Chapter 4 - THE MUTATED SAPIENS (1/2)

It was night and Azief is almost asleep when he hears a sound. Alert, Azief quickly woke up and then he peek at the first floor.

He swears he heard a sound from the first floor. By now, most of the people around the area has been dead or been eaten.

The moonlight shines brightly. Night like this, Azief unusually went to go drink coffee with his friend Nizam, talking about redundant thing.

And when he goes back at night he will look at the stars. Azief is not usually sentimental. Life is harsh, education is harsh and the country is harsh.

Not knowing what to do after getting out fresh from college, not getting any calls from any company, and with no great prospect, Azief sometimes just blanked out in some days asking does all this means something?

To get married in his country, the dowry he has to pay for the bride family must exceed RM10, 000.

Ten thousand ringgit! Azief wanted to shout to such family. Are you marrying your daughter or selling her!

Then they look at your education level, your job, what is your annual income, how could Azief compete.

Living in this kind of society makes him feel like he feels useless.

He couldn't even make a thousand every month; his salary is six hundred ringgit how could he even dream to marry. If he could not marry why even bother searching for a girlfriend.

It will distract him finding money.

Then a roar bring him back to his present moment

Azief is quite lucky in that the beast did not detect him here and no humans discover him there.

It was dark but he could see with the aid of the moonlight. Then he heard the noise again and this time his eyes gazed towards the first floor.

Then he noticed something is moving from the cover of the corpse. Then outside he could hear people moving. He turns his gaze to the window pane.

Then Azief look outside and then he gasped in shock. The corpse that has been bitten is mutating into half human, half beast, almost like that liquid thing in Prototype.

One person has a cat leg with human face. But not all of them managed to merge with the beats. Some become like a zombie.

Then something nagged in the back of his mind.

'Wait a minute!' Realizing what he forget Azief quickly jump from the stairs and reach to the covers.

He could see Ah Seng corpse is beginning to move.

'I'm not going to wait. Sorry Ah Seng. ' He already sees what happens to the other corpse. And he is sure as hell; the same thing is going to happen to Ah Seng corpse.

Without hesitation Azief drive his dagger to the corpse head, and the blood seep through the covers not staining Azief clothes.

Yeah, and who says watching zombies movies wouldn't profit him! Strike the brain and the zombie is dead.

Then a light shine down on Azief body.

YOU HAVE ADVANCED TO LEVEL 02. YOU HAVE EARNED 2 STATS POINTS AND ADDITIONAL 3 STATS POINTS FOR BEING THE TOP 57 PERSON OUT OF 100 TO USE WORLD ORB SYSTEM TO KILL THE MUTATED SAPIENS.

'Put 2 to strength, two to agility and three to stamina.'

Azief then could feel his body is getting stronger and his body getting light and feel a rejuvenating energy in his body as his fatigue slowly dispersed.

A skill book dropped from the corpse, the golden coins, and a glove.

'I'm lucky' Azief said to himself as he sat on the corner exhausted, his stamina dropped by one point.

That stab is using half his strength and the body of the zombie is quite sturdy. Not all like he imagined.

Azief thought it would be kind of liquidy. If that thing really gets up Azief really thinks he will be too scared to stab the corpse.

He then checks the glove.

MUTATED SAPIENS PROTECTIVE GLOVE.

-ABLE TO BLOCK INFECTION FROM LEVEL 3 AND 10 BEAST IF BITTEN-

Bonus: Strength + 2

Stamina +2

Quickly Azief equipped it.

And he feels he is getting stronger. Now as he sits in the corner he is thinking how he is going to go home.

He could not stay here all the time or he is going to starve. And additional 3 points? Is there some achievements?

If I do it faster than anyone else, do I get some additional rewards? Is there some ranking I don't know about? He thinks to himself.

Outside he could hear people walking but Azief now knows it is not really people that are walking but their corpse.

Zombies. Mutated sapiens….No…zombies Azief decided. I'm going to call the corpse zombies. Or do I want to call them stiff?

They give quite the experience. And they move slowly. If he make precise blow to the head, he could easily overpowered a zombie.

But he has to wait. Why?

Because when he looks earlier there is still one large beast prowling the area, their boss Azief thinks.

Azief thinks that when the beast leaves, they leave one of them to guard the area. Kind of like a guardian…or a dungeon boss.

It looks really similar like the alien in Alien, down to the green fluid around the mouth. Would it also have face sucker or something like that?

'Haish'….he could not wait that long. He get up and take one of the chocolates in the counter and eat it slowly and trying his hardest not to make a sound when he is chewing.

Chocolates. Can't live just by chocolates.

But he can't charge outside either. Charging outside mean he wants to be eaten. He might not be a genius but he is not an idiot.

Then he hears the sound of crumbling bricks.