Hiding the House in the Apocalypse

43. trouble (2)

“Oh, senior? what’s the matter?”

Minhee Woo seemed to be in a good mood.

“Are you doing well?”

“Oh, because a funny person posted on the Internet.”

“Internet? What in the world are you doing now? Aren’t all the LAN lines disconnected?”

“There is such a thing. There is a site I do, and there is a person with the same name as my personal identification number.”

“Skelton?”

“huh. I thought people were a bit weird, but what is it really? A feeling that has been twisted from the very beginning?”

“Ah, I think I know what it is.”

it’s you you.

Who has the right to call someone strange?

After moderately ingratiating, I got to the point.

“By the way, are there any jobs in Incheon? It seems dangerous here.”

“You want to come to Incheon?”

I haven’t decided yet, but it’s clear that my shelter is no longer a safe zone.

That means you have to look for other ways.

Perhaps the biggest motivation was the change of a human named Woo Min-hee.

My juniors, who were so crazy that I couldn’t even touch them, changed into something similar to a person after eating about 30.

Seriously, I couldn’t have imagined at least a year ago that we would be able to communicate so easily.

But, conversely, others have also changed.

Would you have imagined that Daram Kim would change like that?

My soul partner, who was most compatible with me, is now selling me, a former senior and team leader, casually.

It wasn’t that she didn’t have a calculating side, but it came as quite a shock to me that there was no delay in the time it took for her to inform Pil-seong Kim of my location.

“I’d like to take a look around once.”

Anyway, in the struggle between the National Assembly and the Legion, I chose the National Assembly.

It means that he joined hands with Woo Min-hee.

“Well, I won’t stop. Thanks to you, I was able to solve a big problem. But I don’t know if you like that job senior? Is it saturated here? There.”

No matter how much a person changes, the nature does not change easily.

Dealing with Woo Min-hee would be tiring in many ways.

“I have to come alone, but can you come all the way here by yourself?”

“Can’t you send an armored car?”

“You don’t need me, why?”

Seeing that it is already showing its buds.

In fact, maybe it’s because I’m in a good mood that I’m contacting you now.

“I’ll go alone.”

“Come to the lab when you come. I’ll keep in touch Do you know where I am?”

“Yeah, yes.”

To be honest, if you deal with Woo Min-hee, you will see a lot of dirty things.

But what can I do?

It’s all about wanting to live.

First of all, I want to see it with my own eyes.

What is it like to live in a dying city?

Can I really adapt to it after living in a luxurious air-raid shelter?

“Oh, and senior.”

Minhee Woo added with a snort.

“Have you ever borrowed money before?”

“Uh, yes. little?”

One of the most important points.

“Because I lost it while gambling.”

The fact that I am a prostitute is a secret I must carry to the grave.

*

Since I will be away from home for quite some time, I informed my neighbors about this.

“what? Are you going to stay in Incheon for a week?”

First, I contacted Defender.

“Maybe there are more.”

“What are you going to do? In that busy neighborhood?”

“Well, I have to consider moving soon. Things are not good.”

“Are you in the army?”

“Uh, what. yes. The ground was good, but now the ground is not good, right?”

“I don’t know if I will have to move. Aren’t the Legionists going to send a million troops to take you out? Not even a VIP.”

When the VIP sound came out, Defender’s brother joined the conversation.

“Skelton, are you a VIP? Were you a VIP?!”

It is a characteristic of this brother and sister that when the younger brother gets excited, the older brother gets excited as well.

“S, Su Seobang?!”

“No, it’s not that great. Worrying sickness is helping. Should I call it old age?”

“I understand what you mean. But I mean.”

Defender made a muffled sound and trailed off his horse.

After a while, he asked in a serious voice.

“Can you survive there?”

“It won’t be easy.”

It’s easy to say, but I really don’t know.

I’ve slept in a city that is being destroyed, but that’s because I only slept while stopping by as a tourist, and I’ve never had anything like life in it.

