Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 104



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56. Resurrection

People believe what they want to believe.

The truth doesn’t really matter.

To them, the truth is only true if it conforms to what they think is true, and the rest is a lie that is not worth discussing.

The reason Dongtan Mom’s Awakening didn’t have as big of a response as expected is probably because I didn’t post anything else after that, but the biggest reason is probably because there are many people who don’t want to lose their last hope, Jeju Island.

ㅇㅇ: So, who is that Dongtan Mom?

ㅇㅇ: Why should I listen to him? What’s with the blurry pictures he took? If they were China, would that make a difference?

ㅇㅇ: Dongtan Mom went to China, but how do you explain that celebrities like Park Joo-hyuk, Jung Seol-woo, and Lee Min-hye went to Jeju Island?

ㅇㅇ: Can’t those who can manipulate satellite photos manipulate a photo of a ship?

ㅇㅇ: I heard that Pilcrum, who was thought to be dead, arrived in Jeju Island?

ㅇㅇ: I won’t believe what you guys say even if the entire Republic of Korea sinks in water. I won’t believe you.

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This is the dominant response of the palenet.

Even though he sees the destruction with his own eyes, he denies it.

Like an ostrich that bows its head in front of a predator that bares its teeth.

Not everyone chooses the life of an ostrich.

Some chose the life of a wild dog.

They escaped the pens they had built in the country and sought a new life in the wilderness.

Bulletin boards soon reported the discovery of “new refugees.”

Anonymous883: This feels familiar.

RKKArA: That’s right

Keystone: What the fuck, it’s been quiet for months

Lone_wolf: Is it season 2?

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The controversy caused by Baek Seung-hyun did not end with a whirlwind in a teacup.

It seeks to impact our lives in a larger and more concrete way.

In fact, this was a disaster that was predicted.

It was only postponed because the giant’s death was forcibly extended.

Clank-

The brief peace is over.

Now, the era where people eat people will truly arrive.

Coincidentally, at this crossroads of the times, the person who came to mind was my internet friend, Defender.

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Could John Nae-non have avoided it if he had lived just a little longer?

ㅇㅇ: Viva! Apocalypse! Bulletin board search results Specific location where bunkers are likely to be

ㅇㅇ: Tie a knot that even a monkey can do

ㅇㅇ: How to use Judge Killer.

ㅇㅇ: List of people I want to kill in Viva

ㅇㅇ : US Military Manual – Bunker Suppression Tactics (1)

ㅇㅇ: How to beat a person (especially a woman) to make them submit

ㅇㅇ: Since the Viva kids are Asperger’s senior citizens who live alone, if there are more than two of them, they can just find the entrance and get a bunker.

ㅇㅇ : Human anatomy.jpg

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His light is being tinged with malice.

There have been those in the past who held blind hostility toward us or exchanged inhumane information.

However, at that time, they were living quietly in an abandoned place, far below the bulletin board popularity rankings, exchanging their shady tastes among themselves.

However, the madness that Baek Seung-hyun brought quickly consumed Palenet and brought those who had been operating in the shadows into the light.

The starting point was a completely new type of writing, not a chilling Jeju fleet defense – Bapan Daejeon.

ㅇㅇ: Instructions for stealing a bunker that even monkeys can follow

-What you need: Five or more people and a gun

-Know all exits

-If you put tear gas in the ventilation shaft, most of them will be incapacitated.

-Find the smell of shit

– Satellite equipment appearance – Look at the pointy thing sticking out of the ground like a bamboo shoot!

-You can try to induce conversation by using bait like saying you will spare your life, because you might end up committing suicide.

-Viva! Apocalypse! Reverse location detection on the bulletin board

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It’s not a well-written article.

The content is poor and shoddy.

But life is all about timing.

When people were getting tired of the Jeju Fleet posts, this post suddenly appeared in the popular posts rankings and quickly jumped to the top of the popular posts rankings, receiving thousands of comments.

It was fate from the beginning that we would be unwelcome guests on PaleNet.

Still, the reason that the uneasy cohabitation could continue was because there was hope.

Now that there are signs that that hope is about to crumble, it may be only natural that the sparks fly to us.

gijayangban: It’s true that many people have left Incheon. It’s not bad to be careful. Just like we leveled up, those guys have leveled up too.

The reporter’s words hit the nail on the head.

We and they both did something called leveling up.

To become accustomed to cruelty, to not hesitate to kill, to put myself above others, to be selfish.

It is a well-known fact that the second refugee stream will not be as easy as the first.

Just as we exchanged survival information through the bulletin board, they also exchanged information about looting through the Palenet and left the city.

The reporter uploaded one more photo in the afternoon.

The photo showed various vehicles leaving Incheon.

Bang! Tata tang!

It was around dawn when gunshots were heard from the far north.

This is the sound coming from the land occupied by the pioneers who were forcibly driven out some time ago.

The gunfire seemed to have died down, but then it started again in the morning, this time from three places at the same time.

It is possible that the pioneers attacked the flank with a flanking force, or that the refugees employed similar tactics.

bang!

It was around noon when gunfire was heard for the first time in a long time in the sniper’s territory.

“A vehicle approached here without warning.”

Rebecca briefly explained the situation via text.

“A gasoline car? It was a small one. It got shot and ran away. There were no other cars. There were two or more passengers? I couldn’t see the back.”

The characteristics of the second refugee are revealed here.

I have a car.

It’s a simple but scary fact.

Because having a car itself means you have mobility.

I’m not the only one who noticed that.

Other forum users also emphasized that the second wave of refugees had been “mechanized.”

Perhaps it is because of past experience.

