Zed now knew a bit more about the world he is in and what he could potentially face.

He picked up 2 deodorant that apartment in the apartments just in case he encounters something like that again.

Lucky he found a traditional Japanese culinary knife in that bug infested man's room as it was a combination of a cleaver and chefs knife and it was really well made. Most likely the man was a chef.

It was even of uncommon quality.

Shun classic knife Type Weapon Rarity Uncommon Damage 10-35 A knife made of VG-10 stainless steel has an excellent durability that is hindered by its chisel grind which requires constant maintenance needed to keep the edge

Zed left the aparment complex now in a much better mood

looking around he could lot of other apartment complexes that didn't interest him much as he started to look for more people.

It didn't take him long to run into some trouble.

'what is up with me and big cats?' A black cat was standing in front of him if you could call it that now. It looked more like a lynx than a cat now with its superior size compared to a regular cat.

The street cat only seemed to look at Zed for a brief moment as it disappeared in the shadows of the city.

'So is it just a bit bigger cat?' Zed pondered as he didn't notice the intelligent glint in the cat eyes as it left.

the city was really empty, but there seemed to be some movement around him just in the corner of his eyes.

'Is that a gunshot?' Zed picked up the sound of gunshots in the distance he could just barely hear it due to how quiet the city was.

He picked up his pace as he followed the sound of the gunshots.

A man holding a handgun was shooting a bunch of dog-sized rats as they swarmed them while being protected by 2 other men holding fire axes.

they were wearing sports gear that seemed to do its job and protect them quite well.

The horde of rats became more and more as time passed and you could see the panic on the gun mans face as he kept shooting the rats most likely his bullets were running out as he had gone through 3 magazines already.

all of a sudden a giant of a man bursted out from an alleyway drawing attention to him as he rushed in holding a knife slicing and kicking rats ending their lives as he closed in on the men.

At first, they were intimidated by this wild-looking man but as soon as they saw how effective he was they rejoiced and attacked the rats with new spirit.

Rad touched rattus Health

30 A rodent contaminated by the radiation of the meteoroid

Lethal attack target dies was popping up and fading away as Zed killed the rat horde that surrounded the men.

Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.

The horde soon retired as the loses increased.

The man with the gun was first to speak "Hey there stranger, Thank you for helping us!"

He had a bit of a Russian accent that Zed could barely pick up.

"Don't mind it, we humans need to stick together to survive this crisis."

The biggest one of the axeman spoke up. " True that brother, Names Gorge" he reached out his hand to a friendly handshake.

"Zed, So what are you doing out here" Zed shook his hand as he did his best to ignore the text message that popped up.

Homo sapien Health 60 The ingenuity and adaptability of Homo sapiens have led to it becoming the most influential species on this planet. One that enables the best and the worst in living creatures.

The other 2 had only 50 health.

"The shelter is already starting to get low on food with so many people so we scavaging out here." The big man seemed quite talkative but even if others would call him big he was still 10+ centimeters shorter then Zed

"Ey stop with the chit chat we need to collect these rats before other monsters are drawn to the blood!" The gunmen stopped Gorge from talking more as he ordered to collect the rats.

"let me help you guys." With that Zed become part of there little group. It seemed simple, but in fact, there were many little things that influenced him joining this group so easily.

'huh, what is this?'

Ring of the Rat Type Accessory Rarity Uncommon A shabby ring engraved with the rune of digestion that has a small effect of helping you digest substances better.

This Ring was in an ugly brown color and with a reddish brown drawing on it that kinda looked like an inflated reversed C with some tubes coming out from both ends.

Zed quickly pocketed the ring as he helped the men put the rats in a giant trash bag.

He chatted with the man and learned that the gunman was named Daniel and the quiet axeman was Henry.

They had a shelter in a supermarket where there were over 1 thousand people.

The leader of the there group seemed to be a retired General of the army and he had sent out some capable men to go scavenge the surroundings and bring back the dead monster corpses.

As they kept chatting he learned that the general had a mysterious ability to predict attacks since they had seen him battle and it was simply legendary they said as he didn't get hit once by anything in mids of gunfire and monsters.

'Could the man be so skilled or is it an effect of the radiation?' Zed wondered as they travel to the supermarket.

What greeted Zed was a building that had boarded window with almost no resemblance to a supermarket.

As always Gorge was first to speak up.

"We will introduce you to the General and I'm sure he will accept someone so capable in our shelter." Gorge resued Zed as they arrived at there destination.

They moved unhindered by others as they took the stairs to reach the highest floor of the supermarket.

As they moved Zed observed the supermarket it seems to run on its own generator as electricity wasn't working in the apartments he went in, but here it was completely fine.

The people seemed relaxed as any problem that they had would be resolved soon enough.

Daniel with a very politely knocked on the door and soon a man with a very rough and deep voice said. "Come in."

A spacious office greeted Zed as he went in with a couple of couches facing a desk where a man sat eating what looked like almost raw meat creating a strange smell in the air.

He had a clean bald head with a clean shave, you could see that he had a good build even in that fancy suit he was wearing.

Zed could feel the aura of a man that has killed a lot of other humans from him call it natural instincts that every human has against danger.

Rad touched Homo sapien Health 117 The ingenuity and adaptability of Homo sapiens have led to it becoming the most influential species on this planet. One that enables the best and the worst in living creatures, But how will the Radiation affect it?

Zeds suspicions where confirmed as a small text popped up as he looked at the general.

We were all standing in front of the desk as Daniel was first to speak.

"General this is Zed he saved our lives when we were swarmed by a horde of those rats."

The General picked up a knife and cut a piece of meat that he put in his mouth and slowly ate it as it looked like he is enjoying the taste greatly.

"How many rats were you able to kill?" He looked straight in Daniels' eyes making him fidget a bit.

"Sir we got 54 Rats together!" He answered in a much clearer English than before you couldn't even hear his accent anymore.

"mhm, Good job." He cut and ate another piece of meat.

"Show him where is room 317 that is the room I'm awarding him for saving your lives." He took another bite of the meat that was on his table.

"As for the reward of bringing so many rats back you all can pick 1 item from the storage." He wrote something on a piece of paper and stamped it afterwards handing it over to Daniel.

"Thank you General!" With that our little group left the Generals office.

"Man this is great we can get some really nice stuff from the storage thanks to you Zed!" Gorge as always started chatting as soon as they left the General office.