Chapter 109 - Survival from Zombies in Beomgye Station (4) (1/2)

Sungwoo was sitting alone in the room he was assigned to, waiting for the quest message.

He was thinking of going to sleep after checking the message.

Like Minsok said, a quest was issued before his eyes after midnight.

[Local Quest]

-Title: City of Death

-Type:’Escape’ or ‘Subjugation’

-Goal: Escape from the area or Crackdown on zombies

-Compensation: Differential payment according to type

*You are isolated in a city occupied by death. In order to overcome this crisis, you must decide whether to escape this area quickly or confront death head-on and win. Whatever you choose, death will chase you.

* Zombies chase the survivors outside. (After being caught, they will be chased even if they enter indoors.)

But that wasn’t the end.

– Caution! The level of difficulty is reset because there is a player with a certain level (LV. 15) or higher in the area.

‘Reset? If the player is level 15 or higher, he is me?’

Since Sungwoo joined the quest, something had begun to change. That message appeared before the eyes of all players in the area, and soon those inside the building began to get busy.

When Sungwoo went out to the hallway, Jisu was also outside the door. As if she was testing the gas mask she had prepared in advance, she held the gas mask in one hand and looked into the air as if focusing on the sound.

“Sungwoo, I can feel something ominous.”

“What do you feel?”

She focused a little more, then frowned. Her eyes moved along the ceiling and stopped on the front window.

“I can hear the violent vibrations outside the building and around this area. Tremendous footsteps…”

-Zombies are chasing all survivors in and outside the building.

It was obvious to know what was responsible for such vibrations. The children’s crying grew louder down the stairs.

“Guys, go upstairs!”

“Ahhh! Mom!”

“Shush! Be quiet and move on to the roof! Hurry up!”

Soon there was somebody moving fast up the stairs. Chaos deepened with the sound of people moving furniture and metal clanging.

“Sungwoo, Jisu!” Minsok shouted.

He came up to the third floor, fully armed with chain mail and a shield.

“Damn it! I didn’t know things would happen like this. When we were indoors, zombies didn’t come inside, but all of a sudden…”

His face stiffened. Behind him some elderly people with disabilities were walking up to the stairs to go to the rooftop. Like Minsok said, there were too few among the survivors who could confront the zombies.

Sungwoo went into the room and put on the robe, then took out the repeating crossbow.

“This game is always like this. They are just toying with us,” Sungwoo said calmly.

Minsok felt relieved a bit by his dauntless attitude.

Minsok said, “We’ll move those who can’t fight to the rooftop before stopping the zombies. We can stop the ordinary zombies, but we are in big trouble if we are faced with something like Ghouls.”

Ghoul. There was no consensus that Ghouls are different from the undead by nature, but in fantasy, they were described as a race far superior to zombies. And this game followed the laws of fantasy.

“Dad?”

Minsuk’s son, the little boy who played with Orun, came out of the room, rubbing his eyes.

“Son, what are you doing? Go to the rooftop like we practiced.”

“Zombies coming? Are we in big trouble?”

“Don’t worry. Dad is defending here. Also, our Necromancer uncle is here.”

“Dad, be careful! Uncle, hang in there!”

Minsok persuaded his son to hurry to the rooftop. At the same time, somebody yelled from the second floor down the stairs.

“Hey, They’re already nearby!”

Minsok walked up to the window and pulled the curtains. He stuck his head out into the deep darkness.

“…”

In the dark streets and buildings without any light there were green dots glowing in the wide alleyway. They were glowing eyes.

The eyes of the dead were dimly lit. When those green eyes glowed from the alleys everywhere, Minsok felt as if a swarm of insects were flying into the building.

Kueeeeeeeeeeeeh!

Their disgusting screaming broke through the window frames.

“We have to go downstairs right now!”

Sungwoo and Jisu followed Minsok down the stairs.

“Damn it! There are a lot of them at the back door, too!”

“Did you close all the windows? Block the doors with something heavy!”

As they got closer to the first floor, their shouting and the zombies’ screaming rang together.

Bang! Bang! Bang!