I woke up. It seems I cried myself to sleep yesterday.

  I can't go on like this, not with her corpse right beside me.

  I brave myself again. I step myself out of the house. Holding the makeshift weapon spear I made.

  "Kieek?"

  I walked out slowly. I saw a lone, clueless green Monster.

  Taking that chance, I run as fast as possible, pointing my makeshift spear towards its neck.

  "Kieeee uuugghh!"

  I did it.

  The Green Monster was surprised, and that surprised face was the last face it ever made.

  "It seems not only my strength is increasing, but my precision and agility are too inhumanely higher than before."

  I quietly give a mocking smile to myself. Then, I brought the monster's corpse into my front yard. I have no edible food anymore. I need to do anything to survive, so I try to drain its blood in any way possible, either by hanging the corpse or cutting its body apart.

  "Corpse? No, it's meat."

  I tried to do anything I could think of on how to do it. I don't have any experience, but at least I understand a little of its principles because I am used to surfing around the internet about this kind of topic.

  Right, is the internet still on? I can't really be sure of it since my phone battery is long gone.

  While draining the blood, I gutted and skinned the Green Monster. It's not something that would make me puke anymore. Not, remembering what had happened to me while cowering in this House.

  While the results are far from good enough, let alone perfect. It's not something I would give a damn about right now. I also find some kind of weird crystal orb inside its body. I don't know what that thing is. It's probably like some kind of pearl or something. I just decided to keep it.

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  I hunt Lone Green Monster a few more times. I hide myself when they show up in the mob, then wait until one of them separates from the others. I keep doing this until I feel the neighborhood is safer. The neighborhood is really quiet there is not even a single sound from any possible human. Some houses smell rotten, but I didn't plan to check them at all.

  After that, feeling that the place was quiet and safe. I bury Misty.

  "I'm sorry, this is all I can do for you."

  "I'm so sorry."

  Tears fall on my left cheek again.

  Determined not to waste her death. I started to plan to move away from this house to find any survivors, hopefully, a gathering of them. To be honest, forgetting what happened in this house is probably the main reason I left the house.

  I cut my long, messy hair that grew because my bone-like hands at the time couldn't even lift a scissor. I also trimmed my unkempt beard.

  Packing the meat in any aluminum foil or plastic I could find. I packed anything I could that would be useful in my backpack.

  I walked a few kilometers on the empty toll roads, which were filled with abandoned cars that looked like they'd been crashed against something. Seeing how empty the streets were, I didn't have much expectation that I would find anything. But then I.

  I'm astonished.

  "This is Tangerang, right?"

  There is a giant forest in the Tangerang Regency that is supposed to be an urban city area. It's not just a tiny forest park. It's a legitimate forest that can't be seen how deep it can be.

  Speechless, I decided to stop my track in front of it.

  I'm racking my brain on what step I should take.

  At first, I was planning to go to Jakarta by walking through this toll road, but a giant forest popped up out of nowhere in the middle of the toll road itself.

  It's a good thing I refrain from using vehicles in the first place. There are actually quite a lot of abandoned cars on these roads, but I decided not to. Not just because I don't want to attract any dangerous monster, but also because I don't have a single clue how to turn the vehicle on without any keys like in the movies, the one with keys still on seems to be abandoned while it is still turning on. Hence, those vehicles run out of gas already at this point.

  After resting for some time, I started planning on climbing the trees to scout for anything possible. With the fitness that I now have, climbing some trees is never a hurdle. I have literally been walking for a few kilometers with a giant backpack in my back without breaking much sweat.

  "Should I go towards Serang instead? Tangerang and Serang are both in Banten province, but of course, Jakarta, a metropolitan city, is far more promising if looking for a gathering of survivors is the main objective. It's also closer. Furthermore, I can't really be sure if something like this didn't show up on the way to Serang."

  I made up my mind, and I climbed a nearby tree.

  It's really a gigantic forest, and even the trees in the area outside reach 20 meters easily. I didn't climb until the top I just climbed it enough to scout what's happening in this forest.

  I saw a few green weaklings passing by a few times, but I didn't want to create any commotion yet since I didn't know what was actually inside this forest, so I let them be.

  After sniffing around for a few hours in the outside area and seeing nothing much. I decided to camp out for the night and sleep in one of the abandoned vehicles outside of this forest. Planning to start transversing this forest tomorrow morning instead.