(side story) Zombie.

Min-ji and Ji-seong were tied up in a cage, and when Kwak In-gu and his group approached, the corporal on duty, perhaps because Lim Jeong-hyeok had spoken to them, freed them.

The two found Gain sleeping.

“Wow… Since he’s sleeping, he’s no different from other children…”

Those who look around to go up to the room where Lim Jeong-hyuk is.

Children were running and playing, there were old men and women taking care of the children, people making food, and a few men carrying goods.

A completely different world from outside was unfolding under the protection of the trees, and this place gave the feeling of showing what peace is.

“Oh my… there are… children.”

However, Kwak In-gu frowned at the number of people who were different from what he knew.

I thought about what Lim Jeong-hyuk said… ‘what happened inside’.

Every time I headed upstairs, I saw different things.

As Kwak In-gu headed to where Lim Jeong-hyuk was, the people on duty noticed and moved away.

Kwak In-gu and his party entered the door where Lim Jeong-hyeok was believed to be.

Lim Jeong-hyeok is smoking a cigarette in silence in a dark space.

“Go home… why did you come…”

“I think you’re going to commit suicide.”

“…..”

“What, are you going to burn it all and die with what’s in front of you? I was watching a fucking noir movie.”

“…..”

“You have a lot of work to do, MS Pharmaceuticals factory in Dongducheon, right?”

“okay…”

“Give me a ride.”

“…Is that what you’re supposed to do?”

“Gain is waking up?”

“…That’s also a threat…”

“really?”

“…..”

Kwak In-gu, laughing, handed over the sleeping Ga-in to Yoo Min-seong and sat down at the table.

Lim Jeong-hyuk hands over a cigarette.

“Don’t smoke, man. Does a person who is trying to protect his children smoke?”

“…..”

Kwak In-gu looked down at the black square box and smiled.

“You still got that bastard’s head?”

“…..”

“You were so upset that I died too easily, and at that time… I saved zombie blood for the first time in my life because of you, bastard…”

Lim Jeong-hyuk silently put out his cigarette into the square box.

“Okay, tell me what happened.”

Kwak In-gu picked up a cigarette, lit it, and started puffing.

Kwak In-gu feels sick after smoking his first cigarette in five years.

“Oh my god… I won’t do it.”

Lim Jeong-hyuk, who was looking at that scene, recalled the memories of that day and spoke.

“…You may have seen it with your own eyes, but the number of children now is far less than the number of children you remember…”

Lim Jeong-hyuk sucked in a cigarette and exhaled white smoke.

“Whoa… there was a woman who was trembling with fear… she was a very scared woman.”

Lim Jeong-hyeok, who was telling the story, had quite a hard time.

“We did our best to protect the woman, so we brought her to the camp where we are now and left her there until she stabilized…”

As everyone focused on Lim Jeong-hyuk’s story, Lim Jeong-hyuk sighed and said.

“Four years ago at that time… you know it. It was before the power struggle began with the continuous zombie wave and the grassland was completed…”

Kwak In-gu was nodding.

“Until then, we had not been able to procure food on a regular basis, and as the number of people to protect increased, the food supply began to decrease noticeably. But I thought there was still enough food to last two to three months.”

In a situation where he seemed to know what was going on, Kwak In-gu’s expression began to rot.

“One day, the scared woman said she wanted to cook food. She said she knew how to cook and wanted to be of some help.”

“”…..””

“You’re right, dozens of children and adults died after ingesting poison… She said she could live only if she kept her mouth shut… That was the end of her life.”

“”…..””

Lim Jeong-hyeok snorts while smoking a cigarette again.

Lim Jeong-hyuk got up and took out a drink.

“Okay… this time, why do we throw survivors outside when they break the rules… why did we need strong power… shall we tell you?”

Lim Jeong-hyeok, who used to drink from the bottle.

When Kwak In-gu motioned for one for himself, he brought a glass.

Lim Jeong-hyeok begins to speak while following Kwak In-gu.

“This time… it was an old man. I corrected him, but that made it even more of a problem.”

Lim Jeong-hyeok speaks while drinking.

“The old man had good leadership skills, so I thought he was trustworthy. I never thought that trusting him and entrusting him with internal affairs for a long time would be a problem…”

Lim Jeong-hyuk spoke with a frown and seemed to recall memories of that day.

“They created a force… We have a lot of children and women… It must have felt like a wolf in a flock of sheep… Hahaha…”

“her…”

“So, an internal fight broke out… so many people died… we became short on manpower and unable to manage the grasslands outside…”

Kwak In-gu recalled the situation, nodded, and then spoke.

“The reason you let the beasts out there is… because evil is evil… right?”

As Lim Jeong-hyuk nodded, Kwak In-gu said.

“Can you estimate the number of outsiders who died as a result of unleashing that evil?”

“Can you estimate the number of soldiers who died while managing the grassland when the outsiders came in? I thought you would understand…”

Kwak In-gu and Lim Jeong-hyuk, who were drunk, continued talking for a long time.

dark night.

On the southern outskirts of the plains, men with tooth tattoos were searching through the corpses of captured zombies.

They put an arrow between the eyes of the Screamer in the distance before he could scream.

“Why are there so many screamers these days?”

“That’s right, if you listen to the wanderers around, they say you see Screamer very often.”

“Well, the trees will take care of it. Just check to see if there’s any money to be made.”

“yep.”

These people gather dead zombies in one place and set them on fire.

Beyond them, buildings visible in the distance were writhing.

Kwak In-gu got up, looked around to see that there was no Ga-in around, and checked the post-it note in front of him.

-Gain will take me home first.

“Are you awake?”

Yoo Min-seong opened the door from the outside and came in.

