“Emergency notice: An unknown virus has erupted globally. Infected individuals experience brain death within a few minutes and subsequently the central nervous system is controlled by the virus, turning them into walking dead. The underlying mechanism is currently unknown. Residents are advised to stay indoors, close doors and windows, and await rescue.”
At the entrance of the supermarket where there was no signal, a sudden news broadcast started playing on the television. The news showed the disaster situation in various countries around the world. After watching the news, Sally realized that SJ City was not the only place where the virus had erupted. Almost simultaneously, the catastrophe had struck worldwide, plunging all countries into paralysis due to the endless zombies.
At this moment, Sally finally realized the severity of the situation. “Stop watching and get to work,” David said to Sally. Sally hesitated and walked over to a corpse of a zombie. When she cut open the zombie’s forehead with a knife, she saw a translucent crystal shimmering beneath the skin.
She reached out her hand, intending to remove the crystal. As soon as her fingers touched the zombie’s skin, a sticky sensation spread between her fingertips. There seemed to be no blood under the crystal-filled skin, only a layer of fatty tissue enveloping it. “Ugh!”
Sally couldn’t help but vomit again while kneeling on the ground. However, this time her stomach was empty, and she could only dry heave. After vomiting, Sally turned to look at David beside her, her eyes filled with a plea. David stood there, expressionless, without any intention of helping.
Somehow, Sally felt a wave of resentment surging up, and two clear tears slid down her cheeks. She had always been the privileged daughter of her family, never having done any kind of work like this. David spoke, “If you can’t do it, forget it, don’t force yourself.” After saying that, David ignored her, turned around, and headed back into the supermarket.
Sally watched David’s departing figure, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably. Crying, she picked up the alloy war knife and continued to scalp the zombies. Sally was not an ordinary person; she could manage a company and had some abilities herself. She was an intelligent person and understood the meaning behind David’s words. ｂ𝚍ｎｏｖ𝚕．ｃｏｍ
She had just realized that with David’s abilities, he could have saved most of the people if he had acted earlier. But David didn’t rush to take action, indicating that he didn’t care about the life or death of these people. Moreover, David had been stockpiling supplies in the supermarket recently; he must know something.
If Sally hadn’t gone back to remind David, she would probably have already become one of those zombies. If she wanted to continue staying by David’s side, she had to prove her worth. The outside was now filled with zombies, and she had no chance of surviving on her own. Moreover, her parents were far away in another country and couldn’t provide any help. David was the only person she could rely on now.
As for David, he began to sweep through all the goods in the supermarket. Anything on the shelves, David stored it all in his storage space. Even miscellaneous items like rice cookers, vacuum cleaners, dishcloths, and the like, he threw them all into the storage space.
With nearly unlimited capacity in the space, even with a hundred thousand times the boost, the supplies in this supermarket couldn’t fill the entire storage space. Soon, the items on the supermarket shelves were completely cleared by David.
Then David went to the fresh produce section of the supermarket and packed all the vegetables, chicken, duck, fish, and other items into the storage space,David’s efficiency was high.
[Congratulations, you have obtained one cabbage, with a critical hit multiplier of 100,000!]
[Congratulations, you have obtained 100,000 cabbages!]
[Congratulations, you have obtained one pound of pork, with a critical hit multiplier of 100,000!]
[Congratulations, you have obtained 100,000 pounds of pork!]…
The system’s notifications kept coming, and the critical hit multiplier of 100,000 caused the supplies in David’s storage space to rapidly skyrocket.
Soon, David had swept away all the useful supplies in the supermarket. It took him less than half an hour to accomplish everything. After storing the supplies in his space, David returned to the entrance of the supermarket.
Sally was still busy collecting mutant crystals. Her eyes were red and swollen, indicating that she had just cried a lot. “How is the collection going?” “Just a few left,” Sally’s voice sounded somewhat teary and aggrieved.
David walked over to a nearby counter, sat down, and took out a pack of biscuits and a bottle of water to replenish his stamina. After the intense battle and gathering of supplies earlier, he had consumed a lot of energy.
A few minutes later, Sally approached David and returned the alloy combat knife to him. Then she carefully placed dozens of mutant crystals on the counter from her pocket. “They are all here.”
David counted them, and there were a total of 35. These primary-level mutant crystals were not particularly rare in the post-apocalyptic world.
After all, ordinary zombies could be killed even by slightly stronger ordinary people. However, not every zombie could produce crystals inside their bodies. Interestingly, zombies that could produce crystals inside their bodies usually had the chance to evolve into higher-level zombies.
On the other hand, zombies that did not produce crystals inside their bodies were likely to remain ordinary zombies in the later stages. “Well done,” David nodded and collected all 35 mutant crystals into his storage space.
[Congratulations, you have obtained 35 mutant crystals, with a critical hit multiplier of 100,000!]
[Congratulations, you have obtained 3.5 million mutant crystals!]
David was astonished. Mutant crystals could also have critical hits? He had originally thought that such important resources would be restricted by the system, but he didn’t expect that even mutant crystals could have a critical hit multiplier of 100,000. In other words, he now had 3.5 million mutant crystals!
David swallowed his saliva. Even the most powerful esper in his past life, in the city of SJ, never had such a large number of mutant crystals. “It’s a pity that these are the lowest-level crystals with limited effects. How great it would be to have higher-level crystals.”
Nevertheless, the harvest of so many crystals at once made David feel quite satisfied. He walked over to Sally and took out a large bottle of water and a bar of soap from his space. “Wash your hands.”
Sally took the soap and water, her facial expression already somewhat numb. David knew that experiencing so many things in just one day was indeed not easy for a girl. However, with time, she would gradually get used to it.
He asked Sally, “Are you hungry?” Sally shook her head, but quickly nodded. Although she had no appetite at the moment, her stomach was indeed empty.
David retrieved some food and drinks from his storage space and handed them to her. He checked his watch. “Rest for half an hour, and then we’ll set off.” Sally responded with a soft “okay” and obediently nodded. She didn’t ask where they were going; right now, she just wanted to stay by David’s side.