Apocalypse: Apparently, I Can See Zombies

Chapter 78- Immense Weight Of Gratitude

Jin-woo's jogging brought him back to the east wing. Hearing the eerie silence upon entering the building, he didn't feel a ounce of apprehension.

Unlike before, when his nerves were stretched thin upon first entering, he felt relaxed, having only a slight focus on observing his surroundings. But even that seemed redundant as Seong was there to alert him of any dangers around the hall corner.

Jin-woo made his way to the stairs leading up to the second floor, but he paused momentarily before moving to turn the corner nearby instead.

Seong seeing this asked puzzledly.

"Jin, what's up?"

"I'm just checking to make sure the cafeteria where everyone will gather is safe."

As Jin-woo said this he headed towards the cafeteria, and upon entering he glanced around at the corpses that littered the floor.

From the number of bodies here, about half had made it outside at the very least, but Jin-woo didn't know how many of those students were still alive. Perhaps they had all died.

With a heavy heart, Jin-woo walked forward and continued to examine the bodies. Seong upon seeing this finally understood what Jin-woo's words meant.

"Oh, you're checking for the second type of infected people."

"Hm, if there's even one of them here this entire room is unusable since we can't take the risk of moving it. We don't know how dangerous the virus is, whether the gloves created for protection from ordinary bacteria can block it."

Seong's expression turned serious. He had actually forgotten about this matter somewhat. Those zombies outside were the main danger of course, but there was still a silent but deadly threat lingering inside the building. With a flicker of his body, he went around the room checking to make sure all of the bodies had bite marks.

Though having bite marks or not wasn't a definite indication of a second type of Infected, it was only a preliminary marker. To truly distinguish the second type of Infected in this instance, Jin-woo came up with the idea of checking for injuries apart from bite marks.

As long as their bodies had injuries it meant that they were attacking the surviving students and facing retaliation.

The first people Jin-woo saw were a slightly older boy and a girl. They both showed excited expressions as the door was opened, but upon seeing Jin-woo the girl was momentarily taken aback.

The boy, however, suddenly jumped forward and embraced Jin-woo in a tight hug. If not for Jin-woo pointing out his arm in a sling, the youth would not have seen it. He didn't even ask if Jin-woo was the one who helped them. He just constantly repeated 'thank you' over and over again, though in a barely audible whisper.

For the past three hours or so, all the youth's mind was preoccupied with was to stay still and silent as possible, so even now when he no longer had to, he was still in that state of mind.

As the girl stepped outside to let the other students and teachers leave the classroom, she was still observing Jin-woo with a surprised expression. But finally, she spoke up and asked.

"Is your name, Lee Jin-woo?"

Rubbing the boy's back who was still hugging him, Jin-woo turned to the girl and nodded.

Seeing this confirmation, the girl hesitated for a moment but then bowed deeply and said.

"Thank you for saving us. If not for you I don't think we would have a chance of surviving until help arrives."

Other students seemed to have recognized Jin-woo as well, after all the story of a middle school prodigy killing his friend and then going mad due to his schizophrenia was bound to spread to the high school campus. Even on the elementary school campus, those young kids were retelling this tale as a scary legend of their school to frighten unaware classmates.

The freak.

The friend killer.

These words used to describe Jin-woo were just two of the many, many nicknames that rose to the top, and of course, his real name was spread all the same as well.

However, rumors were still rumors, so at this moment when the so-called 'friend killer' and 'freak' stood in front of them after sacrificing himself to give them a sliver of a chance to survive, such rumors were dashed from their minds to be replaced by a weight of gratitude so immense that each student here were moments away from bowing down in servitude to repay such kindness.

This really wasn't an exaggeration as Jin-woo had to stop a few people from kowtowing on their knees while thanking him.