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Encounter (2) – Hanmaeum Apartment #1003

There was small writing written on the body of the auxiliary battery.

The sentence was quite long, but to summarize for myself –

The explanation was that it is not limited to smartphones, but can also be charged in coffee pots and TVs.

‘It’s not like I had 100 faith at the store for nothing.’

Compared to zombie treatment, what is a multi-compatible auxiliary battery? I couldn’t even fit into the over-technology axis.

I moved the auxiliary battery from the smartphone to the coffee pot.

The charger terminal was smoothly connected to the coffee pot and the power was turned on.

I boiled hot water and opened the Naver Map app.

Incheon Central Library.

Just above are the Office of Education and the Metropolitan City Hall.

If you move a little further down, you will reach the center of centers where Homeplus and Lotte Mart are located.

There was bound to be a lot of floating population.

That means-

“If you were to be swept away by the zombie wave, they would be the first people to be swept away… .”

How did you survive?

How well would they have survived to tell them to come to them?

I added hot water and soup to the cup ramen and uploaded the open chat again.

The shelter designated by the government is ‘Incheon Soccer Stadium’.

A location exactly opposite to where the library is.

There must be a reason why the military designated this place as a shelter.

No, unless you’re an asshole, you wouldn’t build a shelter in a center full of zombies.

Additionally, there are few places that are easier to defend and accommodate citizens than a soccer field.

“Hmm… … .”

One thing was important.

‘Central Library.’

Is this a place worth going and checking out?

The lively open chat stopped at some point.

In a world where nothing can surprise me, it didn’t surprise me at all how their cozy ‘camp’ fell apart as I arrived at the library.

First of all, the distance from Hanmaeum Apartment was much closer to the library than to the soccer field.

Since I plan to move diligently starting tomorrow until I find a place where people are gathered, I was inclined to check the library first.

“Good. Let’s go.”

After putting away the cup ramen that I had finished eating, I picked up my smartphone in a familiar position on the bed.

I logged onto the web novel platform just in case.

There were no new updated novels.

There were only occasional posts announcing the closure.

“Fuck it, even if the Earth is destroyed tomorrow, you should still plant apple trees, writers.”

This is how it came to be, so why not tell the whole story and take a hiatus?

Now, it will probably be a long time before we get to see the next installment of our favorites.

After quitting the platform, I accessed YouTube.

And what I felt was that this bastard, Pakcheol, was not a pioneer.

Already in the zombie apocalypse, YouTube was, as always, a red ocean.

Videos about zombies filled the real-time rankings.

From the videos where he wrote his address in a sketchbook asking for help.

Uh, this looks like a scene from a movie I saw recently.

The variant video that Pakcheol left behind while searching still remains at the top.

The edited video was not visible.

The videos that appeared in the algorithm were generally similar.

Either quiet or noisy.

In most of the quiet videos, the man spoke in a whisper about his almost-death experience.

There were also a lot of videos showing confessions with a fin-de-siècle sensibility.

I’m going to tell my wife I’m sorry for cheating on her, why are you talking on YouTube?

And the extremely noisy videos could be summed up in one word.

‘Cyber portrait video’

Someone’s death that could not be censored was stuffed into the video.

I looked around the comment window with sleepy eyes.

Someone cursed God.

Someone criticized the government.

The pleading for his life and the anger at having nowhere to go were so overflowing that I could see them in my eyes.

‘Keeek!’

‘Aaaah!’

‘Help me! Help me!’

The now familiar screams were heard repeatedly like ASMR.

My eyes slowly closed. The weakened hand rests next to the pillow.

The next video was automatically playing on a black screen.

[Please, someone, come save us. I will definitely thank you. My young son starved for three days. It’s full of zombies outside, so I can’t move a single step.]

[Aaaah, Dad, I’m hungry.]

[Shh! Shh! Husung, you need to be quiet. After a while, Dad will buy you King Wiggler Jelly, which Husung likes.]

[Sigh… really?]

[…] then! Let’s wait just one more day. got it? … Everyone watching this video, my family is trapped in a building. Please save me. The address where we are now is Yongho 1-dong, Busan―]

Kkkk!

Bang – Bang –

[Aaaah~ Dad! The monster is here! The monster has arrived!]

[Shh! Shh! Husung! Shhh!]

Kkkk!

Flutter-

There was a sound of something breaking.

[Aaaah! dad! Dad!]

