episode_0171

Winter secretly breathed a sigh of relief as she blocked the white bones.

‘Thank God… I thought I was going to die…’

Cold sweat dripped down my back, but thanks to the rain, it wasn’t noticeable.

I swallow my saliva, relieved once again by that fact.

For some reason, I felt like I was going to burst out laughing.

“Kkiss!!!”

“Kkieeek!”

Even the screams that once gave me goosebumps are now a bit cute.

I understood why Hanseong was able to smile even when White Bone was chasing him.

‘It was so funny I laughed.’

A smile gradually bloomed on his face.

“You….”

“Is it useful?”

Hansung is unable to hide his surprise with his mouth wide open.

The sight makes my shoulders widen.

It was heartbreaking to see someone I had looked up to acknowledge me.

“Good. It’s rewarding to work hard to chew on iron.”

“… Did you eat that?”

“Yes. It’s delicious.”

I burst out laughing as I remembered the incident that took place before I started eating.

Blood and liver.

Why did something I didn’t particularly enjoy eating look so delicious?

Thinking that this desire might be a sign that he was turning into a zombie, he hugged his girlfriend, Hayun, and even burst into tears.

‘It was because of the iron.’

Fortunately, I didn’t become a vampire or a zombie.

iron content.

Winter noticed that she was attracted to the iron contained in large amounts in blood, liver, and meat, and from that day on, she changed her diet.

It wasn’t particularly tasty, but I felt full after eating it.

My weight steadily increased in proportion to the amount of iron I consumed.

After a week like that, Winter was able to face herself with the bones of her entire body turning into steel.

“Keeek!!!”

The white bone continued to scream and roll over.

Because of the winter, which did not move no matter how much it rolled, its rotation only scooped up the dirt beneath it, like an idling wheel.

The ground is sinking further and further down.

Clearly, White Bone was destroying itself alone.

“Wait a minute…?”

At that moment, Hanseong, who seemed to have come up with a good idea, thought about it carefully and then asked Seongmo for her opinion.

“Seongmo, what does it look like.”

“…There will definitely be a stamina problem to keep fighting like this. I agree.”

“Good.”

Hanseong began to give orders without stopping his spear towards the surging mutants.

“Move forward!”

“Forward!!!”

forefoot! forefoot!

The camp moves forward little by little with the command to keep pace.

Eventually, after the winter that blocked Baekgol, a new phalanx was formed.

Hanseong came with a spear and started talking while scratching the tip of the spear against the white bone’s body.

Mei profit-

The noise made by the tip of a spear scraping against bone.

Even to White Bone, the sound was clearly shocking.

“Kkieeek!!!”

“Shh.”

Hanseong taps Baekgol’s body with the tip of his spear and listens to the ringing sound.

The look was full of leisure, as if he was picking a watermelon from a market.

“Here.”

A place where the eyes and mouth were, where the bones were thin and almost like a weak point in the white bones.

Find that place and set up the tip of the spear.

“Kkiss!!! Meee!!!”

Hanseong smiled brightly at the urgent scream.

Showing the sadism that bursts from deep within his heart,

Right now, he laughs for a while as if this moment is so fun, then hides his laughter for a moment and asks.

“Want to live?”

“Kkiek!!!”

“Then they bite you.”

Seeing that demon-like appearance, White Bone stopped the zombies, but did not make them retreat.

Because you never know when you might get stabbed in the back.

It was scary, but it was definitely less than death.

“Bite?”

“Kkiss!”

It was clear that something was being expressed, but the full meaning could not be understood just by the length of the cry.

“No, stop crying and just talk.”

“…kiek.”

“Ah, should I just kill him.”

I feel irritated in my frustrated mind.

‘Since when did you think about the future?’

The moment I was about to commit it,

The Virgin Mary fell down, covering her head.

“Ugh…!!!”

The Virgin Mary was twisting her body as if in pain.

The thoughts of the white bones that had been hidden behind a curtain began to come through clearly in his mind.

[distrust]

“… They say they can’t believe it.”

“Huh?”

“I’m thinking that guy would tell me that.”

It was expected that he had a certain, or rather high, level of intelligence.

It was also confirmed that there were emotions.

but….

‘Is it possible to negotiate…?’

The Virgin Mary could not close her mouth wide open in surprise.

The plan was to threaten the white bones and bite the zombies, but there was clearly a subtle difference between threats and negotiations.

Negotiation requires a fairly high level of intelligence.

In particular, the ability to ‘change perspective’ to understand the other person’s position is essential.

In the case of humans, it is an ability that does not begin to develop until at least 6 years of age, but in the case of White Bones, there were many obstacles to considering it to be just the beginning.

First of all, it was an expression of disbelief.

Proof that he knew that his situation would become worse the moment he was bitten by zombies.

This means that the white bone can judge the current situation and further predict future events.

[getaway. retreat.]

“He says he will run away first and then defeat the army.”

“Ha…? This is ridiculous.”

“Yes….”

Sangsu expressed surprise at Baekgol’s request for negotiation, but Hanseong raised a spear.

