Hiding the House in the Apocalypse

28. Seonbi (2)

Even before the war, there was a topic on which pros and cons were always at odds.

Will the group survive the coming destruction? Or will it survive as an individual unit?

The age-old debate was slowly leaning toward collectivism.

The main argument for individualists like me is that the collective system, which can only be seen, is inevitably subjected to strong challenges and eventually collapses.

Some of them are actually broken.

If you look at the citadel of chaebol Park Cheol-ju, who can be said to be the final boss of collective survivalism, has been gutted.

But individualism also had formidable problems.

It is less about external threats and more about our human nature.

Not everyone has the attributes of a hermit.

I thought so too, but the reality that unfolded is that I am also an ordinary person who needs people.

It is not so easy to spend years alone in a small room in fear of dying.

Calm days may continue.

However, it is true that very small changes in daily life lead to uncontrollable fear and concern.

It is also my creed that small daily pains and inconveniences lead to mental illness.

In my case, I tend to remove the cause of the risk, but most people have to live with the small pain and inconvenience.

can’t be fixed

Most of the pain and inconvenience experienced in the life of an air-raid shelter was decided from the time the air-raid shelter was first designed.

As a result, many people gave up halfway or turned strange.

Even I, who didn’t do any community before the war, is dependent enough to suspect symptoms of community addiction.

The form of death will also be different.

Even if you die someday, there will be someone to fight with you, bury your body, and mourn, and dying alone and alone will have a different texture.

There is one more problem.

It is the trend of the times.

I thought Seoul would become like Beijing in China.

It was thought that when the city collapsed and the system collapsed, tens of millions of refugees would scatter in all directions, causing a chain of destruction.

However, Korea was different.

I don’t know if the lie of the ruler is better or if the heart of believing in the ruler is stronger than the Chinese, but the citizens of Seoul chose to die sitting there rather than choosing a collective migration in the face of a great catastrophe facing their eyes.

They were so hopeful.

Or maybe it was because it was an environment where it was difficult to imagine eating something other than hope.

Unlike China, which is overflowing with goods and land, the Korean Peninsula is narrow and various disasters are gathered in that narrow land.

If this movement continues, collective survivalism may gain the upper hand.

this is not my fault

Not everyone can see the future.

It is an overly consequentialist interpretation to say that what happened in China is wrong because it did not happen in Korea.

“hello? This is Skeleton.”

I think this is also an opportunity. Whenever I had a chance, I tried to talk to people.

“Skelton? Oh, you are younger than I thought.”

“Is that Mr. Skelton? Something, the image is very different from what I imagined.”

“No, why is a good-looking person doing that on a bulletin board?”

But why is the reaction strange?

I know I’m not popular and I’ve fallen to the bottom to the point of getting involved with a guy like Unicorn 18, but I repeat the same thing to everyone I meet.

“…”

I guess I’m not good at the internet.

“hmm······.”

Among them, there was a user who was exceptionally friendly to me.

Anonymous 848.

Even in the middle of the night, he was wearing sunglasses and a suspicious costume called a mask, so his face wasn’t clear, but judging from the part that the sunglasses couldn’t cover, he seemed to be in his mid-40s.

“Do you know me?”

Seeing me staring at me, I impliedly asked.

I was wondering if anyone knows me.

You probably don’t know.

Korean hunter information is not only me, but almost all hunters are confidential.

The cause was provided by our top rider.

At the time when China was strong and was alone in dealing with disasters from India and cracks in its home country, China still shouted loudly, but inwardly reached out to Korea as well.

To be precise, he touched the talent, not the country.

8th, 9th, 10th.

Hunters, who had been raised as specialized anti-monster soldiers by the Nara at great expense due to their experience in the past, went to China in pursuit of money.

When the elite soldier was suddenly lost, the government was bombarded with public opinion, including the media, and eventually the personal information of the guards at the hunter training institution was classified as secret without exception.

Of course, there is no such thing as a known face.

However, members who were not from the school I came from or who were found to be unsuitable at school were managed a little loosely.

As a result, I am a hunter.

Is it John Naenon?

“no. just curious Kyle Doss sometimes talks about Mr. Skelton.”

“I beg your pardon?”

“Contrary to Skelton’s bulletin board image, he might be a good person.”

“Didn’t you tell me that we met?”

“I didn’t say anything like that. Have you ever met him?”

“Once upon a time.”

I chatted with him for a while.

It was my intention that the topic that started with Kyledos went to another direction.

“Army? I came from the west too, but it’s an area occupied by neutral troops rather than Legionists.”

“okay.”

“I heard that there is a problem with the legionnaires. I heard that the head of the Corps faction was Lieutenant General Kwon Seong-tae, and the helicopter he was riding crashed carrying another commander following him. An army whose commanders flew. Well, isn’t that obvious?”

