Chapter 27: Disappointing Lanky Boys…

(Marinkia’s POV)

Much to my annoyance, the lanky zombies all just rushed over to the piles of human bodies that I just recently created. What!? Not trying to fight me!? You food motivated cowards!!!

Lanky Special Zombie: “Thanks for the free meals, girl.” He said with a laugh.

Marinkia: “You can speak too? I swear that I have met so many talking zombies lately.” I reply with a sigh.

Lanky Special Zombie: “Ever played a game before? You can consider us talking zombies to be the leaders of our specific species.” He replied.

Marinkia: “Why aren’t you and them fighting me?” I ask.

Lanky Special Zombie: “Funnily enough, my species are actually complete cowards. Why would we fight you? You can clearly kill us, even if we team up to try and kill you.” He answered with a wide shrug.

Marinkia: “Funny… Why destroy the outpost? I would have given you the meat if you just asked me first.” I say with a pout.

Lanky Special Zombie: “Really?” He said with a head tilt.

Marinkia: “Really. I made the same deal with the tall buff zombies not that long ago.” I reply.

Lanky Special Zombie: “…”

Marinkia: “And now look… Even the small fry zombies are entering the place. Where else will I sleep tonight!?” I say with an angry tone.

Lanky Special Zombie: “I can guide you to another outpost. Just… just please don’t kill them all…” He pleaded.

Oh? Am I finally going to get some information!? Please, speak more! I must learn!

Marinkia: “Why not?” I reply.

Lanky Special Zombie: “There is a human, who really doesn’t seem like a human, that hunts those stupid humans and even us zombies.” He replied.

Marinkia: “She hunts here? What does that matter?” I ask with a raised eyebrow.

Lanky Special Zombie: “Look, I am all for free food, but you can’t keep killing them all. That woman will surely get pissed off if you kill her hunting stock. And trust me, she is very, very powerful.” He explained.

Marinkia: “How powerful?” I ask with a curious expression.

Lanky Special Zombie: “Have you been near that turf with the huge underground zombie?” He asked.

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Marinkia: “I have.” I say with a nod.

Lanky Special Zombie: “Well, that woman can walk around that area and the beast under the ground doesn’t even make a peep. Like, it is scared of her…” He replied with a nervous tone.

Marinkia: “…”

Some Time Later.

The lanky zombie had asked me to follow him. Along the way, he hit or killed any small fry zombies that tried to attack me. Not that long into the walk, we came across yet another settlement that was lit up in the night.

Lanky Special Zombie: “Now, just go in there and beat the shit out of all of them. Once you do, they won’t bother you anymore. Please, please, please… do not kill them all. I do not want to face the wraith of that woman…” He pleaded.

Marinkia: “Fine…” I reply with a sigh.

Waving the dude goodbye, I walked into the settlement. As annoying as it would be to live with such stupid creatures, I needed to get some sleep tonight. After all, I have much more exploring to do!

It didn’t take long for me to beat them all up. And just like that zombie said, they became completely harmless to me. Even offered me some food that I declined to partake in.

This settlement was actually the biggest one that I’ve come across. Inside were actually houses. And of course, I had taken one of them for myself. It even had a real bed, that they probably looted from some place, inside the room.

With a smile, I jumped on the bed, not even caring that I still had dried blood all over my body and clothes. I did make sure that the door was locked and blocked off before I finally went to sleep for the night.

The Next Morning.

Crack!

I woke up to the sounds of chaos. Rushing outside, I saw various tentacles popping up from the ground. They would grab and kill those weird humans, and then the tentacles would drag them underground.

So… that’s how it gets its food supply, huh? If it does this all the time, I wonder why that woman hasn’t bothered to kill it off? After all, it did this like a pro. Even ignoring me completely.

For me, I just calmly walked out of the outpost, leaving those primitive humans to their deaths. I had no reason to save them. And even if I did, my racism toward my old species gets stronger by the day. Not to mention these weird caveman like ones that only resembled my previous visually.

Soon, perhaps in just a few more years, the reign of humans will come to an end. Mostly ushered in by Grant not being able to fight the zombies and the Numens properly.

In just years, I will probably only see humans in the farms that the Numens set up. Just livestock to be slaughtered, huh? If I was an idiot, I would say that they deserved such a fate.

Humans did eat tons of animals in our time. But who cares? No one even ate animals these days, and the Numens farming humans for food is the same. To them, it is similar to how humans used to farm chickens and cows.

No one method is actually morally better than the other. Humans needed food to survive, which required them to farm and slaughter animals for a long period of their history. And the Numens need humans to eat, so of course they farm them like cattle.

Marinkia: “I am so bored…” I say with a sigh.

The lanky boys are boring as all hell. So far, besides those annoying spitter zombies, I haven‘t come across any breed of zombies that just straight up wanted me dead. That is, besides the stupid small fry ones…

Instead, it seems that most of the zombie species focus on surviving. Like how the tall buff one made a deal with me, and how the lanky ones didn’t even attempt to fight me for real.

Since there was no entertainment to be had in this place, I decided to move to a different turf. Only now did I recall that damn UV flashlight that I had gotten a little while ago…

To be fair to myself, I hadn’t actually had the chance or need to use it. Perhaps, the best and only places that I would use it in, would be in the sewers, or in a building… That’s it! I should go find a tall building to climb up!

Parkour was banned by Grant a long time ago, and no one was allowed to go up to the last twenty floors of any building. Now that I know more about this war, I have to assume that such a rule was put in place to prevent people from seeing that there were zombies and Numens around. Oh, Grant… what a shitty leader you were…