Webnovel Author In The Apocalypse World-Chapter 130: Unexpected Help
The piglet couldn’t escape from the basket, and as long as the pigpen was finished by nightfall, it would be fine. Placing the wood down, Kim Haru followed Go Okrim toward the open field.
Two zombies stood there, perfectly still, without a hint of expression on their faces. They didn’t even blink—fitting the name of zombie-bots
These two zombies had been chosen not only because they were the cleanest and the most intact ones among Go Okrim’s controlled zombies, with no visible rot or missing limbs, but also because they were the strongest on his group.
One of the zombies had Fire-type ability, the same one that Kim Haru had seen when it lighting a candle for Go Okrim before. The other had Space-type ability—the one that had helped Go Okrim "kidnap" Kim Haru away.
The Fire-type zombie hadn’t quite reached Level 2 yet, but it wasn’t far off. Meanwhile, the Space-type zombie had already reached Level 2 and was significantly stronger than a human with equivalent abilities at that level. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been able to take Kim Haru away right under the search team’s noses.
Now, these two zombies were officially under Kim Haru’s possession.
Previously, when Go Okrim needed to program the Zombie-bots, Kim Haru lent him a hoe to use. Now, Go Okrim picked up the hoe from the ground and placed it in the front of the Fire-type zombie’s hands.
"Start working."
With the voice-activated command given, the Fire-type zombie raised the hoe high and brought it down hard in a precise motion.
With a clang, a small indentation appeared in the hard ground.
With each swing, the shallow pit deepened as the dark yellow-brown soil was turned over and loosened. After around ten swings, the previously compacted soil was fully tilled. Having gathered this information, the Fire-type zombie took a step forward and continued hoeing, creating another pit adjacent to the freshly tilled one.
Kim Haru observed for a while, using a wooden stick to stir the loosened soil, and found it met his standards for softness and depth.
He was thoroughly pleased.
Go Okrim explained, "The advantage of using zombies as robots is that their senses, like sight and hearing, can all serve as channels for collecting information. Basically, anything we see, they can detect too. Their activation command is simply ’Start working,’ after which they’ll operate according to the preset program.
I’ve already mapped this plot of land into its system, so when it reaches the boundary, it’ll see it and know to change direction."
Furthermore, during the tilling process, if the zombie encounters something other than soil, it will recognize the object visually, pick it up, and place it aside. For instance, at that moment, Kim Haru noticed the Fire-type zombie uncovering a stone. It paused, picked up the stone, set it aside, and then continued its work.
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"It’s still a bit dim-witted, though." Go Okrim couldn’t help feeling frustrated at the limitations, lamenting that he couldn’t present a flawless zombie-bots to Kim Haru. "No matter how much I tweak it, it only places debris nearby. Next time it digs in that spot, it’ll move the debris over again. And again, the next time.
It’ll keep moving the junk bit by bit, until, by the time it finishes the last row, the debris finally ends up at the edge of the field, out of the way."
But somehow, it never knows to take the debris directly to an out-of-the-way spot.
Kim Haru was speechless.
Just listening to this sounded exhausting.
Still, since it was the zombies doing the work—and they didn’t feel fatigue—then let them be dumb.
"You did a great job," Kim Haru said, clearly satisfied. It looked like picking up this person up was a wise decision. "You can take the rest of the time off."
Go Okrim wasn’t having it. "Kim Haru-hyung, aren’t you fixing the pigsty? Let me help too!"
That could work.
Kim Haru and Go Okrim decided to leave the zombie-bots to its own devices, diligently plowing the field, while the other zombie without a hoe waited off to the side.
The two of them returned to the designated spot for the pigsty and prepared to find a way to hammer the wood into the ground.
But as Kim Haru approached the pigsty site, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.
"Has someone else been here?"
When he left, there had only been a rope marking the area, with the timber scattered across the ground. But now, after taking just a moment to check on the zombie-bots, a dozen of those logs were already embedded firmly in the ground! Kim Haru thought that if he hadn’t returned so quickly, the rest of the logs might have been installed too.
The most puzzling part was that they weren’t just haphazardly driven in; they were placed precisely along the line where Kim Haru had positioned the rope.
Who could be "kind-hearted" enough to go out of their way to do this? The field they’d been working in wasn’t that far, yet they hadn’t noticed anything unusual here—not even a sound. If a hammer wasn’t used, then how had this "person" managed to accomplish it?
Kim Haru experimentally pushed one of the logs, finding it firmly set, tightly embedded in the ground.
System, was this your doing?
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The system didn’t respond.
It seemed it wasn’t the system’s doing. Then again, when had the system ever secretly helped him like this?
Kim Haru gave Go Okrim a look, gesturing toward the other side. Go Okrim quickly caught on, nodded, and began to quietly circle around in the direction Kim Haru had indicated, positioning himself with Kim Haru to flank the area.
The space-tyoe zombie stayed in place, unable to move but still useful as an obstacle.
Kim Haru cautiously maneuvered around, his gaze fixed firmly on the pigsty. If there was something strange lurking there, it might not have had time to escape yet.
Once they reached their positions, Go Okrim mouthed Kim Haru’s name silently, pointing at a long trail on the ground that looked like something had slithered across it, leaving a snake-like trace.
It was still here!
