Surviving Apocalypse with Powers of Fictional Characters

1st August, 2018 AD.

As the clock ticks to 8.08 PM, the first second and the 20th millisecond, the sky turned red. From a pitch black, dark night to an apocalyptic, almost eerie splash of red in the sky, signalling something big.

Zack Black & Ah Chai were having their dinner in their local favorite restaurant 'Rendezvous', when the phenomenon happened. Suddenly, a comedic and lighthearted jingle rang in their minds.

*Ding~ding~ding ding~~*

<<<GREETINGS EARTHLINGS. WE HOPE YOU HAD A GREAT TIME LIVING & ENJOYING LIFE. BUT AS THEY SAY "ALL GOOD THINGS MUST COME TO AN END". THEREFORE, YOUR LIVES WILL END TODAY. PRAY THAT IT'S QUICK AND NOT PAINFUL>>>

*Ding~ding~ding ding~~*

An androgynous, half man-half woman voice made it's first and only announcement in a very creepy tone. It rang throughout all 7 billion human's minds, each in languages they understood.

The next moment, Zack was talking to Chai.

"Chai, is this what I think it is?" with a very concerned expression on his face.

"Holy f***, I think it is bro. Wait, maybe-"

As Chai was about to finish his sentence, 8 seconds after the first announcement, another announcement come up. But this time, it didn't have a jingle. It started with a static sound.

*ZZ-ZZ-ZZ*

[Initiating {HERO} System]

[Calculating individual <Jeremiah Chai> battle potential.]

[Calculating individual <Jeremiah Chai> character compatibility.]

[Assigning individual <Jeremiah Chai> most compatible character details.]

[SUCCESS. You may begin, and good luck.]

That whole process took less than a second. By the time the second announcement finished, everyone in the restaurant was murmuring and seemed to be a little panic.

"Chai, did you hear the second one?" (Zack)

"Dude, ya! OMG OMG OMG!! Hey bro, please don't tell me this is really happening?" (Chai)

"S***, this is f****** unreal, let's check the news if th-"

CRASHHH!!!!!

As Zack was about to check for any updates in the internet, a few tables and chairs were toppled over!

A lady in her twenties seem to be biting a 20-year old man's neck!

The surrounding people tried to separate the seemingly fighting couple, but to no avail. Shrieks and screams were heard in the background, and many people started to back away from the scene and flee to their cars.

The biting lady suddenly released her victim, and charged towards a restaurant staff who was nearby!

She bit him in the arm and the other staffs did the same routine previously, trying to separate her from the bitten restaurant staff.

Four men were checking on the previous 20-year old victim. They tried to carry him, perhaps to send him to a nearby clinic or hospital. Out of a sudden, the young man in his twenties was trembling and thrashing all over the place, of what seems to undergoing a seizure.

"HELP ME! HELP ME! AAAAAHHHH-----"

The bitten guy came back to life! Immediately, he started to pounce on his friends like a hungry man who has not eaten in three days!

"Chai!! IT'S A FUC*** ZOMBIE!!" (Zack)

"Freakin' piece of shi*-" Chai took a chair and hit on the zombie guy in the head! Adrenaline rushed through Chai's body, like a man possessed, hit the zombie until his head was bloodied and his brain almost smashed like a watermelon.

To many people's surprise, zombies were just fictional monsters that existed only in the movies.

Nonetheless, these two college mates are somewhat avid novel readers, especially apocalyptic novels involving zombies. Therefore, the feelings and pretext of killing an infected person were totally ingrained in their mind!

Zack took a few knives from the tables for cutting steak, and ran towards the original zombie lady. While she was also busy biting another person, Zack plunged the knives into her eyes! She was screaming but Zack had stabbed more than 6 knives into her eye socket, directly into her brain.

The zombies' bodies twitched for a mere couple of seconds, and the next moment, it became a non-moving corpse.

[HERO EXP Gained: 1]

[Congratulations to individual <Zachary Black> for unlocking Skill: Super Senses]

[Super Senses (Lv 1): Enhanced senses of sight, touch, sound, taste & smell]

[HERO EXP Gained: 1]

[Congratulations to individual <Jeremiah Chai>for unlocking Skill: Kame School Martial Arts]

[Kame School Martial Arts (Lv 1): Enhanced strength & speed]

What the hell just happened? Did we just leveled up? Is this a game?

Zack & Chai was looking at each other, puzzled. They have read too many novels to know what is going on.

They looked at their surroundings, and it was utter chaos. The infection has begun.

Out of all the patrons of restaurants nearby, approximately 10% has turned into zombies.

"Zack, we have to go to the convenience store. We've discussed this over already, bro! LET'S GO!!!" (Chai)

"FCUK!! Let's go!!" Zack woke-up from his 3-second daze.

As per these two friends' zombie apocalypse discussion go, they would need to secure 5 important items: Water, Food, Weapons, Medicines & Vehicle.

And coincidentally, in the small satellite town called Subang Jaya, there were a lot of convenience stores nearby.

The plan was to snatch the high calorie foods, bottled water and pharmaceutical items. That would settle 3 out of 5 necessities for doomsday. As one of the main regions in the state of Selangor, it has abundant resources which naturally came with its abundant population.

Next up were the weapons. Zack and Chai has planned to seize cold weapons like knives or bats for melee protection, and then go the the weapon shops nearby. Police stations were nearby too.

As the duo had previously speculated this apocalyptic event before and its countermeasures, the streets and roads will be jammed with cars wanting to flee.

Chaotic traffic jams will consume time as the infection rate continues to go up. Therefore they can't rely on their current sedan and hatchback cars made from Honda and Perodua.

They needed a tough car that could go off-road if possible.

"Hey! Chai!! Look!" said Zack while pointing towards a peculiar object on the ground.

"F*** YES! Alright now this we can use, brah! Niceeee!!" (Chai)

They quickly grabbed the object and ran as fast they can towards the road. Their target is another object 2 meters ahead.

Nevertheless, the two nerdy-otaku best friends would never expect that they would one day become legendary figures in the history of humanity...