Chapter 12

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Joan, who wore a gothic-black dress, pointed toward a direction. Crowe turned and looked through the bulletproof window in front of him, and his vision was focused toward the female dormitory that was not far away. On the third floor, a female student was standing at a window, waving her arms vigorously. 

“Could she be a survivor?”

Marina also saw the girl, but because of the distance, she couldn’t see her clearly.

“Yes, she is,” Crowe said with certainty. 

His physique was better than ordinary people, and so was his eyesight. He could roughly see the girl waving her arms, and she wasn’t in rags like a regular zombie. Although it was a little blurry, he could almost tell immediately that the girl was a human and was not an infected zombie.

“If she’s a survivor, she could be asking us for help,” Joan analyzed.

“That’s most likely the case.” Crowe supported his chin with one hand and nodded slightly.

From that direction and how the girl waved at them, Crowe could have guessed that the girl was attracted by the loud noise from the armored vehicle and the zombies. Moreover, in this area, there was no one else besides them. After connecting the dots, it was obvious that the girl was waving at them.

“So, Crowe. Do you think we should go and rescue them?” Joan asked.

She directly pointed out the core of the problem, which was from a chronological perspective, Crowe was the newest member of the group. Before this, Joan, Marina, and Sean had been living together, and Marina had been in charge of giving ideas. 

However, when Crowe appeared, in less than a day he had already become the core member of the group. From the escape plan to fending off the horde of zombies, he was now indispensable for the sake of their survival. To put it bluntly, Crowe did not join Joan and Marina’s side, instead, they joined his side.

Marina had no objection to Joan’s decision. Among them, the most powerful person was Crowe. He was the one who had the most ability to survive in this apocalypse— He was the key to their survival. It was only reasonable that Crowe should be the one to decide on this matter.

Moreover, besides Joan, who knew some combating skills, Marina and Sean didn’t have the strength to do so even if they wanted to. Crowe had cleared out all the zombies in this area, but no one could guarantee that there weren’t any zombies left in the female dormitory. So it was obvious that without Crowe , they would just be sending themselves to their own deaths. He was the key to surviving the apocalypse.

In the end, Sean, who had kept quiet after Crowe’s words, didn’t say a word, nor did he dare to express his opinion.

“…”

Crowe did not respond immediately. Instead, he rubbed his chin and thought for a moment. After about two seconds, he slowly said, “We will rescue her, but not now.”

“Indeed. The situation just now was so tense and dangerous. You should rest first and recover your strength,” Joan said understandingly.

Crowe glanced at Joan. He was a little surprised that she would support him so much. Initially, when they first set out, Crowe was slightly annoyed when he saw that Joan wasn’t armed. Of course, that didn’t matter much to him. Crowe was not concerned on the thoughts of this cute young girl, as his strength was the most important thing right now.

“You’re right. After eliminating so many zombies, Crowe would be very tired. Even if we have to save the other students, we have to first ensure our own safety,” Marina agreed with Joan’s point.

“Okay.” Crowe nodded calmly.

He had spent ten minutes going on a rampage, and his adrenaline was constantly pumping. He really needed to relax and rest. Before he rested, Crowe opened the window on his side and reached out his hand to make an ‘okay’ gesture to the girl who was begging for help from the female dormitory building. After a few seconds, he didn’t care if the girl understood his signal, and he immediately pulled his arm back and closed the window. Then, he began to adjust the posture of his seat.

The backrest and the cushion were made of materials that made him feel very comfortable just by sitting on them. When the seat was adjusted to the point where he could lean his body on the backrest, Crowe stopped and fixed the seat at this particular angle.

After the modification, the van had become an armored vehicle, and it was much more spacious as compared to before. Even if the seat had been adjusted to this extent, it would not affect or trouble the people behind him.

Crowe just lay there with his eyes closed to rest. After a while, he relaxed from all the immense pressure he had just been through. He didn’t get up immediately and left the vehicle to rescue the survivor. Instead, he opened his system reward manual.

He obtained the [Beginner Combat Technique] skill book by killing 10 zombies. Then killing a hundred zombies would have gotten him the [Advanced Combat Technique] skill book. Based on his count, he should have killed more than a hundred zombies during the rampage outside of the convenience store. Immediately, the reward manual that was opened in his mind confirmed his thoughts.

“Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the [100 kills] mission! The reward is an [Advanced Combat Technique] skill book!”

There was also a large number of notifications about the accumulated points for killing each zombie.

After scrolling through all the notifications…

“Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully killing 172 low-level zombies. The reward points are +172!”

With that notification, the exact number of zombies that Crowe had killed became clear.

‘172 points, plus the previous 10 points, that’s a total of 182 points.’

Crowe was obviously not interested in the points. He continued scrolling through the notifications until he saw the earliest notification mentioning that he had just obtained the [Intermediate Combat Technique] skill book as a reward. After obtaining the [Beginner Combat Technique] skill book, he had increased his combat power tremendously although his personal attributes remained unchanged. However, his combat power increased and it was easier and more efficient for him to combat against zombies.

As for the [Intermediate Combat Technique] skill book, it would definitely bring greater effect upon using it. At this point, he could easily kill a few zombies with ease. If he used this skill book, his overall strength would definitely rise to a whole new level. He could probably deal with even more zombies by himself and Crowe was looking forward to using the skill book. However, he wasn’t in a hurry. After all, he had already received it within the system, and there were people around him. He couldn’t risk revealing the system’s existence to anyone.

For now, he was not being questioned about the armored vehicle anymore. If a skill book appeared out of thin air and turned into light specks that fused into his body, even the dumbest person could see that something was wrong. His current strength was enough to face most of the dangers in front of him and there was no need to risk revealing his secret to the group..