Tang Shaoyang was sleeping like a dead log. The fight against Swiffer really exhausted him, he only woke up when the needle stopped at the number twelve.
He slowly opened his eyes lid and looked at the clock on the wall across the bed. Tang Shaoyang furrowed his brow deeper as a stinky smell assaulted his nose. The stinky smell was originated from his body.
The stinky and unpleasant smell filled the room.
"Urgh…" He let out a displeased groan as he woke up from the bed. Not only his body was smelly, but it also sticky which was making him uncomfortable.
"I need to wash up…" Tang Shaoyang left the room, back to the hall where he and Swiffer battled last night.
Surprisingly, the hall was not as stinky as the bedroom. No, in fact, there was no smell in the hall which was weird.
His body was splashed with green liquid and It permeated a penetrating smell to his nostrils. He thought the hall would be more noisome and smelly than the bedroom. He left Swiffer's dead body here.
Tang Shaoyang rushed to the place where he killed Swiffer and found out Swiffer's dead body was missing.
Instead, he found a big wooden chest replaced the Swiffer dead body. He was alerted and immediately checked the surroundings. He was looking for his butcher knife and steel pipe while checking if there was another person or not.
He checked the dimmed hall cautiously and he found the steel pipe and butcher knife was near the wooden chest.
While checking the surroundings, Tang Shaoyang came closer to the wooden chest. However, he stopped his steps 5 meters away from the wooden chest.
He was sure the wooden chest was not here last night. This wooden chest was the most suspicious one.
"Is there a creature inside the wooden chest?" Tang Shaoyang mumbled as he stared at the wooden chest with a look of doubt and full of suspicion.
If there was really a creature inside, it explained why the Swiffer body went missing. The creature inside the wooden chest regarded Swiffer as food and ate it.
"... Or maybe the wooden chest is a living creature? It swallowed Swiffer's body?" Tang Shaoyang's mind ran wild.
He was not surprised if the wooden chest was truly alive. After all, the zombie, robotic voice in his head, the status screen, and everything that happened until now seemed to be surreal. So he was not surprised if the wooden chest was a living creature.
Tang Shaoyang slowly got closer to the steel pipe and the butcher knife. He picked his weapon and ready for another fight.
He moved slowly to create a little noise as he assumed the creature inside the wooden box was still sleeping.
Step by step, Tang Shaoyang got closer to the big wooden chest. It was three meters long and a meter tall. In fact, it was more like a coffin if not for its upper part which was curved upward like a chest.
He arrived at the wooden chest, but there was no reaction from it. There was no sound from inside the wooden box. There was also no sign of the wooden chest was a living creature. It did not move in the slightest.
Swoosh!
With a fast motion, he stabbed the wooden chest with a butcher knife in his right hand. If there was a creature inside the wooden, Tang Shaoyang hoped it would die from the stab he delivered. If the wooden chest was a living creature, he hoped it would die with his stab.
Glack!
However, to Tang Shaoyang's shock, the butcher knife bounced back. He felt numb on his hand, the wooden chest was harder than the butcher knife, not even a scratch on the wooden chest.
Without hesitation, he abandoned the butcher knife and held the steel pipe with his two hands, and then he banged the wooden chest with the steel pipe.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The hall was filled with a noise of Tang Shaoyang banged the wooden chest. However, no matter how hard he hit the wooden chest, it won't break. Instead, the steel pipe was slightly bent.
The wooden chest was harder than the steel pipe. Tang Shaoyang immediately picked the butcher knife and retreated to a safer distance from the wooden chest. Wood that harder than steel, there was nothing more suspicious than this.
Tang Shaoyang distanced away from the wooden chest. He held the steel pipe in his left hand and a butcher knife in his right hand, tightly. He observed the wooden chest, waiting for its reaction.
He had been hitting the wooden chest for some time. If there was a creature resided inside the wooden chest or if the wooden chest was a creature itself, it should make some reactions.
He stared at the wooden chest tightly and had his guard up. Twenty seconds and he could not detect any reactions from the wooden chest. There was no sound or movement from it.
"Is it just a normal wooden chest? Should I open it?" Tang Shaoyang mumbled. Deep inside his heart, he wanted to open the chest, but he was worried if there was something dangerous inside the chest.
"What if it's a trap?" He shook his head and decided to wait. It was a battle of patience, Tang Shaoyang thought.
One minute… Nothing happened…
Ten minutes…. Still, nothing happened…
Another twenty minutes… Tang Shaoyang still had his eyes glued on the wooden chest.
He began losing his patience and truly thought he was overthinking. There was no creature or the wooden chest was not a creature.
Despite thinking so, he still did not open the wooden chest or even came close to it.
