.] {BUG!?} [Correct, a BUG has been detected in player #1,590,810,991] {A near end player?} [Correct.] {Termination permission Granted.} [Termination will be immediately carried out in 5...4...3...2...1...0!] [The Host of the BUG has been terminated] ------------------------------------------------------- I couldn''t see anything and couldn''t feel anything, it was a weird feeling... But something unbelievable happened. A countdown timer of 10 seconds appeared... [10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0!] [Do you wish to RE SPAWN?] [YES/NO] And I was asked to respawn... ... respawn like revive? But nothing answers my question. In this black dark void I can see nothing but the shining menu screen in front of my eyes. I stared blankly at the screen for several minutes before clicking on my only option. ... Yes. I click on the option of yes and everything became white. Suddenly I was surrounded by Zombies. They immediately lunged at me and started to rip me apart. I tried to resist and killed a couple of them, but was eventually ripped apart by them. But I surprisingly didn''t feel any Pain. I was back in the room without light. And the countdown began... [10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0!] [Do you wish to RE SPAWN?] [YES/NO] And I was asked to respawn yet again... So I died? I did just die right!? ... But I can respawn? HOLYSHIT! But wait... If I respawn I''ll just be back in the middle of that group of Zombies... so I''ll just die again... I''ll just keep on dying until I''ve killed them all... or until I get out of the zombie range zone... "System!" [???*&@Y&*#???] [*#SYSTEM*^#n rEBOOTING] [Terminated Player #1,590,810,991[online]] [BUG ALERT!] [Contacting ADMIN!] [Unable to connect to server...] [SYSTEM CRASH] Suddenly I get a barrage of messages from the system that I never knew existed... System reboot? Terminated? BUG! ADMIN!? So I died the first time due to this piece of shit! Suddenly the darkness in the room started to fade. It started to shoot towards the system screen that I see. [RED ALERT system has been intruded.] [VIRUS ALERT] [Firewall Activated] [Firewall deactivated] [Warning! Warning!] Warning Deactivated] [Malware Detected] [Malware FIXED!!!] [Alert deactivated] [Deleting Old System] [System file rewriting] [New Player #1,700,000,001] [World server connection reconnected] [Loading new files...][10 seconds] [System reboot] ... Name: Li Xin Ability: New [RESPAWN][Perfectly normal ability!] Physical: [Blood Boil] [Speed Boost] [Health Recovery] [Soul: 999.9][Max] [Strength: 21] [Intelligence: 9.5] [Wisdom: 9.2] [Agility: 20] [Vitality: 22.9] did the system just get hacked... New [RESPAWN][Perfectly normal ability!] Perfectly normal... haha... [Respawn] Player will revive after 10s in the place where the player died or location where player saved as revival point. ...perfectly normal my ass. "This is a frickin hack... an immortality hack in real life..." This is like playing a game where you''re supposed to kill the boss and die... but after dying you can buy the option to revive yourself. But I don''t need to pay to be revived... I''m basically a pay to win player but I don''t need to pay. Wait, it said something about a revival point... how do I make a revival point? Chapter 6: Calling Home [Revival Point] [How to Create] [Drip a drop of blood in replace of your body for the place to respawn. Chant Spell: Create Revival Point.] ... simple enough. But since I hadn''t made a revival point before the only way to get out of here would be by waiting it out and waiting for the Zombies to move somewhere else or directly reviving and taking out as many Zombies as I could before reviving again. Alright let''s do this! [Do you wish to RE SPAWN?] [YES/NO] "Yes!" The moment I respawned I activated the skill [Blood Boil] the reason for this is because I don''t fear the side effects anymore. The worst it could do is give me internal Injuries, but I can''t die so nothing to worry about. So without fear I immediately grabbed the neck of a zombie in front of me and held him like a baseball bat. The head of the zombie as the knob of the bat and the body as the place that hits the balls. From there I lowered my body and did a rotation swing and the zombie in my hands smashed into the legs of the zombies rushing towards me and knocked them off their feet. Blood Boil greatly increased my strength, so this was pretty easy to pull off. It''s basically using the zombie I had in my hands and using it to smash the zombies that fell to the ground. It''s like the game whack a mole but zombie style... with a zombie as the hammer... and the Zombies also as a mole... But after smashing the first zombie my club broke... the neck of the zombie detached itself from the rest of the body so it flew out of my hands and the only thing I was grabbing was a neck with head dangling under it. I need to find a new weapon. I suddenly see this big fat zombie that looks to weigh 250 or so pounds. So I grabbed it by the neck and started to pound away at the zombies. The new weapon [Fat Zombie Hammer] is a very effective weapon. But it is also extremely draining to use. After the Blood Boil effect ended I felt extremely tired and my strength was sapped. I was attacked by zombies in that moment and died...A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. I revived and resumed my killing spree as if nothing ever happened. 10 at a time slowly but surely I killed every last one of the zombies. After around 10 rounds of killing, dying and reviving I finished off all of the Zombies. But I''m facing yet another problem now after I killed all the zombies. I''m almost completely naked. While I was fighting the zombies they ripped me apart and ate me when I died as my corpse doesn''t simply disappear when I die so sometimes I directly revived in their stomachs and they exploded... but now my clothes are in rags and I don''t think I remember keeping any clothes in the suitcase or backpack I''m carrying. Apparently the skill Re spawn only revives me it doesn''t restore the things on my body to how they were before. Meaning it won''t revive my clothes. I really need a shower and a new set of clothes. I looked at a zombie corpse that is about my size and started to strip it. Something is better than nothing. At least that covers up my body. Now lets upgrade some stats! [Strength: 21-> 40] [Intelligence: 9.5 -> 40] [Wisdom: 9.2 -> 40] [Agility: 20 -> 40] [Vitality: 22.9 -> 34.8] I didn''t bring vitality over 40 because of 2 reasons 1. I can revive so the virus and HP Recovery isn''t that important. 2. Because I don''t have enough points. Lets see the new skills [Blood Boil -> Berserk] upgrade New skill [MP Recovery] [MP Recovery -> MP Rapid Recovery] upgrade New Skill [Concentration] [Concentration -> Focused Concentration] upgrade [Speed Boost -> Light Weight] upgrade Mana... I really need a magic skill now. If only I had my Water Control Ability I would be able to kill all the zombies in this place easily. I should first try to get all of my stats up to at least 100 first as there won''t be another chance like today to upgrade my stats so fast. 306 Zombies need to die by the end of today, to bring all my stats over 100 and to max out what my current physical body can take. I will become a Peak tier 1 Human by the end of today. My best bet at accomplishing this task is by using that plane. It''s been at least half an hour so the slow changers should be done changing into Zombies. Although most of the zombies in the world changed at the moment of the apocalypse there are also the slow changers that change over the time of half an hour after the apocalypse so some more passengers on that plane should have changed and I''m going to get on the plane after they''ve all changed. Buzz RING! RING! RING! Buzz A phone? I look towards my backpack and look towards the caller ID on the phone and it read Li Fan Lin. "!!! That''s right, she''s still alive! I have to warn her!" "Lin make sure you remember what I say!" "What are yo-" "I need you to make sure no one gets into the house while I''m not home." "Huh? Why are you..." "Turn on the TV and turn to the news channel, they should be reporting it on TV soon." "Reporting what?" "Reporting the Apocalypse." "Quit joking." "I''m not, I''m being completely serious with you right now. Make sure you close the door and not get out of the house. Block the door and make sure you turn off the lights at home to avoid attracting attention at home until I''m home!" "Hey! What are you talking about?" "Check the news and do as I say, unless I call you don''t open the door for anyone! Manhattan Chinatown is really dangerous right now. There are a lot of people who have become Zombies so make sure you try to not attract attention and stay inside the house. "..." "Did you hear me!" "Yes but..." "I''ll be home later, at the latest tomorrow morning the Airport is filled with these Zombies." "Remember to block the door and have it shut tight Even if you hear banging or scratching make sure to..." The call hung up due to the phone running out of battery. "FUCK!!" You have better be safe. Chapter 7: Smash I need a charger. But it can wait for now. I look towards the plane I was on and people were already opening up the emergency doors and running. I quickly run towards one of the planes emergency slides and started to climb up, but just when I was almost at the top near the planes emergency exit as man came stumbling out. Behind him were a bunch of zombies. The man seemed to be wearing a pilot outfit so I''m assuming he was one of the captains of the plane. Nice find! I immediately grab onto him and followed him down the slide. I immediately picked him up like a rice bag and started to run. While on the way he was screaming and shouting about how I should put him down and what not. When we were out of the zombies chase range I put him down. "How do you turn on the planes engine?" "What!? Why are you asking that for!" "I heard before that if you turn on the engine of a plane on while someone is in front of it they can get sucked into it, is that true?" "!!!" "First let me tell you something. Those things chasing after us are Zombies. They aren''t humans any more and are simply man eating monster. I''m going to turn on the plane and have it to simply kill as many zombies as it can. The problem is that I don''t know how to fly a plane." "..." "You get me so far?" "I''ll take that as a yes." "..." "I need you to tell me how to get that plane off the ground or how to at least start the engine. And since you aren''t telling me I''ll drag you along with me and have you make a suicide crash with me." "What! Wait Wait I''ll talk! Did you just say suicide crash!" "That''s right I''m going to lift the plane off the ground and crash it into a zombie filled Zone." "That''s crazy! You''re insane, a suicide! Why don''t we just wait for the police to come. they have weapons that can definitely kill those thing easier then suicide bombing."Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. "You think this is happening just here? You think that only this airport became a zombie infested area?" "Y-you mean! No that can''t be..." "The entire world has become like this. Not just this airport but the whole world. Even the police stations are probably surrounded and some of the officers have probably became zombies as well. Do you think the police have time to save us?" "HOW WOULD YOU KNOW, HUH!? WHY SHOULD I BELIEVE YOU!?" "I don''t need you to believe me, I just know that if you continue to shout like that and attract the attention of the zombies I''ll simply leave you here and let you be eaten." "..." "Now tell me how to start that engine." ------------------------------------------ After finding out how to operate the plane and how his Copilot turned into a Zombie I let him loose. I mean I''m not going to just bring some pilot around just because he told me how to operate the plane. He wasn''t going to follow me on the plane for a suicide crash after all so I simply let him loose. I look at the ground below me and bite my tongue. A bit of blood comes gushing out of the wound that I created but quickly heals. It''s thanks to the skill Health Recovery that the small wound healed so quickly. But I was able to get a couple drops of blood and I chanted. "Create Revival Point." The drop of blood on the ground disappeared and suddenly a Screen appeared. Revival Point Location: Laguardia Airport, New York. So this is a revival point. I then looked towards the plane and started rushing towards it. There were Zombies climbing out from the emergency exits already. I immediately started to speed run up the emergency doors slide and got inside the plane. The inside of the plane was a slaughter house. There was blood everywhere and corpses on the ground with zombies munching on them like it''s the most delicious thing they''ve ever eaten. I immediately twisted the necks of the ones that were still munching on others and instantly killed them. I then headed towards the cockpit. But it''s shut closed. I quickly grabbed the handle of it and pulled and it opened up. The reason it wasn''t locked was because the man left in a hurry after the co pilot in the plane became a zombie. The Zombie didn''t know how to open the door so it was stuck. But once I opened the door it jumped out to get me. I of course cracked it''s neck giving it a painless death. But when I got into the cockpit, I couldn''t help but curse, I should''ve slowly ripped that zombie apart. Some of the keys had been messed with and broken. Hopefully it didn''t break the most important keys. I found the planes autopilot mode and started it up. Then I started up the plane''s engines. Unfortunately the plane will be unable to start flying due to some of the controls being messed up, but I think I can at least get it partly off the ground and that all I need I''ll simply try to crash the thing through airports walls. I look for a suitable wall to chug it through and... The plane first has to back up. Thump* thump* bump* splat* I ran over quite a few Zombies and sucked a couple into the engines. Then when the plane was far back enough I started the acceleration process and from slowly taking off to max takeoff speed it then picked a little off the ground and I then rammed it into the airports biggest window walls. SMASH! The plane continued to smash through the window and ended up getting stuck between the middle of the airports walk way. I got a lot of system notifications which I ignored while flying the plane. But now that I''m dead I can check it out. Chapter 8: Testing ability "STATUS!" Name: Li Xin Ability: New [RESPAWN] Physical: [Berserk] [Light Weight] [HP Recovery] [MP Rapid Recovery] [Focused Concentration] [Soul: 999.9][Max] [Strength: 40] [Intelligence: 40] [Wisdom: 40] [Agility: 40] [Vitality: 34.8] Evolution Points: 21,900 219 zombies where killed!That was a nice hit.I only need to kill about a hundred more zombies till I can become Tier 2. Every hundred Status Points is a Tier increase.But after the Tier increase the Evolution Points needed will double. For example.From Tier 1 to 2 you need 50,000 evolution points to level up the tier.But from 2 to 3 you need double meaning 100,000.I''m also only able to get so many points out of a Zombie currently because it''s the beta phase.When the beta phase ends every zombie goes to there original amount of points which is 10 points per zombie meaning to turn from Tier 1 to 2 you would normally need to kill about 5,000 zombies.While from 2 to 3 100,000 so on and so forth. The amount of Zombies you need to kill after the beta phase is enormous.So I have to make sure to kill as many zombies as I can now and become stronger. [Strength: 40 -> 100]Tier 1 MAX [Intelligence: 40] [Wisdom: 78.8] [Agility: 40 -> 100]Tier 1 MAX [Vitality: 34.8 -> 100]Tier 1 MAX [Berserk -> Bloody Berserk -> Golden Berserk -> Asura berserk] upgrade [Focused Concentration -> Thought Acceleration] upgrade [Lightweight -> Acceleration ->Instantaneous ->Ultimate Movement]upgradeThis narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon. [HP Recovery -> HP Rapid Recovery -> HP Extreme Recovery -> Regeneration] upgrade I''m almost at the Max stage of all my Physical Abilities.I only gained these abilities because it is currently the Beta Phase.Not everyone has the Fortune of being like me and obtaining a full upgrade to Max Tier 1 stage on the first day of the apocalypse aside from the Hidden Sects, Bloodline Tribes, and Timeless Monsters. Hidden Sects are basically a clan of Qi Practitioners that are at the grandmaster level of Martial Arts and are able to utilize inner Qi. They are what people generally call Master martial artist and these people have trained their bodies in the time before the Apocalypse so there stats are naturally High meaning they get Physical Abilities the moment the world Changed. Bloodline tribes are basically a Family of Humans but have as special ancestor from way back in the ancient times.In Europe there are lots of bloodline tribes such as a Witch, Vampire, Werewolf and Other magical bloodline clans that hid there traits under the mask of being a human being. Last but not least they''re Timeless Monsters.These are mighty sealed beings from ancient times who waited for this Apocalypse to appear.But they have a lot of Limit Shackles on them so they either can''t reveal themselves until a part of the Apocalypses rules let them loose or they have to pay a huge price to regain their power.These Beings are from an Ancient Civilization.One before the Human Civilization. I need to catch up to them and make sure I can reach the summit of the world. But currently I''m still too weak so I need to get stronger and have the power to at least protect my family in this apocalypse. I''ll start doing that by reaching at least Tier 2. I Revived. I was standing in the middle of a broken cockpit and the entire front of this plane has caved in and is on fire.I looked out the broken glass window and see a bunch of chairs blocking the view. I''m stuck in here. But I didn''t panic.I quickly got out of the cockpit and went into the passenger walkway. The lights on the plane have all turned off but the emergency lights are still lite.Parts of the plane is on fire so it is still fairly well lite. The entire plane was in disarray.A mess was literally the first thing that comes to mind when you see the scene.There were passenger bags, suitcases and a lot of other things that have been thrown across the plane. Some of the bags opened up and have spread all of it''s belongings across the seats. I quickly grabbed the largest backpack I could find and fit all the things I deemed useful to me.I grabbed all the food and drinks in the front of the plane. While I was searching for the food I found this slot in the side of the plane I didn''t know what it was for.After I opened up the slot, to my surprise I found a crowbar suspended inside. Finally a WEAPON!Although melee it is an actual weapon that can be used. (Some aircrafts carry crowbars in planes in case of an electrical emergency so that they can break into a wall to fix it.) I next started to search through the luggage. I found a charger Cable.As well as a portable charger one with the battery. Nice find! I grabbed a couple of clothes and put it on.I then stuffed the charger into my back pocket.I put on my backpack with all the things I found aboard the plane.I also grabbed a suitcase in my hands with me as well. Now it''s time for an experiment.I took the crowbar in my hand and using all my might I smashed it down towards my head. I got killed instantly. I was back in the dark room. The reason I did what I did was to test to see whether I can carry everything that''s attached to me when I revive. I know my clothes will be revived with me.So If I''m carrying a backpack will that be revived with me? After my suicide I picked the option of the revival point as where I wanted to revive. I opened my eyes and to my surprise everything that I was wearing revived with me. So everything that is attached to me comes with me. Does that apply to living beings as well? I''ll test this out later. Chapter 9: Explosion I quickly grabbed all the things I left before this Revival Point such as the backpack and Suitcase and started to look around. There were no Zombies around me. But I spotted a bunch of Zombies crowding around the area where the plane crashed. Fun Fact: Zombies can be attracted by Sounds. I headed for the exit that I originally was rushing up. It was clear. There were no Zombies nearby. I quickly rushed up the stairs and reached the door that was broken through by Zombies and got to the first floor of the Airport. After heading out a couple doors I found myself near the cafeteria. There were a bunch of zombies in this area as well. Suddenly I heard a scream. "DON''T COME CLOSER!!" "HELP! HELP! SOMEBODY HELP ME!" "AHHH!" Then the voice died off. Fun Fact: You shouldn''t scream when facing a Zombie as screams attracts more ZOMBIES towards you. I don''t know where I am currently but I need to get outside of the airport first. But before I do anything. I grabbed a sandwich off of one of the Airport Food stalls tore off the wrapper and started to eat. This is terminal B according to the map on the wall. I''m close to the Baggage Area meaning I''m close to getting out of here. Being near the baggage area is a good sign of getting out because usually when your near a baggage area the exit to the street is right beside it and so I followed the directions of the map and started heading towards the baggage area. But the sound of the suitcases rolling across the ground made a lot of noise. It therefore attracted the Zombies Nearby. There were at least 15 Zombies coming towards me from behind and 5 or 6 appearing in front of me. I was surrounded again. But this time, I''m not nervous. Unlike last time where I feared death, I can''t die now. I also have a weapon in hand.Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon. It took about 20 minutes in total, the reason is because Zombies kept popping up left and right as I got closer. The baggage claim area was filled with Zombies, this is because most people get out of the airport from here and also get there baggage here so a lot of people pass through this area. When the apocalypse struck some of the people in this area turned and the place became a mess. They either ran away or got bitten, killed and then turned. The entire area is a mess. Blood everywhere. I won''t be able to get out of there without fighting and if I do, I''ll be trapped there until I kill all of them and that will waste a lot of my time. I need something to distract them. I spot something that just might do the trick. I walk towards the side of the wall and pulled the lever down hard. The Fire Siren started to sound at full blast. What I pulled just now was the fire alarm. The speakers that created the sound of the alarms attracted a lot of the Zombies towards them and I rushed out after they surrounded the speakers. There soon gonna notice that the alarms aren''t something they can eat and will leave them alone so I need to leave fast. Using the alarms as a distraction I rush towards the outside of the airport. But then a bunch of Zombies started charging towards me. They''re the Zombies outside that were attracted by the Alarm. DAMNIT! I quickly opened up another door and quickly got outside. I found a taxi where the Driver became a Zombie. I quickly grabbed it''s neck and threw it out of the Taxi the road ahead was blocked by Cars having smashed into each other. So I can''t drive the car through this road to get out. I quickly backed up the car and turned the car onto the Airports sidewalk. On the Sidewalk there were Zombies that were lunging towards my car. The Car bumped and smashed right into Zombies in front of me. I got a series of notifications from the system from which I didn''t have time to check. Zombies kept being moved down like grass and when I was half way through the Zombies the car broke down. The Windshield had already been cracked due to a zombie smashing into it but the car has finally broke down due to the damage. I need another vehicle. I spot that the road ahead is clear and that this car has already died so I simply opened the door to the car and jumped out. I got to a car parked by the side of the road, killed the Zombie in the car. Threw it out and then drove. I drove it forwards and parked it right in the middle of the street. I cut open my hand and left some of my blood onto the seat. I then pulled out the key threw it in the drivers door holding spot and then locked the car. I got into another car and did the same thing except this time I drove the car towards the automatic doors leading into the baggage claim area which had a bunch of Zombies in it and ran them over. After the car got put into a stop. I got out and got under the car and punctured a hole in a pipe leading to the gas tank at the bottom of the car it soon started to leak. I then got back in the car and honked the car. "COME AT ME MOTHER FUCKERS!" The army of Zombies that were originally spread out started to rush towards my car. I stood atop the car like a king. I then took out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter from the car I got out of before. I lit it up and took one breath before dropping the cigarettes into the Gasoline. The Fuse has been lite. "EXPLODE MOTHERFUCKER!" Chapter 10: Weapons After an ear deafening explosion I find myself back in the black respawn space. I literally blew myself up this time. The gasoline fuse got lite and causing the car to catch on fire and eventually it exploded. I don''t have time to waste. [Respawn! Location: Car Revival point.] When I opened my eyes I suddenly see myself in the driver''s seat of the car. I grab the key from the drivers holding space and turned on the engine. The sound attracted a few Zombies but they weren''t able to catch up to me before I speed past them. I take my phone and plug it into the car to charge. The Apple icon shows up in and when the phone turns on the battery is at 7% already for some reason. I immediately check my call list and the Caller ID of my sister has called me 10 times over the last half hour. "RING! RING!" Speak of the devil. I pick up the phone and a sudden scream comes though. "BROTHER! WHY DIDN''T YOU PICK UP THE PHONE!" "Sorry, my phone ran out of power." "WHERE ARE YOU RIGHT NOW!" "I just got out of the Airport and got into a car, I''ll be back home by tomorrow." After hearing of my safety she finally calms down. "Brother." "Yeah." "Don''t die..." "I won''t, I''ll make sure to come back soon so don''t worry, I''ll make sure we can survive this apocalypse together and come out of it as Kings." "I''m waiting for you at home, make sure to come back soon." "I will." I hang up the phone after telling her what to watch out for.This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source. The phone was charged to about 55% when I arrived at my destination. The building I am outside of has a big badge painted on it''s concrete brick walls and the badge shows what all New Yorker''s would recognize at a glance. The Badge of the police. I''m currently in front of one of New York City''s Police Departments. I''m here in search of guns. Although guns aren''t really useful at the near end of the apocalypse, the use of guns are very important at the beginning of the Apocalypse. I remember that the US became one of the major Human Survival continents precisely due to being able to find guns at almost every town. At the beginning of the Apocalypse the people thought that the government would come and save them so on the first day which was the Beta period they didn''t dare leave their houses and it was only until they finished off all of there food did they come out in search of some. The human that Evolved the most at the Beta period in my last life was a American who was an Apocalypse Preparer. What is that, you may ask. An Apocalypse preparer is a man who believed in doomsday dates. They are people who prepare for the Apocalypse. They are those that believe that 2000 or 2012 was going to be a doomsday date. So they prepare Food Weapons and alot of other survival needs incase an apocalypse happens. In modern day times people would think these people are idiots, the reason is these people wasted money on building a survival bunker that you probably aren''t gonna need. The man by the name Richard Strong was one such idiot. Before the Apocalypse even started he had his basement filled with Ammo, Firearms, and Food. This maniac followed the footsteps of Marvin Heemeyer and remodeled a bulldozer into a tank with all his money. The man on the first day of the Apocalypse went on a killing spree killing at least 1,500 zombies and was the first man to evolve into a stage 2 human. He had guns that can''t be bought in any random gun shop so some said he was an arms dealer before the apocalypse while others said that he bought the gun parts by piece and fit them together. It was eventually known that he made all the guns with a 3D printer. Eventually this maniac became one of the many North America''s Human Survival Base leaders. He had created one of the largest survival bases. He had a full set of Physical Abilities like I do now and a whole bunch of guns. But unlike him, I know that this is the BETA period and in the BETA period you need to become as strong as possible or it''s gonna take a lot more time to jump tiers after it is over. I''m not gonna let tier 2 be my limit. I''m going to go up to Tier 4. It took humans 1 year to reach Tier 4 in my previous life so If I can reach Tier 4 on Day 1 it''s gonna be a big advantage. To reach tier 4 by only killing zombies is probably only something I can do now. The reason is because of the amount of zombie you need to kill to reach this Tier is enormous. Most humans became Tier 4 though the usage of either Special Items, Blessings, Beast Cores, Sacred Fruits or Elixirs. No one I can think of became a tier 4 just through killing Zombies. No one. This is because of the number of humans in the world and the number of Zombies in each region of the world causes it to become hard to level up. For one to become Tier 4 though just killing humans after the beta period. You need to kill 75,000 Zombies. The chance that one can kill so many Zombies in 1 year is almost impossible. But now that it''s the BETA period and all Zombies are worth 10 times there original Evolution Points I only need to kill 7,500. That''s something that is possible to do. Although it is hard. It isn''t impossible. New York has around 8 million people so it isn''t hard to kill that many zombies. As long as I bomb a couple buildings I can probably get the amount. I''m gonna make New York the first safe Shelter. But before I start with my plan, I need weapons. Chapter 11: NYPD I look at the police department which has it''s doors open wide.The moment I walk through the police department doors I hear a scream and some gunshots. I quickly cut open my finger with and leave a drop of blood by the front door of the police department. In case I die I could revive near the exit. I head in through the front door and a loud screech of a Zombie comes through the glass window. I see a female worker banging her head against the glass window trying to get out to get me. I walk up the window and can see that it isn''t going to break anytime soon, probably because it''s bulletproof. I walk away from the window and walk towards a door. Following the sound of screams and gunshots. Where there is a gunshot, there''s a human, a live one. This is due to the fact that Zombies generally can''t use firearms. I reached a door which was shut and locked tightly. I simply kicked in and the door caved in. [Congratulations you have killed a Zombie.] [You earn 100 Evolution Points] Oh, there was a zombie... I looked behind the door and there it was crushed between the door and the wall. I want to continue walking down the hallway but... there are a couple of zombies blocking my way. They were zombified Officers. I quickly dispose of them and grab their belts. I reach for their guns and got 5 handguns. Nice find! Although Handguns are good they aren''t useful to me now because it''ll attract Zombies to me if fired. I equipped 1 and throw the rest of them into my backpack and continued heading towards the noise. GROWL* Bang* Crash* Smash* Bang* Bang* "AH! STAY AWAY!" "MONSTER!" A series of gunshots were fired. I quickly found the spot where the noise was coming from.Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings. I spot 4 police officers fighting against 20 zombies. Although officers have guns they''re on the losing side due to the zombies constant pouncing and attacks. Two of the officers are holding off the zombies with these bullet proof glass shields. While the other 2 are focusing on shooting but due to the zombies not feeling pain and the requirement of shooting them in the head to kill them they are at a disadvantage. They could probably fend off against these zombies but I need the equipment in here so... I immediately take out my gun and... Bang* (Head-shot) Surviving in the Apocalypse for a couple of years you naturally become proficient at using firearms. Because if you can''t become proficient in the use of firearms you will probably die very early in the apocalypse unless you have an insanely powerful of weird power during the first awakening. An awakening is the process where one gets an ability. Unlike mine which is a bug you get the ability most suited for you after consumption of an Evolution Core. Evolution Cores are generally found in Zombies that have crossed the 2 tier stage. They''re generally hard to kill if you don''t have at least 20 men on your side. Even then almost half of them will die. But with Firearms everything changes. Because you can attack the target from a distance so as long as you have 5 men and blockade the zombie in and fire non stop you will eventually kill it. But the price for that is a lot of Bullets. And in the Apocalypse it is hard to get bullets. This is why America became on of the most Early Powerhouse nations in the world. The reason being Guns can be found in almost every city in America. There are guns in every Police Department, and every gun shop; 30% of Americans personally own a gun in there houses. So guns in America is a very easy thing to get. Meaning they''re able to kill zombies easier. But owning a gun doesn''t mean your good at using, but during the Apocalypse you need to use a gun almost 24/7, in the early stages of the Apocalypse guns are the sole item that keeps you safe from Danger. After killing off the Zombies, I notice that one of the 2 officers that were blocking the Zombies had long slash marks across his chest. Probably from the claws of one of the Zombies he was blocking. The blood dripping from the wound had already changed to the color of purple. A sign of the infection of the first stage. The Officers immediately fell to the ground gasping for air. After blocking off all the Zombies and fighting for their lives they would obviously be tired out. I continue to stare at the wound of that officer and suddenly said something out of the blue. "That wound is infected." Immediately the 3 other officers turn to look at him. Suddenly in the center of attention the officer panicked... I... I... Sigh* "It was while I was grabbing the shield. Lieutenant James popped out from behind the gun room and landed that hit." All 3 of their faces immediately paled. John, Issac, Joanna give me a quick one; I don''t want to become one of those things. He immediately took out his gun and threw it over to an officer with blond hair. "No, no your going to be alright, it''s only a scratch, the wound isn''t even that bad. You can be saved!" "No, John. The world has already changed to hell, Even Zombies are popping up left and right. I wouldn''t be too surprised if I suddenly changed into one at any second. I am infected John. If I could I wouldn''t hesitate to cut the part infected off but it''s across my chest of all places." "Jack..." "Please promise me one thing John..." "What?" "Please find my family and help take care of them for me. I know it is selfish of me but..." "I Promise, I prom-" "Hey, I don''t want to interrupt but you can still be saved you know." !!! WHAT DID YOU SAY!!! Chapter 12: Magus Civilization "It''s only a Zombie wound you know. Although your infected right now you can survive as long as you evolutionalize yourself past the safe infection range. As long as your vitality is evolutionalized you can increase your resistance towards the virus." "How do I evolutionalized my vitality!?" Well do you recall what the voice that sounded out at 12:00 AM said? "You mean!!!" "That''s right, it said that he wanted to play a game; the Apocalypse game to be more specific." ... "Did any of you receive a notification after you killed a Zombie?" "Yes, did." "Well did you understand what it meant; 100 evolution points per Zombie Killed?" "You mean we can heal Jack as long as we kill enough zombies?" "That''s right, it''s 100 evolution points for every zombie killed; although it said 100 evolution points the amount of every evolution point only increases your stats by 0.01 though so for every zombie you kill you can earn 1 stat point. Meaning you''ll need to kill to kill 10 zombies to be safe from turning and about 30 to become cured from the level 1 virus." "Why 10 and 30 is there a meaning?" "Adding vitality to 20 points gives you a skill that improves your Health meaning it will help your body fight against the Virus Infection as the infection is deteriorating your health. And after it reaches the 40 mark your body can not just fight against the Virus but can also kill it." "I see..." "But to do that we need to kill Zombies and Time is against our side. He might turn at any moment if he doesn''t get his Vitality up. So we need to pack up all the guns and ammunition in the Arsenal. We''ll need to rid at least all the Hospitals of zombies by the end of tonight." !!! "Don''t ask why, just show me the way to the Arsenal. I''ll make sure you guys can live safely in this Apocalypse as long as you follow my orders." The 4 of them look at each other and then with resolution they say.Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author. "Yes Sir." While passing through the hallways leading to the arsenal I heard a loud scream for help. Because I have officers with me now I decided to save all I could save and to clean the police department clean of anything I could possibly use. When we almost reached the door of a room where I heard the screams coming from, the room suddenly burst open. A man covered in slashes came charging out. He had a large gash wound across his stomach and had a wound near his neck. After he charged out of the room he fell down the moment he saw us. I quickly picked the man up and bring him over to Joanna to help him. I open the door and walk right in. The inside the room was a mess there were Zombies gnawing on the flesh of a fallen officer and police that had yet to turn screaming for help. The place was literally what you would''ve called hell. I quickly rushed toward those who have yet to turn and started to gun down the zombies surrounding them. I quickly became the center of attention for the zombies. I expected that much as the gun I used created a large sound the moment I fired. I was quickly surrounded by the zombies that had yet to find prey. There were 4 zombies surrounding me. I dropped the gun activated [Asura Berserk] and pulled out my fire axe from behind my back and started to hack them to death. The moment of activation the world around me started to turn red. Time started to slow and my body started to glow red. All of the zombies movements became so slow. In succession I slashed off the heads of the four zombies. I was easy fast and efficient. I guess this is a skill I''m gonna keep. In the BETA period players get skills which will level up automatically every 20 Status points, but after the BETA you only get to keep one of the skills at the highest level and the remaining will go back to there original skill. Meaning if I choose a different skill then Asura Berserk the skill will go back to level 1 which was Blood Boil. Although I will keep my other skills at level 1 all will still be possible to level up but only through understanding them and using them rather then when one adds stat points. This is to give the players a taste of what the skills final form would be. I look around at the zombies in my surroundings and started a one sided massacre of all the zombies. [Congratulations you have killed a Zombie.] [You earn 100 Evolution Points] [Congratulations you have killed a Zombie.] [You earn 100 Evolution Points] [Congratulations you have killed a Zombie.] [You earn 100 Evolution Points] ... In succession I killed all of the zombies in the room. But after doing so my mind became lightheaded and blood started to flow from my Nose Eyes and Mouth. And in the next Moment. I was back in a dark black room and a countdown timer and box appeared. [10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0!] [Do you wish to RE SPAWN?] [YES/NO] "Yes!" So after using the skill even once in my current body might result in death... That just makes this skill even more perfect!!! It makes for a perfect suicide skill if I''m ever caught in a trap and can''t kill myself. Alright, now that I have this skill I can even challenge the Magus Civilization! The Magus Civilization is an Alien race. They were a civilization much like humans except they focused there civilizations route to the top on MAGIC. They have a complete Magic Civilization ranging from Spells to Tools but they are most well known for their Magic Cards! They are one of the top ten strongest Civilizations. Chapter 13: Trucks "Status!" Name: Li Xin Ability: ~[RE SPAWN]~ Physical: [Ashura berserk] [Ultimate Movement] [Regeneration] [MP Rapid Recovery] [Thought Acceleration] [Soul: 999.9][Max] [Strength: 100]Tier 1 MAX [Intelligence: 40] [Wisdom: 78.8] [Agility: 100] Tier 1 MAX [Vitality: 100] Tier 1 MAX Evolution Points: 14,000 140 zombies, not bad. I''ll become tier 2 now. [Intelligence: 40-> 100] Tier 1 MAX [Wisdom: 78.8-> 100] Tier 1 MAX Evolution Points: 5,980 [MP Rapid Recovery -> Mana Recovery] Upgrade [Thought Acceleration -> Parallel Thought] Upgrade Your overall stats have reached the Threshold of Tier 2. [TIER LEVEL UP] [Tier 2 reached.] Name: Li Xin [*Tier 2*] Ability: ~[RESPAWN]~ Physical: [Ashura berserk] [Ultimate Movement] [Regeneration] [Mana Recovery] [Parallel Thought] [Soul: 999.9][Max] [Strength: 100] [Intelligence: 100] [Wisdom: 100] [Agility: 100] [Vitality: 100] Evolution Points: 5,980 Suddenly a Notification box popped up. [Congratulations for becoming the first to reach Tier 2.] [You will receive a reward of 100,000 Evolution Points] There''s a prize for becoming the first to become Tier 2!? 100,000 Points so 1,000 zombies in the Beta Period or 10,000 zombies after it!!! That will save me a lot of time! It''ll save me the need to kill zombies for Tier 2 [Reward Pending...] [Pending...] [Unable to connect to the Main System...] [( ?¡ã ?? ?¡ã)[(ERROR 404)]( ?¡ã ?? ?¡ã)] [Reward is unable to be received.] [Reward cancelled] "What!? No, my 100,000 Points!!! You stupid system!!! Give me my points!" [ ¡¥\_(¥Ä)_/¡¥] (?