Hiding the House in the Apocalypse

27. tooth decay (1)

Snow piled up sobok sobok.

A brazier made of bricks.

Tranquil tree branches and a raging fire.

Kettle boiling steaming and mixed coffee ready to unpack.

Pour the right amount of water into a stainless steel cup and add the coffee mix. That’s my morning.

Many things happened, but this winter was calm.

Even compared to last year’s winter, it was definitely a calm day without going through the intense autumn.

Could it be a positive effect of the civil war?

In Seoul, thousands of people die every day and millions of people are said to have fled, but that is a story from a world far away from me.

It’s embarrassing to think about it now, but even when I was in school, I had a little desire to save the world.

Even then, the words of Jason Choi, the “last explorer,” were quite persuasive.

He, who was the first among 8 billion people to enter the rift and step on the land of the other world, made a shocking declaration, receiving the attention of the world media at a glance.

“Cracks can be closed.”

Even before I graduated from school, Jason Choi helped to devalue Korean-Americans in American society.

everything was a lie

He had never entered a rift, and had never even faced a monster.

The scenery beyond the rift he describes is so different from what we know, and the friendly small animals he saw beyond the rift only appeared in front of him.

When the small species we call appeared from beyond the rift and started killing humans, the man who was the first to enter the rift ran faster than anyone else.

Jason Choi did not go to prison, but he was caught up in an astronomical lawsuit and was swept away by the aftermath of a nuclear explosion while struggling in the swamp of lawsuits.

On American bulletin boards, there are still people claiming he is alive, but rather than a serious opinion, it’s a kind of “meme”.

I don’t know if Jason Choi is alive or not, and I don’t care, but at least there is one resurrected human like Jesus on our bulletin board.

SUNBI: Heh D? 1234

Seonbi.

This tasteful man who is faithful to his lust more than anyone else but also knows manners and style was killed along with Damian 04 during the Yuri incident that once heated up the bulletin board.

This is a fact confirmed by Defender, who handled the scene at the time.

However, the dead scholar was resurrected from the dead and openly appeared on the bulletin board.

It is a world where living corpses already walk around, but his resurrection aroused a terrifying fear among bulletin board users.

To the extent that even Park Gyu slept with the light on at night.

Even if it wasn’t me, I would feel the fear.

It’s not enough that the dead guy suddenly appeared, seeing that he sent a message that is hard to believe was written by a human.

A message from SUNBI: Who? Hennuhunu

Soon after, it became known that the scholar sent a bizarre message to a number of users besides me, and one user gave a sharp opinion, so the fear of the revived scholar quickly faded.

Anonymous 848: Didn’t Seonbi die while leaving the shelter? Didn’t someone else take over his air-raid shelter and access the bulletin board?

I also think this opinion is valid.

Defender : I buried Seonbi myself. i’m sure it’s dead

Defender also confirmed the death of Seonbi.

However, one friend insistently maintained a minority opinion different from the others.

berkut_break : Isn’t it Seonbi himself?

A friend with no contact.

They were friends who pretended to be there, exchanging pedantic stories such as auteurist films and post-modernism in the corner of the bulletin board with friends with similar tastes.

Still, I seem to have thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Dragon’s manga and Fox games…

Anyway, this friend, Berkut, made an unusual bloodline on the bulletin board.

berkut_break : Let’s say that Seonbi’s insider changed. But would that be the reason why he wouldn’t be a scholar? The Seonbi we know has an account ID of viva112578 and a nickname of SUNBI! Apocalypse! you are a user Even if the requirements for knowing people change, aren’t more than half of them still scholars?

It’s bullsh*t that has no value.

Perhaps the person himself wanted to have a keyboard battle.

Even among themselves, they exchanged “discourse” on a fictitious day, using bizarre terms coined by a Japanese executive, especially a German-speaking philosopher.

However, his intention was shattered by the advice of a user with a similar ecological status as mine.

unicorn18: Are you crazy?

It is true that Unicorn 18’s stumble was a result of the times in a way, but I felt a little jealous when I saw him on the popular post.

It seems that jealousy has become poison.

“······Keugh.”

My teeth hurt.

I have tooth decay.

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Being a doomsdayist doesn’t mean you can cope with every situation.

Dental disease is one of them.

I have weak teeth, so I prepared myself.

A cheap handpiece that runs on 110 volts, a teaching aid for the lecture, a fairly high-intensity light, and so on.

However, it is not so easy to look in the mirror alone and insert a drill into your mouth.

I quickly gave up and found another way.

The other way is “Viva! Apocalypse!” to ask for help.

In fact, this is the positive function of the community intended by the founder Melon Mask.

Viva was created so that humans in the period of destruction could cooperate and live together regardless of radio waves! Apocalypse! is a satellite internet network.

SKELTON: (Skelton hurts) I have a cavity. Are you a dentist? I’ll do a case, so can you take a look at it?

After 10 minutes of writing a help article for its intended function, no reply came, but soon my one and only Internet friend answered my miserable call.

Defender: Dentist? Why don’t you ask the dolsingman?

dolsing man?

who is that guy

He’s a plain friend whose life story comes out from his nickname, but there are quite a few users who only glance at him, as I once did.

Maybe that kind of blinding man.

I asked the dolsing man for help.

Fortunately, Dolsing Man was alive.

A message from dolsingman: Treatment is available, but the equipment you think is not available. I have to dig it with a hand drill and there is no filler, so I have to leave the hole as it is, but is that okay? Ah, the most important thing. I’ll tie it up before surgery.

“…”

I pondered for a while.

Because I was just imagining it.

What kind of surgery is this friend talking about?

It is torture disguised as treatment.

I asked if there were any other doctors.

Message from dolsingman: Another doctor? I have a friend who has a lot of equipment. Rarely seen these days. however.

