14 Adam the explorer

A month ago, when he learned that the house is in a danger zone due to its proximity to the zoo, he decided to make a visit and assess the threat.

Reluctantly he left the SUV behind. James told him that with his capabilities it would be much safer if he travel on foot. Vehicle's tend to attract alot of unwanted attention and since he is going to a possible hostile area, stealth is a better way.

He set out and went to the zoo's location.He hid himself inside one of the house 50 meters from the zoo's outer wall.

He set his defence before he got his drones to scout the area.

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The place is a mess, everything is broken and most buildings are wrecked. All the cages in there are all busted open. As far as he can see there are no moving or living creatures anymore.

On the way to this place he made a few detours. He went to different locations and set his drones to map the area.

He also set his drones and senteies to kill as much zombies as he can to gain another level. When he got here he only need to kill a few more to get to level 10.

Its getting harder to level up now and its one of the goals for this trip.

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By the time he finished scouting the zoo, its almost dark.

There's a drone hovering 100 meters above the house that he's currently using.

He already set up a perimiter defence using his sentries and drones. His sniper sentry is on the foor top and his heavy machine gun is on the first floor. There is another one right outside the room. The rest of the sentries are spread out around the outside of the house but still inside the fence.

He have two drones inside his room and 4 drones right outside the four corners of the fence. The rest are on patrol around the block.

This has been the standard setup ever since he started this trip. It took him almost 2 weeks to get here. He stayed on different houses and setup his defences the same way.

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When he set his defences, one of the features of the map is the capability to label an area or space.

He learned that he can designate an area with different levels of priority. He can then set his defences accordingly. Anything that gets inside a certain distance from the area that he designate as the base will automatically trigger a response.

His drones is also able to recognize the distict characteristics of the zombies. The firat time he used this defensive setup and alert system, he was not able to sleep at night at all. Due to the number of zombies who wonders inside his designated territory, the alarm simply didnt stop all night.

His solution is to create three layers of designated area from hisndesignayed base. The outer, inner and the base areas.

The outer area basically starts around 400 meters from the base point and outwards to the extreme detection range of the drone (1 km). Anything that gets in that area will automatically be tracked by his defence. If its anything other that a regular human zombie then the system will simply note that intruder into the system but will not conduct any action. If anything beyond a human zombie enters the area, the system is set to automatically notify Adam. Adam then has the option to use his sniper sentry or use his drones to attack.

The inner area starts 100 meters outside the house perimeter and cover up to the edge of the outer area. Anything that gets inside this area will automatically alert the sentries and will automatically be attacked once in range. The maxed level sentries have a maximum fire range of 350 meters.

The last is the base area. This is where Adam is located. Anything that gets inside the 100 meter radius will automatically trigger the heavy machine gun sentry. By this point, if a regular zombie reached that distance, the loud fire power of the heavy machinegun will surely wake him up.

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He was rudely awaken in the middle of the night.

The proximity alarm that he set up is currently blaring.

A sysyem notification is currently flashing in front of him.

<Proximity Alert! Possible hostile entity has entered designated outer area.>

He immediately pull up his map. Since its in the middle of the night, he switched to infrared.

He saw about fifty small red dots scattered around the outer area laveled zombies and one big dot right on the eastern edge of his drones detection range. Its currently labeled as unknown.

He immediately sent one drone to 500 meters out towards the east and hover 100 meters above.

This method will effectively extend his 1km detection range by another 500 meters.

It took only a few seconds for the drone to get in position. He watched as the video from the drone went through a couple of enhancements to give a better feed.

That's when he first saw the giant mutilated zombie gorilla.

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He watched the gorilla all night, as he is trying to decide what to do with it.

Its been a few hours since he first saw it and its already daylight now. The gorilla Its currently mawling one of the human zombies and eating one of its legs.

From his observation, he noticed that the gorilla is not alone. When the first light appeared a few more zombie gorilla appeared from the same direction. The one he saw last night is not even the largest.

He found out that these gorillas are a bit more intelligent compared to the dumb zombies but they are still not centient. Unlike the zombies who just dumbly walk around and attack when there are people, the gorilla is actually acting like a normal gorilla, but they do have a taste for zombie flesh.

By noon, after observing its behavior, he finally decided to kill them. Since they are wondering around, he dont want them to spread out and one day reach his house.

He studies they position and decided to target the one gorilla that's furthest from the group. That giant gorilla also happens to be the biggest one there.

He commanded one of thr drones to attack. He watched from that drones camera as it homes in on the giant zombie. He saw from the feed when it finally dived in towards the gorilla's head and heard the distict sound of the drones self destruct from his current location.

However when he check back to his battle map, the big dot that represent the giant gorilla that he just attack is still there. He switched to the video feed from his closest surveillance drone. He saw that the left half of the gorilla's head is gone but its still standing and walking as if in a daze.

He was shocked at its resilience. He didn't expect anyone can survive a direct bomb explosion to the head.

Challenged by the giants stuborness, he tasked another drone to finish the job.

He watched as the drone made contact to the remaining right half of the gorillas head and was satisfied whe it finally tumbles down and died. He sighed in reflief as he watched its body stop twitching.

<Player level up!>

<Congratulations 3 skill points awarded.>

Name: Adam Black

Class: The Gamer

Level: 10

Exp: 328/10000

<Player reached level 10. Skill "Drone" maxed out. New skill activated.>

Skill: "Attack Drone"

Level: 1

Summon and command a permanent autonomous attack drone. Default weapon: Laser Blaster. User can change weapon by slotting a range weapon on the Attack Drone's control panel. Can set unit to self destruct.

Max unit: 1

Cooldown: 5 min.

Next level: Max unit +1

<Player reached level 10. Skill "Sentry" maxed out. New skill activated.>

Skill: "Bunker"

Level: 1

Summon a permanent Bunker. Skill creates a permanent roofed shelter made of 5 inch steel. Bunker has a built in sentey for defence. Default weapon: Laser Blaster. User can change weapon by slotting a range weapon on the Sentry's control panel.

Max unit: 1

Cooldown: 5 minutes.

Next level: Armor: Titanium. Sentry +1

<Player reached level 10. New skill activated.>

Passive Skill: "Technomancer"

Level: 1 (Max Level)

Skill create a loyal Artificial Intelligence that supports the user. A.I. can merge to any summoned unit for better control.