_?) After about 5 minutes of venting I came back to my senses. I lost 100,000 points equal to Maxing out Tier 2!!! You require double the amount of points per stat for every Tier Up. DAMMIT, can''t you simply connect to the main system really fast and then... Che... whatever it''s only 100,000...This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience. I soon leave the room with a solemn face. The moment the Officers Outside the door saw me they stepped back in fear because my face practically said "Danger Danger Danger." "You can go in now, I finished off all of the Zombies. Grab the Car Keys inside and any equipment that could possibly be of use. Also tend to the wounded officers that have yet to die." "Yes Sir!" "We won''t be coming back here so make sure get everything necessary." "Yes Sir!" The 4 officers quickly ran inside the office, they quickly ransacked the place looking for things that could be of use they found Keys to several cars hanging by a rack. John suddenly came out of the room with electronics with a couple of suitcases. Look at what I found! Upon opening the suitcase the inside was a drone. In the times of the apocalypse this is a really useful device. Although it won''t work after a couple of months as the Internet will shut down but for at least 3 months it''ll be useful. We also found a whole rack of keys for the police vehicles. I also had them search out all of the phones that were on the bodies of the Zombies I killed. At the current start of the Apocalypse phones can still connect for the first month. Other then the phones I also took all the radio equipment. I also found a couple of I pads which could be useful. I basically took everything that had a battery in it. When the Apocalypse began in my last life I remember that I often ran out of things and so in the middle stages of the apocalypse I started to become sort of a hoarder. I basically took everything that I could possibly get my hands on. "Bandage up the wounded officers were gonna need all the manpower we have." After we finished ransacking the room we headed out. We gained 3 new allies although they are wounded and come possibly turn at any moment. While going through the hallways we encountered multiple Zombies and I had the infected people kill them. We rescued a total of 10 people while on our way to the arsenal. A bunch of officers died at the hands of there fellow coworkers when they turned as most of the people weren''t armed in the station. So being able to save 10 officers along the way was a real surprise. I am quickly brought to the police arsenal and there are Handguns, Semi Automatic-Rifles, Shotguns, 2 Sniper Rifles, Riot Shields, a bunch of boxes of ammunition. There were also police cuffs batons, tasers and tear gas cans. I found police suits and special Forces suits in the closet nearby and had everyone grab Suit and Armed all of them to the teeth. (Don''t know if the police actually has all of these weapons but... I''ll just make it so they do or just this one in particular.) 17 Police Officers armed to the Teeth with Shotguns and Rifles. Dressed in special forces uniforms. I have to say they''re looking like a team that could take down any amount of Zombies! I have all of them grab boxes of ammunition and guns and start loading them onto the police Vehicles. It took about 10 minutes to grab all the weapons in there. "We are we headed?" "To a nearby Trucking company. We need larger vehicles to load all the supplies were gonna need." After getting to a Trucking company I have them make a barricade near a wall with the cars and turn on their police sirens I took a megaphone from the supplies we found and started to holler. "This is the NYPD we have come to save any survivors here. Listen to my instructions for it might cost you your life if you don''t. First we''re gonna lure out all of the Zombies inside. After we finished exterminating them we will go inside in search for any survivors. If you are a survivor make sure to stay put and not make any aggressive movements for you might be taken as a Zombie. Remember to stay put. One more thing to remember is that all survivors that have been bitten or scratched by the zombies don''t need to fear turning. We have a way to save all of you." Chapter 14: Mutated Zombie Devil Once I finished using the megaphone a bunch of zombies quickly started charging out of the warehouse. I had the officers aim at their heads and wait for them to come within 40 meters before shooting. I however shot whilst they were 100 meters away and got head shots with pinpoint accuracy. After a half hour of clearing out the place of Zombies we finally finished clearing out the zombies that rushed out. I took out the megaphone again. "We have eliminated the Zombies that have rushed out! But there is possibly zombies still stuck inside the building so make sure to not make any sudden movements when we found you for we could mistake you for a Zombie. When we holler for any survivors and you believe your safe from Zombie please call out to us to let us pinpoint your location. " Time to look for survivors. The first thing we noticed after entering the front door of the trucking warehouse was a dense smell of blood. We then figured out that it came from the corpse that was behind the door. The Zombies entire lower half had been eaten so he was trying to crawl out to reach us but since he didn''t have legs he was slow. I had an infected officer kill it. The officers that had been infected are healing nicely and will soon have their Vitality up to 20 and gain there life saving skills. The front of the warehouse was a bloody mess it was full of scratch marks across the floors and blood puddles which would remind one of a slaughterhouse. A perfect 10/10 if it was how you decorated your house on Halloween Night. The word to describe it would literally have o be all hell broke out. The walls were scratched the floors had large puddles of blood and there is a Zombie climbing towards the front door without his legs. I quickly have the officers form groups of 3. 1 in front with a Riot Shield and 2 in the back with Shotguns as their primary gun and a Glock 17 as there secondary back up gun. 1 officer can be a tank and the 2 officers in thee back who will blow the Zombies brains out while they''re occupied. We made a total of 4 teams. I made sure that all of them had a loud speaker with them in case they need to holler for help at any moment.If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. Having 2 men in front with riot shields should be able to block off any attacks for at least till i get there so this is a pretty good formation for now. I quickly headed up to the second floor first and used my loud speaker. Is there anyone still alive on the second floor!? If your still alive I''ll help get you out of here so just make some noise as long as your safe to do so. If you can''t because there is a Zombie nearby don''t worry. For I''m gonna lure them all towards me and look through every room. Just make sure to answer me when I''m in the room your staying at for that would save me a lot of time to look for you one at a time. "I''m Here!!! HELP!!!" Immediately the sound of someone screaming at the top of his lungs sounded. I turn in the direction of the voice and find myself facing a door at the deep end of the hallway corridor. I walk up to the door that the voice was coming from and grab onto the handle of the door. The door suddenly springs open and smashes onto me. From behind the door comes out a Zombie. I''m crushed by the door with a door onto and a Zombie on top of the door. The Zombie immediately aims for my head and grabs my throat. "Ha ha... I''m here! He he Help! HA HA." The creature that is holding onto my neck right now is one of the few mutant Devil Zombies. All Mutant devil Zombies are Tier 3 creatures the moment they turn. They''re called Mutant Devil Zombies because they were originally humans that mutated a Ability at the very start of the Apocalypse. They''re the so called sons for heaven that died early before they had there true chance to blossom. "HAHAHA you want Help Me!? :D HAHAHA! Help me!!! AHAHA... ... I stare at the Tier 3 zombie that is grabbing my throat. His strength stat is higher than mine by at least 100 points... For a place like this to have a Tier 3 zombie... It''s ridiculous... "DIE!!! HAHAHA!" The Zombie suddenly crushed my throat and my body detached itself from my head. Blood started to gush out of my mouth; it was not a pretty sight to see. "HAHAHA!!! DIE! HA HA... he he he DIE!" I suddenly spit into his wide open mouth with the last of my strength while he was roaring and screaming. I then chanted in my mind Create Revival Point! Revival Point Location: Zombie Mouth, New York. Only then did I lose consciousness and fall into the abyss of darkness. The zombie then looks at my corpse in confusion. "Dead??? Hmm... Why no tasty smell..." In the darkness my system space lights up once again. The countdown timer starts once again. [10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0!] [Do you wish to RE SPAWN?] [YES/NO] Re spawn Point Location Zombie Mouth Selected. A new countdown timer starts. [10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0!] [Do you wish to RE SPAWN?] [YES/NO] "YES!" ----------------------- "Why no tasty smell?" "Hmm..." "Not tasty? No no no he smell tasty before? Why no tasty? Not tasty? No no no he smell tasty before? Not tasty? No no no he smell tasty before?" Fun Fact: New Mutated Zombie Devils have the intelligence of a child on their first day of Life. They adapt quickly through thinking about their questions thoroughly, they learn from their mistakes and quickly improve their intelligence. The zombie is still in its infant stage so it is baffled by something it doesn''t understand and tries to learn why by repeating the question over and over again until it gives up or finds the answer. A Mutated Zombie Devil is most vulnerable in this stage as it is 100% focused on the question in it''s mind. Suddenly there is a feeling of heaviness in the lower jaw of the zombie and the head of the Zombie Explodes. Chapter 15: Food Blood splatters against the cold hard floor which the Zombie was standing on and a man covered in its blood pops out of the end of the exploded head. The Size of an average human head is 6 to 7 inches wide and 8 to 9 inches long. There isn''t much space to fit a 5 foot 9 in human in there let alone in a mouth that has only capacity to hold 71.2 ml of food. So the moment I revived inside of its mouth the jaw gave way and since it was closed the entire head exploded. It''s like a balloon. A balloon can only fit so much air inside of itself before it''ll pop. [Congratulations you killed a Mutated Zombie Devil!] [You earn 10,000 evolution points.] Holyshit 10,000 points! A Tier 1 Zombie gets me 100 evolution points and Tier 2 is 1,000 and tier 3 is 10,000. At least it is like that in the beta phase. While in the normal times Tier 1 are 10, Tier 2 are 100, and Tier 3 is only 1000 so this amount in the beta phase is so much better. Tier 3 Zombies shouldn''t even be showing up in this time of the Apocalypse.This is such a rare encounter. I don''t know if I should be counted as one lucky man or one with horrible luck. I encountered a new turned Mutated Zombie Devil that probably didn''t even learn to control its own ability yet... I beat the thing so I''m gonna say I''m pretty f*cking LUCKY! Status! Name: Li Xin [Tier 2] Ability: ~[RESPAWN]~ Physical: [Ashura berserk] [Ultimate Movement] [Regeneration] [Mana Recovery] [Parallel Thought]This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it. [Soul: 999.9][Max] [Strength: 100] [Intelligence: 100] [Wisdom: 100] [Agility: 100] [Vitality: 100] Evolution Points: 17,980 I have 179.8 stat points but the amount of evolution points needed in tier 2 is double so I only have 89.9 Tier 2 status points. 50 in strength and 39.9 in agility. Name: Li Xin [Tier 2] Ability: ~[RESPAWN]~ Physical: [Ashura berserk] [Ultimate Movement] [Regeneration] [Mana Recovery] [Parallel Thought] [Soul: 999.9][Max] [Strength: 150] [Intelligence: 100] [Wisdom: 100] [Agility: 139.9] [Vitality: 100] Evolution Points: 0 Almost a fifth of the way to tier 3. After upgrading my stats I look towards the corpse of the Zombie Devil. I take out my knife and started to dissect the Zombie. A deep knife puncture into the chest and then I pull the knife downwards. I quickly split open the chest of the zombie. In the chest there is a crystal growing in place of the Zombies heart. It is glimmering in a Red light. This is the Evolution Crystal of a Tier 3 Devil Zombie. Zombie cores start to form while there in tier 2 so a Tier 3 core is quite a good find. Although it is only half the size of a regular Tier 3 core. This is due to it just recently becoming a Devil Zombie. One of these crystals can increase ones stats by a huge margin depending on how strong the body is. For a Tier 2 like me it could most likely increase all my stats by fifty points. But for a Tier 1 if they could withstand the power contained in the Crystal they could probably increase directly to Tier 2. So the question now is do I take it or should I save it. The obvious answer to this question of mine is to save it. I mean, I still have my cute little sister waiting for me to come home. Being this late to get home is gonna result in some serious scolding so this will be my present for her as well as an apology for her to let me off the hook. After finishing the Zombies off my group of officers came back with 20 men.1 was the manager of the warehouse that luckily hid inside the warehouse closet.He luckily wasn''t found by the Zombies roaming around before we got there.There was also a 5 who were warehouse loaders, the ones who load and unload the items onto a truck.The five of them were together loading stuff onto a Truck when the Apocalypse happened.They quickly hid in the trucks cargo bed amongst the chaos.They shut and locked the doors so that no one could come inside. They were even lucky enough to land themselves in a food truck so even if we didn''t show up they could probably survive for a month.Well at least as long as the Tier 3 Zombie wasn''t there. The rest were drivers who where still in there trucks.We found 14 drivers scared for their lives hiding in there seats.They were simply thanking God for how they didn''t leave their trucks for a break. Due to the height of the trucks the Zombies were unable to see them and because of there being so much blood and other humans around they didn''t even notice them. A total of 20 people were found they weren''t even infected due to hiding away in a safe secure area. I had all of them grab all the food and supplies in the warehouses and start loading them onto the trucks. I''ve never been gladder that I had 14 Truck drivers then now because not just anyone can drive a truck. And trucks are an essential piece of transportation of food in the Apocalypse. The warehouse that I went to was one of the many warehouses in New York that supplies the food to most of the shops in Chinatown.Most of the food that Chinatown restaurants buy are brought from these supply houses.Meaning warehouses like these have way more food in stock than any other place in New York.14 Trucks full of food is a lot of food.It could probably last a decade if it was just for my group. So I have enough food for now as long as I don''t go crazy with it. I need Level up my tier to 4 by the end of today so a couple thousand more zombies to go. It''s already dark outside and going around trying to kill zombies won''t be easy so I''ll get home to pick up my sister first. [Current time 3:57 AM] Chapter 16: Gas Station Before I get home I''ll head to the gas stations to get as many tanks of gasoline as I could for I''ll need it. I have about 20 hours before the End of the Beta Period so I''ll make sure I get enough gasoline to set a couple of buildings on fire. In about an hour we finished loading everything onto the 14 trucks. We also got a couple of Firearms after the Manager of the warehouse told us where they were. We got 1 shotgun 2 handguns. I also found a couple of fire extinguishers which could be useful to put out a fire, as well as a couple of Fire axes. Were all set to go. I have everything loaded onto the 14 trucks and can soon set off. 14 Trucks and 5 Police Jeeps on the streets of New York. That is quite a sight to behold. We have a total of 34 people, excluding myself. I''ll consider that quite large group. In the Zombie apocalypse it is usually better to stay in smaller groups and to make as little noise as possible but I just can''t do that when I have 14 freaking trucks with me. So were doing the exact opposite. I have all the Officers turn on their police sirens and blast it at full force. This created such a loud amount of noise that soon a horde of Zombies had come out from every alley way or house that wasn''t sealed off. The Louder the noise the more Zombies. I had Jack grab the megaphone and start hollering out survival tips for the survivors out there. I had him tell the people of New York that killing a Zombie can help your body become stronger and if you make your Vitality over 20 in stats you can become partially immune to the virus so you won''t turn into a zombie if you can kill enough of them. There were a few survivors that tried to come to us for help but weren''t able to because of the large horde of Zombies we attracted. We were headed to a nearby Gas Station. We need a lot of Gasoline to keep these trucks Running. Without the trucks I wouldn''t be able to Transport all the food.The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. I really need a Interspatial Ring but I won''t be able to get it until a month later when the Other world merchants arrive or if I find a dungeon that has it as a reward. I look at my phone and stare at the google maps app. I''m looking for all the areas that should have dungeons as they were there in my past life. I remember very clearly that Landmark areas where there is a huge population is generally where a dungeon spawns. I remember that there was this part of a subway station that''s entrance became a dungeon destination. I quickly found the location of the subway and bookmarked it as an extremely important location. I also remember that near central parks lake there showed up an entrance to a dungeon as well. Those are the 2 dungeons in New York that I remember going to and lot lets not forget the site that will become an Other World Merchant Shop. The EMPIRE STATE BUILDING. With a total of 102 floors, well technically 103 if you count the Secret balcony. But that building became a Merchant Shop #122 meaning there are at least 122 other Merchant shops, I said at least because there are definitely more than 122 others. Merchant Shops only show up in areas that have a large surviving human population and New York would become one of those in a Months time. This is also why there is only a merchant shop showing up after 1 month. I quickly mark the Empire State Building as Merchant shop. I also marked all convenience stores, supermarkets and Hypermarkets; such as Walmart, Target, Best Buy and others. The reason I picked the hypermarkets were because they usually have 3D printers. 3D Printers are one hell of a good thing in the Apocalypse, they''re very rare, so everyone tries to snatch them up like crazy so I better get them fast. This is because not everyone has a gun in the apocalypse and a 3D printer fixes that problem. With a 3D printer you can simply print out a gun design off the internet for free. The trucks and police soon start to slow down were not yet at the gas station just yet but have to stop due to the road in front being blocked off by a car crash in front. The entire road is blocked off. Damn, now of all times. I look at the horde of Zombies behind us and know I we need to take out the Zombies first. Damn! I was gonna blow them all up at the Gas Station. Take out your guns men. Drivers get ready to make a U turn we need to make a detour. Well ram them in and get going. The Truck drivers put there trucks on reverse and pressed down hard on the gas. The 14 trucks each weigh about 13 tons so these trucks smashing into a crowd of Zombie killed most of them. The trucks backed by going in reverse until it reached the cross roads and we started out detour. We took out about a 1/20 of the Zombies following us just by doing that stunt. We shouldn''t do that anymore as we''ll need these trucks to last us about a month or until I get a interspatial ring. The truck drivers got a whole lot of Evolution Points but since they weren''t exactly part of the attack squad it was a bit of a waste. We soon got back on the route to the Gas station and reached it. The convenience store by the gas station was closed and blocked off with racks of items. The front door was blockaded so we couldn''t get in. There are people inside. Chapter 17: Unfortunate Thief The front door to the convenience store is blockade so there must be people inside. The food on the trucks require cooking so we won''t be able to consume those just yet.While Convenience stores have foods that could be consumed.Most of them were called junk food but it''s really just packaged food. I start knocking on the door and then yelled. "This is the NYPD we have taken care of the zombies outside.Open up the door." Suddenly we heard a bang coming from the inside of the Shop. A gun? I look at the door and then without hesitation smashed into it. Crash.With my 150 Strength I easily rammed down the door. The scene inside was not something I expected. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Within the convenience store there were a total of 6 people 1 of them is lying down on the floor with a gunshot wound to his head while one of them had a gun pointed at a woman''s head.The remaining were shaking in fear. All of them had their hands up in the air. This was a store that was being robbed before the whole Apocalypse started. The man with a hoodie on was a Robber that was doing his first robbery and when a man suddenly went berserk and tried to bite him he quickly shot the man in the head.He feared that he killed a man so he quickly tried to run away from the crime scene only to find out that there were more zombies outside. With his gun he started to order the men inside to follow his orders after he took a woman hostage. He had the door and windows of the Convenience store barricaded with the shelves.This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there. Thats a fucking Zombie apocalypse out there!!! Holyshit! Holyshit! What the Fuck is wrong with today. I only wanted to rob a store why did the world go to hell... No this must be fake... Suddenly I hear a series of police sirens and honking.I hear the rumbling of a heavy vehicle. I look out the small peephole I left in the window and saw a group of police cars coming along with a bunch of Trucks. THE POLICE!!! HOLYSHIT! HOLYSHIT! What do I do, what do I do... they''re here for me!? I look at the people who have their hands up and think about what I should do The cops are outside and I don''t have a silencer on this... Damn it, what should I do... Suddenly a voice penetrates past the door. "This is the NYPD we have taken care of the zombies outside.Open up the door." "SHIT!" I look at the people in the shop and tell them to go to the back by pointing my gun at them. It was then when the bitch within my arms went crazy. She bit down hard on the arm I was grabbing her with. Fuck! I batted her head with the back of my gun; this is commonly called Pistol-whipping. After knocking her unconscious I took my gun and aimed it at her head and... Bang* After firing I pointed the gun at the 4 other men. "If you don''t want to die follow my orders!" The men looked at each other before nodding. I know I''ll have to do something about them. If they tell the police what I did I''ll be arrested... But it''s a Zombie apocalypse out there so maybe I can survive this.I still have a gun... Suddenly I heard a bang and a crash... The barricade that I worked so hard to build came crashing down. Then from behind the door I see police officers 4 in front with riot shields and a couple behind them with their guns pointed at me... They have a fucking riffles... and all I have is a handgun... This is really not my day... "This is the police, Hands up where we can see them, drop the gun, lie down on the ground, if you don''t we will fire." I slowly but surely follow these instructions and place my gun down, I then put my hands above my head and start lying down. "This is really not my day... sigh." --------------------------------------------------------- After getting the man who fired the shot under control I learned of the entire situation. This was the crime scene of a Robbery. We the police are heroes of justice because we took down the big bad wolf¡­ I mean robber. What a weird situation we go ourselves into. I look at the people who were in the store with the robber and know I can''t just leave them behind. Alright then lets first loot this place of glass bottles.Were at a Gas Station to take gasoline with us after all so making Molotov cocktails are naturally something we''re gonna do while where here. I had them start opening up bottles of booze and pouring them into the Styrofoam cups near the soda machine.If they want booze there gonna need to save it in another container for we need glass bottles. I can''t have my men drunk while on the job now. I grabbed all the rollers off the grill and started chowing down.I grabbed all the donuts that were out in front and in the back and started handing them out. We now have a team of 39 people, the robber is more like a prisoner now so... 38 people... After all of us were full I started loading on the Police Vehicles all the packaged foods that were inside.Most of which were Chips. We got a lot of long lasting food and lots of drinks. We filled up all the glass bottles we could find with gasoline and have filled up our vehicles to the brim. I also found a couple of Jerry cans in the back of the Convenience store and filled all those tanks up as well. It''s time to head out.But before that lets get rid of those zombies. Chapter 18: Twinkle Twinkle We finished creating a total of 96 Molotov Cocktails. They were made using the six pack glass bottles. They had 16 six packs of those which we found in the front of the store and the back. After emptying out the bottles we turned on all the gasoline pumps and started filling them up. You start filling it up until it reaches about ? of the bottle, after that you add in ? motor oil.The motor oil is used to help make the fire burn larger and longer.The last step which is a crucial step when making it is the cloth that you use as a top and a fuse. You first fold a piece of ripped cloth in half, this makes the cloth double layered, then you tie the cloth into a knot.Thatknot will be stuck inside of the mouth of the bottle and should block the gasoline from getting out. That is how you make a DIY Molotov Cocktail. With 96 of those we have like 96 bombs so it''s gonna be really useful when taking down zombies.This will be enough for now. Now the next problem I have is what should I do with this guy.I look at the man who is currently cuffed to the doors of the refrigerator. I already have 38 people, including me and my sister would be 40 mouths to feed. Then there''s this guy¡­ a criminal. He''s not really needed.My team is already way to big¡­ This apocalypse is a brutal one, so why should I care if he''s going to die or not¡­ Lets just use him as bait. I have everyone get back inside the trucks and police cruisers and then unlock the handcuffs to this criminal. The man looked at me with hateful eyes.Eyes which seemed to say he''ll skin me alive.Love this novel? Read it on Royal Road to ensure the author gets credit. I looked back at him and with a smirk I took out my Glock when he was busy running away I shot him.Shots in both his feet were shot to prevent him from running away. AHHHHHHHHH! Screaming attracts zombies, but the thing that attracts zombies more is blood. Fresh blood from an unturned human is the most attractive thing to a zombie. With this guy immobile he''ll be the perfect bait to lure the zombies into the gas station. Previously I blockaded it with the trucks so that the zombies wouldn''t get to us when we were looting the place. Now that I have a Bait to lure them in I can safely have the Trucks drive away. I have them drive towards my address.It''s about time to get home. But before that let''s blow up this gas station. I let the Trucks Drive away first at full speed after I grabbed a lighter and a loudspeaker. "Come one come all to the Gas Station of death.Zombies are VIP Customers here so we will give you all a great burial place to die for free, you didn''t hear me wrong.I''ll say it again: we will make sure to cremate all of you for FREE 100% FREE so make sure you come to the Gas Station of Death.Remember to bring your brothers, sisters, parents and uncles for It is a 100% FREE Burial Place.I promise you won''t regret it." After shouting out a heart warming advertisement from the bottom of my heart for the Zombies I go inside the convenience store counter and turned on all the gasoline tanks and input a 100 dollars into the nearest pump. I go up to the gasoline pump and held down the trigger. The gasoline started gushing out and soon formed a puddle on the ground. With the pump in hand I started drawing. Circles, Triangles, Squares stars.I drew a whole variety of shapes and in a variety of sizes. The Zombies were creeping in and the criminal I caught was trying desperately to get crawl into the Convenience store. It wouldn''t be long before the zombies got to me as they were only a couple of feet away. I didn''t really care at that point due to no fear of death and just continued to draw stars... While I drew the little stars I started to hum... Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. When this blazing hell is gone, When all zombies burnt upon, Then you show your little light, Twinkle, twinkle, through the night. When the Zombies in the dark Thanks you for your tiny spark; He could not see where to go, If you did not Ignite the fuse. .... Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (ZOMBIE Edition) By the time I finished singing the Zombies were already upon me. It''s time to go.I take my pump and started to douse gasoline on the machine itself. I took out the lighter in my pocket and then. With a slight quick rubbing motion on the lighters spark wheel it caused the fuse that it let out ignite. When the Zombies in the dark Thanks you for your tiny spark; For he could not see where to go, If you had not ignited the fuse. The flame from that tiny spark jumped off of my lighter and spread to all the gasoline in the area. In the short span of 10 seconds all the tiny stars I drew where lit. The flame reached the gasoline tank in a matter of seconds and soon there was a... BANG! The gasoline tank exploded. The zombies that tried to kill me were incinerated. There were about 200 zombies in the perimeter of the gas station so 20,000 Evolution points where earned in those few seconds. But of course I wasn''t there to see the scene of the explosion for I died the minute the tank exploded. I was sitting inside the dark black room and a countdown timer was shown. [10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0] [Do you wish to Respawn?] [Y/N] I just waited there for after every few seconds a notification popped up. [Congratulations you have killed a Zombie.] [You earn 100 Evolution Points.] [Congratulations you have killed a Zombie.] [You earn 100 Evolution Points.] [Congratulations you have killed a Zombie.] [You earn 100 Evolution Points.] The ringing was nonstop and there were hundreds of them. The constant ringing was driving me nuts so I simply put the ringing on silent mode. Finally some piece and quiet. Chapter 19: Truck Thief After leaving the Gas Station the route the trucks and police cars were taking was leading towards Chinatown. On the last truck there sat 2 people. One was an officer saved by Li Xin and the other was someone that was just saved. "Hey, do you think that guy will be alright? I mean... there was like 200 or so zombies right so its..." "Call him BOSS." "Why should I? It''s already the Zombie Apocalypse so why should you care what I call him?" "Why, because he saved your stupid ass. He saved all of our asses. Do you know how many zombies he''s already slain? Definitely hundreds already. It''s only the first day of the Zombie apocalypse but the boss came straight to the Police office to get Firearms. He''s got a plan." "What are you talking about he''s just gotten lucky, I mean I would do the same thing if I was him." "Shut up, do you think the boss is like us? He''s definitely not normal. He definitely has a plan set in mind and will come back alive." "But he didn''t even leave a vehicle behind to catch up to us what if he..." "Shut up! The boss is definitely an apostle of God sent to save us from misery so he definitely won''t die, even if we all died he definitely wouldn''t die! If you say such a thing ever again don''t blame me for getting even more rough on you." The man who was asking questions just now thought in his mind that this Fucktard is crazy he thinks that Teenager save the world or something, Who the fuck does he think he is! There was this dark glint in his eyes after the thought. This man was one of the people inside the convenience store at the time it was taken over. But this man was no hostage. He was an accomplice of the robber. After things went south he just hid among the people and was waiting for an opportunity to get away. He didn''t think that they would leave his partner behind and kill him so he jumped onto the vehicle with only 2 people a driver and 1 officer. He thought that he could take control of the truck if he took the officer out and now was his chance.The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. The accomplice slowly sat down with his back against the wall. He kept his eyes on the officer that was in the same truck as him and when the officer turned his head away he quickly took out the knife he hid in sleeve. Before the officer could react he slit his throat. The man who''s throat was cut was unable to say anything before the accomplice stabbed the knife into his head. The accomplice then grabbed the pistol which was in the gun holster belt. "There is no going back." He quickly looked at the supplies that were looted from the convenience store that packed the back of the truck. Greed was apparent in his eyes. Food is basically a necessity now that it''s the apocalypse and this truck was full of it. As long as he could take control of the Driver he could make his get away. He looked around and spotted a door. This should lead to behind the driver''s seat. I need that guy to stop the truck somehow without arousing suspicion. Hmm... lets try this. The man grabs a hold of the officer he just killed and hacked his head off. He then opened the door leading towards the front of the truck and when the driver turns his head to look at me in surprise I point my gun straight to his head. "You''re gonna stop this truck and get off of it before I shoot you. If you don''t do it without raising suspicion I''ll blow your brains out." I then pull out the head that was dripping a trail of blood behind me. The driver quickly turned pale in the face. "Did you hear what I just said!?" "Yes..." "Good, now find a way to stop the car and get off of it, If I find you doing anything suspicious I''ll shoot." The driver looked out his cars windshield and saw a blue cabin toilet box. He picked up the radio on his end and said that he was gonna stop the truck and go for a toilet break. He slowed the truck down until it got to a stop and then opened the door to the truck before slowly walking towards the toilet. When he stopped the other trucks stopped as well. After getting off the truck the driver looked back at the truck, after considering a safe distance between himself and the man who held him gunpoint he suddenly shouted with all his might. "My truck has been taken over, the man is carrying a gun, he''s also killed the officer in my truck and is trying to get away with the truck of food. Everyone stop him!!!" The man in the truck not caring about the driver anymore simply turned the trucks gear to reverse and hit the accelerator. He quickly made a U turn with the truck at the crossroads and then shifted gears to Drive. Since he was the truck to stop first he was at the back of the pack of vehicles. He also had a higher height due to being in the truck so it was harder to shoot him. The police cruisers were much smaller than the trucks but were fast due to their size and soon caught up. But a truck has something that police cruisers didn''t have which was it''s size. The truck suddenly changed lane onto one of the police drivers lanes who was trying to shoot out his tires. The officer had driven parallel to the car to get a better aim for the wheels, but that was about to be the worst mistake he ever made in his life. The truck changed lanes suddenly and bashed the police cruiser onto the sidewalk. The police officer inside of the cruiser was badly hurt due to the truck hitting the drivers side door. Chapter 20: Im a good person The officers chasing after the truck quickly slowed down and went to check out the officer in the car. The car''s engine died when it was hit so the car was dead. The Airbags had come out of the side blocking the window glass from harming him. But the criminal had gotten away with a truck load of packaged food. That was a real loss. That 1 truck of food had approximately 3 months worth of food for 1 person and maybe 6 month if eaten sparingly meaning that the Thief had just taken half a year''s worth of food from them. This criminal gave them a huge loss in both Resources, Transportation and Man Power. The truck with it''s one lane change had taken out both the police cruiser as well as the officer so this was not looking good. "FUCK! Damn that fucking ungrateful bastard." The officer with the best manners had already started cursing so you can probably know how bad the situation was. Let me go I''ll avenge Jim and Ryan! A youthful officer by the Michael had already gotten ready to chase after the Truck. An older officer who was well experienced and calm accessed the situation calmly and made the most logical. "No, were going to the location stated by the boss." "WHAT ARE YOU KIDDING HE KILLED JIM!" "Calm the fuck down! We can''t chase. Even if we chase it''s unlikely that we can take him down. He''s in a truck, the odds of us bringing down the truck getting him is low. Even if we manage to take down the truck we''ll be surrounded by zombies. Did you remember he''s taking the road we just took. It''s full of zombies, even if we manage to take him out we''ll be surrounded by zombies and won''t be able to take back a single thing from the truck!" "But he killed Jim, are we just going to let him go after all he''s done!!!" "We won''t go after him! I know that Jim has taken care of you and he''s your best friend. He was mine as well! But this is the Fucking apocalypse, people will die like flies so if we follow your lead to chase after him we''ll likely be joining the bastard to his death even if we manage to kill him!"If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. "But... Jim he... FUCK!" Soon the groans of Zombies could be heard as a lot of screaming was taking place here. More and more zombies started showing up on the streets. It was a horde that was attracted for they were in the middle of New York which was crammed full of people with it''s densely packed buildings. Zombies had started showing up left and right like rabbits in the mating season. "LET''S GO!" The officers gently lifted Ryan the officer who passed out in the car crash into a truck. After that last act of sabotage the officer crammed the new people who they picked up onto one truck. They also left behind 2 police cruisers and had them blockade the street to block the zombies from getting closer. The 2 officers who lost there rides were stationed into the truck which was crammed with people and had their guns out. They made sure to keep a safe distance from the survivors who they picked up and had their guns facing them in case another case of sabotage was to occur. With that they moved out. --------------------------------------------------- On the stolen truck was a man by the name of Simon. He was a gang member of the Blood Cross Gang that was in the ghettos of the Queens. They were a gang that dealt in a variety of things from drugs to Robberies. He was out today to look after a new recruits for the first time at a robbery. But when things went south he hid with the hostages and thought that he would be safe. But a teenager suddenly had all of them make Molotov cocktails. This was a huge warning signal sent out to him telling him that this guy was bad news and he was not part of the police. He then had all of them to get on the trucks but stayed behind with his handcuffed recruit. He now knew that staying behind with this group will lead to him dying if they found out he was part of the Blood Cross Gang for he had the blood cross tattoo on his arm but his hoodie was covering up the tattoos so they couldn''t see it. But he will eventually have to take it off and the police officers know of this tattoo meaning it won''t be long before he ends up like his recruit. Thus when asked to board the trucks he chose the one with the fewest number of people. Unfortunately there was an officer there but he was kind of glad to for and officer had a gun and he gave his to the newbie. At first he started probing the officer with questions about where they were going and then onto the youth that stayed behind. He found out that the youth was the leader of the group and was really strong. After finding out enough he killed the officer with him in a sneak attack with his hidden knife. After taking out the officer he knew it would only be a matter of time before he was caught so he decided to take the driver hostage and then took over the truck. It was risky, but that was his only chance at survival for he believed that they would probably kill him if he was found to be a part of the blood cross gang. After crashing into a police cruiser and getting away he started laughing hysterically because he knew he got away. The police weren''t going to chase after him for it wasn''t going to be worth it. He now had a truck load of supplies and a gun. Things were looking great for him. There was an old Chinese saying that went like this. "Good people die young, while the scourges would live a thousand years." Apparently I''m a good person, for there is suddenly a half naked person holding a gun to my head. Chapter 21: Catastrophe After blowing up the gas station I revived myself in the back of a truck which I made a respawn point at and the moment I respawned I see a headless police corpse. When I saw it I was first confused then enraged. I look at the opening which connected the truck and the cargo space and whilst speeding through it I saw a man laughing to himself. I watched him laugh for a while before taking out my gun and pointing it at his head. I then asked. "Care to share what''s funny?" The laughter quickly stopped and the smile on his face froze. His face was like one which was caught masturbating for the first time by your parents to boot. Only worse by a thousand times for there was a gun pointed at his head. At least if you were caught by your parents you might be able to brush it off with a bit of humiliation. But here he might very well say goodbye to his life. My voice to him sounded colder than the coldest winter day. I had used so much killing intent on the man sitting in the driver''s seat that it was practically oozing out. The cramped space of the truck made it all the more obvious he couldn''t get away. "Stop the truck." The truck slowly pulled to stop by the side of the road and the zombies chasing behind the truck were already Scratching at the vehicle. "Care to explain what''s going on here?" The man didn''t speak... he knew he was dead if he said a wrong word. "So you killed my men and stole my food and vehicle..." The man shuttering in fear started to say something but stopped. "I..." "Your just one ungrateful bastard aren''t you, or maybe you were that dumb asses accomplice which was to scared to come out and decide to hide amongst the crowd."This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there. "..." "A coward huh." "..." "Don''t worry I won''t kill you, killing you would dirty my hands and wouldn''t be enough of a punishment. I''ll make you suffer a fate worse than death by a million times." After that I knocked him, tied him up and then threw him into the back of the truck. I then got into the driver''s seat and made a huge ass U turn in the middle of the road. After making the turn the surrounding zombies that were at my doors fell to the ground and got crushed by the truck. I pressed hard on the accelerator and the truck was on it''s way towards the Queensboro Bridge. In New York there are a lot of bridges which connect the 5 boroughs New York and since I''m near LaGuardia Airport the bridge which is closest to me is Queensboro Bridge. This might be a good spot to take over. If I remember correctly in my previous life the US army in New York started taking over New York after 5 days of the Zombie apocalypse. They started taking over all the important zones in the apocalypse first. They secured all Prisons first as military bases. Only after the first month of the Zombie apocalypse did they start taking over the bridges. But they only tried doing this as a last resort because after the first month was over did they find out that the GOD who brought the world to the apocalypse Era had decided to continue toying with all humans and decided to render they''re Zombie Plan ineffective. The US army actually has a Zombie Apocalypse Plan called Conplan 8888, and the first Phase of it is to shape the Terrain. After a good 30 days of finding good bases for the US Military to set up camps, it was all destroyed by gods catastrophe. He had decided to envelop the world in red rain clouds. The Rain clouds let out was made up of the Evolution Virus. This virus contained in the clouds had the power to increase the evolution of infected. All the Zombies that once couldn''t get into the Bases had in that one night all evolved to Tier 1 Zombies at the very least. Their were also tier 2 but very few in numbers. This means that the City of New York in a Months time had become a land filled with Millions of Tier 1 Zombies. The bases that the US had once built had only been helpful to block off Zombies who were once few in Tier 1. Once at Tier 1 Zombies don''t just rely on their sense of sight and hearing to find humans. After evolution in Tier the zombies gain an ability which is similar to humans in the now beta phase. Only unlike humans zombies will always get this ability after getting to Tier 1 unlike humans which can only get it today on the BETA period. The Ability that Zombies get is called Life Sense. This ability grants the Zombies the ability to find prey which has Life Presence residing within them. Although it isn''t extremely accurate the zombies have the ability to find the faint direction of a living being within a 3 mile range. The once well hidden human bases of the US had become a glowing light bulb in a dark tunnel. The US army had at the start of taking over New York City Decide to save as many citizens as possible so after a month of scavenging for food and water picked up at least a thousand human survivors. If 1 life form can lead a Zombie to find their faint direction in a 3 mile Radius then what do you think a thousand can do? The US bases had become a juicy piece of meat that was right in front of them. All 5 US bases which were heavily fortified come under the barrage of thousands of Tier 1 Zombies. The US Bases failed so badly at the hands of the Zombies that a survivor sleeping on an open street would have a higher chance of surviving then trying to survive in one of those bases. This was the second catastrophe God sent to humanity. Chapter 22: New Plan
