How To Be Misunderstood as a Villain in a Zombie Apocalypse

Chapter 6. The price of the name (3)

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I found this warehouse two days ago.

Small enough for two cars and low ceilings. It feels stuffy, but it doesn’t matter because I’m not going to live here.

Fortunately, there was also a 1-ton truck in the warehouse. The color is faded, the bumper is dented, and rust is running down the seams, but the wheels and rims are new, so it looks like it’s been taken care of until recently.

The door was locked. Camilla and I searched the storage room, but we couldn’t find the key. Instead,

“I think this will work?”

Camilla took a toolbox and a wire hanger from the cabinet.

“How can I do that?”

I wasn’t pretending not to know, I was really asking because I didn’t know the trick.

There is a concept of ‘proficiency’ in 「Erysic Tone Protocol」. Mastery is assigned to everything from basics like running, hiding, and endurance to specialized fields like farming, cooking, and auto repair.

Among them, in the field of expertise, knowledge increases only when you read related books, learn from someone, or go through trial and error.

However, ‘knowledge building’ and ‘practice’ must be done together, so reading books all day long or wrestling with a broken machine will not increase your proficiency.

The problem is that in my eyes, the status window, inventory window, and quest window don’t even show up like the point shop.

Because of that, even I don’t know exactly what I can and cannot do. It means that you can only guess by experiencing it yourself and bumping into it.

First of all, knowledge about firearms is excellent. Almost all the firearms I’ve touched so far are easily operated as if I were moving my limbs, and I can handle the maintenance of the weapon and check its condition without any problems.

I’m good at marksmanship, too. It’s a story that comes out, but it’s not even about hitting a grenade thrown from a helicopter or hitting a rocket launcher attached to a helicopter wing.

Daily Quest: “Kill 30 players in multiplayer with single-shot bolt action rifles within 15m without wearing a bulletproof vest or body armor.” However, if you break through something like ‘reset the count when you die’, your marksmanship and firearms skills will naturally increase.

Stamina…Of course, compared to real life stamina, it has greatly improved, but I’m not sure by this standard.

Thinking of the situation so far, there were many times when agility and reflexes were important, but there was no time when endurance or muscular strength was extremely necessary. I’d guess it’s probably somewhere in the middle.

I have intermediate skills in cooking, and car-related skills… I am good at driving, but I think car repairs are at the level of beginners.

“Don’t joke. Someone like you doesn’t know this?”

But Camilla misunderstood me a little.

“No. I really don’t know. And what does ‘someone like you’ mean?”

“It’s a bit surprising that someone who knows how to relieve hunger in a human-free zone can’t even open a car door.”

Camilla, like me, suffered from abnormal hunger.

There were some thoughts about leaving it alone, but since the two of them would have to conserve food for the time being, she told Cassandra what to do.

Keep out of human protected areas. Distinguish between true hunger and fake hunger. Kibele Food Company food should be mixed with other ingredients, but stir-fried, baked, boiled or fried.

Then he came back to me with a happy face right after breakfast the next day.

“I did as you said, and it really worked. I ate and ate and I was still hungry, but now I’m just a little hungry.”

I didn’t think it was necessary to emphasize it by gently stroking his belly, but since he was happy, that was it. Anyway, it must have been quite impressive, it was a car that even felt a little burdened by the fact that my eyes twinkled even when I breathed.

“Well. Okay. I’ll open this.”

As if she thought it was time to repay her, Camilla squeezed her coat hanger tightly and poked it into her window.

I had to run away immediately if the alarm went off, so I stood guard at the entrance. Camilla eagerly waved her arms up and down her, then clapped. She unlocked it. Fortunately, no alarm sounded.

“Isn’t that great?”

When we clapped our hands a little, Camilla was pretty smug.

“Shall we start the engine?”

“Do you know how to do that too?”

“Didn’t I say she was a woman who paid for food? Well, by the way, you have to remove the cover under the driver’s seat, but it’s a little cramped. Wait a minute.”

Camilla took off her windbreaker and bulletproof vest. She wore a baggy brown T-shirt instead of a sleeveless under her vest.

Her build was for a large man, so her collarbone was stretched out in her neck. It was wet with sweat, but it wasn’t a sticky material, so there was nothing embarrassing about it.

But her long hair kept clinging to her neck and face.

“Oh, that’s annoying.”

Camilla stood in front of the truck mirror. He pulls her rubber band out of her pocket, but bites it with her lips and violently twists her head with her hands.

I couldn’t take my eyes off it.

I don’t often say that my face is pretty or my eyes are beautiful, but I don’t often say that my ears are pretty.

