The Days of Fighting the Zombies

A realistic post-apocalyptic zombie novel. The outbreak isn't caused by a comet crashing into Earth, nor does disaster inexplicably strike right at the beginning. Instead, it stems from an extraordinarily vast, carefully orchestrated conspiracy, which will not be revealed in the first three volumes.

There are no supernatural abilities or power-leveling, and certainly no scenes of one person cutting down dozens of zombies or mowing down ten thousand monsters with a machine gun. The scenes aren't like The Walking Dead, where a simple stick can easily pierce someone's skull. This novel's realism lets you feel the terror of thirteen people working together to kill a zombie for the first time, armed with nothing but batons.

The main group is a team of thirteen auxiliary officers from a town's public security patrol. The story begins on the night before the outbreak, while they are on patrol. As the story unfolds, it explains that humans pass through four stages of infection before becoming zombies. In the first stage, ordinary people develop bloodshot eyes and pale faces, and may mildly self-harm by biting their hands. In the second stage, as time passes and the virus erodes their bodies, their pain worsens and their self-harm becomes more severe: they may bang their heads against walls or claw at their own flesh. They also begin attacking people. In the third stage, their condition worsens, and they repeatedly rub their faces against walls. The fourth stage is when they become true zombies, with no human consciousness left. Their strength varies at each stage depending on how the infection changes them. Later on, after around fifteen days without food, their muscles gradually atrophy and their strength falls to its lowest point.

With no suitable weapons and only a limited food supply, the main group devises and carries out plans step by step, struggling to keep their team alive in the apocalypse.