episode_0078

Hyuksu Lee is a police officer.

If I were to tell the story of the twists and turns of his life, it would be enough to write several books, so there is no need to do so.

And the current situation is not appropriate to talk about such trivial things.

So let’s skip most of that and focus on his situation for now.

“What the fuck.”

Hyuksu Lee hid inside the police car and lowered his head. I crouched down, closed my eyes, and covered my ears.

It may be a little embarrassing, but it felt like the world had suddenly spun around.

Of course, you might ask what’s going on in a world where an unknown dimension called the Gate opens and monsters invade, but today was especially so.

After an unknown event suddenly struck the world, less than half a day had passed and the area he was in charge of, or even the entire city with a population of 170,000, went crazy.

Citizens flailed their limbs as if they were zombies and showed aggression toward those around them.

Yes, even now.

Thump, thump.

Beings pounding on the doors of their police cars.

Perhaps because they instinctively knew that he was inside, they wrapped their entire bodies around the car and were hitting it with their fists, like a swarm of bees trying to surround and repel a wasp.

However, now the host and guest are reversed, so it is not even clear who is the wasp and who is the bee. The people surrounding the police car are of all ages and genders.

“Fuck, that’s really fucked up.”

Close your eyes and block your ears. Otherwise, you too will end up in the same group as them.

Here, the entire city has become a den of devils.

How did he survive?

Ironically, it originated from his non-enthusiastic personality.

Okay, let’s get that out of the way first.

The cause is unknown. Less than three hours from now, an emergency call came to the district where he worked.

The story was about people suddenly running out and showing aggression, and even that couldn’t continue.

“Hey Hyuksu, you should go out.”

Inspector Choi, the head of the police station, luckily spoke to him at that time. He said something with a sly smile on his face, which made me think he was thinking it was a prank call.

Actually, I wouldn’t have believed it. I didn’t even get a call about the gate outbreak, but people suddenly lost their minds as a group.

You may think that the police are not very tense, but that is the reality right now.

As long as gates occur all over the world and are likely to appear in the sky at any time, the military has become considerably more powerful and has the characteristics of a society in which the military and police are united, with soldiers maintaining security rather than police organizations with less force. Ironically, the police are very hip. This is probably largely due to the fact that it has become heavier.

Anyway, an order is an order. He went into the police station’s armory to get an automatic pistol loaded with live ammunition to dispatch.

Now that I think about it, this situation saved his life.

If he had tried to go out with a baton like other ordinary police officers, he probably would have passed away first.

thud!

The moment Lee Hyuk-soo was about to unlock the pistol in the armory, a loud sound suddenly rang out, and he pulled his index finger unconsciously, almost firing the pistol.

“What, what!”

The surprised voices of other police officers and Inspector Choi inside the police box were heard. Lee Hyuk-su felt an ominous premonition and did not go out of the armory.

The scene inside the police box was visible through the open door of the armory. Inspector Choi stood up in surprise and looked towards the door of the police box.

“Hey Hyungmin, check. Why is there a woman pressing against the police box door right now?”

“Well, I feel uneasy about something. What is this all of a sudden.”

“You have to check first, you bastard! If you look at it and think it’s not true, just leave.”

There was a knock on the glass door. The glass door of the police box is opaque, so visibility is poor. You cannot clearly see what is going on outside.

But something is strange. No matter how stiff the entrance door of the district unit where he works is, it is a sliding glass door.

In other words, it is a structure that even elementary school students can enter if they push with enough force.

However, the person referred to as ‘some woman’ by Inspector Choi just hits the glass door and makes a thump sound.

‘Are you drunk at all?’

Sometimes, characters who are in a state of despair and visit the police box are like that.

When you are drunk, your brain becomes paralyzed and you cannot think normally, so the door opens when you push it. People who are unable to even think simple thoughts are often brought to the earth.

‘No, that can’t be. It’s definitely related to the contact we made earlier. shit.’

