episode_0048

My hands were shaking and my heart felt like it was constricting.

Getting hurt isn’t that important.

Because, as long as you don’t get seriously injured, you’ll get better pretty quickly.

Even if you are seriously injured, you will get better if you eat rice.

So it’s okay to get hurt.

But not the spirit. This shouldn’t go wrong.

There was no way for a psychiatrist to treat patients calmly in this situation.

There might be at least one person in the group of survivors, but by the time they get there, their condition will have already become too serious.

So now I had to think about why this happened.

“That, Changhun. I’m sorry.”

“Yes.”

“I, I. I think it needs some thinking. I’m obsessed with headsets, even before I met you.”

“Obsessed with headsets?”

“Yes. It was a cat ear headset, but I gave it to Yeji Lee.”

“Yeji Lee?”

Noh Chang-hoon gave an expression that he did not understand at all.

Originally, I thought there would be criticism here.

They seemed to know that the situation was serious, and seemed to be trying to listen patiently.

So I just explained it.

There is a kid named Yeji Lee. It is a family of three.

My father is good at parkour, and my mother has no legs.

So Yeji Lee and her father went looking for food, and I helped them once.

During the civilian evacuation operation led by Captain Han Dae-wi, my father decided to become bait.

Yeji Lee thought it was a game of tag, but since she couldn’t meet her father, she came to me.

“The kid is clever.”

“What? what? Did you ask me to be bait?”

“Yes.”

“No, I’m not clever. That’s what I was going to do anyway. But why did you want to do it?”

“You. You read the novel.”

“I read it, I read it. So, I know.”

Now I remembered.

Captain Han Dae-wi and his party heading to Busan were well-armed.

Under the orders of Captain Han, each of us had plenty of bullets.

The reason I asked him to act as a decoy was simply for safety reasons.

Since the gun makes a sound when fired, it is impossible to save everyone.

The trolley dilemma. The captain chose to kill Yeji Lee’s father, and the father accepted.

So, what I’m saying is that I didn’t have to take on the role of bait.

Because it would have flowed as the original did.

But at that time, I accepted that I wanted to live differently than before.

Unlike me before. Why was I so different from before?

A person who can do anything to live.

Are you intentionally sticking your neck into a limb?

“…….I’m better. ah. that. So…”

Fragments of words that had lost their meaning flowed out of my mouth.

It was incredibly embarrassing, but fortunately it didn’t lead to panic.

Because I had time to eat it.

You can at least calm your emotions by taking deep breaths.

I took a deep breath and calmed down my emotions.

“Hey, Changhoon.”

“Uh.”

“Why did I keep wearing the headset around my neck? Why did you go out without any armor?”

“Are you saying it wasn’t because you were complacent?”

“I thought you would call me stupid. There was a reason. So, the original owner of this body…”

“What are you talking about? The original owner. I was assured that there was no such thing.”

“You are a writer. I’m a miserable bastard. There was a younger brother of the original owner.”

“Uh.”

It was a day after the incident broke out.

At that time, I had just gotten over the embarrassment of being in a novel and the fear of being screwed.

I couldn’t pay attention to my cell phone, which had been ringing since yesterday, and was taking deep breaths while wearing only dolphin pants and a t-shirt.

The main character in the novel, who accidentally gains powers and slaughters zombies, was a far cry from me.

Moreover, the officetel was not soundproofed, so I could hear everything that was happening next to me.

I can also hear voices calling me, saying that I came to rescue them with my friends.

Of course, without thinking much, I stuck my head out and closed the door.

Those people know me, but I don’t know them.

There was also the fear of what might happen.

………I wasn’t so lucky. Because there was a zombie in the room next to mine.

I didn’t know how many people there were, but I couldn’t deal with the zombies because I was exhausted from the trip to the officetel.

Just like that, I heard the sound of people dying.

Words soon became screams, and screams soon became moans.

“So, I wore a headset to forget those sounds. I was in the room.”

“Somehow, I often find myself groaning and looking for my headset.”

“Of course, this isn’t the end. There’s still more left.”

“There’s more… left?”

“Yes…”

I didn’t remember it completely.

My head started ringing as if I couldn’t change my mind if I knew more than that.

But I could roughly understand why I was obsessed with the headset.

Because it helped me get through those hellish days.

Wearing a headset does not completely block sound.

However, if I put on a headset and imagined that I could hear the song, I could tolerate it to some extent.

“I didn’t cut the rope because it was in the way.”

“……Then.”

“There’s no way you can hear the song on a headset without strings, but you can still hear it.”

“What are you talking about?”

“It’s a placebo effect. Because if there is a string, you will think it is plugged in somewhere.”

“You can think of it as cut to make it easier to imagine, right?”

“Huh? Yes.”

“Then lie back down and go to sleep.”