By the way, Camilla was not only pretty in her face, but also in her ears. The gaze, down her earlobe, naturally fell on her chin and neckline, and down her shirt down to her collarbone.

Without even the consciousness of staring, his eyes were just sucked into him.

She didn’t look at me openly at all. I caught a glimpse of her out of the corner of my eye. If she had seen her in person, she wouldn’t have kept her eyes off her, and that would be pretty disrespectful…

Something keeps shining on the edge of my field of vision. It’s a truck side mirror reflector.

Look at this.

Camilla shifted the angle and looked at her hair as she shifted the angle of the side mirrors. Her golden eyes twinkled. Just as I was spying on her, she was spying on me.

Now, even though her hair is all tied up, she even turns it around with a hesitation and hum. At the same time, his eyes are still fixed on me. If you get caught spying, you’re probably trying to make fun of it.

It’s not a double-sided voyeurism, what the hell is this?

Finally, I lifted her arms to lift the side of her hair that was hanging down by her ears. She now turned to me openly.

“Ah!”

Suddenly she bent her back. She hurriedly raised her arm and, as if a wall had formed on her side, wrapped her left arm around her right side.

Her problem was that she was wearing a baggy T-shirt.

Her arms were pressed against her stomach, revealing the full outline of her breasts. It was to the point where anyone could see that she was deliberately pulling on her T-shirt to show off her bust line. It wasn’t transcendent like Cassandra, but it was by no means small.

Then our eyes met. She definitely ran into it.

I was quite taken aback by the unexpected situation, but strangely, it was Camilla. She turned her body around without clearing her throat, grabbed her screwdriver from her toolbox, and started to work, licking, licking.

She felt embarrassed at the seemingly insignificant movement. Well, this is close to an accident. If I had known this would happen, I wonder if Camilla would have worn a thin layer underneath, if not underwear.

Otherwise, like raisins on campagne bread, something stands out on the T-shirt…

“It’s done!”

Camilla spins her screwdriver and ugh! And it started.

“Wow.”

“Wait a minute.”

Camilla climbed into the driver’s seat, operated the steering wheel, and stepped on the pedals.

“Yes, no problem. I’m rather glad it’s an old car. These days, if you force the engine like this, the steering wheel will be locked. Would you like to turn it off? Just turn the screwdriver the other way around.”

A white plastic tub with wires running all over it. Camilla pointed to the groove in the middle of the barrel. As instructed, I inserted a flathead screwdriver and turned it in the opposite direction, and the engine suddenly turned off.

“Tell me how to do this.”

Camilla shook her head as she seemed to be thinking about something.

“I’ll let you know when I get to know you better.”

“How much?”

Then he puts his hands up like a cat’s paws and tries to pounce on her.

“If the two of you become close enough that you won’t feel remorse even if you do bad things. Ouch.”

I wrapped my arms around her side again. This time he pressed her arm over her chest. The silhouette of her pressed chest was still visible, so she hurriedly turned her gaze to her face. She looks pretty sick

“Ah, hahahaha. Are you okay. She rolled around in Lambert and got some bruises on her body, it’s her sore muscles, so she’ll be fine. Even if you look at me like this, am I from an athlete?”

She tried her best to smile brightly, but the bruises under her neck bothered me.

In fact, she already knew that her body was full of bruises. She said that when Camilla passed out with her MRE, she lifted her clothes to see if she had been bitten by a zombie.

Of course, I didn’t take everything off and carefully examine it like in a game while a horde of zombies were coming and going outside, it was literally just a quick glance.

I didn’t even bother pushing her underwear. If she had been bitten, she would have had clear bloodstains. There were a lot of bruises, but no bite marks.

She says she’s okay with her own efforts, so she moves on for now, but thanks to her, she remembered an important issue.

We don’t have medicine or doctors right now. It’s a big deal if you get hurt. Judging by the level of looting in this town, it doesn’t seem like it would be easy to get.

As expected, the next raid should go safely.

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And now.

Camilla says she’s gotten a lot better, but she’s still not good at lifting heavy weights.

To be precise, when she raises her shoulders, she is in quite a bit of pain. In addition, she tries not to take off her bulletproof vest. I think she may have hurt her ribs, but she said she clenched her teeth and said she was fine, so she had nothing to say.

Well, that’s the right thing to do. We still don’t fully trust each other. It is also a situation where you have to try to cover your weaknesses.

It seemed that this was the reason why Camilla did not hesitate to work hard. She subtly took the lead whenever I tried to use more power.

Thanks to that, we also brought the cash van from Lambert to the warehouse, took out all the cargo inside, and filled up the LPG gas cylinder instead.