I quickly unlocked the pistol and held it in my hand. Also insert the loaded magazine contained in the cartridge.

click! The sound of metal being loaded rang out.

“Ah, what are you doing! Get out there quickly, bastard.”

“No, that’s it.”

I can sense that his immediate successor, Lim Hyung-min, is hesitating. He probably doesn’t want to go out either.

Anyway, isn’t she a crazy woman? Perhaps because the situation was so sudden, it was fortunate that they did not notice Lee Hyuk-soo, who was currently in the armory.

If his thoughts had reached him, there was a good chance he would have told him to go out since he was holding a pistol.

“No, don’t go out.”

“What?”

At that time, I heard Kim Jeong-hwa’s voice. It was Sergeant Kim Jeong-hwa, Lee Hyuk-soo’s predecessor. She was pushing up her glasses and clicking the mouse on her computer.

“I checked the CCTV now and found people like that all around me. I don’t think you should open the door.”

“What? So does that mean the contact you just made was real? Inspector Kim, you’re not lying right now, are you?”

“Yes, it’s not a lie. Hyungmin, just lock the lock on the top.”

“Ah, yes, Sergeant Kim.”

There was a thud, thud sound of hitting glass, followed by the sound of a door lock clicking.

And the face of Kim Jeong-hwa, who gave that order, was stiff, and the photo she saw on the CCTV looked unbelievably serious.

“Uh, the woman outside the door is going somewhere.”

“What a mess. First, let’s get in touch with… ”

I couldn’t continue what Inspector Choi was saying. Quaaaang! This is because his words were drowned out by the sound of a huge explosion, or rather, the sound of a collision.

“What the fuck, this time again.”

“Well, it looks like there was an accident outside.”

“You do all kinds of things.”

It looks like the car probably crashed into something. In that situation, Kim Jeong-hwa seemed to be watching the CCTV with a stern expression, continuously clicking the mouse without any surprise.

Hyuksu Lee turned around.

It seemed like something big had happened in the world, so the purpose was to take out the pistols according to the number of people.

Considering the current situation, it seemed like the area where the mess had occurred was quite multifaceted.

Kim Jeong-hwa’s voice continues to be heard behind him.

“People are strange. I’m walking unsteadily as if I’ve lost my mind.”

“How can you say that’s strange?”

“So, if you look at the CCTV, it looks like they are all drunk. It’s just the gait of drunkards. First, let’s zoom in on the CCTV.”

The sound of her mouse continued amidst the jingling of Lee Hyuk-soo’s armory keys.

“Uh, so what should I say about this? It’s hard to express in words, so the inspector needs to see this in person… ”

“Huh? Inspector Kim, what?”

“Do, do, do, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh… ”

“What? Why are you doing this, Inspector Kim!”

Lee Hyuk-soo took out more pistols, inserted magazines into all of them, and then turned around with them.

The sight he immediately saw was also bizarre.

What came into his field of vision was the back of Kim Jeong-hwa. Before I knew it, she was standing up from where she was sitting, and her behavior was very strange.

Sergeant Kim Jeong-hwa is behaving strangely, twisting his whole body as if he is performing a pantomime in the air.

“Gi, Inspector Kim! What are you doing?”

“Sergeant!”

The voices of Inspector Choi and Police Officer Lim Hyeong-min rang out at the same time. With Lim Hyung-min’s voice, Lee Hyuk-soo froze on the spot.

It’s not just because I’m scared. No matter how brave you bring, there is no one in this world who can guarantee that they will not freeze in this situation.

because,

This is because Inspector Choi’s eyes shook greatly when he saw Kim Jeong-hwa, or rather something that was Kim Jeong-hwa, and was imitating similar actions.

“Kuuu!”

Hyuksu Lee screamed. The moment he saw Inspector Choi like that, it felt like something was suddenly entering his head.

It felt as if something had perforated my skull and was caressing my head, as if a huge awl had been stabbed into soft tofu.

