“Birthday, huh?” Without realizing it, Cody smiled faintly. He had forgotten about it. Ever since he got the system, many things have been filling his mind.“Go home, Cody.” Helena approached Cody. “Your wife must be concerned about your well-being. Besides, your friends have taken their time to come to your house to throw a party. Without you, it would be meaningless.”Cody was about to get into the truck and continue the journey, but Helena grabbed her arm. “Please, Cody. They’re all there. They won’t go home until you get back.”Cody felt as if his heart had an explosion. “Does that include Kevin and Randy too?”Helena frowned. “Of course, they’ve been your best friends since high school, just like me. Why do you ask that, Cody? You’ve been acting really weird today.”“I’m going home,” Cody answered coldly, then got into the truck.“What do you think, Gwen?” Helena asked her little sister. “Do you still want to come?”Gwen shrugged. “It’s okay if you still want to go there, and I’l
The women tried to save Kevin, while Cody tried to finish Randy off with Akira trying to block him.This time, they didn’t tell Cody to come to his senses, but focused on stopping that man who was getting crazier.“Argh!!!” Shawn ran to hit Cody, but he dodged.Shawn collided with Akira until both of them fell, and Randy’s attention turned to them. Cody took the opportunity to stab Randy, then pushed him against the wall.Cody wasn’t done yet. He stabbed Randy’s body several times to make sure he killed him. Randy was helpless. He also fell with his body covered in blood.With a gasp, Cody observed his three victims in turn, while the others looked at him. Cody felt something was wrong with him for doing that. What if this turned out to be reality?No. He had to get out of this illusion, no matter what. There were still many things he had to do.“Cody...” That was all that could come out of Freya’s mouth. Her face was already so wet with tears. “Please…”Police sirens echoed from a di
A male special zombie stood near the enormous tree. A female special zombie with an enlarged stomach stood in front of him.Not long after, the special zombie’s stomach burst, releasing an embryo and blood. She then fell down.“You’re Cody, right?” Stella asked. “What the f*ck are you doing?”The special zombie looked at Stella, then her face changed to look like Cody’s.“Does Freya want to have a child?” Jane frowned. “You’re trying to emulate a real pregnancy, right?”“Basically so.” Cody controlled another female special zombie to approach him. “You saw our child in the illusion, right?”Jane rubbed her chin. “This is interesting. I didn’t expect she would be like that. She has a maternal instinct, huh?”The female special zombie’s stomach exploded again and Cody sighed hard.“You’re starting to love her, huh?” Stella asked. “You’re willing to do something stupid like that for her.”Cody looked at Stella again. “Well, I just feel sorry for her.”Cody didn’t want to admit it because
“Sorry to say this,” Stella muttered. “But that thing looked horrendous.”Stella referred to a small airplane-like object made from special zombies and organic roots. Since he made it in a short period, Cody didn’t think about aesthetics.“Well, you look more handsome now.” Jane threw a sarcasm.Cody put on a pair of glasses on his face. He was imitating one of Jane’s children who used to be trained as humans. If he used Cody’s identity, it would be confusing. They would wonder how could Cody be in two places at the same time?“Thanks for the compliment.” Cody replied. “Don’t worry, I’ll take care of Josh’s image.”After saying that, Cody boarded the airplane and piloted it to fly. He had only been testing it for a while and now he was having a hard time controlling that thing.But unfortunately, he didn’t have the luxury of time. Those people could die at any moment. That would be a shame. Moreover, Cody suspected that one of them could turn zombies into humans.With that, maybe he c
Of course, Cody didn’t tell the truth, especially since he was now pretending to be someone else. He told a story as if he was the person Cody chose as partner to do the initial test given by Zeno.Randy also took the test and, unfortunately, died.“Is that so?” Luna shed tears. “Why didn’t Randy choose me to be his partner on the test? At least I could revive him as a zombie. Then, after a while, I would return him to being a human.”“I don’t know, but I got the impression that he didn’t want his friend to be in danger.” Cody explained. “I only met him for a short time, but he was a good person. That’s why I considered him a friend, too.”“That’s sounds like him.” Luna put on a faint smile.“I’d love to tell you more about Randy, but we have to think of a way out of here.” Cody continued. “We’ll use the plane up there. I’ll fix it. It’s very dangerous if we go through that path full of poisonous zombies.”Unfortunately, Cody could not fly to take Luna alone. The special zombies that
Cody had already attached five zombies to his plane, and he was already at his limit. His stamina had not fully recovered, after all.He was so tired that he sat down, his breath starting to get labored.“Maybe we should postpone this for the time being.” Luna looked at Cody with a grimace. “I know you can’t take it anymore.”“No.” A bitter smile adorned Cody’s face. “I found one irregular zombie among them. While the others walked in a pattern, this particular zombie just stood in place, and would stare at every zombie I possessed.”“Oh, no.” Luna gasped. “What will you do, then?”Cody didn’t know if he would be able to put up a fight. “Like it or not, I have to fix this thing quickly.”Luna opened her mouth to argue, but she couldn’t. Cody wanted to reassure her, but he didn’t want to give her false hope.“If you believe in God, then pray for me.” Cody smirked, then possessed the last zombie.He sighed when he found the possessed zombie quite far from the emergency exit. He then gla
“Sorry.” Cody mumbled as Luna bandaged his hand. “I couldn’t hold myself back anymore. Maybe I’ve depended too much on my system all this time that I didn’t know what to do.”Luna gave Cody the last bandage, and he flinched. Realizing that, Luna raised her eyebrows.“Are you feeling any pain?” She asked.Cody nodded. “Yeah, and the pain is getting worse as time goes by. Maybe it’s also because of the poison from the zombies.”“I see.” Luna took a breath. She seemed about to say something, but held back.“You want to know where we’re going?” Cody guessed. “Well, I haven’t told you about the community with some awakened humans and zombies. It’s on a farm. We make our own food. It’s not much, but it’s still enough.”“Awakened zombies?”Cody smiled. “Our leader, Cody Wolfe, can restore the consciousness of zombies. He’s not as good as you, who can actually turn any zombies back into humans, though.”“I see.” Luna closed her eyes. “But I hope you get some more rest before we leave, Josh. I
Cody’s purpose in asking Luna such a thing was to find something strange in the woman. Maybe the strangeness would show that she was an illusion.However, Luna’s story was reasonable, comprehensive, and seemed natural. Instead of being suspicious, Cody was even more convinced that Luna was really human.Now he and Luna were walking towards the farm. Cody didn’t know when he and this girl would arrive there. Besides the very far distance, they would encounter various obstacles.Sometimes Cody checked the cars in various places. Unfortunately, he didn’t find a single one that was still in good condition. Their tires were all flat. Maybe because nobody had attended to those vehicles for a long time.Without realizing it, it had been almost a year since that terrible big incident happened.Cody banged the head of a regular zombie against the wall, making it bleed. He then let that walking corpse fall to the floor.Luna just stared at him and gulped. Realizing that, Cody sighed.“Sorry.” H