SKELTON: By the way?

Message from Dolsingman: It’s like that baby.

SKELTON: A quack?

A message from dolsingman: You were active for a while before the war, but you appealed to a dentist? So last spring, I told him that I was the same dentist, and he liked it. Did he invite you to his house because he had something to ask?

SKELTON: (Questioning about Skeleton) By invitation?

A message from dolsingman: I don’t know what to think. A grave-digging beggar. No, he hung up a diploma from the same school as me. So when I talked to him with a friendly heart, he didn’t know anything. No, you can forget what you learned in school. You can even forget the picky professor’s name. But does it make sense that a bastard who went to the same school doesn’t even know the name of the building where he ate for six years? 100% degree impersonation.

But the quack equipment is good.

I was actually active on this message board.

Message from dolsingman: I’m not sure if he’s alive or dead, but he said the right thing. After all, the doctor sucks the equipment. Send me a DM if you’re interested. You will be able to receive treatment comfortably. I cannot be held responsible for the results.

Another quack’s nickname given by Dolsing Man was “Dentist_Kim”.

Just looking at his nickname, he is much more trustworthy than Dolsing Man.

Dentist Kim’s past history was investigated.

As Dolsingman said, Dentist Kim was a veteran user who had already started working three years before the war.

Dentist_Kim : Nice to meet you. I didn’t think I would join a site like this, but what’s going on these days…

Dentist_Kim : I thought of a way for dentists to make a long run during the war.

Dentist_Kim : (English bulletin board perm) How dentists survive in a post-apocalyptic situation.

Dentist_Kim : Mr. John Naenon. You copied and pasted the text from a French user. I asked a question via DM, but I didn’t get an answer, so I’ll make it public.

Dentist_Kim : (Direct picture) This is a used unit chair.

Total of 5 posts.

This is all Dentist Kim posted.

The history of his activities, which he had been posting infrequently, was cut off exactly one month before the war began.

He didn’t write much, but it was clear enough from the content of his writings that he was serious about becoming a doomsdayist.

And he seemed – perhaps unwillingly – to be the one who brought about the downfall of Jonnaenon.

I clicked on one of Dentist Kim’s posts.

Dentist_Kim : (English bulletin board perm) How dentists survive in a post-apocalyptic situation.

-All medicine may have benefited from the development of modern technology, but no subject has benefited as dramatically as dentistry.

Imagine a world without handpieces. You will have to train the muscles to control the patient while lifting hundreds of kilograms of iron in the fitness center, and you will have to train your tough temper to not lose to the patient who is mad and demanding, as well as the various legal risks that will come when the patient dies during treatment. You will also have to be ready to fight…

…

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It is a translation documenting preparations for the post-disaster world from the dentist’s point of view.

I also clicked on other posts.

Dentist_Kim : I thought of a way for dentists to make a long run during the war.

-When you watch disaster movies, doctors are always treated as necessary, and whether they are under the villain or a group of survivors, they manage to live with the boundary of being a doctor. On the other hand, I haven’t seen dentists entrusted with similar rules.

Why? because of the equipment. Wouldn’t it be strange if a dentist with a sophisticated unit chair appeared in the era of extinction and handled handpieces?

However, dental disease is more related to life than most diseases, and the pain is great. People eat with their mouths, but don’t they eat with their anus?

Here, let’s assume that dentists with modern equipment exist in the era of extinction. Let’s imagine that there is a world in which everything collapses, including a dental specialist equipped with a unit chair, handpiece, and inhaler that operate on self-generation even if the electricity is cut off.

What about it?

Wouldn’t that be a very unique existence in itself?

Unlike the first translation, I read the second article to the end.

It is because it is quite interesting to see a perisher with a different background and knowledge than me thinking about and presenting his own way to live.

Come to think of it, before the war broke out, there were many useful articles of this kind. Some users who are now treated as crazy people were also normal people.

I, Park Gyu, was also unknown, but I think I had a better image than now.

Anyway, it is certain that this user named Dentist Kim has knowledge and experience in dentistry.

Just looking at the house in Pangyo on the certification, it was also clear that he was from a high-income family who was positioned at the top of the many dentists.

sent him a message

The reply came after 3 days.

Dentist Kim sent me a picture.

It appeared to be the basement of a building, which was fully furnished with chairs and equipment from a dental clinic I had seen before the war.

Undoubtedly.

This is a complete end-of-life dental medical facility.

About 5 years ago, in an article written by Dentist Kim, he revealed his ambition.

Dentist_Kim : We have these facilities, and since you are a long-awaited bulletin board user, we will give you a cheap price.

He offered a condition.

A message from Dentist_Kim: An unsealed bottle of single malt whiskey or a carton of pre-war cigarettes (half a carton of menthol is acceptable). However, whiskey is not accepted under 100,000 won before the war. // Luxury items are welcome (watches, backpacks, clothes).

It’s a request that’s out of touch with the world these days.

How to say, it is a part where you can feel the richness and composure that have now disappeared.

But I don’t have what he’s looking for.

I have a few cigarettes, but I’ve disposed of most of them in the past, so it’s not as much as a carton.

So I tried nego,

Message from Dentist_Kim : We do not accept overcharges~

There is no choice.

I had no choice but to call my Internet friend.

Of course, I only have one friend.

A message from Defender: Luxury goods? there is. no there will be what? Hermes? Chanel?

You made a good friend.

But this friend. Make an unexpected offer.

Message from Defender: Ask us to treat you instead. I’ll prepare the stuff.

SKELTON: (Skelton surprised) What? we?

A message from Defender: My brother also has a toothache.

SKELTON: Isn’t that too sudden?

Message from Defender: (Defender’s expression) You know for sure that if you tell me my name, you won’t treat me, right?

“…”

That’s a wise answer.