Hiding the House in the Apocalypse

21. trust

Faith is not the exclusive property of God.

There are several beliefs.

Belief in love between lovers, belief in one’s own luck that a successful businessman usually has, belief in a sports coach’s stubbornness in appointing sluggish players, and so on.

I witnessed a similar belief at a real estate cafe that I joined for a while while looking at land in the past.

If I trawl through my vague memory with writings written by a person who is presumed to have a house as his entire property,

Real estate is unconditionally upwards.

I guess it felt like this.

Although generally agreed, it is unlikely that real estate will go upwards even in extreme situations such as war.

There are people in our community who share similar beliefs.

mmm: (Breaking News) US National Normalization Declaration!

mmm: (Chirasi) Icheon-Yeoju Food Belt Optimization

mmm : A cargo ship has arrived in Busan!

This friend who says crazy things every day, m9, wasn’t fanatical about tomorrow from the beginning.

He was an ordinary user with a very normal mind and standard values by the standards of the bulletin board.

m9 started to change after winning the latest apartment called “The Hope”.

Until then, m9, who had been one of the ordinary users, suddenly changed drastically and began to condemn the way of life he had chosen.

But our Viva! Apocalypse! Korean bulletin board users are not so green.

I have nothing else to do, so I log on to the bulletin board all day long, so I know how to deal with strange friends.

The method we have chosen is non-response.

It is to impose social sanctions by ignoring them as a group without the need to mix words or argue.

Considering that the biggest purpose of this bulletin board is communication, collective ignoring is a heavy punishment that is equivalent to a death sentence.

But this is not someone else’s story.

I’m a bit dangerous too…

SKELTON: What would you like for breakfast?

I even removed the headline of my self-respecting commentary and wrote carefully selected articles worthy of comments, but no one commented.

The cause is a human hunter.

I like the skeletons they posted before! The doubaeg-eul called it is that my little reputation has been thrown into the abyss.

A user who had a friendly feeling for me informed me about it through a message.

Message from Kyle_Dos: Are you really close with Defender? Defender, do you know what kind of image this is?

Know.

Everyone hates it, but since his writing is different from other users and has a lot to see, it is a necessary evil to just leave it alone.

With such a strange guy flirting with me, it wouldn’t be unreasonable for my image to deteriorate.

In fact, on the bulletin board, I am already being treated as a decent member of the “Defender Friendship Family.”

But reversal is not impossible.

The role model is the aforementioned m9.

M9, who suffered the social death penalty of collective ignoring, broke its long silence and suddenly emerged as a user in the spotlight.

The momentum was so hot that users who had blocked him unblocked him and searched for his writings.

The clue was provided in a recent post by m9.

mmm : “The Hope” Lim Jang

Attached to the post were three videos recorded in low quality without any explanation.

In the first video, m9 shows the journey to Seoul with a selfie stick out of an air-raid shelter with a lot of editing.

M9’s face reflected on the screen looked older than me, but for some reason, there were two dogs in the shelter.

Welsh Corgi? French Bulldog? Perhaps it is such a paper.

“Now, this is the road connecting my hideout and Seoul. As you can see, it’s very safe! Soldiers always protect you? harrier? There was no such thing. But what if it’s okay? Does your body rot in the air-raid shelter?”

Unlike my territory, which was just beginning to be crowded with pioneers, soldiers and armored vehicles marching in an orderly manner along the road around the air-raid shelter of m9.

For some reason, the army was heading toward Seoul, not the front line, but that seemed like a good thing to m9.

“From now on, I will reveal my new apartment! antis! Open your eyes and see! You guys are dead and you won’t have a house when you wake up!”

M9 must have suffered a lot in the meantime, and he let out a long, long resentment toward the camera.

But this human.

“Especially you Skeleton! You are this baby. what? that it will never be built? what? Acquaintance foot official? under! What are real people like? just curse Don’t touch people’s hopes with shadyness!”

Why is it only for me to be a f*cking disease?

Anyway, I was able to know the current situation of The Hope through the video.