Tang Shaoyang walked to the entrance. He still did not put the weapon in his hands. In three steps, he looked back, "Got you!"
He was still thinking there was a creature inside the wooden chest and assumed the creature was very cautious. It won't make a move as long as he had his eyes on it. So Tang Shaoyang played this trick.
However, he found the wooden chest was still closed and in the same position. He turned around and walked to the entrance, five steps afterward, he turned around once again. The wooden was still motionless on the spot. It was not moving and still closed.
Tang Shaoyang did the same tricks for five times and arrived at the place where he put the backpack. There was no reaction or movement from the wooden chest.
He ignored the wooden chest and took a set of clothes. After that, he looked for a bathroom, it was so uncomfortable with his sticky and smelly body.
As he looked for a bathroom, he kept glancing back at the wooden chest. He did not lower his guard down. He opened the room one by one, looking for a bathroom while keeping a watch at the wooden chest.
However, after opening the fourth room, Tang Shaoyang stopped caring for the wooden chest. He got pissed off because he could not get the bathroom. There were too many rooms and the rooms he opened were a bedroom.
Until then, he found a well-decorated room in pink. The bed cover, the wallpaper, even the ceiling, and the carpet were in pink. Without a doubt, he entered a girl's room.
The room was neat and there were no sign people entered the room. Because the room was different from the other rooms, there must be a shower inside.
Sure enough, he found a big bathroom, even bigger than the place he lived before. There was a square bathtub in the middle and the shower on the right.
"Truly a bathroom for the rich…" except for sink, the square bathtub in 5x5 square meters, and the shower, the bathroom was pretty empty for a big bathroom.
Tang Shaoyang paid no attention to the detail, he headed to the shower and washed the stinky green liquid in his body. He washed his body four times in ten minutes to remove the stinky smell on his body.
After that, Tang Shaoyang enjoyed himself to soak his body inside the big bathtub. As he soaked his body inside the big bathtub, he checked his screen status. He remembered he gained many levels last night.
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Name: Tang Shaoyang
Age: 26
Affiliation: None
Level: 15
Talent: Divine Body
Attribute Point: 8
Strength: 56
Agility: 23
Vitality: 26
Stamina: 25
Magic Power: 16
Sense: 6
Skill: Basic Detection
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Tang Shaoyang held his chin. He was thinking about how to allocate his attribute point. Last night's fight gave him a new light of understanding regarded the zombies.
Not only him, the human who could become stronger, the zombie could also become stronger as well. Last night, it was an evolved zombie he fought against. It was much stronger than a normal zombie.
This meant the zombie outside there could also evolve into this Swiffer or maybe there were also many types of other zombies.
"Should I put my attribute point into agility as well? Agility is not a bad choice… I can match the Swiffer speed by investing my attribute to agility..."
However, an image he smashed the Swiffer head for twenty minutes and also the wooden chest he could not break just now displayed in his mind.
"I need more strength or I will be more miserable if encounter a zombie that has a harder head…"
"Nah, I will just go with Strength and Vitality, it's suited me well. A strong body and super strength are the most suitable for my way of fighting…"
Tang Shaoyang decided to stick with Vitality and Agility. Then, sense caught in his eyes. From level 1 until now Level 15, sense only increased by one.
He tried to add the attribute point he had to sense and a robotic voice resounded in his mind.
[ You can't allocate your attribute points into Sense. ]
"Why?" Tang Shaoyang surprised as he could not add the attribute point into Sense and blurted out in an instant.
However, the robotic voice in his mind ignored him. It did not explain anything afterward except for telling him that he could not allocate the attribute point into sense.
"This Sense might be a crucial attribute amongst the other attributes…" Tang Shaoyang concluded.
"I have to find out how to increase this Sense Attribute…"
After that, Tang Shaoyang allocated his attribute points to Strength and Vitality.
...
After spending his time in the bathroom for twenty minutes, Tang Shaoyang back to the hall with a fresh and fragrance body.
He immediately checked the wooden chest and found it was still in the same position, not moving even an inch. Here he concluded this just a normal wooden chest.
"It's time to open it…"
Tang Shaoyang was curious about the wooden chest and wondered what was inside it. He picked the butcher knife and got closer to the chest.
With a butcher knife in his right hand, he opened the wooden chest with his left hand.
As he opened the chest, a blinding shot out from the chest.
"Shet, this is a trap!" Tang Shaoyang yelped in surprise. He turned around and ran to the closest room.
Bam!
He closed the door. Along with it, the robotic voice resounded in his mind.
[ You have opened a Level 9 Treasure Chest. Congratulations! You get Destroyer! ]
Tang Shaoyang's eyes went wide as he heard a familiar voice. It turned the wooden chest he doubted was a treasure chest.
