My Soul card is a Reaper
Chapter 599: Zombie virus (part-1)

A few days later;

In the city of Shengzen, currently swarmed by the zombies, four injured teenagers with baseball bats in their hands and a bunch of Molotov cocktails in their backpacks were taking a rest in a dark alley and administering their wounds.

There are several reasons as to why they didn't choose to rest in the house.

First of all, this was merely a short break.

Secondly, staying at a house was risky as it would restrict one's movements if a horde of zombies suddenly swarmed inside. They want to keep their escape paths more open.

Thirdly, because most of the residences are made of wood, throwing a Molotov cocktail to save themselves will only hurt them in the end.

Last but not least, they cannot just barge inside a house without knowing whether there are zombies lurking in it or not.

Hence, they decided to hide in dark alleys as they hoped to exit the city through the ships.

Zombies cannot operate the vehicles and certainly cannot chase them in the waters when the river's depth is very high.

So, as long as they could board a ship and sail along the "Han" River, they would be fine. Luckily for them, GPS signals and the network still working normally. Hence, their path is very clear.

"Ssss" The only girl in the group, Shi Yejin, the daughter of the City Mayor, let out a hiss of pain, but her mouth was quickly closed by a tough-looking fellow with scars on his right arm, "Xiao Yejin, bear the pain. Those zombies will hear you." He kept his voice as low as possible and then nodded to his twin's ex-boyfriend, who was tending to her wounds.

"It is indeed strange though," The nerdy-looking teenager Zhao Yu commented in response before adding an explanation, "For a while, we stopped hearing the sounds of any footsteps of these zombies. It's as if they were gone."

"Maybe, they were sleeping," replied Shi Zhen.

"Have you seen any zombies sleeping during the past few days?" Zhao Yu argued, strongly believing that there might not be zombies in the vicinity.

Meanwhile, the handsome boy didn't try to be gentle and just focused on speeding up on clearing the wounds on her leg with hydrogen peroxide and then applying antiseptic ointment, which was still a common practice in this current world.

Once the wound dressing process was finished, the boy asked others to take care of their light wounds and bruises and rested his back on the wall, closing his eyes and taking a small nap. Tiredness was clearly displayed on his face. He also started sweating like crazy.

The girl emotionally stared at her ex, who was suffering from a high fever yet still tended to her wounds earlier.

A look of guilt appeared on her face as she remembered their breakup incident initiated by her. She stretched her hand toward him.

Just as she was about to touch his face, a voice was heard from above, "found you."

All of them couldn't help but raise their heads toward the source of the voice. They saw a teenager in a black hoodie sweatshirt and trousers, standing on the top of the roof of a two-story building.

The boy suddenly jumped from there and landed on the ground like a superhero, frightening them in the process.

As Shi Zhen instinctively stood up on his feet and grabbed the baseball bat, the stranger let out a smile, "Relax, I'm not an enemy. You are safe now. Follow me to the shelter."

After a while;

The four teenagers alongside Azzy were seen openly walking in the streets of the city, but without any sightings of active zombies or so whatever.

Thousands of corpses were lying down everywhere, making the girl vomit a few times on the way as Azzy kept on urging them to pick up their pace.

All the way, the teenagers were afraid that a corpse would suddenly get up and attack them, but as time passed, their thoughts changed too.

They could have gone in a vehicle, but due to hundreds of thousands of corpses lying on the streets, one would really need good driving skills to evade them. And Azzy was against running through the dead bodies, not intending to be disrespectful.

As a result, they had to walk for an hour with the girl getting a piggyback ride from Azzy due to her slow pace.

Feeling extremely safe behind Azzy's back for some reason, the tired girl fell asleep with her face resting on his shoulder. Azzy didn't mind it and just continued to walk at a fast pace.

Eren was grateful that there was someone who was helping out, but he didn't like the fact that some guy was giving a piggyback ride to his ex. He couldn't help but stare at them in jealousy.

Now that the danger to their life seemed to be gone, his thoughts about survival changed to a normal thing like romance.

Finally the long walk in silence, without a single piece of conversation or so whatever, has come to an end as they reached the Regional Police Headquarters.

There, at the entrance, they saw a man in a police uniform standing at the entrance of the building with a Gatling gun mounted.

He left his grip on the trigger upon seeing Azzy, and he charged forward in a hurry.

Stopping before Azzy, he gave a salute, "Sir."

Azzy gave a nod in response and then said, "Officer Ren, these four are the last survivors in the city."

"Last of them?" The police officer was taken aback by surprise, "Are you sure? I mean it is a big city and…"

"I'm sure." As Azzy nodded firmly, the police officer's face crestfallen, "That means only 34 of them made it alive, huh."

Azzy patted his shoulder, "we are going to leave at dawn. I have already sent the message to General Hamid. So, tell the rest to prepare themselves."

"Yes, Sir," Ren Jiayi saluted once again, asking the teenagers to follow them.

***

Roughly five weeks ago, at City Arland, a team from World Federation's Special Forces infiltrated Star labs to steal a virus codenamed ZE-45.

However, in an attempt to escape the place undetected, one of the samples fell on the floor and the glass tube was broken, thereby releasing the gas into the chamber.

As a result, all of them were accidentally infected by the virus.

At first, there were no symptoms or so whatever. But then, as they boarded the chopper and were on their way to return to HQ, the soldiers started becoming crazy, and they were thrown off from the vehicle one after another.

In the end, the rest of the virus samples reached the HQ without any damage, but when another team was deployed to retrieve the bodies, they were found missing.

Within the next couple of weeks, crazy things started happening all over Arland City.

People started fighting each other and some even turned into cannibals. However, the strangest is the fact that no one ends up dead when they are killed and instead start acting like a zombie, causing chaos everywhere during the day.

Due to the inability to take swift action by the city council, the disease started spreading all over the world.

It spread so rapidly that the entire world was caught up in it. The rest is history.

A few days ago, Azzy coincidentally landed in the middle of Arland City as he teleported to this world.

Showing out-of-the-world reflexes and incredible strength, he managed to put down thousands of zombies on his very first day and earned the rank of a captain directly.

During the next few days, he helped Arland City from the horde of zombies coming every day from surrounding towns due to the influx of human population gathered there.

Not only did he protect the zombies coming from outside, but during his free time, he also put down selfish individuals who were running gangs inside the city and stealing the food or the resources given to the poor.

In mere five days, he was already given the title, Hero of Arland City by the Mayor.

The General, who was deployed to protect the city that was sheltering more than a hundred thousand survivors, deployed him to Shengzen City to make it another shelter, but by the time Azzy arrived there, the entire region was already taken over by the zombies.

As a result, he opted to gather the survivors and bring them back to Arland City.