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His n clicked perfectly with Theresa’s, and together they began their sweeping campaign to reim the city.
From the outer edges, they pushed forward to the heart of the city, taking a full year to reim it for humanity. Then, they spent another year forging a steel wall of defense.
Theron had watched it all happen, piece by piece–how Theresa went from running for her life from zombies, scavenging for survival, to holding her ground in the middle of swarming hordes, building an alliance city to stand against the constant stream of evolved zombies outside.
The more he thought about it, the more fired up he felt.
They had seized the perfect moment, right before the zombies‘ full evolution, to turn the tide in humanity’s favor. If not for Theresa’s all–or–nothing gamble back then, he could easily imagine what things would look like now–scattered little camps swallowed up by endless zombie waves.
Without resources or production, these camps would teeter on the brink every time a new wave hit. As zombies evolved and resources grew scarcer, humans would be worn down again and again until extinction.
Even Ember Camp might not havested long. They were dirt–poor, with too many mouths to feed. Stuck in a remote, barren area with no way to grow food, their residents had no means of transportation to hunt zombies going out was just a death sentence. Under those conditions, he had no idea what the future would hold.
Luckily, he had met Theresa. She’d helped him keep his people alive, solving his biggest problem, and gave him the freedom to fight alongside her in retaking the city, carving out a path to survival from what had seemed like a dead end.
Watching Theresa leave in a helicopter, Theron’s grin only widened. <i>That </i><i>girl’s </i><i>the </i><i>real </i>deal.
After finishing her inspection, Theresa didn’t return to the city but headed straight back to her bunker.
“Woof! Woof! Woof!”
“Woof! Woof! Woof!”
“Woof! Woof!”
The moment she walked in, the dogs came charging out, leaping up at her.
I’m back,” she said.
Summer lunged into her arms with a heavy thud.
Theresa rubbed the dog’s head hard. “Hey, buddy”
With Summer in her arms and the rest of the pack crowding around her, she walked deeper into the bunker. She’d been so busytely that she’d neglected them.
Now that her strength had grown, she didn’t need her dogs on the from lines anymore. If any of them got
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hurt, she’d be heartbroken. These days, they mostly guarded the bunker and the residential area. With them around, her camp was perfectly safe.
“Woof! Woof! Woof!”
Even after she sat down, Summer kept barking at her.
“I’ll spend more time with you from now on,” she promised.
“Woof! Woof!”
“Woof! Woof! Woof!”
“And with the rest of you, too.”
“Woof! Woof! Woof!”
Theresa brought out a pile of fresh meat and fed each one of them before finally enjoying a moment of peace. Outside, heavy snow had begun to fall. It was a rare break for her.
That was when she remembered she hadn’t checked in on her system in a long while. With the alliance developing so quickly, her points should have already passed one hundred million.
Time to see for herself.
Flopping onto the couch with Summer in her arms, she opened the system interface, and a massive data panel appeared before her.
Territory area: 379 sq. miles
Camp poption: 266 people
Camp guards: 6.5 people
Camp level: Major Metropolis (Prosperity level: 22,889)
Points: 148,999,767
Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, <i>ten</i><i>–</i><i>thousands</i><i>… </i><i>millions</i>… <i>hundred</i><i>–</i><i>millions</i>… 148 million <i>points</i>! Over a hundred
million<i>! </i>
She’d finally broken the hundred–million mark. The sight of all those digits made her leap to her feet in
excitement.
Summer tilted its head at her.
<b>“</b>Summer, you’re my treasure!” Sife hugged its neck, and the other dogs, having finished eating, came over
too. “You all are!”
After ruffling every head, she pulled up the system’s exchange panel and opened the medical tab.
<i>My </i>little goal–the Zombie <i>Virus </i>Inhibitor… One hundred million <i>points</i>… Exchange!
As a billion points vanished from her total, a small transparent syringe appeared in her palm.
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<i>Beep</i><i>. </i>
‘Congrattions, you have obtained: Zombie Virus Inhibitor!
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