"F*ck you, Robot! Can't you just tell me it's a treasure chest?" he cursed out.
It was silly treating a treasure chest as an enemy. Not only that, but he also tried to destroy a treasure chest with his steel pipe, it was fortunate that the treasure chest did not break.
Tang Shaoyang went out of the room and found out the treasure chest was gone. The wooden chest now replaced with a weapon.
It looked like a spear with a long shaft that reached 3 meters. However, it had different spearheads, on the right side there was a big crescent blade in red and on the other side and the end of the shaft had a normal spearhead.
It looked like an ax to him, but the long shaft proved otherwise. Tang Shaoyang approached the weapon, with just a glance, he could tell the weapon was made of steel. The blade and the shaft were glistening in red.
Tang Shaoyang picked up his new weapon.
"Urghh…"
The weapon was heavy, but he could still lift it with his right hand. However, he could not use it to fight with only a hand like the steel pipe, he had to swing it with both hands. As he lifted the weapon and a screen appeared before his eyes.
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[Destroyer]
Class: White (Upgradeable)
Attribute Bonus: +15 strength
Weight: 212 Kgs
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Tang Shaoyang tried to swing Destroyer with his two hands and created a "Wung Wung Wung" sound. A satisfied smile formed on his lips, "Suit with the name, Destroyer! A perfect weapon to destroy everything blocks my path!"
Tang Shaoyang put Destroyer on his shoulder and walked toward his backpack. He picked up the backpack and walked out of the big mansion. It was time to continue his journey, a journey to establish his empire, the Tang Empire.
[ You are leaving the territory (Mansion)! ]
The robotic resounded in his mind as soon as Tang Shaoyang left the mansion. He paused steps and looked back at the big and luxurious mansion.
"So this mansion belongs to me right now…" he muttered in a low voice.
"So Mini-game is a game to fight for the territory?" Tang Shaoyang concluded after a moment of silence. He was not sure about the purpose of the mini-game, but he was sure he got this territory after he killed the keeper of the mansion, Swiffer.
"So what about this territory? Is there any use for the territory?" Tang Shaoyang asked the robotic voice. However, he had to be disappointed as usual. The robotic voice won't respond to his inquiry.
Tang Shaoyang understood the territory meant. It just what this territory for? The role of this territory in this game like world, what is it for? This was what he wanted to know.
He could only let out a sigh as there were only little to no clues regarding that. He checked the screen status, but could not find territory there.
Tang Shaoyang shook his head and continued his journey. Even though the robotic voice told him the mansion belonged to him. He did not hesitate to leave the mansion, he wanted to get a better territory than this mansion.
Bringing a big Destroyer on his shoulder and two backpacks on his back, Tang Shaoyang walked by following the high-way.
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Three days since Tang Shaoyang departed from the mansion and the thrilling battle against the Swiffer. He now had only one backpack on his back, indicating he had a limited supply on him.
However, Tang Shaoyang was not worried as he already near to his destination, a day walk then he would reach his destination, a place where Tang Empire's main palace would be built.
He was not concerned with the supply, but he was more worried about something else, the survivors. Tang Shaoyang could not find a single survivor even after three days journey. Zombies were the only species he encountered.
He lost the count of how many zombies he had killed during the way. His level raised by three levels just from killing the zombies. It was a completely one-sided slaughter for him which was good for him.
It was also fortunate there was no evolved zombie just like Swiffer. It was a trip with less risk compared to the experience of the mini-game. However, he was still concerned about the survivors.
It was not that he was a saint who wanted to save them, but without the survivors, his trip would be a waste. How could he build an empire without the people?
Tang Shaoyang's mood was somewhat low as he walked through the residential district. The reason he could easily kill the zombies was Destroyer, with one swing, at least three to six zombies would die.
He swung Destroyer as he walked and he looked right and left, searching if there were any survivors. However, he had to be disappointed as he could not find a living human.
Wung! Wung! Wung!
"Sh*t, this must be because of you guys!" Tang Shaoyang vented his frustration out to the zombies.
"Finally, I get a chance to establish an empire and an emperor, but you sh*tty zombies ruined my plan…"
Tang Shaoyang madly slaughtered the zombies, when the last wave of the zombies decapitated by Destroyer. The robotic voice resounded.
[ You leveled up! ]
[ You gained two attribute points ]
He allocated the attribute points to Vitality and Strength as usual. Then he frowned once again, Tang Shaoyang chose this route because he thought there would be many zombies he could kill. However, now he had killed all the zombies around here, it was too little for a big district like this.