“Why are you here and not going?”

“I wanted to see with my own eyes, whether the trees… or the people here, were really protected…”

Kwak In-gu smiled and looked at Yu Min-seong, who was covered in scars.

“Why did you think that the weak were being treated like slaves here?”

“…..”

Kwak In-gu looked at Lim Jeong-hyeok, who was sleeping on his stomach.

“That bastard, he was a bastard with a strong sense of justice, so he fell out with me. If I stayed next to him, he almost got cancer.”

“…..”

“But… the world is like this, and that guy has changed a lot…”

He looked at Lim Jeong-hyuk with deep eyes and spoke to Yoo Min-seong.

“I’m not telling you not to hold a grudge. Even if Ga-in kills this bastard, I won’t stop him.”

“…yes.”

Kwak In-gu looked at Lim Jeong-hyeok, who was talking in his sleep, for a while and then woke him up.

“Hey, wake up.”

After only hitting him once, Lim Jeong-hyuk rubbed his eyes and checked his surroundings.

After sighing for a moment, he got up, took out some water from the refrigerator next to him, and started drinking it.

“Whoa…”

“Do you want to waste time? Let’s leave right away.”

Lim Jeong-hyeok, who had just woken up, pressed the button and a captain outside came in.

As soon as he came in, the captain saluted Lim Jeong-hyeok and looked at Kwak In-gu on guard.

“Hyeokjin, prepare the search team.”

“All right.”

Kwak In-gu was eating with Lim Jeong-hyeok while receiving cold stares from the soldiers.

An old woman who was cooking food came out and touched the soldiers’ shoulders.

“Stop looking at me while I’m eating, you bastards.”

“”yes””

Yu Min-seong looked at them like trash until a few hours ago, but no matter how you look at the situation inside, it was a perfect nest.

It was a more perfect place than Yu Min-seong’s base in Guri where children could be protected.

Seeing more than a hundred soldiers answering to the grandmother, Yu Min-seong felt an unknown emotion.

Kwak In-gu was impressed as he ate his food without a care in the world.

“Wow… Grandma Kang’s cooking skills haven’t died.”

“It’s been 6 years since I saw this bastard, and look at his talking tail.”

Kwak In-gu, who was laughing, looked at Lim Jeong-hyuk’s face.

The scar inflicted by Gain is long and blatantly exposed with 13 stitches.

“The cubs are all dead. Now you’re getting beaten up by a kid?”

“…Eat some food, population.”

“Wow, my Ga-in will try to kill you if he meets me, but I won’t stop you?”

“…If that happens… I plan to die.”

The space suddenly became cold due to Lim Jeong-hyuk’s words.

“”…..””

Before he knew it, the grandmother behind Lim Jeong-hyuk hit him on the head.

Sigh!

“If you die, bastard, we’re going to take care of it?!”

“…..”

“The boy has no sense of responsibility, no sense of responsibility… I have to live in times like these!”

Kwak In-gu, who was next to him, was giggling.

“Then, don’t run into Ga-in when I’m not around. I’ll try to block him to some extent, kahaha.”

“You… haven’t changed at all…”

“Isn’t that what determines who has the right personality in this situation?”

Kwak In-gu tore off the necklace and handed it over to Lim Jeong-hyeok.

When I opened the lid, I saw the faces of three soldiers.

A soldier with an unknown face, one who looks small is Lim Jeong-hyeok, and the other is Kwak In-gu, who has an overwhelming size.

They were smiling and wearing the same so-called mark.

“You’ve been searching through the treasures to protect your baby, and quite a bit of time has passed…”

Kwak In-gu said to Lim Jeong-hyuk, who was looking at the photo.

“I thought I was going to get cancer if I went along with your fucking sense of justice, but now a lot has changed.”

At that time, the grandmother hit Kwak In-gu’s head with a force that was incomparable to when she hit Lim Jeong-hyuk.

Bah!

“evil!”

“You bastard! How many people are saving their lives because of Jeonghyeok!!! What a shameful bastard! If you left to live alone, you shouldn’t have come!”

“Hey, Grandma, I’m going to look around because it’s unfair. Come visit my house sometime, just look at Uncle Ji’s face!”

Bah!

“Why am I a grandmother and Mr. Ji is an uncle? You sad bastard!”

“Ahh!!! That’s not what I’m doing!!”

Next to him, Lim Jeong-hyuk chuckled.

Yu Minseong’s feelings as he watched that scene became more complicated.

Those who were watching their surroundings on the rooftop of Uijeongbu Department Store.

The man wearing the sergeant’s mark was looking at something.

“Hey, what is that…?”

The corporal who was sitting looked at the sergeant.

“What are you talking about?”

At the end of the grassland visible through the telescope, all the hyenas who were based close to Seoul were running here.

“…What is that?”

The hyenas who had dispersed and entered each area were running here, bringing people with them.

The sergeant quickly turned on the radio connected to the captain.

“Communication security. This is Sergeant Han Seong-hoon. The hyenas’ movements are unusual right now.”

-“What’s going on?”

“They have divided into different districts and are coming this way with people.”

-“…i get it.”

Captain Kim Hyuk-jin received the report and went down to the first floor.

People with tattooed teeth were panting.

“What’s going on?”

“Wave… It’s a zombie wave… Huh…”

Kim Hyuk-jin began to feel serious when he saw the people crowding around him.

“What is the scale?”

“Only 50 screamers were confirmed with the naked eye…”

“what!?”

“…It’s a ‘tsunami’…the likes of which I’ve never seen before.”

Captain Kim Hyuk-jin looked around the situation and shouted with his walkie-talkie in hand.

“…Let’s get people inside!!! It’s like a tsunami!”