But I know vaguely that life in the city is more miserable, destitute, and terrible than it seems.

I just couldn’t see it because I didn’t want to see it.

Didn’t the second scholar openly reveal it?

What is the fate of those who have been cast out?

It is the life of ordinary people that even a cold wave can kill them.

Food is also a concern.

Even on our bulletin board, there are frequent posts about food shortages.

It has been almost a year since the dog food bar was released.

I don’t know how the city manages to still feed millions of people.

“ah.”

I don’t know.

I don’t even want to think

The feeling that it was such a problem that I shouldn’t have thought about was stuck.

After revealing my travel plans to Defender, I then contacted the sniper’s mother and daughter.

“Skelton? Can we use the house?”

As expected, our sniper mother and daughter seem to be in a very difficult situation.

It should be taken into account that Rebecca has a shameless personality, but even so, it is difficult to create the idea of living in someone else’s house as soon as she vacates from the accumulated discomfort of a day or two.

Of course my answer is,

“Oh, no.”

It is a refusal.

“why?”

“It’s dangerous here. did you see Helicopters and fighter jets are coming.”

“ah.”

“Are you having a hard time these days?”

“It is very difficult.”

“That, yes. I’ll think about it again when I get back.”

As I was about to disconnect, I heard Sue pushing Rebecca away.

“Skelton!”

“huh.”

“We are fine. I can hold out longer.”

“okay?”

“huh. Instead, when I came, I did Juicy.”

“You mean juicy ones?”

Sue guy.

Do you know?

That coming out like that can move my heart more strongly.

If he knew, he might be a born fox unlike his stupid mother.

It can’t be…

In fact, Seoul and Incheon are similar distances to me.

As a means of transportation, I chose a bicycle after a long time.

Weapons were prepared with simple travel equipment such as a Chinese rifle, a handgun, and an axe, along with some food, elk meat sausages for bartering, alcohol and cigarettes for bartering.

There were no cigarettes in stock, but Kim Pil-seong and his gang had some, so I split them in half with Defender.

I wanted to wear a bulletproof vest for my armor, but I thought it would be a season, so I just left it there.

Defense is also defensive power, but I made this decision because I personally think it is better to maintain good physical strength and condition.

As usual, I waited for the sun to set and took advantage of the night to go up the familiar road.

My realm has been empty for a long time.

There were rumors that even the country had given up because the Chinese army was roaming around and the nuclear weapons had fallen, so few people entered.

In fact, the country deliberately neglected the vulnerable western side.

However, at the present time, about two and a half years after the war began, people often live in my area.

They are pioneers.

Some of the pioneers who survived last winter are surviving by creating their own communities in hills and hills, or in abandoned apartments.

Their behavior is borderline between looters and civilians.

Generally, they behave amicably, but if the other person is weaker than themselves and needs something, they will invariably turn into a plunderer and steal the other person’s property.

Therefore, the safest way is to avoid humans as much as possible until the place where security is maintained.

I found at least 3 pioneer camps along a familiar path.

There was one small camp of four or five people, and the rest were groups of at least twenty people.

They were all armed with firearms and were always on guard at night by setting up sentries.

Their camp was so close to the road that they had no choice but to cross a stream.

Fortunately, the season was in season, so crossing the water was not a big burden.

After crossing the river, a half-collapsed city, formerly called Siheung, appeared.

From here on, it is under the jurisdiction of the Incheon City government.

Refugee camps have been set up on the land devastated by shelling and nuclear attacks by Chinese warships, and systematic agriculture and minimum industrial needs are being made under the supervision of the military.

As we approach the street, we see soldiers guarding it.

As Minhee Woo told me, I sold her name and said my name.

“Wait a minute.”

Certainly, there is one thing that stands out on the way to the government-controlled zone.

Soldiers talk on mobile phones.

that radio waves are passing through.

Out of curiosity, I also took out my cell phone.

Is the antenna floating?