As the times change, the country quickly built one pilot building instead of the entire complex, and a plan was established to receive residents for the pilot building to test the living environment and build the rest of the complex with the data obtained there.

m9 is one of the test generations moving into the demonstration building.

But something is awkward.

Even if it is just one apartment building, it takes some time to build.

It would take well over a year just to select the land.

How did you shorten the construction period?

The answer was in the video of m9.

For a moment I doubted my eyes.

“and······.”

It has to be,

That apartment tilted.

If Italy has the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Korea has The Hope, which is tilted at such a serious angle that even concessionaires who want to show off have fear.

But m9’s eyes don’t seem to see anything like that.

“Now then, I will reveal my sweet home. No more moldy air-raid shelters!”

At least the inside was decorated in a good way.

Built-in cabinets and built-in wardrobes, bathrooms with bathtubs, boilers, toilets with flush water, sinks and refrigerators, and washing machines. Friends of housekeeping.

However, it only had an assortment, but the interior of the apartment actually reflected on the screen was full of defects.

The wallpaper might have been glued on or it would fall off and get tattered, the bathroom walls were cracked, the built-in refrigerator wasn’t turned on, and water didn’t come out of the tap.

Most impressive of all was the scene where the pen rolled gently down the living room floor when the m9 dropped it.

The community’s reaction was a question mark itself.

Anonymous848: ?

Kyle_Dos: ?

Anonymous: 458 : ?

DragonC: ?

unicorn18 : ?

Defender: ?

Survival_KING: ?

SKELTON: Oh?!

Anonymous 118: ?

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It’s a really bad job.

People who won the lottery realized the reality and complained, so they faked it by peeing on their frozen feet.

In fact, a journalist based in Seoul came with accurate information.

Gijayangban: (Failnet Firm) The Hope pilot generation is not a lottery, but an application. About 2,000 people went, but when they saw the apartment tilted, they turned around and came out. As a result of the actual safety diagnosis, it is a waste class that is not known when it will collapse, but it is cut from the top and judged as a residential grade. Currently, Seoul citizens are betting on when The Hope will collapse.

Failnet, which is mainly used by journalists, is our Viva! Unlike Apocalypse!, it is a community that uses wired and wireless Internet networks, and the connection is very unstable and even the server bursts from time to time, but as an open Internet, it has an overwhelming number of users.

The last picture of Chairman Je Poong-ho was also brought from Failnet.

There are so many false rumors, but the reporter Yangban had an eye for discerning between fake and real, and with that ability, he became a good user in a short time.

All community users nodded at the reporter’s words, but only one denied it with blood in his eyes.

mmm: I read the novel well~ It looks like you live in an embarrassing suburb called Seoul. Don’t pretend to know me and go on your way

Despite the bitter sarcasm, m9 became a popular user.

People wondered.

When will the apartment on m9 collapse?

When will m9 disappear from the bulletin board?

From that day on, m9’s posts received an average of over 10 comments per post.

The content was largely the same.

Anonymous 118: Brother, are you okay?

unicorn18: Didn’t the house shake today?

Anonymous 458: Rumble!

Anonymous 848: Go ahead~

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It may not have been the result of his own induction, but I was strongly stimulated by seeing m9, who was a mandatory user to block, receive a lot of comments.

Even if you are blocked a lot, you have come to the realization that other friends will unblock you as long as you have fun.

I have good material.

It is the construction of the camouflage house that was planned just before.

The plan itself was simple.

All you have to do is put the container house you used before on the place of the collapsed air-raid shelter and fix it properly.

After a long time, I took out a forklift and moved the container, and after making it a place where people could live, I posted it on the bulletin board.

SKELTON : “The Fake” Lim Jang

I thought the number of views was low because the title was not intuitive, so I changed the title and uploaded it again.

SKELTON : “Skelton Second Condominium”

The title wasn’t the problem.

Many users just looked at my posts and just disappeared.

Later, Defender, presumably his younger brother, told me the exact reason.

Defender : It’s a beggarly house. Leave the shelter and live in a place like this? Are things so bad?

It seems that the quality of the house itself was an issue.

It’s a camouflage house, so I only touched it, but it’s a camouflage house to me, but there’s no way other users know about it.

