CHAPTER 8

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Already in Orlando, I rented a two bedroom apartment close to the beach, and went to the nearest Room To Go to decorate Emily's room. What can I say, being a dad apparently is like a disease, it only gets worse, as for Emily, I was debating whether or not to put her in school, considering I still had no idea how safe we were.

Also, I had no papers so I didn't know how that would work. Maybe I could hire a private tutor to homeschool her. That could work.

"Can we go to the beach later?" Emily asked, using the most lethal weapon in a kid, her puppy eyes.

Fortunately for me, I was immune to that. "No, unfortunately we have to keep a low profile for the moment being, I have no idea if Hydra is tracking us, and I rather avoid open places for a while."

Emily nodded in understanding, "Then I will watch TV," she added, with a smile.

"Go ahead," I smiled.

As Emily went to the living room to watch some cartoons, I laid down on my bed and started to think, to plan, I needed a way to get levels without so many death flags on my back, a dungeon would be nice right about now, but I had no idea how to find one, or if my gamer skill had that function at all.

Maybe it was like in those games, like vanilla wow for example, where to access a dungeon you wanted you had to go where the dungeon in question was located and find the entrance, maybe that was the answer to my plights.

If that were to be the case, getting a map would be essential, because in those games the only way to find the entrance to a dungeon was through the map. I mean, either way I needed to complete the map in my system, I only had a very small part 'discovered' so regardless of the dungeon system, a map was my top priority, but not any map, a world one.

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Leaving Emily in the house watching some Tom & Jerry, I left for the nearest library in the zone to buy some maps, and maybe consume a book or two in the process if I saw something that caught my fancy, on the way, I kept an eye open for any Hydra agents, fortunately I saw none.

But along the way, I noticed something, most of the people walking around on the streets, or driving were between level one and level five, with kids in general being level one and level two, and the adults being between level three and level five.

Nothing important really, just a nice little bit of information, for if I ever saw someone above those levels, I knew to be… careful, for it was quite probably something was going on.

"Will this be all sir?" Tom, the sales associate of the bookstore I was currently in, asked.

"Yes," I nodded, paying him and leaving the store.

Once I was outside anyone's view, I consumed the maps, expanding the explored area of my map, from 0% to 100%, and I was glad to say, I was right. Orlando alone had two dungeons, I could see them on the map in my head, their icons were white skulls and if I hovered over them it would say Dungeon, heck one of them was very close.

"I'm gonna have some fun," I chuckled, getting inside my new car, oh yeah, I bought a car after I ditched the other one in a really, really, really abandoned area.

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I drove to where the supposed dungeon was located, and immediately a pop up appeared saying the following.

[DUNGEON = ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

RECOMMENDED LEVEL = 5-25

INFO = Be it by magic, or man made creation, you will face an apocalyptic event of catastrophic proportions. The plague had taken everyone, and with it, the world. Nothing is like it should be, so be aware that life as you know it has ceased to exist.

REWARD = By completing the dungeon you are given access to this dungeon at any given time through your menu. 1000$, 5000 EXP

ENTER = YES/NO]

Level 5-25, it probably means the dungeon scales depending on one's level, even then… I am sure I will one shot every undead inside, but it will be a great place to practice my abilities, maybe develop new ones, and finally decide what I want to be, a warrior, a mage, or maybe a battle mage, who knows.

With a smile, I smashed the YES button and immediately the world around changed, and I found myself in a place very similar to the starting place of LEAF 4 DEAD 2, at the top of a building, with some guns laying on a table.

[M1911 Pistol - Common]

[Machete - Common]

"If this place has a fucking Boomer type Zombie I will lose my shit," I shuddered, I hate the fat exploding bastard more than the Witch, his whole concept was disgusting, close second came the Spitter.

Taking a deep breath, I grabbed one of the guns left for me, alongside a machete, machete's were badass, not very functional, but badass. "Time to end this," I erupted in a giggle fit, this was probably every man's dream, to be in a zombie apocalypse without consequences, I mean, I was thirty levels above the max, this shit was going to be like a super realistic zombie game, and I couldn't wait.

Grinning in anticipation, I opened the door in front of me, and walked down the stairs, so far it was a carbon copy of L4D2, at the bottom of the stairs, there was another door, and once again, I kicked it.

Behind that door, several Zombies stood and started to walk towards me, and I grinned, blowing their brains out with my gun, and cutting their heads off with my machete, but as I was enjoying this, my fears came true, a fat monstrosity with short black hair wearing a navy blue shirt and brown pants stood at the end of the hall burping bile out, his clothes were stained with sweat and puke and were very stretched to breaking point around the his enormous gut.

"Fuck.." I shuddered in disgust, he looked like a giant pimple, and that was disgusting.

Turning around, the boomer lookalike started to run towards me, or the equivalent of what he could do, all while I took it like man! I… threw my most powerful attack at him in panic, vomit and Alex don't mix, I ain't gonna let anyone vomit on me. "Ooff sav--" before I could finish this sentence, a gooey pus-filled substance fell into my face with a loud splash like sound, the substance was sticky and smelly, smelling somewhat acidic, it did almost no damage, but… mentally, I was scarred, because some… of it, got in my mouth. "I'm gonna kill every last one of you." with a battle cry, and a mask in my mouth, I rushed into battle, for these Zombies had wronged the wrong gamer, for I was vindictive.