“Ah, shit. What is this?”

Tang─

A gunshot rang out. Lee Hyuk-soo pulled the trigger.

There was no specific goal specified. It was because I unconsciously clenched my fist and pulled my index finger.

Tang, Tang, Tang, Tang, Tang, Tang

Because it was an automatic pistol, gunshots rang out one after another. He waved his hands wildly due to the pain inside his head. After only a few seconds, Lee Hyuk-soo’s ammunition ran out and the gunfire stopped.

“Keee!”

And as soon as the gunfire stopped, the sound of Inspector Choi crying was heard. It seemed like the blind bullet had hit him by chance.

“Kie.”

“Shhh.”

At the same time, two people’s voices ring out. It was the familiar voice of Kim Jeong-hwa and Lee Hyung-min.

But they are no longer the people you knew.

Lee Hyuk-soo threw away his pistol, grabbed his new pistol, and headed toward the sound.

Both eyes are closed. It was because my mind was so churned that I couldn’t open my eyes.

There was the sound of Kim Jeong-hwa’s leather loafer shoes and Lee Hyeong-min’s shoes. Aim that way─

“Die, you bastards!”

─Pull the trigger one after another.

They shout curses and rain down lead bullets.

When he ran out of ammunition, he threw away the firearm, picked up another pistol and continued firing.

It seemed as if the explosive sound created by the gunpowder continued and mixed in with the sharp sound were sounds that were close to screams, but Lee Hyuk-soo just kept firing his pistol.

yet.

“Ha, haaa.”

Lee Hyuk-soo slumped to the floor, leaning against the cabinet.

The confined space of the armory was filled with the smell of gunpowder, and his hands were shaking from the scent of gunpowder and the excitement of the gunshots that had just occurred.

“Heo Eok, Heo Eok.”

There were still cries coming from outside the police box, but the good news was that at least it was quiet inside.

That meant that Kim Jeong-hwa and Lee Hyeong-min were also killed.

Hyuksu Lee grabbed his head and organized his thoughts. As the stabbing headache was somewhat subsiding, my thoughts began to wander little by little.

‘what? what? Is it like a virus?’

A series set in Raccoon City suddenly came to mind, but I quickly gave up the thought. The situation is too strange to be a virus.

I don’t understand why Inspector Choi and Kim Jeong-hwa suddenly became strange.

In some ways, it could have been seen as an immediate chemical weapon or viral attack.

‘That’s what happened after checking the CCTV.’

What did she see on CCTV? Inspector Choi, who saw her transformed after seeing something, suddenly began to change as well.

‘No, it’s so strange that you can get infected just by looking at someone.’

But other than that, there was nothing I could explain. Didn’t something suddenly creep into Lee Hyuk-soo’s mind?

It was fortunate for Lee Hyuk-soo that Inspector Choi was not immediately visible because he was obscured by Kim Jeong-hwa.

What he saw was roughly Inspector Choi’s arms and legs. Is that why it was like that?

Hyuksu Lee slightly opened his eyes.

What came into his vision were two corpses lying in a beehive. I saw it, but I don’t feel a foreign body in my head like before.

‘then.’

I got up and slowly checked the body. Kim Jeong-hwa was shot more than ten times and fell forward with blood pouring all over her body, and Lee Hyeong-min had bullets penetrating his side and abdomen.

And Inspector Choi was shot once in the chest.

‘Isn’t the durability that good? It looks no different from a normal human being.’

Inspector Choi died from a single shot.

So, can we say that they suddenly turned into zombies, but did not have the durability of zombies?

It may be difficult to draw a definite conclusion as there are still few control groups, but judging from the current incident, he was not a monster but simply a crazy human being.

‘If you get infected the moment you see it, how can you come up with a plan?’

But it can’t continue like this.

You cannot continue to protest in hell just because you are in hell.

After that, Lee Hyuk-soo tried to find as many things as he could inside the police box.

