As I continue to move behind the houses to avoid the detection of the zombies I arrive on at the entrance of what assume is the housing compound I was in. The gate was on the ground inside the compound with a large indent in it. Someone must have smashed their car into it, so they could get access to the compound. Seeing that there weren’t any zombies in the near vicinity I sprint to the opened gate only to stop in shock.

Outside there were crashed cars everywhere, many of which seemed to have exploded while some of them were on fire. around them were zombies by the dozens. Everywhere I looked I saw decimated bodies of those who were too mutilated to turn into undead laying on the road.

Coming out of my daze I look around for any cars that could potentially still be working. Seeing none that wasn’t on fire or destroyed I instead look for the area with the least number of zombies. I spot an apartment building at the end of the road and head there.

I try my best to avoid the zombies but still draw the attention of over twenty zombies. Ignoring the growing horde behind me I run as fast as I can to the building. Once there I go to the stairs which are in the middle of the building leading upstairs. I sit on a step and wait for the horde to arrive. Once they were about five meters from me I stand and get ready to slash horizontally to get as many kills as I can. They got within two meters of my position and I slashed. Seven of them had their heads sliced in half causing their bodies to fall. This made the ones behind stumble on them letting me get easy kills by stabbing them in the head. The whole confrontation lasted about twenty minutes and left me panting. Checking I saw that I only have 4 stamina left.

Leaving the pile of undead at the foot of the stairs I climb halfway up the stairs then sit down and rest. Once my stamina was full which took only 13 minutes I got up and walked up the stairs. I turned left and went up to the first door. I knocked but no one answered, instead I heard the growls I’m all too familiar with now.

I poked a hole in the door to get a glimpse inside, I didn’t see anything so I made a hole lower than the first. What I saw reminded me of how cruel God can be. It was a zombified little girl who seemed to be 7-8 before she turned. She was bloodied all over with pieces of meat stuck on her face. Behind her, I saw the mutilated corpses of a man and a woman who I assume used to be the little girl’s parents. not wanting to see this sight any longer I stab at the girls’ head killing her then leaving without taking another glimpse.

I continued clearing the rest of the rooms on the floor while riding whatever resources were inside, nothing too serious happened with each apartment having 1-2 undead. Going upstairs I repeated the process for the second and third floor and the fourth floor. After doing a double check on the building including the ground floor which had six rooms, unlike the other floors which had ten. On the right side were five rooms like the ones on the other floors but on the left was the management office and the home of the owners I assume.

I looted every room of what resources were left and brought them all to a room on the second-floor room which didn’t have any undead, to begin with. Going over what I’ve collected came to 7(1 liter) water bottles that were still closed, several cans of tuna with a few packs of ramen. The rest of the items were either already opened or rotten.

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Deciding to make this place my temporary base. After finding this Emily girl I’ll look for a better place to stay until we can come up with a plan on how to get to the lab safely.

I spend some time thinking if the time spent here is the same as in the outside world or if it flowed differently. I really hope that the time spent in this hell would be no more than an instant in the real world. Seeing as this was making me depressed I look outside at the wobbling zombies with anger visible in my eyes at the thought that instead of being there for my sisters birth I’m stuck in here with all of them.

I head downstairs with weapon in hand with the intention of killing everything in my sight.

Once outside I scream with all my might drawing the attention of what I believe are hundreds of them. I dash at the closest one slicing their skull in half, not giving it, another look I charge at the next one stabbing it in the eye-popping it then sliding into the skull with the brain soon after. Pulling it out blood sprayed on me making me look psychotic. I continued fighting without noticing that my eyes have turned scarlet red with faintly glowing markings on my face and a blood red aura was surrounding my body. I kept fighting by slashing are stabbing their heads when everything went black.

I came to at dusk while standing on top of a pile of corpses with some farther down the road. I feel exhausted and resist the ear to pass out here and now. carrying my burned-out body, I head to the room I’m staying at. As soon as the door closes behind me I collapse on the floor. Again, I see nothing but darkness but, in that darkness, I see a row of teeth smiling at me, suddenly eyes opened above the teeth, but they had two blood red pupils in each eye. The mouth began to open, and the teeth began to get longer and sharper with blood dripping out of the mouth into the endless void beneath. It began coming closer to me when my conscience came to me and I bolted up terrified from knowing that thing could have killed me at any moment.

I choose to ignore face I saw in my dream and go change into some of the cloth that belonged to the previous owner. They were a bit baggy on me but better than wet clothing. I go to the window and am shocked by what I see. Onn the road there is a pile of corpses at least three meters in height, I run outside and notice that down the road is also filled with corpses. Not knowing what to think I head inside while rattling my head on what happened yesterday.

I remember going outside to kill some zombies in a fit of rage when I began hearing someone saying kill kill kill repeatedly in my mind. Then there is a blank in my memories until I remember dragging my body inside then I awoke this morning.

Not knowing what to think I check my stats and the first thing I notice is that I have 84IP instead of my 2. Thinking further into it this means I killed over 800 zombies yesterday. Then I scrolled down and noticed that I had two skills.

Blood-lust©(Higher)(Passive)

You hunger for blood grows so strong it begins to manifest itself into an aura around you striking fear into the hearts of your enemies making them fear you.

- Those who have a lower spirit stat than you will have all their stats reduced by 20%. An extra 10 % per rank.

- Won’t affect those around you unless you want it to.

Berserk(D)(Higher)(Active)

Your anger so strong it affects your sanity turning you into a monster in human skin obsessed with combat.

- You learned to tap into your anger and turn it into strength without losing your sanity. Your strength and Dexterity receive a 50% increase. An extra 50% per rank.

- Cost 10 Spiritual energy and 5 stamina per minute.

Looking over the skills I couldn’t help but grow excited, they were so powerful and would only grow stronger with the increase in rank. I also realized that the pile of zombies outside were killed in my fit of rage. Thinking it over it was very dangerous but the payout was equally rewarding.

Having eaten I increase my spirit by 5 bringing it up to 10. With this done I pack up the supplies and head out in search of Emily.