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Prologue ― Hanmaeum Apartment, Juan 8-dong, Incheon, Korea

The world is unfair.

It’s unfair even when seen from afar… .

⦁[Exclusive] Illegal bribery worth hundreds of millions of National Assembly members discovered… Acceleration of investigation.

⦁Suspicions of illegal admission and preferential grades for children of former lawmakers!

It’s even more of a comedy if you see it up close.

Today too, I clicked on the top news among the remnants of the ‘higher-ups’ that filled the news section.

[Exclusive] Illegal bribery involving hundreds of millions of lawmakers detected… Acceleration of investigation.

[Ah haha, how much did you pay this time? Really?]

[If you give me just 10%, I can lick the soles of your feet like a motor running haha]

└ ??? I have pride. I can do it even if I give just 1%.

As the article was already ranked #1, it was filled with comments no matter how many times you scrolled down.

Comments filled with envy and jealousy rather than cries for social justice.

Selfish boundaries carved by the winners.

A utopia that you cannot enter no matter how much effort you use.

We, who were not invited there, just bark at the keyboard without causing any harm to them.

[Ah haha, what is going on in the zombie apocalypse haha? Can’t you see people waiting? lol]

└ Wait a minute. The gate to the National Assembly building opens first, right? lol

└ “That day… The gate is open.”

└ Status window! Status eeechang!!! lol

I would rather the world perish.

Of course, it is not a truly final destruction like ‘Fallout’, which is extremely selfish.

A soft destruction with some infrastructure and foundation remaining, like a zombie apocalypse.

‘Fuck it, I need to say something that makes sense.’

Even thinking about it to myself makes me laugh.

But what should I do?

What I think is my freedom, right?

My eyes, which had become accustomed to the dark, were slightly squinted.

The morning sunlight kept interfering with my eyes looking at the monitor.

It was already time to sleep.

I did all my homework for an RPG game that involved money and my life, and I stayed up all morning thinking I had done something.

‘… ‘It’s no different from any other day.’

I scratched my head and lay down on the bed with the computer turned off.

As I picked up my charged smartphone and binge-watched today’s updated web novels, I felt my eyes slowly closing.

After checking the alarm set on my smartphone again, I placed it next to my pillow and closed my eyes.

My brain, which had not yet escaped from the type I had been reading intently, was filling the black space with colorful imaginations.

Academy, apocalypse, fantasy, martial arts.

Biographies of tomorrow’s exciting protagonists.

What awaits me when I wake up?

‘The only thing I’m waiting for is seeing the orc bitch frowning because she didn’t show up 10 minutes before her shift.’

Part-time job at a convenience store, playing games after returning home.

Another part-time job at a convenience store, playing games after returning home.

I wasn’t looking forward to tomorrow at all.

Maybe it’s not really a joke, but destruction is the only salvation for me?

In some ways, it’s like something out of a bad drama: ‘If I can’t have it, I’ll destroy it.’ It was the same mindset.

Of course, of course, there was no power or ability to break it.

In the midst of my delusion that I could destroy something, I remembered a senior in the military who laughed heartily and said that although it was really random, there were two revivals in the civil engineering department.

One is around 6.25.

And another thing is after the next war that will happen someday.

Either Seoul collapsed, or Pyongyang collapsed.

The joke was that it would be a ‘boom’ in the civil engineering department.

The voice that was shouting loudly, saying, “It may be an excessive leap, but it is not wrong,” rang in my ears once again.

Even though I used to laugh in my heart about saying all sorts of things while attending a local journalism school.

Actually I know.

That he is a better human being than me.

While I did nothing but play games after being discharged from the military, he studied, graduated, and got a job at a company.

The employee ID proudly displayed on the KakaoTalk profile that I occasionally saw proved that.

Even after seeing that, I calmly held the mouse.

There is something that people often misunderstand.

It is commonly said that losers have less ‘understanding the topic’.

But I.

He knew me better than anyone else.

27 years old.

Playing games all day.

At the same time, I’m just an ordinary guy who doesn’t want my day to be ordinary.

“Ah, so when is the real apocalypse coming? .”

I know very well that it is a twisted wish.

I also know very well that even if the desired disaster comes, my chances of surviving are not very high.

Even in such a world, there will definitely be ups and downs, and they will be stigmatized more clearly than they are now.

And that those at the top of the pyramid will move up based on the foundation they have built now.

But what?

To put it bluntly, even if I recite the Buddhist prayer for that world to come, that world will not come.

I just think about it in my mind. Just a thought.

‘First secure weapons, then secure food and drinking water. And most importantly, getting the woman.’

It’s just the cycle of my day.

A little damp and dark.

I don’t know if it’s because I have a constitution where I have to set the alarm multiple times the moment I fall asleep, or if it’s someone’s revenge on my dark imagination.

Ji-ing- Ji-ing- Ji-ing- Ji-ing-

I didn’t hear the disaster text message that started ringing countless times on my smartphone.

***

Thump-thump-thump-

“Ah… Fuck, … What is it?”

At the dull sound of the impact, I rubbed my hard-to-open eyes.

Looking at the still bright room, it seemed like it was late afternoon at most.

Oh, you didn’t sleep much.

Fuck, what the hell?

Is it a courier service?

There was no way it was my delivery in the first place.

For me, who goes all-in on game data pieces, real-life items are just a luxury.

I got most of my daily necessities from the convenience store where I worked part-time.

However, there was no way it was a delivery service from next door.

‘Of course, it’s been empty for a year. What kind of delivery is it?’

Thump- thump- thump-

A shock sound rings out at regular intervals, as if to wake me up from my lost thoughts.

