I Reincarnated Into a Healing Game… and It’s a Zombie Apocalypse?! - Chapter 91

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Chapter 91

Nana carefully turned the door handle. As expected, Murakka hadn’t locked the door. She seemed confident that no one would come to this place.

She peeked her face through the crack of the door to check the outside situation, then quietly opened it. Surprisingly, there wasn’t a single guard around, only silence.

Did Murakka really believe she could never escape?

No, perhaps she deliberately didn’t station anyone here to avoid looking suspicious. Even the presence of people could become a clue to someone.

Whatever the reason, it was a golden opportunity for Nana.

She ran through the snow.

The snow crunched and crumbled under her feet, and her breath scattered into the bitter air.

It felt as if her breath was bursting from her ears rather than her nose and mouth.

Her pounding pulse hammered against her temples.

“Hah, hah… Where on earth is this place…”

Breathing roughly, Nana stopped walking. Looking around, all she could see were bare tree branches and piled snow. It was the same scenery in every direction, impossible to distinguish north, south, east, or west.

She had no idea where anything was or which direction she was currently heading.

To avoid the mistake of accidentally returning to the barn, Nana carved deep marks with her bread knife on the trees along the path she had just taken.

“Was it that the side with more moss faces north? Or was it about sticking a tree branch in the ground and checking the shadow direction?”

Nana looked around, trying to recall the vague memories of a science exploration assignment from her school days.

But it was winter now.

The moss on the tree bark had already disappeared, and the sky had been covered with dark clouds since the zombie apocalypse, not letting a single ray of sunlight through.

She couldn’t tell which way to go.

“If only I could declare this place as my farmland, I could clear away those dark clouds…”

Nana muttered quietly and gritted her teeth.

But right now, the system was updating, so she couldn’t declare farmland.

Could there be any greater frustration than this?

“It’s okay, Nana. Stay calm. There must be a way.”

Comforting herself with a small voice, she slowly stepped forward. However, perhaps because her concentration had wavered.

Her foot caught on a protruding tree root, and her body tumbled forward. The bread knife she was holding left her hand and flew off somewhere far away.

Landing knee-first on the ground, a dull pain rushed through her. Nana gritted her teeth at the numbing sensation.

“Ah, seriously…”

Her lips trembled, and soon her eyes grew hot. Sorrow suddenly welled up from the bottom of her chest and climbed up her throat.

When Nana first possessed this world, she had definitely been happy.

Every time she leveled the solid ground and planted fine seedlings row by row, the sunlight warmly embraced her back.

At dawn, she would start her day watering the crops, and at noon, she would complete daily quests and main quests while bonding with the villagers.

In the evening, she would sit in the grassland and watch the sunset, thinking.

Ah, this is what real living is.

Those were peaceful and warm days.

But that modest happiness didn’t last long.

When the disaster called the zombie apocalypse swept through the world, the village collapsed and people died helplessly.

In the midst of it all, she accidentally awakened and became a farmowner, seemingly regaining her peaceful farm life.

However, the changed main quest dragged her to the heart of the kingdom’s capital city.

So when she finally went to the capital, the capital was literally a mess, and now she was in the situation of having been kidnapped and barely escaped.

“Ah, life is really hard.”

Staggering as she got up, Nana began searching the ground for her bread knife.

With her body trembling from fever, creaking joints, and breath rising to her chin, all she had was just that one knife.

The reality that even that small tool she needed to hold onto to protect herself was rolling around somewhere on the ground made her feel even more miserable. The tears she had held back again and again finally began to well up in her eyes.

“Ah, don’t cry, don’t cry. Women shouldn’t shed tears carelessly. There are only two times when a woman should cry. One is when her parents pass away, and the other is when she wins the lottery jackpot? No, that’s not right, is it?”

She tried to swallow her tears while awkwardly muttering to herself, but she couldn’t suppress the emotions that had already risen to her throat.

Nana gritted her teeth and tried to take another step, but her body wouldn’t listen. It wasn’t because her legs had given out.

“Cough cough. Ah, I really feel like I’m going to die.”

It looked like she would die from illness and cold before being killed by Murakka.

“Isha…”

The moment she spoke that name, the tears she had barely held back surged up again.

She missed him.

She wanted to be in Ishanka’s warm and cozy embrace, not in this desolate forest where she had to shiver from the cold.