[no! no! You fucking bastards! Husung! Hooseongaaaa! Ahhh!]

I remember someone’s words.

Did you say that happy families are similar in appearance, and that unhappy families are unhappy for different reasons?

Now for the unhappy family.

Everyone is unhappy for the same reason.

***

“Ah—what time is it?”

I rubbed my eyes against the bright sunlight and checked the time on my smartphone.

11:50 am.

It’s been two days since I woke up, and a week and a day since the world went to shit.

As soon as I opened my eyes and saw myself getting up and getting ready to leave, I realized that I had become an awakened person.

Every morning, my entire body, which had been extremely heavy, felt as light as a feather.

After rechecking the kitchen knives and food I had put in my inventory, I changed into light exercise clothes.

Oh, how much has your faith increased?

[Faith: 950(50/H)]

“Oh, wow!”

I was full of faith even though I didn’t eat anything due to the faith that I silently raised while I was asleep.

Now, how should I use this so that word of mouth spreads that I wrote it well?

First, let’s invest everything in dedicated skills.

[Imitation Adult Lv.4 -> Lv.5]

[Identification of Deficiencies Lv.1 -> Lv.2]

[700 faith is consumed.]

[Wrong beliefs inhabit your body.]

A bright light burst from his body, and he could immediately see that his telekinesis and physical abilities had increased.

Well, now I can figure out my deficiencies by using them with the people I meet.

Okay, I put everything I needed into my inventory.

Now it was time to leave home.

I deliberately did not close the door when leaving the house.

Probably will never come back.

The whirring sound got worse as I went down the stairs and hallway.

As I got closer, I saw that there were more flies clinging to the corpses than yesterday.

If you look closely at this, you can see maggots, right?

Oh, I hate bugs the most.

“Fuck! I should have brought F Kill too!”

He grumbled and used his telekinesis to push away the swarms of flies that were as black as a cloud of dust.

I put both hands in my pockets and headed to the rooftop, in case a fly touched my hands.

It’s a profit –

The rooftop door creaked open and a warm breeze welcomed me.

Normally, now was the time when the cold was over and things were slowly getting warmer. March, when all things wake up and shake off the cold, no longer exists.

As I moved to the edge of the rooftop, I caught a sight that I had not seen yesterday.

Incheon seen from the 15th floor, which cannot be called that high.

As if yesterday’s silence was a lie, successive gunfire tore through the air.

The sound of gunfire was so loud that it made my ears tingle, and I could faintly hear people screaming.

To the left from my front view.

This is the ‘Incheon Soccer Stadium’.

Something happened to the shelter.

Well, it wasn’t important to me.

On the contrary, if the zombies’ aggro was concentrated there, it would have been a very unfortunate situation for me.

I stopped paying attention to the shelter and looked to the right, which was my goal.

Normally, even the edge of Seoul should have been blurred, but a wide curtain was separating Seoul and Incheon.

“Fuck, what kind of zombie is that? Are you an alien? … Fuck, isn’t the zombie apocalypse really coming and the gates to the National Assembly opened?”

What is that curtain really?

It couldn’t help but be a mystery itself.

Anyway, the important thing wasn’t Seoul.

The most important thing was to go to Incheon Central Library.

After taking a deep breath, I took a final look at my overall condition.

Perhaps because ‘Imitation Adult’ became Lv.5, mana and telekinesis felt even more abundant.

Telekinesis.

This ability, which was almost omnipotent in a physical sense, was an ability that was very suitable for the cult leader.

“Since ancient times, if you are a sect leader, you should master the technique of support and levitation and put up a sign.”

I need to levitate lightly. I’m like, ‘Where are you going?’ Wouldn’t you shout out loud?

It conjured up an image of telekinesis slowly covering my entire body.

And then my body slowly began to float.

My whole body levitated in the air lighter than expected.

“billion― fuck―”

I almost lost my balance a few times, perhaps because I wasn’t used to it yet, but I was getting used to it quickly.

I measured the mana consumed by moving around in the air.

“Hmm… 1 hour?”

It seemed like I could move around freely for about an hour.

One hour was enough time to go to Japan and make rice cakes.

good.

Now let’s really go.

As the altitude gradually increased, I could see the Hanmaeum Apartment becoming a dot.

My home was like an asshole with no good memories.

“Let’s never see each other again. Garbage apartment.”

It began to fly towards the ‘Central Library’, cutting through the wind.