Stagnant Water of Apocalypse

Chapter 44: Survivor and Murderer (3)

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All stagnant waters, including me, had always secretly wished for a deathmatch against a murderer. It was stemming from the fact that in addition to a large number of points one will get from defeating them, there's also a chance that one would acquire special skills that only murderers would have once we defeat them.

The skill all stagnant waters wanted was undoubtedly 'Friendliness'. A wonderful skill which would prevent all monsters from being hostile to its user. However, it was quite difficult to actually get it because the condition to get it was to keep killing other users.

"Though, there's someone who did it for a year straight." And when the stagnant waters hunted them down and was lucky enough to get the Friendliness skill, they would use it to do a cossack dance amongst the zombies. That's the only useful thing the skill can give us, after all.

However, as Survival Life didn't have many users, naturally the number of murderers were also low. So whenever one appeared, all four of us would come to them and fight them in hope of getting the 'Friendliness' skill.

However, we also made an agreement that if the murderer was talented enough, we wouldn't hunt them. After all, someone like that was rare and exotic, like an endangered species. And endangered species need to be preserved.

"By the way, where's this guy..." I walked around the mall and listened to the heartbeat sound. As the sound would get louder the closer you are to them, it was something that can be used to track the location of the murderer. Only for the ones who were brave enough, though.

After several more minutes sweeping through the building, with a thump, the zombies outside the mall started to gather, creating a wall of living rotten flesh. It was the sign that the deathmatch event had been activated. Which means, aside from the murderer and me, there are 2 other survivors around here since the deathmatch event wouldn't be triggered unless there's more than 3 users around the vicinity of the murderer.

"Since the murderer is Kwon's subordinate, the event wouldn't be triggered by someone from his camp." I continued my sweep with Dingo in tow. And at one moment, a familiar presence creeped into my senses from the floor below. I checked it by looking below through the railings, and what I saw was indeed Sooyeon. However, she was not alone, as there's a man next to her.

For a moment, I thought that the man was some kind of stalker. However, when both of them started to talk, I realized it wasn't the case.

Unlike her usual calm and cool demeanour, the current Sooyeon looks angry as she starts shouting towards the man while both of them are climbing to the second floor.

Is it perhaps a lover's quarrel?

I quickly opened the portal and hid inside with Dingo.

"Sooyeon, hey, Sooyeon!" The man who chased after her urgently grabbed Sooyeon's shoulder as soon as I crossed the portal.

"Why are you doing this?" Sooyeon said while brushing his grip away. A hint of frustration was apparent in her voice.

"Wait, please calm down and let's talk. We can't have a conversation If you keep being angry like this."

"You know there is a murderer around us right now, right? Do we really have to do this now?"

"Don't be like that..." The man pleaded.

After listening to their argument. I realized that it wasn't a lover's quarrel. It seems that the man was one of the three Sooyeon mentioned a few days ago. And just like how Sooyeon described them, the man didn't feel reliable at all. His physique was quite small and thin. Since even after awakening he still has that kind of body, I doubt his unique ability is a combat-related one.