The amount is not enough. Most of the bottom exposed ones. But it doesn’t matter. Because it will explode

Thankfully, Camilla didn’t ask, ‘But why are you collecting these gas canisters?’ When told that she had to collect, she said, ‘How much? To what extent?&Quot she just asked.

I asked in reverse if I wasn’t curious.

“I’m curious, but there must be a reason why you didn’t tell me. Let me know when it’s convenient for you.”

The answer was

. And now the time has come.

“Now I will tell you what I have in mind. Again, if you don’t like it, it’s okay not to participate. Instead, let’s not let go of the interruption.”

At my words, Camilla nodded her head.

“Okay. Instead, just listen. It’s not final, is it?”

“I don’t know if I’m doing it alone, but if I’m going to do it with you, I’ll have to change some parts. As you probably already guessed, I’m going to hit here.”

I opened the map and pointed to the next destination.

Rowing Country Club.

The place I originally intended to go but couldn’t even get close to because the vans spread out.

It is a high-class recreational facility with a large golf course and a lake, but the map of the newspaper distribution center said it was “Slumped.” After a few days of research with Camilla and I, that statement appears to be somewhat true.

The fence was full of graffiti, and the windows of the building were scorched or broken. Instead of glass windows, the bed was covered with mattresses, furniture, or planks, and even the gun’s eye was slightly exposed, so if you approached without knowing it, you would have been shot and killed.

Because I scouted the area every now and then while gathering useful items, Camilla must have already known that I had this in mind.

Thankfully she didn’t ask, ‘Couldn’t there be a safer place?’ She didn’t ask, ‘Why risk it here?’ Instead, I asked the basis of my judgment.

“The first reason, you know, we’ve been around here for a few days. Nothing useful. Pretty much everything will be here.”

The original plan was to gather as much supplies as possible in Lambert and then head to the ‘air-raid shelter’ I know.

If it hadn’t been for the hordes of zombies forming a siege and helicopters flying in, they would have been able to periodically visit and scrape it off.

Well, now that it’s completely reduced to ashes, there’s no need to go to Lambert. Instead, as much as I lack, I try to make up for it here at the country club.

“What is the second reason?”

“Well, the gang power here is very weak. It looks like it’s a gang of court-city hall officials taking over here. The city council and courthouse flags fluttered.”

One of the gangs wiped out of Lambert, I didn’t have to say. Because Camilla nodded her head heavily.

“Of course I won’t be easy. Not all gang members would have gone out. The troops to watch over the slaves, and the most powerful boss, will remain.

But it’s the same as the fact that the main axis has been defeated, so I think we have a chance. The perimeter net will be wide spread, and if you stab the weakest part of it.”

I pointed to the fence of the club.

The reason why Rowing Country Club is difficult to capture and difficult to defend but easy to loot is that it has so many entrances and is so wide.

Three main entrances are enough to have two buses close together, and only ten side doors pass through. Of course, most of them are blocked or thoroughly reinforced with mines, iron fences, or iron plate soldering.

But if you break through the wall, the story is different.

As I remember, at Rowing Country Club from the end of the century, there is one more entrance here.

In fact, it’s a good word, ‘entrance’, it’s a wall that collapsed as if it was hit by a bombing, but for some reason, it maintains its original form in this world.

It feels like a pot or treasure chest in an RPG game. The fact that these things are intact means ‘Please break me down and take everything inside.’

So just hit it here.

“Here. It’s not on the map, but there’s a by road. Originally here… “

“Huh? What is here?”

Oops.

I accidentally made a mistake. Camilla looks at me increasingly suspiciously.

‘Originally, there is an entrance here. It’s a broken wall… ‘ Would arouse Camilla’s suspicions. As if I had misplaced it, I crossed my fingers and pointed to the intact doorway.

“Sorry. Not there, but here. I was originally going to hit this one, but this doorway doesn’t look like much. See the three expansive buildings next to it? It seemed like I was going to get hit. But if you knock down this wall.”

He pointed to the wall in front of the side road again.

Behind the wall is a large auditorium. There are no windows in the direction of the wall, so the angle of fire is also limited at this point. Of course, there will be snipers on the rooftops of nearby buildings, but it’s up to me and Camilla to catch them.

“So you can send a minivan loaded with LPG up this wall and bang it. The walls are strong, but we’ve collected a lot of barrels, so we should be able to blow them up.”

“That seems possible. By the way, no matter how low the gang here is, can the two of us wipe it all out?”

Camilla’s point was valid. She said Camilla is not in perfect shape. I’m still fine, but she’s a cure and nothing, so if she gets hurt once, she might run into an irreversible situation.

That’s why you shouldn’t take risks.

“Yes, just the two of us is enough.”