How To Use It?

Something rushed inside of him, making him open his eyes quickly and get up from his sleep while choking his neck, his flesh was being torn apart, and he couldn't tell the difference between reality and hallucination.

His heavy breathing made him cough repeatedly. His body was covered in a cold sweat, clothes sticking to his body.

“Aaa, aaahh, what happened?”

Oliver's hands were shaking violently, he looked at his hands and then looked around him.

"I-I'm in my room?" he asked himself. " D-didn't those zombies eat me…? They killed me…." It felt terrifying to him, he was trembling violently, and his entire body could feel that the zombie was biting him.

The pain is so real.

After a second, he then slapped his cheek. The pain made him widen his eyes.

"I live!" he shouted, so pleased with this. He had just gone through something so terrifying to him.

Click!

The bedroom door opened a figure appeared, making his expression cold. Della entered with a face that looked annoyed.

"How long are you going to sleep like that? You have to work and earn money, Oliver."

Oliver stared hatefully. If this were him back then, he would have sweet-talked Della, coaxing her not to be mad.

"You don't want to listen to me, you are too much!" Della slammed the bedroom door as she came out while Oliver looked at the ceiling.

“I came back alive. This is a miracle.”

Even though this doesn't make sense, Oliver feels a natural sensation when he is humiliated and faces death in a black hole.

He hurriedly took out his cell phone.

“The fourth of September...” He frowned slightly. “The incident was September 17th. Just another 13 days and an attack will occur.”

Oliver's head was hurting. Something like stabbing and making him sweat.

Ding!

The notification sound sounded, making Oliver look ahead with a surprised look.

"What's this!?" he waved his hand forward, but the blue notification screen he couldn't touch didn't go away.

“Am I hallucinating!?” Oliver rubbed his eyes, then swallowed his saliva because he knew what he saw was a reality.

“Apocalypse Survival System Active.” He read hesitantly. "What does it mean?"

[Apocalypse Survival System is a system that can make you survive the Apocalypse]

"Ah!" Oliver was surprised, he didn't expect that the notification would provide an explanation for him like this.

[ Zombie Assault : September 17th]

[Time : 13 days 6 hours]

Oliver's eyes blinked repeatedly, he looked at the notification screen in front of him and started to think. By this time, it was already nine o'clock, and the zombie attack that appeared suddenly happened in the afternoon, as far as he could remember. He didn't know where the zombies came from, but he knew that he had died because of them.

“So... This is reality...” Oliver swallowed hard. He stared intently at the notification screen.

“Zombie attacks… I thought that was only in movies. This doesn't make any sense." Oliver chuckled, he was like a madman because he didn't understand it.

Everything doesn't make sense, including the notification in front of it.

Oliver tried to dig into his thoughts. When the zombie attack appeared, the attack was so fast. As if this plague had happened long ago, the zombies rushed in like a huge wave. 

"What should I do?" Oliver asked, he was both doubtful and scared.

"Survive, okay! If I live again, that means I have to be able to survive, right?" Oliver asked while looking at the notification screen as if he would get an answer from the notification screen in front of him.

He was silent for a few seconds.

"Of course, my thoughts were right. Now calm down and think about the way, 14 more days." Oliver's eyes became firmer than before, he held his breath and the memory of the betrayal raced through his mind, enraging him.

"I'll make sure they pay for it. Feeling what I felt, I'll make them die as they killed me before!"

Oliver hit the bed, filled with a great grudge with a sharp gaze towards the small portrait on the table, smiling at Della.

“I will only save people who care about me, not you.” Oliver got up, took a shower and immediately left the house to do something.

**

Oliver had just come out of the jewelry shop. Inside his bag is the Atlansia $2000 he made by selling Della's jewelry which he secretly stole.

Now that he understood where Della was using the often different jewelry, he thought it was imitation. It turned out to be real diamonds and gold, making his face look hideous.

"They have betrayed you, they deserve to suffer."

Oliver smiled, in his bag, he now has money. He was quite satisfied with the first step to avenging that selfless wife.

"How to get rid of this notification screen in front of me?" Looking at the notification screen floating in front of him, Oliver finally felt annoyed because he almost hit something several times while walking.

He finally stopped at a burger joint. It wasn't long before a meat burger came in front of him and his face was very serious.

He repeatedly tried to touch the notification screen but couldn't handle it.

“Strange, how to hide it and operate this? I need to be guided, at least there is a sheet to explain how to use it."

Oliver exhaled. His brow furrowed in thought.

“Hide,” he said, trying to find the way he wanted.

The screen in front of him had disappeared entirely, much to Oliver's surprise, his knee hitting the table.

“Damn, just 'hide' it and it'll be gone soon.” He was now pressing his chin with his index finger.

“Show,” He looked forward to it, and just as he expected, the notification screen in front of him appeared.

Oliver is happy because he can now figure out how to use the notification screen in front of him.

“Too bad there are no clues. But with this alone, at least I feel lucky. I can repay them and save myself.”

Oliver put his hands on the table, he looked at the burger in front of him. However, suddenly something came out from behind his desk.

Bam!

Again, his feet hit the table, making the people in the restaurant look at him with disturbed eyes.

“Goblins?” Oliver covered his mouth, he saw a gray, pointy-eared figure in front of him. As he looked at the other people, he realized that the other people didn't see the creature in front of him.

"My back itches." The goblin scratched its back, looked at Oliver and moved its hand a few times.

"Yes, you're right. Only you can see me. You know, I'm a guide."

Oliver swallowed his saliva after several times of unreasonableness. He could accept that the gray goblin in the black uniform in front of him was a reality.

The goblin tried to sit on the chair in front of Oliver, his body was the same as that of a three-year-old human child.

"Ehm, I'm Dae, I'll explain a little about this Apocalypse survival system."

Dae cleared his throat once, his black eyes putting pressure on Oliver, who was in front of him.

“With this system, you can survive the Apocalypse that will happen soon. He will help you to survive.” Dae smiled, very unpleasant that this talk was about the destruction of the world.

"So this system will protect me and keep me safe?" asked Oliver, eager to determine if his hypothesis was correct.

Dae nodded his head. His black eyes kept looking at Oliver, who was in front of him. "Of course not, he won't protect you if you just sit in the middle of a crowd of zombies."

Oliver was a little disappointed about that, he came back to life and got a strange thing, he should all get extraordinary abilities like that—resisting the arrival of zombies. 

“Aa...” Oliver used both hands to lean on the table. If all places experience the same thing, then how can they survive?

“I will die. If I don't die here, I will die there."

His face became very pale, his hope was slightly lost.

"You have the Apocalypse survival system, by using it well, you can survive."

Oliver immediately raised his head and looked at Dae.

"Not only that, you will get the skill to survive in the Apocalypse."

Oliver was pleased to hear that, he was very enthusiastic, his eyes kept on Dae, the guide in front of him had to explain everything to him to understand it.

"How to?" he asked in an enthusiastic voice, causing the people in the restaurant to look back at him.