(side story) Zombie.

People who drive the surrounding zombies into a place surrounded by container boxes.

Since it was a very inefficient way to kill zombies, Yu Min-seong was wondering what the space was for.

Men riding motorcycles distributed food to elderly survivors nearby.

Yu Min-seong, who had seen them organizing their surroundings, decided that these people were good people.

So, I approached him to answer my questions and have a conversation.

At that time, a rock flew from behind, and Yu Min-seong, who was hit by it, turned around.

Men and women made gestures calling themselves.

Yu Min-seong was wary and slowly approached, and the woman spoke in a whispering voice.

“Where is this place? Come all the way here… I think the game is about to start… Follow me quickly.”

“who are you…?”

“Shut up and follow me if you want to live. If you don’t trust me, go over there and say hello.”

In a space hidden by a container, a scream came out from there.

“”…..””

The woman who heard the scream looked at the man and said.

“Fuck it… If we get caught, really… Before you get caught by them, get ready to come after me first, brother.”

The man listened to the woman’s words and looked in one direction.

“After all… it’s a running race… run…”

Yu Min-seong asked in response to the man’s words.

“What is that?”

There was no answer from the two, and they had already started running quickly.

Quang!

Yoo Min-seong looks back, startled by a loud noise.

In a space made up of container boxes, doors opened in all directions.

The survivors there started running in all directions without even looking back, and hundreds of zombies poured out behind them.

“…..”

“Run, you idiot!!!”

Yu Min-seong came to his senses at the sound of the woman’s voice and started running in the direction where they were.

A man with a feather tattoo who was watching from atop a container said as he passed the telescope to a man with no hair next to him.

“Huh, there were more participants?”

“Really? Let me take a look too.”

Two, no, three people running in the distance.

“I’ve seen those two before. Is the other one an outsider?”

The man who could not see the outsider was again given a telescope by the man without hair.

“where.”

The hairless man spoke with narrowed eyes.

“Would you like some money for what he’s wearing?”

“Oh… is this someone from the government or something? Does that all look like a bulletproof uniform?

“Really? Isn’t that where the elephants are?”

“…We’d like to eat, but it’s going to be difficult. Let’s call and have some soybean soup. Or ask for two over there.”

“Oh… that’s good too?”

The two are talking peacefully…

Behind them, a terrible scene was unfolding.

People watching through open windows on top of a four-story container.

And the first floor was full of zombies eating screaming people.

“Huh? You survived today too? I’ll turn your back and take a picture.”

A man turns his back without saying a word.

The numbers 1, 2, and 3 were written inside the square wound on his back.

“Oh… What, just one more time and you’ll be released? I hope so.”

The man screamed when a heated iron bar with the number 4 written on it was held against his back.

They are cleaning up a man who seems to have fainted from pain.

“next.”

And after that, survivors were lining up one by one.

Minji Lee grabbed Jisung by the collar.

“Hey Kim Ji-seong, do you like the money? Do you like it? Huh?! Because of you, even I got picked on!!!”

“Minji, wait a minute…”

Ji-seong looked at Yu Min-seong while being held by Min-ji by the collar.

“Hey, life is getting so bad that we’re going to save you?”

“…..”

“Let’s at least use what you’re wearing for transportation to get out of our area.”

Yu Min-seong is unable to judge the situation.

“Take off your clothes.”

Yu Min-seong was taken aback when he suddenly heard a voice telling him to take off his clothes.

“…yes?”

“Take it off so we can escape.”

“…No.”

At Yu Minseong’s words, the two stopped fighting and looked at Yu Minseong.

“”…?””

And Minji speaks.

“Did you come running to save that bastard? I told you to just ignore me, didn’t I?”

Yu Min-seong flinched, but said that it was unfair even if he thought about it himself.

“What are those people doing earlier?”

The two who were fighting suddenly looked at Yu Minseong and sat down on the floor.

“What did you eat before? Give it to us too.”

“…..”

“You won’t even give this bastard anything to eat? I should really save this bastard!”

Yu Minseong was embarrassed and took out the food he had.

Minji looked curiously at the food she had never seen before, and Jisung nodded and said.

“Wow… I tried this when I was in the military.”

Jisung picked up the pound cake.

I put it in my mouth and savored the taste.

“I’m feeling perfume~”

Minji, who was next to me, sat on a chair and forgot her combat rations.

“I’ll tell you this just once, listen carefully.”

Yu Minseong straightened his posture and sat down to listen.

“We call all the areas visible from the rooftop of the department store building next to Uijeongbu Station ‘grassland.’ To put it simply, when you look around from the rooftop of the building through a telescope, if you see the department store building, it is all grassland.”

The man next to me continued talking while eating pound cake with water.

“There are several organizations and their own territories here, including ‘elephants’, ‘rhinos’, ‘vultures’, ‘hyenas’, and ‘wild dogs’. The kids you just saw are eagles.”

“But it’s the ‘trees’ that take care of them all, they’re soldiers.”

“…..”

“We do regular management, but it’s safe to say that we are in league with all the organizations I just mentioned.”

Yu Minseong said, resting his chin.

“There seem to be… many survivors?”

“Hmm… The number of survivors that I know is approximately over 1,200. I don’t know exactly how many people are in the building that used to be a department store with trees. Those who broke the rules and came out want to go back.”

Yu Min-seong carefully asked a woman named Min-ji.

“Ah… Have you ever heard a rumor about a man wearing the same clothes as me?”

