I Build a Floating City in the Apocalypse – Chapter 2

Chapter 2

“Roar!”

A withered and ferocious zombie squeezed the door open and rushed in. However, the door was blocked by the cabinet after opening only twenty centimeters, trapping the zombie in the gap between the door and the cabinet.

“Ha!”

Fang Bai growled, thrusting his wooden spear with all his might. The spear pierced through the zombie’s eye socket and into its brain, instantly silencing it.

At the same time, a white light rose from the zombie’s body and merged into Fang Bai.

Fang Bai looked at the empty bar that had just appeared on his attribute panel, and a thought popped into his mind.

“Experience points.”

“If I kill another zombie, I should be able to level up to level one.”

Thinking of this, Fang Bai glanced at the zombie in front of him. The zombie’s body was emaciated, as if all its muscles and fat had been burned away. Its skin clung tightly to its bones, withered and ferocious, like a hungry ghost.

The zombie was wearing shorts and a short-sleeved shirt. Judging by its clothing, it should have been an elderly person who lived across from him.

Fang Bai shook his head, used the wooden spear to poke the zombie’s corpse, and checked it carefully. There was nothing.

It seemed that the zombie hadn’t dropped anything, which disappointed Fang Bai. However, he didn’t want to open its skull for inspection at the moment, so he could only push the zombie’s body out the door.

“Zombies should be the lowest-level monsters, right?”

Fang Bai closed the door, put the slightly pushed cabinet back in place, sat down, and pondered.

“Normal people have no problem killing zombies. These zombies are much weaker than normal people.

But you have to pay attention to the infection issue. There can’t be any mistakes when killing zombies, not even a single one.”

Fang Bai recalled the process of killing the zombie just now.

“When going out, there are no doors or cabinets to trap them. To kill zombies, you must destroy their heads, but their heads are all covered by bones.

Melee combat has too low a fault tolerance rate. I still need to get a recurve bow if I have the chance.”

Fang Bai rubbed the muscles on his arms while thinking. Because he had practiced archery for a while before, he immediately thought of a recurve bow.

Thinking of this, Fang Bai walked to the window and looked out. There was an archery club across the road outside the residential area, which was also where Fang Bai used to practice archery.

Usually, Fang Bai would walk there, but now…

Fang Bai looked at the zombies wandering on the road.

“One, two… thirty-seven. Seventeen movable zombies, eight with only heads and skeletons left.

Those eight are basically just experience packs, but I have to find a way to deal with those seventeen zombies.

And there are at least a dozen or twenty people downstairs and inside the club. Even if only half of them turned into zombies, that would still be ten.”

Fang Bai fell into deep thought.

Although the textbooks and military coat on his body were equivalent to a set of paper armor and a set of cotton armor, offering good defense, and he had no problem fighting a zombie in close combat, Fang Bai understood that if he faced more than two zombies at the same time, he would definitely die, or rather, he would definitely be infected.

“If only I had tools like ice axes or climbing picks. They are both light and can kill zombies with one blow.”

Heavy weapons like hammers and crowbars could indeed kill zombies instantly, but they were too heavy. He would be exhausted after swinging them a few times.

“Maybe I should just wait for rescue. If it’s just these zombies, it should be easy to deal with once the army stabilizes.”

This thought couldn’t help but appear in Fang Bai’s mind.

However, when Fang Bai saw the attribute panel and the experience bar that was more than half full, he hesitated. He was tempted.

“Should I try farming some more?

Based on my own safety, following the principle of emergency avoidance, killing monsters to level up, while abiding by the law and waiting for rescue?”

When this thought emerged in Fang Bai’s mind, he had actually made a decision.

Moreover, Fang Bai realized that the attribute panel that had suddenly appeared could indeed increase attribute values by leveling up. Then even if society returned to stability in the future, it would definitely have a huge impact. Therefore, Fang Bai decided to take some risks, but taking risks was not courting death. Thorough preparation was the foundation of everything.

“The first step is survival, which means food and water.”

Fang Bai immediately started to check the supplies in the kitchen, while filling the pots, bowls, buckets, and bathtub with water.

“Vegetables, meat, preserved sausages, preserved meat, rice. If I save it, it will be enough for a month.

As for drinking water, two boxes of mineral water, plus the tap water I filled, can also last for a long time. These are enough for me to survive.

But considering the possibility that there might be no rescue, I can collect some and store them at home. It won’t hurt to have them.”

“The second step is to kill monsters and gain experience. At the very least, I need to kill another zombie to level up and see if there are any attribute values and what they are used for.

But killing monsters must be based on my own safety. My life is important.”

Fang Bai looked at the paper armor and military coat on his body. Apart from being very, very hot, he was quite satisfied with the defense.

After thinking for a while, Fang Bai went to the kitchen again and picked up a metal pot lid. Although the lid was thin, it felt handy. Wrapping a few books on it with tape would make a light and sturdy small round shield, which could completely block zombie attacks.

After preparing all this, the only problem was the weapon.

Fang Bai’s eyes scanned the room, looking at the bed, chairs, table, black notebook, computer…

“Huh?”

Fang Bai suddenly felt something was wrong. He moved his gaze back and refocused on the black notebook. The attribute panel that had flashed by just now reappeared.

“Name: Mage Apprentice’s Manuscript”

“Description: Records the inheritance of a mage. Use it to change your profession to Mage.”

“Requirements: Level 10, 15 Mental Power.”

“Job change item?!”

Fang Bai was shocked.

“A job change item for becoming a mage? Does writing ‘Mage Apprentice’ on the cover make it a mage job change book?

Hmm, I remember I bought some martial arts manuals a few years ago, and they were published by the People’s Publishing House!”

Fang Bai thought about it and quickly dug out a few martial arts manuals. Unfortunately, no matter how he looked at them, it was useless. No attribute panel appeared on them.

This made Fang Bai look at the black notebook again and recall what had just happened.

“I would get dizzy after reading the contents of the notebook for a long time. So, the mage inheritance is not given by the game system, but it originally existed?

The game system just turned it into an attribute panel?

Then why doesn’t the attribute panel show this name? Manuscript?

Whose manuscript?”

Fang Bai shook his head, put this question aside, and couldn’t help but pick up the black notebook again, staring at the attribute panel on it again. He couldn’t help but feel excited.

“Level 10, fifteen Mental Power. I don’t know how many free attribute points I get for leveling up, but it should be enough to meet the job change requirements when I reach level 10, right?”

Fang Bai immediately decided to become a mage, which gave him another reason to go out and hunt zombies.

At the age of twenty-three, Fang Bai simply couldn’t resist the temptation of leveling up and changing his profession to a mage in reality.

Moreover, Fang Bai believed that even if society returned to stability, leveling up and becoming a mage would definitely bring him unimaginable huge rewards!

Fang Bai couldn’t help but look at the black notebook again.

《Mage Apprentice’s Manuscript》!

Let’s do it!

No extraordinary powers, no ancient martial arts, no hidden families existed before the apocalypse. It’s safe to consume.