The higher-up police station may have already been hit, but the lines connecting them did not work, and the area outside the police station was full of zombies.

Still, after some trial and error, I was able to figure out the identity of this incident to some extent.

It’s hard to believe, and it is true, but this incident is only as effective as one understands it.

At first, I thought I was visually infected and thought it was true, but the more I understood the situation and the events that had occurred, the more I got a headache.

The moment I realized that the people outside the police box were zombies, the sound I heard from them started to create a feeling of strangeness in my brain again.

And on the contrary, when I force my thoughts to change while singing a song by my favorite girl group in my head, the headache gradually subsides.

‘is it.’

Perhaps the reason it didn’t affect me when I first saw Kim Jeong-hwa’s back was because I didn’t know what was going on at the time. It wasn’t just because it was from behind.

And when I saw Inspector Choi, it was at a glance that something was strange.

‘thought? No, it’s really crazy that it’s a disease that spreads conceptually.’

Yes, he was currently experiencing the worst and most bizarre illness in human history. How on earth are we supposed to get through this?

Hyuksu Lee bit his lip.

Now that I think about it, isn’t the power of the infected people not as strong as that of ordinary people? If it’s at a level where you can’t even open the glass door of the police station.

‘then… .’

*

Grumble.

The door of the heavily armored van opens, and the people inside begin to take a step into the unknown world.

“It seems more serious than expected.”

I expected it to some extent. At the group briefing before coming here, I heard that the situation was not good, and the atmosphere was serious even when I arrived in the van.

But reality always exceeds expectations.

The streets were a mess with cars that had crashed and citizens were going crazy. It was reminiscent of the background area that often appears in survival horror movies.

“We will step down for now. If you get close to infected people, you can get an infection of unknown cause.”

“I understand.”

“If you would like to call again, please contact us. Then.”

A comment is heard from the van driver, who is thought to be an employee of the organization, and Jang Ah-hyun agrees.

Jang Ah-hyun, who made a growling sound and watched the car gradually moving away, turned and headed toward the entrance to the city.

Sejun, looking at that scene, let out a small sigh.

As time goes by, I have been deployed several times, but every day is always new.

When I stand at the starting point, I always feel like a newbie who knows nothing.

I think I was feeling calm just before I opened the van door and got out. Maybe it was because he didn’t want to look bad to his mentor or junior.

Rather, as Choi Byeong-gi got closer to the operation area, his whole body was shaking with tension.

But the moment I got out of the van and took a breath of the outside air, I felt like I was back in my original position once again.

It was my first time playing in Tbilisi, and the feeling from that time comes back to me.

“Sejun, what are you doing? Cheer up.”

Tania taps his shoulder and smiles slightly.

“Yes. Okay.”

Yes. You should not go into the operation feeling nervous or intimidated before it even begins.

It’s ugly. Why had I forgotten such a simple thing for a moment? It seems he was a bit distracted as it had been a long time since he competed in a real game.

at that time,

The sound of a gunshot was heard from somewhere, interrupting Sejun’s monologue.

It didn’t seem to be close, but the sound that sounded like roasting beans was clearly heard, indicating that there were survivors.

“It’s a gunshot!”

As soon as Yue said anything, everyone kicked off the floor and started running towards the area where the gunfire came from.

How did they survive? First of all, there are a lot of questions to ask after saving that survivor.

If you’re lucky, you might be able to hear a solution.

“Uh, huh? Seniors!”

Choi Byeong-gi, who was blinking with a dazed expression, came out from the mouth.

The reason was because in his eyes, he could see his seniors running without anyone else.

In fact, Sejun’s group was not a very good group of seniors to raise juniors. I’m not the kind of person who teaches things one by one in such a friendly manner.

However, even Choi Byeong-gi, who had a goofy personality, seemed to have realized that he had to follow them, so he used his supernatural ability to lift himself about 30cm off the ground and started flying after them.