I took a red dry-erase marker from the lobby of Hotel O and went through every room in the hotel.0

I marked a circle on the doors to the rooms that were clean and safe, while I drew a cross on the doors to the rooms that had shattered glass or were stained with zombie blood. It took me around three hours to check every pantry, bathroom, supply room, parking lot, and all the nearby buildings.0

I gathered all the dead zombie bodies in front of Hotel O afterward and counted all of them. There were about two hundred and forty of them. In order to protect myself and my family from the black creature, I had to recruit more underlings. I couldn’t help but look back on the four heads I’d given to Do Han-Sol earlier. Perhaps I should have given out the enemy leaders’ heads only after the meeting was over.0

At the moment, I could control up to twenty-three hundred underlings. With the eleven stage-one mutants and Ji-Eun, I had the equivalent of six hundred underlings. I knew that I had no time to sit around and relax, and had to replenish my remaining seventeen hundred underlings.0

I tried to recruit the zombies in the hotel as my underlings, but there weren’t any decent ones there. Most of them were either missing an arm or leg. If they had all their limbs, bits of their flesh had been torn off. I needed underlings that were fit for battle; I wasn’t looking for weaklings to make up the numbers.0

I slicked back my bangs and sighed. Even if I recruited one hundred underlings a day, it would still take me...0