Martial Arts Returnee’s Game Broadcast

Chapter 268

Day 5 of the zombie outbreak.

While the people didn’t know it, the reason Ha Eung Eung started playing Zombie Hazard was for her disciples to learn internal energy.
In the martial world, internal energy accumulates just by breathing.
But the Zombie Hazard world was no different in lacking internal energy.

‘Still, I’ve found a clue.’

The method for increasing internal energy.
An element that could become the key.
It was the evolving zombies and the specially evolved zombies.

[Please begin.]

When Ha Eung Eung brought a tied-up zombie she had personally caught, the butcher with five years of experience in the meat section gave her a questioning look.
"Are you out of your mind?"
Ha Eung Eung was serious.
The butcher sighed deeply and, making sure not a drop of blood touched his skin, wrapped himself tightly in a butcher's apron, hygiene gloves, and a mask.

• Ugh, stop the gore!!
• Turn on the gore filter lol
• Isn’t it the gore filter?
• Let’s just call it the gore filter; it sounds cool like a caterpillar.
• It’s a catapult
• Let’s just call it catapult; it sounds cooler than gore filter
• Infinite power lol
• Wait, isn’t this something the streamer should have turned on first?
• Ha Eung Eung doesn’t know what a gore filter is, do they?
• What do you expect from a person who tossed limbs like sticks in Half-Demon Valley?^^

The butcher started the process of dismembering the zombie with a butcher knife and cutter.
After physically breaking down the bones and flesh, the people began to understand how a zombie’s body had transformed compared to a human's.
And Ha Eung Eung was able to identify what seemed to be an organ, possibly a secondary internal structure, suspected to be a similar structure to internal energy.

‘Zombies are essentially similar to cheap martial arts, where stagnant energy accumulates in the bones.’

In martial arts history, there is a term called "Juhwa Ipma" (????),
a term for the irreversible damage caused by overdosing on elixirs or mismanaging internal energy, leading to an internal energy reflux and rampage.
The side effects of Juhwa Ipma were diverse.
Internal energy passing through bad parts of the body could cause impotence, brain rupture, or dementia, rendering one unable to recognize others.
Such people were considered fortunate.
Martial artists who practiced martial arts would feel threatened by the internal energy built up in their bones and cause a destructive rampage to release it.
After exhausting their energy, they would briefly regain their sanity but would again feel pressure on their brain from the accumulated energy.
To survive, they commit murders, and when they try to stop, homicidal impulses drive them to kill again, a cycle with no escape.

‘In rare cases, some martial artists suffering from Juhwa Ipma were cured after much effort, but most are freed through death.’

In this sense, regular zombies weren’t so different from martial artists suffering from Juhwa Ipma.

‘A mad spirit drenched in pain and madness. This is more dangerous than stagnation. I can’t use them.’

Special zombies that evolve from regular zombies.
Ha Eung Eung had hoped they would be different, but unexpectedly, the butcher and analysis results were not bad.

‘The madness has somewhat been subdued.’

She found the reason in the settings she herself had specified.

[Zombies gain strength and intelligence through consumption.]
[Set special zombies to appear.]

Intelligence enhancement. A sharp mind can’t be maintained under the influence of madness.
Zombies lower their mania through consumption and subdue the spirit stagnating in their brain.
When they exceed a certain level, the energy accumulated in the brain flows down and evolves into a special organ, and the system defines it as a <special zombie>.

‘The special zombies were the real prize.’

To the unknowing, it was just a game setting, but to the enlightened, it was a carefully planned fortune.
Promising greater rewards to the challengers, helping those who lack strength, wisdom, and courage to build up skills from a lower difficulty level and face challenges.
It felt like a training program disguised as a game.

‘Well, what does it matter? If it helps, then it’s enough.’

She blocked the charge of a special zombie <Charger> with just one finger and pressed it down to the ground.
Sealing its movements naturally, she then pinpointed the pressure points she had analyzed from the butchery and sealed its movement doubly.

‘Now let’s see how efficient this is.’

When a special zombie devours another zombie, how much energy will it gain?
Can a special zombie evolve further in double stages?
If a regular zombie eats a special zombie, can it evolve into a special zombie?

‘It’s too much trouble to track each one, so let’s set up a fish farm starting from this number one.’

The Charger, who had sensed the impending experiments and tortures, blinked sadly.

Day 8 of the zombie outbreak.