“Huh?”

Isn’t it daytime?

It must be daytime since he woke up.

“It’s 3 in the morning.”

“3 o’clock….?”

“I woke up because you were walking around. And since I was sleeping with my chest on my back, I was holding my posture.”

“Then I guess I woke up. I understand.”

Noh Chang-hoon sat down and leaned against the wall, asking if he understood now.

When I asked him if he was sleeping, the only reply he received was that he was awake.

In my mind, I just wanted to lie down and sleep without thinking about anything.

But I didn’t think I could sleep in the current situation.

I was surprised to learn something I didn’t know before…

More than anything, my head still hurts.

I thought it was simple and far from PTSD, but it wasn’t at all, so it felt strange.

“Don’t rustle. Why.”

“No, just. Changhoon tried to sleep with you.”

“Huh.”

“I’m not going to sleepwalk towards you anyway. In that case, we can sleep together.”

“Don’t turn on your side. The headset is in the way.”

“Ah, yes.”

To be honest, I didn’t think I could sleep, but I just lay down.

So, I thought I would spend the night with my eyes open today.

But it wasn’t at all. When I came to my senses, I was inside an officetel.

I was sure I was having a nightmare.

Because I should definitely be sleeping in a beauty salon, but I’m in an officetel.

“…….For a dream, it’s so vivid. Is this why I forget to protect my mind?”

Fortunately, there was a baton.

The solid iron knuckles that Noh Chang-hoon was supposed to be wearing were also on my hand.

At least I can fight whatever comes out of this nightmare.

But I didn’t think anything would come out.

No, I thought it would be good if something came out.

An inexplicable feeling of anxiety went through my body.

Either General or Spider King. In the current situation, we could welcome it with open arms.

That sticky and unpleasant feeling was clinging to my body.

“……..Ah?”

Something was really sticking to me.

There was something red dried on both arms.

I immediately knew what this was. It was dried blood.

But, it wasn’t my blood. Only then did my surroundings come into view.

I saw a dying person in the front door.

It was a man in his early 20s who called me his sister.

The face wasn’t visible because it was in shadow, but other things were visible.

The arms and legs were covered with wounds. Bitten by teeth and scratched by nails.

My knees felt like they had fallen and were ground on the asphalt.

And there was a kitchen knife stuck in his chest.

“Ah.”

I don’t know that man.

That man knows me.

I know the laws of the zombie virus.

That man doesn’t know the laws of the zombie virus.

The man was bitten by zombies on the way here.

In most media, if you are bitten by zombies, you become the same zombie.

The situation got so bad that all the friends the man brought with him died.

The man chose to protect his sister before the infection progressed.

He couldn’t save his parents, but he said he would save his sister.

After taking out the other zombies, I went to my sister’s room and knocked on the door.

Meanwhile, I, who was wearing a headset and talking nonsense, picked up a kitchen knife and the man committed suicide.

And while explaining the situation, he died.

In the process, blood splattered all over my arms and legs.

“…….There is no blood on it, but it looks like it is.”

I wiped away the dried blood with a wet tissue, but it still looked like there was blood on my arms and legs.

To make sure it wasn’t buried, it was better to leave the arms and legs exposed.

So, even though it was fall, I wore clothes that revealed a lot of my body.

Originally, I was planning on only wearing a sports bra and ripped jeans for fashion.

But it was cold so I put on an extra layer of clothing.

I wanted to remember more than this, but I didn’t think I could.

The next story will unfold when you go outside the officetel.

“Hey.”

“Shit, fuck!”

The corpse opened its mouth and spoke.

Then he walked towards me and started tapping me from the side.

And then I heard Noh Chang-hoon’s voice.

“Huh!?”

“Why does he wake up so rough?”

I tried to say it was because I had a nightmare, but my voice wouldn’t come out.

I had no choice but to take some bottled water out of my small bag, drink it, and try to calm down.

“Did you have a nightmare?”

“Yes……”

“For some reason, I was hugged like that.”

“I was hugged…..?”

“Yes. He kept mumbling for me to hug him, so I held him until he quieted down.”

“At this rate, I’m just a burden… Hey, Changhoon. Do you have anything like PTSD?”

“What.”

“You must have been wandering around here for two weeks. You must have seen things you shouldn’t have seen.”

Noh Chang-hoon nodded and said that when he gets annoyed, he just beats them all.

It was definitely a Noh Chang-hoon-like solution.

“It was just a joke, I thought it was a physics problem.”

“I guess you did well.”

“Huh. Hey Mr. Lee. in action. The sun has risen.”

“Yes, yes. Okay.”

Perhaps because I had someone to rely on, I somehow felt better.

So we took food and fruit out of the cart, ate them, and talked for a bit.

The topic of the story was how to modify my baton.