BXBX NOVEL Chapter 61 Clearing The Ground Floor
-Slash!
The zombie fell down, lifeless as it should. I looked at that guy smiling at his achievement and I sighed…
\'It took him 4 tries to kill a single zombie? I hope the others aren\'t the same as him,\' I thought before sending that guy back and calling another one.
The next one took 2 tries before succeeding in killing a zombie, while the others weren\'t that different. A few of them took only one shot and succeeded in killing the zombies.
Total of 14 zombies were killed before I turned at them and asked,
"Want to kill more?"
There was a smile on my face and an excitement on their faces. Perhaps they started enjoying the thrill and the fact that I was there to protect them made their confidence boost a lot.
"Well… I don\'t mind helping you guys a bit more, but after this is over, there are a few things I need you guys to do for me. If you can help me out, maybe I can think about helping you guys absorb the Zombie Cores, too?" I spoke with a slightly mischievous look.
Hearing my words, their eyes started glistening as they looked at me with a bright smile before one of them spoke,"we will help you. What do you want us to do?"
\'Naive,\' I thought as I saw them accepting my demand without even listening to my conditions. Well, not that it matters much to me.
I simply nodded at them before, for the next 2 hours, helped them clear all the zombies on the ground floor. There were more in the reception area and a few more around the rooms on the other side.
After getting rid of all the zombies from the ground floor, we looked outside to find a couple of zombies roaming around as we had already barricaded the place from the inside temporarily.
And my gaze turned fixated on the notification I just received.
[Side Quests (Completed)]
1. Kill all the zombies from floors 0 To 33rd
Total number of zombies remaining: 0
Reward: A random Special Skill
2. Save the survivors on floors 35th and 36th
Total number of survivors remaining: 52
Reward: +4 Stat Points
3. Barricade the Building and Fortify the Defense
Reward: Leader(Title) ]
[New Special Skill Received: Copy!]
[+ 4 Stat Points Received!]
[New Title Acquired: Leader!]
First, I checked on the new skill I received,
[Copy (Special)]
[Allows the user to copy any of the skill in his arsenal
Currently Copied Skill: None
Note: Once the user locks a particular skill to copy, he can\'t change the skill for another 24 hours]
\'Oh Nice!\' I thought as I wondered what skill I should use to copy… though first, I should check the new title.
[Title: Leader]
[When the title is active, the following effects will activate:
(1) The people who are under the user\'s leadership will receive 10% of user\'s stats as bonus
(2) When the user faces danger, he can temporarily take 20% stats of those under him for 10 minutes. Cooldown: 24 hours
(3) The user can share any one of his skills with those under him with the effect of the skill halved. Only one Skill can be shared at a time. Max 2 people at once.]
"..." I looked at the skill with a bit of wide-eyed expression before I looked around and wondered the best way to use this ability.
"Michael?" Caroline called me out with a worried expression on her face and, turning at her, I asked,"Yeah?"
"You okay?" she asked again, and I nodded before speaking,"yeah. Just planning the next few moves."
"With this, we have more or less cleared the entire building. While we can barricade until here, I believe it would be better to clear the zombies outside, in the parking area and in the park at a distance before locking all the gates of the entire perimeter,"
I continued as I recalled that quest which required me to clear the respective areas.
"That\'s a nice idea," Caroline spoke with her eyes glistening as she looked at me before I heard a certain sound from the system.
[New Side Quests!]
I turned to Caroline and asked,"Can you call White and Alex here?"
She was a bit confused, but still nodded as she looked at my serious expression. I didn\'t speak much as I looked at her, while the other people were just waiting for my instructions.
"You guys wait for a few minutes," I spoke before looking at the new side quests
[Electricity is the key to the function of daily life!]
[With the world going into chaos. All the energy sources have been halted for an unknown amount of time. Though that does not mean there is no way of creating electricity in your base.
Quest: Find a way to create a power source and built a dependable power source for your base
Reward: +5000 Cronas]
[More is better!]
[Your base has too low man power. If you want your base to develop better and faster, having more people in it can never be a bad move.
Quest: Increase the number of people in your base to 100
Current number of people: 56
Reward: 3 random common Trinkets]
Observing the quests, I could guess that the side quests wanted me to build a base of my own and work on it. Though my initial goal of finding my family would be hindered so I don\'t know if I can do these quests right now or not.
\'Maybe I will look into them later,\' I thought as I looked at my system before sighing as I wondered what exactly I should do next.
It wasn\'t that I had nothing to do but quite the opposite. I had too many things to do…
There was that Lesser C-Grade Zombie of which I had zero plans on how to deal with him. Then there were zombies on the outside as well.
The problems of food and water, along with everyone\'s safety.
\'Man, it\'s a pain dealing with everything by myself!\' I sighed as I waited for Alex and White to come down for the next 20 minutes or so…
And when they arrived…
"There… is something… down there!!" Alex spoke in a shaky voice with sweat beads trickling down his face as he looked in the direction of the basement.