After the Zombies Broke into the once heavily armed US Bases they had started filling there stomachs with food, for they were starving.Most of the Zombies didn''t have a good meal on the first month because most of the humans were in hiding or were behind these walls. That day was a day of disaster.The US army thought that they would be able to soon get rid of the zombies and get their normal life back.This is because the Bases had gotten in contact with all their military forces to come back and help kill off the zombies. The US Army had just called back all the army''s they sent to other countries.If you don''t know the US has the strongest military in the world.Calling back all the military forces in the world would make killing off the Zombies easy as pie. But after the zombies evolved and the bases lost connections with the forces coming back and then had to face the hordes of Tier 1 Zombies. Most of the civilians that the US army had saved became a pile of bones in a matter of seconds and so they had to make the most reasonable decision and had to abandon the Base. After Abandoning the once heavily fortified base they had decided to go down near the Hudson river where there were boats. The reason why I believe that the Queensboro Bridge would make a good base of operations is because in my past life the military used it as theirs, and for a good reason too, it is connected to Manhattan, The Queens and the River.There are boats along the bottom docks of the river. Zombies can''t swim, so with the military personnel being strengthened in the apocalypse there bodies can stand a jump from the bridge to the water without dying.This means that even if the bridge was surrounded with Zombies the Army could simply jump into the water and escape easily. There is also and especially good reason why bridges are a good spot in this Zombie Apocalypse for me. I became an ESP controller of water after my evolution in the blood rain.I was one of the few who gained an ESP ability after the baptism of blood rain. Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. The blood rain wasn''t only a disaster for humanity but kind of a blessing as well, all humans that didn''t turn into a zombie after being baptized in the blood rain gained ESP Abilities. But unfortunately the blood rain wasn''t really a true blessing, for the blood rain at that time was something that humans feared.The moment the red clouds came out on that fateful day most of the humans quickly went to find shelter to avoid it.Due to the rain seeming like blood most of the humans in the world feared to even touch it, they feared that it would turn them into Zombies. The rain therefore mostly affected the Zombies more. I remember that after the US army had failed in there first part of Conplan 8888 they were trying to try again. But after being unable to reach out to more help which they got and answer from before the Blood rain, some of the Soldiers in the Army started to grow restless. They grew restless for a variety of reasons first was the desperation that it was the end of the world.Originally they still had hope to bring the world back on track but after they lost communications with their reinforcements they thought that there wasn''t any point at all following the orders of their superiors.The second was that they were low on food and the Plan of the captain at the time was to continue with the plan 8888 and continue to help all civilians. If you don''t know Civilians saved by the army means more mouths to feed and more mouths to feed means less food for them. After 1 month of having the soldiers scavenge for food and the survivors simply increasing while doing close to nothing, some soldiers had enough, they confronted the Captain in charge of the Base to not let any survivors in any more but because the Captain''s last order was to continue with the plan he refused.The captain believed that reinforcements were coming but a larger portion of the soldiers already gave up on the idea that they would receive reinforcements. After a group of Soldiers had enough of being hungry and being forced to scavenge food for a bunch of good for nothing civilians they revolted. The first Revolt surprisingly succeeded because a lot of soldiers had become sick and tired of having to scavenge for food and believed that help wasn''t coming. The Bridge which was once the base of the army and accepted survivors kicked all useless survivors out while leaving behind only the ones that worked.They made the Bridge into a Tollway Passageand had all the survivors which wished to pass needing to give resources or work for them in exchange for passage through there base. This was basically how the US Army turned into a bunch of Bandits. The Bandits thrived with all the food they gained as they''re were many people who wanted to run from the Queens to Manhattan for there was a less amount of Zombies there.That''s why I believe this will be the perfect location to set up base.If I utilize the bandit''s strategy and made the bridge into my camp first then I can make my first pot of gold in the Zombie apocalypse. The Army will come here only after the change meaning that they will be carrying Weapons and supplies.If anyone has Weapons then the military certainly has a lot of them. If I could eliminate the Soldiers before they become Bandits then isn''t that a good deed for all of humanity?I could even receive a large amount of supplies from them as well. A dark smile creeps upon my face while thinking about how many weapons I can receive after taking out the Army. My new mission will be to take over the Queensboro Bridge.Take down the army and loot their supplies!!! "Supplies oh supplies what a wonderful thing you are." Chapter 23: Detour This will be a risky plan. The reason would obviously be because the military has a lot of guns and personnel. But the good part of this plan is the Army would never expect civilians to attack them. Plus they will be tired from escaping from the Zombies. This increases the chance of me succeeding with this plan. As for whether or not this is an ethical plan. I''ve long scrapped that thought out of my head. This Army of Soldiers will later on turn into a group of infamous Bandits who will plague humanity. I''ll simply be taking out the root of the problem before it grows into a truly big issue. I better get going now. I still have to meet up with my men and pick up my adorable sister. Stepping on the gas heavier than before the Truck starts to accelerate and soon I catch up with the trucks in front. But right when I was going to honk to alert them I''m back, one of the police cars took out a rifle and fired a round at my windshield. Oh, I totally forgot about him. I look at the back of the truck and look at the man I had just tied up. The man was still unconscious lying on his face. I pick up the police radio that was lying around on the cup holder and picked it up. I sent out a message through it and screamed through the radio. "Stop shooting, it''s me! I caught the guy! Don''t you dare shoot more bullets, for if you break this windshield I''ll make you eat it!" "BOSS!? Is that you!" "Yes, it''s me. I found this truck heading back towards me despite telling you guys to head to my specified location so I thought it was a deserter and took down the driver. You better explain the situation to me later." "Yes!" "Let''s get to the location first, we''ll deal with this guy I caught after we get there." The drive from our current location to my house was about 20 minutes away. But when we were about to cross an intersection¡­This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. The whole street was jammed¡­ There was a car crash on the route we were taking. I''m assuming that people driving the vehicles turned into zombies. "Just great¡­ I look at the horde of Zombies and the crashed cars which blocked our vehicles and couldn''t help but curse. "Seriously? You could''ve crashed anywhere else but had to crash here..." The Zombies in this section of the streets easily reached a thousand. If you don''t know how that looks like then you can just imagine a movie theatre packed with people. That''s just how many people there are here. "Boss, I think we should take a detour. We will waste a lot more time if we try to get through here." I look at the crowd of Zombies and started to grow frustrated. The further into Manhattan you are the more people. This is because Manhattan is one of the worlds most human packed cities. Downtown Manhattan has about 26,939 people in every square kilometre on average. Chinatown is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City. There are a lot of humans there and so when a car crash commotion sounded all the Zombies in the Vicinity were attracted by the noise. There are already at the very least a thousand Zombies on this street and more are coming every second. I can already see zombies coming out from behind us. This will be a good grinding spot for the Zombies. But now isn''t the time to grind the Zombies. I look at the Google Maps on my phone and see that there is this other route we can take. This route however will pass by a Hospital and hospitals are the most likely place where Zombies have turned the most so this route could probably be blocked as well. However I will need to find a Doctor for my team and it''s only been about a couple of hours into the Apocalypse so maybe I could find a doctor. There are also medical supplies in the Hospital which I would really need. I look at the Zombies in front of me. Although I can get through this area it''ll waste time. But if I go from the Hospital it''ll take some time to loot the place. But¡­ I really do want to find a Doctor for my team¡­ I look at the map and decided. "Lets go, we''ll first take a detour towards the NewYork¨CPresbyterian Hospital stock up supplies save as many doctors as we could find and then take St James Pl to get to East Broadway." "Huh? But boss the hospital is probably full of Zombies. It''s safer to fight through here first. "If we fight here then we can get to my house soon but what we really need right now isn''t to get there straight away but a doctor. A medic is an essential person you need in this Apocalypse. They will help enormously in this early stage of the Apocalypse." "But the time it takes to¡­" "The time it takes to loot the place maybe long but to get a medic is even more important. The first place that will be affected the most in a ZOmbie Apocalypse is the hospitals for people will start bringing more and more of these zombies there and the Doctors are the ones in the most danger." Back in my previous life there were few doctors. One of the reasons were because they became zombie food on the first day. It''s only been a couple of hours since the apocalypse started so there should be a couple of Doctors still alive in the hospital. If I can save them then we would have a huge help in surviving the Zombie Apocalypse for when a person gains an ability it is usually something that they are good at. An ability one gets is highly connected to what their most close to. Meaning a doctor can get a skill that can probably heal or help others. Of course there are exceptions for everything, but usually what a person is good at is what their skill will become. Chapter 24: Abilities Types There are 4 types of ESP Abilities in the Apocalypse world. Elemental Beast Tool Special But there is a special type of Ability which is known as Devil which could be known as the 5th type. However this Type however can hardly be considered a type for there are only 7 Abilities Users who can have the ability. The ESP abilities are generalized into these 4 types due to their powers. Elemental is an ability that gives the user control of an element. My past self had this type of Ability, I had control over water and to a very high degree of Control, by using my Secret manual. Although this ability has a strong start the bad part about this ability is the requirement on control and Soul strength in order to use the skill correctly. Beast is an ability that changes the body structure of the user. For example a person with this ability can turn their body into a Bear and have the strength and speed of a bear. This is a ability that is extremely straight forward. You will be able to become the initial spirit Beast that you bind yourself with. This ability varies from user to user for the beast that you contract yourself with will become the source of your power. If you contract yourself with the soul of a Bear then your strength will increase exponentially when you turn. But the requirement for this skill is very loose for you only need to contract a beast to gain immense power and as long as you feed the beast soul you contract with Treasures your beast will become stronger and more powerful just by merging with the things it is given. The negative side of this power is it requires a lot of resources and love for the beast you contracted with has a soul of its own. If the contract you make with it is violated it may escape leaving you with no power. A tool type ability is the ability to create weapons. People with this ability basically will always have a weapon or equipment to fight with. But the weapon that becomes the initial form will always be the strongest form. A tool ability user doesn''t need to fear that there weapon will break in combat for they can simply fix there weapon for a certain amount of mana. They can also improve the quality of there weapons through the use of better quality Metals and Treasures. The ability is also able to make components you need by morphing the metals you give the ability user. Then there''s the Special type, special type ESP ability as well¡­ special. It''s the only ability in the world that is well¡­ random.This tale has been unlawfully lifted without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon. This ability is sometimes extremely strong but also extremely weak, but sometimes extremely useful. There was Special Ability user that had the ability to create food. He was useless in fights for all he could do was create food. But there wasn''t one survivor that wouldn''t want him in there group and it was precisely because he could make what ever food he wanted just through the use of mana that he is wanted so much. As a man who can make food come out of thin air this was an extremely special ability. But at the same time it is an extremely weak ability. For you can''t use it to attack. Or maybe he just didn''t figure out how to make it into a attack. But there was also this guy who had the special ability who could use the power of Time Freeze, Create Undead, Contractor and a lot of others. These were ability that were considered extremely strong. But some of them were enemies of Humanity... There is last but not least the rarest ability called Devil. It''s an ability that is special, the reason why it''s special is because it that is basically a cheat, it is a rule breaker type. But there are only 7 or them. Devil is the name for this ability because they are basically abilities that are named after the 7 deadly sins. There is Sloth Lust Gluttony Pride Envy Wrath Greed. The reason why this type is rare is because there are only 7 of them. Each of the following skills are basically a BUG¡­ But¡­ I don''t think I should be the one to talk out BUGGED skills¡­ Ahem [Respawn]... But these skills are powers which have a limitless potential compared to other skill. But they bring harm upon there users which is why there in the Devil Category. Each of the following skills does just like what they''re called. Sloth increases all stats every day by 10. Meaning all the user of Sloth has to do is sleep he will naturally become stronger then everyone in the world after a couple of years. The more you cultivate the skill the more Lazy you become. The more Lazy you are the more convenient Life becomes. The Skill will make more skills that make life easier for the host. Disadvantage: You will become a person who won''t wish to do anything but sleep. You will lose yourself to the blissful thought of sleeping forever and won''t want to wake up. Will have suicidal thoughts every time you are forcefully awaken and will have the thought of simply killing yourself to have a peaceful sleep. The person who had this skill in the past became a hermit. He became one of humanities strongest people after 5 years of sleeping. But eventually committed suicide after the being disrupted from his sleeping by zombies multiple times... The man got so pissed that his sleeping was disturbed that he went on a rampage several times. Everyone of his rampages fueled on his lack of sleep. Even though he was practically sleeping away at most of the Zombie apocalypse. The man was called the sleeping devil. For when he goes on a rampage he is practically the devils incarnate himself. He can teleport next to you. All skills are ineffective due to his insanely strong defense and his attacks are like nukes. All of them are area of effect. Chapter 25: Hospital I Lust takes and copies all the stats and powers of the person you have Ahem¡­ sexual intercourse with. The person you use the skill on becomes your slave and follows your every order. The more people you use this skill on the stronger you become. The more you use this skill the more people you will be able to control. Those who you use the skill with will send part of there life span over to you every day continuously increasing your vitality. Disadvantage: You''ll lose yourself in lust and might become a slave to the power itself. If you can''t satisfy yourself everyday your lust will make you crazy. You will have the feeling of Lust Withdrawal. The feeling will get worse with every withdrawal and it is a Thousand times stronger every time it happens. The person who had this skill apparently died after being trapped by humanity''s forces in an ESP maximum Security cage. She died of Lust withdrawal after humanity''s forces trapped her there for 3 months. Humanity couldn''t kill her for her regeneration stat was through the roof so they trapped her and waited for the Withdrawal to kick in. Gluttony what you eat is what you get. You gain the skills stats and attributes of the things you eat. There is a 50 percent chance to get the skill of the thing you consume. The more you consume the stronger you get and your chance of getting a skill increases with the more you eat. Disadvantage: The more you eat the hungrier you get. When your hunger reaches maximum you lose yourself to your hunger and might eat yourself. Dying from being eaten is a risk a Gutton has to face when they''re hungry. The previous owner was extremely strong but eventually died at the hands of a sneak attack by his closest friend. The friend he trusted so much betrayed him after being tempted by a larger survivor group that as long as he leaked them some information they would give him the status of a survivor camp leader and not needing to fear about being chased down with his friend anymore. After the owner of the skill died he turned into a Zombie and the skill blossomed to it''s fullest potential. The Zombie who got the skill became the Plague Zombie that killed most of humanity forces. I don''t know much about the remaining skills but since there all cheat skills there names are probably the way they become powerful. Pride the more prideful you are the stronger you are. Envy the more envious you are of others the stronger you can get. A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. Wrath the greater the anger the stronger you are. Greed the more things you obtain the stronger you become. All 7 Devil skills are BUGS, but all of them must definitely have a disadvantage. Although there disadvantages are obvious you just can''t really call them a disadvantage when they can grow infinitely. This is why having a doctor is important. A doctor usually gets a skill that can heal others meaning they are essential. Not all humans will get the basic attribute skills of Health Recovery. Humans will only get the basic skills on the first day of the Apocalypse meaning that if people get infected by the virus of a Tier 1 Zombie before there stat in Vitality is more than 100 then they will turn into Zombies after 5 Days. But a Doctor usually has the skills to treat/ cure the virus meaning that they can heal the wounded as long as they have enough Mana and there Tier level is enough. A doctor is an essential member to have in a survivor Stronghold. We quickly have the trucks close in on the hospital. When we are in front of the hospital we see a horde of zombies. The entire front passage of the hospital was packed with zombies. Umm... boss? "What?" "Are you sure there will be any survivors?" I look at the horde of Zombies standing around aimlessly by the entrance of the hospital. I am now not sure whether or not I made the right decision. "We''ll know after we raid it, stop with the questions, let''s get to work." But I simply blew off the question. I look at the entrance of the hospital and already know that the place is going to be hard to get through. I then look at the street light pole which is near the hospital and an idea comes into mind. "Wait here. I''ll climb that pole and get to the second floor. Make sure to catch those who I throw down towards you." "..." My plan is simply to go in and find any survivors I can find. If there alive I''ll save them and if there all dead and this whole trip was a waste of time I''ll set the place a blaze. I take out my megaphone and hollered. "This is the NYPD, We will be coming to save any survivors inside the building. Make sure to get our attention when you see where nearby. If your scared to speak because of the Zombies then I''ll tell you something that you should fear more. After we finish our mission of finding survivors we will burn the building to the ground so make sure you get our attention when we are almost there for that is the only way to save your lives." "..." The crew of officers with me are speechless. I literally just threatened that after finishing my search we''ll burn to death all remaining people. Meaning they will have to find a way to get our attention or else there either going to die due to the Zombies or burned to death from a fire. This is the only way to make those who think the Zombies will just go away to actively seek us out. Humans will only have motivation when faced with death. I took a canister of gasoline that was filled and tied it around my waist with a piece of cloth. I then started to climb the street lamp. After getting to the top of the street lamp I jumped across to the hospital''s second floor balcony. There was the sound of scratching by the windows of the hospital. Chapter 26: Hospital II The scratching noise was emitted by the Zombies. A couple zombies on the other side of the window saw me and are now scratching away at the window. But the hospital window is made of tempered glass so it¡¯ll be a while of scratching and pounding before he could get to me. But due to the Zombie making a commotion the zombies behind him are starting to gather. I need a way in¡­ I look around the place but there doesn¡¯t seem to be an entrance I can find. There doesn¡¯t seem to be an entrance into the building other than busting my way through the windows¡­ I look at the window which seems to be on the brink of collapse and sighed¡­ That¡¯s when I hear a commotion on top of the roof. I look up and spot a couple of people who had holed themselves on the roof of the building looking down towards me. I grab my AR-15 and loaded it. I switch the safety off. I grabbed an extra magazine of bullets and aimed it towards the window. I then grabbed the crowbar from my back and had it graze my skin. Leaving some blood on the bar. Stay clear, I¡¯m throwing this up onto the roof so stay clear! I then threw the crowbar towards the roof. Immediately after that the window which was under the constant assault of the zombies broke and they started crawling out of it. But due to the size of the window being small the zombies had a hard time getting through. All the Zombies were pushing against each other trying to get me. But when the zombies tried to force their way through the window they got stuck. In about a minute the zombies who were blocking the window had been torn to shreds by the zombies behind and a new wave of zombies came charging. In short burst of shots I started taking care of the zombies who first got stuck at the window I had already killed 30 Zombies without a single miss. Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. I quickly drop the empty magazine from the gun placed the new one in and then continued firing. I was getting a constant ringing of notifications but since it turned off the display it didn¡¯t get in my way. After changing out 5 magazines I had finished killing all 150 Zombies who were behind the window. Name: Li Xin [Tier 2] Ability: ~[RESPAWN]~ Physical: [Ashura berserk] [Ultimate Movement] [Regeneration] [Mana Recovery] [Parallel Thought] [Soul: 999.9][Max] [Strength: 150] [Intelligence: 100] [Wisdom: 100] [Agility: 139.9] [Vitality: 100] Stat points (Tier 2): 187.5 So I killed 150 Zombies here and about 225 on my way here totaling to 375 zombies. Lets level up my Agility first so I¡¯ll be faster in clearing out these zombies. Let''s level up Strength as well to keep them equal so I won''t have problems later. [Agility: 200] MAX Stat points (Tier 2): 137.5 [Strength: 200] MAX Stat Points (Tier 2): 77.4 Alright now that my stats have been increased I¡¯ll have an easier time dealing with these Zombies. Name: Li Xin [Tier 2] Ability: ~[RESPAWN]~ Physical: [Ashura berserk] [Ultimate Movement] [Regeneration] [Mana Recovery] [Parallel Thought] [Soul: 999.9][Max] [Strength: 200][Max] [Intelligence: 100] [Wisdom: 100] [Agility: 200][Max] [Vitality: 100] Stat points (Tier 2): 77.4 Alright I¡¯m finally in the building¡­ The hospital is well lit due to the power not going off yet and I can see zombies pretty spaced out throughout the hospital. But I see a group of Zombies crowding around a door. Zombies only crowd together for 1 reason. Food. Food in the Zombies eyes are Humans, thus that means there is a survivor. But the room the zombies are crowding around is the Day room. For those of you who don¡¯t know, the Day room is the room where family members of the patients and patients can go in to watch some TV and relax and sometimes even sleep in. Apparently the survivors decided that it was a good place to hide. They had the door blockaded with the sofa which was originally for the guests to sit on while watching TV. They also had the cabinet that was underneath the TV and some chairs that were extremely comfortable to sit in blocking off the door. Unfortunately, there is only one way to get out of the Room and that would be the front door. There also wasn¡¯t any food inside of the Day Room for the cafeteria is on the First floor. Although they did well in surviving the Zombies they didn¡¯t really have an escape plan in mind. The room does have a Large window though but your unable to climb out of it due to it being about 15 feet off the ground and there is no ledge. 15 feet is a pretty big jump and although it won¡¯t kill you if you jump correctly you will most definitely be injured and with a zombie apocalypse there would be zombies on every corner. Plus this is Manhattan one of the most crowdest cities in the world there would be alot more then only a single zombie around the corner. Should I save them¡­ Hmm¡­ Since there hiding in the Day room they shouldn¡¯t be doctors as the doctors should¡¯ve been busy trying to handle all the patients. So maybe their family of the patients. I think about the amount of bullets I have on me; I only have 10 magazine¡¯s left so about 300 shots. This building has at least 2000 Zombies inside meaning I can kill only 7 percent of the zombies here with my gun. They should be able to last for now¡­ I¡¯ll first check on the Roof. The roof probably has the most Zombies as the most secure place is probably the roof in the entire hospital. To access the roof you would need keys and to have the keys means you probably work here. Since they work here It means there are likely to be acquainted with a Doctor or possibly know a Doctor and might be a themself. My best bet at finding a doctor would be there on the rooftop waiting for rescue. Chapter 27: Hospital III I look at the Zombies here and sigh. Let''s go to the rooftop first. I''ll come back later as the door seems to be holding up quite well. Chances that someone inside there is a Zombie is low as the guest probably locked the door from the inside when the Apocalypse happened meaning the chance a Doctor who should''ve been working to be resting in there at the time is very slim. Although there shouldn''t be a Doctor in there just to be safe before I leave for the roof I''ll lessen the amount of zombies trying to get through considerably. [Ashura Berserk] I activated Ashura Berserk so that my power and speed become boosted and so I''ll die after I finish using it. I immediately crash into the Horde of Zombies. I grabbed one by the head and just like before used him as a Hammer. The whack a mole style Zombie has come back. There were about 100 and 50 or so zombies pounding at the door before but after 30 seconds I had killed about 125 or them. Leaving behind 25 zombies behind the door. It was also at that time that my [Ashura Berserk] skill stopped functioning. The minute it stopped my heart stopped my movements from before dulled. And my vision blurred and the zombies were upon me. I was killed in an instant. What a perfect skill! HAHA dying after a single use. The skill is something most would only consider using as a last resort or use as sparingly as possible as the skill deals a great amount of damage to yourself while you use the skill. This skill is basically a suicide skill that could help turn the tables only if there is no other choice. But that became the exact reason for why I love the skill so much. Because of the Power called [Respawn] I can''t die meaning I can use this last resort skill as many times as I want without the consequence of death. The skill is also a BUG in this world now because of the Life Hack I have. I appeared back in the black dark room which I have already appeared in multiple times already. The countdown timer begins. [10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0!] [Do you wish to RE SPAWN?] [YES/NO] [Location Respawn: Crowbar]The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. [10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0!] [Do you wish to RE SPAWN?] [YES/NO] "Yes!" The world lights up after selecting yes and before I even opened my eyes I feel weightless. Then I am suddenly falling. After falling down I land on top of something which is incredibly soft. Upon closer inspection It''s a woman. The woman who I''m lying on top of most likely picked up the crowbar and so when I respawned on top of the crowbar. The woman who was holding the crowbar became my cushion when I respawned. "Ugh¡­ OW get off of me! Your heavy!" After being told that I immediately get off of the woman and grab her hand to pull her up. When I look around me I see that there are about 50 people here on the rooftop. Apparently this is a really popular spot to escape from the undead. Although if you actually knew better you would know that a roof top is not a good location to be in while trying to survive an Apocalypse. There are multiple reasons for this which are the fact that being on the roof provides you with no shelter from your environment, because the roof itself was the top of the shelter that blocks out the environment. Another is that when the zombies breach the door and get in, there is no escape from the Zombies. A roof top is one of the worst places to make as a survival shelter. You can''t even get food up there so unless it''s an Emergency you shouldn''t aim to make a base on top of a roof for your simply gonna get trapped there and either die from starvation or from the zombies trapping you. But at least these guys didn''t die. Amongst the 50 people here, I can already tell at a glance that there are a couple of Doctors here. "Hey, are you listening to me!?" "Huh?" "I just asked you where did you come from!?" "Apparently while I was zoned out looking around the little survivor team here there was a man asking me for where I came from¡­" "..." "I think you spoke what you just thought aloud¡­" "Oh, yeah¡­ Haha my bad." "Hey I''m asking you a question here! Where did you come from, how did you get up here!" "Me? I came from the streets. Didn''t you hear when I was speaking through the loud speaker? I''m from the NYPD." "What! That was you!" "Your an officer?" "Well, technically speaking I''m not an officer, But well I''m superior to the officers so I am ¡­ yeah I''m an officer." "So are you here to save us?" "Yeah, but before I save you I''ll need to ask which of you are doctors?" A majority of the people in this group of survivors were actually just patients or family members of the patients some were staff and only a small portion of them are Doctors so I need to find out who was a doctor first. Why? Because I''m not going to take all 50 of these people with me. I will save all of them from this hospital but I won''t save all of them for I already have almost 40 people. Adding another 50 will just be increasing the amount of mouths to feed. Cruel? Yeah it is but I''ll simply leave behind those that aren''t Doctors and staff for I''m not so generous as to bring a bunch of useless patients along. Bringing people who are already sick is not a good Idea in the Apocalypse. For there is a risk of people spreading diseases other then the virus. Bringing Patients along in a apocalypse is also not a good Idea for they won''t be useful in helping to build the base and securing the perimeter so all that they''re going to be good for is using up my supplies. I''m not about to commit the same mistake as the army. They decided to save every civilian they could find and what happened to them is not something I want to follow doing. Chapter 28: Hospital IV "Why are you asking that question?" The people on the roof immediately tensed up because of the question. I go ahead and answer without blinking. "Because the only reason I came into the hospital was to save Doctors and secure some medication.All the remaining people aren''t reallypart of my plan for people to save, but I''ll do it anyway because it''s convenient." "What!?What kind of officer are you!?" "I''m not really an officer you see.All I am is a person who the officers are following." "..." "Please don''t interfere with my search for doctors okay.For I don''t have time to waste.All doctors can come on out for we already have a plan to get you out of here safe and sound.If the doctors are to raise your hand so I can get a head count that would be much appreciated.Thank you." "..." There was silence, no one raised their hands. "Hmm?Are there no doctors here?" I immediately stare at a man who is wearing a white coat.He looks like a doctor, I mean he has a white coat so he''s got to be a doctor right... The man stares at me and then starts to question me. "What will happen to them?" "Nothing, will happen to them.I just told all of you,I''ll be saving all survivors from this Hospital, after that all of you are going to be on your own.As for the doctors, you can come with me.I have already gathered resources which can last me and my Team at least 1 year.My team consists of about 40 people." This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there. "What!You have 40 people with you!?" "Yes, and we have Firearms with us as well meaning you won''t need to fear the Zombies with us around." The people fell silent. "I already have a location set in stone as a base.All I lack are Doctors.Doctors are an essential human resource that I need right now for most of my men are Officers and truck drivers but they don''t know much about first aid and all that means your going to be very useful to us.You''ll definitely get good treatment as long as you come with me." There was suddenly a person who raised their hand. "I''m a Doctor.My name is David T. Bush, I have just graduated fro-" "I don''t need to know where you graduated from.All I need to know is whether or not you can treat wounds.Can you do first aid or can you perform a surgery or diagnosis a disease?All those are better than where you graduated from.Where you graduated from is useless now, for the place which you graduated from be it Harvard or some where else is most likely going to be infested with Zombies.All I need is for you to treat the wounded anything else can just be scrapped for it is useless in this Apocalypse. Understand?" "Understood..." "Is there anyone else who is a doctor?If your a doctor I''ll tell you what,I''ll give you a invitation pass,but it''s only for the first 10 doctors that join me if you think that leaving this group of survivors and joining me is too hard then I''ll give you a pass, with this pass you are allowed to bring 1 person with you as long as join me, since one has already joined me there are only 9 passes remaining." By giving the doctors this pass I''ll be able to sort of corner the doctors into joining me,putting a limit to the doctors which can receive the pass will make them urgent to accept my offer.This is because they will have an advantage that others don''t have.Giving doctors the power to decide 1 person who they can allow to join me will be a bargaining chip which will be useful to them.When you give someone something for free when they usually wouldn''t have gotten anything then usually they will take it with a smile and accept the item but since the free item is only in a limited amount they will actually feel relieved to join me. Sure enough... "I''m a doctor!I''d like to join!" "I am one as well." "Me too!" Soon the amount of doctors popping up started to increase. I then state a final fact which increases the frenzy in accepting my offer. "In this apocalypse this Hospital is probably one of the most dangerous spots to be.Meaning if I didn''t come here today you all would most likely have become Zombie Chowder.But since I''m here now, I''ll save all of you and bring you out of this Hospital Alive.But, even if I save you out of this Hospital without food you will most likely starve. The world will become more dangerous with each passing day for the Zombies on the streets will evolve.Being with me ensures your survival while staying with these patients will only drag you down." "What!How can you say that!We!" I didn''t bother listening to what all the useless people were saying and instead started stating in my most calmest voice. "Staying with these patients will only get you into trouble.Patients are patients for a reason, there sick.Sick people don''t last long without treatment.In a Zombie Apocalypse treating a disease is harder than finding food.For treating a patient requires both time and medicine.Do you really have all that time to save a bunch of patients when you can''t even save yourself?" Soon I got a whole bunch of people who claimed to be doctors. Of course I''m not going to trust all of them.Not just anyone can be a doctor, there are definitely a few fakers among them. To get rid of the ones claiming to be doctors while truly knowing nothing all I have to do is really simple. I take a pocket knife which I found in the convenience store out of my pocket and simply stabbed it into my hand. "AH!" "What are you doing!" Chapter 29: Hospital V There was soon a number of reactions coming from the crowd of survivors. "To prove your a doctor you will need to prove yourself. Apply first aid for me, those who claimed to be a doctor yet can''t do it can scram now for if I believe your not a doctor after trying to apply first aid I will personally Stab you in the leg with this knife so you don''t have to bother leaving the hospital. Soon a bunch of people who pretended to be a doctor dropped their hands and what remained where 13. 