Level up Zombie

The usual three had almost forgotten that they were now travelling with humans because Pink and the others were just going to walk through the streets filled with zombies. Luckily, Brandon was the one leading the way and instead chose a route of alleyways, streets and more to get to the hospital while avoiding zombies and also picked the quickest path possible.

Every time Pink’s mother coughed, the former could feel how violent it was for her. She could feel the vibrations on her back, and sometimes her mother would even spit blood on her hand while coughing.

“Hey, I don’t want to be a downer or anything,” Dave said, pushing his glasses up on his nose. The group were currently down an alleyway looking at the street, trying to see how clear it was for them. “But, if your mom is already in this state, I don’t think we will be able to save the others by the time we get back because it looks really serious.”

Pink turned to Dave and almost reached out to break his glasses in half, but as she moved her hand, Zain was the one who had grabbed her arm to stop her. Although he could easily stop her with his strength, she had stopped herself upon realising what was about to happen.

“He is right, we are moving too slowly, we can go directly to the hospital via the streets, and I know something that will work,” Zain said as he looked back in the alleyway at some dead bodies.

He told the others to cover themselves in dead body parts to disguise their scent. This made sense to them, and it seemed like Brandon had already somewhat known this as well, but there was another reason why Zain had suggested this.

It gave him and his friends a sneaky chance to consume some meat on the side to regain their energy while covering their bodies. After the large fight, they needed to replenish their energy, but they were constantly around people and couldn’t afford to take the risk of consuming meat.

Since the act was quite disgusting in itself anyway, everyone somewhat did it while looking away from each other, making it easy for them to consume some flesh. As for Pink’s mother on the former’s back, she couldn’t see anything anyway.

After secretly eating food and getting their bodies covered with guts and blood, they resumed walking down the street. Dave found this task the hardest as he nearly threw up doing such a thing, and the smell constantly made him gag.

“Keep in mind that this won’t completely disguise your smell. It will just make it harder.” Zain started telling them not to get too close to the zombies. Since at a close distance, zombies could still react.

Besides, there always seemed to never be too many zombies at once on the streets. Only when an extremely loud noise or event went off would the zombies gather in a single area and form a horde.

While the group were walking down, Zain decided to look at the reward he had received from the system once again.

[Gold Card reward received]

[You have received a new skill. ‘Through the eyes of others’]

[This skill can be used on any other members of the Horde]

[It allows the users to transfer their state of mind to another Horde member giving him full control over the member’s body.]

[Commands must be given to the original body before one is to use the skill.]

The Gold card was impressive, and as Zain had guessed, it was another skill. Although he had only received one other Gold card before, he was hoping for it to be another skill because they were precious and helped him greatly in many ways to sustain himself in his zombie lifestyle and once again, it had done the same thing.

‘I can think of so many uses for this skill already. For example, rather than giving orders, if I want, I can just take control of Cobra and use his speed in a fight, Or if Skittle was amped up with super strength, I could change to him as well.

‘The problem is, what exactly does my real body do in that situation and how safe is it to do such a thing?’

Honestly, Zain wanted to test it right away rather than in a situation when he needed it. If he was caught or trapped, he could always transfer himself to the others and fight in their body.

Seeing how this was a gold reward, Zain started to think just what the platinum and diamond rewards were like, and maybe after the current objectives were achieved, he could focus on finding one of the meteorites since he had improved a lot since the last time.

“Kun, do you mind keeping an eye on me for a bit? I feel a bit light-headed, and I think my body might zone out for a second or so.” Zain said as the two of them continued walking at the end of the group.

Kun thought it was a strange request, but then again, he had seen Zain act strange before, so he decided to go along with it. If the latter’s body suddenly went limp, he would just carry him.

[Skill ‘Through the eyes of others’ has been used]

A system message similar to that he would use to control the Horde members had come up, and for now, he had just set himself to protect Kun. It didn’t seem like anything dangerous was happening, and he would only test this for a few seconds.

His vision went blank for a few seconds, and shortly after, he could now see that he was in an apartment room. Not just him, but Jam, War, Corba and of course Skittle, who Zain currently body he was in.

‘I can move everything just fine…I really am in Skittle’s body?’ Zain thought.

Bringing up the system, it also showed him as Skittle, and he could see his current stats. The ability was beyond what he had imagined. While testing out Skittle’s body, throwing a few punches here and there to check movement, he heard a few people talking, and it sounded like it was coming from directly underneath.

“There’s nothing in this room. Let’s go and check the next one.” The voice said.

‘There are people…near my horde members.’ Zain frowned.

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