“Hey.”

When White Bone did not answer that question,

Hanseong plunges the spear into the pure white skeleton.

“Kkiss!!!”

The advance of the zombies began again with painful screams.

Then Hanseong simply raised one more spear.

“You told me to bite the zombies?”

“Keeek!!!”

[distrust! distrust!]

I tried to express my thoughts urgently, but

Seongmo, who was reading Hanseong’s thoughts, had to tell Baekgol instead.

“… They say you’re cocky.”

***

A retreating army of zombies.

The body of the white bone was decorated with four newly embedded spears, like the legs of a palanquin.

[surrender!! surrender!! surrender!!]

The surrender signal rang out from the moment the third spear was struck.

Hanseong stubbornly thrust in the fourth spear and agreed to surrender.

I had some unnecessary doubts and ended up getting 4 more spears stuck in my body.

From White Bone’s perspective, it was a deplorable thing.

“Bring two mutants.”

“Kkiek….”

As Hanseong spoke, two morels came running, grabbed the spear, and stood up.

“Well, you’re not thinking of revenge or anything like that, are you?”

“Kkiss!!!”

[denial! denial!]

In response to the urgent cry, the Virgin Mary conveyed her thoughts.

“I say no… It seems quite urgent.”

“Really?”

When Hanseong put out his hand as if he was annoyed, Byun Byeon started to take a step back.

“…Did you make it like that on purpose?”

“uh.”

The Virgin asked, looking at the white bones moving away.

“Do you track?”

If you use Jisoo’s ability, tracking it won’t be impossible.

It was a mission perfectly suited to a woman who could even stop her heartbeat.

“No? Why bother chasing and catching something, just leave it alone.”

“It may be dangerous later…”

Hanseong chuckles at those words.

“This is a bit funny, but at least once in your life, you’ll have to fight, right?”

orphanage.

That fact alone made Hanseong have many enemies.

Arguing over trivial things and ignoring them.

Most people just dismissed it as bullshit and passed it over, but at least in school life, such a reaction only made more enemies.

“You beat it up a bit, right? Then he would definitely come and take revenge. But after you beat him like a real dog, he doesn’t even come back.”

The trauma caused by violence was never light.

In the end, everyone Hanseong knew was unable to overcome that trauma.

A person who experienced severe violence during his school days.

A person who has experienced domestic violence.

Everyone cried out for revenge, but most of them failed to achieve it.

“…I see.”

“uh.”

The Virgin Mary could not understand the deep trust that Hanseong had built up through experience.

Although I thought that a person would be able to burn out his will,

At the same time, I vaguely realize that I can’t do that.

In the past, the Virgin Mary always tried to run away from mutants.

Even he himself couldn’t overcome the trauma.

Hanseong, who passed the Virgin Mary, uttered a word to the soldiers who were still standing blankly.

“Thank you all for your hard work. I’m resting.”

“…won.”

Soldiers who escaped death flop down on the floor and let out a sigh of relief.

“Ha… I won.”

“Yes.”

“I won….”

“Yes…!”

Relief and sighing mix with joy and sublimate into tears.

“Won!!!!!!!”

“Fuck…! I won!!!”

*

Hanseong and his group threw a rope and entered the final goal, the control center.

Mei profit-

The iron gate, which had been closed tightly for a long time, greeted the group with a loud noise.

A dark space.

No noise was heard from inside, as if zombies had invaded the building.

“It’s quiet.”

“Nothing.”

Hearing Baekhwa’s words, Hanseong leisurely stepped inside.

The control room is in the corner of the third floor.

The location was proudly marked on the map, and the group moved along, following the flashlight on their cell phones.

“Ugh….”

Dayoung, who was very frightened, was startled by the sound of rain and wind hitting the window and clung to Hanseong.

“Dayoung, why are you surprised by something like this since you caught the zombie like that earlier?”

“… Zombies are zombies, and ghosts are ghosts.”

“Really?”

“Yes….”

Let’s pull Dayoung, who is lowering her head in embarrassment, to sit down.

Dayoung clings to Hanseong with her legs wrapped around his body as if she were a koala.

“Hi…♡ I’m not scared anymore.”

That’s how we arrived at the control room on the 3rd floor.

I expected to see a scene like something seen in a movie, but all I saw was a screen and computers filling one wall.

“It’s more ordinary than I thought.”

“Sure…?”

Seongmo took out a piece of paper from her arms and started operating the system.

After struggling in front of the computer for a while, he frowns and calls up Hanseong.

“Hansung…? Come and see us for a moment.”

“Why?”

Thinking it wouldn’t be a big deal, Hanseong walked briskly until he came face to face with a screen.

[ID : ]

[PW: ]

“You know…?”

“I don’t know.”

The answer that came back filled me with confusion.

“I heard you have an informant?”

“I’ve never heard of a password.”

If he had tried to deceive, the Virgin Mary could have found out in advance.

That means he didn’t know either.

“…are you screwed?”

“…Yes. I’m screwed.”