Chapter 135: Midnight Escape
As a result, once the marketplace closed, Joo Joowon found himself with nothing to do.
Originally, he had wanted to purchase a night vision device so that he could continue hunting zombies and earning experience during the night.
Unfortunately, head mounted night vision equipment was originally military hardware, so it hardly needed to be explained who controlled such equipment before the apocalypse.
There were almost none available on the marketplace.
Of course, ordinary night vision devices were quite common in the marketplace.
After all, online shopping platforms before the apocalypse could sell almost anything imaginable.
Many fishing enthusiasts and outdoor campers owned them.
Unfortunately, Joo Joowon’s standards were rather high, and none of those devices really met his requirements.
More importantly, after the power grid failed, people who owned such devices quickly realized just how valuable they had become.
Items that originally cost only a few hundred yuan before the apocalypse were now being sold at prices so outrageous that most people could only stare helplessly.
Almost every seller demanded equipment in exchange.
Very few of them were even willing to accept food or other supplies anymore.
The hand held night vision devices were also inconvenient to use, which made Joo Joowon even less willing to become the fool paying those outrageous prices.
It was ultimately a failure in preparation.
Although he had considered the possibility of power outages, he had never thought to purchase several night vision devices in advance. Then again, his need for them had never been particularly urgent in the first place. Otherwise, he would not have simply walked away the moment he saw the inflated prices.
The search thread could already replace part of the function of his eyes.
Since he only intended to kill zombies, there was no need for him to clearly see what they looked like anyway.
It would also serve as a good opportunity to improve his proficiency in using spider silk.
If his Mental Power had not yet remained unrecovered, Joo Joowon would have already gone out to test it in practice.
Although he still possessed a bottle of Mental Power Recovery Potion, that item was reserved for emergencies and critical situations.
There was no way he would waste it on something like this.
More importantly, he wanted to see exactly how long it would take for Mental Power to recover naturally through rest alone.
Judging from the current situation, the recovery speed was painfully slow.
It seemed to take several hours just to restore a single point.
This was perhaps related to the fact that he still did not possess a proper class.
After all, mages could recover through meditation.
Priests could recover by healing themselves.
As for ordinary people, the only method that seemed capable of accelerating Mental Power recovery was sleep.
Seeing that his Mental Power clearly would not recover anytime soon, Joo Joowon simply lay down on the bed.
The moment his head touched the pillow, exhaustion surged over him.
In less than a minute, he had already fallen asleep.
Byeol tilted his head and looked at Joo Joowon.
From the rhythm and depth of his breathing alone, he could roughly sense the state of his body.
Back in the past, whenever Joo Joowon returned home after several days of overtime work and collapsed into bed, he would sometimes even snore.
After thinking for a moment, Byeol quietly jumped off the bed and carefully walked out of the bedroom without making a sound.
Because Joo Joowon kept cats in the house, he never closed the bedroom door when sleeping.
Fortunately, Byeol’s schedule was almost identical to Joo Joowon’s.
It never sprinted around the house or caused chaos during the night while Joo Joowon was sleeping.
The moment Hwi saw Byeol, it instinctively opened its mouth to greet it.
Instead, Byeol immediately smacked it with a paw.
Hwi instantly looked at Byeol with grievance written all over its face and let out a quiet whimper.
Byeol walked toward the doorway, then turned Its head and called out to Hwi once.
Hwi immediately followed after Byeol happily.
Most of the time, a cat’s meow is used for communicating with humans.
When cats communicate with other cats, however, they rely much more heavily on scent and body language.
So the moment Hwi saw Byeol’s actions, it immediately understood that Byeol wanted it to follow along and go outside to look for food together.
Although they had moved homes, a difference of only one floor was nowhere near enough to make Byeol lose its way.
In fact, Byeol had long since explored every floor of the apartment building and was already extremely familiar with the entire neighborhood.
If the scents around the area had not changed so much recently, Byeol would have even dared to wander farther away and spend ten days or even half a month outside before returning home.
Byeol skillfully led Hwi out of the apartment.
Its footsteps were light and silent, and Its cat eyes emitted a faint glow in the darkness.
In the darkness, Joo Joowon suddenly sat upright in bed and stared toward the door with vigilance.
The warning spider silk had been triggered.
At this hour, what kind of monster would launch a surprise attack?
While suppressing his sleepiness, Joo Joowon quickly climbed out of bed and immediately positioned himself in the blind spot beside the door where anyone entering would be unable to see him.
After moving into position, his remaining drowsiness vanished completely.
Only then did he realize that something seemed off.
The spider silk appeared to have been broken from the inside outward.
After carefully recalling the sensation, Joo Joowon became certain he hadn’t mistaken it.
Each of his detection threads had been placed in a different position.
With the current processing speed of his brain, the moment any thread was disturbed, he could immediately identify its exact location.
Could one of the plants he had brought home have escaped?
The idea had only just appeared in his mind before he rejected it.