【Your fierce demeanor has successfully won over the employees of Wanxiang International on the 11th floor. A middle-aged lady in her fifties is frantically banging on the door, shouting muffled cheers for you! When facing other companies’ malicious encroachments on our interests, always maintain this wolf-like ferocity. Well done! However, Supervisor Lin of Wanxiang International is utterly impolite, only daring to scream from behind the door and not brave enough to face your fierce presence! A perfect life needs such a grand stage; your life is truly perfect!】
【Note: Chi Wei and Manager Zhang are awed by your imposing manner!】
【Task completed. Task rating: Perfect!】
【You have received the task rewards: Freely allocatable Career Experience +5, Yuan +100,000, Points +5, Freely allocatable Attribute Point +1.】
The lines of text that appeared before him made Meng Xu feel a slight thrill of excitement.
Unexpected bonus rewards!
Meng Xu hadn’t anticipated this outcome; except for the unchanged attribute point, all other rewards were altered.
However, the descriptive element of the task mentioned that the employee he had awed was the one whose head he had smashed earlier, and the one banging on the door madly.
At this thought, Meng Xu looked at the nearest office. The zombie with the pierced throat was still banging on the door, looking quite frenzied.
As for Supervisor Lin, he was probably in the meeting room at the end of the hallway.
Unfortunately, this supervisor is likely no longer human.
“Quite interesting descriptions.”
Meng Xu took a deep breath and then decided to organize his gear.
The improvised weapon was done for.
The scissors Meng Xu had weren’t high-end. The sharp tips had worn down significantly after several battles, and the areas originally secured with various tapes and ropes were now quite loose, rendering them useless.
After thinking it over, Meng Xu decided not to keep the mop handle and instead picked up the iron chair nearby.
This iron chair felt quite handy.
No wonder the fierce generals who charged into battle in ancient times used hammers or other blunt weapons—these things are far more useful than any sword or knife.
Maybe I’ll look into improving it later.
Fortunately, Wanxiang International didn’t skimp on costs and used iron chairs at the front desk.
If it had been plastic chairs, I’d already be back on the fourth floor, happily sipping my soda.
With 10.5 points in agility, Meng Xu figured he could outrun zombies in an obstacle course.
Feeling a surge of confidence, Meng Xu hefted the brain-and-blood-smeared iron chair, walking briskly and decisively. He ignored the offices on his left and headed straight for the break room on his right.
From Meng Xu’s experience, large company break rooms usually have some snacks.
Of course, Manager Zhang still needed to lead the way.
“Scavenge some resources, then head back to the company!”
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The stairwell was still filled with the stench of blood. Meng Xu was exceptionally cautious when passing the tenth floor.
The situation on the tenth floor was complex. Meng Xu didn’t know what the heck those people were doing last night to have so many zombies, and the door didn’t seem very sturdy. If the horde of zombies broke out, he’d be in serious trouble.
Meng Xu hadn’t gone to the twelfth floor, but he could imagine what it was like.
The twelfth floor was the operations area of Wanxiang International, with dozens of workstations. Given their two-shift system, there were at least thirty to forty people there.
Apocalypse, zombie transformation.
Meng Xu figured there were three possible scenarios there.
First, there were a few zombies, and dozens of people united to sweep them out.
Second, they all turned into zombies.
Third, some survivors were trapped in certain rooms by zombies outside.
For Meng Xu, the second and third scenarios were the most likely to occur. Since there wasn’t any specific task, Meng Xu figured he’d avoid dealing with that mess for now.
Stepping over the security guard zombie he had decapitated earlier, Meng Xu made his way back to the fourth floor, tying up Chi Wei and Manager Zhang securely before returning to his office.
Although the neighboring offices also housed zombies, returning to his familiar environment made Meng Xu feel unusually comfortable.
Checking the time, it was around 3 p.m., with two and a half hours left until the end of the workday.
This thought caught Meng Xu off guard.
“Damn it, it’s the apocalypse; why am I thinking about clocking out? Am I really going back to my rental apartment?”
Taking advantage of this time, Meng Xu decided to organize his thoughts and current situation.
This virus was quite peculiar.
It didn’t seem to appear at fixed points.
Rather, it seemed… random.
Otherwise, the people upstairs wouldn’t have been infected so easily. It felt more like one moment they were colleagues, and the next, they suddenly transformed.
Before today, Meng Xu had seen news about some flu outbreaks in the U.S., on the Korean Peninsula, and in India, as well as a few cases within the country. But beyond that, there was no mention of a zombie crisis.
Only a sudden occurrence like this would catch everyone off guard.
If such a zombie crisis had broken out in a specific street or city, absolute military suppression would have prevented any problems.
There was another issue.
Why had the phone signal become so weak?
His phone signal was intermittent, barely allowing him to open communication apps, and even then, loading took forever.
If this were an ordinary virus outbreak, how could it affect signals so drastically? Even if a zombie crisis broke out, these aspects shouldn’t be a problem in the short term.
Thinking about this, Meng Xu tested the office lights and water in the restroom, confirming that after a full day, there was still no power or water outage.
Given the situation, Meng Xu had only one thought.
They had been attacked.
This was a premeditated attack!
And it targeted a very wide area!
Meng Xu suspected that it wasn’t just Heqing City; the scope of the attack was far more extensive.
“Phew~”
Meng Xu took a deep breath, temporarily burying this thought, and turned his attention to allocating his points.
“Deep Blue, allocate points!”
Without any hesitation, Meng Xu added the 1 attribute point to his strength.
【Increase Successful. Current Strength Value: 12.】
After experiencing the events of this day, Meng Xu became even more aware of the importance of strength.
Hence, he decisively added the point to his strength.
Only when he reached a strength level capable of easily suppressing zombies would he consider other attributes.
Agility was also important, but Meng Xu currently had a part-time job that increased his agility upon upgrading, so it wasn’t urgently needed.
After finishing this, Meng Xu remembered he still had 5 points of freely allocatable career experience.
【Host: Meng Xu】
【Occupation: Intern Clerk · Level 0 (5/10), Leaflet Distributor · Level 1 (3/5)】
【Attributes: Spirit · 7, Constitution · 8.5, Strength · 12, Agility · 10.5】
【Accumulated Attribute Points: 0】
【Accumulated Skill Points: 0】
Currently, both occupations could be upgraded by allocating experience points.
But if he allocated 2 points to the Leaflet Distributor, he wouldn’t be able to upgrade the Intern Clerk.
Upgrading as a Leaflet Distributor would increase agility, but what would an Intern Clerk gain?
After a moment of deliberation, Meng Xu made up his mind.
He wanted to see what changes an Intern Clerk would bring upon upgrading!
After all, upgrading an Intern Clerk from level 0 to level 1 required 10 experience points, whereas upgrading a Leaflet Distributor from level 0 to level 1 only required 3 points!
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Deep Blue – is the name of the cheat tool in the game from the Chinese novel “Extreme Demon” 极道天魔