"Hmm?" Ray frowned but didn't immediately make a move. Instead, he went back up again, gathering his thoughts.
"Status."
The familiar red screen appeared in front of him again.
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[Name: Ray Crownwell]
[Status: Awakened (E-class)]
[Skill: Body Straightening (Awakening II)]
[Strength: 72 Kg (36 original)]
[Speed: 26 Km/h (13 original)]
[Mental strength: 1.05 (1 for the average adult man)]
[Mutation energy: 0]
[Shop points: 0]
—--
"My strength has doubled?" he thought with a little excitement. His strength had reached 72 kg, which Ray assumed was his body's core strength.
To test it, he approached one of the wooden doors in the room and gave it a slight punch.
Bang!
His hand went through the other side, creating a deep hole in the thick wooden door.
Excitement trembled through Ray's body and showed on his face.
This wasn't a weak wooden door.
Previously, if he had hit it, he would have likely broken his own bone without even slightly damaging the door. But now, the effect was terrifying.
His speed had also increased significantly. Unlike in the games he played, since it was measured in kilometres per hour, he assumed that it was only the speed of his body.
He could feel the strengthening of all parts of his legs.
As for mental strength, it didn't increase by much, just barely.
Then his eyes fell on his skill, and he focused on it.
[Skill: Body Strengthening (Awakening II)
-The body can be strengthened by Mutation energy, allowing for a 100% increase in both body strength, speed attributes, and also slightly increased Mental strength.]
"As expected," his pupils flickered with a strange light.
Suddenly, he heard the noise of hitting metal, a "ting" high-pitched sound.
"Hello, can you open the door?"
"Hmm?" Ray frowned slightly as he walked out.
A man in his forties was there, his entire body trembling and face pale as if he was suffering from anaemia.
"Oh, Ray, you are finally here," the middle-aged man said, forcing a smile. "Do you have any food there?"
Ray didn't speak, just silently watching the middle-aged man.
"Do you have any food?" he asked instead of answering.
"No, we ran out of food. As long as you can have food then I can give you my entire life savings for it."
"Is that so? But in these end times, what would be the use of money?" Ray grinned.
Actually, he was quite poor in a way.
Although this entire house was his, the debts that his parents had accumulated all fell on his shoulders.
If this end time didn't come, then he would soon be on the road sleeping, and even that wouldn't be able to pay off the debts.
And this middle-aged man, Jose, had long since wanted to coerce him to sell the house at a low price to make the most profit.
But this was before the end times. Now it was different.
Jose grimaced when he heard this as he looked at the undead littered across the ground, a little scared and a little hesitant.
"Can you come out now, and we can look for food for ourselves?"
"Okay," Ray nodded after a moment of thought and opened the gates.
"Have you checked the lower floors?" he asked casually.
"No, I wanted to check it, but there were some sounds of zombies coming from there."
"Hmm, I see," Ray nodded.
"Dad, I am hungry," suddenly he heard an annoyed female voice, which made Ray turn around to look at the girl in front of him.
But when the girl looked at him, there was only disgust in her eyes, as if she was looking at a monkey, not a human. Her eyes quickly went to the phone that she was fiddling with.
"This…" Jose hesitated a little. "Freya, we are going in search of food, so you should stay inside."
"I want to go too," Freya said, closing her mobile and looking at the two of them expressionless.
"You want to go? Sure," Ray said, while Jose hesitated, and walked down.
He didn't know what was going through this girl's head. It didn't matter with his system; he needed to find a female, and she was right in front of him.
Soon, they reached the third floor, where the door was half open, and the terrifying voice of the zombie appeared from inside from time to time.
Jose immediately became vigilant, and even Freya stopped fiddling with the phone upon hearing the voice of the undead.
There were some leaks on the internet, and with that, people who stayed on the internet knew how terrifying these creatures were, not to mention those movies and countless adaptations of zombies.
Undead and zombies weren't much different.
"Hey, check it out," she urged with an impatient expression.
Jose frowned slightly and looked at Ray apologetically.
"Are they playing a mind game with me?" this thought immediately appeared in his mind.
Even if they are not, Ray felt like he was being pushed by them. If not for his awakening, he would absolutely not go out to see this pair of father and daughter.
Even if he was a little confident that he could easily kill the undead, why would he be pushed around by these people?
"I am not going," he shrugged his shoulders.
"Yes, yes, you," Freya was stunned on the spot as she looked at him with an angry expression, clearly annoyed to the extreme.
"Then how should we react then, little brother?" At this time, Jose came to mediate with his expression unreadable.
Ray seemed to pause. "I am not afraid to kill the undead. However, once I kill it, then all the things on the floor will become mine."