While the soldiers were waiting for orders from their superiors, they approached one of the soldiers, handed them a cigarette, and asked insinuatingly.

“Is your cell phone working here?”

“It’s okay.”

“It feels like it explodes better than when I was in Seoul.”

“Yes. There are fewer people and less land. At the same time, the communication network was also expanded.”

“is it so?”

“Isn’t it an era where so many strange things appear everywhere?”

“It is.”

“If everyone has a cell phone, and radio waves go through, wouldn’t each of those many people gathered in Incheon become an informant? Besides, the country provided a place to play like Failnet, so it kills two birds with one stone.”

This soldier seems to be mistaken that Failnet was made by the country.

Well, who would think that such a great site was made with one individual’s tenacity?

Soon there was a call from superiors.

“Leave your bike here. It is an order to escort them by jeep.”

The soldier laughed and said.

Thanks for letting me go for an hour.

That is, you don’t have to suffer from the terror of jealousy and greed that you feel every time you ride a bicycle.

After that, I arrived at the institute comfortably.

By the time I reached the pier that smelled like the sea, it was still late at night.

A staff member on duty assigned me a room attached to the lab.

There was a bunk bed in the room, but no one else was there.

I closed my eyes for a while and waited for morning to come.

After the sun rose, the work day began.

I took a shower at someone else’s house.

There are pretty good shower facilities, so I was able to wash my body comfortably.

For some reason, baby powder was also provided, but it was soaked.

Because baby powder is something I don’t have.

While I was resting in the room in a dry state, a person called Woo Min-hee’s subordinate came looking for me.

He was a different man than the one who guided me before.

“I’m sorry, but Chief Woo is out of town.”

Dressed in a white gown with a slovenly appearance, he conveyed Woo Min-hee’s intentions while looking away as if he had a disease that prevented him from making eye contact with people.

“Chief Woo said he was a former hunter, right?”

“yes.”

“Because Director Woo recommended a freelance hunter? From now on, I’m going to guide you to the freelance hunter’s accommodation.”

“Is there such a thing as a freelance hunter accommodation?”

“Ah yes. actually······.”

The man made eye contact with me for the first time and started talking.

“Originally, there was no welfare support for freelance hunters, but recently, freelance hunters from the Legion faction. So it’s called an old school hunter? There is a lot of movement to take this out. We came up with a support plan in a hurry.”

“okay. What do freelance hunters do?”

I know the story, but I asked out of courtesy.

Being a freelance hunter is, in other words, a kind of solver.

It is too costly for the country to use its strength and it is to deal with the problem by sending surplus manpower, which is cheap as a hunter, to a secluded area where cost efficiency cannot be extracted.

Freelance Hunters mainly deal with mutations, not monsters.

Even before the civil war broke out, freelance hunters were said to have been active in the shadows.

Unlike monsters, mutations appear out of nowhere, and it is too costly for the military to deal with them one by one.

However, it seems that the reception was not very good.

You can tell just by looking at Baek Seung-hyun.

An A-class hunter by old-time standards, he is living with human garbage like a pioneering group.

The residences of those freelance hunters were behind the research institute.

A narrow alley between the red-brick laboratory and the densely packed harbor warehouses beyond.

That is the residence of freelance hunters.

hunter street

A phrase scrawled with marker on a wooden board painted white told me what the street was like.

“B-23. You can go there.”

The lab staff refused to go into the alley.

I said I would go alone and walked into the alley.

Beyond the dark alley, I see people sitting on the side of the road.

An old man playing chess, an old woman doing laundry, and children doing something on their cell phones.

There were ordinary people.

I’m surprised

I thought it would only be infested with hunters from our old era.

Maybe I can meet one or two people who recognize me.

“uh?”

It was in front of a temporary building with a sign reading A-13.

A man looked at me and pretended to know me.

“Did you come here?”

This is Seunghyun Baek.

He was looking at me with a surprised face, and in his arms was a newborn baby that looked like him.