episode_0754

Semifinals, 1 day ago.

The former North Korean land was a very difficult land to deal with from the Republic of Korea’s perspective.

A place where there is demand but it is difficult to develop.

If you want to develop it recklessly, it is a place where people live and cannot be kicked out carelessly, and if you want to compensate, it is difficult to follow the legal process.

Many talented people hoped to stay in the old North Korean land and continue to build up their magic, but the old North Korean land had very poor infrastructure even though it was tens to hundreds of kilometers away from Seoul.

There is no convenience store.

There is no hospital.

First of all, there is no internet line.

No matter how much the Korean peninsula itself serves as an infrastructure, the residential environment was too poor and insufficient for modern humans to live.

in other words.

As long as the infrastructure is in place, everyone wants to live here, so after the fall of North Korea, many people have asked the South Korean government to build infrastructure.

today.

Dozens of infrastructures were created.

American companies compensated for land through large-scale capital investments, laid new roads, and even mobilized talented people from America to form new cities.

But there was no core infrastructure.

The elements mentioned in the theory that humans have a fundamental reason to mutually help each other through social contracts in order for a city to function as a city did not exist in the cities of old North Korea.

Talented person.

To be more precise, a ‘hero’ who will work for the residents who will settle in the numerous redeveloped cities that will be created in the former North Korean land.

A hero who settles down in a place where infrastructure is just beginning to be established, without any proper infrastructure, and can work for everyone 24 hours a day, 356 days a year without leaving the place.

In other words, there were no S-class protectors.

“Ymir. I mean, it’s a city. It is maintained as having an S-class protector.”

onetime.

The time when I made tteokbokki for Ymir and tutored her while eating with her.

“You learned about the central area theory, right? Cities are formed where people gather. If we go back to the agricultural era, which of the fundamental reasons why people started living together is related to the element I want to talk about?”

“Are you talking about safety?”

“Okay. safety. Helping each other to sustain one’s life. If we were to speak in modern language, it could be called ‘security’.”

I taught Ymir that after the cataclysm, the existence of a hero is essential for the establishment of a city.

“Do you know why Seoul is a failed city? Do you know why there is no S-class hero?”

“Didn’t you leave Seoul because you could secure more mana the further east you went?”

“That’s right. But wouldn’t it be possible for someone to remain in Seoul out of a sense of duty? Still, it is the capital of South Korea.”

“That’s true too. Seoul and Gangneung are not as far away as the east and west of the United States. Another option would be to work a 5-day week, spending 5 days in Seoul and 2 days in Gangneung…”

“The world wants a military man who will be stationed in Seoul 7 days a week.”

Everyone was like that.

Regardless of anyone in particular, all mankind wanted someone with superpowers to willingly sacrifice themselves to protect everyone.

“But those in Seoul left. First of all, I will exclude ‘talented people’ who left for other places to avoid being bullied. What I want to mention is the case of a hero who will work hard like Hogu and live in Seoul for 5 minutes.”

“This is the story of a hero who gave up on gathering more magical power by being in Busan and encompassed the entire 20 million population of Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Incheon before people gathered in Busan, right?”

“Okay. And there was not a single one of them left.”

In the end, none of the wealthy people who wanted to remain in Seoul until the end of their own will remained in Seoul.

There were three heroes.

“One. When moved to another base city by others.”

As everything moved to Busan, one hero moved to Busan and then to another city in accordance with public opinion on whether Seoul should be protected.

“Two. A case where I compromised with reality because I felt like I would really die from overwork while working in Seoul.”

Tired of the situation in Seoul where the number of people each person had to manage was increasing and incidents were occurring all the time, one hero left Seoul.

“Three. If you fight in Seoul until the end and receive an honorable second-class promotion.”

There were people who wanted to protect what was left of Seoul after everyone left, but there were also heroes who left Earth instead of Seoul due to villains or demons that appeared in Seoul.

“Hero is a bigot. To use doctors as an example, we want all doctors to be on standby in the emergency room 24 hours a day.”

“But they don’t get paid very much… ah.”