Who likes being poked around like a beggar?

It is my failure to meet the customer’s eye level.

By the way, why is this guy so clingy?

Message from Defender: (Defender embarrassed) Shall we join???

Anyway, the m9 has been on a winning streak ever since.

In particular, on the day he left the shelter and moved in to The Hope under the escort (?) of the military, he vomited up a spirit of receiving as many as 122 comments.

To some extent, Yankees active on foreign bulletin boards came and asked what was going on.

As with everything in the world, the m9 gossip was quickly consumed and quickly forgotten.

The bigger problem is that the small incident called m9 is lightly buried.

The clue was already in the video taken by m9.

Troops marching in line to Seoul.

They were an army guarding the front.

The troops guarding the eastern front rebelled as a group and turned their troops around to “advance” to Seoul.

Their justification was in line with the facts.

“Fellow citizens. The South Korean government is lying to you right now. The president and other government ministers have already taken out all equipment and high-quality personnel, especially hunters, and moved them to Jeju Island. They abandoned us.”

It was not a single army that entered Seoul.

Another army from the west entered Seoul.

Their cause also made sense.

“The duty of the Korean military is to protect the land and the people, and politics is an area that should not be touched or overlooked, as the stained history of the constitution of the Republic of Korea tells us. I will defend Seoul from all threats to protect the people of the Republic of Korea, the National Assembly, and the Constitution of the Republic of Korea.”

The two armies confronted each other in Seoul.

The capital of the country, which was already divided into north and south, was divided into east and west.

Soldiers in the same military uniform confronted each other on the road, built barriers, and prepared combat supplies.

The Army, backed by the National Assembly, and the Army, backed by the Legion, entered into negotiations over the demands, but the odds of a successful deal were slim.

A reporter Yangban, who lived in Seoul and experienced various incidents firsthand, expressed his despair for the first time.

Gijayangban : It may have been a mistake to choose Seoul.

At that point, I contacted Daram Kim.

Da-ram Kim did not respond to my calls.

Had he been on a transport plane across my realm before?

Or is it that I have not been able to contact you because of other circumstances?

While Kim Da-ram’s reply was getting delayed, I read the bulletin board in silence for a while.

A prominent author appeared.

mmm: It’s a good thing the army is here.

It is m9.

I searched for his post for a while.

mmm: (In-Seoul Desk) The reason why civil war doesn’t happen.txt

mmm: Don’t touch “The Hope”. because? Because it’s where the generals live!

mmm: (Negotiations imminent) General Apartment! The Hope!

mmm: After the negotiations, we’ll have a meal in our neighborhood~

Even when everyone had a premonition of catastrophe, he was singing a hymn of faith.

I know m9 blocked me, but I sent a message out of pity.

SKELTON: You know what’s really dangerous, right?

I didn’t expect a reply.

But the reply came.

That too!

Message from mmm: I know. But what about me?

reversal.

m9 didn’t block me.

Besides, he also knew that his choice was wrong.

Is that why?

m9 sent me a message without hesitation as if it had been waiting for me for a long time.

Message from mmm: Yes. Skelton. defender friend. you don’t kill people

SKELTON: Don’t treat me like that.

A message from mmm: Skeleton You keep paying attention to me, hey. Can you go to your air-raid shelter? huh? I have two dogs, can I come with you? Whatever you do, you can catch it.

SKELTON: block

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One day, two years and one month after the war began.

Daram Kim still has no contact.

A civil war broke out in Seoul.

Two armies, wearing the same uniforms and speaking the same language, pointed their guns at each other and sprayed the flames of fury.

The civil war, which lasted for a week, set much of Seoul on fire and created millions of refugees.

A picture taken in that hell was posted on the bulletin board.

The photo shows a lone apartment building against a backdrop of a glowing sunset in the sky and actual burning ruins.

It’s an apartment I know.

The Hope.

symbol of hope.

And one man’s faith.

The state-of-the-art apartment, in which only one household has moved in, is functioning as a landmark of hope, standing obliquely in a corner of Seoul even at this moment.