Ch 3 : Weird fruit

Because of the interference of the mosquito buzz, the other zombies were not attracted even after Rochen successfully killed the first Zombies.

Their movement was still impaired from the mosquito buzz, and their reflex became very slow.

At this moment, Rochen began to move once again. His hand tightly grasped the military knife before he viciously struck down with the knife, cutting down the head of a zombie.

Two zombies were down, and now only eight were left.

The remaining zombie began to notice something was wrong when the second zombie died and tried to struggle and left the area covered with the mosquito buzz. But its head was soon cleanly chopped off by the military knife, and black blood stained all over the floor.

A rush of energy once again entered Rochen's body.

Rochen frowned, thinking:

"Still not there... The barrier was getting looser, but there was no sign of advancing."

" Well, there are still seven more zombies left to deal with, and there was no need to think about it too much now."

Rochen quickly shook that thought. He wanted to quickly advance to the advanced first-class, but there was no need to rush things out.

He wiped the military knife, which was stained with the zombies' black blood, and began to pounce on the next Zombie.

Rochen, who had long overcome his fears of zombies, took a step forward and lifted his military knife overhead, smashing down on the zombie's neck. Causing another zombie's head to roll down on the floor.

Rochen was taking no chances; his hand and feet never stopped moving even after he killed the zombie and kept killing the ten zombies one by one.

Soon, the ten zombies were fully obliterated by Rochen, but he was still one step away from advancing to the advanced first-class.

Rochen tried to catch his breath since no zombie was left. He closed down the application to save some batteries and took a rest behind a broken car.

" I should quickly recover my stamina now."

When he rested, Rochen took a small water bottle from his bag.

All the food scavenging before was enough for him to last for a week, but it also reminded Rochen of how the world had changed.

" Who ever thought that humans would kill each other just because of a bottle of water?"

Rochen poured the water into his mouth and sighed.

Until now, Rochen had never witnessed the true face of human greed. He had known about the apocalypse before everyone, so he had prepared some food and water beforehand and successfully avoided the conflict with other humans.

Still, he had read about many stories in which friends killed each other because of food from the diary, and it had made him realize that trust was now a privilege.

A few minutes later, Rochen was able to recover about 80% of his lost stamina.

Rochen stood up, looked out again. This time the road was very empty as Rochen had killed the ten zombies wandering on it.

No living person was on sight because they were either infected or had found a place to hide.

Most of the zombies around the area had been either killed by Rochen or had been moving to another district, leaving the area surrounding Rochen very safe to travel.

Among the empty areas, only a few scattered zombies blankly standing there.

"Let's try finding some supply if I can."

Even though Rochen currently has a week worth of supply, having more food and water wouldn't hurt.

He found a small supermarket and entered it.

The small supermarket had 4 zombies wandering around it, heard the sound of Rochen's step, and immediately staggered towards Rochen's direction.

Rochen charged towards a zombie, swinging knife, and soon a zombie's head was sent rolling.

Two zombies took the opportunity to jump at Rochen, baring their claws at him.

But Rochen easily dodged the Zombies attack by slowly tilting his body.

Rochen brought his heavy bag and swung it down, hammering the two zombies to the ground.

And while the two zombies were still limping in the ground, Rochen's knife quickly moved, beheading the 2 zombies one by one.

By the time the next minute had come, three zombies had been killed by Rochen, only leaving one who had his neck against Rochen's military knife.

" And this makes it all four!"

The military knife slit the last Zombie's neck, and Rochen successfully defeated all four zombies in barely above one minute.

Looking down at the fragmented body of the corpses in front of him, Rochen sighed a relief. He was lucky that he was able to discover the zombies beforehand. If not, it wasn't clear who would be lying motionless in the ground.

Rochen was just about to leave the Zombies' corpses and went deeper into the supermarket when he found something was glowing next to the corpse's body.

Rochen focused his eyes, "What is that…" he saw a weird fruit among the zombie corpses, that weird fruit was wrapped in a pouch so it was not stained with zombie blood.

Rochen quickly picked up the weird fruit and decided to observe it first.

'A weird fruit dropped from the zombies? Let's see whether the diary has something to say about this.'

The fact that something had dropped from the Zombies had greatly intrigued Rochen, and he had no other way but to check the diary about this strange event.'

' Let's see, a level one zombie had a slight chance of dropping a Strength Berry. The strength berry could help to enhance the strength of a person for one minute after eating then.'

"Nice one."

With this berry, then Rochen had one more trump card in case he would battle a stronger Zombie.

Rochen quickly put the strength berry in his pocket and dashed deeper into the supermarket.

There, he found two of the employees that had become zombies, and Rochen made a quick work of them.

One swing and two heads rolled on the floor.

The continuous battle had increased Rochen's profanity in the knife skill, and it wasn't that hard to kill a normal first class zombie anymore.