episode_0170

Fortunately, it didn’t seem to be what I thought.

I quickly got up and looked around, and there was a note.

Because his drinking habits were so bad, they wrapped him in a blanket and threw him in his dorm.

You don’t know how surprised I was because I thought I was momentarily subdued.

“… What is a goblin again?”

There was a postscript written on the note that I couldn’t tell if it was a compliment or an insult, calling her a goblin-like bitch.

It probably seemed like an insult. I guess they said he was holding a bat and drinking alcohol.

I thought about asking him to wrestle sometime later, but ended up saying nothing.

“Ugh.”

Drinking habits… It was clear that it was not sleepwalking.

I could tell just by looking at the headset being pressed down.

If I had normal drinking habits, I wouldn’t have put on the headset.

I feel stuffy when I write like this, so I don’t do it for long.

I wear it when I sleep or because of trauma.

Anyway, the accommodation was in terrible shape, so I started cleaning it right away.

It didn’t mean that the accommodation was dirty. In fact, it was so clean that there was no trace of dust.

It felt like I was just rolling around in my sleep.

So there were a lot of fallen or fallen objects around.

For example, my baggage that I was sleeping with as a pillow just a little while ago.

I couldn’t leave without organizing all of this, so I started organizing it while murmuring.

Fortunately, there wasn’t much to clean up. Most of the time, I can solve it with my own hands?

I felt like it was really helpful to learn housework while I was on campus.

Kim Yeon-hwa complimented me a lot, saying that her fingertips were very soft.

“Phew… ”

It wasn’t particularly hard, but maybe it was because I just got up and started moving.

Every part of my body felt stiff and tingly.

In times like this, the best thing to do was to warm up by doing some light gymnastics.

So, when I went outside, I saw a bright moon rising.

For a moment, I thought this was gymnastics on a moonlit night.

Well, it was a familiar thing, but it didn’t matter.

Kang Si-woo always made me do gymnastics before going on watch.

But I felt like I shouldn’t do gymnastics today.

Since there are eyes watching you, you can be embarrassed for no reason.

I slowly and vaguely waved my hand in the direction where I could sense some presence.

I wondered what if it wasn’t a person, but luckily it was a person.

“Hello!”

Park Sang-cheol slowly waved his hand.

Next to me were two people who looked like foreigners, probably patrolling.

One appeared to be in his 30s, and the other appeared to be in his mid-20s.

He was holding a weapon in his hand, but it didn’t appear to be a firearm.

There was no light source there.

“Yes, hello.”

I waved my hand and joined the patrol.

Even though he didn’t bring a baton, it was obvious that it wouldn’t be a big problem.

Anyway, I can deal with zombies with my bare hands.

Now it was more important to naturally join the patrol.

There could be important information that could be salvaged.

Sangcheol Park introduced the people next to him.

The man in his mid-20s was said to be Abdul Ali, and the man in his mid-30s was said to be Muhammad Ali.

They both greeted me in slightly broken Korean, and I responded with a bright smile.

Then, both of them visibly seemed to like it.

I was able to hear some more information about both.

They’re both from Pakistan, and we became close friends because they happened to be from the same country.

At first, they were worried about their families a lot, but now they seemed to be able to overcome it by relying on each other.

“There is an industrial complex around here. Because we are short on manpower, we are using several foreign workers.

You must have seen it earlier, you know, right?”

“Yes, yes. I saw it on the way.”

“There are people from Southeast Asia, and they are so good at cooking.”

“Ah… ”

Park Sang-cheol spoke as if he was excited.

He seemed really happy to be able to talk to someone he didn’t know for the first time in a long time.

There are very few young women like me around here, so I feel embarrassed just standing still.

I could tell it was a joke, but I couldn’t just ignore it.

“There are almost no young women?”

“Yes, because there are so many things to fight about… The elderly and weak people slowly disappeared.”

“Is there anyone new?”

“That’s right, right?”

Apparently, the saints didn’t come here.

Honestly, it was worth it. There’s no way you could crawl into a cannibal’s den without knowing the details.

It seemed like they would probably fall evenly into the Jinju Citizens’ Association or Hamodan.

And I needed more information to figure it out.

I pretended not to know anything and changed the topic of conversation, saying I had a lot of questions about Jinju.

Fortunately, Park Sang-cheol was somewhat knowledgeable about external news.

Muhammad and Abdul knew very little, but Park Sang-cheol opened his mouth, saying that he had heard various things from Lee Sang.

I heard there’s a place similar to here in Naedong-myeon.

I heard that the majority of the area above the Namhae Expressway was in the hands of the Jinju Citizens’ Association.

It seems that Hamodan has recently started protecting Munsan-eup as well.

