The World Cataclysm - Chapter 55: Commotion

While he was meditating, Evelyn checked on Arthur, and then, shared with everyone that they had killed all zombies in the supermarket, causing a wave of cheer among other survivors. Some of them had even cried and bowled when they knew about it.

“Finally, we can get out of here!”

“Thank god, I thought we all would die here!”

“Ahh…I’m already sick of living in the underground basement.”

Suddenly, loud exclamations spread like a wave through other students. They were cheering and, some of them, crying as they were growing happier with every second. Stuck in the underground basement, they were already feeling stuffed here.

They couldn’t eat as normally as before and had even starved a day before…they couldn’t sleep as soundly as before since they lied on the cold stone floor, and most importantly…they couldn’t sh*t normally! It was very embarrassing to do it down in the underground basement that they were already dying from embarrassment…moreover, it was uncomfortable as hell!

Sometimes, it was difficult to even look at the eyes of other survivors after the deed!

Thankfully, they found a box with toilet paper, and the underground basement was big enough, so they chose one place to do their things, though it was already becoming unbearable for them.

*Clap* Clapping her hands, Evelyn attracted the attention of others. “Cool down a bit. I know you’re excited to leave the underground basement since I feel the same, however, we still need to do something before everything.”

Suddenly, all the people, who were whispering and cheering, got a tad lower. They turned their attention towards Evelyn and listened to her intentively since she was the one to deliver good news to them.

Noticing that she was able to get the attention of others, Evelyn made a slight pause and continued. Even though she was against being a leader just a moment ago when she talked with Dave, she wasn’t a child and got her responsibilities straight.

“Hmm…First of all, we need to clean the supermarket of all the blood…and corpses.” Evelyn made a slight pause at that moment and other students immediately became silent. “Currently, the supermarket is reeking of blood and there are countless corpses up there, so I’m asking for cooperation in cleaning the supermarket.”

Pausing, she waited for a moment, and said, “Then, we need to count and sort everything inside the supermarket, including food and other items. I’ll personally write down everything we have in the building. We’ll go upstairs after some rest.”

Finishing everything she wanted to say, Evelyn trudged steadily towards Mary and Arthur. Even though she also felt tired, she tried not to show it to others. Although having been forced somewhat by the situation, she tried to fit into her role acting as a temporary leader.

However, currently, she needed a great amount of rest! It was her first fight with an evolved zombies, plus, she had also killed a lot of ordinary zombies on the upper floors, so it was only normal to feel tired afterwards.

After Evelyn had joined her friends, Rebecca and Rachel were trying to calm other survivors which were excited too much. Both of them acted nice in front of them, answering all of their questions, since they felt sympathy and pity towards them. They had also been stuck in one place, though a dormitory room couldn’t be compared to the underground basement at all.

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Breathing the air in and out of his lungs, Dave was close to finishing one meditative session, which usually took approximately two hours for him. As he absorbed the last cluster of mana, he thought, ‘It has already been two hours since I entered into a meditative state. Interesting what do others up to?’

Having completely restored his mana reserves and spirit, Dave activated his Mana Sensing to peek at what others were doing. He noticed that there was no one in the underground basement, so he made a logical assumption that they were already upstairs, busy with something.

Spreading his sensed along the stairs, Dave detected several creatures of humanoid shape doing something. Obviously, he had detected other survivors, who were cleaning the supermarket from blood and dead bodies.

However, he had detected only half of all survivors that he had counted before. ‘Strange…where are others?’

So, he decided to go upstairs and check on them. However, before it, he wanted to try his new battle suit.

‘Status’

[David Murckly

Level: 7

Survival coins: 254

Class: None

Mana: 26

Strength: 18 (+1)

Agility: 16 (+1)

Stamina: 11

Intelligence: 11

Spirit: 5 (+1)

Free points: 0

Innate ability: Regression

Skills: Elementary Cooking (LVL 2), Gaming (LVL 8), Mathematics (LVL 7), Leadership (LVL 1), Meditation (LVL 3), Flash Step (LVL 1), Mana Application (LVL 3), Mana Threads (LVL 3), Mana Barrier (LVL 2), Mana Enhancement (LVL 2), Reinforced Breathing (LVL 2), Swordsmanship (LVL 5), Battle Focus (LVL 4), Mana Sensing (LVL 1)]

‘Nice!’ Even though Dave already knew that his strength and agility will go up by one point, he still felt satisfaction when he personally witnessed it. There was something satisfactory in the game-like setting of their system.

‘But it’s slightly tight around the groin!’ Dave thought as he tried to stretch the material of his battle suit. Of course, he had worn battlesuits before in his past life, but it was easy to get accustomed to the feeling of loose clothes he had been wearing till now.

Ignoring the uncomfortable feeling and wearing casual clothes on top of his battlesuit, he went upstairs. It tightly stuck to his skin and was very thin on top of being sturdy, so it didn’t cause any difficulties to wear his old clothes on top of it.

Moreover, he also could not worry about feeling too hot in it, on the contrary, it was slightly cooler than without it. He didn’t know why it was, but he was sure that it was due to magic circles engraved on its insides. Perhaps, there was one with functions of air ventilation, he wasn’t much knowledgable about it.

Opening the doors to the first floor, Dave expected to see several corpses of zombies that were killed in the span of a week, but he couldn’t find them…only bloodstains on the floor and walls. He assumed that they didn’t have enough time to finish wiping them off.

There were still some of the students who were dragging dead bodies somewhere, but Dave didn’t know to where. Noticing Dave opening the iron doors, students panicked slightly as they glanced at him alarmedly.

The image of Dave knocking off Kyle in one hit and dragging him somewhere was still fresh in their minds. On top of that, they seemingly had found the corpse of Kyle who had turned into a zombie. His dead body was eaten by other zombies that even his parents would have found it difficult to recognize him. He was missing a nose on his face with slightly torn cheeks, and his stomach was open as his intestines could be seen it. It caused pure terror in the minds of onlookers, and most of the survivors were now apprehensive of him.

Ignoring strange glances from others, Dave hummed a melody as he headed towards the storage room. He thought it was the only place where most of the students would have gathered…at least, he would have gone there if he was in their places.

However, as he was nearing the storage room, he heard that someone was arguing in it. Attentively listening to it, he recognized Evelyn’s voice who was seemingly arguing with someone.

“Didn’t we agree to eat after counting and sorting everything?” She was shouting. “THEN, WHAT’S THAT?”

“I swear I didn’t take it. It should have been dropped from somewhere.” Dave heard a panicked male voice.

“Do you think I’m stupid or what?” Evelyn glared angrily at him as Dave finally reached the site of commotion.

“No…Of course, no.” Panicking even more, the male student seemed to shrink somehow. It was likely a sophomore student, judging by his looks, and had a normal physical constitution, though slightly taller than Evelyn.

“Ehh…just don’t do any of this again. It’s the food for everyone, so you’re stealing not only from me but also taking someone else’s food.” Evelyn sighed in exasperation as she was trying to slide it off and warn everyone.

“En…” Nodding his head, the male student sighed in relief as he was ready to move from her sight. Onlooking Dave thought as he grinned, ‘It seems that Evelyn making her way forward. But she is still too naive.’

“Not so fast!” Dave suddenly strode forward towards the backing male student and angry-looking Evelyn.