episode_0011

Encounter (5) – Commercial alley in Guwol-dong, Namdong-gu, Incheon

After we confirmed that all the zombies were gone, we hurried back to the library.

I heard the conversation between Kang San and Seo Tae-san, who were at the forefront watching the surroundings.

“… The speed is too slow.”

“This kid is out of his mind right now. Even if you run just a little bit, you’ll start crying and make a fuss, right?”

Seo Tae-san lost his mind and lightly hit Kim Cheol-su on the head.

Cold sweat dripped from my shaking head.

‘Ugh, it’s dirty as a dog.’

There was no answer at the back either.

“… Ugh, uhhh.”

Lee Kyung-min’s suppressed moans were flowing out little by little.

I was holding back on my own, but my eyes could not deceive me.

His shaky legs and frowning expression every time he walks.

While I was running frantically all the way to the rooftop, I felt like I broke something.

‘An idiot whose own hand is lost in his own attack. An idiot who hurt his leg while running away. ‘A legendary duo.’

I stopped admiring Yoon Ah-young’s twitching butt and slightly supported Lee Kyung-min’s body.

Lee Kyung-min, who was surprised, looked at me and smiled awkwardly.

I frowned at the rotten stains on my face, as if I hadn’t washed them for a few days, but I endured it with desperate patience.

“Kyungmin, I will help you.”

“… Oh, did it show off a lot? Thank you.”

“Be careful. In a world like this, isn’t your body your property?”

“Ahaha… .”

The voice becomes very blurry and the eyes have no place to go.

There was no further answer.

Fuck, what will happen to me if I get treated like that here?

A question filled with concern turned into a reprimand instead of a needless question about why I got hurt.

Is this the Apocalypse old man?

This bastard… You have the talent to turn people into assholes in an instant.

The red of confidence continued to flash on my personal radar.

This bastard is ‘real’.

He cleared his throat again and hushed his voice as if he was telling a big secret.

“… It’s me, Kyungmin. Can I ask you something?”

“What, what is it?”

“Are Kang San and Taesan brothers by any chance?”

“… Yes?”

Lee Kyung-min looks at me in confusion.

I asked again with an expression of complete inadequacy.

“Gangsan, Taesan. Wasn’t he a spinster?”

“… … How can they be brothers if their last names are different?”

“… Aha!”

When he makes a stupid expression as if he now realizes it, Lee Kyung-min’s expression instantly becomes flattering.

Yeah, you bastard.

These guys are the type that gain confidence only when they know the other person’s shortcomings.

“By the way, Mr. Guwon, how has your life been?”

Well, now he even asked himself first.

“… Well, since I saw the disaster text message this morning, I haven’t even taken a step out of the house. Today is the first time it came out.”

“Ah, it’s been four months since I came to the library to study.”

“Oh, what are you studying?”

“Ah… , I was preparing for public announcement.”

“You studied liberal arts? I was also a liberal arts major.”

As the conversation slowly opened, Lee Gyeong-min’s voice gradually gained vitality.

I began to listen in one ear and let it out of the other, gradually changing the topic of conversation to what I wanted.

“… But that woman looks very anxious. Is it okay for her to continue to be with you?”

“That’s what I said. Mr. Guwon, don’t go around that woman. Cheolsu was an arm, but no one knows what happened next.”

That idiot broke his own arm. Why is it our Ayoung’s fault?

Why is Lee Kyung-min able to persecute Yoon Ah-young like this?

Judging by the behavior of Kang San, the leader of this group, this group has not yet gone as far as it can go.

This means that they are not a hard-boiled group that rapes women and enslaves men like cavemen.

Then, the power of beauty will still be powerful.

No, rather, in a situation like this where people’s sexual desires explode, you will have more power than you would in normal society.

Why do you hate Yoon Ah-young so much?

I blurted out a keyword to Lee Gyeong-min, who was boasting and listing precautions for me.

“There is a possibility that you are a ‘preliminary infected person’?”

“It’s not a probability, it’s unconditional. When I came to my senses, I wondered if the fact that I had been in the bathroom for a week was a valid excuse. They say it must be something like an ‘asymptomatic carrier’ like Corona!”

‘You’re really knowledgeable!’ as if you just learned a new concept. As Lee Gyeong-min’s eyes focused intently, his voice became more and more passionate.

“But why are you hanging out together?”

“Ha, Gaeul’s sister and the librarian said that we should at least quarantine them, but Sangi hyung was against it, so it ended up like that.”

Autumn is my older sister.

It means there are more women in the library group.

“What kind of awakened person are you? What kind of fantasy novel is this? At the same time, I can’t even deal with a single zombie, so I’m shaking and losing any sense of awareness.”

Now all I had to do was cast a strong sympathetic look towards Lee Kyung-min, who couldn’t control his anger and was spouting out information.

Well done.

Good job, our troll bastard.

So, to sum up what our shit troll said, it is like that.