“Yeah, never.”

After listening to Minji and Jisung, Yu Minseong showed the map as if he had made up his mind.

“Perhaps… Geumo-dong is someone’s territory…”

The expressions of the two people who saw it darkened.

“Why are you doing that…?”

“It’s ‘field mice’?”

In response to the two people’s reactions, Yu Min-seong asked carefully.

“What about them…?”

“They’re just scared and hiding.”

Those who didn’t come out were looked at as if what was the problem.

Minji, who was eating coffee for dessert, looked at Yoo Minseong’s eyes and said indifferently.

“Um… I heard there are leader rats and kangaroo rats… no, it’s better not to know about those monsters.”

“…? I have to go there.”

Kim Ji-seong reacts to Min-seong’s words.

“Oh… I never recommend it? It’s better to just get caught by the eagles and play 5 games. They’ll let you go, right?”

If the game was the terrible scene I had just seen, I became curious about what the field mouse organization was doing.

In response to Jisung’s words, Minji spoke while drinking coffee.

“If you become a member of the field rats… there’s no need to run away…”

Geumo-dong, Uijeongbu.

Inside a building in a residential area, a middle-aged man knocked on the door.

“Cain!”

A young voice heard through the door.

“huh?”

“Eat food.”

“yes~”

A girl named Ga-in opens the door and comes out.

Hair that looks roughly cut, short hair, and clothes that look efficient but look like they were roughly draped in fabric.

He had a scruffy-looking face, as if he was trying to hide his appearance, but it wasn’t something that could be covered up to that extent.

Ga-in, who had just woken up and was rubbing his eyes tiredly, went down the stairs.

About a dozen people greeted Ga-in warmly.

“Hello Ga-in~”

“Yes, hello to you too Uncle Ji.”

The old people who were eating make fun of Ga-in when they see him.

One of them took out a rabbit doll.

“Ta-da~ It’s Antonio.”

“…What, do you want me to tear it up?”

“…Huh? Don’t do that….”

Those who had a lively morning due to Ga-in’s appearance and reaction, and one person came in.

Another man approaches the middle-aged man who woke Ga-in up as soon as he came in.

“Brother Kwak, is there someone caught in a trap?”

“Really? What about the seal?”

“It was a betrayal?”

When I heard the word ‘betrayal’ from the man who was reporting, the mood got worse.

A middle-aged man with no legs said.

“Myung-cheol, do you really need to report something like that? Brother Kwak, don’t get your hands dirty, let’s just throw him as food.”

“Sure, let’s go together.”

A middle-aged man called Brother Kwak looked at Ga-in and said.

“You must eat a hearty meal.”

Ga-in watched silently and put soup into his mouth.

Two men in a rope net.

One of them was moaning as if his hanging arm had broken from the weight.

“Brother Kwak, what should we do?”

Kwak In-gu wordlessly pulled their clothes and checked their backs.

Two hand-shaped scars were separated from each other on the back of the earthquake by a hot seal.

The number of sticks between them is 12.

“Please help me… please…”

“Where did you belong?”

The man in the net spoke quickly, intent on blowing whatever he knew.

“At first, it was a hyena!”

A man pointing his arm with his body.

When I looked into it, I saw a tooth tattoo.

“If it were a hyena, there wouldn’t be any information to be gained…”

“No! No! Recently, there has been a strange rumor going around your lair.”

While thinking about killing them, Kwak In-gu looked at the man as if asking him to speak.

“Well… a stranger about 178cm tall ran all the way to here, past ‘New Gok’ at the end of the meadow, holding something in his arms.”

Myung-cheol nodded after listening to the man.

“Ah. Is it him?”

“Do you know!?”

Myung-cheol whispered to Kwak In-gu.

“Not long ago… Gain…”

Kwak In-gu nodded while listening.

“Ah, it’s because of that… Thanks to that, it was a hassle for a while to clear out all the zombies around here…”

The man in the net spoke quickly, as if he thought this was their chance to survive.

“What he was wearing was unusual, but I heard a rumor that the bag he was carrying after giving up everything might contain a vaccine!!!”

“”…?””

Although it is a nonsense word, vaccine, Kwak In-gu and Myung-cheol flinch at the sweet word.

Kwak In-gu said with a chuckle.

“It’s not even funny… It’s a vaccine, so if something like that was going to come out, it would have come out when the country was already in good shape… not now.”

The man caught in the net asked with a serious expression.

“Have you not checked…?”

“So, the whole rumor spread…? Even to the trees…”

“…Yes, we also heard the rumor, so it must have spread by word of mouth by now.”

Kwak In-gu nodded and slowly lowered the net.

They thought they were going to release them, and their faces were full of joy, but they were shocked when the floor board opened at the same time.

Gaaa…

The area under the floorboards was full of zombies that started moving when the light came on.

“Isn’t it different from what you promised!!!!”

Myungcheol answered them, digging his ears.

“What promise?”

Those who looked at the two with cold expressions and judged the situation spoke.

“”Help me!!! I will do anything!! please!!!”

Myung-cheol said with a smile.

“I was wondering why they bothered bringing in zombies… Now I understand why eagles do this.”

“Don’t go anywhere and say something like that.”

“yes.”

The man in the sinking net spoke urgently.

“Please save me!! Please…”

“Please speak politely to the twelve people who died because of your betrayal.”

At the bottom, dozens of zombies were waiting for food,

The bottom plate naturally closes when the net goes down.

An endless scream rang out from below.