5 The janitor, Abyan Glock
St. Mary's High School, High School Building, 2nd Floor, Clinic…
A person wearing a white sleeveless shirt on top and black slacks came out from the door wielding an iron sword.
After recovering his stamina and throwing his black polo shirt covered with blood and sweat, Ray looted some items from the clinic found on the 2nd floor's adjacent hallway, killing some normal zombies on the way. Inside the clinic he looted many useful things; Medicine, Bandages, injections and many more. Thinking about the injections, Ray thought about someone.
Somewhere on the central continent right now, an important person of interest should be leveling up fast by using the H1 virus. Using the H1 virus, that person should be mass producing second generation H1s and harvesting them for experience.
During the apocalypse, H1 virus has many uses so it's advisable to have a good amount of supply of them. For instance, if you are leading a community for example, using an H1 injection is one of the best ways in executing criminals. Using H1 virus as a kind of poison is also one way of using it when it comes to fighting living people, for it is far more lethal than normal z1 type of virus.
Looking at the intersection area on the second floor where his self-made bench is located, he could see that some of the zombies from the lecturing areas have already arrived. Holding the sword, Ray walks toward the area and proceeds to harvest the experience points.
Blood flew everywhere, and bodies fell, earning him a few experience points.
[Lvl1 Type z1-Zombie killed… Received 1 exp…]
[Lvl1 Type z1-Zombie killed… Received 1 exp…]…
After clearing the area of zombies, Ray then proceeds to walk towards the stairs, planning to go down to the ground floor where most of the zombies are found. The zombies on the ground floor must have been attracted outside the gate because of the School bus's departure. And when they are outside, the further noises outside the city would then attract them faraway.
Earlier, those gunshots were from a group of survivors defending the bus area from those zombies and were attracting as much as surviving people as possible. The group of survivors also sent someone to loot some food on the campus convenience store which was the reason for the long 2nd round of gunshots earlier.
On his past life, when Ray and his group reunited with the bus group's survivors, they recounted their grievances about it tearfully. About how a group of their people courageously took their mission for survival, but when they arrived on the store, what welcomed them was just a mostly looted room, with one packed broccoli as if consolation. Luckily, they still found some boxes of cereals on the convenience store's storage room.
Using the bloody stairs, Ray slowly arrived on the ground floor.
Arriving, Ray checked the situation outside. The zombies aren't packed, and it's far more fitting to say that they are spread out and far from each other. But still, the zombies are everywhere. The whole campus population are in the three thousands, and about a half of them should be left.
With the area so wide, Ray thought that it won't be a problem for him to harvest them for experience later, but first, he needed to go to the gymnasium and be reunited with that someone.
Going to the gymnasium, Ray needed to pass a good distance. On the way, he would pass many buildings including the faculty building, and the campus convenience store.
There was a useful survivor on the faculty building and Ray at first thought whether he would bring him on his journey or not, considering said survivor's strength was on the lower levels. But thinking about the survivor's ability, Ray thought that bringing him would be much more beneficial for utility. As for the survivor's strength, he could just slowly grow on the road. And if he really can't keep up and becomes more of a liability instead, he could just abandon him anytime.
Thinking about the survivors, Ray counted that the school should have about 30 without counting the council's people. If he trusted his senses, the council should have started exploring outside their office earlier. And as luck smiled upon them, those girls on his classroom didn't do anything stupid like screaming when they woke up, or else it would have been a huge trouble for them. Thinking so, he began walking leisurely towards the walkway.
Looking on the walkway, Ray could see remnants of the blood fest that happened. Blood traces and some remains of the people eaten were still left here and there by the wasteful zombies, making the walkway like some kind of stage for a horror movie. At this moment, a nearby zombie in front got attracted and started to come near him. But before the zombie can take another step forward, a knife flew from the air and stabbed the zombie's forehead making it kneel on the ground.
The zombies right now can only see a few meters in front and they have mostly been reliant on their hearing senses. If Ray avoids producing any large sounds, there is no problem taking a tour around the whole campus with the noisy background faraway as cover.
[Lvl1 Type z1-Zombie killed… Received 1 exp…]
Ignoring the system message, Ray took a few steps in front and took the throwing knife back from the zombie's forehead.