Yoon Ah-young suddenly came out of the women’s bathroom a week after the zombie apocalypse occurred.

He explained to the group members who were wary that he had lost consciousness and only woke up.

When a woman named Gaeul asks how a human can sleep for a week without food and water, Yoon Ah-young throws out the ridiculous number that she is an awakened person.

Yoon Ah-young is instantly branded as a ‘prospective infected person.’

At the risk of being quarantined, the group’s leader, Kang San-man, defends her and decides to believe Yoon Ah-young’s nonsense that she can ‘sense the crisis.’

Here, after carefully scratching the surface of what a ‘preliminary infected person’ is, our Gyeongmin Emong answered again.

As expected, stupidity and ‘intellectual vanity’ have always been together.

When asked if he knew how the first zombie arose, he answered with a disgusted expression, ‘Is it because they ate bats?’ and Lee Gyeong-min laughed heartily with an expression that seemed like he was looking at an idiot.

Ah, it’s hard work to match the rhythm.

“No one knows. It’s not biochemical terrorism or an infectious disease. Oh, and of course it’s not because you eat bats. It’s just that people who suddenly faint wake up and become zombies.”

It was a scene of chaos where people who had put their heads down on the desk in the reading room did not just doze off for a moment, but turned into zombies and attacked the people next to them.

The kid there, who must have been crying and screaming out of his mind, was looking at me with an expression like a war veteran, and I really wanted to punch him with his fist.

The apocalypse began as humans who woke up from fainting became zombies, but among them, there were some who did not wake up for a long time.

Strangely, the zombies did not attack the stunned humans at all, and this began to instill in people the natural perception.

The person who is currently passed out is a ‘pre-infected person’ who will become a zombie when he wakes up.

Only then did all the things I was curious about come to fruition.

The moment people suddenly fainted a week ago.

Among those people, there were primary infected people, but there were also awakened people.

I remember seeing a video on the news showing a hospital full of sleeping ‘preliminary infected patients’ burning.

Fuck – they weren’t all zombies, they were awakened people.

I don’t know who designed it, but it’s a setting that goes to the extreme of villainy.

Well, it was actually a good thing for me.

The fact that the number of awakened people has decreased significantly means that my existence has become even more special.

“So, Guwon, be careful too. You must never go around that potentially infected person when he or she is sleeping!”

At the end, Lee Gyeong-min deliberately raised his voice as if someone would hear.

And the body of Yoon Ah-young, who was the target, trembles greatly once again.

Kang San, who turned around and checked the situation, gave Lee Gyeong-min a warning with a glance.

Lee Gyeong-min, who didn’t care at all, smiled secretly as he watched Seo Tae-san pretend to slit his throat and immediately get killed.

This was a much more perfect situation than I expected.

Well, I casted [Identify Deficiencies] on Yoon Ah-young, who was shaking more than a puppy.

[Someone’s warm comfort and attention]

good. very good.

In an instant, a picture was drawn of how to cook Yoon Ah-young.

“Fortunately, it arrived without incident.”

While I was gently scraping information through Lee Gyeong-min, Kang San, who had been exploring the surroundings with extreme concentration, wiped off the thick sweat with his arm.

All the zombies around here had already moved to the direction where the mutant flew, but well, there was no way an incompetent person would know that.

After passing the now obsolete access control center, I saw a blue five-story building immediately to my left.

[Central Library]

As we walked a little further forward, we were greeted by bookshelves blocking the front entrance of the library.

Oh, was that blocked off as a barricade?

If a proper zombie wave came in, it would break through like a piece of water, but it wasn’t to the point where it was useless.

I knocked on the bookshelf that replaced the door, and someone asked from inside.

“Is it a mountain?”

“It’s me. Autumn.”

It’s a profit –

The heavy bookshelf slowly opened and a woman immediately hugged Kang San.

“Thank goodness… I’m so glad.”

Kang San, who was momentarily taken aback by the embrace of the woman who kept repeating the same words, patted the woman on the back with a shy smile.

Perhaps that woman is the woman named ‘Gaeul’ that Kyungmin Lee was talking about.

The face buried in Kang San’s shoulder was lifted and a tearful face was seen.

“Are you hurt anywhere? Is everyone else safe too?”

“… huh. that… Autumn. There are other people… .”

“… Ah.”

Of the two people filming the drama, it was only then that Kang San introduced me.

“Ah, autumn. This is Han Gu-won. You saved us in a dangerous moment. You will be with us from now on. Mr. Guwon, this is my friend Seong Ga-eul.”

Ga Eul’s eyes followed the direction of Kang San’s hand gesture.

“Your name is Ga Eul, right? Hello, Gaeul?”

“Yes.”

A cold look completely different from the one directed at Kang San.

I couldn’t help but laugh as I looked at the haughty face that matched those cold eyes so well.

Yoon Ah-young. And that woman named Autumn.

‘It’s a good thing I came to the library.’

This place… It was a jackpot.