Shi You slept comfortably throughout the night.
On the first night of the apocalypse, there were no zombies capable of easily smashing through burglar-proof doors and walls.
Although beasts infected with the zombie virus had the equivalent of level 5 ordinary zombies even at level 1, this was an urban area, and there were no zoos nearby.
Shi You ate a simple breakfast, then wiped his face with the alcohol wipes he had bought at a pharmacy to remove the oil.
As for his messy hair, there was nothing he could do about it. He had been reborn too late to make it to a barbershop and shave his head.
In the apocalypse, appearance wasn't something worth worrying about anyway. Aside from feeling a little uncomfortable, there was no real problem.
Shi You activated the Falling Feather Ring and jumped down from the tenth floor through the window.
There was a zombie nearby. Shi You used his Player privileges to inspect the zombie's attributes.
It was no surprise that all of the zombie's attributes had increased by 2 points, bringing them to 12.
In two more days, the zombie's attributes would increase to 16. The level 1 zombie would become a level 2 zombie. However, zombies had no free attribute points. By comparison, humans still had the greater advantage at the same level.
Even though zombies had mutants among them, humans could equip gear and learn skills as well.
Overall, humans still had the advantage, thanks to the decisive factor of intelligence.
Of course, that wasn't always the case.
Humans had to hunt zombies continuously to level up.
Zombies only had to wait for time to pass. As long as they stayed alive, they would grow stronger.
Humanity's advantage was that the strong needed courage and luck. To the weak, zombies that grew more powerful by the day were no different from a nightmare.
“Rrrgh!”
“Slash!”
A roar and the flash of a sword rang out simultaneously.
The zombie's head fell to the ground, and Shi You received 2 experience points.
“Rrrgh!”
The nearby zombies were drawn over. Shi You had no intention of fighting them. Relying on his speed, he easily left them behind.
Shi You's goal for the day was clear: travel to the next dungeon. The route he had chosen would take him past an ordinary two-star hotel in Yanhai City.
The hotel was eight kilometers from the residential complex, and a gold-tier treasure chest guarded by a mutant octopus was inside.
In his previous life, by the time Shi You reached the hotel, the octopus was already level 7. Unless he killed it, there was no way to obtain the treasure chest.
It had taken him several days to kill the octopus.
In this life, the octopus was still weak. Even if Shi You couldn't kill it, he had another way to seize the treasure chest.
Shi You left the residential complex. There were very few zombies along the way.
At noon, he found a relatively clean shop and ate a simple meal.
In the afternoon, the closer he got to the hotel, the more zombies appeared on the streets.
When he reached the hotel a little after two in the afternoon, Shi You had accumulated 200 experience points. In other words, from the time he left the residential complex that morning until now, he had killed more than seventy zombies.
Even with a base Vitality of 24 points, Shi You was beginning to feel a little tired.
As a crowded location, the hotel lobby and the nearby streets were full of wandering zombies. It was a medium-sized zombie gathering point. So before entering, Shi You chose to rest nearby for half an hour.
After recovering his strength and making sure there were no other survivors nearby, Shi You placed his backpack on the roof of a shop.
What he was about to do required great agility. The backpack and the supplies inside would only be a burden.
After hiding the supplies, Shi You didn't waste any more time. It would be dark soon.
Shi You didn't enter through the front door.
He wasn't that crazy.
Just one glance at the zombies near the hotel was enough to tell him there were at least several thousand.
If he went in through the front door, he would be exhausted to death.
Actually, based on Shi You's experience, the best way to sneak into the upper floors was to jump from a nearby residential building. For example, if he jumped from the twentieth floor, then even if the building was thirty or forty meters away, his momentum should carry him to the hotel's tenth floor.
Unfortunately, there were no other residential buildings within a hundred-meter radius of the hotel.
The nearest building was three hundred meters away. Jumping over from there wouldn't be easy.
But even though Shi You circled around to the back door, there were still countless zombies.
He moved stealthily and took a longer detour until he reached the hotel's front-right side, where there were the fewest zombies.
The hotel's overall structure consisted of a two-story-high lobby, with guest rooms above the lobby's overhanging section.
The section jutting out from the lower lobby formed a large balcony on the third floor. There were dining tables on top, making it an outdoor restaurant.
For the sake of appearance, the lobby's exterior wasn't a flat wall. Instead, it was covered with numerous carved decorative patterns.
Shi You took two or three steps back, then accelerated and ran upward. He kicked off the wall with his right foot and launched himself higher, then thrust the Frost Jade Saber into the wall and hung suspended in midair.
The zombies below heard the noise and crowded around to watch, but it was already too late.
Shi You's entire weight hung from the Frost Jade Saber. If it had been an ordinary weapon, it would have either snapped in two or bent until it was unusable.
Shi You exerted force with his right arm to pull himself up, while his left hand grabbed the decorative pattern above. He quickly climbed to the edge of the balcony above and finally rolled himself up onto it.
The instant Shi You landed, before he could even steady himself, he locked eyes with a zombie.
The man and the zombie were less than three meters apart.
In front of the zombie lay a corpse with its guts ripped out. Its brain was still intact, so it would probably turn into another zombie before long.
“Rrrgh!”
The zombie roared, spraying bits of flesh from its mouth. Shi You quickly dodged and slashed back with a flick of his wrist.
The remaining zombies on the balcony were drawn over and charged at him with low growls.
Shi You swung the Frost Jade Saber, his right hand becoming a blur as he slashed so rapidly that scarcely any air could pass through.
All the zombies were stopped within a meter of Shi You. He looked like a meat grinder, leaving scraps of flesh and blood scattered everywhere as he advanced step by step into the third-floor lobby.
The third floor was a lounge area, but there were very few zombies.
The Doomsday Game had arrived at noon, and most of the people staying at the hotel had gone out to enjoy the city. They would return in the evening. That was why there were so few zombies inside the hotel, while the lobby and nearby streets were packed with them—they had become a gathering point.
Shi You climbed the stairs to the fourth floor.
There were five zombies in the fourth-floor hallway. Two of them were wearing waitstaff uniforms, while of the other three, two were wearing pajamas and one was naked.
They had probably slept until noon and turned into zombies while they were still asleep.
Shi You dealt with them easily, but he didn't continue upstairs. Instead, he knocked on the nearby doors that remained intact.
“Excuse me, are there any survivors in there? I'm a rescue worker sent by the government. Please respond as soon as possible.”
Shi You knocked on each room in order, repeating the same sentence tirelessly.
Even after he knocked on the last door, no one responded. There were sounds coming from behind two of the doors, but even without opening them, he could tell they were the sounds of zombies.