13... that''s quite a nice amount of doctors. These 13 people remaining should all be true doctors or they truly believe that they can apply first aid proficient enough to fool me. I have been in the Apocalypse for quite a while so naturally I know how to apply first aid to a wound like this. But for one to know how to apply first aid proficiently in the age before the apocalypse you would either have to be a doctor or someone who is highly knowledgeable about first aid. Both of which I will accept. For people who generally know how to apply first aid proficiently will definitely be of use to the doctors. "All right line up. All of you who remain here means that your highly confident in applying first aid for me so I''m expecting nothing less than perfect. If I find out that your completely new to this I will stay true to my words and have you stay here to be food for the zombies." I can hear the sound of gulping. It might be because of the tense situation they are in or it''s because the knife which I stabbed myself with is still stuck in my hand and blood is dripping everywhere. My regeneration skill is at an extremely high state meaning my wound might just close itself without them doing anything if I was to pull it out, so I just leave it in there, I don''t feel any pain so there is no problem on my side. But because of this bloody scene a lot of the people are gulping due to fear. Most people haven;t seen much blood expect for scenes out of a horror story or blood being extracted from a needle. I am probably one of the first people who would stab them self with a knife just to test them to see whether or not they are doctors. A humans natural instinct is to fear pain, but seeing me who did something so absurd in their eyes while being so calm about it really scared them.Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings. Humans fear pain so they try to avoid getting injured, I who just stabbed my hand with a knife to test them seemed to be someone who is psycho. Naturally they fear me. I mean who wouldn''t fear someone who would stab themselves with a knife just to get their point across. "Whos first?" All the people stare at my wound. The doctor that will come forward first must definitely be confident about it. But I didn''t really want to test them. I for I''ve wasted enough time already. The knife stabbing wound I did just now was to scare away any people who weren''t confident in applying first aid. It is what is commonly known as a scare tactic. As long as a majority of the people applying to be doctors are actually doctors I won''t need to screen anymore people out for the remaining ones should be confident in themselves to treat this wound. I suddenly grab the pocket knife and started to pull it out. "Wait you shouldn''t pull the knife out. You should leave it there for¡­" After pulling the knife out in one quick motion I cover the wound with my hand and started counting. 10... 9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0. After taking my hand off the wound, the wound on my hand mysteriously disappeared and after wiping my bloody hand on my shirt it became all clean again. "Those that remain are who I believe should be doctors. So if I find out your not a doctor later I''ll feed you to the Zombies. Since I don''t have much time on my hands to waste it on testing you one by one I''m just gonna take your word for it that your doctors. Give me a name and what you did in the hospital and then get ready to move out. I also believe that since your doctors at this hospital you should know where everything is so make sure to bring me to the dispensary and pharmacy to pick up all the medication. The hospital is going to be burned down later so don''t forget anything important for you won''t be able to come back for it." I walk up to the door which they came from. In front of the door was a variety of things from chairs, tables, trash cans and mops. Apparently when the Zombie apocalypse came the people surviving just grabbed whatever they could get there hands on and when they got to the roof they simply blocked the door with them. I tear away the random furniture and when I got to the door I can hear the sounds of scratching. There apparently doesn''t seem to be all that many zombies here. The reason might be because of how full the Hospital was at the time of the apocalypse that they were too busy devouring the pieces of meat around them. This roof in fact is quite a safe space in this hospital right now as there aren''t many zombies lurking nearby. The team of survivors here could''ve probably lived safely for a couple of days. But since there aren''t any supplies such as food here I believe that they would starve quickly. But nonetheless this is so far much better of a hiding spot then the team of survivors who barricaded themselves inside the Day room. Although there might be some food in there they would most likely be unable to survive past today If I hadn''t come. Chapter 30: Breaking out When I opened the door to the roof I am greeted by 2 Zombies who lunge at me. The moment when they were about to reach me I with the crowbar in hand make a swing from the right to the left leaving both Zombies smashed against each other. I look down the stairwell leading to the roof and can see 5 zombies making there way towards me. After I quietly deal with all the zombies I go back to the roof and have the group of survivors follow me. Is it unsafe bringing around group of 50 unarmed people in a hospital which is full of Zombies? The answer to this stupid question is a Yes. But the reason I did this was to prevent any mishap that could happen to the Doctors If I was to leave them there alone with the remaining survivors. The Doctors at this point have already betrayed the other survivors for there own well being so it wouldn''t be unreasonable if the survivors were to harm them while I was away. This was also to show the Doctors that the only one that can protect them now is me, all other survivors who were with you have been betrayed by you so if you don''t want to die you will have to stick with me. This is a tactic which forces these doctors to rely on me. By having them rely on me as there only hope for survival they''ll become integrated onto my side. Meaning the doctors will integrate into my team of survivors easily later on. I have basically full control over there life and death. When going down the stairs I meet multiple zombies and by the time I get to the fifth floor I have already killed 15 zombies. Usually 1 swing of my crowbar is enough to kill them. The fifth floor is technically the top floor if you don''t consider the roof top. Most of the Zombies are on the First and second floors the reason for this is that when people are escaping from the zombies they usually think to get out the front door of the hospital to leave or they think to go up a floor to get away from the zombies. Because the people think this way when they get caught by the zombies and become one themselves they will end up becoming a zombie on the first and second floor. I remember that there was still this group of survivors on the second floor. They should still be there as I didn''t kill all the Zombies before I died from the backlash of the skill. But since I killed a majority of the Zombies they should be pretty safe for at least an hour. Meaning I have time to save them as well.Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. I quickly get onto the fifth floor and along my way through the fifth floor I had the Doctors take anything that would be deemed useful to them we can''t take the equipment due to them being hard to carry so we left those here. I took out my Megaphone and hollered a couple of times that I''m from the NYPD and that any survivors should reach out to us now for it is the last chance to do so. While going through each floor we saved about 20 trapped survivors who hid in rooms in which they blockaded off. I lead the group of survivors to the 2nd floor and soon found the stairwell leading from the second floor to the first floor being blocked with zombies. We quickly open the door to the second floor and we are greeted by hundreds of zombies. I quickly have the doctors stay close to me and take out my riffle. Due to the large amounts of Zombies I can''t just rely on my crowbar anymore for if I was to die while fighting these Zombies in close combat the people behind me wouldn''t be able to last for the 10 second I need to re spawn. I have 10 magazines of bullets so 300 Zombies I can take down with the Riffle before I run out of Bullets but I''m not gonna waste any bullets on these guys if I have a better way to deal with them. I soon think of a ingenious plan which could prove to be very effective. I quickly have the Survivors with me go back up the stairs to get to the 3rd floor. I had already cleared that floor out already so that floor should be pretty safe. I take my Megaphone and started hollering into the second floor. "This is the NYPD I will be leading the Zombies away from the second floor right now so make sure you get all the things you need. I will be leading the Zombies into the first floor so make sure you come out after 5 minutes. Get ready to run to the 3rd floor after 5 minutes. While there may still be some Zombies remaining you should be able to out run them." I started to shout out orders and soon a horde of Zombies began chasing out to get me. I quickly activated Ashura Berserk and crash into the horde of Zombies on the first floor. While running I turn my phones music on and attach my phone to my Megaphone. The Noise is Amplified and starts to attract the attention to all the zombies nearby. Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream If your wondering why I have this song then of course its because I love the song. My sister loves this song as well so shut up and don''t judge me. Chapter 31: Rebel After leading a majority of the Zombies on to the first floor I took out my the canister of gasoline which was filled hanging along my waist and started pouring it on the electric sockets and along the wall. After I finished spreading the gasoline along the walls and connecting it to all the electric sockets I run towards a different staircase leading downstairs to the basement. But before I did that I made sure to leave a revival point in the pharmacy area which is on the first floor. When I get to the basement I started following the pipes which are colored white. The reason behind this is because white pipes are usually filled with water which is supplied by a water tank. As long as I follow the pipes I can eventually reach the place where all the water comes from. After shutting it close the sprinkler system will not have any water to stop the fire. Sure enough I see a Water Shut off wheel valve. After grabbing hold of the wheel I turned it completely to the right making it tight. This will shut off the water. After doing so I die from the skill Ashura Berserk. The whole thing happened within 30 seconds. [10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0!] [Do you wish to RE SPAWN?] [YES/NO] Location Set: New York Presbyterian Hospital (1st floor) Pharmacy Upon reviving I immediately get to work stuffing all the drugs I can get into plastic bags. I didn''t bother what kind of drugs there were for I wouldn''t be able to understand what the drugs were for. But since they were made there must be people who use them and since they are made they are meant to be taken. A hoarder doesn''t care whether the thing he take will be needed or not all he need to know is to take first sort out later. That was how I lived my life in the past and thats not gonna change now. I had over twenty plastic bags full of drugs by now and most of the drugs had been cleared out by me. After taking all the drugs I grabbed the plastic bags off the hooks and stuffed all of them inside one plastic bag. I had literally taken everything that could be of use to me. The plastic bags are a highly sought after item in the apocalypse for it being extremely convenient.Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon. I now have twenty something bags of drugs a bunch of plastic bags and a bunch of miscellaneous items I simply grabbed off the table. All together I have about 30 bags worth of items. But the question now is how will I take it all out? The answer to this question is... I take the plastic bags and start hanging it around my neck legs and back and places you wouldn''t believe I can place them and then I killed myself using Ashura Berserk. Due to the skill being both easy to use and have a fast cast time of 30 seconds. I can kill myself easily and quickly, no mess required. After the suicide through the use of the skill, I arrive back in the dark room and the timer goes off. [10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0!] [Do you wish to RE SPAWN?] [YES/NO] Set location: Truck After re spawning inside the Truck I dropped off all the bags from my body and then repeated what I did before. [Ashura Berserk] Death [10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0!] [Do you wish to RE SPAWN?] [YES/NO] Set Location: New York Presbyterian Hospital (2nd floor) The time it took for me to do all of this was in less then 5 minutes from when I crashed into the first floor, that means that the people on the second floor should just be about to come out... Oh there out already. I see that the door the survivors there opened were already and that the people were long gone. I slowly walk back up towards the 3rd floor and see that the door is locked. I slowly knock on the door. "It''s safe you can come on out now." But the door doesn''t budge. A smirk slowly comes upon my face and a devious smile emerges. Just as planned. (Death Note: Light Yagami) Before I left all the survivors to go up to the 3rd floor I called the Dr. David and gave him my side firearm which is the pistol. I had him keep it hidden and only use it when required. I also told him to open the door for me when I Knock 2 times but if he doesn''t open it I''ll know he can''t. After making the Doctors stay close to me on the way down from floors 5 to 2 all the Remaining survivors should know that I care a lot for the Doctors making the Doctors a important person in there eyes. Since I gave the pass to join me with the doctors there will naturally be people who will plead with the doctors to let them use the pass on them. But there are only a limited amount of passes a doctor can have. Humans are naturally selfish beings. The passes which I gave them is a very important bargaining chip for them. So naturally there would only be few to no doctors who would wish to give theirs to a random stranger. Don''t the doctors also have family members? They only have a single pass to let someone into the base. What if there are strict limits on who can enter, this pass will become extremely useful to them for if they want to let in a family member or even to use it in a exchange. This is because they know that the man who came to save them has firearms and is said to have 40 people with him. This means that they will be joining a well equipped survival team. So naturally they wouldn''t want to give away such a important thing to someone they don''t know. This is also why the remaining survivors will hate the Doctors and decide to take them as hostages. Chapter 32: Julie I pleaded with the doctors to just give a pass to let my son in. But no they didn''t even care. All I was met with were eyes of avoidance. I am Julie a normal mother just your typical mother. Today my 5 year old son had a bad stomach ache after having dinner, which is the only reason why I came to the hospital so late at night. There was a lot of patients who came in after 9. Apparently there was a huge car crash and each of them seemed to be badly injured. Our wait time was continuously pushed back. Our issue of a stomach ache was brushed off as a small issue compared to the more seriously injured people. After 10 a sound sounded in our ears and the world changed. All the heavily injured people started to stand and then attacked the doctors and the people around them. The ER room of the Hospital had nurses rushing out while screaming. It was literally chaos inside of the hospital. I quickly grabbed onto my son and rushed up the stairs like many others did. There was a lot of people in front of the hospital so the exit was blocked off. After reaching the second floor more people started to come up. Most people stopped to make a call to there family''s while talking about there situation but after about 15 minutes all the calls became hard to get through. I tried calling my husband was unable to reach him. After a while of waiting and more and more people coming onto the second floor some people from down stairs started arriving but they were bloodied. Some people approached them asking for what happened down stairs. But before the questioning got them anywhere they were grabbed by the slowly walking injured men and the moment the man questioning was grabbed another injured man sunk his teeth into him. Screams of terror sounded again and we were once again running. But this time no one stopped on the third floor rather everyone just kept going and soon got to the roof. A janitor who came up with us had a key to the locked rooftop and opened the door for all of us. After getting onto the roof people started discussing about the situation they were in. We all came to the conclusion that they seems most similar to zombies as the dead had revived and started attacking people. We were scared and had started calling using our cell phone to every person we could. But the lines were all extremely busy so we were unable to get through. Calling the police didn''t work either.Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. All the lines have been extremely busy. There were about 50 odd people here and since we know that there are zombies now we have decided to grab some things from the floor below which we can use to barricade the roof top. We went in groups so that we can help each other out when we get to a lower floor and everyone was in charge of getting something heavy which we can pick up and bring to use as a barricade for the door. After getting to the floor below us we started scrambling to pick up whatever objects which we could find to hold the door. We found a chair a table and some shelves as well as a pushing cart. I went in search of food unlike the others for without food we would starve and I don''t want to see my baby starving. So I grabbed a couple of bottles of water from the refrigerator which is for the staff. In there I find a apple 2 sandwiches that have been wrapped in plastic. I also found a couple of Granola Bars. I saw a jar of Candy which was on the table for the guest and I simply took all that I found. I assumed that we were going to be stuck there for a couple of days so I packed as much food as I could find so that my baby wouldn''t starve before someone comes to save us. I made sure to have all food hidden away on my body more then all in my purse for it would be a problem if all the food I have was found by the others. I also know that a rooftop isn''t exactly the most warmest place and so I grabbed a couple blankets which I found from the reception desk. I quickly grabbed a chair with me which was the minimum I needed and headed up back the stairs. But suddenly someone made a mistake. One of the two people who were carrying the table behind me accidentally dropped one side of the table which resulted in a loud thud. That thud was a loud noise which echoed inside the stair case. The Zombies on the lower floors were quickly alerted and they started swarming up stairs. The 2 guys speed up there speed and with much effort got the table through the door and then we started making our barricade by the door. Before we even finished making the barricade though there was something which bashed hard onto the door. That was something which scared all of us. But the Zombies stopped after a while and we kept quiet. We waited and waited and eventually after a few hours of waiting we heard the sound of sirens saw a couple of trucks and police cruisers park infront of the hospital. A man hollered though the megaphone he was carrying that he was part of the police and was coming to save us. We peeked at him from the side of the building and saw him fighting against the Zombies with a gun. He also threw a crowbar at us though. But after disappearing from sight he suddenly showed up from out of nowhere on the roof. But after he appeared everything changed for he was only here to save the doctors. Chapter 33: Julies Choice He stated that he was here to find doctors and medication. Saving survivors were only a side mission. He gave out very tempting offers to the Doctors which was something that I could only hope for but Unfortunately, I am not a doctor. After saving us and bringing us down to the lower floors clearing out the floors he had us go back up to the 3rd floor because of zombies being blocking the passages on the 2nd floor. Everyone else quickly made their way onto the safe 3rd floor. But I stayed behind a little while longer and had my ears focused. Why? Because I saw the man with a gun call for a Doctor to stay behind. Due to that, I knew that something was going on so I stayed behind to eavesdrop to know what is happening. I heard something about knocking and saw a hand over of a firearm. I know now that the man named Dr. David received a gun from the man and was to protect the remaining doctors from harm. I quickly thought about the reason the man had to do all this, I thought about what he''s thinking about and the more I thought the more understood my circumstances. I figured out why he gave the doctors passes and why he split the doctors from the rest of the group. Why he gave a firearm to a doctor and why he let the doctors and other survivors go to the 3rd floor together. After realizing what he planned to do I knew that I couldn''t do anything about his plan for it would probably cause problems and I would become one of the people he sets his eyes on. If he sets his eyes on me then my child will have no chance of surviving. So I simply had to make it a situation favorable to me while having his objective realized. This man wants the doctors to rely on only him. He wants to be able to make them only trust him. He wants to make himself into there savior by saving them from a dangerous situation. The dangerous situation was also meticulously planned by him and he has a back up to save the doctors in case anything goes wrong. This man is scary. He''s trying to make everyone into his puppets. To do that he implemented a variety of scenarios to make it happen.The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. He had the doctors betray the other survivors by having them raise their hands for him. This makes a wall between the doctors and the other survivors. He had the doctors get a Pass which can save a survivor''s life but make it valuable so the Doctors will become too selfish to give it away for charity. He had made a situation in which a group of traitors and a group of betrayed together and gave them time to talk and be together. He set a stage so that everyone is his puppet dancing to his tune. He even set up a backup plan in case anything was to go wrong. This man is scary. He did all he did because he wants the other survivors such as me to do something bad to the Doctors so that he can save the day and save the doctors. He can then have the Doctors become more reliant on him. Doing this makes their impression of him become better and have them mark him as the good guy in their eyes or their savior. But despite knowing what he is planning I can''t prevent it or else he might just kill all of the survivors because of anger. I already know that he isn''t normal from when he healed his hand on top of the roof. Others might think that it is but a simple magic trick or maybe he didn''t stab himself. But I know better than to think that. He most likely did heal himself within that short 10 seconds. This man has most likely some sort of power. Just like me... But the question now is what should I do. I think about various possibilities and the only one which comes to mind leaves me with an outcome that ensures the highest survival chance for my baby. I know I can''t beat him, I know he will probably kill all the remaining survivors which include me and my son when someone decides to take revenge on the doctors when he isn''t here. I have 2 choices now one is to escape with my son. We can try to escape or get away from here so that we won''t be involved with the other survivors when he comes to take care of the situation. Two... is the one with the highest chance of my son and me surviving. I make up my mind. I closed in on the Doctor who he handed the gun over to. On my way towards him, I started pleading with every doctor nearby. "Please, a doctor at least save my son, he''s only 6 please." The first doctor who I pleaded with was displeased with being asked this and doesn''t look me in the eye. I know he''s already made up his mind to not give away his pass but despite knowing that, I still wanted to try. I look for other doctors for help and start pleading. But none of the doctors answered mine pleads. When I made my way to the last doctor who had the gun, I pleaded once again but after I finished pleading he did something that no one understood. The man drops a gun. I quickly grabbed the gun and pointed the gun at the doctors and ordered. "Hands up!" The chance of me surviving with my son if we were to run are low, as this man said he was going to burn the building down. Meaning it''ll attract zombies towards this location and only he can bring us out of here alive. So the chance of escaping from here with my son is low. The only choice I have is the last one. Chapter 34: Julies Skill When I open the door I see that the doctors are on the ground. But then my face frowns. A lady has her hand on the gun I gave to a doctor. The gun is pointed at a doctor''s head. This was not part of my plan. I gave that gun to him to protect himself in case the survivors try to attack. Not for him to lose the gun and have himself at gunpoint. Looking at the scene before me I am a little baffled. This was a bit of a miscalculation. I stare at the woman who has the gun pointed at Dr. David. She was that lady who was peeking from the corner right... hmm... to think she dared to do such a thing. I look at her and already know what happened. Since she saw me hand the gun over to that doctor so she... eh? Wait... she looks familiar... where have I seen her face before... I look at her face and started examining it. I know for sure I''ve seen her before! But where... I was ranked 10 on the humanities list of ESP users since I remember her it means she is someone either close to me or someone Important. Wait for that face... Isn''t she! Julie Conrad. More commonly known by the people in my time as... The Witch! Although she looks older now she is most definitely her. She was one of the Traitors of humanity who was the highest-ranked human on the Kill List. She was ranked number 3. She was only behind the Plague Zombie God and the Beast King. So the witch''s starting point was here. She was known as the witch for her schemes and her power. I originally thought that she took the gun to use it to threaten me but since she''s the witch she must be after something else. The Witch wouldn''t be so idiotic as to try threatening me. She was called the which because she was never one who threatened and rather someone who controls. This woman must have a plan in mind. Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. The witch in my last life was known for her Plans. She was well known for having multiple plans made for every possible situation. Her power is something along with the lines of Mind Control an ESP power of the Special Category. Although I don''t understand much about her power I remember that after she was taken down by humanity it was well discussed that her power of mind control has something to do with her voice. Immediately I activate my skill Ashura Berserk. If she has the skill Mind Control now then she could take control of my mind meaning control me. Although her power shouldn''t be too strong right now for it has only recently awakened if she was to somehow to take control of me I can commit suicide after she does. Making her control over me useless. I look at her with full intent to take her down. She is way too Dangerous! This woman was one of the main reasons why humanity lost to the Zombies. She had taken control of 1/4 of humanity''s forces with her power and corrupted their minds. She had them fight for her, kill for her. This woman is one of the people marked on the kill on sight list because of her Power of Controlling other''s minds and for her evil deeds against humanity. She had committed genocide against humanity. She killed almost half of the humanities forces herself. She started as a merchant and was slowly able to control multiple human bases and had controlled them with the help of her powers. After controlling almost half of humanity''s forces she waged war against humanity and in the end when she died all she controlled had died alongside her. She made sure that when she died all the people she had control of were to commit suicide. This woman is just that dangerous. The only reason why she was taken down was that there was a man who was able to resist her skill of mind control. The man had the skill of Time Freeze and it was only luck that he was able to take her down. After taking her down he was directly labeled as the savior of humanity and was branded the strongest ESP user. She most likely has control of all the people here already. That might be how she got hold of the gun. I, now have a backup plan in place in case she was to try controlling me, calmed down. I want to see how her skill works so I''ll play along and see what she is up to. "What do you think you''re doing? Are you rebelling?" "I have pleaded with those doctors to just give my child a pass so that he could survive. " [Ding] [The power RESPAWN has detected a foreign power has invaded and has started to implement the power Mind Control ] [0.018% Mind control complete.] So my power can detect this... That''s something new... " But no they reject us... we are all survivors who just want to live why must you do this to us! Your part of the police so it should be your job to protect us but instead your only saving the doctors!" [0.060% Mind control complete.] So her skill mind control depends on the number of words she says... But isn''t this skill way too weak... for it to require her to say almost 1,000,000 words to control me... "You''re forcing us to do this. You made the doctors separate from us and are trying to make them into your puppets aren''t you." [0.084% Mind control complete.] Maybe it''s because I have a soul strength of 999.99... is that why it is so hard to control me? "Hey, I would love to let you blabber on but..." [Due to host getting involved with conversation] [0.184% Mind control complete.] Holy shit... This skill is scary. Getting involved with the conversation causes the Mind Control progress to go up by so much... 1 of my words is equal to 10 of hers... Chapter 35: Hide and Seek This is a BUGGED skill... Mind control... more like blabber control... The more things you say the faster the skill works, if the target was to say something then he''ll be dragged into the skill and end up being controlled... No wonder no one knew what her skill was. This skill is extraordinary. But this skill is only at its initial stage there is still a lot of room for it to grow. This is such a good skill. If I can control it then it would be extremely useful. But then I thought back on how powerful the skill is and how dangerous it is. But every skill has a limit especially in the initial stage of the skill. The skill evolves as it is used and cultivated so this skill will get even more dangerous then it is now. A skill that could control others... that is one skill that can counter my RESPAWN Skill. If I was to be controlled then I would be controlled against my will and would become unable to commit suicide to get out of the skill. So if I was to want to leave keep it then I would first need to get something that will kill me when I get controlled so I can break out of the skill. Maybe a deadly poison which will kill after 7 days and can''t be erased no matter what... Hm... no, if it''s poison then I''ll be erased after every time I revive meaning I''ll have to keep taking it... What can I use as a safety measure to kill myself... A bomb... Nah that is the same as a poison... and much worse for it is limited... Well, I can think about it later. For now the skill Ashura Berserk will be enough and the RESPAWN skill tells me the percentage of which the skill Mind Control affects me so It''ll be fine for now. The mind control skill is scary and dangerous but since I have the power of RESPAWN I can figure out a way to control it. Julie Conrad, she would make a good companion in this apocalypse. The only bad thing is how can I control such a person. This lady will control all the people she speaks to in a matter of time. This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon. I can''t have her controlling all my men turning them into her puppets and then risking her threatening me with there lives. This skill is way too powerful and dangerous. But first things first... I need to take her down. I quickly rush to her side before she could say anything else and stuff her mouth with a piece of cloth. I then cuffed her hands and feet with the handcuff I had gotten from the police station. I was only letting her talk just now because I wanted to know how her power worked not because I couldn''t take her down. My speed stat is at 200 already before she could even react I had taken her gun stuffed her mouth and handcuffed her. I mean what do you expect from a Tier 2 human. After having her mouth stuffed I am a bit more relieved for her skill relies on her to speak meaning as long as I shut her mouth she can''t use her skill. But... that is where I was wrong... All the doctors suddenly are grabbed by the remaining survivors and in the survivor''s hands are scalpels. The 3rd floor had some knives lying around that she had the survivors find and like I thought all the survivors had turned into her puppets... I''m pretty sure the doctors are also but only acting as real hostages for she has been here for almost 5 minutes and five minutes is enough time to take control of these people especially when her power only requires her to reach several words and if the person was to answer her the speed which her Control uses speeds up. She already has all the people under her control. Wait! Wasn''t there also a child? Where did he go? I look around and don''t see a child. Wait, if I remember correctly wasn''t that child with her when I went to the roof? She also said just let my child take the pass so shes a mother? The Witch is a mother? But I never heard of her raising a child... maybe her child died... So the child is her weak spot! A wicked smile comes on my face as I look at her. "Have them put down the scalpel''s or else I''ll snap your neck." She just looks at me, the controlled survivors started digging the scalpel into the flesh and the doctors started flailing about. "So you don''t fear death? Then what about your son? If the doctors were to die then my point in coming to this Hospital will become useless meaning I won''t need these guys. Since you aren''t afraid of death then I simply capture your son and have him tortured to death to vent my anger." Her eyes immediately turn red from rage and then her face pales. So the witch still has someone she cares about right now. In the future, she had already lost her son so nothing was holding her back. But now she still has a weakness. That would be her son. As long as I have him in my hands then she would be under my control! "You know what I don''t see your son here so is he playing hide and seek?" "..." "You know I''m good at hiding and seek right... I mean very good at it." I take out my gun and fire a round at a light bulb. The light turns into a firework but eventually dies out. "I''ll first guess that since there is no way to escape from the building your son must still be in the hospital. I''ll also guess that since he isn''t here with you he must''ve gone into hiding. Since there was only about 5 minutes'' worth of time to hide he must not have escaped from this floor. Meaning all I need to do is to start shooting all the places he could be hiding on this floor." Her eyes immediately go pale. Chapter 36: Mind Control "Oh, I think I made the right guess. Lets first start firing at the most possible hiding places." I take my gun and shoot at a door to a room in which doctors were to go to change their outfits. "BANG!" "Aw, so he wasn''t there now onto the next target the refrigerator." "BANG!" After a few rounds of shooting the targets to shoot at started to narrow down. I also started shooting slower and slower. I already found out where the little guy was hiding. But I just started to close in on him slowly. To find the guy was quite a simple thing to do. All one needs to do to figure out where one is hiding something important is to look at the eyes of the person who hid the object. She didn''t for a second stare at anywhere I shot meaning he wasn''t hiding somewhere I would look to shoot. all she was staring at was me. I pointed my gun at the ventilation duct above my head this time. "Oh, maybe he''s in the ventilation duct." I smile and then a look of horror passes her eyes. I shot towards the ceiling. Her face immediately looks up and when she sees that I only shot the ceiling she became relieved. I look at her in the face and commanded her. "Have them release the Doctors or else my next shot will not miss." But the survivors didn''t put down there knives and instead kept it near the doctor''s necks. Can she not command them telepathically? Hmm... I need to test it. I suddenly fired a shot at the ceiling once again scaring her immensely. But the doctors are still being held, hostage.If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. She starts making noises through the cloth-like mm... mm... but nothing happens. Hmm... so they have to listen to her command. I push her against a pipe first and then lock her handcuffs to another one and then locked those handcuffs to a wall. My time for Ashura Berserk is about to end. And the countdown began... [10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0!] [Do you wish to RESPAWN?] [YES/NO] Location Set: New York-Presbyterian Hospital (1st Floor) The reason why I choose to respawn on the first floor instead of the first is to check and see what Julie will do after I escape. I need to check whether or not the survivors under her control will help her out. If they help her out and don''t slice the doctor''s throats then her power can be used to issue commands without saying anything. I know that she will probably be surprised with me suddenly disappearing so she''ll be on high alert so to force her to use any skill she might have I''ll set the building ablaze, although there are still a lot of things I can scavenge from the hospital like the food on the first floor or the equipment which I can use for the first few months. But none of that is as important as finding out how Julie''s mind control skill works. If I can understand the in''s and out''s of her skill then I can find out limitations of it. All skills have a limit or a disadvantage. Even respawn has one which is the fact that you can''t respawn when you aren''t dead. So for her mind control skill, there is a weakness. Although the more you use the skills the stronger they become and that in turn helps plug up the weakness. But the skill Mind Control which Julie has is only at its first stage and she has most likely yet to fully understand and be in control of the skill. Right now is the best time for me to figure out the limitations of her skill. I set the entire first floor ablaze. Due to already turning off the water the sprinklers systems don''t do anything. The fire doesn''t show any sign of stopping as I had also left a trace amount of gasoline in the stairwell leading towards the third floor. I quickly make my way up the stairs to the third floor through a different staircase. When I get up here I am surprised the kid which had gone missing had pulled the plug from his mother''s mouth. That, in turn, had given the witch back are powers. But I can still observe how she uses her powers right now. I can see that the remaining survivors were trying to unlock her handcuffs with a paper clip that they found off the desk but are failing miserably. I''m about 99% sure that she can''t command the controlled telepathically meaning any way to make orders to people she can''t reach. So if she was to control any of my men I would be able to simply lock them up and as long as I prevent them from suicide before I kill her then they would cease to be under her control. Something good to know. I look at the child by her side and it seems that he hasn''t been controlled for he is still moving about quite freely, This means that she has control over her skills! So it also means that her skill won''t simply target all the people she speaks to passively and rather it is a skill that she needs to will. There is also a good thing to know about such a skill and that is the fact that a skill which is willed is something that requires mana to use, The mind control skill requires mana which means that mana has a connection between her and her target meaning I might be able to cut her connection with her targets if I was to disrupt the targets flow of mana meaning as long as the mana frequency that her targets have is disrupted her control over them might also be erased. Of course, that is only a guess and has yet to be proven. But it is a good start to understanding her powers. Chapter 37: Seal The skill is much safer now compared to when I didn''t understand the skill for what one fears most is always the unknown. What I understand about her mind control skill so far is that her skill is an active skill that is activated by herself. The skill, therefore, requires mana to activate. So I believe that if I was to disrupt her connection which was made from mana from her target it might prove useful to stop her mind control. But since the skill is an active skill I also believe that running out of mana might make her skill stop functioning as well or maybe disrupt the skills connection. Maybe if I attach a Mana Prison Collar on her I can disrupt her flow of mana. Mana Prison is a type of material that is birthed by the world during the apocalypse. The material is a kind that makes Mana into a state of Chaos thereby causing the mana to become extremely hard to use. By making mana chaotic the mana becomes sealed. A mana prison collar is a tool made by the magus civilization to capture Evil Magus criminals and Magical Beasts. It is a really handy tool for all beings that have the collar on will be unable to use mana or will have their mana reduced considerably due to it becoming hard to control. But Mana Prison is a Material that is only birthed after the first blood rain meaning that I don''t have any on hand. The material is also extremely rare and is extremely expensive. Due to the material being extremely useful at sealing away mana. But the question now is whether I should keep her or not. I don''t have any of the Mana Prison Materials right now but as long as I keep her skill under tight supervision until I get the collar I would be able to gain a powerful weapon. I also have her son so it''s good insurance. For now, I''ll seal her ability to use mind control. I quickly speed towards the doctors and survivors and immediately knock them out. I then walk towards Julie. Her power is way too powerful to leave alone. I can''t have someone who has the mind control power roam around freely. I also can''t just let her mind control all my subordinates for if she was to revolt it would end badly for me. If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. So I plan to first seal her power and then if I can find a Duplicate stone I will be able to duplicate a 1-time use copy of her power. Keeping Julie is dangerous but is surely worthwhile. For the power of mind control is just to good to give up. As long as I have her and a duplicate stone I can also get the power of mind control. Although it would only be a one time use. There is a special way to seal powers in which all people know in the later stages of the apocalypse. The people in the apocalypse learned this technique to seal a skill from the Magus Civilization and that is a Seal Card. A seal card is a magic card that can temporarily seal mana from a person for some time. The card is similar to a Mana Prison stone except for the fact that Mana Prison stones are permanent whilst the Seal card can hold only temporarily. Meaning I will need to make a lot of these cards to make sure that Julies Skill is sealed. The requirement needed to make a Magic seal card is quite simple for me to get. It requires a sacrifice. The stronger the sacrifice the stronger the seal. Usually, people make the seal card with Zombies. To make a Tier 1 card you need to sacrifice 100 Tier 0 Zombies or 10 Tier 1 sacrifices or 1 Tier 2 Sacrifice. Every other tier is 10 times the previous tiers requirement. All sacrifices made to create the card will not earn you any Evolution points for the entire existence of the Sacrifice will be sacrificed. Meaning body soul and evolution points as well. But if the creator of the card was to sacrifice himself to create the card the creator would be able to boost the Tier of the card depending on how strong the creator of the card is. With my skill respawn and with my Tier 2 body. If I was to make a sacrifice with myself I believe that I can create a Tier 1 Seal card to seal her and due to using myself as a sacrifice the Tier would be boosted by its duration. The skill respawn is quite something if I don''t say so myself. I quickly take out my pocket knife and cut my thumb. I next draw a Magic Pentagon Sacrifice Circle using my blood as the catalyst. Soon a sacrifice alter was created. I step into the pentagram which was at the center of the 5 pointed stars and started the chanting to create the seal card. I started up the sacrifice altar and soon bloody array dimes around me and surrounds me in an aura of blood. A bright light shines and I disappear leaving behind a red card. The card has golden edges to show that it''s been boosted by self-sacrifice so the card is a Tier 1 boosted card meaning a card that''s halfway to turning to tier 2. After about 10 seconds though I respawn and grab the floating card which is in the middle of the sacrifice altar and the card slowly stops glowing. [Tier 1: Sealing Card (Boosted)] Seals Mana of the target in which the card is used. Most effective on Tier 1. I immediately put the card in to use by placing it on the head of Julie. Seal! A red light burst out from within the card and quickly turns into chains. The chains wrap tightly around Julie and then sinks into her body until it disappears. Chapter 38: Home The moment I put the seal on her all magic power is sealed. But this is only a temporary measure against Julie for the seal will not last long. I quickly smack a doctor and when he woke up I commanded him to start waking up the others. Soon all the doctors were awaken. I didn''t bother with the remaining survivors for it was simply a waste of time. I only decided to bring them along with me before since the doctors wouldn''t have it otherwise. But now the doctors are quick on their feet and decided to follow me. They didn''t wake up the survivors. I quickly grab Julie who I handcuffed and with the doctors In tow, we head towards the second floor. On the second floor is the window which I came in from that window. I quickly take out my phone radio and have my men come underneath the window. I quickly jump off the building and grab onto the light pole which I used to get up here and got to the ground. Although I could''ve simply jumped off the building it might''ve attracted some unwanted attention towards us so I simply did it the quiet way. Upon getting to the floor I call for the doctors to Jump. There faces immediately pale for this was a 15 feet jump. This wasn''t a jump that you can fall from. If they end up falling in a wrong way they might end up dead. I call out that I would catch them but they don''t stop shivering from the thought of falling to there deaths. I then call for them to simply throw Julie and her kid off the building first if they''re afraid. The doctors hesitate at first but obey for they wanted to see If I could truly catch her and make sure it was safe. Throwing the child off the building was an easy task for a child was lighter and easier to toss. I quickly grab him and put him down easily. That swift movement eased their fear of jumping off the building a bit as they saw me swiftly catching him and then laying him on the ground. While Julie, on the other hand, was a grown woman so she was someone heavier to lift, and a lot harder to simply toss. 2 doctors worked together and lifted her and then tossed her.