After taking back the throwing knife, Ray continued walking in front. Doing so, he checks his level progress.
'Status'
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[Name] Ray Remington
[Lvl] 3 (18/80 exp)
[Mana] 10/60
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[Statistics]
[Strength] 14 + 1
[Agility] 16 + 2
[Vitality] 13
[Stamina] 30
[Senses] 15
[Magic] 6
Stat point/s available: 0
[+] Skills
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Looking at his status, he needed 62 experience points more to level up. And seeing the 10 points of mana that he have, it meant that it has been more than 80 minutes since he left his classroom.
After walking a few distances while killing the zombies on the way, Ray is now in front of the faculty building. Ray decided to stop by to find a survivor.
Looking at the entrance of the faculty building, Ray could see the broken glass door. The entrance's floor is a mess, with the blood, meat, and broken glass everywhere.
Looking inside, Rows of teacher's desks filled the room, with things on top like books, notebooks, and many more school related things, a few of them covered in blood. A number of zombies are inside, dazing around, some of the zombies are students, but most of them are school teachers.
Ray entered the room quietly and slowly proceeded to walk into the room's comfort room entrance. He would attract some of the zombies' attention on the way, but he slowly killed them one by one. Throwing a throwing knife straight into their brains each time and catching their bodies before they dropped loudly into the floor.
After killing a bunch of zombies, Ray arrived on the comfort room's door.
The comfort room's door was filled with blood. Many people should have tried to enter it earlier in order to hide but failed to open it for there was already someone inside and have locked the door for security. Putting his right hand on the door, Ray used 2 mana points to transmute the lock open. As Ray twisted the door knob clockwise and pushed the door open, he could see a startled dude who looked not older than 30 years old seated on the toilet bowl with a look mix with fright and shock.
The dude on the toilet bowl was wearing a gray cap and a gray uniform. There was a name tag on his right chest with words 'Abyan G.' written. He should be a janitor in the school. He should be cleaning the comfort room when the apocalypse came.
On his past life, when Ray questioned how he managed to stay hidden inside, he said that he was cleaning the room when he could hear shouting and screaming outside. And when he looks outside and saw many bloody people biting and chasing other soon to be bloody people, he hid on the comfort room and locked the door. He then stayed hidden inside and didn't bother opening the door even with some of the people shouting for help outside. He only then came out when he could hear Ray's group talking outside.
As the dude was about to open his mouth to say something, Ray interrupted him in a whispering voice.
"Questions later… follow me if you don't want to die"
Seeing him nod, Ray summoned a bat and gave it to him.
Seeing the bat, the dude got a frightened look as if realizing something horrifying but still took it with both his shivering hands. Taking the bat, the dude then stood up. While he did so, Ray used inspect on him.
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[Name] Abyan Glock
[Lvl] 0 (0/10 exp)
[Mana] 80/80
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[Statistics]
[Strength] 11
[Agility] 10
[Vitality] 9
[Stamina] 12
[Senses] 9
[Magic] 8
[+] Skills
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When it comes to the system skill 'Inspect', as long as you are higher level than someone, you can forcefully see anyone's system information. And if you are being inspected by someone with a lower level than yours, you can choose what in the system you wanted to be seen, or decide to just straight out obstruct the inspection. Seeing Abyan's status, Ray further inspected his skills.
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[Skills]
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[Personal Skill]
Vacuum cleaner. 0 (0/10 exp)
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Abyan's personal skill 'Vacuum cleaner' is a summon type skill. It's a skill that summons a vacuum cleaner that can absorb declared objects into a space bag. A level 0 vacuum cleaner should have 2 space bags that have 1 cubic meter of space. It's the same as having 2 additional system storage boxes.
Besides having the vacuum cleaner skill, what made Abyan useful to Ray right now is that Abyan is someone who travels a lot and had some serious driving skills. And having him would be like a starter boosts in order to arrive faster on his target. Ray's current plan right now is to invite Abyan and some redhead girl. And with their 3-man group, go to the city center to slay a unique zombie. Afterwards, they would go straight into the country's capital.
After Ray was done inspecting, Ray started to walk the path he used back then to the faculty entrance. As he did so, his companion was looking anxiously everywhere while gripping the wooden bat's handle tightly as if afraid of something popping up.
