“How much longer do we have to wait?”

Hwang Ji-Hye yelled as she put a bullet through yet another zombie’s head.

“You think unlocking a door is that easy?”

Park Gi-Cheol threw the hairpin he’d been using to the floor and started hammering at the doorknob with the stock of his rifle.

The two of them were trapped, unable to go up or down, and they were growing increasingly anxious.

To make matters worse, they were starting to run out of bullets.

Click— Click—

With her rifle now empty, Hwang Ji-Hye mounted a bayonet on her rifle and started bayonetting the zombies hanging onto the stairs in their eyes.

GAAA!!!

A zombie jumped on top of Hwang Ji-Hye.

Her eyes grew wide, and she swung her bayonet to intercept it. The blade pierced directly through its chest, causing it to squirm and struggle.

The zombie’s weight bore Hwang Ji-Hye to the ground. Its slimy, sticky saliva dripped onto her face.

“Group leader!”

Park Gi-Cheol, belatedly recognizing what was going on, ran to assist Hwang Ji-Hye.

He smashed the stock of his rifle into the zombie’s temple, and the creature swayed side to side before collapsing to the floor. Hwang Ji-Hye quickly propped herself up and stabbed the zombie in the eye with her hunting knife.

The zombie’s body jerked once, then stopped moving.

“Are you alright? You didn’t get bitten, did you?"

Hwang Ji-Hye shook her head to indicate that she was unharmed, and turned around.

Immediately, she realized something was wrong.

The zombies...