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. I swiftly grabbed her with little effort and that eased the doctors up much more. But most of the doctors were still fearing the jump. Time was ticking and the building was burning soon the fire got onto their floor and the first brave doctor decided to jump. After swiftly catching and releasing them there were only 5 more doctors left. But these doctors feared the jump and refused to be the next one to do it. At this point, I was getting pissed off. I take my gun out and pointed it at them. "If you don''t jump I start shooting at you lot. After I fire my first shot the zombies will start climbing upstairs to swarm you so all who don''t wish to die from Zombies and then burned to death had better jump." In a jiffy, all 5 remaining doctors jumped off the building and got to ground safe and sound... not. I simply dropped them from my hands after I caught them, This was paid back for wasting my time. Although they didn''t suffer any major injury falling to the ground whilst having your body above someone else waist is a painful experience for the ass. I have the doctors quickly loaded onto the police cruisers. I am not dumb enough to place the people I took so long to save into a cramped truck. We quickly depart from the hospital and head towards the center of Chinatown. My mother and father had passed away 2 years before me and my sisters were thrown into streets. I had already turned of age so we weren''t taken in by anybody, I raised my sister myself. We received an inheritance of 80,000 dollars. It was the money we received from the insurance and their savings. With that money, we were able to survive quite easily. I got a job as a Technician and started working as well. So our brother and sister lived quite well off. That was until the apocalypse happened and messed up our lives. In my last life, I wasn''t able to save her. By the time I got home in my last life the apartment was raided for supplies already and was without an owner. I was only able to get there after 2 months into the apocalypse due to the zombies and then had to give away half of my supplies to those bandits who took over the bridge. After crossing the bridge and getting into Manhattan only to find a raided apartment. After fighting through a borough and killing hundreds of Zombies, then getting extorted by bandits I end up in an apartment which was empty and showed no signs of humans. But now after returning to the past I can finally meet up with my beloved sister once more. We have arrived. I get off the truck which I was sitting in and jump off of it. I land in front of the door to my old apartment building and turn at the door. The door is locked. That is a good sign for a locked door means that it has yet to be broken into and that the people inside should have yet to come out. I reach into my pocket and pull out my keys. I stick the one which was for the front door and it unlocks with a click. The moment I open the door I see a set of stairs. My apartment is on the third floor so I need to pass a flight of stairs to get there. I quickly ascend the stairway and on every floor, there are 4 apartments. Every time I pass a door I hear banging sounds coming from behind it meaning that there is a Zombie within. Chapter 39: Little Sister I reach out my hand and cup it into a fist and then gently knock the door. But there is no answer. "It''s me." There is still no answer. I take out my cell phone and give it a call. The sound of a ringtone rings from within the apartment. There is suddenly the sound of hurried rumbling and scrambling from behind the door. I know that she is most likely hurrying to unblocked the door. I then stick my key in through the keyhole and it slides right in. With a twist, the key unlocks the door. As I try to push into the door it is blocked with the bed. As expected from my sister. To even put the bed out here. After about 5 minutes of scrambling about, I see the door open up and my sister immediately jumps at me. "Brother!" I hug her tightly. "I''m home." I quickly walk inside the house and she quickly closes the door and blocks it once again with the bed and sits on the bed. "Brother, why did this all happen?" "I don''t know, but the world has gone to hell. Let me tell you about it." I spent an hour inside the apartment explaining my way here and the dangers on the streets. "So you''re saying that almost 90% of humans on earth have changed into those Zombies!?" "Yeah, a majority of them have become zombies." "Then what should we do now?" "I have a plan already set in stone. I''ve already gathered supplies weapons and resources now all we need is a base. This building will not work for it is dead center in the middle of Chinatown so it''s too dangerous." We''ll head out in a while so make sure you pack up all your things for we won''t be coming back.You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story. I already packed up everything. I have packed up all the supplies needed and put them in my backpack. If you had not come back by tonight then I was about to go out to search for you. I have already gotten the fire escape ready in case the zombies were to try getting through the front door. She walks towards the window and opens it revealing a Pikachu backpack that I brought her packed full of supplies and hanging on the fire escape. "As expected of you." I pat her head and then started to mess up her hair. It''s been a long time since I did that. Li Xin suddenly remembers something and takes out a pearl from his backpack the item, the pearl was the Zombie core he got after defeating the Zombie. "Here, I picked this up on my way back. It''s me sorry for being so late in coming back." My sister''s eyes sparkle at the sight of the pearl and ask hurriedly. "What is this?" I reply that it is an evolution Core which I picked up after I defeated the Mutant Zombie. I continue to tell her all the benefits there are to take the core. Since you have yet to kill a single Zombie your stats are still at there basic attributes meaning the stats you have at the start of the Apocalypse. After taking the Core you can immediately boost all your stats from your initial stats directly to tier 2. Meaning a hundred point boost in all stats. "Then let''s do this! I want to become superhuman like you." "You can''t." "What! But you told me all I had to do was absorb the thing and then I could become like you!" "Yeah..." "..." The conversation ended there. "Hey! EXPLAIN why can''t I absorb it then!" "I thought our little genius here would understand herself... *SIGH* I guess she isn''t as much of a genius as she thought she was." "HUH, What did you say! I am really smart you know! I got full A for all my scores even without anyone telling me to! I also completed all the-" "Then why can''t you figure out why yourself?" "You! Hmpf I don''t care." She quickly pouts her little cheeks into a balloon and turns her head away. "Alright alright, it''s my fault okay. My little genius is still very smart okay." "Hmpf!" "The reason why I can''t have you absorb it yet is that..." Her ears quickly spring out like rabbits and start listening in to what I''m saying. "The reason is..." But I never finish my sentence... "BROTHER!" "Hahaha sorry sorry, you''re just so cute when you''re angry..." I start laughing my head off at her angry little face. My little sister is even so adorable when she gets angry. "Alright, the reason behind why you can''t absorb the Core just yet is because your body isn''t strong enough to withstand it." "???" With a look of confusion, she looks at me with her innocent rabbit eyes. "What this core does is to help you improve your physical body by leaps and bounds. But because your body is only at its initial state you might just explode because of how much power this core will give you. Absorbing something that can multiply your physical is body strength by 10 times is extremely painful. Back when I was adding all those stats into my body there should have been a pain so strong that it would''ve knocked someone out cold. But because I was immune to the pain I didn''t suffer the painful side effect of increasing my stats so fast. Generally, people only increase there stats by only 10 at a time as it is more easily endurable. Only a masochist would add up their stats as crazily as me. "So basically what we need to do now is let you kill a couple of zombies so that your stats aren''t at your basic stats. That way when you start leveling up your stats with the core your body will more easily absorb it. People generally only absorb the core after they are Tier 2 or close to Tier 2." Tier 2 Zombies are only supposed to appear after the first month of the Apocalypse so obtaining this Premature Tier 3 Core from a Mutant Zombie is quite rare. Chapter 40: Confucius Plaza We soon leave the apartment building. Soon after leaving the apartment howls growls and banging were coming from the apartment next door. I already know that there are Zombies inside of these apartments but I can''t be bothered to kill them. This is because they are trapped inside of the building meaning that they will take a while to get out of the door. So these Zombies aren''t needed to be taken care of. I quickly pass doors of banging and scratching and soon reach a staircase to another floor. After passing by and getting to the next floor we encounter a door that had been busted open. The door had been busted open by the whole family of Zombies. There was a total of 6 Zombies in the house and after I passed the door the first time to get to my apartment these Zombies had been banging away at the door. The 6 Zombies quickly rush at us. They look extremely hungry and disturbingly ugly. I quickly take out my crowbar and whack it along there spine. If I was to aim for the head they would have died so I aimed for the spine. After breaking a human spine, the human would be unable to walk for a broken spine would make standing up a problem. My sister is highly hesitant in getting near the Zombie. The Zombie has an extremely mutilated face that looks like it was bitten on. The face of a Zombie is extremely disturbing to look at. But although disturbing to look at a Zombie which has it''s spine broken can only crawl across the floor to get you. They are sitting ducks now that I have broken it''s back. I don''t kill it because I need to level up my sister''s stats. If I was to have killed the thing then she wouldn''t have had a chance to kill it for fighting against a Zombie is not an easy thing to do when they have higher strength then you and don''t fear injuries. While if it was to even get you once then your body would be infected. I quickly hand my crowbar over to my sister. Her face goes pale from freight. My sister wasn''t a person who had killed a single thing in her life. So starting with killing something humanoid will be hard to do. If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. I grab her wrist and then with a swing I have the crowbar crack into the skull of the Zombie. I don''t get the Evolution Points due to her being the person holding onto the weapon that caused the death of the Zombie. She immediately pukes after seeing the blood and gore of the Zombie''s brains. But that is just something that we all have to go through in the Apocalypse. But after killing one, killing another is easier. So after killing the first Zombie and puking out her lunch I borrowing her hands slaughtered the rest of the Zombies. Killing 6 Zombies earn 6 Stat points. She didn''t puke this time for there wasn''t anything to puke. "Brother..." "Yeah?" "I hate you..." "..." I quickly grab my sister who jumped me and started tugging at my hair and brought her down the stairs. After reaching the first floor we get out of the building. Waiting below are the trucks and Police Cruisers. I quickly have my sister get onto the back seat of the Police Cruiser I was on and we were off. Killing just 6 Zombies is nowhere near enough to get to Tier 2 but the good thing is that the place we are going to is going to have Zombies Swarming the place. I at first thought that the Queensboro Bridge might be a good place to set up our base for it is one of the ways into Manhattan but when I think about it again... The bridge nearest to here isn''t the Queensboro Bridge that is about 30 minutes away by car but the Manhattan Bridge that is right in Manhattan. It is off of Bowery and Canal Street. In the dead right center of Chinatown is Confucius Plaza and that is a 44-floor high building that has 762 apartments within and even a school connected to the Building. I can both easily access a Bridge and take control of Chinatown if I was to make Confucius Plaza my Living Quarters. I quickly get to work by bringing my men to the front door of Confucius plaza. But before we can get inside we see a bunch of Zombies Surrounding the entrance. They were probably the initial tenants in the building. They had most likely run from there rooms after some family became Zombies and turned in the lobby after someone there turned infected and attacked them. Now the Lobby to go up the building has been blocked off. I quickly have my men open fire and blast a way through. After doing so I had them secure a barricade. The time right now is Night time so the Zombies are a lot stronger. My men are also extremely tired. So they should rest first for the night. I''ll have the second floor secured first and while they are Resting I''ll clear out the remaining floors. There are a total of 762 apartments in the Building. If I was to count every apartment able to fit about 3 people as the minimum then there are at least 2286 people inside. If you were to count that 90% of them turned then about 2057 people in there should be Zombies. But since it is New York the apartments are much more crowded with people. Generally, Apartments sold to tenants in Chinatown Manhattan are resold to other people by the room within the apartment so usually, there is about a family of 3 at the minimum for Chinese families live together. The remaining rooms are usually rented to someone else for about a couple of hundred dollars. So it is common for the Apartments to have from 5 to maybe even 6 tenants. Chapter 41: Confucius Plaza [Clear] If I was to say there were 6 people about 50% of the time then the number just increases exponentially. There should be enough Zombies here to let me get to Tier 3 at least. I quickly drag the dead Zombies away from the lobby and started piling them up outside the front door. After we finished blockading the doors and the windows we started heading up the stairs. The elevator is down and I don''t think I would dare try to use them either for elevators aren''t exactly a safe way to go up the building when there are Zombies around. Zombies will swarm the Elevator the moment it gets to the floor due to the Noise so trying to go up the building through the Elevator is a death trap. Which is why we need to go up the Building the good old way. We traveled up the stairs as quietly as possible and had all of ourselves on high alert. Zombies can pop out at any moment. Upon reaching the second floor Li Xin took the lead in opening up the door first and scouting the place for one who can''t die doesn''t fear the zombies... After opening the door to my surprise most there were only a few Zombies in the hallway... When I think about it again most of the Zombies should''ve changed inside of there apartments meaning that a majority should be locked inside with no way out. Only a couple of them are open and those were most likely the ones who tried to run from there rooms after the people inside turned. Meaning the rooms opened whereby humans who were trying to escape and the ones closed either are full of Zombies or they could be Survivors who took down the Zombies and are waiting for rescue. I quickly take out the Zombies in the Hallway and signal to my men that the Coast is clear. After all the men who followed me up here got here I used my radio and contacted the survivors who I left in the Trucks to start bringing up the supplies. I have almost 14 truckloads of supplies so It''s not like I''m about to simply leave them unattended. I have the remaining survivors carry all the supplies out of the Trucks and bring it into the lobby. With about 30 men carrying supplies the efficiency was quick. Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more. While they were bringing in the supplies I quickly started breaking open doors. I don''t have the doors to the rooms so naturally, I can only get into them by breaking them. It''s pretty simple when you have 150 stats in Strength. I broke open the doors one by one and left the clearing of the Zombies to my men. I need my men to gain more experience in killing Zombies and I also need them to get more Evolution Points. After I broke down a couple of doors I opened the Elevator. It''s going to be a real pain in the ass to have my men carry all the stuff from the lobby to the second floor by foot. I was hesitant in allowing my men use the elevator before in fear that going up the floors through the elevator would leave my men swarmed by the Zombies but since most of the Zombies are trapped inside of there rooms the Elevator becomes something that is a good way to transport our supplies up. Right, when the Elevator doors opened a bunch of Zombies came charging out. They were trapped inside of the Elevator when the Apocalypse began and never got out. I quickly cleaned out the Zombies inside and then rode the Elevator towards the first floor. After getting to the first floor I look towards the door and suddenly smack my head. I forgot that I left the door blockaded... I look at the men who were locked out... I quickly get out of the elevator and opened up the Blockade. After my men got inside I had them put all of the stuff into the Elevator. After all 30 boxes of supplies were put inside I had 10 men go upstairs and 1 person operate the Elevator to go upstairs. They were to unload all the supplies into a room. I had the remaining 20 people go outside to bring in the remaining supplies. I want a Storage ring now for that would make the process stocking up on supplies much easier. I took the stairs and quickly helped out in clearing the Zombies. After we finished clearing out all the Zombies I had the remaining officers who were taking out the Zombies to help unload the supplies. After all the supplies within the trucks were loaded into a couple of apartments my men were called onto the second floor to rest. If you''re wondering how someone could rest after so much had happened then the reason is that they were already too tired to even think about it. Loading 14 trucks worth of supplies into a building is not an easy job for the sheer amount of things needed to be picked up and then down was huge, So the moment their head hit the soft pillow they immediately fell asleep. I, on the other hand, wasn''t even the slightest bit sleepy. Why? The reason for this is because after respawning all fatigue is also relieved not to mention the unloading process was simple for me with my 100 points in vitality and 150 in Strength. I quickly went to an apartment and relieved myself of all fatigue by quickly killing myself. After putting my sister to sleep and singing her a good night lullaby I went ahead and started to clear out the upper floors. While all of my men were sleeping I was clearing the Zombies inside the Building. There wasn''t much time before the Beta Period end so I need to use every second of it to become stronger. By the time I finished clearing out all the floors and rooms the day had already started to turn bright. Chapter 42: Manhattan Bridge I quickly look out from the balcony of the tallest building in Chinatown and the view from up here is damn amazing. I could see the top of all the buildings around me. After scouting the surroundings I went back downstairs. They should be awake by now. The moment when I came out of the staircase something hit me in the chest. "Brother! Where did you go!!!" "... I went to clean out the other floors." "Why didn''t you tell me! Do you know how worried I was! Brother..." "Alright alright, my bad okay. I''ll tell you later when I''m going to go out." We have about 5 apartments full of supplies. What I need to do now is get the Manhattan Bridge Blocked off. This bridge leads to Brooklyn which is the largest burrow in population. If I don''t block it off then if a Zombie horde was to cross over then Manhattan would be overrun with Zombies, I need to quickly secure Chinatown''s most possible danger first before anything else and that would be to block off Manhattan Bridge. Now that the trucks have unloaded all the supplies into the building the trucks themselves are going to be a good wall. I have 14 truck drivers follow me to park the Trucks so that they block off both sides of the bridge. With 7 trucks parked on one side and the remaining 7 on the other, the blockade was complete. When we arrived at the bridge it was what you could call a mess. Cars were lying around. Some on fire and most of them crashed into each other. The bridge is blocked. We can''t enter the bridge with our trucks. The Size of the trucks wouldn''t fit to get through. There are also hundreds of Zombies on the bridge. Some who were trapped inside of there cars. Some who were outside the cars and roaming around.Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. This bridge is going to be a real pain in the ass to clean up. There were about a hundred cars on this bridge. I quickly had my men get out of the trucks and start killing all the Zombies on sight. I also had my men start trying to drive the cars which worked to entrances of the Bridge. By doing so the bridge will become barricaded by the cars. So the cars will act similar to a barricade against the Zombies. I made sure to leave no gaps between the cars so that zombies or humans wouldn''t be able to get through without us letting them in. But I left a gap in the middle of the cars which could barely fit a truck through. This will be to be a route that we could escape from. I then had the drivers park the trucks behind the cars so that 3 trucks were blocking the left side 3 blocking the right side and plugged 1 truck in between the trucks and cars so that if we were to ever need to get out of there we could jump onto the middle truck and directly drive out. The middle truck would both act as the gateway in and an emergency escape route if needed... It took a total of 3 and a half hours to secure the bridge and make the Barricade but it is worth it. It''s now 1:48 P.M. Nighttime is when the Zombies become more active so there are about 4 hours till the day turns to night. The beta period will end in about 10 hours. I can start recruiting more survivors now that I have both the Bridge and Confucius Plaza under control. More manpower is needed to cover and secure the Bridge. I should also start cleaning out all the buildings in the surroundings and clearing them of Zombies for I plan to make Chinatown the Center of my base. There should be about 4,000 survivors remaining in Chinatown. Why 4,000 well it''s because of simple math. Only about 10 percent of humans should still be alive. Chinatown has a Population of 47,844 people living in it and about 10% of that is 4,784 so I simply rounded it down to 4,000 and due to how dangerous the night of the first day was. There should be at least 1/5 of that remaining population that dies due to the Zombies and that is while being optimistic. I need to secure these human resources now that I have the space to keep them. I''ll also need to start building walls and fortifying the streets. Survival bases in the days of the Apocalypse were generally just as large as a single building but there were also survival Towns. There weren''t many of those though. But what I''m about to create isn''t a survival Town but an Empire. To do that I''ll need resources manpower and magic equipment. If I remember correctly there was dungeon which was within Chinatown. I''m not sure if it''s even there yet, for now, it is only the first day but I''ll check it out. For Dungeon spawn lots of useful things. If I could grab the Dungeon core and plant it inside my base then I would be able to gain an endless source of resources. I had my men form groups of 10 and gave them each a gun. They were to all set-out and start securing buildings nearby. I had them first secure the shops with food for our supplies won''t last long if we were to start recruiting more people. I better start making use of the time now and start planting crops. For food will become a huge problem soon. After ordering my men to start securing the perimeter I left with my sister. We headed towards the subway station. The reason for this is because one of the largest dungeons in Chinatown which spawned in my previous lifetimes was in the Subway station. The Dungeon took over the Subway of New York and because it was already cleared out the dungeon didn''t even need to expand itself. No one was able to take down the dungeon core of that dungeon because space is covered and the number of monsters it spawned. Chapter 43: Dungeon "Where are we going?" "... we''re going fishing." "Fishing? Where?" "In the subway station." "..." "We are going to be fishing for a Dungeon Core." "Dungeon Core?" "It''s a shiny rock that feels warm when you touch it." "Whats a dungeon?" "That''s..." "..." "I don''t know..." "..." "Every Dungeon is different. But they are similar in the aspect that they are an interdimensional space that summons creatures and resources into our world." "... Forget I said anything." We quickly reach the Subway station which is leading downwards into the ground. Along the wall, there is a lot of graffiti on the walls leading downwards. The entrance of the Subway station has yet to turn into a Dungeon. That means the dungeon has yet to take over the subway station. At least not yet. All dungeons require time to take over a certain area. New dungeons are made after a dungeon core is Planted and after some time the core will grow and take over an inter-dimensional space which becomes the dungeon. If I can find the Dungeon core now before it has fully grown then I would be able to form a contract with it becoming a Dungeon Master! A dungeon master is just like what it means, a master of the Dungeon. There are extremely good perks which the dungeon master will get when he becomes the master of the dungeon and they are being able to teleport within the dungeon and capable of controlling the monsters which respawn, as well as where and what the traps are to be put. Getting my hands on this dungeon gives me a mine with infinite resources. I can build the dungeon however I see fit and make it an underground base for me.Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. There were dungeon masters in my previous life which became quite powerful because of being almost invincible and having an almost infinite amount of resources. They probably survived even after I died in that battle against the God of Plague. The reason why they are so powerful is that as long as they are within there Dungeon they can teleport to anywhere within the Dungeon. This means if the Dungeon Core isn''t destroyed then they wouldn''t be able to be killed. Having a dungeon under there control also has the perk of being able to mine resources from the dungeon which is unending as long as there are enough sacrifices to the Dungeon. The Dungeon is a living structure which will consume anything. They will then convert what they consume into some sort of power and then use it to sustain the Dungeon. Meaning as long as it consumes something the resources of the Dungeon will continue to replenish. But becoming a Dungeon Master is almost impossible and for a good reason. The first would be that the Dungeon Core needs to acknowledge you as it''s master. The second is that you would need to have enough power to crush the Dungeon or else you would never be able to come in contact with the dungeon core. The third is that Dungeons are almost impossible to clear. The only chance someone has to control a dungeon is when it is just born. When they are just born they only have a single room so its easy to find the Core and they don''t have powerful enough monsters to defend themselves. Meaning that this is my chance. The Dungeon which I am going after is extremely notorious. It was a dungeon that didn''t have a master''s in my past life but became extremely powerful due to its size and the sheer amount of resources. I need to find the Core of this Dungeon. But it''s going to be a real pain in the ass due to how large NYC subway is. There are multiple stops inside the Subway station and in the future, this dungeon would have complete control of all the Subway entrances. Meaning that the Dungeon at its prime took almost full control over the underground of Manhattan. I need to find where this dungeon and fast for a Dungeon evolves rapidly. This is one hell of a Dangerous Dungeon so I need to be extra Cautious. "What do we do now brother?" "We search..." "Search where? The Subway in New York is extremely long." "We''ll start by killing off all of the Zombies within the Subway. If we find the core then were lucky if we can''t that is fine as well for the dungeon will require time to become stronger and need time to store up power to create monsters. This means that we have at the very least 5 days to find this Dungeon. I clear out the Zombies then the Core will have fewer Zombies to consume meaning it will become stronger slower." "How will we know when we find the dungeon?" "We''ll know when we step into the dungeon for notification will pop up so you just need to focus on killing Zombies." With that, we set off on a Killing spree or not... I gave my Glock to her. My sister has never touched a gun before for she is only 14. So I needed to teach her from scratch on how to use the gun. This was the time to give her to train and become used to killing and using the gun. I needed to teach her how to turn off the safety and how to hold the gun. Only after that could she start learning how to shoot. Her aim was extremely inaccurate. While she was aiming to shoot the Zombie she shot out the Exit Light. Her shots were almost as good as shooting randomly for she couldn''t aim at all. The time was going to spend down here is going to be good practice for her to aim with her gun. I think that her chances of hitting her aimed target are lower than actually hitting something else randomly. For all her shots so far has long missed the mark. She''s going to need a lot of practice. Chapter 44: Is he an enemy? Within the first hour, we spent inside the dungeon we have found some survivors. They were hiding inside of one of the Subway stations Newsstands. There was a total of 16 people in this group of survivors and they had apparently escaped into the newsstand and then pulled down the Metal Curtain so they stayed inside of it till now. A subway station is a place in New York that has a damn lot of Zombies. You might wonder why there would be so many Zombies when the Apocalypse started at midnight. But the thing is that New York is a city that never sleeps the subway is open 24/7 so there is always people in the subway. When the subway station has people turn into zombies all of the people there are going to turn. Almost none can get away from there unless they are a Person with an ESP power or are extremely lucky to be near the Exit. Even then the chance of surviving in the Subway at the time of the apocalypse is close to 1%. Manhattan has a lot of people who use the Subway''s at night the reason for this is their night jobs or maybe they are coming back from a Bar. Most people who live in Manhattan don''t have a car. The reason isn''t that they can''t afford it but because there is a subway. There is also a lot of people who simply live inside of it. There are a lot of homeless who use Trains as a Shelter. The reason for this is that the subways are never closed and its a good place to beg for money. I look at the 16 people here and then think about what I should do with them. There isn''t much time until the Apocalypse''s BETA period ends so I''m not going to waste my time bringing them up to my base. For the time it takes to get up there and then back down here is going to take up too much time. I barely have enough time as it is so I''m not going to waste on these unknown strangers. "I don''t have time to bring you back to the surface right now. I still have something important to do." "What but your the Police! What do you mean you can''t bring us up the surface!" "Yeah, this place is dangerous. You have to bring us back up." "Exactly, you can''t be so irresponsible!"This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. I looked at the rowdy crew of people whose mouths just when on and on nonstop. I simply took out my gun and pointed it at them. "Shut the Fuck up." "..." The crowd of people quickly turned silent. I mean anyone would when a gun is suddenly pointed at them. That was until a man said. "He''s bluffing, he won''t dare shoot us. He''s only one man, there are 16 of us. If we can get his gun then we can get back to the surface ourselves." The moment these words were uttered the looks on the faces of the people there changed. Their eyes showed their greed for the Gun in my hands. I, on the other hand, was completely calm. I had sort of expected this for this is only the first day of the Apocalypse. But still, it kind of pisses me off. I simply aimed the gun at the lag of the man who was shouting and shot. The moment the gunshot rang out, all the people crowding around backed away. There was only the screaming of curses and cries of pain coming out of the mouth of the man who was shot. "You Fucker! Do you know what your doing is a crime! I''ll fucking sue you for this you messed up bastard." I fired another shot at the other leg of the man. "First of all, I''m not a Cop. So I don''t care if your dead or alive. I will also tell you this, the ground above is also full of Zombies just like here. The whole world has turned into this. So you can sue me all you want but I think you won''t have much luck doing that." All the others shudder after hearing what I said. I mean they probably already knew that this was the case but were most likely trying to not believe in it. For it has only been but a single day since they got trapped here. Although the Zombies outside were scary it had nothing to do with them as long as they stayed inside the Newsstand and stayed quiet. They were waiting for the police or special forces to save them trying not to imagine that the entire world has gone to hell. But with me telling them the truth straight forward like this, there belief in the government going to save them had just gone up in smoke. I look at the man who was screaming curses my way and then looked at my sister. My sister was putting on a calm face but I could see that she was shuddering. I look at her and then pass her the gun. "Shut him up." Her eyes went wide. "Brother!?" "You''ve got to get used to this. The man is also causing a lot of noise which is attracting the Zombies Attention. So please shut him up." Her face quickly turns into one of fear and her calm demeanor which she was trying to put up broke. "Brother... but he''s still a human, it''s not right..." My sister has never killed anyone before like most people before the apocalypse. Although in this hour of practicing with the Gun she had killed a couple of Zombies never did she think she would have to kill a living person so suddenly. "The world has already turned into this mess, do you think it would matter if he''s human or not? Zombies were also human, they only turned from the living into the dead. There isn''t much of a difference." "But he''s alive!" "That doesn''t matter. The only thing that matters is whether or not its an enemy. He was just riling up this group of survivors to attack up and steal our gun. What do you think would have happened if it wasn''t us. They would likely have stolen the gun and maybe even have killed to get it." "Brother..." "Is he an enemy?" Chapter 45: Tier UP *BANG! With that shot, all strength left her body and she collapsed. She then started vomiting. The gun in her hands must have turned extremely heavy by now. For this is her first time killing someone. Not something but someone. A human to be precise. We, humans, have this instinct installed into us which blares out to not kill another human. This is because there is fear programmed into our heads by society. Of course, there are murderers but they are fewer in number because of the physiological fear to kill someone which is human. But now is the Apocalypse, having the fear to kill someone is not a good thing. Which is why letting her kill a fellow human the faster the better. After killing someone once it is easier to do it a second time. It might sound psychopathic but it is the hard truth. This is an apocalypse after all. Giving her a chance to kill someone in a controlled environment is surely better than forcing her to kill someone while having her life on the line right? Although the gun in my sister''s hands should be extremely heavy. But after killing a few more that fear will disappear. I know this because when I first killed someone in my previous life I... Wait did I even feel fear... "..." I stood there for a couple of seconds and thought about it and came to a conclusion... I think I was one of the few who didn''t care if I killed someone... Or maybe I didn''t care... She just continued to Vomit and I continued to watch. I then looked at the remaining survivors. In a cold voice, I asked them if they wanted to live. "..." "There are 2 options I''m going to give you. The first is you stay in that Newsstand I''ll pick you guys up on my route out of here, this option is fairly safe. The other is following me, this option is much more dangerous. Decide." "I think I''ll stay here..." "Me too." "I''ll stay here as well." Soon the group of survivors started deciding to stay here. This was as planned of course. I stated that it was safer to stay here and wait for me to pick them up and that is true. But what they don''t know is that it''s much more dangerous to stay here. The reason for this is that the noise that man created previously is going to attract the Zombie''s attention, After we leave this place will be swarmed by Zombies if I don''t take care of it.Did you know this text is from a different site? Read the official version to support the creator. No one decided to come with us which was better. They are mostly a bunch of useless people. After leaving behind that crowd of survivors we left to explore the remaining subway. Now that I think about it I have yet to upgrade my stats. Status! Name: Li Xin [Tier 2] Ability: ~[RESPAWN]~ Physical: [Ashura berserk] [Ultimate Movement] [Regeneration] [Mana Recovery] [Parallel Thought] [Soul: 999.9][Max] [Strength: 200][Max] [Intelligence: 100] [Wisdom: 100] [Agility: 200][Max] [Vitality: 100] Stat points (Tier 2): 2032.4 Wow, that is a lot of points I saved up. Lets Max out and Tier change first. Name: Li Xin [Tier 2] Ability: ~[RESPAWN]~ Physical: [Ashura berserk] [Ultimate Movement] [Regeneration] [Mana Recovery] [Parallel Thought] [Soul: 999.9][Max] [Strength: 200][Max] [Intelligence: 200][Max] [Wisdom: 200] [Max] [Agility: 200][Max] [Vitality: 200][Max] Stat points (Tier 2): 1732.4 [TIER LEVEL UP] [Congratulations for becoming the first to reach Tier 3.] [You will receive a reward of 100,000 Evolution Points] [Reward is unable to be received.] [Reward canceled] "..." "FUCKING SYSTEM!" "Sigh* Status." Name: Li Xin [Tier 3*] Ability: ~[RESPAWN]~ Physical: [Ashura berserk] [Ultimate Movement] [Regeneration] [Mana Recovery] [Parallel Thought] [Soul: 999.9][Max] [Strength: 200] [Intelligence: 200] [Wisdom: 200] [Agility: 200] [Vitality: 200] Stat points (Tier 3): 866.2 ??? "I can Tier up to 4 already?" I think about it and then think some more and then it dawns upon me. There were about 3,000 and 400 something Zombies in Confucius Plaza and about a couple of hundred Zombies which I killed on my way here so that makes about 3,500-3,600 Zombies which I killed altogether... Long story short, I killed a fucking lot of Zombies. Let''s max out to Tier 4 first. Name: Li Xin [Tier 3*] Ability: ~[RESPAWN]~ Physical: [Ashura berserk] [Ultimate Movement] [Regeneration] [Mana Recovery] [Parallel Thought] [Soul: 999.9][Max] [Strength: 300][Max] [Intelligence: 300][Max] [Wisdom: 300][Max] [Agility: 300][Max] [Vitality: 300][Max] Stat points (Tier 3): 366.2 [TIER LEVEL UP] [Congratulations for becoming the first to reach Tier 3.] [You will receive a reward of 100,000 Evolution Points] [Reward is unable to be received.] [Reward canceled] "... Whatever." Name: Li Xin [Tier 4*] Ability: ~[RESPAWN]~ Physical: [Ashura berserk] [Ultimate Movement] [Regeneration] [Mana Recovery] [Parallel Thought] [Soul: 999.9][Max] [Strength: 300] [Intelligence: 300] [Wisdom: 300] [Agility: 300] [Vitality: 300] Stat points (Tier 4): 183.1 I am most likely the only Tier 4 being in this world right now aside from some Ancient Cultivators and otherworlders. I know that each otherworlder that comes into this world is at least a Tier 4 being. This is mostly due to how they seal their powers to bypass the world barrier. But for now, I am one of the world''s strongest beings. The first year of the apocalypse is going to be an extremely harsh one. To get past it one needs not only power but a Safe shelter. In 1 month the blood rain will come. The Merchant Guild will descend to the world. That means I should clean out Manhattan of Zombies within a month. Why? That''s because after that month the blood rain will turn all Zombies into Tier 1 creatures. To clean out Manhattan of Zombies I''ll need to speed up my efficiency. The way to do that is by contracting the Dungeon. After Contracting the Dungeon and becoming a Dungeon Master I can teleport to anywhere within the dungeon meaning that if my dungeon was to cover all of Manhattans Subway systems then I''ll be able to get to anywhere in manhattan within a breaths time. Chapter 46: The Invisible Tunnels I have about 5 days to find the location of the dungeon. A start-up dungeon is usually about 100x100 ft. The core is generally somewhere within that space. But after using mana the dungeon can expand and take over a certain space that is open and connected to the dungeon core room. For today is the first day of the apocalypse it should still have its original start-up room. While going through the subway I started having my sister get more involved in killing the Zombies and started increasing the amount she was to handle. Of course, it was while the Zombies were handicapped. If I was to train her with Zombies which weren''t it might have become a bit dangerous. The number of Zombies which she killed soon past a hundred after about 2 hours of nonstop practice. I didn''t give her much time to rest for I had her add all of her Points into vitality and agility. By doing so she was able to become quicker and dodge the Zombies who were lunging at her easier. By adding to her vitality she always had some strength left in her to keep going. But doing this doesn''t lessen her fatigue for adding onto her vitality only helped give her more energy. The fatigue can only lessen with rest which was something I didn''t give her time to do. I did this for several reasons, and one of them was to get her mind off of killing another human being. By making her life so hard that she couldn''t think and could only fight to live her thoughts of morals and self-reflection should be the last thing on her mind. Another reason is that people can awaken ESP powers not only through the Blood rain but also if one is pushed to there limits. After killing through the subway for 2 hours she was extremely exhausted and when adding to vitality didn''t even work anymore I helped finish off all the surrounding Zombies and got her to a safe place to rest. She fell unconscious from the fatigue. If she had persisted a bit more then maybe she might have even awakened. "Sigh* Let just take things one step at a time." I waited for my sister to awaken before we continued on the path of our search. Unfortunately, she didn''t awaken. But there are a lot more chances to do so, worst comes to worst I''ll let her soak inside the blood rain. Although that isn''t going to awaken a natural ESP power it will be better than nothing. Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. I continued down the seemly endless path of the NYC Subway looking for this dungeon. But after a while of walking, I stopped. I took out a map that I grabbed of the NYC tunnels and looked at the path before me, this tunnel isn''t on the map. A smile creeps onto my face. I think I found my dungeon. I step into the tunnel and an announcement sounded in my head. [You have found a dungeon!] [You have entered The Invisible Tunnels.] [Congratulations on being the first to find a dungeon you earn 10,000 Evolution points!] [Reward is unable to be received.] [Reward canceled] My eye twitches from seeing this stupid announcement of a canceled reward. I then look towards my sister who still seems tired. "Did you get the reward?" "Hmpf!" I think she is ignoring me now... The Invisible Tunnels, the largest dungeon in NYC. It was well known for its labyrinth and a huge amount of traps. The Dungeon had expanded from Manhattan to almost all the states along the coast at its peak. It was one of the largest dungeons that were never fully explored and conquered. This dungeon has only just gotten to earth yet it has already increased its size. This tunnel most likely leads towards the dungeon core room. I continue down the tunnel with my sister behind me. Soon a group of 5 Tier 2 Mutant rats. These rats were large about the same size as a hound. My sister screamed at the top of her lungs and started shooting at the rats. This enraged the rats and they came charging at us. I mean I wouldn''t blame her. Have you ever seen a rat as big as a dog before? They''re huge and disgusting. Most people fear rats because it is a socially induced conditioned response combined with the startling response. Rats are generally associated with the food being contaminated and when you see such a large ass rat I believe most would jump from fear. These Rats are similar to the typical rat in the way that they are both extremely fast and resistant to attacks. If you have ever caught a rat before you will know that it is almost impossible to capture one by running after it, the chance of capturing one through a trap is most likely the more possible outcome. Rats are extremely agile creatures and that is even more so when they have evolved to tier 2. So guns are not exactly the most useful way to defeat them. Most of the gunshots which my sister fired at them didn''t hit. Only one of the rats got hit but that did barely any damage to the rodent. That shot is what you would call lucky. She was only able to hit the thing because it was hit by surprise and not because of her good aim. Guns become almost useless after the creatures become Tier 2. Tier 2 creatures have a tough hide and fast speed so the chance of killing one is highly reduced except if you have an extremely accurate aim or have a heavy firepower gun like a machine gun. But even then it is highly inefficient to take down a Tier 2 creature with a gun due to the number of bullets it will require. That also means that guns will become not as useful after the first year of the Apocalypse. For a lot of Beasts and Zombies will evolve to at the very least Tier 2 by the end of the Year. Chapter 47: Golden Bloodline I quickly rush towards the rats who were charging towards us and in one swift motion, I grab them break there legs and throw them down. With my stats, all of this happened in a blur. The rats where all on the ground not long after I attacked. I didn''t kill the beast because my sister still required Evolution Points to Tier Up. All tier 2 give 1000 Evolution points meaning 10 stat points for my sister per rat she kills. 5 rats mean 50 stat points and after a being turns into a Tier 2 they generally have a Core. The mutant rats should have a demonic core in the heart of their bodies. Each core has about half of the rat''s total Evolution power sealed within it meaning if my sister was to consume the core each would give about 500 Evolution points. So 5 rats mean 5000 evolution points plus the core give 2500, a total of 7500 evolution points. Then converted to Tier 1 stat points is 75 stats. Within the first minute of stepping into the dungeon, I have already earned 75 stats for my beloved sister. It is no wonder people wanted to become a dungeon master. The speed at which you can earn evolution points is insane. If it was in normal times the speed at which people can earn points is 10 times slower meaning even after killing those 5 rats you would only be able to get at most 7 stat points. This is how hard it is to earn evolution points in normal times. Compared to later on the Beta Period is heaven. I need to make the best use of this dungeon. If I could use right I might even get close to Peak Tier 4 but only up to peak tier 4. I can''t get past Peak tier 4 unless I am to pass a test of will which will open up once every full moon. So I can only accumulate Stats for now but will never be able to break past Tier 4 if I don''t pass the test. The test is a tower made by the Alien Races. Every Tier after Tier 4 requires one to pass a Tower to advance. You can say that it is a test but in actuality, they created this tower to monitor the amount of Tier 5 in the world as well as kill those whom they deem dangerous before they truly grow to become a danger to them. Although the only Tier 4 beings can enter a specific tower to Tier up there are lots of otherworld Tier 4 beings there that can be paid to group up and kill a Specific person there. Meaning all humans who can get out of the Tower is either extremely weak in the potential that it isn''t worth killing or extremely strong and cunning that they could pass off as a weak being. The remaining others are simply killed off. But the extremely weak beings are also usually killed by the alien Races as well for robbing.The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. All who wish to become Tier 5 will have to usually pass through it for it is a testing site. There is also a saying that if you don''t pass Tier 5 you are but an Ant. Tier 5 beings are Gods to those of lower Tiers. After one becomes a Tier 5 being there bodies undergo a massive change and become immune to almost all attacks which don''t have something called Gods power. That means killing a Tier 5 is almost impossible to happen unless there is a very special circumstance or very strong or weird ESP power. Tier 5 beings are gods. After my sister takes out the rats we continue moving on down the dark corridor. She suddenly breaks the silence with me with a question. "Why did the world turn it this..." I stare at her and tell her what I thought was the reason. "Maybe its because you were too lazy..." "..." "It might also be because you got to fat..." "BROTHER!" "Haha sorry sorry... Don''t think too much about why the world turned into this, all you need to know is that the sky changed so you will need to change as well." "..." "Do you forgive me?" "...I know I needed to change, I forgive you." "I was joking earlier you aren''t getting chubby! You don''t need to change! I love your chubby cheeks. I mean you only gained 2 pounds right?" "BROTHER!" She then beat me up and I continued to say sorry to her along the way as well as teasing her now and then. A family sticks together no matter what happens. I missed this feeling. The feeling of being alive. We continued down the route of the tunnel and when we reached the end of the tunnel a group of rats was waiting for us there. Among these rats, there was a unique rat. This rat different from the other rats was much smaller. It was the size of the regular rats before the apocalypse but this rat had Gold fur and Crimson eyes. It gave off a feeling of Majesty just from looking at it. A Golden Blood Mutant Rat!!! To think this dungeon can afford to create a Golden rat! This rat is a Mutant rat that has a trace amount of the blood of the Golden Tribe meaning it is a part of the ruler race. Each ruler race contains a small amount of the Golden Tribes Blood. If I was to absorb enough of the bloodline of the golden tribe then my potential will exponentially increase. The problem is that there is only a limited amount of mutants that have a golden bloodline and the amount of blood within the body of this rat would at most make up a single drop of blood after it is purified and processed. That isn''t even close to the amount of the needed blood for me to change all my blood cells to become pure-blooded. But something is better than nothing. In the apocalypse, even a single drop of this blood is worth paying then thousand spirit crystals! If it was to be sold in an auction it may be sold for even more. Chapter 48: Flee A mutant beast with a bit of the golden bloodline is an extremely rare find. I need to capture it! I immediately rush towards the groups of rats and started charging towards the golden rat right away. A golden bloodline rat is a Natural Tier 3 being from the start of its life. It''s potential is top tier and will evolve much faster than other beasts. Since this dungeon can spawn one Golden bloodline beast it must mean that it can spawn more! This dungeon is not as simple as it seemed. The kind of beast a dungeon can spawn corresponds to how strong the dungeon is. Typically a dungeon that has only just come into existence can only spawn Tier 1 to at most Tier 2 beasts. I originally thought that it used the time before I got here to take care of the Zombies around it and then absorbed it getting it quite an amount of energy to spawn the Tier 2 beasts. But I think I was wrong. This dungeon is not newly spawned. For newly spawned dungeons could never spawn a Tier 3 beast not to mention a Beast with a golden Bloodline. I think this might be an Alien dungeon! An alien dungeon means a dungeon that came from another world into this one by weakening itself and passing through the word limit. Currently, the limit for the beings which can be on earth is a Tier 4 being. But to pass through the World barrier, you will lose all your Cultivation meaning all your strength and have to slowly accumulate it back. I believe that this must be a dungeon from another world who took it upon itself to transfer to this world. There is a reason why other world dungeons would choose to transfer to this world and that is the fact that they have more resources which they can get when they transfer to a new world. Although they lose all their previous power they in place gain unimaginable potential at becoming much stronger than their past selves. It is like a level 100 expert deciding to restart their game character and beginning again from a new server. The level 100 expert has the experience he had from his previous game so he will become an expert in this realm. But only those with ambition would try to do such a thing. For after a couple of years the dimensional barrier between the world will disappear meaning that if the expert was to not be able to recover back to his peak condition with the limited time he has he might be chased down by his enemies from the previous realm.Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings. So all Aliens that choose to transmigrate to this world have a lot of ambition and also something to rely on. For this dungeon, it must be the fact that it could summon golden blood Beasts. This dungeon is a transmigrated dungeon meaning it might have other trump cards its relying on. I need to be careful, but I am also excited. A dungeon that decides to transmigrate has a lot of ambition meaning that they also fear death more than the average dungeons. These dungeons know that they can make it huge in this world so they definitely would rather betray there own kind and team up with me than to fight with me to the death. As long as I can get control of its core I won''t fear it''ll go back on its word. I immediately take out my crowbar. The crowbar has already started to bend. But before I could touch the golden rat it immediately dodged and aimed for my sister. It seems that the rat has intelligence. It''s aiming for the weak link first. I quickly activated all three of my physical skills which are [Ashura berserk] [Ultimate Movement][Parallel Thought]. All of a sudden time seemed to come to a freeze. But I know that this isn''t because time really froze but instead it is the working of [Parallel Thought]. [Parallel Thought] can make your mind multitask multiple things at once. Using this skill makes me speed up my thinking speed to 100 times the normal pace. This causes things to slow down to 100 times the speed before. With the skill [Ultimate Movement] I speed up my max speed by 10 times making it so that I can barely catch up with my thought process. With [Ashura berserk] I increase my power. I quickly and ruthlessly attack the golden rat. The rat was barely able to react but in the end, still did. The rat is a Speed based beast meaning its original speed was faster than me. Even after my speed increased by 10 times it was still able to evade my attack but my attack didn''t end with just a single attack but a barrage. With my brain calculating where its body was going to evade. I quickly landed multiple attacks onto the rat and caused it to become seriously injured. The rat, although injured, was still alive. The rat quickly jumped back into its group of rats and ordered them to attack me and help it stall for time to recover. As expected of a beast with a Golden Bloodline. Its resilience is insane. Although I heavily injured the rat, the time of my skills is going to run out soon. Since I activated multiple skills at the same time the speed at which the duration of the skill lasts decreases exponentially. Each skill originally has a duration of 30 seconds but with all 3 skills being activated at the same time the duration of the skill now only lasts 10 seconds. I already wasted 5 seconds on beating the Golden rat. I don''t have enough time to kill all the remaining rats and finishing off the Golden rat within 5 seconds. If I was here alone then all would have been good for even if I was to die I can simply revive. But with my sister here I can''t afford to die. For 10 seconds is enough time for the group of Tier 2 rats to shred my sister to bits. I need to get out of here! I quickly grab my sister and fled the scene as fast as I could. There were only 4 seconds left until my skills end. Chapter 49: Dungeon Core #891 The moment I fled the scene the rats chased after me. I didn''t have enough time to get to the exit. I quickly grab my sister in one hand and throw her as far as possible. "BROTHER!" "GO!" After that, I turned around and grabbed a hold of a couple of rats chasing after me. I started killing as many of them as I could before my countdown timer was up. By doing this I have them lock onto me after I fall dead. This gives time for my sister to escape farther away from here and gives me more time to respawn back. I quickly snap the arms and legs of the rats I killed but didn''t kill them. By doing this I can make it so that they become a burden to the remaining rats and have them forced to help take care of them as well as save some points for my sister to harvest later on as an apology for throwing her. I know it''s stupid, but she''s my sister. To think that I had to throw her to escape from here. Soon after I break the legs of about 80% of the rats chasing after me my time limit ends. The world turns black and I renter the dark space. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "HAHAHA, you did well, as expected of my beasts. I dungeon #891 am indeed a lucky one. To think that I would be able to defeat a Tier 4 being on my first day here in this world! A tier 4 Human is worth 100,000 DP in the BETA period of this Apocalypse. It truly was the greatest idea to choose to transmigrate to this new world." "Although you put up a great fight I dungeon core #891 am truly the strongest of them all! Going against me was your worst mistake, you stupid Human! Hehehe!" The sound of a maniac laughing could be heard by all the beast here. The noise was being transmitted into the heads of all the dungeon beasts. After the core calmed down, he looked at the body of the human and decided to Absorb it. [Absorb] [Ding you gain 100,000 DP] [HA HA HA, who is the strongest dungeon core of them all!? It is I DUNGEON CORE 891!] But soon someone started tapping the shoulder of dungeon core 891... wait... Dungeon Cores don''t have shoulders... soon someone started tapping on the surface of the dungeon core...This tale has been unlawfully lifted without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon. [Hmm? Who... !!!] The man who was supposed to have been absorbed by the dungeon core suddenly showed up next to the dungeon core completely naked. ------------------------------------------------ The man immediately grabbed the crystal ball which was the dungeon core off of its pedestal and brought it closer to his face. "Who did you say was the strongest Dungeon Core again?" [Ah, let me go! How dare you! You better let me go right now or else I''ll summon a whole lot of monsters and flood this room with them!!!] After hearing that I quickly pause... "How many monsters can you summon?" "You scared, I have 150,650 DP right now so I can summon 1,506 Tier 1 Monster. If I was to summon them all at once I can immediately flood this entire place with monsters!" My eyes open wide. 1,506! Meaning each Tier 1 Monster is worth 100DP. A dungeon is indeed a good thing to have. I am now thinking in my head about ways to continuously spawn monsters and then kill them. This would bring me a lot of Evolution Points for me and my men. If I was to sacrifice myself and let myself be absorbed by the dungeon and then continuously spawn monster for me and my men to kill then this dungeon will become a great grinding spot! My eyes sparkle with greed and desire. [EH! Why are you looking at me like that! I''m not into humans I''m only into rounder and shiny female dungeon cores you know so don''t stare at me like that!!!] It seems my lust for this dungeon of endless resources has started to leak out. "My name is Li Xin, from today onwards I am your master." [Fuck you! Who do you think you are you, stupid human. You dare to even think you can become this one''s master! Keep dreaming! I dungeon core 891 am the strongest dungeon core of all existence how dare you even think about becoming my master!] I tighten my grip on the dungeon core and soon the dungeon core starts making creaking noises... The dungeon core screams in outrage and terror. [STOP you, foolish human! Do you know what you are doing! You better stop right this instant or I''ll summon so many monsters that they will flood this entire place and have them pee on you!] "Accept me as your master now or I will continue to crush your core until I destroy it." [Look at yourself in the mirror, your ugly who would want to obey you. I''d rather die than obey such an ugly human!] I tighten my grip on the core even harder. Soon a crack appears on the surface of the core. [STOP! STOP! STOP! I obey! I obey so please stop!!! I''m going to break!] I loosen my grip on the crystal ball. "Sign a life and death contract with me. The contract will go as follows: If you were to try to plot against me you lose half your soul. If you were to attack me you lose half of your soul. If you were to be involved in a plan against me or anyone important to me you lose half of your soul. If I was to die because of you, you''ll lose half of your soul. You have to obey my orders as a priority. If I tell you to go east you must never go west or else you''ll lose half of your soul..." The contract went on and on. It was a 100-page long contract with the most stupid things written in it. This was all to make the contract so long that the dungeon core won''t have any chance of plotting against me. [This is completely one-sided! This great dungeon is the strongest dungeon in the world! He shall never become a slave to the likes of you. ] Chapter 50: 2 Old Foxes I clench my hand tightly around the dungeon core and a sound of cracking appears again. [AH! AH! STOP! STOP!] "Sign the contract." [NEVER!] A back and forth battle of changing the contract thus started. [1 year!] "1000 years." [2 years!] "1000 years." [What!!! You''re supposed to say something less!] "1000 years." [How about 10 years? Most dungeons only sign a partnership contract for 10 years at most! What your doing is a slave contract!] "How about I break you apart and then gain all the evolution points a Dungeon can give me. I believe there is also a merit of a title right?" [NO! NO! NO! How can you think about doing such a thing!] "Then sign the contract." The voice of Li Xin was so calm and easygoing that you wouldn''t think this was a contract that determined whether or not he could gain a Dungeon which can bring almost limitless profit. Well, that is because it wasn''t hard at all. [1000 years is way too long! At most 500 years, you can''t go any more than that!"] It''s about time, Li Xin thought in his mind. "How about let''s do it this way. The contract will go for as long as I live, which means as long as I live you will be my dungeon." The dungeon core started calculating in his mind about this proposal. Humans can live for about 100 years normally but after each Tier, they get an increase of 50 years onto there life span. Meaning that now that he is Tier 4 he can live up to 200 years... Plus this is the apocalypse a time where humans can die at any moment. "Plus I''ll make this more fair to you. If I die then you won''t have to receive any backlash from me your owner dying. Meaning you will be free the moment I die."The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. The dungeon then started calculating in his mind, he was looking for loopholes. If I was to get a bunch of my dungeon creatures to surround and kill him then wouldn''t he die? I''ll just wait until he lets go of me and then I''ll summon a whole lot of monsters and beat him to death! "But you can''t plan anything against me nor be involved in trying to kill me or anyone close to me. That includes humans under my protection. Of course, that''s under the circumstance that they don''t try to destroy you. If you do try then you will have your soul eradicated." [...] "Or we can just sign my previous contract." The dungeon started plotting. It started calculating and thinking and more thinking. [Alright.] The face of an old foxes plan going well showed on his face. Instead of signing the 1000 year contract he''s signed a life contract. With my power of respawning would I even be able to die? The answer to this question is No. There isn''t even a point in counting on Lifespan running out for the moment I die I''ll be revived. Meaning Life span isn''t worth shit anymore. I look at the dungeon with my friendliest smile and sign the contract. Only after I sign the contract could all be set in place. The dungeon, on the other hand, the dungeon was also smiling because of the fact that his life span is almost limitless. On the other hand, the stupid human can at most live up to 200 years. In order to Tier up he needs to pass a Trial tower, and passing through that thing with the body of a human is almost impossible because of the Alien Lifeforms in the Tower. The chance of this human dying is almost 100% if he was to show even the slightest bit of talent. Even if he passes it the Tier 6 tower will surely have people who take notice of him meaning it''ll be impossible for him to survive it. Even if he was able to pass the Tier 5 advancement tower he will at most be able to live up to 350 years that is 650 years less then the original contract. Plus the chance that he can live the entire 350 years is a question in itself. For this is an ERA of chaos. Although the lifeforms from the otherworld can''t come over now, in a couple of years when the protection period ends the Tier 5 and 6 Beings can come to this world easily and crush him. To think he even made it so that I won''t suffer a backlash if he was to die. This stupid human sure is dumb. Each had their own plans in mind. The 2 old foxes soon signed the contract. A contract which the self-proclaimed strongest dungeon core #891 would later regret signing. This contract is a lifetime contract that has almost no way to be ended. Since Li Xin is can''t die... So unless the dungeon core was to die the contract will continue for almost eternity. The dungeon quickly used 1000 DP to trade for a Contract and had a contract drafted up according to what was discussed. After both sides agreed that there was nothing they weren''t unhappy about they both signed the contract quickly. The dungeon wished to sign it quickly because it thought that it had a good deal and didn''t want the crafty human to change his mind. While Li Xin wished to sign it for the same reason except he knew that this contract is going to be a total scam. The dungeon is so stupid that he has already stupidly sold himself to Li Xin but is actually helping him count how much money he could be sold for. Both old foxes had a smile on there faces even after signing the contract. They even said courteous words to each other such as... "Happy working with you." [Happy working with you too. :) ] After Li Xin finished scamming the stupid dungeon into a lifetime contract which it could never get out of, He heard a large BANG. The sound came from the entrance of the dungeon. Apparently something or someone has intruded into the dungeon. Chapter 51: Mj?lnir The sound of the commotion came from the front of the dungeon. Meaning it came from the direction I died at. Let''s test out the controls of the Dungeon. [MAP] Suddenly a 2-D image of a map of the dungeon shows up on a map. On the map, there is a single Red dot near the front of the tunnel which I died at and a bunch of Green Dots surrounding the red dot. The red dot should be the thing that signifies an enemy and the green should be allies meaning dungeon creatures. [View Live stream] Suddenly the map minimizes into a smaller map and goes to the side. In its place, there is a screen showing what is happening there in real-time. When I see what is going on I am shocked. My sister came back into the Dungeon. It also seems that she has awakened. In her hand is a gigantic Hammer. But there are Gigantic spears of Icicles floating around her. She has awakened it seems and not just 1 Power but 2. One an Elemental ability she has become an Ice User. A variant of the Water element. The second is a tool ability, the Hammer. Since I was a Water User in my previous life I guess it is only natural that she has an ability similar to mine. But where does the hammer come from? I then take a closer look at the hammer and became shocked. That''s Thor''s hammer!!! That''s a fucking mythical weapon! How the heck did she awaken Thor''s inheritance! This is insane. I don''t remember anyone in my past life awakening the Inheritance of that Mythical god. To think my sister would be the one. Thor''s hammer is a Mythical weapon meaning her Ability of Weapon is an S rank talent. For her to have a variant ability of the water class which is Ice, an A-rank ability and an originally C or B rank weapon ability which turns out to be an S-Rank due to it being a Myth Tier Weapon.The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there. Weapon Abilities are generally ranked as C class due to how much damage it can cause. Usually, a weapon in which one awakens can range from a variety of weapons such as swords spears and even bows. But the weapon which they usually awaken is usually a Normal weapon which they require time to nurture to become stronger. It can be said that a person who awakens a weapon ability is generally much weaker than people who awaken other abilities but they have the highest potential at becoming stronger because the only thing they require is to upgrade there weapon to become stronger. But a Myth weapon is something different entirely. This is usually not something someone can awaken. No one just awakens a mythical weapon, it''s usually an inheritance which they need to work hard to obtain. For her to awaken Thor''s hammer, its something extremely unnatural. There are 3 ways to obtain a Mythical weapon. One is by obtaining it after passing the original owner of the weapons test, another is if you have a close relationship with the weapon in question such as a possible bloodline heir to the original owner. The last is by finding one which is fragmented and nurturing it while it is broken. My sister didn''t pass Thor''s test. For I''ve only been out for at most a couple of minutes. It generally requires days to pass a Weapon Inheritance test. Much less a Mythical weapon test which can last from months to years. My sister and I are both born from a Chinese bloodline. Meaning we most likely aren''t connected to a Norse God in blood so I can pretty much take out bloodline as a possibility. Which means the last possible method is the only way. I look closely at the hammer which my sister is holding after Zooming in with the screen and it seems that this weapon seems a bit transparent. When taking a closer look I see that in her hand what she is holding isn''t a Hammer but a Core. To be more specific the Tier 3 Zombie Core which I gave her. Could it be that the Zombie Mutant I killed had the skill of Thor? That also explains why it didn''t use its ability while it was fighting against me. It wasn''t that it didn''t want to use it but more like it couldn''t. Mj?lnir is a weapon of the god Thor. That mythical weapon would never allow itself to be used by the likes of a Zombie. This is one surprise after another. First I got my hands on a dungeon core and now my sister awakened. I quickly order the rats to stop attacking by making my sister my sister''s color turn from red to green which means friendly. Immediately after I did that the rats stopped attacking. I ordered the rats to separate into 2 lines and welcome her in. Unexpectedly my sister took out her hammer and crushed all the rats... Holy cow my sister is savage as fuck. Well, I was planning to let her take out the monsters later on anyway to boost her tier so it''s fine. I look through the screen and see that she is making her way into the next room of this dungeon. This dungeon has a total of 3 floors and 2 rooms. So apparently it has gotten a lot of DP in the time when the apocalypse happened. For taking over the space required for the 3 floors and shoveling out space requires a lot of DP. I look at my sister going through the dungeon and somehow feel a satisfaction. It''s like someone going through the hardship of playing a game and you the GM can see what they are doing and even increase the difficulty at the slight touch of your hands. I suddenly had the urge to play some tricks on her... A playful smile creeps up on my face from thoughts of what I can do. But quickly subsided after it thought of how my sister would kill me if she found out I did it... Chapter 52: Li Xiaoyu I The world has changed. Since the moment my brother told me, I knew that though I was a skeptic. I Li Xiaoyu will make sure to protect my brother! That was something I swore to myself the moment our parents died. My brother isn''t exactly the most normal older brother that all people have, although he is a good one. My brother is a bit off in the head is what some would call him, meaning he''s a bit of an idiot at times and a bit of a genius when it comes to certain things. Which is why he gets bullied often. When my brother should have arrived at the airport I called him to make sure he got there fine and that''s when I was informed of the Apocalypse. I saw the new channel broadcasting news of the Apocalypse all over and saw with my very eyes a broadcaster who got bitten to death by the zombies. When my brother called me at first I didn''t believe a single thing out of his goddamned mouth. I was a little more than skeptical about his claims for my brother''s history of claiming there is an apocalypse, isn''t a clean one. He''s been one to think about all sorts of things up in his mind that I just can''t help but be skeptical about his claims of there being an apocalypse out there. My big brother is a grown man who is also a Chunibyo at heart and likes singing nursery rhymes... How do you expect me to trust him? So I wasn''t worried one bit when he hung up the phone. I mean he did this sort of prank on me before this telling me that the adults on earth have turned into Giant man-eating chickens to scare me. It was only after reading a Manga about Adults turning into chickens did I know where his inspired prank came from. It was naturally a Manga where all his crazy ideas came to life in his mind. I had told my brother before that rather than becoming an HVAC technician he should''ve simply become a manga artist but he wouldn''t listen. When our parents died life was tough. My brother dropped out of college to lessen the expenses for the family and started to work after getting his certificate in HVAC. He got an offer to work with a friend of his in Chicago so he took the offer and decided to work there. I, on the other hand, am already 14. I wanted more independence and decided to stay in new york. We were living in a small apartment in NYC which cost about 900 dollars a month so I decided to stay to and finish my education here without having to move to a new school in Chicago. Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon. My brother comes back once every 2 weeks to check on me. While I simply lie to the rest of the world that I live at home alone. For there should generally be a parent or guardian in the house. But usually, the school doesn''t check or even know so it was fine. Life was simple and easy. Wake up, Study while eating, Go to school, Finish homework, Study, Watch infographics for 2 hours and then sleep. It was then a repetition of these steps. I am a straight-A student so to not drop my grades, these are the naturally the steps I need to take to maintain those grades. To stay in New York alone, I had to promise my brother that I''ll be a Straight-A student so this is how it is. But then the world went to hell and I was stuck in an apartment on the 3rd floor in a Zombie infested Chinatown. I couldn''t call my brother back after and know that the phone was shut off. His battery most likely died. That was what I was praying to myself in my heart. My brother is the closest person to me now. Although he isn''t the most reliable brother he is the best. I made sure to do what he said and started blockading off the door to our apartment. I pulled out my bed''s mattress first and stuffed it in between the door and the kitchen stove. Our apartment is fairly small so the kitchen stove is just beside the door. There isn''t a whole kitchen in this apartment for this is a fairly small apartment. I then started packing up the things I needed. I picked up a couple of wheat crackers which I bought as night snacks and stuffed them into my Pikachu backpack after dumping out all my notebooks and folders. I filled my backpack to the brim with all the crackers I had in the house. I know that food will be a hard thing to get in an apocalypse after watching a Zombie Apocalypse infographic and decided to carry as much food as I could. In the backpack, I stuffed ramen noodles (Nonperishable), crackers (Nonperishable), Chocolate bars (High Calories), Rice (Long shelf time). The rest of the food in the refrigerator was most likely not going to last long so I left it behind. I looked through the peephole of the door to look at the surrounding outside my apartment and find it clear of any Zombies. But there will be Zombies in this building. It''s just a question of time when the Zombies get out of there front doors. I need an escape route that the Zombies won''t come from and figured that the fire escape is my best bet. There is a window on one side of the building that I can climb out. I usually hang my clothes there to dry after washing them. So I know that is a route of escape if I need to. I left my backpack near the window so If I ever need to escape in an emergency I could grab it easily. I called my brother again after doing all that but he still wouldn''t pick up. I began watching the news for any information on the World outside. I called my brother once every 3 minutes to find out if he made it out of the Airport alive but was starting to get a bit worried. After watching the News I know that these Zombies are extremely strong so I became worried about every passing minute. Chapter 53: Li Xiaoyu II My brother hasn''t called me ever since the phone call got cut off and its already been almost half an hour. After seeing the power of the Zombies and knowing he''s in the airport which should be filled with these monsters I grow more and more worried and more and more agitated. After my 11th call, however, someone picks up. "BROTHER! WHY DIDN''T YOU PICK UP THE PHONE!" "Sorry, my phone ran out of power." "WHERE ARE YOU RIGHT NOW!" "I just got out of the Airport and got into a car, I''ll be back home by tomorrow." "Brother." "Yeah." "Don''t die..." "I won''t, I''ll make sure to come back soon so don''t worry, I''ll make sure we can survive this apocalypse together and come out of it as Kings." "I''m waiting for you at home, make sure to come back soon." "I will." The call then ended. I feel much more relieved with my brother out of danger. I now know he is safe and finally became relieved. But before he comes back anything can happen so I can''t be to relieved for him. But I can tell from his tone of voice that he has got the situation on his side under control and isn''t in any danger so I can feel relieved for that. Before my brother comes back I better make full use of this time. I look at the house apartment and started searching around for all the materials which could turn out useful. I first go to the stove. I open it up and underneath the cover for the stove I see a slight flame. I blow that out. What I am doing is both extremely dangerous but is a last resort if I need to. What I''m about to do is cause a stove to start leaking gas. My stove is naturally a gas stove like most stoves installed in this building. I know because a small leak may gradually build up an explosive concentration of gas. So I blew out the flame so that the flame wouldn''t ignite the gas which I would turn on if it is a last resort of mine. This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. I take my toaster and started jamming it full of bread. Toasters that are jammed tend to catch fire after a certain amount of time. Meaning if I was to turn on the gas then the toaster. The time it takes for the gas to fill up the apartment will be almost enough time for the toaster to catch fire. The toaster fire would ignite the leaked gas if I was to turn it on leading to an explosion. To make sure that this fire will spread I took out all of my nail polish and started pouring it surrounding the toaster and leading to the carpet. There I poured some flour which I know is flammable as well as a can of refrigerant my brother left behind in the middle of the flour. If the gasoline doesn''t catch fire then the nail polish surely will and that will lead to the refrigerant tank which has plenty of good flammable gas stored inside. [WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!!! I will not be responsible! ] But this is a last resort of mine which I hope I don''t need to do. If the Zombies do however get inside of my apartment and I would need to escape then I''ll set up this trap and then run from the window and shut it. By the time I''m long gone from here, the trap will go off and set the whole room ablaze. I''m also on the 3rd floor which is the highest floor so if any survivors were to hear the explosion then they would probably try to escape before the fire spreads to the whole building. But if they don''t hear it then its tough luck for them and my best regards to them. I hopefully won''t have to resort to this but if need be I''ll do it. For this will kill a lot of Zombies. I also prepared some other things which might come in handy. I go to the small closet which my brother keeps all his supplies in and finds some interesting things inside. I found a PVC pipe some nails some bungee cord a hot glue gun some matches as well as firecrackers which were saved from last year. There were a lot more things but these are the most important which I deemed useful. I go underneath the gas stove and reignited the flame. I did this because I have a use for the fire the stove can produce. I take the PVC pipe to stick it underneath the fire and have it burn in the middle section of the pipe for a minute. This softens the PVC pipe making it easy to bend. I take the bent PVC pipe and let it cool down. I take the bungee cord and hang it on the ends of the PVC pipe and then taped the ends and the middle of the PVC pipe. There I have it a Bow. For the arrows, I take some wooden chopsticks which I have a lot of from all the takeouts at the ramen noodle house outside my apartment and started duct taping it together. I then used the hot glue gun to glue a nail onto one end and used duct tape to make the fletching. There you have it my DIY Bow and arrow. I made about 50 arrows while waiting for my brother to come back. If you think 50 is a lot then think again. I had a lot of takeout in Chinatown at the ramen place downstairs and the ramen is simply delicious. I always get a pair of chopsticks with all my orders but never used them because I have a pair of metal silver chopsticks which are my personal chopsticks. So although I get a pair of chopsticks almost every other day I don''t use them and they simply continued to increase. Before I knew it I had 5 quart ramen containers full of chopsticks. After I finished making my 52nd chopstick however I heard the sound of sirens and though if the police were coming to us! Chapter 54: Li Xiaoyu III The sound of police sirens ringing causes the entire world outside to liven up. After a while, the sirens stop. My windows can''t see what is going on for my apartment is on the backside of the building. I quickly take out a can of hairspray which I use and take a lighter. I take all my things and get them prepared near the window. I aim the hairspray at the door and have my lighter in hand. If something tries to break down my door I will spray the door with hair spray, turn on the gas and the toaster and bolt out the window. Soon I hear footsteps from outside the door. The footsteps came creeping closer and closer to my door. I felt relieved when I heard a knock. For a knock signifies that it is likely a human. Unless zombies are intelligent and know how to knock... I don''t let down my guard however and keep quiet. "It''s me." It seems to be my brother''s voice. I suddenly grew excited. But before I go up to the peephole to confirm my cell phone''s ringtone sounds. "It''s my brother!" I immediately drop my hairspray and lighter on the chair nearby and go for the door to pull aside the mattress which I put there to keep the door in place. When he opens the door I greet him with a bear hug. I then got into an hour-long discussion with him about what the world has become. In that hour-long discussion, I noticed somethings which were off about him... First things first are his expressions. You wouldn''t think he past by and killed a bunch of zombies on his way back from the hellish outside world which he described to me. After telling me more things about what the world outside has become I also noticed that he was speaking to me and telling me things which I don''t know how he knows. Such as the fact that there is going to be something happening after a month so we better build a survival base camp and whatnot. But the weird thing is that he is saying what he is going to do so straightforwardly like he has a plan in mind and knows what is going to happen and is preparing for it. This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it. Something is off about him. Well, something is always off about him but something is truly off about him now. We leave the apartment and I don''t see any Zombies around. I left behind my bow and arrows after seeing my brother having a gun in hand so I didn''t bother carrying something so heavy with me when my brother has a gun on him. My first floor down the building was pretty uneventful. There were no Zombies around and I didn''t get to see any action. But after reaching the next floor some zombies appeared. They were gross, let''s get that straight. One of the few things which I have ever seen in my life that looks disgusting. I didn''t want to get near the thing for the face of the Zombies looked lifeless and their pupils had turned white. They seem to be blind but they came charging after us after our feet touched the floor. I''m assuming they can''t see but can hear and most likely have an extremely alert and sensitive sense of hearing. My brother then suddenly moved in and brought all the zombies down to the floor with his crowbar. Something else which I learned was off about my brother. He seems to be awfully good with that crowbar. My brother was never one who was into martial arts or any physical sport in fact. But after today I just learned something new about my brother and that is the fact that he is really damn good at using that weapon. He seems to be a veteran at fighting, if I didn''t know him for the last 16 years of my life then I would''ve believed that he was a martial artist or a thug off the streets. For this style of fighting isn''t something you can simply know. I was forced to kill some Zombies and that really isn''t an experience which I like. When I reach the outside of the building I see trucks and police cruisers waiting for us. There are a lot of men waiting there and I am quick to get out of the building and away from the bloody mess which was created inside. I ride on the back of a police cruiser for the first time ever and it was a fairly pleasant experience if not for the fact that there is a bunch of zombies outside chasing after us. We quickly reach Confucius plaza of what I call the big brick building. It is a really tall ass building. I feared the zombies outside so I decided to stay in the cruiser while my brother and some officers took to ridding the lobby of Zombies. I waited inside the vehicle for about half an hour before my brother came out and I helped bring some supplies from the trucks into the building. I don''t think this is a good plan. What if the building goes under siege of a Zombie attack wouldn''t all the supplies be better off left in the vehicles? At least that way we can drive away from there whilst leaving behind the building which goes under siege. But my brother has other plans and I don''t decide to go against it. My brother has decided to make this building his base apparently which I highly disagree with. But for now, it''s okay I guess. I finally get some rest after all the supplies were brought into the building. My brother tucks me into bed as he did back then and sings me a lullaby which mother used to sing. I grab onto him and soon fall asleep before I know it and when I awoke brother wasn''t there. I panicked at that moment. Chapter 55: Li Xiaoyu IV But after a couple of minutes, my brother came out of the Stairwell. I naturally threw a small tantrum at him for suddenly disappearing and scolded him. But soon after that I left with my brother and some of his men and headed towards the bridge. My brother decided to block off the bridge and used some trucks of his to do it. I didn''t understand why he would do that when they are perfectly good trucks. It took a couple of hours to clear the bridge of zombies and cars and after we finished that my brother brought me to the subway. A place which I soon regret following him too. Apparently my brother was looking for a dungeon. It is apparent that my brother knows a dungeon is hiding inside this dungeon but just doesn''t know where. So we''re now going on a goose chase after a dungeon which my brother only knows is within the NYC subway station. I thought my brother was nuts for this as the subway station is huge. For the first hour of my time inside of the dungeon, my brother was pushing me to the limits so much that I thought I was going to die. He was literally treating me like a machine and making me constantly mow down the Zombies. I was taught how to use the Glock 17 which he handed me and was practicing my training my accuracy on the heads of the Zombies within the subway. We meet a group of agitated Human survivors inside of a Newsstand after the first hour of searching and my brother made me practice killing a living person with one of the guys in that group. I now know that my brother is officially crazy. I mean he was before but now he really is nuts. I puked my lunch out after I killed the guy. My first experience of killing a living human is definitely not a good one. We soon, however, bid farewell with that group of survivors and were on our way. I didn''t talk nor say a single word with him. My next 2 hours where hell for my brother made me add points into agility and vitality and had me killing non stop with no rest. Although whenever I added points into my vitality stat my fatigue seemed to lessen, the feeling started to disappear after I did it about 30 times. My stats got boosted and all but the world soon turned blurry and I lost consciousness. When I awoke I was lying on a jacket with my face against a wall. The jacket was my brothers and acted as a mat of a sort that protected me from the cold hard floor. When I awoke I was dead tired. Even though I rested for a while my body feels sore all over. After I got up I continued following my brother down the practically endless subway station looking for his so described dungeon. I was starting to think that my brother might be pulling my leg after a while. For this isn''t the first time my brother did such a thing. Only the other times he didn''t go so far.Stolen story; please report. But that thought was quickly thrown to the back of my mind when we found a tunnel which wasn''t on the map sticking out of the subway station. We finally found it, is the first thing that came to mind when I saw that entrance which was sticking out of the tunnel wall. I mean there aren''t any tracks leading into the hole, and the size of the hole is only enough to fit 3 people to go through at once and even then it is a tight squeeze. The moment I step foot into the entrance of the dungeon a notification sounds. [You have found a dungeon!] [You have entered The Invisible Tunnels.] [Congratulations on being the first to find a dungeon you earn 10,000 Evolution points!] I suddenly got a whole bunch of Evolution points added into my Stats menu. "Did you get the reward?" "Hmpf!" I got too lazy to answer him and instead ignored him. As we walked further down the dungeon we met something much scarier than the Zombies. A team of rats that my brother easily dispatched of. HOLYSHIT HOLYSHIT!!! RATS!!! I hate rats. Rats are one of the few things in life which I am just afraid of. They are rodents that spread diseases and are incredibly hard to capture and get rid of. Worst of all these rats are much larger in size than your regular rats. I quickly took out my gun and started firing. Firing the gun, however, didn''t keep the rats away and instead enraged them. The rats came charging at us. My heart was pounding and it was beating nonstop. The rats were getting closer and closer and my bullets weren''t doing much damage. Thankfully my brother took care of the rats. I was then given the last kill further increasing my stats. But soon we met a new group of rats. This one much larger in numbers. My brother immediately aims for the golden rat which was clearly the leader of this group without hesitation. He burst forward with a speed which I haven''t seen in him before. But soon he came back and grabbed me and turned back the way we came in from. In other words, we were fleeing. But before we got out of the entrance of the Dungeon the rats caught up. That was when my brother did something unbelievable. He threw me out of the dungeon. "BROTHER!" It was at that point that I knew something had gone wrong. I was thrown out of the Dungeon and onto the subway tracks. I quickly tried to get up but couldn''t. My foot landed on the ground at a wrong angle and it hurt like crazy. My brother, however, is still inside of the Dungeon. I need to help him! I quickly added my newly obtained Evolution points into Vitality. For a higher vitality stat gives me greater regeneration ability. My foot soon stopped hurting and then started to heal itself. I maxed out my Vitality stat. My wounds healed faster and soon I was back in peak condition. I immediately threw all my evolution points into my status panel and soon I turned Tier 2. The moment I turned I got a notification of having become Tier 2 and took out the Tier 3 evolution core which my brother gifted me. Without power, I can''t save my brother. I would only be a burden to him. I need to get stronger and the only way which I knew to become stronger now was to use this Core. The moment I put the crystal into my mouth and swallowed it. A warm sensation came from my stomach and then an excruciating pain came. I was told to absorb the core but was never told how. Upon consumption, the power burst out of it and my stats jumped higher and higher and then I awakened. [New Ability Cryokinesis Rank A+] [New Ability Thor''s Hammer A-][Fragment 1/9] Suddenly in my hand appeared the core which I clearly just consumed. The moment I poured my mana into it the shape of a hammer appeared. With a thought, Icicles appeared in the air. With this newfound power, I charged back into the Dungeon only to find my brother lying in a pool of blood surrounded by rats. His body then suddenly disappeared. Shock and disbelief were shown over my face when I saw his body. But the moment it disappeared in front of my very eyes I snapped out of my shock and that disbelief turned into anger. I quickly sent my icicles to shred the rats around me to pieces. My brother has just died. "I will definitely avenge you!" Was the last thought in my mind. Chapter 56: Cheating My sister left a gigantic crater in the ground of the dungeon with one smash of her hammer and had the rats shredded to pieces. She didn''t bother to pick up the evolution cores which were left behind by the rats and simply started charging further into the dungeon. Her eyes are scary. I think she thinks I''m dead... well I didn''t tell her my ability so... I continue watching the status screen and with every step, she gets closer. [What are you doing, order the rats to kill that human! You need to kill that human to get points!] "..." I think about it and then thought about the thought of messing with her. Then I concluded. I should send out monsters to train her. There is no time like now to train her for she doesn''t have anyone to rely on right now. I can also guarantee her safety with my control over the monsters in the dungeon. I searched for the Dungeon panel in search of monsters I could summon and find a list of monsters. I first created about a thousand Tier 1 rats. Just like that the amount of DP I used up decreased by 2/3. [MY DP!] I set the color of my sister back to red and then gave the order that they could beat the intruder but must never kill her. [What! Why would you do that! If you kill it then you get DP once I absorb it! The being is even almost a Tier 2 being already.] "That''s my sister right there. Meaning someone your not ever allowed to attack. She is your second master." [Ugh, che...] The dungeon turns its head... its dungeon core to one side and pouts. I look at the remaining DP points on the menu and there is 50,000 left. I found out that the dungeon once placed can''t be moved. meaning this dungeon core is immobile. The moment the dungeon was placed down the location if it can''t be changed. Of course, that will change when the dungeon becomes larger and stronger but for now, the dungeon core is stuck at its current location. Meaning I need to make this dungeon expand to my base. This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it The subway station that this dungeon is under is the one on 33rd street. This subway station is near the Empire state building which is only like 2 blocks away. This location is a good one it''s going to be a good location when the first month of the Apocalypse is over. For that is when the merchant Guild from another dimension will come over. So I have 2 choices now. 1 abandon Chinatown and create a new base here. 2 create a space that connects the 2 locations. I think back on my original location in Chinatown and then look at the location of this dungeon. It''s about 2-3 miles. Meaning I would need to travel 2-3 miles to Chinatown. I don''t know If I even have enough points for this... Let''s check the number of points needed to expand the dungeon room. <> Select 2000 DP Room 1200 DP Road 300 DP Tunnel 50 DP pitfall trap 100 DP Spikes 200 DP Arrow trap 500 DP Boulder 1000 DP Door 2000 DP Moving wall ... I look at the room I''m currently in and it''s a square room at about 20 square feet. A mile is about 5280 feet. So if 20 feet is 1 room then I would need at least 264 rooms, if each room is 2000 DP then 264 by 2000 is 528,000... I only have 50,650 DP... That means I need about 477,350 more DP. I then look at myself and my skill respawn... Each time I am absorbed by the dungeon will give it 100,000 DP... Meaning I only need to kill myself about 5 times to reach that amount. But that is only the basic amount of DP needed to reach my base in Confucius Plaza. What I''m aiming for is to make my dungeon into the best Dungeon. I''m only worth 100,000 DP now because it is the Beta phase so I have about 5 hours until the end of the Beta phase so I should use my time to its fullest. I walk up to the dungeon core and activate Ashura Beserk. "Remember to absorb me after I die." [???] I died after smashed my head in and ended back up in the dark space. [!!!?] Did that stupid human kill himself? He quickly takes out the contract and sees that it has become grey. Meaning the contract has been broken. [I''m free?] [??? was that human so stupid?] The dungeon core looks at my body with a confused look and then happily absorbs me. [HAHA stupid human, I dungeon core 891 am free!] But suddenly the contract which had turned grey became bright again... The dungeon core looks at the contract in confusion. Suddenly a hand taps on the shoulder... I mean surface of the dungeon core... [Why does this feel like Deja Vu...] When the dungeon core turns its vision on the thing which just tapped it. First, there was confusion than shock... and then more confusion... [Aren''t you dead?] Li Xin Smiles at the dungeon core but doesn''t answer his question. Rather he asked a question instead. "Did you get the points?" [... current balance 150,650 DP] [How did you do that... is this a bug?] "..." Instead of answering Li Xin simply crushed his head... Every 10 seconds equal 100,000 DP. I only have 5 hours left so about 180,000,000 DP to earn. Or until the bug is fixed... But before it''s fixed I can earn at least that much DP. This much DP should be enough for me to completely cover Manhattan into the range of my dungeon, and most likely have more than enough to have my dungeon fully equipped with top-notch Subordinates and traps. So before this Cheat has been fixed I''ll use it to its fullest potential. Chapter 57: Gods Retaliation The dungeon core was looking at the corpse on the floor in despair. He has already absorbed this body 10 times and has earned 100,000 each time, which is a good thing. However, the man who he has signed the contract with can''t die... Meaning he will never be free... Only now did the dungeon realize why the contract was made so in his favor. The fact that the Master won''t be able to die means that he will never be free... [Fuck! I''ve been had! You crafty human how dare you trick me!] I look at the dungeon core with a smile on my face. Anyone could read what I said without me saying a single word. "Yeah, what can you do about it." [!!! ... FUCK!] "The contract was made just for you of course. Why else would there be no negative side effect if I was to die? I mean I''m not stupid you know... unlike you..." [ARGH!!!] "Oh shut up already. This is also a good thing for you is it not?" [You tricked me!] "But didn''t you come to Earth to become the strongest dungeon? Don''t you have more enemies in the other world? With me, I can make you into the strongest dungeon in the world. By using the beta period to its fullest advantage I can have you take over the entire world in no time right?" [...] "It''s not that bad of a deal if you look at it. Although you will be under me, you will become the above millions of others. With me around, we can earn billions of DP and expand your dungeon faster than any other dungeon on the surface of this world." [Even so, I won''t have freedom!] "What is freedom worth? Nothing. Having freedom doesn''t make you the strongest dungeon in the world right?" [...] "Didn''t you have freedom in your previous world? If you had become the strongest there then you wouldn''t have come here right?" [But using a BUG will end up badly.] "That''s why we will use it as much as we can right now so that we will become strong enough to fight off anything the GOD can throw at us."The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. [But...] "No buts, god can''t directly interfere with our world lightly. That is especially the case for you. For you aren''t a Dungeon from this world but instead a transmigrated one. Meaning only your world can punish you. But I''m assuming that your world overseer has long left meaning that you won''t receive any backlash no matter how much chaos you cause here." [!!! How do you!?] "I know a lot of things..." A smile appears on my face, the face of a crafty fox. "This means the only way that the GOD can interfere is by killing me. But I can''t die." [!!!] "Do you see where I''m going with this?" [...] "As long as the GOD doesn''t catch up and fix the BUG we can cheat the system an infinite amount of DP." [...] "Don''t worry. As long as you don''t say a word and I don''t how likely is it that the god will be able to find us. The world is so big and the amount of things the GOD can do is limited. He also has rules which he can''t directly bypass meaning at least for the BETA period he won''t be able to do anything to us. So let''s stop wasting time and get as many DP as we can while we can." With that, we continued exploiting the bug which will most likely not be fixed until the end of the BETA period. Every 10 seconds I revive and then Suicide. The process of reviving suiciding and then being absorbed just continued. I believe this is one of the most fucked up things that my dungeon has ever experienced in his life as a dungeon. For its not every day that you get to see a man who can respawn. We continued with this process over and over again until I already lost count of the number of times I had died. But then something happened. A lightning bolt appeared out of the world and struck me the moment I revived... I think that God has been angered... For him to directly interfere and try to kill me... he''s going to suffer a backlash for that. But now I know that I''m not on Santa''s good list... I mean God''s good list. This could get ugly... I''m pretty sure that BUGs are only allowed to be struck by GODs lightning tribulation once. After that BUGs aren''t supposed to be attacked again... I believe I was already struck by GOD once meaning this is the second time. The GOD has broken a rule so he is most definitely going to suffer a Backlash. Also... it saves me the time to commit suicide myself... So good going god. Strike me a couple more times. But the heavens don''t answer my call, for they don''t send a lightning bolt. "Sigh... it''s so lonely being so invincible..." If the GOD above heard this then he would have most likely puked 3 liters of blood. Right now what Li Xin has to fear the most is the revenge of GOD. If this was a game then the players would be us and the GM would have to be the GOD. For those who exploit the bugs usually, they receive retaliation from the GM. Meaning I need to use this BUG to it''s fullest potential before the GOD figures out a way to fix it and starts his retaliation. A GODs retaliation is not something easy to take. For there is a myriad of ways in which he could retaliate. For example, he could make a Zombie Wave, make the location around us spawn more monsters at a higher tier than usual or... wait I think all of those are pretty good outcomes... For a Zombie Wave equals more monsters for me to kill. Spawning stronger monsters equal resources and Cores for me to harvest. I don''t fear death so the thing the GOD can throw at me that is bad for me is pretty limited... I then look at the Dungeon core and return to my mission of committing suicide getting absorbed and then respawning. The more DP I get the stronger I get. The more DP I get the angrier GOD will be... The angrier god is the stronger his gifts for me will be... I mean the stronger his retaliation against me will be... Chapter 58: Steel Armor I never knew until today that the process of committing suicide is such a tiring process. I don''t mean it literally for every time I die all my fatigue gets refreshed. But the process of killing yourself over and over again really gets boring... But suddenly after I finished killing myself my dungeon core told me to stop. "What?" [I''m not receiving any more points.] "???" I look at the Dungeon screen and a new notification pops up. <> <> "... to think he would name me out..." But it''s already too late. Before he made the announcement I''ve already expanded the dungeon to cover the whole of Manhattans Underground subway station... I also still have 158,742,962 DP remaining even after I have finished covering the Manhattan Subway station. Meaning I already have New York under my control. I can already imagine the look on GODs face when he realizes. It took him long enough to fix the BUG, which is what I would like to say but it''s already been like 2 hours since he struck me with the lightning meaning he most likely needs 2 hours to implement a system announcement. 2 hours = Needed time to send a new World Law. This is a good thing to know for by knowing this I can figure out the amount of time I can misuse a BUG. If I was to find any more BUGs then I''ll know how to cheat the system most efficiently later on. A smile creeps on my face at the thought of finding a new BUG. [Why are you making such a stupid face for?] After hearing what my dungeon said I recompose myself and turn on my serious mode. I look at the Dungeon Panel and started looking through the things I could do to make this dungeon work more efficiently. I enter into the DP menu in search of something useful.The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. <> I don''t need to expand the Labyrinth for now for the size of it should be pretty decent. I don''t need any more subordinates for now as the Dungeon isn''t really going to be guarded by Monsters which the dungeon summons but instead by Humans. I then look at the last 2 options. -Food -Equipment -Skill Scrolls -Enchantment Gems -Treasure Chest Trade something in from the outside world in place of DP. I first look at my dungeon from the Master screen and see that it is filled with Zombies... There is also. There are also crashed trains and some hundred or so people hidden within the subway before my dungeon took over the whole place. Let''s clean up the dungeon for now. Technically all the things inside of the Dungeon are mine except for beings that have a will of there own such as the living and the undead. So I can technically take any inanimate object within my dungeon and have it exchanged for DP. I first collect all the Zombies whom I killed on my way here and exchanged all their bodies for an ok Amount of DP. Let''s test out the exchange system a bit. I look at the floor of the dungeon which is extremely dirty. It is covered in blood and some zombies were standing on and it was covered in blood. Let''s test out Exchange to just absorb all the blood from the dungeon. Suddenly all the blood on the dungeon floor evaporates. Not a single drop on the floor or walls of the dungeon remains. So it can''t absorb the blood from the inside of a creature. The only blood it absorbs is that which is touching the dungeon floor. Hm... This is useful info to know... Can I sort out what I want to absorb? I look at the Dungeon interior and look at the subway tracks. On one of the subway tracks, there is a subway that has stopped. The doors are closed and there are Zombies trapped within it. Can I absorb the Zombies as well if I was to absorb the Subway? Let''s try. [Absorb: Subway] The subway suddenly disappears from existence and in place, all the Zombies which were once trapped inside of it fell out onto the tracks of the subway. Figured as much. I was able to absorb all the things on the subway except for the things on the body of the Zombies and the Zombies itself. This will be very useful, If I was to make a bunch of Punji Sticks and leave them underneath the dungeon floor then I could suddenly just take away the floor and make my opponents fall to there deaths. I then look at the cost of Punji sticks. 100 DP per Punji stick... That''s expensive. I could make a whole room with 2000 DP meaning 20 sticks are worth a single room... That''s way too expensive. To think each stick would cost 100 DP. I then look at the DP catalog for all the other items which are sold in the DP store. Food in the system costs even more. A single bag of rice costs 2000 DP. This is crazy. All the items which the DP Store sells are too overpriced. I believe I know why other dungeons didn''t make lots of traps... I scroll through the Equipment section and there was something that caught my eye. Steel Armor (Tier 1) Able to block Physical Tier 1 Attacks. Special: Energy Field Duration: 10 seconds /Cooldown: 1 Hour /Mana 10 Mana Per second. DP 2,000 Well, it''s still pretty expensive, for a Tier 1 equipment. After a couple of months, humans will be able to trade with otherworlders and the equipment sold there is only at the price of 1 Evolution Core for a Suit of this Tier. But in the first month of the Apocalypse, this piece of equipment will be the best Defense. I have 158,750,002DP but even so, it''s not going to be worth it to buy too many of these. For after 1 month a majority of the Zombies will become Tier 1 rendering the Defense that this armor can give less effective. But it is still better to buy a couple of these to equip my men up. Chapter 59: Goals I first buy 1050 of these totaling a cost of 2,100,000 DP. [156,650,002 Balance DP] I currently only have a group of 40 survivors now, but since I have this dungeon now I''ll be able to take control of Manhattan soon enough meaning all the survivors in Manhattan will be under my area of control. I''ll first build a Survivors Camp in Chinatown for I already have a Base of survivors there. So I''ll station 50 survivors there who will have control over Manhattan Bridge. I''ll spread out 50 suits of Armor to each camp which I will make to block off the remaining bridges. There are 21 major bridges in Manhattan connected to the other boroughs. Thus the reason I bought 1050 suits of armor. I''m not using the 50 Armored men as a force to fight off Zombies though. Rather I''m going to equip these men to keep order in the Survivor Camps I''m going to make. These 50 guards will be people who I can at least trust after training. I then look at my dungeon which is full of Zombies. Lets first clear out the Zombies and get my Dungeon into crisp shape. I first lock onto the areas which still have Humans. These are my first priority for now. Every human is going to become a limited resource. But before I go save them I go to the DP store and search for Dimensional Ring. Dimensional Ring (White): 100 square meters space. 50,000 Dimensional Ring (Yellow): 150 square meters space. 100,000 Dimensional Ring (Red): 200 square meters space. 200,000 Dimensional Ring (Blue): 250 square meters space. 400,000 Dimensional Ring (Black): 300 square meters space. 800,000 This is really an Evil store... a dimensional ring only costs a couple of Crystals in the merchant store. To think they would cost 800,000 for a Black ring... Sigh... I buy 2 of the Black rings. Even though it is an overpriced item I still buy it. Why? That''s cause this Bro is Rich. But the real reason is that even when the other world merchants come to this world it is a rare item that doesn''t always appear. Even when it does its sold at a high price in the auction there anyways. I also need a ring right now for it''s extremely useful in shipping supplies. For now, I need to save all the humans and to do that I''ll first lead all the Zombies towards a trap.This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience. To set up a trap for the Zombies I first create a second room underneath an existing room. That costs 2000 DP. I then only have to attract the Zombies using sound. I take out my microphone and then use the dungeon master''s special skill. <> Dungeon Gate is a skill that allows the dungeon master to open up a personal gate that he can travel through to reach anywhere the other side of the dungeon''s gate is at. I set my Dungeon gate directly on top of a room that has another room directly beneath it. "Come one come all to the Ultimate Pitfall, I Li Xin swear on my life that you won''t regret falling in here. This Mighty pitfall of mine will send all of you zombies to the next world after my you fall in. I swear I won''t leave even a drop of your blood left here after I''m done with you." Soon the zombies in the surrounding who heard me started groaning and started marching towards me. But there were still some Zombies who stayed where they were at and clawing at the metal chain wall. There''s apparently a couple of humans behind the wall and they seemed to have become locked in by the Zombies who were surrounding them. I turn my Megaphones speaker setting to the highest and Hollar. "We also have a promotion going on today which is the fact that falling into this pitfall trap will be absolutely free. But for today only I will make it 100 percent free. So don''t hesitate and come to the Ultimate Pitfall to the afterlife." This made some of the Zombies who were clawing at the chains to stop, they then turned around and headed in my direction. The Zombies soon got into the room which I was baiting them from and started to charge at me. I at that point erased the floor and all the Zombies fell to the floor beneath. The Zombies who had yet to come in continued on there way through the door to the pitfall trap and the Zombies behind them kept pushing the Zombies in front leading to a Domino like the scenario in which the Zombies continued to charge and fall straight into the next floor. Although some Zombies died after falling most of them just stood back up after the fall and continued to roam around. There were about 100 zombies in the pitfall trap. But I don''t kill them. Now that they are stuck in there it''s going to become an easy kill for anyone who has the brains to throw some gasoline in and set it on fire. I still have a bunch of survivors who have yet to start evolving. So using these pitfall traps which I''ll create I''ll get my men the needed amount of kills they need to Tier up. There is still a couple of hours before the Beta period ends so this is going to be a way to have my men start becoming stronger. My major goals in this first month of the Apocalypse is going to be to take control of Manhattan, clear out the Zombies in Manhattan, create 21 Survivor Camps, and bring hope to humanity. The last one is the Long Term goal. But before I get to accomplish these goals I''ve set I should first deal with my sister... I look through the Dungeon Panel and it seems she has taken care of the 1,000 rats... but her face looks much angrier than before. What should I do... Plan A: Go out like the big brother you are and tell her you are fine. Plan B: Hide and let her break the core to vent her anger then come out after she has calmed down. Plan C: Create a pitfall underneath her, Put more rats in there for her to train with and have her fight until she is too exhausted before showing up... Chapter 60: Rescue Survivors I think I''ll go with Plan A. My sister isn''t a Zombie after all. I think about what I should say, She is most definitely going to beat the crap out of me with that newly awakened ability of hers... I quickly teleport to the room which she will soon step into and when she sees me she first stops. Then she charges at me with the hammer in hand. "Wait! It''s me!" But my sister doesn''t stop her onslaught of attack. "HEY!" "How dare you disguise like my brother! I''ll flatten you so deep into the ground that you won''t dare show your face ever again." "..." Holy shit... she''s going to try and kill me now... I look at that mythical hammer in her hands and the icicles surrounding her. She is far stronger than me now. Although her stats are lower than mine all of her abilities make up for them. The Power of Ice and a Hammer of Thor. Against me one who practically doesn''t have a single power. I think I found the shortcoming of the skill respawns... Its the fact that I don''t have much power in hand. Back in my day when I awakened my power of Water, there was so much more I could do. I had best awaken an Ability soon or my sister is going to be able to beat the crap out of me soon enough. But for now, I can easily take her down. All I needed to do was get within close range. Her Ability of Ice is being used by her as a long-range skill right now for she has yet to learn how to fully utilizes the skill so as long as I can get within a close distance that means one of her abilities is sealed. Now all I have to worry about is the hammer. But my sister doesn''t seem to have any hammer-wielding experience other than when she was fighting against the rats so the hammer in her hand is technically being wielded as a blunt weapon. She has so many things she needs to improve on. I after dodging a couple of her big swings I get within an arms distance from her and grab her upper arm with my right hand and pushed her lower arm with my left and in 1 swift motion, I had her in an arm lock. This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source. She tries to resist a by moving the hammer to her other arm but I twist her arm a bit and disarmed her. The moment the hammer leaves her hand and touches the floor the hammer disappears. In place, a gem drops onto the floor. The hammer which my sister was holding was transformed by the Zombie Core which she absorbed power from. Meaning that the power of the hammer was technically borrowed and not her own. This is why when the Hammer left her hand and fell to the ground it changed back into a gem. The Gem when in my sister''s hands had mana which it could absorb. But after leaving her hand it had lost its battery source, this is the reason why the moment it fell to the ground it transformed into its original form of a Gemstone. "Hey! What are you doing!?" "... brother?" "Yeah, why are you trying to kill me all of a sudden?" I say it in a way of the accusation so that she''ll feel guilty in trying to have attacked me. This way I won''t be questioned about- "Why are you still alive!? Brother! I saw you were taken away by the dungeon. Why are you fine right now!!! Was it all an act you did!?" Or not... "..." "Brother!" "If I say all you saw was a misunderstanding... would you believe me." "..." I then started explaining what happened. "So you can''t die?" "Yeah..." "So you took over the dungeon?" "Yeah..." "So you were the one who sent the rats after me?" "Yea- ..." She stares daggers at me and then sticks her hands out. I look at the gem on the ground then her hands and then the thought about being beaten the crap out of and... I pick the gem off the floor and obediently put it in her hands. I''m a man, Do your worse. The beating then began... After she was finished beating the crap out of me. I was all smiles and she was exhausted... It doesn''t seem to make any sense but... Yeah, it''s not supposed to. Being the big brother its only natural for this to be the case, however unreasonable it may be. I next leave to save the remaining survivors who are still in the dungeon after telling my sister my plan. I first walk up to the areas which the survivors hid in and took out my speaker. "This is the NYPD we have dealt with the monsters in the area. You can come out now. Please show your hands while coming out for we need to make sure you aren''t Zombies. Please don''t make any aggressive movements for it could result in death." Soon there was noise and movement within the space which I know have survivors and with there, hands raised 10 humans came out of there hiding place. I have my gun pointed at them just to show them I''m a figure authority. For it''ll be a pain in the ass if they were to not take me seriously like the first group I met and need me to kill one of them to show who is boss. "We will soon be getting out of here and will be heading somewhere safe so make sure to pack up all your things for we are not coming back." I quickly bring the people with me towards the next survivor point. I did the same thing and rescued 5 more people. I couldn''t bring the survivors out of the dungeon either for the place where we were under was near the midtown area meaning the place where there is a lot of tall buildings. I would love to simply drop them off here and leave for it''s going to be a pain in the ass to take them along with me but I don''t think I have a choice. The midtown area is full of zombies roaming around to a point where it might be even more dangerous than the current subway. Chapter 61: Create Golem I need a method of transportation to