Seeing the total number of IP, I have now I sat down and began to ponder on how to spend them. First came weapon but I decided against buying a new one as I already have a decent weapon and guns would just draw more to me with the noise. First, I bought an increase in my health and stamina regen costing me 110IP just from that.

After having bought the upgrades a new message appeared.

Dexterity – Your movement speed and reaction time increase. Must have matching INT for max effect.

Vitality – increases your HP by 5 per level and stamina by 2 per level.

Intelligence – Allows you to process information and relay it to your body faster. Must have matching Dex for max effect.

Spirit – Every level increases Spiritual Energy by 10.

Luck – increases your chances of getting better rewards form draws.>

With the new information, I’ve just received I begin to ponder on what I’ve lacked in the times I’ve been fighting. I chose to upgrade what I see is the most effective for my survival.

I increase my STR by 2 getting me to 10 in STR. Then I upgrade my DEX by 6 bringing it to equal my INT. The rest I spend on my VIT increasing it by 8 getting me 15 in VIT in total, which brought my HP up from a max of 35 to 75 and my STA from a max of 14 to 30.

Looking at my new stats I feel proud of my self but at the same time, I’m a little depressed to see that the total amount of IP I have remaining is only 2.

With all the allocation out of the way, I begin to think up a plan on how I will get to the supermarket and pick up Emily. That’s only if she’s there, if not I’ll have to spend more time in finding her not to mention I still need to find the bunker. However, the bunker from the info I’ve gathered the bunker and the lab may be the same place. So, considering she was the daughter of a seemingly important person for the lab she may know where it is which will get me an extra 500IP. Finished thinking I go over my plans for tomorrow.

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1: Set off for the supermarket tomorrow.

2: kill as many zombies as possible so I can increase my stats further.

3: If Emily is there tell her I know her dad and that I’m there to bring her to him but lost the map, so I need her to lead the way. If she isn’t there, then set up a temporary base at the supermarket while looking for clues on where Emily could be.

With all this in mind, I want to go to sleep but I need to do something first. I go into the vacant room and begin to carry out the furniture further blocking the door of the room I came in from and making a makeshift barrier at the bottom of the stairs.

With all that done I lay down on the bed and fall asleep rather quickly, while my body maybe alright I have mental fatigue from everything I experienced today alone.

I awoke early in the morning. The sun wasn’t even fully out, and the sky was a red that resembled blood making the scene of the walking corpses look a whole new level of creepy.

Getting away from the window and sitting back down I open my sack and begin to eat what little I have left. By the time I finished the sun was now fully out above the horizon. I go downstairs and move the things I placed above the mirror stand. I begin to push the door but is blocked by the bodies of the zombies I killed yesterday. I push the mirror stand to the side then I start chopping at the door. After a few swings the top half if the door falls into the room leaving the bottom half.

I look inside and see all the corpses which greet me with a terrible stench. I put the mirror stand back in place and use it to climb into the room while being wary of any possible surviving zombies. Seeing that there’s none I go to the window and peak outside. There are three zombies behind the house. I step outside and charge at the closest one after having decided to test my new strength on these bastards. I get within two meters of the zombie and swing at its head. The head is sliced in half leaving the zombies to fall onto the ground spilling its cut-up brain upon contact with the floor. I turn to the remaining two who are now aware of me and are charging at me. I go to the one on the left and just like before I slice at its head. It cuts its head in half and just like before it falls to the ground exposing what’s inside. The last one is still about four meters away from me. When it's within the reach of my weapon I thrust it forwards piercing its head. I pull it out with it coming blood and pieces of its brain.

Having killed the third one I look at my stamina which is 27/30 meaning I only lost 3 during the whole fight. This proves that the increase in strength did reduce my stamina consumption. I look around to check if there are any others who were attracted to the noise. Seeing nothing I head to the side of the house. I looked to the side onto the road and seeing the large number of them I decide to head through the back of the houses. As to how I decided the direction was easy. I just chose the opposite way of the big blue screen that seems to be the edge of the world we’ve been thrown into by God.