“…”

That’s information I don’t know.

The community is the only way to know the situation in Seoul at the time Daram Kim has lost contact.

There are people like journalists who feel rewarded by exchanging information, but community users tend not to release the information they know unless they think it is certain because they know that rumors can grow into bigger problems.

So it seems that the information is late.

“Defender…”

“hmm? Why Defender?”

“no. It just suddenly came to mind.”

Will it be all right?

No matter how much I think about it, the soldier he saw is not at the level of a simple soldier plunderer.

I hope it happened

That guy too?

No, there’s a high chance you’ll win.

I wouldn’t know if there was an Awaken among the siblings, because even I had a hard time blocking the attacks of trained soldiers.

Anyway, while talking about this and that, we arrived at the area where Seonbi’s air defense shelter was located.

As in the other outskirts, I don’t see a single person, but as the city is somewhat nearer, I can see the darkly lit lanterns below the ridge.

On the other side of it I see dismal grayish-white lights.

“… like that.”

It’s not an abandoned city, but an erosion zone has formed next to a preserved city.

Judging from the shape, it seems to be a small-scale erosion caused by Jung Joo-hyung, but since the Gwangju area was designated as a strategic area, management will be more thorough than other places.

This is proof that you are not in control.

It is proof that you are neglecting killable monsters without killing them.

“stop.”

Diesirae, who was guiding us from the front, signaled to stop.

“There it is. It will be over there. According to the report from the orthopedic surgeon, there is a large ventilation hole.”

I can see the ventilation hole.

It seems to be for the treatment of the subway or sewage pipe rather than for air defense shelters.

The stench of the gutter was coming up quite strongly.

“Come on, let’s go. For now, we’ll do a reconnaissance first. For the rest of us, if an enemy appears from the side, fire a threatening shot.”

Diesirae was certainly a seasoned soldier.

“Wait. Is it a booby trap? I will look first.”

Not to mention rich experience in warfare, there must have been many times when he took the lead in winning victories.

where did you work?

Is it North Korea?

When North Korea was destroyed, South Korean troops briefly recaptured Pyongyang.

Judging from his age and experience, it seems likely that he was a soldier at that time.

“Find an air-raid shelter. Judging by the footprints, there are five inside. Judging by the shoe size, two women and three men?”

Everyone’s faces hardened.

A battle will soon break out.

It is a story that you can lose the hard-prepared air-raid shelter and life beyond it and become a cold corpse and roll on the floor.

The tension made everyone’s breath freeze, but the tension didn’t last long.

Laughter was heard.

It was the sound heard inside the shelter.

“Ha ha ha ha ha!!”

“I’m sorry!”

“and. f*ck! awesome!”

Shall we say laughter?

It is the form of laughter we have lost.

It is the sound of many men and women laughing and chatting while looking at one at the same time.

“Are you killing everyone?”

A man asked with greed in his eyes.

It’s probably a user called Chocho.

He is rarely active on the bulletin board, so it is not difficult to read his thoughts.

“You’re not killing women, are you? Girls are just threatened by boys, so I guess I had no choice but to write that.”

He seems to be defending women, but in reality, he wants women themselves.

It’s probably a cute girl who uploaded a certified photo for the first time.

The next girl who showed her face was a face that couldn’t be called cute even with empty words.

What do you think of Diesirae?

“I have to kill them all.”

He answered without the slightest hesitation.

“Isn’t it a waste?”

Chocho asks with a straight face.

At this, Diesirae showed subtle irritation.

“In that case, rape me at least once.”

It seems that he also understood his intentions at once.

what would be obvious

Because males in heat usually have the property of walking into the road of ruin.

“no.”

Chocho put on a sad expression, but the seeds were not eaten.

“I’ll look after you. Instead, finish quickly.”

“I was just saying to save you.”

“After the rape is over, you must kill it. Taking care of yourself is not as simple as you think.”

“No, who raped you? Is it really something to be criticized for just asking to live?”

“Then, the teacher catches the woman herself, drags her away, and slaughter it as if she were raping her.”

I know that Diesirae killed all his dogs.

Among them, there were still young individuals with weak mutation symptoms who could have even a small hope.

Certainly he is no ordinary person.

“Let’s begin.”

Without hesitation, he seized the entrance with a colleague from the same group, maintained covertness, and moved his troops with only hand signals to find the vent.

He spread three fingers.

It sounds like it starts after 3 seconds.

“Ha ha ha ha ha! Look at this baby! This crazy baby. Saying comics aren’t funny is f*cking crazy.”

“I think I know who the f*ck that bastard is. Aren’t you the bastard who couldn’t even get into the webtoon of the week and drew mulberry water on a strange message board that wasn’t fun at all?”

