Hiding the House in the Apocalypse

25. Sea Monkey Papa

I have never raised animals.

I spent a long time in a place where I couldn’t raise animals, and I often dealt with mutations, so I couldn’t see animals as a good thing.

In fact, none of the hunters with war experience raise animals.

Meanwhile, in our community, a small number of users raise animals.

Actively fostering animals are friends who have chosen collective survivalism.

Anonymous 424: Our canines

Dies_irae69 : Go see our dogs

A group of like-minded friends or family members, these friends tend to dominate a fairly wide area, focusing on houses exposed to the outside rather than air-raid shelters.

Since they have many mouths, food reserves cannot keep up with the consumption, so they have to farm, but farming inevitably requires a large area of land.

Well-trained dogs help secure large territories.

You can set up a boundary, threaten and drive out strangers, and in some cases use it in battle.

But their love didn’t last long.

Dies_irae69: Our dogs. Killed them all… With my own hands…

It is unavoidable.

Not killing an animal that has started to transform into a mutation is no different from committing suicide.

Raising animals in this period of destruction requires determination.

There is a determination to kill an animal that has changed,

Or have a greater determination to embrace a changed animal.

Here’s someone with a bigger resolve.

He raised Seamonkey.

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It was around the time that I got to know Seamonkey Papa that I was getting used to life in the period of destruction and began to accept destruction as part of life.

Even at the beginning of the war, I was pretty tight.

Even if only a suspicious shadow shimmered on the horizon, I kept my gun on standby for hours, checking my equipment to the point of paranoia.

It was the first time I experienced destruction as an individual, not a hunter, so it seemed that the days were standing.

As time passed and I got used to the changed situation and gained experience, I felt more relaxed.

It was around that time that I, a community nunting user, started writing.

At the time, SeaMonkey Papa was an unpopular user with a tendency similar to mine.

I try to attract attention by doing my own creative activities, but I don’t get as much attention as I try.

In my case, it was just unlucky, but Seamonkey Papa took the wrong route.

Who in the world would feel cute or moved by seeing something like Sea Monkey?

People who saw his post for the first time clicked because they were curious about what Seamonkey was, and when they found out that the Seamonkey was a flea-like guy who couldn’t even see it properly in the tank, their mice clicked back without any regrets.

Seamonkey’s official name is Brine Shrimp, which literally resembles shrimp.

It was popular as an ornamental animal at the end of the 20th century because of its strong adaptability to the environment, low breeding difficulty, and active activity, but quickly lost popularity, and now children raise it for a short time for textbooks and kill it all or flush it down the toilet before dying. has fallen into the existence of

＜ The seamonkeys are swimming very briskly! There is also information that these guys can live in high salinity water, so they have been found in the Dead Sea, also called the sea of death! but! If raised in fresh water, it will die!!! Even if you don’t think you’ll die right away, you’ll die eventually!＞

Seamonkey Papa had a good reputation in video editing, and they tried to publicize the existence of Seamonkey, which we are not familiar with, by including careful explanations and breeding information for each video they uploaded.

He used exclamation marks with high frequency.

Of course, popularity is at the bottom, but if Seamonkey Papa knows that fact, he has prepared a masterpiece of conversion.

It was a combination of several cumbersome and technical tasks.

Feeding the luminous food to make the Sea Monkey shine in the dark, adjusting the light carefully so that the poor camera does not blur even in the dark, beautiful New Age-style classical music, and glowing Sea Monkeys Swimming, multi-angle, slow-motion, elaborate subtitles and exclamation marks that are too much.

A painstaking video of those things put together was posted on the bulletin board.

SeamonkeyPAPA : Gorgeous and majestic night group dance of seamonkeys that shine by themselves “danse en groupe”

I was about to post a post at the same time, so I clicked on his post, but Seamonkey Papa added an embarrassing feeling, saying that he invested 18 full hours in filming and preparing the video.

18 hours.

My video only took 1 minute.

It’s amazing sincerity.

As always, reality is harsh.

If you replay the scene at that time, it will feel like the following.

unicorn18 : Red Archive Hotaru-chan.jpg

SUNBI: A close-knit buttock of a shy Western woman

SeamonkeyPAPA : Gorgeous and majestic night group dance of seamonkeys that shine by themselves “danse en groupe”

Defender: Authentication

Anonymous 118: Super Maria no installation running version

SKELTON : (Skelton video) Skeleton’s beatbox (3)

Looking at the title alone, the landscape is not much different from now.