When Abyan first saw the bloody remains of the eaten and the corpses of the zombies, his face turned pale from fear. And after walking a few more steps outside and seeing that there are still monsters, he had stopped walking at first as if his feet got frozen. Looking at the previous room where he hid as if wanting to return and looking at Ray, Abyan was deliberating whether which is safer. But seeing the calm look on Ray's face as if unafraid of anything, he then moved closer to Ray like a frightened chick running to his mother chicken.
Abyan thought it was a laughable scene, imagine seeing an uncle hiding behind a teenager's back. But he told himself, 'who cares as long as I fucking survive'.
After several steps, Ray finally arrived on the outside of the faculty room together with Abyan.
When Abyan was finally out of the faculty room, he was about to feel relieved when he realized that there are much more zombies on the outside. Abyan then looked at Ray anxiously and asked softly,
"So, what's the plan?"
Seeing Abyan look for his opinion on what to do, Ray smilingly pointed at the zombies dazing on the way to the campus convenience store with a cold look and said,
"You will kill ten of those things using that bat of yours"
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A few minutes earlier… Student council office…
As the door of the student council office opened enough for a person to pass through, a teary-eyed boy with a black short hair slowly came out of the room while holding a bat. Books were bound to his arms like some kind of armor using duct tape.
As he looked in front and saw a bunch of corpses outside, he was frozen for a few seconds but then continued moving in front slowly. He lightly examined the corpses, and as he found that all of their heads has serious wounds, a knowing look became apparent to his eyes.
As he looked further in front and saw the remains of someone, his eyes which were already teary produced more water to let it flow down. But as if working up his determination, he roughly wipes his tears off and started to move forward with a serious look, his teary eyes were gone no more.
Arriving on the intersection area, he looked into the hallways on the sides and found nothing besides the corpses. Seeing so, he looked back into the student council office door. Seeing a girl's head as white as a ghost with black ponytail looking back at him, he was startled at first, and then used sign language to tell her that there are no monsters outside.
Receiving Crybaby's message, Ponytail girl slowly came out of the door holding a wooden pole as long as 2 meters, a knife was bound to its end point like a spearhead using duct tape. Like Crybaby, books were bound to her arms too like vambraces. After Ponytail girl, another bespectacled boy with book bound to his arms came out holding a bat. After checking the corpses in front, they soon arrived near Crybaby.
Crybaby and Bespectacled boy look into Ponytail girl as if waiting for her to do something. Seeing the boys' looks, Ponytail girl looked on the student council office's entrance and saw a girl with long hair looking at her. Ponytail girl then nodded at her.
Seeing Ponytail girl nod at her, Long hair girl nodded back and then slowly closed the door.
Ponytail girl look into the hallways on the sides and after deliberating for a while, decided to go right for there are more corpses there. Deciding so, she signaled for Crybaby to lead the vanguard.
Walking quietly on the hallway, Crybaby took the lead, followed by Ponytail girl, and then Bespectacled boy. The hallway was filled with blood, and gore. A sight too extreme for them, just the sight of it were making them afraid. All three of them were nervous and afraid, but still they moved forward. For them to survive, they needed to be courageous.
As the trio were walking, they suddenly halted for they saw something about to come out on the room further in front. Together with the scary environment and the showing up of something unknown, their nervousness and fear increase a level more as they waited for the thing to completely reveal itself.
As the trio slowly waited, they finally saw the thing's appearance. Their nervousness and fear then completely disappeared. It was just a girl, a live one at that. Not something like those undead monsters, but someone alive, a human. Just your normal nervous afraid girl with a backpack on her back, she is currently holding a bat on both her hands as she was looking in the direction opposite to the trio.
Seeing the girl, the trio didn't do anything noteworthy, they just waited. They waited for the girl to see them. As the nervous girl slowly looked around on the opposite side, her sight was finally turned to theirs. At first, she got a really scared look, which soon turned to relief.
As Crybaby was about to use sign language to try communicating with the girl, the girl suddenly look on her side and slowly opened her mouth as if saying something to someone on the side.
After she did so, another girl slowly came out. The girl then looked into their direction and saw them. Excitement was seen on the new girl's face. The new girl then waves her hands excitedly, but then, the new girl slowly opened her mouth as if she was about to call them…
