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"Who are you guys?" an authoritative girl's voice shouted out as the mob parted and Mark and Alex got a glimpse of Bell, the university beauty, and two others behind her.
"My name is Mark, and his name is Alex," Mark answered with an icy face.
"Are both of you Awakeners?" the girl queried.
"Yes," Mark said, looking at her in the eyes.
"Enter in the back," she turned around and went away.
"Mark, you can go on ahead. I want to look for my sister," Alex told Mark, smiling.
"OK," Mark said, following Bell and the other two boys.
They went to the back of the gymnasium and Bell showed Mark how the food supplies were almost gone.
"We're going to go out and scavenge some food to eat."
"I'm going to nap," Mark said as he took a biscuit and a juice.
"Where is a free room?" Mark asked as he stood up and walked towards the door.
"Room 101 is taken by zombies, but if you clean it, you can use it," Bell said as she watched the back of Mark walk away.
Mark went towards Room 101, turned the door lock, swung it open, and stepped inside—dozens of zombies attacked him. But he rushed in immediately and severed two of them in an instant before covering the axe in his hand with flames and cutting off all their heads.
Mark opened the window in the room and discarded the mutilated zombie corpses, closed it again, and immediately fainted on the ground.
"Ahhhhh!!!"
Mark yawned as he stood up and opened the door. Immediately, he saw Bell, Alex, and the other two boys preparing to leave.
"Don't open the door no matter what—unless you hear my voice," Bell said as all of them moved outside into the cold landscape.
Out of the blue, Mark saw a zombie pursue Bell at an almost superhuman speed. Mark jumped immediately into position and blocked a claw swipe with his axe.
When the zombie was about to flee once more, Mark gripped its hand and swung his axe, driving it into the zombie's neck. It just penetrated by an inch before hitting the solid neck of the zombie.
Mark grabbed it by the neck and blasted a fireball into its face, point-blank. Then, out of nowhere, the zombie pulled the axe off its neck and shattered the handle.
But Mark grabbed it by the neck again and smashed its head on the ground—over and over.
[You defeated Level 7 Mutated Zombie.]
[You have earned +6 Agility.]
[You have achieved Level 6 and earned 3 free status points.]
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