But when you hit the view count feature, a dark truth is revealed.

unicorn18 : Red Archive Hotaru-chan.jpg (Episode 22)

SUNBI: A close-knit buttocks goal of a poor western wife (Episode 93)

SeamonkeyPAPA : The splendid and majestic night group dance “danse en groupe” of Seamonkeys that shine by themselves (Episode 8)

Defender: Certification (232 times)

Anonymous 118: Super Maria no-installation execution version (1,023 times)

SKELTON : (Skelton video) Skeleton’s beatbox (3) (5 episodes)

Yes.

The number of views of Sea Monkey Papa’s masterpiece is only 8.

only 8 times.

It means that I invested 18 hours and only got 8 views.

Considering that the number of views can be duplicated by one user, it means that less than 8 people clicked on his post.

Even if I were Sea Monkey Papa, I would have despaired.

Let’s say you can lose to names like Defender or Anonymous 118 (now Foxgames).

But now, it doesn’t make sense that the number of views is terribly inferior to that of the vulgar asshole that the late scholar saved in a roughly erotic folder and uploaded after agonizing for about 10 seconds.

Even though I won against Skeleton, that wouldn’t be much of a consolation.

Is that why?

Seamonkey Papa seemed very disappointed and hardly posted anything after that.

It’s all about occasionally reacting to Mr. Dragon’s manga.

While I transformed from an unpopular user to a notorious user, he remained as a user whose presence was vague and unknown even if he disappeared.

Time flies and the present is just before Christmas.

Seamonkey Papa suddenly created a popular article.

SeamonkeyPAPA : The Seamonkeys have grown up!

The moment I saw his post, I muttered without even realizing it.

“You were alive.”

than what?

The title feels strange.

I clicked on the article out of curiosity.

“…?”

It was an unbelievable sight to see.

The place was a reservoir.

It doesn’t look much different from the reservoirs around my territory, but in the dark and turbid waters there were things that were large and white with red eyes and long tails.

SeamonkeyPAPA: At some point, our children suddenly grew so big that I couldn’t handle it anymore, so I put them in a reservoir and they grew up like this while I couldn’t see them hahahaha

I saw it for the first time.

How did mutations occur in primitive animals like sea monkeys?

There is a description in the Kyle Doss webtoon that crayfish have turned grayish white, but it will be a cartoon impersonation. To the human eye in the grey-white land, everything appears gray-white.

Mutation is a phenomenon that occurs only in higher animals that have brains and spines and breathe through lungs.

In China, I saw giant mice, cats, dogs, and pigs, but I never saw giant cockroaches or centipedes.

However, that conventional wisdom is undoubtedly broken with a single photo.

The identity of a monster the size of a child swimming in a reservoir with several disgusting legs and a long tail is unmistakable.

A mutated Seamonkey.

“…”

I hesitated for a moment.

Whether or not this shocking discovery should be made public.

The fact that a mutation can spread to such a lowly animal is thousands of times more serious than a rift or monster.

Maybe humans can be destroyed by mutations before rifts or monsters.

Right now, I only have one person in my network, Woo Min-hee.

I don’t really want to get involved, but it’s not a matter for the supervisor to intervene.

Personal Identification Number: REDMASK

This is the first time Daram Kim has been contacted by his personal identification number since he disappeared.

As before, Woo Min-hee received calls one after another.

It is said to be one of the few good things about her made up of flaws.

“oh. senior. What’s up? Seniors are looking for me I thought you would never contact a mean kid like me. why? Did you run out of food?”

Scratching people’s temper is still the same though.

“…mutations have occurred in invertebrates.”

“An invertebrate?”

“okay. invertebrates. He’s like a shrimp larva.”

“Seamonkey?”

“!!!”

For a moment, a very dangerous assumption flashed through my mind.

“How do you do that?”

“How is it? I just did it. I raised Sea Monkey when I was in elementary school. but they all died I suddenly remembered By the way, is there a problem with SeaMonkey?”

“I found that Seamonkey became huge. It’s a mutation. must be Mutations are also expressed in invertebrates.”

“Oh yeah? Thanks for letting me know, but I already know.”

“okay?”

I knew my gap was huge.

However, it seems that the gap was bigger than I thought.

Seeing that my shock became normal for her.

“Anyway, I have something to do now.”

A dull thump could be heard over the speaker.

Are you at the pier?

I’m curious about what you’re doing, but I’m not close enough to ask you about a personal story.

Our relationship is, strictly speaking, a bad one.

“Merry Christmas.”

“senior. isn’t it too early? There are still three days left?”

“When will you contact me?”

“That’s right. Merry Christmas to you too.”

I hung up and took a moment to catch my breath.

I remembered a conversation that had just happened.

Seamonkey more than anything? Woo Min-hee’s immediate answer was memorable.

“…”

Maybe it’s just a coincidence.

Probably.

I want to believe that it will.

But I can’t let my guard down.