After several trial and error days, the fish farm was a success.
Zombies that ate the flesh of special zombies had a dramatically higher chance of awakening as special zombies compared to others.
Thanks to this, the area around the department store was filled with special zombies Ha Eung Eung had embedded in the ground.

‘But if they keep losing their energy, even special zombies will die. I had hoped they would regenerate if food was supplied, but their regeneration was nearly nonexistent.’

Chargers were special zombies specialized in destroying barriers through physical assaults.
When they bled, the mucus-like blood quickly covered the wound, but the flesh that had been torn off didn’t regenerate.

‘But I found another toy.’

Special zombies <Longnose> specialized in finding hidden food.
Special zombies <Climber> who freely climb tall buildings.
<Siren>, a special zombie that screeches and summons other zombies upon seeing a human.

“Goooh...”
“Gigig...”
“Peeeyaah”

For now, they were all trapped in the fish farm.
She openly used the main road as her fish farm, but the zombies didn’t dare approach her.
No matter how much of a mindless creature they were, after massacring over ten thousand of their kind, the instinct to recognize a predator had deeply embedded itself.

Ha Eung Eung was the zombies’ natural enemy, a walking predator.
Wherever her scent blew, the zombies retreated in panic, and wherever she walked, the zombies turned and fled.

• Zombie apocalypse??
• Isn’t this the Silent Swordsman apocalypse?
• How can a person make zombies run away!!
• Is this a predator-prey relationship for real?
• This is crazy lol
• Tip > If there’s no weakness, create one
• So this is why the zombies’ weaknesses were all removed

Thanks to this, the zombies who remembered the plum scent wafting from Ha Eung Eung's body avoided the streets where the plum flowers bloomed or near flower shops.
If someone ever realized this, plum-spray would probably become known as a zombie repellent.

Day 10 of the zombie outbreak.

The special zombies that had been used as breeding stock started dying one by one.

[Party members have selected automatic time progression. (4/5)]
[It’s not unanimous.]
[Time will not automatically progress.]

It was hard to stay awake. Every time she tried to stay awake, the requests for automatic time progression kept coming.

‘The fact that my lazy disciples might easily acquire internal energy like this... It’s unfair.’

Her disciples, struggling just to survive, were trying to reduce their metabolism like hibernating bears due to the lack of food and water.
Ha Eung Eung was frustrated.

[Automatic time progression has been rejected.]

Laziness was the enemy of growth.
Ha Eung Eung decided to personally teach these careless disciples.

‘Wake up, Charger 2.’

Smack!

“Goooorrrhh…”

When Ha Eung Eung injected internal energy into a broom she had picked up instead of a whip, the broom bristles stood upright.
The broom’s sharp bristles, as sharp as steel, lashed at Charger 2’s back, and with painful cries, it woke up.

Thud. Thud.

Using Charger like a giant, Ha Eung Eung walked through the main road, controlled by zombies.
The unreal scene had long turned the chat into a world championship roast contest.
The participant accepted it happily.

‘The Heavenly Demon said that a ruler who receives respect from all must be able to accept even the most embarrassing praise.’

• The pride of the Korean seafood market, Sea Bream Swordsman!
• The Giant Trainer Expert, Swordmaster!
• Zombie Swordsman bringing tension to lazy joint-stream disciples

It was hard to tell if this was praise or mockery.
But thinking about it, even the Heavenly Demon had an embarrassing title.
Something like Sea Bream Swordsman felt almost respectable by comparison.

‘Maybe not? Anyway, whatever.’

In the midst of her indifferent thoughts, Charger 2 grabbed the neck of a passing zombie.
Whoosh!
The zombie was suddenly thrown into a building as they walked down the main road.

“Grrraar!”

The general zombie, baring its teeth and growling, didn’t look too pleasant.
Charger 2, equally displeased, opened its mouth wider and howled.

“Grrrooooh!”
“...Grrr... Grrr.”

The zombie rolled its eyes, avoiding the murderous glare of Charger 2, and turned its head.
Then, it trudged into the building.

• lol
• lolol
• Why is the zombie cute?
• Zombie’s sulking..
• The zombie industry’s survival of the fittest??
• Charger 2, who only used to get beaten, is finally getting its revenge lol

The zombie wave that had tormented Ju A-young and the training disciples for three days.
This sudden assault started like this.
When the disciples learned the real reason for the zombie wave, it wouldn’t be surprising if they collapsed holding their necks.