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nNing stopped scratching his thigh. “Wait what?” he exclaimed as he looked down at himself.

nHe had been scratching himself all this time but hadn’t noticed why. He thought it was something normal that he was doing, but it turned out that he was not.

n“Wait, the virus is trying to affect my body too? Is that why it’s so damn itchy?” Ning asked.

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n“I’m not in any danger, right? Like that poison that destroyed my body?”

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n“It’s fine, I’ll survive,” Ning said and had to consciously stop himself from scratching again.

nHe zoomed his vision onto his skin and saw his skin wriggle as the virus destroyed it, and it regenerated back.

nNing had to force himself away from looking at it. “Now, let’s get back to killing people. Give me a map with where all the zombies are.”

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n“Uhh… what about just this city for now?” Ning asked.

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n“Good,” Ning said and moved to a different location according to the new map he just got from the system.

nHe found a cluster of zombies and easily killed them. Then, he moved over to another cluster and killed them as well.

nAir Cutter, which had become quite useless over the last few years without Ning putting a large amount of energy, was now the best thing in his arsenal for zombies that were simply weaker humans.

nDay and night, Ning carved his way through the entire city, and once he was done, he moved on to another city.

nThere too he found quite a few zombies who he killed without taking any break. By the third day, Ning was starting to get annoyed.

nBy the 5th day, he was fully annoyed.

n“Goddammit,” he shouted while he stood on top of a building on the roof as many zombies crowded themselves around the building, trying to climb their way to him.

n“Why are there so many zombies? Why couldn’t they have simply died?” Ning shouted. “Urghh!!”

nHe was truly frustrated. “I think of myself as a patient man, but this is going to take way too long,” Ning said. “How many are left again?”

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n“I barely put a dent in the number after killing them non-stop for 5 days? I really need to think of some other way to kill them that won’t take so long,” he said and go to thinking.

n“Can I turn some of them into my subordinate? That way I can force them to kill each other instead,” Ning said.

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n“Tsk,” Ning clicked his tongue. “And this place has no unique energy for me to make use of, huh? If only I could gain some sort of power and fight.”

nThe system said nothing.

nNing continued thinking of ideas, and soon he thought of bombs.

n“Right bomb, what if I dropped bombs on them? That could work right?” Ning asked. “Wait no, that would require me to create way too many bombs. Dammit, if only I could nuke this place from the stratosphere, I would be so happy. But it’s not like I can do that.”

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nNing had to stop his mind from thinking of something else and force it back to the previous topic when he heard the system.

n“Wait, I can nuke them?” he asked. “Won’t that cost me way too much energy?”

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nNing’s eyes widened with some hope. “Wait, are you saying that there are nukes in this place?” he asked.

nNing had remembered a lot about Earth once the system had bought him the memories back. As such, he was starting to know a lot of things that he would’ve forgotten.

nOne of which was the threat of nuclear attacks.

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nA smile came upon Ning’s face. “Good, give me the locations.” 𝗈𝗏𝓵xt.𝑐𝑶𝑀

nNing disappeared from the rooftop and arrived inside what looked like a military base. He started directly in front of him at the nuclear missile that was ready to explode on command.

nAfter learning a little about how to use them, Ning targeted this missile in one of the cities and launched it. The system assured that this would destroy almost all the zombies in that county and more.

nThen, Ning moved to another missile and launched it too. And another, and another.

nBy the end, there were about 122 nuclear missiles, all headed to the major locations around the planet.

nNing teleported to the sky and looked down.

nSoon, the fireworks began as mushroom clouds reached the sky. The flashes of light all around the world glowed so bright that it looked like it was daytime even on the night side.

nNing even felt the heat and shockwave all the way into the stratosphere from where he watched the nukes go off.

nA solemn look appeared on his face as he asked, “Can… life grow back on this planet?”

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n“I see,” Ning said. He waited for the clouds of debris to disappear and asked, “how many zombies are still left?”

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nA sad smile appeared on his face. “So many dead zombies,” Ning thought. “So many people that I’ve killed. Hah, my kill count is in the billions now. I’m not going to get punished, am I?” Ning jokingly asked again, expecting the system to say no.

nInstead, Ning saw two notifications pop up in front of him, and his vision immediately moved to the one that came afterward.

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