She wanted to be by his gentle and safe side, where she wouldn’t have to force her weary body to get up.

Right now.

“Hah…”

Nana let out a long breath and raised her head again.

What spread before her eyes were still only trees covered with snow.

It was a quiet and barren forest filled only with silence. Longing alone couldn’t get her out of here.

To return to Ishanka, she had to break through this forest.

“Let’s move for now. If I keep walking, something will come up.”

Comforting herself, Nana took another step.

Now was the time to endure. It wouldn’t be too late to pour out this sorrow after returning to Ishanka’s embrace.

Just as she was putting strength in her legs and stepping on the snow.

Swish!

A sharp sound cutting through the wind grazed over her head.

Reflexively turning her head, she saw a dagger embedded in the tree trunk in front of her.

Her heart dropped.

Then, familiar purple hair fluttered between the bare trees.

It was Murakka. She was spinning another dagger in her hand and even had a mocking smile on her lips.

Nana reflexively stepped backward.

One step, then another step. Like a rabbit before a wolf.

But she couldn’t just keep retreating like this.

Nana snapped to attention.

Taking advantage of a moment when Murakka let her guard down, Nana quickly twisted her body. And without hesitation, she began running at full speed.

The forest instantly turned into a hunting ground, and Nana became the prey.

If she wanted to live, she couldn’t stop.

However, the situation was desperate.

Compared to Murakka, who was dressed in warm outerwear, Nana was wearing only a thin nightgown with just a shawl barely draped over it.

All conditions were unfavorable. But there was no other way than to run away. The moment she stopped, she would surely die.

That’s when it happened. She felt an eerie presence behind her.

Nana instinctively ducked forward.

In an instant, with a sharp thud, a dagger embedded itself in the tree trunk right in front of her.

If she had been just a little slower, that dagger might have pierced straight through her head.

Goosebumps crawled up her spine.

Nana staggered and began running again.

However, soon bushes that had grown chest-high blocked her path.

The branches that had survived winter were withered and stretched out threateningly as if to stab anyone who passed by.

But there was no time to stop and wait.

Nana threw herself into the bushes in one go.

“Ugh!”

Thorns cut her hands and sharp branches scratched her legs, but Nana swallowed her screams and charged straight into the bushes.

The sharp and withered branches deeply scratched her arms, her nightgown tore here and there, and scratches were carved onto her delicate skin.

Her shoulders, forearms, and calves were scratched and torn by branches everywhere, stinging, but Nana endured all that pain and ran.

She had to live. That single will alone made her move forward.

The moment she barely escaped the bushes, Nana reflexively looked back at the presence she felt behind her.

Murakka was standing there.

Before her figure could properly register on her retinas, Nana quickly turned her head and began running with all her might again.

She desperately hoped that the bushes she had just passed through would hold Murakka’s ankles, even for a moment. That her thick coat would get tangled in the tree branches.

“Faster, faster…!”

Pushing her exhausted body forward by sheer force of will, Nana gasped for breath.

Then she cautiously glanced back over her shoulder. She couldn’t see anything.

Had she lost them? Holding onto hope, she was about to turn her head forward again when she stole another glance behind her.

Sure enough, no one was there.

“Thank goodness… Aaah!”

Before she could even finish speaking, something struck her hard from behind.

The impact was so severe it knocked the breath out of her.

Her body tumbled forward without any chance to resist.

Nana rolled roughly on the ground. Fresh scratches appeared on her arms and legs.

But she didn’t even have time to scream.

“Ugh…!”

She just gritted her teeth and swallowed her groans while steadying herself and pressing against the ground. But at that moment, someone’s hand pressed down mercilessly on her shoulder.

“Look at the precious Kingdom person running around so well in an unfamiliar forest. How admirable.”

“Your persistence in following isn’t bad either. You looked like such an innocent little princess on the outside?”

“We minority ethnic groups grow up with nature from birth. We’re different from the weak humans of the Kingdom.”

“For someone like that, you were pretty slow though? Should’ve worked on your stamina.”

Murakka’s face contorted at Nana’s sarcasm.

Without hesitation, she grabbed Nana’s shoulder like a hook and slammed her down to the ground with all her strength.

Ugh! Hitting the same spot again. How cowardly!

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