get these people out of here and into my base in Confucius plaza. I look at the subway tracks. But the subways are busted meaning that I won''t be able to use them. I then look at my DP store. Maybe it''ll have something I''m looking for. -Food -Equipment -Skill Scrolls -Enchantment Gems -Treasure Chest There is most likely not going to be anything that can be used for transportation in the food, Enchantment Gems sections so my best bet would be the remaining 3. Treasure chests are random so I''ll leave that out. Meaning Equipment and Skill Scrolls. Now that I think of it I have yet to check what kind of skills the dungeon has to offer. Elemental Magic (Basic) Types: (Fire) (Water) (Earth) (Wind) DP: 10,000 Lose 100 Stats Per skill learned Create Golem (--) DP: 10,000 Lose 100 Stats Per skill learned Puppet Master (Control) (--) DP: 10,000 Lose 100 Stats Per skill learned Golden Body (Body Morph) (Intermediate) DP: 10,000 Lose 100 Stats Per skill learned Steel Body (Body Morph) (Basic) DP: 5,000 Lose 50 Stats Per skill learned Page: 1/50 To think this dungeon has a Create Golem skill book! This is the skill I need! If I remember properly a dungeon master in my past life had learned this skill and made himself a dungeon full of Golems which he programmed to do almost anything. This is most likely one of the skills which should be counted as a bugged skill but isn''t. The skill itself isn''t really strong for all it can do is create golems... Golems are generally not even considered a life form but more like an object. You also need to use a Mana Core for the Golems to be able to move and have to use mana to create a body for the Golem. But this skill is extremely useful for dungeon masters, really useful because of all the possibilities it can do. I must get it! Buy! Create Golem! Skill books are abilities that one can learn. But they are different from ESP Abilities. ESP abilities are abilities that people awaken and Skill books are abilities that anyone can learn but have a disadvantage of a Stat sacrifice and the fact that it''ll lower your chance of ever awakening an ESP skill of your own if it was to be used before you awaken yours. Other then those defects skills which you get from Skill Scrolls are extremely hard to advance. Meaning Basic Elemental magic is going to be extremely hard to advance to its intermediate stage. You either work hard to learn all the ways you can use it and then advance or buy the next stage of the skill. This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there. There are exceptions however and that is skills that have the (--) mark. These are skills which don''t ever advance for it''s at it''s strongest stage already. You can''t advance those skills at all. Create Golem is one such skill. But this is a skill I most definitely want. So I buy it. [156,640,002 Balance DP] This skill is really useful especially for a Dungeon master for many reasons. One such reason is the fact that all Golems created don''t require DP to create. Meaning it saves you DP. Although you need an Energy core for the Golem to be able to move, like a battery. But there is a bug that the dungeon master found out about and that is the fact that as long as the Golem is created and used inside the dungeon only, the golem won''t need any Core because the Dungeon can give charge the Golem up with mana. The Dungeon core will act as the Golems Mana core when it is inside of the dungeon. It''s like a laptop with a broken battery but can still be turned on as long as it is connected to a charger. The charger, in this case, is the dungeon meaning as long as it''s inside of the dungeon they can be constantly charged by the Mana. Although the demerit of these Golems can''t go outside of the Dungeon the merit is I can create as many Golems as I want to without the need of using DP for subordinates and without the need to supply them with Cores. This means I can save on DP for the subordinates which would have originally cost DP to create. I immediately learn the skill for Create Golem. The moment I learned the skill a bunch of knowledge that I originally didn''t know about came and entered my mind. There was a way to create a golem that you need to create one and how to program them. Golems have a motherboard which should originally be the Core. The core, in this case, would be the Dungeon core. So to program how the golems would move it would require a set of procedures to be transmitted from the dungeon core. I now having the skill of Create golem can fix the problem of transportation. I look at a Subway which is just lying there on the tracks with its doors trapping in a bunch of Zombies. I think I found my first test subject for the skill. I immediately put my hand on the subway station and first absorb it into my interdimensional rings space. By doing this all the Zombies within the subway are left floating in the sky for a couple of seconds before falling into the tracks. I then Return the train onto the tracks and crushed the Zombies beneath. Great, an interdimensional ring with high storage space is as great as I thought. I always wanted to try this move out in my past life but was never able to get my hands on such a high capacity ring. To think this worked... I then put my hand on the subway again. But this time I didn''t do it to absorb the subway but rather used my skill in creating Golem. Chapter 62: Modifying The moment I use the skill a default Golem shows up in my mind. There is a default golem form which the scroll saved inside of it to let people who just got the skill to be able to at least summon that if they were to be using the skill for the first time. But I already know that the skill can have the shape of the Golem be customized. What I did after using the customization setting was to make the Train into a golem. "Create Golem!" Now is the time to test it. "Open doors." ... It seems I need to program it first... I took a while to program the golem and soon the doors of the golem were able to open. Next what I needed to do was to load the survivors onto the subway and then drive this baby to underneath Chinatown. But there were several more things I needed to program into the Golem. The golem didn''t know how to move. So I had to program every small detail from how the Golem moves to its brakes as well as how fast it should move and then I programmed it to be able to turn. The survivors wanted to get off of the thing as fast as possible after the train hit something and derailed a couple of times. But I eventually fixed the problems as they came and had the survivors transported out of the Station with only slight bruises. I mean they only smashed against the windows like 20 times over the ride through the subway and hit the ceiling of the subway once. The train only flipped over once over the entire ride. Which is quite a good accomplishment considering it is the first time it''s been tested. After they got off of the Train the survivors were kissing the subway floor and hugging the walls. "Oh come on it wasn''t that bad." The survivors immediately turned there heads towards me and showed me looks of contempt. It seems Subway #1 isn''t well-liked by them...This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work. I had the survivors line up behind me and we started walking. After getting out of the Subway I took out my cell phone and prepared to call the Phone Number of an Officer who I saved in my contacts. Immediately after picking up the call, I inquire about the situation on their side and then asked him to bring a couple of police cruisers over to bring these survivors back to base. After I cleaned out a store nearby of Zombies I left them inside and then headed back into the Subway. There is still a lot of things I need to prepare. With my experience from the first time of creating a Subway Golem I now have all the needed programming saved. I use the dungeon''s power and teleported near all the subways stationed about in my dungeon and collected them. I used Create Golem and had them all turn into replicas of the first golem subway. Although there should be a lot more commands I should add later this should be the minimum amount of commands I need for the trains to drive safely. I first modified a total of 15 subway, there are much more than 15 trains but some of them had crashed so they weren''t really in good shape. For the subways which aren''t in good shape, I was too lazy to take the time to fix it back to its correct shape so I decided to simply make them into material for my humanoid Golems. In order to make a Golem I need to picture a form for it first. I at first wanted to use the basic default setting of a Golem as it saves time but when tester Humanoid Golem came out I decided against it. The Golem was extremely bulky and not really useful for it was heavy and slow. The default golem was both a real waste of resources as well as not really agile for combat. I decided to try adjusting the default golem by sliming down the Golems a bit, Actually a lot. I made the new golems into human-size after all. After doing so I created 5 smaller golems using the original amount of materials which made up the original golem. The golems were faster but lacked firepower which the original default golem had. Default Golem- High attack, Low Agility, High Defense Slim Golem- Low attack, High Agility, Low defense Well if I was to equip each Slim golem with a gun then the attack power can be made up for. Although the Slim golems now are overall worse then the Default Golem it is actually the only thing that matters. By doing it like this I can make more of them with fewer materials. I don''t need the bulky golems which are slow, for a being in the apocalypse will only end up with you being swarmed by the Zombies. On the other hand, if they are fast then they can use hit and run tactics to lure out the Zombies kill them and then getaway. I could always equip faster soldiers with high powered weapons or equipment meaning speed based golems are going to be what I''m going to focus on making. I think I can make these golems faster. I started saving on even more materials by hollowing out the golems inside. I also added wheels onto a new Golem Prototype. With this, the Golem speeds up but loses its transversality. Hm... I next made a golem with feet but have wheels along the front of its legs. This design makes the golem become able to use its wheels to speed up as long as it was to kneel down. Before I knew it I had already designed Golem Prototype 1 into something completely different. The Golem which originally had a human shape turned into a bit of a monstrosity. It now has 4 arms in each of the arms they hold a gun, it has leg wheels which are legs which can fold and then reveal wheels. There were also wing-like structures sticking from it''s back which could possibly help it speed up and maybe even make it become able to fly. Chapter 63: Beta Phase Over The golem has now lost its human shape and instead grew 4 arms had 2 legs which have 2 wheels on each. It is holding a newly designed Gun which shoots out metal scraps that were molded into the shape of balls. What I have here is a human-sized Transformer. I made about a couple hundred of these Golems. I didn''t have enough metal scraps in the subway to make it so that the golems were to be 100 percent Metal so I made the golems out of a mix of metal and the floor. After making speed optimized golems and having them equipped with guns I thought of a new Idea. Can''t I just make a golem that is solely focused on escape? These golems wouldn''t be practical in any way if they were to be made outside of the Dungeon due to them needing Mana Cores. But inside of the dungeon, I can make as many of these golems as I want without requiring a Core. Meaning the cost is 0 for each golem I can make. If I was to create a golem that can just focus on escaping then they could bait all the Zombies in it''s surrounding towards a trap. Doing this will not only be able to save me materials but also be more efficient in clearing out Zombies. I created a mini golem which had 2 wheels and attached a phone between the 2 wheels. I set the golem to go near a group of Zombies and turn on the speakers. After doing so I had it start to rush towards a pitfall. Soon a horde of zombies chased after it and fell into the pitfall along with the mini golem. I next collected the golem back up, but the phone had cracked... This won''t work, I need a different bait. I grab the phone off the golem and in place put a piece of cloth soaked with blood. This should also be able to attract them. But this time only a minor amount of Zombies chased after the Golem. Hm... The first time around the Zombies got interested in the sound, and sound travels far luring a lot of Zombies. This time however the zombies were attracted by the blood, the scent, however, will only last so long. The moment they can''t smell it the zombies will stop chasing. Meaning unless there is a way to amplify the smell the blood gives to the whole group of Zombies they won''t chase after the Golem in huge groups.Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. This is turning into a bit of a pain. I then look at the floor of the subway and got a new Idea. Why must I make small golems to attract zombies in the surroundings with blood and noise? What if I just make a walkway golem. If I was able to make a pitfall and a walkway that moved towards the pitfall then all the Zombies on the pitfall will slowly be thrown into the pitfall. With that, I spent some DP to make a couple of pitfall floors and redesigned the floor so that it would start moving towards the pitfall trap. But then there was a problem. I need to attract the Zombies onto the Moving floors to have the floors move the zombies towards the pitfall trap. Meaning I need to attract the zombies onto these fast walkways now instead of attracting them into the pitfall. I''m back on square 1... "FUCK!" I think about it and then some more and can''t seem to figure out a way to just move the zombies into the pitfall traps. Wait a minute... "How can I be such an idiot." I immediately got to work designing a new golem. The golem had steel tracks this time instead of wheels. I also added to it a Blade. Not a knife or saber blade but a Dozer blade. What I''m about to make is a Bulldozer that can push all the zombies onto the moving floors and the floors will drag them into a pitfall. Everything worked out in the end. But by the time I finished making Dozer Type #1 a world announcement sounded. [To all you ants who are still surviving, congratulations. You have survived the Beta Phase of the Apocalypse. But this is just the beginning. The real game starts now.] The beta ended already!? I look at the time on the status menu and it displays 12:01 AM... Wow... I then look through the dungeon map and find my sister having cleared some of the dungeon pitfalls for the Zombies. She has leveled up to Tier 3 now... I look at my status menu and it displays. Name: Li Xin [Tier 3] Ability: ~[RESPAWN]~ [Create Golem] Physical: [Ashura berserk] [Ultimate Movement] [Regeneration] [Mana Recovery] [Parallel Thought] [Soul: 999.9][Max] [Strength: 300][Max] [Intelligence: 300][Max] [Wisdom: 300] [Max] [Agility: 300][Max] [Vitality: 200] Stat points (Tier 3): 1541 I''m back down to Tier 3... After using the skill book for Create Golem it seems like my Tier has dropped. But while I was using the pitfall traps to trap Zombies all over the subway station I killed a lot of Zombies accidentally during the fall and have killed... a damn lot of zombies. The stats don''t matter much now though. For when the apocalypse phase begins only the ESP powers matter. Let begin turning my stats to Abilities now. I go into the DP store and then the Skills section. I first bought out the skills for all the Elemental Magic. Each was 10,000 DP and I bought 4 so 40,000. It cost a total of 100 Stats per skill learned so 400 stat points are gone. Since I already have the create Golem skill the skill of puppeteer on the first page isn''t as useful as it''s for controlling monsters rather which I''m not about to summon a lot of. But I still grab the book. Why? Because of skill books sold in the DP which have no rank will disappear after they are bought. Meaning If I was to take this skill book another Dungeon who wants the skill book won''t be able to buy it to expand their dungeon monsters. The logic is although I don''t need it I will take it so that my enemy can''t easily get it. Chapter 64: Shopping Spree After buying the 4 elemental skills and puppeteer book I used up a total of 50,000 DP. [156,799,542 Balance DP] The balance didn''t change much and instead increased more due to all the things absorbed by the dungeon over the last few hours as well as the Zombie Corpse it turned to DP after me and my sister finished killing. The DP is constantly increasing now due to this fact. I have a lot of DP I can spend on skills now. While browsing through the skills I found multiple good skills that I do want. But they were extremely costly. One such skill was Hephaestus Hammer. It was a skill that was of the Legendary grade. It also cost 1,000,000,000,000 DP... There was also the requirement of needing to learn the Advanced God-smith skill. Or there was a lower requirement which was having obtained Hephaestus''s Inheritance. I can not buy this Skill but neither would any other dungeon on Earth. At least not in a very long time. The seer amount of DP needed for the skill is 1 Trillion and since you also need to buy the other skills you would need which lead up to the basic requirement of Advanced God Smith Skill it would be much more than 1 Trillion. I can''t touch that skill for now but there was still a lot of other skills in the Store which sold for much less. I also won''t only be buying skills for myself but also for the people who will join me. I need to have a team of survivors who have ESP abilities for a team with only physical abilities aren''t going to cut it after all the Zombies Tier up. I started buying basic skills off of the Store. I bought a total of 1050 steel body skills for all the guards. This makes all my guards have a defense of a Steel armor and then a Double defense of a steel body. This skill is one of the most practical and cheapest skills sold inside of the Dungeon Store. [151,549,542 Balance DP]. This will make sure of the fact that my men for at least the first month of the apocalypse will be able to keep order in their respective zones.Help support creative writers by finding and reading their stories on the original site. Now onto the next most important issue which I need to solve. The issue is food. Feeding thousands of people is not going to be an easy thing to do. Especially not when Zombies are roaming about outside. This is why I''m also going to get the skill Plant Control. Its a Class A skill which is also unable to be obtained after it is bought. This skill can help ease the food problem by increasing the speed of the plant''s growth. I do want to get a create food skill but it isn''t in the DP store. Meaning I can only go for a different skill summoning. This skill has can be bought as many times as wanted for it has a rank. The reason I bought it is because it can summon creatures from another world and in our case we want to summon a beast that we can kill and loot for meat. The skill isn''t supposed to be for that but because basic level summoners have a low chance of summoning a strong beast it was thought of as a way to harvest food instead. The summoner skill requires a lot of luck to use for the beasts one summon will be either extremely weak and not be useful to the summoner, therefore, they will become a waste of resources to contract or they might be too strong for the Summoner to control thereby having to let it return or be killed by the summon. I grab a hundred of this skill book which costs 10,000 each meaning 1,000,000 Dp in total. [150,549,542 Balance DP] I now should focus on making a base on top of the dungeon. Although the dungeon is big enough to fit all the men I''m going to recruit, I don''t want everyone to know that I have a dungeon under my control for its going to be my trump card. To build a secure base in manhattan what I''ll need is to make some walls that can block the Zombies from coming into survivor camps. For that, I''ll require Earth magic users. There is also the problem of clean water. Naturally, the fix to that problem is water users. I buy 50 earth skill books and 50 water using a total of 1,000,000 DP. [149,549,542 Balance DP] I think that''s all the Skill books I need to buy for now. What I need now are the men who are trustworthy and have enough stats to handle to skills stat penalty. I need to find 1251 people who I can entrust these skill books to... Yeah, easier said than done... I mean I can find 1251 people as after I clear out Chinatown and group together all the remaining survivors. But the problem I''m going to face is if they are going to be trustworthy or not. For each of these skills, books are going to be an investment of a large amount of DP. If the men I entrust these skills to decide to take the skill and then escape then I''ll be losing my investment. Meaning I''ll require collateral, but in the Apocalypse, there is almost nothing that will be enough collateral for the skill books. Meaning I need a different way to keep these people from taking the skill and then escaping. I think about it and then come up with an Idea. I''ll mark each person I give the skill books with a drop of my blood. This way I''ll be able to find whoever tries to take the skill and then run. This way even if they do run away after taking my skill books I''ll be able to find them and kill them so they can''t escape and become a traitor. Chapter 65: New Survivors What I need to do now is clean up this dungeon. I started creating more bulldozers and made more pitfalls. On each corner of the Dungeon, I planted a Bulldozer. I need to speed up the process of trapping the Zombies. I''m not going to kill all of these Zombies now. For killing each Zombie only gives 10 Evolution Points. What I''m going to do is trap all of these Zombies together and wait for them to evolve. Although it''ll take a month for the blood rain to begin after they evolve to Tier 1 they will get there urge of hunger amplified meaning they''ll start consuming each other. The way the Zombies Evolve is different from humans and that is that they evolve after digesting what they eat. Meaning all they eat becomes what propels there evolution. There will be hundreds of Zombies trapped beside them meaning they will have plenty of food to consume thereby evolving, of course, there is another way to evolve them. After they become Tier 2 I can start collecting Zombie Cores! This was one of how people who were in survival bases figured out to start collecting Zombies Cores without doing a single thing. They raised the Zombies until they became Tier 2 and then harvested there Zombies Cores. Of course, they first chopped off both hands and legs of the Zombies so that when they became Tier 2 they will be able to control them easily. But this plantation process of Zombies only started about 1 year after the apocalypse. But with me here I''ll do this in the first month and a much bigger scale. Manhattan has a population of 1,629,000 million people. 10% should be humans so about 162,900 surviving humans. Subtract 162,900 from 1,629,000 million and you get 1,462,100 Zombies. 1462100 Tier 2 Zombies which I could harvest. As long as everything goes as plan I''ll become the richest person on Earth. But that is only possible if I can capture all of these Zombies. I quickly teleport back towards the room my sister was at and got on the New and improved Subway Golem. The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there. But after sitting on the thing for a couple of minutes she bashed my head in with her hammer... I mean it wasn''t that bad... We didn''t even crash, or flip over. After we reached the ground below Confucius plaza I walked out of the stairs. I made the dungeon make an entrance right below Confucius plaza''s Basement. Meaning the basement floor of the building now leads into the dungeon. So if my men were to ever need a quick escape to somewhere safe, all they needed to do was walk down the basement and push over a shelf. Behind the shelf would be the hidden entrance into the dungeon. I quickly get out of the dungeon and immediately walk up to the second floor. Even before I reach there I hear a lot of noise. It seems its an argument as well. I head straight for the room with our supplies and there I see a bunch of strangers who I don''t know shouting and causing a commotion. The moment I near the back of the crowd, one of my men spot me and hurriedly shout out to me. "Boss!" Quickly the group of survivors makes way and I walk past them heading towards my group of survivors. But before I could get closer to my group a man steps in my way. So I did what any normal person would do in that situation. I grabbed the man''s neck and then threw him to the floor before he could say a single thing. That made the people surrounding me back off in fear. They distanced themselves from me and no one dared to step in my way after that. When I could see my men completely I saw that they were currently fully armed and holding out riot Shields and Police Batons. There were 2 guys in the back holding out there AR-15. It seems the situation was getting tense as the civilians tried to get into the room to snatch the food. I understanding the situation simply go into the room with the supplies and then shut the door. After I cleaned the room of the supplies I walked out and told my men to let them in. "There''s nothing in here, what supplies are you talking about?" When they see an empty room there disbelief of the situation suddenly turns into anger. They started causing an even larger commotion. "You''re the police! You people should be handing out the food now that we are in a crisis not hogging it all to yourselves!" "Yeah!" I look at my men and have them explain where these people came from and they told me that they were found by the officers who were scavenging the surrounding buildings while they were looking for supplies. After finding them they brought them over to Confucius Plaza. The moment the officers left the man who I threw to the wall rallied up the men to try and take the food. I understood the situation and quickly took out my gun and shot the man who rallied up the survivors. "AH! You murderer!" "This guy is crazy he shot him!" "The police are killing people!" Immediately the people fled further away from me in a hurry. "We saved you all from the buildings which you were trapped at yet you try to steal our food. I ought to put a bullet through every single one of you." Immediately the survivors shudder in fear. "But worry not, since you were all instigated by that man to steal the food I''ll only kill that man. Although I won''t kill you''ll still receive punishment for doing such a thing, so hurry to the rooms which will be assigned to you. Next time I won''t be so nice. For I''ll cut off both your arms and legs and feed you to the Zombies!" "..." "Did you hear me!?" "Yes..." "LOUDER!" "YES!" "Good, since we''re both on the same page now rest well for your gonna need it." Chapter 66: New Abilities I look at my sister and see that her face doesn''t have the emotion which she showed the first time a human died. "This is the Apocalypse, the only way in which you can make sure people follow your orders are though loyalty, charisma, or fear. I certainly won''t trust these strangers and know I don''t have the looks to make them believe in me. Which means the only way to go is to make them fear me." "I got it, brother." "Very well, you had a lot going on for the past hours so go and rest." After having my sister in bed, it wasn''t long before she doses off. The beta phase has been one heck of a roller coaster ride for her. From man-eating Zombies to killing humans to Awakening to immense power. I look at the time and its 12:31 AM, I should call my men in to rest for now. For it''s going to be a long month ahead. I take out the Police radio and have the officers come in and stop searching. The moment they come in I find them bringing along another group of survivors with them. "Good Job!" "Yes, boss." "All the survivors you can find a room on the second floor of the building for now, please rest for I know it''s been a long day for all of you. I also advise you not to cause any trouble for I don''t need trouble makers in my camp." A majority of the people here are Asian people for they were civilians who were saved from the buildings nearby and so I also repeated what I just said to them in English in Mandarin as well. "Li Xin is that you?" I quickly turn my head and found one of my neighbors. My men cleaned out the building I went to and saved one of the neighbors of ours who was living on the first floor. What was his name again... Ugh... "Yeah, it''s me, um... what was your name again?" "It''s me, Jason, I go to the same school as Li Xiaoyu." "Right! Jason, your that uh... we''ll just get some rest for now for you all going to need it. I''ll talk about what happened tomorrow in the hallway so make sure you get there on time, it starts at 9 so in about 8 hours. Dismissed." I quickly have my men assign rooms for each group of survivors, I had them group them in groups of 10 so each apartment will fit about 2 families. There is, of course, more space in this Building but that is going to be for the survivors which are going to be coming in later on. There are at least 4-5000 survivors who are trapped in Chinatown and there are only 762 Apartments in the Building. The Top floors aren''t all going to be for living in so the survivors are going to have to cramp together a bit.Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. I''d best get the garden roof ready. For our food supply isn''t going to last 5,000 people. But that can wait until tomorrow. "Status!" Name: Li Xin [Tier 3] Ability: [RESPAWN] [Create Golem] Physical: [Ashura berserk] [Ultimate Movement] [Regeneration] [Mana Recovery] [Parallel Thought] [Soul: 999.9][Max] [Strength: 300][Max] [Intelligence: 300][Max] [Wisdom: 300] [Max] [Agility: 300][Max] [Vitality: 200] Stat points (Tier 3): 1541 ... My physical skills haven''t turned back? Wow... is that another bug I see? Hm... I still have several skill books which I can learn... I also have 1541 stat points in Tier 3 meaning it''ll be enough to bring me back to Tier 4 even after I use up the stat points in exchange for the skills. Let''s do this. Do you wish to learn? 1. Puppet Master (Control) (--) 2. Fire Magic (Basic) 3. Water Magic (Basic) 4. Earth Magic (Basic) 5. Wind Magic (Basic) 6. Sacrifice Summoning (Basic) Yes! Congratulations you have learned 6 new Skills. Puppet Master (Control) (--) Control all the beings which you killed. The bodies of your victims if intact will become your puppet and follow your orders. Able to also control inanimate objects through the use of soul threads. The puppet which you have will never evolve. The puppet which you have will contain a part of your soul. Fire Magic (Basic) The basic elemental spells of Fire magic is contained within. Fire Ball- Create a ball of fire. Fire Spike - Releases a spike of fire. Fire Explosion- Releases a compressed fire that explodes upon contact. Water Magic (Basic) The basic elemental spells of Water magic is contained within. Water Ball- Create a ball of water. Water Whip- Make water into the form of a Whip. Refresh- Slightly heals beings that touch the water. Earth Magic (Basic) The basic elemental spells of Earth magic is contained within. Earthball- Create a ball of Earth. Earth Hand- Creates a hand of Earth which grabs the opponent. Earth Wall- Creates a Wall of Earth. Wind Magic (Basic) The basic elemental spells of Wind magic is contained within. Wind burst- Create a burst of Wind Wind Blade- Slices opponent with a blade of Wind. Twister- Creates a mini tornado of wind. Sacrifice Summoning (Basic) Summons a being or item from another world. 2 types of summoning spells. Proportionate- Summons an Item/ Creature proportionate to the sacrifice. Random- Randomly summons an object from another world, ranges from a piece of trash to Mythical Beings. A stronger sacrifice increases summoning a greater Item or Creature. Name: Li Xin [Tier 2] Ability: [RESPAWN][Create Golem][Puppet Master][Fire Magic][Water Magic][Earth Magic][Wind Magic][Sacrifice Summoning] Physical: [Ashura berserk] [Ultimate Movement] [Regeneration] [Mana Recovery] [Parallel Thought] [Soul: 999.9][Max] [Strength: 200][Max] [Intelligence: 200][Max] [Wisdom: 200][Max] [Agility: 100] [Vitality: 100] Stat points (Tier 2): 3082 I''m back to Tier 2 now... Let''s get my stats back to normal now. Name: Li Xin [Tier 4] Ability: [RESPAWN][Create Golem][Puppet Master][Fire Magic][Water Magic][Earth Magic][Wind Magic][Sacrifice Summoning] Physical: [Ashura berserk] [Ultimate Movement] [Regeneration] [Mana Recovery] [Parallel Thought] [Soul: 999.9] [Strength: 400][Max] [Intelligence: 400][Max] [Wisdom: 400][Max] [Agility: 400][Max] [Vitality: 370.5] Chapter 67: Creation I look at the Cores which I got from the Tier 2 Rats I killed and Decided to make a group of Golems here outside of the Dungeon as well. These Golems will be here in charge of Protecting the Building so that if a Zombie wave was to happen and decide to attack then I would be able to let them stall the Zombies for a while so the survivors will have enough time to escape into the dungeon. I have a total of 25 Cores 24 of them are Tier 2 while one is Tier 3. With these, I can make 25 Golems. But I have a new idea I want to test out. Can I make a huge Golem? Like can I turn Confucius Plaza into a Golem? If I was to make one like this then a single Golem like that can easily crush any amount of Zombies without breaking a sweat, not that a Golem can sweat in the first place. I decided to try and when I tried to imagine such a Golem it showed me something which shocked me to the Core. I needed 360 Tier 2 Cores, 8 Tier 3 Cores, 4 Tier 4 Cores and 1 Tier 5 Core to make such a Golem... It would seem each one of the 360 Tier 2 cores was for every joint of the Golem and the 8 Tier 3 cores were there to control what the joints did, the 4 Tier 4 Cores were to control a single arm and leg each while the Tier 5 Core would be inside the head of the Golem. On the other hand, the Golem will be a False Deity Golem the moment it is completed. Meaning it''ll be able to beat anything under Tier 5 and might be able to fight to a draw with a Tier 5 Being but won''t be able to beat a Tier 5 being under normal circumstances. But this is going to take a while to make for I have yet to even get the cores ready. So project Confucius will be put on Halt. I currently have 25 Cores which I will use to make 25 Golems Guards. The Tier 3 Golem shall become the leader of these Golems and will be in charge of scouting the perimeter and keeping Zombies from Coming into the Building. I then had an idea.Unauthorized duplication: this narrative has been taken without consent. Report sightings. Can Golems learn skills? Suddenly I wanted to try it... I quickly got outside of the Building and ran straight for Manhattan Bridge. I took the Tier 3 Core which I obtained from the Golden Rat and placed it in the middle of a couple of Cars that broke down and use the skill Create Golem. A bunch of crashed cars mixed turned into the body of a Golem. The Golem was designed after the Iron Monger. It looks like an enemy most wouldn''t want to fight against. However, I think making this monstrosity makes me seem like a villain now... After I finished creating that masterpiece I took out a skill book for Steel Body which I had plenty of. If I could let my Golems learn this skill then I won''t need to give away the skill books to any Survivors who I can''t trust. But unfortunately, It couldn''t learn the skill. It would be epic if it could though. But a Tier 3 Golem is a good Guard even without the skill. I then looked at the cars which I used to barricade the bridge with and though of a new Idea. If I can use the skill Create Golem to change a car into a Golem then can''t I shape the Cars which made up the Barricade to block off the bridge into a wall? I immediately got to work by placing a Core into the middle of the Cars and activating Create Golem. I had the cars morph into each other and made it so that the Core of the Golem will be somewhere I can easily grab. I created a Wall Golem just like that. After I finished making it I grabbed the Core from the Wall golem and the Golem Turned into a Wall... I think I found a new way to use this skill... I can turn this skill into one that can adjust basic materials into any form or size I want. However, using the skill create Golem does put a Toll on my Mana. For after using the skill 2 times I have already used up 20% of my Mana. But with the skill respawn the usage of Mana is not a problem at all for it automatically refills my Mana after I respawn... I''ll name this new skill branched from the create golem as Creation. I can practically turn any raw material into something which can be useful. After I used the skill a couple of times, I turned all the cars which originally barricaded the entrance and exits to the Bridge into a 20 feet tall wall. I even made 2 watchtowers on each side. Now there are definitely going to be no Zombies or Humans who can get through that easily. Before when all the cars were barricading the bridge some Zombies could have possibly crossed by crawling underneath cars and trucks but now there is absolutely no such gap what so ever meaning they could only get past the wall by toppling it over or somehow climbing over it which I highly doubt they can accomplish. I smile while I look at the now red moon in the sky. What a wonderful skill this is. Suddenly something falls from the sky and... "Crash!" "Beep! Beep! Beep!" Apparently a car fell out of the sky and crashed onto the new wall. Where did this car come from you might ask. Well in the sky there is a man who has wings which have sprouted from his back and his feet have become talons which had grabbed the car which it just thrown. This is a human evolutionary commonly known as bird man in the apocalypse. Chapter 68: Birdman A beast type awakened, named Birdman by many in the age of the Apocalypse. However, they like beings called Angels. Awakened which turned into birdmen have a common attack method of Guerilla Warfare. These awakened are one of the most annoying beasts types. For they commonly use the tactic of picking something extremely heavy off the ground than flying to a height where guns will become highly ineffective and then start dropping items such as boulders, Cars, Trucks and sometimes even drop Zombies. These Birdmen are one of the kinds of awakened that no survivor camp wishes to offend. For these awakened are in the sky rendering close combat ineffective and even long-ranged awakened attacks aren''t useful against them for they have a sixth sense for danger like all other beast types and their flight speed is insanely quick. They generally can escape at any time and when they attack you can only defend. Meaning they are a natural Guerilla Warfare soldier. These Awakened also have the bird''s instinct of living in a flock. Meaning after a while these awakened will form groups and when they do all their enemies will be in for endless annoying Guerilla attacks. But because of there birds instinct they generally only like living together with there own kind and dislike living with human survivors because humans hate them because of they''re bad reputation. They have a bad reputation of being by far the most annoying group of awakened. Their reputation comes from when they annoyed the hell out of a Survivor Camp and caused them to disband. The story goes like this, there was once upon a time a Powerful Survivor Camp who pissed off a Birdman when they stole his Prey. The birdman escaped after being hunted down by the Survivors and came back with a group of 10 Birdmen. These guys started dropping cars every single day into the Camp Grounds. The survivor camp never received a peaceful night of sleep since then. After a while, the Birdmen started throwing Zombies into the camp infecting the normal survivors and making the place unsafe to live in they then started contaminating the water supply of the Camp with Zombie Blood, as well as setting fire to there buildings. They used so many annoying tactics as well, for example, they used the sky above the Survivor Camp as there public toilet and every once in a while something nasty falls. Basically bird poop on a whole new scale.Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. Eventually, the Survivor camp decided to give in to whatever demands the birdmen had and gave the birdmen the body of the Tier 5 Mutant Beast which they kill stole from them. But the camp also devised a plan to get revenge at the birdmen to make sure the birdmen would stay forever gone. The survivor camp had a Nuclear Bomb which it found after going through many difficulties so they decided to use it against them. They knew that they couldn''t hit the birdmen under normal circumstances so they had decided to get revenge by putting the bomb inside the body of the Beast which they gave to them. When the birdmen lifted the body off the ground the Bomb went off leaving nothing in the vicinity surviving. Although they got rid of the Birdmen it was with a huge loss to them, for they did suffer huge losses. They had to suffer nonstop harassment by the Birdmen the loss of a couple of important buildings, the loss of trust from survivors who took the camp as a shelter and the Tier 5 Beast Corpse as well as a Nuclear Bomb. But not all the Birdmen came to pick up the corpse of the beast and had grouped with a new flock and got revenge on the Camp so bad that they had to eventually disperse the camp and go there separate ways. After this story got out most survivor camps decided to put offending a Birdman as last resort. But they also put birdmen on there blacklist meaning they wanted the birdmen to stay clear of there area or else they will use all means to get rid of them as fast as possible before they have a chance to cause too big of a loss to them. It is because of this that Birdmen are usually a group of awakened which are frowned upon and hated. But because 1 birdman usually leads to a group of birdmen and them using Guerilla Tactics is going to mess up the lives of Survivors most try to stay as far away from them as possible. But now there is a Birdman who threw a Car at me... It most likely saw the evolution Core in my hands. It''s gotten greedy and most likely wants to rob me of it. I took my handy pocket knife and made a small incision on my hand and then spread my blood across the surface of the Core. After doing so I set it as a respawn point. If this Birdman was to be greedy enough to try stealing this core then I will beat the crap out of him up when I get my hands on him. Suddenly the birdman rushes at me and when on top of me he drops the second car he was holding onto. "Fuck! This guy is dead!" I quickly take the evolution Core in my hand and threw it off the bridge towards the East River. The Birdman suddenly panics for a second and then speeds off after the Evolution Core which is freefalling Towards the Water. I know the Birdman will most definitely have enough time to catch the Core for a birdman''s flight speed is extremely fast. But once he does it''s gonna be game over for him! I quickly use another one of my cores and place it into a Car and created a Chain and Sickle. Once I catch you I''ll make you wish you were never born. The birdman quickly dives for the Core and Catches it and then when it came back up gripping the Core I coldly smile at him and with the sickle I slit my throat.