Possessed a Healing Game, but It’s a Zombie Apocalypse - Chapter 3

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Episode 3

“What? Just now….”

Feeling like something had changed, Nana looked around, but the scenery inside the house remained the same. The table held leftover emergency rations, and two chickens clucked as they wandered around beside her. That’s when it happened.

【Adrienne Rogueton’s home has been declared a farm. All existing farmland and the lake in front of the farm will be converted to agricultural land. All contamination in the land declared as agricultural will be purified. As a job change commemoration reward, all dead life will be restored to its pre-death state once. The same applies to crops.】

“The crops came back to life?!”

At the message saying that the crops that had died black just before harvest had come back to life, the word “zombie” was completely erased from Nana’s mind.

She rushed toward the front door as if possessed. Or rather, she tried to rush. If only that giant tower of furniture wasn’t blocking the door completely.

“Ugh, seriously! Why is there so much junk? I’ll have to set aside time later for a major cleanup.”

Was this really the same person who had been venting about this damn shitty game just moments ago? The sight of her eyes rolling back over some crops as she dismantled the barricade was beyond amazing—it was almost terrifying.

She threw aside the last chair blocking the door and flung open the tightly closed door.

Then an unbelievable sight unfolded before her eyes.

The scene spread out before her was of a perfectly ordinary farm from before the error occurred.

Instead of a gloomy sky covered with gray storm clouds, there was a clear and sunny sky with fertile brown earth. And corn, potatoes, spinach, and other crops were growing vigorously, waiting to be harvested.

But the miracle wasn’t just that. Nana approached the lake that was only a few steps away from the house.

The contamination wasn’t limited to just the land. The water had also been polluted to the point where it was completely undrinkable.

If she hadn’t filled the large water jar inside the house to the brim the day before the zombie world began, Nana would have already died from dehydration.

Just moments ago, it had been a lake of death where dead fish floated belly-up on the surface.

But as if nothing had ever happened, the lake water was so clean you could see the bottom, and the fish seemed to have come back to life as she could see small schools of minnows swimming around.

“Really… they came back to life? Because it’s my land? Because I declared it agricultural land?”

The lake right in front of the farm was entirely included within the agricultural land that Nana had declared. She could see clear water rippling even at the boundary at the far end of the lake.

“Ah! This isn’t the time for this!”

If the fish in the lake came back to life, there wouldn’t just be minnows! Nana hurriedly searched through her inventory and found the item she wanted.

【Beginner’s Fishing Rod: A fishing rod for you who just started MasFarm! Use this and you can catch a whopper in less than 5 minutes! Uses remaining: 30】

Meat! Even fish would be good, just some protein intake!

Nana pulled out the beginner’s fishing rod that she had left neglected in a corner of her inventory, never using it once while absorbed in the joy of farming, and cast the fishing line with the beginner’s bait that came as a set into the lake.

A moment later. In less than 5 minutes, the float that had been bobbing motionlessly began shaking violently.

【Adrien caught an 80cm giant rainbow trout! Additional fishing experience is awarded to Adrien for succeeding at first fishing.】

“My fish! Daily bread!”

Nana quickly put the rainbow trout flopping on the ground into her inventory and cast her fishing line into the lake once more. Since time doesn’t pass inside the inventory anyway, the fish wouldn’t spoil.

It was a damn shitty game, but this one feature was really good.

After repeating this several times and obtaining enough fish and experience points for several days’ worth of meals, Nana lit a campfire in the front yard with a satisfied expression and quickly cleaned the first rainbow trout she caught, sprinkled it with salt, and skewered it.

Normally, this would be behavior she wouldn’t do out of concern for zombies wandering around. But after being unwillingly stuck inside the house eating nothing but dry and tasteless emergency rations to the point of boredom, she was sick of staying inside.

As if proving that the statement about contamination being purified was true, the outside air she breathed after so long was refreshing.

And this strange confidence that the farm would be safe was instilled by the message she had seen earlier.

The phrase that humans cannot enter agricultural land without the farm owner’s permission.

‘Zombies were human too. Past tense, but human nonetheless. Since I have no intention of allowing zombies on my land, zombies won’t be able to enter.’

Indeed, not even a shadow of a zombie could be seen on the land that had become fertile. Just as Nana was about to pick up the golden-brown grilled trout and take a bite.

“Meow….”

At the faint crying sound, she looked to the side to see a Himalayan cat with brown markings in the center of its face looking at Nana with earnest eyes. No, more precisely, at the trout in Nana’s hand.

The cat was thin, as if it hadn’t eaten for several days. Even though it was a long-haired Himalayan cat, you could visibly see how thin it was despite its fur covering. It must have been quite hungry.

Nana somehow felt sorry for the cat and also felt a sense of kinship.

“You must have also struggled to survive somehow in this world that became like this.”

Meeting Nana’s farm in this land where only despair remained must have been heavenly luck for the cat. The same was true for Nana.

For whatever reason, if Nana hadn’t gained the fortune of becoming a farm owner, she would have gotten a game over from starvation in a few days. Having finished her thoughts, Nana shared the reward of her good fortune with the cat.

As soon as she picked off flesh from the fully cooked trout and placed it on the ground, the cat rushed over and began eating ravenously.

It had cooled down a lot, but it should still be somewhat hot. But the cat began chewing the trout flesh with munching sounds as if it couldn’t feel the heat at all.

Nana watched the cat eating deliciously with a pleased expression and picked up another grilled trout beside her.

At that moment.

【Would you like to add the stray cat as a party member?】

A cat can become a party member? No, before that, did this game even have the concept of parties?

As mentioned before, My Sweet Little Farm is a healing game based on farm management. There’s no need for job changes, and since it’s not an RPG game, you can’t form parties either.

‘No. No, that’s not right. The world has changed like this and I even changed jobs to become a farm owner, so there’s no reason parties can’t be created.’

Even if it’s a cat.

Nana gladly touched the accept button on the message window with her hand. It would have been boring to stay alone on the farm anyway, so this worked out well. And she had wanted to raise a cat for a while too.

Not long after she touched the accept button, a message appeared saying that a new skill had been activated.

【The passive skill ‘Farm Animals’ has been activated. Animals that enter the farm can be added as party members, and upon addition, a skill-specific special Quest automatically begins. Cats catch mice and chickens lay eggs daily, providing fresh protein as useful daily animals. Have a pleasant farm life.】

【The two chickens you were already raising, Coo-coo and Ka-ka, have been automatically registered as party members. Please name the newly joined party member, the stray cat.】

The cat had already finished eating the grilled trout Nana gave it and was purring while rubbing its entire body against her legs. It was a sign of friendliness. Nana scratched the cat’s chin and welcomed the new member of the farm.

“Nice to meet you, Tan-bbang.”

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At the edge of the continent where everything had been contaminated and turned into a land of death, a man was walking.

A zombie was lurking near the man whose face couldn’t be seen because his hood was pulled down so low. Soon the zombie spotted him and rushed at him to bite and tear, but the man unhesitatingly slaughtered the zombie with his sword.

How long had he walked? The man stopped abruptly when he saw a wooden sign that his foot had kicked. The wooden sign caught in his cool eyes had writing that seemed to be handwritten carved into it.

[Welcome to Sweet Little Village.]

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