Tang Shaoyang entered one of the houses but it was empty. He entered another house and also empty. Not only he could not find survivors, he now could not find the zombies as well
After that, he looked around the district and after fifteen minutes of searching. Tang Shaoyang found where the zombies were. The crowd of zombies gathered outside of the district and they seemed to be walking in the same direction.
It seemed there was something that attracted the zombies. He did not attack the zombies but he looked at the surroundings. He could not find something particular or special or strange.
Tang Shaoyang did a quick scan once again, he was afraid there was an evolved zombie other stronger creature around. After making sure there was nothing suspicious and dangerous around, he entered the nearest house and put the backpack there.
He did not want his supply covered in the green liquid. So he put the backpack here temporarily. Moreover, he could move without worry his back would get torn down by the zombies.
He put the backpack down and came out once again. Tang Shaoyang approached the crowd of zombies while bringing the big Destroyer on his shoulder.
The distance between the zombies and him was about a hundred meters. He walked at a steady pace and when the distance between him and the zombies shortened to twenty meters, he stopped his steps and let loose the Destroyer to the asphalt road.
Bang!
It caused a quite loud noise and attracted the zombies' attention. The zombies looked back and saw Tang Shaoyang. With a moment of pause, the zombies swarmed toward Tang Shaoyang.
With a big grin, Tang Shaoyang picked Destroyed with his two hands and charged toward the zombies.
Wung!
He swung Destroyer toward the zombies' heads. Based on his last two days' experiences, even the zombie got the body split into two, it would not die. Even when he aimed at the neck, sometimes there were a few zombies survived.
Tang Shaoyang knew that he needed to kill the zombies to get stronger, so he did not want to waste even one zombie. So during the last two days of fighting the zombies, he formed a habit to hit the zombies at their heads.
Splat!
The six foremost zombies had their heads split apart in one swung. With Tang Shaoyang current strength and Destroyer, it was pretty easy to kill the zombies. He was now no longer afraid of getting surrounded by the zombies. The Destroyer would help him to clear the zombies easily.
Wung! Wung! Wung!
Tang Shaoyang swung Destroyer here and there as he advanced. No zombies could hinder his steps as he advanced to the center of these zombies. He was curious about the thing that attracted the zombies to gather here.
The zombies' decayed bodies splattered everywhere as Tang Shaoyang advanced and soon, he heard what he wanted the most.
"Don't let the zombies enter the building! HOLD UP! HOLD UP!"
"Left Flank! Don't let loose your defense! MAN UP! MAN UP!"
He heard a human's voice, the thing he wanted to hear and meet the most, the survivors.
"Hahahaha… Your Emperor is going to save you, hold up!" Tang Shaoyang picked his pace as he madly swung Destroyer.
Wung! Wung! Weng! Weng!
The Destroyer pierced the air and caused even more loud sound. A few moments later, Tang Shaoyang finally saw the survivors. There were dozens of people guarded the entrance of a long building. They built a barricade with chairs and tables while hitting the zombies from behind the barricade.
These people had various kinds of weapons in their hands. A few of them held an emergency ax, a baseball stick, he even saw a few women held pans.
Not only Tang Shaoyang saw the group, but the group also saw Tang Shaoyang. A person wore a dark blue raincoat, a black full-face helmet, and a strange spear with ax blade. Tang Shaoyang's appearance was eye-catching and the group immediately noticed him.
They were shocked by the incoming a strange guy. However, they saw the man in a dark blue raincoat was helping them to clear the zombies. They saw the man in a dark blue raincoat was in a killing spree.
In one swing of the strange spears, at least ten zombies' heads split apart.
A man who seemed to be the leader of the group immediately gave out his order, "Cover the flank! Cover the flank!"
He could tell the man in a dark blue raincoat was helping them by taking the zombies ahead of them. With the help of the man in a blue raincoat, the pressure was lessened and he realized they only took care of the flank to clear the zombies.
Tang Shaoyang madly swung Destroyer to the zombies. He was making sure there were no zombies pass him. He would protect the people who would be his subjects in the future.
The slaughter continued, with Tang Shaoyang's presence, there were only a few zombies who headed toward the group. Most of the zombies were attracted by Tang Shaoyang. It relieved and shocked the group at the same time.
They were relieved as they only had to face a little zombie. They were shocked by the man in dark blue raincoat's prowess. It could be said the man in dark blue raincoat single-handedly wiped out the zombies.
The battle continued for another two hours. The road that was filled with zombies now void of the zombies. The zombies were dead with their decayed bodies splattered around.
Amidst the decayed zombies' bodies, there was a man stood with a deep red strange spear on his shoulder. The group could not see the face as the helmet covered the man's face.
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