“That’s the blind spot. Even if you receive more than 300 million won a year, few doctors would want to be the only doctor in a rural island village. Even if responsibility for medical accidents falls on the individual.”

“Wow. That means…it’s the same for heroes too.”

Nevertheless, humanity hoped that heroes would protect the city 24 hours a day.

“So, if a city is to be created, it cannot be achieved no matter how much the government builds new apartments or builds new roads. Building the most important infrastructure is an urgent priority.”

“You’re an S-class hero.”

“That’s right.”

After the cataclysm.

The claims made by social science theories have also changed.

What is most important for humanity to gather in the center is not the convenience of transportation or the development of medical technology, but a new factor.

“Hi Se-kwon. We have reached a situation where cities are created and even disappear depending on whether there are heroes or not.”

Is there a hero or not?

In Busan alone, apartment prices in the area where Baek Seol-hee lives have jumped much higher than in the central area, so it was natural for people to be angry and angry towards the hero.

“Simplest example. If Gwangikgong moves to Gaema Plateau, what do you think will happen after that?”

“It depends on how far you move, right?”

“What if you swear on your name and your deceased parents that you will live in Gaema Plateau for the rest of your life?”

“Aha….”

If Gwangikgong had built a house and lived in Gaema Plateau, perhaps 10 years later, there would have been a large number of apartment complexes such as Gaemayu Versutium or Gaemapyunhansesang Gwangikhaegeunsia in Gaema Plateau.

“If you look at it from a long-term perspective, building a city with only S-class heroes is not a task. But who among the S-class would sacrifice themselves to build a new city? Among the million or more people, there is a hero waiting for 5 minutes to stop them from turning into villains or devils and running rampant.”

The reason that is impossible is because even an S-class hero is ultimately just a human being.

As a modern person, you would not want to live in a place where the infrastructure of modern civilization is poor.

Since you have this ability, you probably don’t want to stay in a place that doesn’t help you increase your magical power.

As an employee, you probably don’t want to work 24*7 hours a week repeatedly throughout the year.

As long as we are human, no one would just live like that.

If there is such a person, it would be an SSS-level brat who throws away everything else and sacrifices himself with the sole intention of solving all the crimes that occur in the newly created new city.

“Ymir. Can you say that you devote all your time to the city, without any personal time?”

“It seems difficult… You have to run out even while you sleep. Then, if an accident happens, I’m the one who gets criticized.”

“Okay. If such a being exists, then such a being would become a hero, like a guardian deity of the city.”

The city’s guardian deity.

symbol of justice.

City Hero.

“Gwangikong is the one who does it at the national level, and usually this is narrowed down to the city level.”

Even if you apply all kinds of modifiers, you can’t deny the view that its essence is a ‘high-end luxury tool’.

“So, please know. Someday, after the world is destroyed, the center of the world will be a place where heroes with different abilities live together.”

Just in case, I left a warning to Ymir in advance.

“If the world is to be destroyed, if the world is destroyed due to some mistake and the survivors are to be united, there must be a hero, or rather a hero, who will become a symbol of that place.”

That’s how I talked to Ymir.

-In order for a city to be maintained, a special household name is needed.

Called.

so.

I presented Cheonma as a special protection unit that can maintain Neo Dongtan City.

“Good. As much as you want.”

Cheonma also accepted this offer.

“You mean that the country can be the central point, but at the same time, maintaining public order can only be done by a close association?”

With the mindset that she needed desperate support, she volunteered(?) to seek asylum as a special hukou for the 10 million refugees and those who will come to Neo Dongtan in the future.

“Oh, indeed. So what happens to the World Cup? Shouldn’t I be right there?”

Cheonma announced to the world that he would seek refuge in Neo Dongtan City, but there was a problem at the time.

“What are you going to do if those red devils attack Dongtan? While I was playing in the World Cup.”

“If that’s the case, you don’t have to worry.”

Chunma decided to withdraw, and we also had no intention of prolonging the World Cup.

“If 2 people instead of 1 withdraw in the semifinals, it will be the finals, not the semifinals.”

“…….”