Chương 107: An Organization Has Come to Save Us!

An item prompt! Vince's eyes widened. With a mere thought, the heavy spear in his arms vanished instantly...

"Ah!" The Inventory! With another thought, he opened the Inventory, and sure enough, among the various items, his spear was prominently listed! It could be stored in the spatial Inventory! To Vince, this was simply a greater leap forward than attaching a Crystal ability! Finally, he didn't have to carry a heavy, several-dozen-pound iron rod around everywhere!

"Hehe..." With a mental command, the heavy spear appeared in Vince's hand. With another thought, it vanished in an instant... A heavy spear that could suddenly appear in his hand and suddenly disappear. Vince pressed his hand close to the floor slab, and with a thought... Unfortunately, the heavy spear appeared horizontally in his hand; it didn't directly embed itself into the concrete floor as Vince had envisioned. Thinking he had discovered a bug in the system, Vince curled his lips, his brief excitement dashed.

Since it couldn't intrude into other physical objects, the lethality of this spatial ability was significantly reduced... However, even so, it was still a spear that, in a certain sense, could not be defended against. Its specific applications would have to be explored in actual combat. Vince gripped the heavy spear and forcefully slashed it against the concrete of the roof ledge. Without the slightest resistance, it plowed a deep groove straight into the concrete slab! Crushed stone flew everywhere!

"Now this is a divine weapon..." Feeling the heavy tremors transmit from his palms to his body as the spear tip sliced through every grain of sand and stone, Vince's eyes brimmed with uncontrollable joy. This was exactly the weapon he wanted... But when it came to choosing a Crystal, he was in a bit of a dilemma... Overall, both of his attack-effect Crystals—the Impact Crystal and the Sharpness Crystal—could be attached to this heavy spear. But as for which one to use, it would be best to test them out first.

Just as he was pondering, he suddenly heard faint shouts near his ears. The sound was very far away, intermittent, and hard to hear clearly. Vince frowned and looked toward the source, only then spotting a person on a fifth-floor balcony of a distant building, desperately waving at him! As Vince's gaze focused on the person, his Health Bar faintly emerged. A purplish-red border, a yellow Health Bar, and a blue Energy Bar! An Awakened! Vince's eyes widened, momentarily speechless with shock!

A wild Awakened actually existed! Seeing that Vince had finally noticed him, the person waved his arms even harder, leaning his body out the window and shouting loudly in Vince's direction:"... Hey man!... Don't jump!... An organization has come to save us! Just downstairs to the north!"

"... Huh?" Vince had excellent hearing; he heard every single word the guy said, but put together, he had no idea what it meant... But with him shouting like that, silhouettes gradually appeared on the balconies of that building and a few others. They all stuck their heads out the windows, looking left and right, seemingly searching for the source of the voice... This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it.

But those people all had incredibly weak yellow Health Bars in the 30s and 40s. Only that one man! A purplish-red bordered [350/350]! Just as Vince slowly raised his hand to wave back, the man suddenly turned his head, ran back inside, and disappeared...

"How baffling..." Bruno stood on the balcony, leaning out the window. Seeing that the person holding a stick and preparing to commit suicide had finally noticed him, he couldn't help but be overjoyed that he had saved yet another life. Seeing that the person was no longer preparing to jump off the building, he hurriedly returned to the room, opened the door, and ran downstairs... He had to hurry and meet up with those people to figure out the situation!...

9 days ago, he was just an ordinary renovation worker, tiling a household all by himself. That day, while he was working, he suddenly fainted. By the time he woke up, the outside world was already completely different from before... Hunger drove him to smash open a household's iron door. Looking at the zombie that lunged out from the room—one identical to those in the movies—it felt as if a furnace ignited within his body. Using his work hammer, he smashed the zombie's head in. He had been injured.

Thinking he was a dead man, he ate and drank his fill, waiting for death to arrive. But it was as if fate had played a joke on him. After one night, his wounds had almost entirely healed. Not only that, but after replenishing enough energy, he felt his body surging with power. Previously, he could only carry two boxes of tiles at a time; now, he could carry six in one breath! A full three hundred pounds!

Relying on this strength, and armed with his renovation tools—a hammer and a crowbar—Bruno spent a few days prying open every apartment in the entire building, killing all the zombies, and collecting a considerable amount of supplies. He also found a clean apartment and settled down... During this time, he even encountered a massive, super-strength zombie! In the midst of the battle, he felt himself go mad.

By the time he regained his senses, the zombie was dead on the floor, and he was in agonizing pain, with one arm and both legs completely broken, at death's door. He thought he was finally going to die, but unexpectedly, in a daze, he instinctively swallowed a Crystal he found on the floor... When he woke up the next day, not only had his limbs regained sensation, but he also felt his strength had grown even greater.

Using this strength, he climbed through the windows to the adjacent building unit to gather supplies. During this time, he encountered four different, powerful monsters, but he desperately killed them all and swallowed their Crystals into his stomach. And these Crystals made him even more powerful! But even so, he didn't dare step out of the stairwell. Looking down from the windows, the wandering zombies kept him at bay.

He knew that with his current strength, he could put up a fight against three, five, or even eight zombies... But as far as the eye could see, there were dozens of them, not to mention the hundreds gathered beneath that building that had emitted strange noises earlier. Surrounded by these zombies, even with his great strength, he would inevitably die. Fortunately, he had enough supplies, even a surplus to share with a few survivors in the same building so they wouldn't die of thirst or starvation.

The explosion to the south yesterday had completely cut off the gas supply. This made him confused, unsure whether he should step out of the building and fight his way out, unsure how long this status quo could last... But just this morning, as Bruno was routinely planning his escape route from his apartment to the complex gate, a strange noise came from the window. He moved closer and saw a scene he would never forget for the rest of his life...

A massive, dark-green iron dumpster was "patrolling" the streets of the complex! Four people standing inside it were using steel pipes to cleanly and efficiently spear to death the approaching zombies one by one.

"What... what kind of tactic is this..." Bruno was stunned. Based on his experience hunting zombies solo, the defense of this "human-powered tank" was practically impregnable against normal zombies. However, its speed was too slow, and its attack methods too monotonous. If surrounded by dozens of zombies, or if they encountered a mutated monster, it would probably turn into an inescapable iron coffin.

"Watch out for zombies!" Standing up high, he saw six zombies suddenly lunge out from the nearby landscaping shrubs, charging straight toward that dumpster! Seeing that those people didn't seem to have noticed yet, Bruno hurriedly shouted a warning! And the people in the "tank," drawn by his voice, all looked up toward his building...

"Ah crap!" His good intentions had caused trouble! Six zombies... No problem! They should be able to hold out for a bit!

"Hold on!" Making a decision, Bruno shouted, grabbed the crowbar beside him, and turned to run downstairs to the rescue. But unexpectedly, he saw a second scene he would never forget... A girl inside the "tank" waved her hands, and two short steel pipes hanging on the outside of the dumpster soared into the air, like two silver-gleaming flying swords! One flew low to the ground, tripping three zombies, while the other skewered the heads of two zombies together.

But even so, a third zombie had already lunged right in front of her. Even if the two short spears turned around and flew back, it would be too late! Then, he saw another woman inside the bucket lean out. Thrusting the spear in her hand at a tricky angle, she bypassed the girl and accurately pierced into the zombie's eye socket. The movement was clean and decisive, without a single wasted motion...

"... A super-powered individual, just like me?"