It was all nutritious information, so I memorized it as much as I could.

And there was the most awaited information.

“As I said before, the Jinju Citizens’ Association only accepts Jinju citizens.”

“Yes, yes.”

“But recently, it seems they are also accepting foreigners. The number isn’t that big, but did you say it was in the single digits?”

“Ah… ”

“You can ask Sang for more details. The news from outside is very quick.”

I nodded, and the patrol continued with Park Sang-cheol’s story, which made me feel better.

Patrolling wasn’t that difficult.

I was wary because it was moving without any lights, but it didn’t seem necessary.

This was partly because there weren’t many zombies around to begin with, and because the night vision was getting brighter.

It wasn’t very bright, but at least it was possible to identify enemies to some extent.

It was not at the level where he could look and act normally like Park Sang-cheol and his group.

“Because the number is small, the location should not be revealed. Either zombie or human.”

“If you get caught, it’s dangerous. There are a lot of people over there carrying rifles.”

“Ah, yes… I’ll remember it.”

Abdul gave a thumbs up.

Park Sang-cheol laughed heartily, but suddenly his face hardened.

Then Abdul and Muhammad, who were next to him, slowly placed their hands on the handles of their weapons.

I looked around, but didn’t see anything particularly threatening.

Honestly, I can’t help it if it’s a non-threatening zombie, but whatever.

Anyway, I didn’t feel anything, but the three seemed to sense something.

The atmosphere was getting increasingly hostile, so I guess I’ve said everything.

It was a moment when I clenched my fists because I thought we were going to get into a fight like this.

“Oh my, thank you!”

“Kung!”

A simple-looking mixed breed dog barked and waggled its tail.

It was obvious that he was hungry and had eaten some fruit.

You could tell just by looking at them that they were trying to hide the leftover fruit by digging into the ground with their hind legs.

Park Sang-cheol stroked the dog’s head, grumbled a little and laughed.

“What she does is so cute, hehe.”

“Ah, yes… ”

Ddaengchil was a large dog.

It was also a fierce dog that could easily subdue a person.

I probably wouldn’t be able to get it off easily if it kept biting me.

And it seems like it was actually true, as Park Sang-cheol said as if he was proud of him as he fed the fruit to Taeng-chil.

“In the past, before our power was properly established, we were comrades who defeated marauders together.”

“Ah… ”

“Thanks to what happened then, the Citizens’ Coalition won’t touch this place.”

“Wasn’t the Citizens’ Coalition friendly to Jinju citizens?”

“Ugh, that’s all nonsense. It is only friendly to Jinju citizens belonging to the Citizens’ Union.

Actually, that evil Hamodan is better?”

“… Can you tell me more about that?”

“There’s nothing wrong with that. Since we’re about halfway there, I’ll go around and explain.”

“Kung!”

Taengchil waved his tail gently.

Then he started acting cute towards me.

Contrary to my first impression that it would chew anything, it now seemed like a very gentle neighborhood dog.

I accepted Ttachil’s cuteness for a while and then spoke to Park Sang-cheol.

“This is a male, right?”

“Yes, it is a male.”

“I thought so.”

“Kung!”

Park Sang-cheol smiled awkwardly and called Ddaeng-chil.

Taengchil, who had been acting cute until then, soon joined the patrol as usual.

Park Sang-cheol grumbled for a moment and then finished his explanation.

“So, everyone has some misunderstandings.

The Jinju Citizens’ Association advertises to the outside world that there is no choice but to survive, but in reality, that is not the case.

In fact, it’s like saying that if you don’t come to their side, they’ll wipe everything out.

How dare there be someone who would break away from the crane and crawl in here?

Well, I reasonably kicked them out to Hamodan.

The only thing better about Hamodan is that they don’t care as long as you can pay the protection fee.”

“That protection fee is food, right?”

“Ugh, they say they take everything as protection money. I think it doesn’t matter as long as it has value.

They say they do a good job of protecting it, but there are already five sides involved?”

“… Cotton?”

It immediately reminded me of eating noodles.

To be exact, it is a dish containing five types of noodles.

However, since it was clearly a distinction between regions, I quickly shook off any distracting thoughts and continued listening to the explanation.

“Sabong-myeon, General Seong-myeon. Ibanseong-myeon, Jinseong-myeon and Geumgok-myeon. Including Munsan-eup, there are six.”

“There are so many?”

“It’s the only place I can go, and I’m definitely protected.”

I drew a map in my head.

And as Park Sang-cheol said, the colors of each faction were added.

The map drawn was quite different from the one drawn by Kang Si-woo.

It seemed like I would have to collect information intensively for the time being.

Only then will you be able to respond with proper guidance and information.