It was a dull yet resonant sound, so it seemed like they were probably knocking on an iron door.

“No, where do I leave the intercom and knock on the door? He’s a really strange person.”

I turned on my smartphone next to my pillow to check exactly what time it was.

“… Huh?”

It didn’t turn on.

A smartphone that continuously shows only a black screen.

I tried pressing the power button again and hitting it a little harder, but the translucent black screen continued to project only my face.

Only then did a strange goosebump run through my body.

It was quiet.

No, it’s funny that I woke up to noise to say it was quiet, but it was really quiet.

Thump- thump- thump-

There was no noise other than the impact sound that was currently ringing at regular intervals.

Thanks to the trashy soundproofing, I could hear the ladies chatting every afternoon.

The sounds of engines and horns from cars entering the parking space.

Other than that, there was no sound at all of the society that filled the world.

The physical condition was also strange.

I didn’t realize it because I had just woken up, but my body felt heavy and tingly.

And I know very well when this feeling arises.

“No way… Did you sleep all day?”

Thump- thump- thump-

Whatever it is, let’s deal with that person first.

Whether he was a delivery driver or a post office driver, his patience and perseverance were extremely good.

“Hey! I didn’t order anything to be delivered! There is no need to get an autograph!”

Bang – Bang – Bang –

As I spoke louder, the knocking on the iron door also became stronger.

“… Huh?”

At this point, it was even weirder not to feel anything strange.

[7 days after the zombie apocalypse occurred]

[We confirm that the human race has decreased beyond a certain number.]

[Run ‘Awakening’.]

At the same time, three sentences appeared translucently before my eyes.

As soon as I understood them, I quickly ran to the kitchen.

This development. This situation.

It was so foreign, but more than anything, it was familiar.

In the small kitchen, I grabbed the only kitchen knife and hurriedly found the bag of rolling pins that had been roughly set up in the bathroom.

Bang – Bang – Bang – Bang –

Keekeeek!

Only after recognizing the situation, I could clearly hear the sound of vocal cords scraping lurking behind the impact sound.

There was no time to freeze.

I started using the green tape in the shoe cabinet drawer to strongly glue the kitchen knife and the handle of the rolling pin so they wouldn’t separate.

Cheap profit- Cheap profit-

Bang – Bang – Bang –

In a discordant harmony, I roughly cut the tape with my teeth and held the improvised ‘spear’ in my hand in the most comfortable position.

After quickly putting on my sneakers, I unlocked the front door.

I waited for the moment I wanted in the rhythm of the impact sound that I had already become accustomed to after hearing it a few times.

Whether it’s your head or your hands, knock on the iron door and fall back –

Bang – Bang –

now.

bang-

The same sound that someone had been making over and over again.

But the important thing is that this is the sound I made.

He kicked the slightly opened door hard and jumped out in front of it.

puck-

A person falls down, flopping, with the sound of flesh crunching.

“Kkiss!”

No, one zombie.

He was a middle-aged man in a suit who was completely unfamiliar.

A situation where someone was kicked through a door just because they knocked a little too hard.

If it weren’t for the fact that my right cheek was eaten away and my forehead was dripping with rotten blood from constantly knocking on the iron door, I would have had to apologize right away.

That was the implicit foundation of the society I lived in.

“Fuck! What are you looking at!”

With a curse half mixed with fear and joy, I stepped on the chest of the man who was creaking and pointing his head towards me.

I still had no idea how strong it was, whether it could run, or how it got infected, but there was one important thing.

After falling, I have the right to go first.

I stepped on the chest of the man who was about to go crazy with my left foot and pinned him down, and then slashed his head with a spear, drastically reducing the radius of resistance.

Kang –

The sound of a kitchen knife passing through the head and hitting cement, as if cutting tofu.

I looked at the zombie, which had stopped fluttering like a fish in an instant, and quickly remembered the translucent window.

Why did this suddenly happen?

Was the first thing I killed a person or a zombie?

Nothing else mattered.

There is only one thing I hope for from this development and the actions I have taken.

“First achievement! Did you get your first achievement?”

[Zombie killing. (The same message will not be repeated thereafter.)]

[Obtain 5 points. (The same message will not be repeated thereafter.)]

Tiring!

[You have achieved your first achievement.]

[‘First kill zombies as an awakened person’]

[Obtain 100 points.]

[Obtain the right to create skills.]

“Yass! Yass! Yass! Fuck! Done!”

Cheers came out along with clenched fists.

“Status Window!”

[Name: Han Gu-won]

[Gender∘Age: Male∘27]

[Occupation: Awakened]

[Strength: 1] [Dexterity: 1] [Intelligence: 1] [Magic Power: 1]

[Points held: 105]

* Tip: Divide your points! You can increase your stats from 1 to 10 with 1 point!

* Special tip for first-time achievers: Use your skill creation ticket! However, be careful as skills that overly harm the balance will be automatically adjusted!

Kieeek―

Another roar that I heard while I was scanning the status window.

When I looked under the railing, I saw that nearby zombies were gathering as if reacting to the noise I made.

Well, it’s even weirder if you yell and say all sorts of things, but you’re quiet.

It’s a zombie apocalypse.

Zombies filled the entrance and zombies joined the ranks, running at high speed.

Of course, there was no one among them.

Broad daylight with the sun in the center.

Has the sunlight that we naturally enjoyed as humans now become a reward that must be obtained through struggle with some being?

“Fuck, how many points are all of those?”

A world where humans are no longer the rulers of the Earth and the lord of all things.

It’s the end of the world.

It was the beginning of my salvation.