A guy named Woo Min-hee is someone who has liked communities since before.

Actually, I was a guy who wouldn’t even go into a group chat room.

But while I was in touch with Woo Min-hee, there was an uproar on the bulletin board.

Defender: No, just kill them all. Doesn’t it just look dangerous? That’s called a mutation.

SeamonkeyPAPA: Shut up you murderer who grew up without a mother and father! What is a low-class bastard who couldn’t learn and ate? It’s a f*cking disease! my baby! He’s the one I raised! That’s my baby!

Defender and Seamonkey Papa.

The two users who were folded and had no contact caused a collision.

As I watched the two keyboard battles, I fell into awe.

how to say

break up a bit

Up until now, I had thought of Seamonkey Papa as a gentle, quiet, middle-aged gentleman who only liked Seamonkey.

His voice was gentle, and he gave off a strong, intelligent atmosphere with a profound feeling.

The air-raid shelter that was readily visible also looked quite wide.

Could it be that he was in his early to mid-50s, from a relaxed professional background? I thought so.

However, Seamonkey Papa’s bare face revealed in the keyboard battle was completely different.

I would say it’s childish rather than ugly.

He poured out a series of vulgar and low-level swear words that he did not want to put into writing. 30% of the swear words were profanity meaning genitals, and the remaining 30% were insults to other people’s parents. The rest was occupied by dogs and seamonkey papa’s favorite exclamation points.

I couldn’t just see it, so I put a profanity filter on it,

SeamonkeyPAPA : Dog**!! dog****!!! Mi***** !********* ****** Hey! *********!! ********!!

It changes like this.

On the other hand, Defender responded calmly, but everyone knows that his patience was not very high.

Defender : I’m saying this because you’re worried. Do you know if you want to follow up? But my parents cursed at me. You want me to cancel that?

Defender: The reservoir in your picture. It’s a reservoir you know. I think you know where you are

For a moment, the cold eyes of the defenders, especially my brother’s side, appeared in front of my eyes as if drawn.

Is this a bit dangerous?

Not only me, but everyone on the bulletin board must have felt it.

That now Defender is sincere.

If I were SeaMonkey Papa, I would apologize or at least take my hands off the keyboard.

But Seamonkey Papa didn’t do that.

SeamonkeyPAPA: *********!!!!

“ah.”

Defender: Die?

SeamonkeyPAPA: Dog*****!!!

SeamonkeyPAPA: dog********!!!!

“This is not it.”

This has gone far beyond the line.

No matter how much Defender doesn’t lay a hand on his bulletin board friends, this isn’t the case.

I immediately sent Seamonkey Papa a message.

SKELTON: Defender is a kid, but what he said is true. that’s dangerous apologize and finish What are you fighting childishly like kids?

its own mediation.

Seamonkey Papa was willing to placate Defender if he wanted to.

It’s because I don’t want Miu or Gou or another colleague and bulletin board user who spent the same time with us to disappear.

After a while, a reply came from Seamonkey Papa.

Message from SeamonkeyPAPA: *******!!!!

Is it because of the profanity filter?

Or is it because what happened to him and the change in his image were too great?

The user who sent me the message didn’t look any more than SeaMonkey.

Message from SeamonkeyPAPA: Nojam****Bad*not******

SKELTON: ********

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Defender: Authentication

Two days later, Defender’s post was filled with horror and mystery reminiscent of a horror movie.

Using the reservoir as coordinates, Defender visited Seamonkey Papa’s residence.

I don’t know if he was serious or just wanted to hear it, but Defender said that if Seamonkey Papa apologized there, he would shake hands amicably and post an apology certificate.

Defender found the shelter without difficulty.

The door to the shelter was open, but inside was a SeaMonkey set that looked like SeaMonkey Papa’s, an old laptop, and other miscellaneous equipment.

However, Seamonkey Papa was nowhere to be seen.

It wasn’t just Sea Monkey Papa.

Inside the air-raid shelter, the shadow of poverty and deprivation called lack hung gloomily.

Defender : That human, his food and supplies are almost gone. Looking at the condition of the boiler, it seems like it hasn’t been turned on for a long time. It’s good that you wrote on the bulletin board.

Seamonkey Papa’s food that Defender found was a week’s supply of moldy biscuits, two boxes of soju, and half a bottle of 17-year-old whiskey lying on the floor with the lid open.

Defender remembered the certification Seamonkey Papa had uploaded and drained the water from the reservoir.

To kill all those disgusting mutations.

When all the water was drained, there were no sea monkeys.

In the muddy mud, a white-bone corpse lay at attention, like an exclamation mark.

I inadvertently recalled the well-thought-out subtitle, “Seamonkey will die if you put it in fresh water.”