“hey! Mr. Dragon! f*ck b*tch! Your cartoons are not funny!”

A mixture of boy and girl shouts broke through the heavy doors of the shelter and spilled out through the air vents.

Diesirae bent all his fingers.

His colleague wearing a tactical mask put a tear gas grenade into the vent.

Soon the laughter stopped in the shelter and a violent cough leaked out.

“Coke! Coke!”

“What the f*ck?! What!”

“Really, didn’t you really come?”

“Those crooked bastards?!”

“Don’t open the door!”

“no! i’m dying! I die!!!”

The door opened with a terrifying scream.

Diesirae gave the hand signal.

bang! bang! bang!

Diesirae’s guns and those of his comrades opened fire.

Not even a three-shot, but a single aimed shot.

In the acrid smell of smoke, a human figure collapsed.

“Save me!”

A girl crawled out, her face dripping with tears and mucus, grabbing Desirae’s feet and clinging to them.

Diesirae looked back for a moment.

The direction of his gaze was none other than the beginning.

After looking at Chocho’s face for a while, he aimed his gun at the back of the girl’s head.

“Oh, no! Don’t kill girls!”

Chocho tried to dissuade him, but Diesirae’s finger pulled the trigger without hesitation.

bang!

The gun fired and the girl’s head snapped.

“Why are you killing me!!!! f*ck!!!!!”

A scream erupted from Chocho’s mouth.

Some might call it murder.

But when I saw it, it wasn’t mercy.

Looking at the edgy, glistening gaze that does not take its eyes off the dead girl’s corpse while showing regret.

“…”

This guy is also in the community.

It’s the truth I knew but didn’t want to know.

Diesirae and his comrades entered the shelter, where acrid smoke from tear gas remained.

bang! bang!

Two more shots were heard.

“clear.”

The battle is over.

The foreign substance that mocked us has been removed.

“······First of all, let’s take care of what we need. We will talk later.”

Diesirae and his companions, who can be said to be the hosts of this festival, packed nothing.

He seemed content just to watch his guests rejoice, like a generous host.

Perhaps he is more important to the people who will flock to him.

Considering that I set up a separate meeting and talked with a person who was presumed to be a doctor, farmer, or engineer.

Perhaps the true purpose of this meeting was to identify the talent his group needed?

After a man carrying a box of condoms and plenty of food came out, I went inside the shelter.

There is something that gets caught under your feet.

It’s super early.

He was squatting by the entrance, groping the body of the girl who was cooling off.

The corpses strewn inside were caught on their feet, but they didn’t bother to look at their faces.

I don’t really feel guilty.

I’m just fed up.

Because these friends have sufficiently shown the concrete reality of destruction.

They, too, would be no more than changed into one of those realities.

My attention was on the laptop that was placed in the middle of the day.

“Did you say Mr. Skelton?”

Diesirae, who hadn’t shown much interest in me, showed interest in me for the first time.

“Something? those are?”

When everyone packed consumables that are directly related to survival, such as food, medicine, clothes, toilet paper, and condoms, I packed a little unnecessary things such as a laptop and satellite equipment.

“You have one, right?”

“It is.”

“Maybe, I like your writing. to give it to you?”

Diesirae smiled for the first time.

“I am not that kind of person.”

He answered straight away.

*

A week has passed since the death of the new scholar.

Defender has no contact.

I sent a message but no reply.

“…”

In the afternoon, the air in the air-raid shelter felt chilly.

Another miracle happened on the bulletin board.

tntn_Orthopedics : Wasn’t the fake scholar dead?

Guest3321: Hey, I think that Seonbi is right?

The scholar who died twice is back!

However, this time the resurrection location is different.

The third scholar was committing the sin of wallpapering by appearing on an English bulletin board, not a Korean bulletin board.

SUNBI : KOREAN SUCKS

SUNBI : I HATE KOREANS

SUNBI : KOREAN, PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS

SUNBI : HELL ON EARTH : KOREA

SUNBI: I hate Korea

SUNBI : today’s lunch 😉

…

…

“…”

I immediately turned on the walkie-talkie.

“Skelton? What happened?”

Suu asked innocently.

“Change mom.”

“Skelton? what’s the matter? I’m busy.”

He sighed and said a word.

“They gave me the equipment for my circumstances, so what are you doing on the bulletin board…?”

“…”

A new article has been posted on the English bulletin board.

SUNBI: Except for SKELTON 🙂

“······Satisfaction?”

“Delete that post immediately and change your nickname.”

He cut off the call and pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket.

[ Defender Summon Ticket ]

Looking at my picture drawn by my brother hanging across the room, I put my hands together and prayed for the first time in a year.

May they live like sniper mother and daughter.

May this dry destruction not take them away.