Leaving the city and heading to the suburbs on foot is suicidal.

This is not an era where people walk like they used to, and environments have been created everywhere where if you are slow, you will die.

If an unknown number of mutations spread out across the earth decide to attack, even a group of several dozen people can easily be destroyed.

Perhaps the “level up” that the reporter was talking about also includes this lesson.

Vroom—

The engine noise, loud like a cultivator, resonated throughout my area.

It’s a white van.

It crosses the rice fields, belching black smoke as if it were spraying disinfectant from behind, not properly oiled.

As I was watching, wondering what was going on, someone got out of the car.

A woman wearing glasses got out of her car, as did a man wearing glasses.

A son and a daughter, who appeared to be children, followed them down.

I felt like we were family.

It’s a sight we often saw before the war.

Come to the valley below my territory and enjoy a quiet time.

But each member of that ordinary family had a gun in their hands.

My husband flew the drone.

“······.”

I slowly entered the bunker.

Soon after, a drone as messy and noisy as the vehicle they came in flew past my area.

Maybe you saw something.

You may not know it, but it is true that the vehicle carrying that family drove straight into my territory.

What to do.

Clank-

There’s only one choice.

Either I die or they die.

Some people don’t have the option of dying.

Because in the long run, the part that survived will bring about my death, and so it is included in my choice to die.

“Hey! Look at this! There it is! It’s a bunker! A bunker!”

It looks like a completely ordinary guy discovered my bunker.

But all they saw was a miserable ruin.

“What is this bunker? It’s strange.”

The woman who appeared to be his wife said.

“Why is the toilet there? Isn’t that the house where the pervert lived?”

I thought about it for a moment.

“······.”

It might not be a bad idea to choose the option of killing them all.

But the children’s voices that I heard next calmed my nerves.

“Dad. Are we here? Is this bunker our home now?”

“What about the original one? Did you kill him?”

It seems that children are also included in the target group of “level up”.

Well, they are children of the era of destruction, so it would be right for them to grow up in the era of destruction.

I was silent.

The motion detection sensor kept flashing incessantly, but he held his gun still and watched for the intruder’s reaction.

Although he was an unwanted intruder, I felt glad to see him.

This is a valuable opportunity for these complete outsiders to see the secrecy of my bunker and the effectiveness of my dummy bunker.

But this couple.

Immature.

“Honey, should we live here?”

“How can you live in a place like this? Look at all the water. It’s obvious that this place was attacked, everyone died, and was abandoned. Nothing seems to be functioning properly.”

“I see. It’s a bit different from what I saw on Palenet.”

“Why don’t you go find a house in the countryside instead of here? Wouldn’t that be a lot better than a stuffy basement?”

Just then, a bird flew up behind the couple with a thud.

“Whoa!”

“Wow!”

They both turned around and fired shots at the same time.

Until their fears subsided.

“What? It was nothing.”

“That was a waste of precious bullets. I only have two magazines left.”

“This is a fucked up neighborhood.”

The couple sat down with a look of exhaustion on their faces.

The children approached their parents and whined.

“My candy is gone. My candy! Who took it?”

“Look in the car. It’ll be somewhere. Do you think the candy has feet?”

“No matter how much I looked, I couldn’t find it.”

“Mom. I’m tired. Do we have to sleep in the car again today? Can’t we just go to the shelter?”

“That won’t do.”

“No. I want to see the kids. Why is my sheet black?”

“Why are you blaming me for that? Let’s just look around for another day. Maybe we can find a really good bunker.”

At that point, I felt the urge to go out in front of them through the secret passage.

I wanted to tell you.

Go back to Incheon.

I wanted to tell you that even if death awaits you there, someone like you wouldn’t last a week in this harsh wilderness.

Who knows.

You might become friends with a survival expert in Incheon and form a team.

At least this couple alone cannot protect themselves, let alone their children.

But the reason I can’t come forward is probably because of the choice I mentioned earlier.

For my existence to be known is to kill me.

I am a person who is willing to sacrifice others rather than die myself.

They circled the bunker with regret, but that was all.

Rather, they even gave me ideas to draw on.

“But. Isn’t this bunker strange? Why isn’t there a ventilation hole? If you look at the bunker strategy manual, there’s always at least one ventilation fan.”

“It must have disappeared when it was abandoned.”

“There should be something like a hole. I can’t see that either.”

Plans were made on the spot to create dummy vents in the dummy bunker.

It is not a difficult project.

This problem can be solved by roughly burying a PVC pipe and installing a broken duct.

“How much oil is left?”

“It’s already halfway done. Why are you running so fast?”

“Because the oil is weird.”

The couple who gave me the idea left my area in a vehicle that made a loud noise like a cultivator and spewed black smoke.

I looked at the tire marks they left behind and thought for a moment.

Should I erase this or leave it?

I think it would be better to erase it.

Disguise is something that works once or twice, but it is not a very fun option in the face of an endless rush of customers.

The vehicle went west.

Coincidentally, this is the Defender area I was thinking about a while ago.

I turned on the communicator and contacted the Defender for the first time in a long time.

“Hey. Defender. There’s a vehicle heading your way.”

The Defender, however, had no answer.

The same goes for my younger brother.

An eerie feeling ran down my spine, but I paid it no mind.

It was more urgent for me to erase the tire marks left by the intruder.

As I was scrubbing the tire marks with a broom, a cheap candy caught my eye.

[ Provided by the Government of the Republic of Korea ]

Is this the candy that kid left behind?

I thought about giving it back, but I figured I would never see it again, so I took it with me to replenish my energy.

“······.”

It’s cheap.

Let me start with the conclusion.

The family that had shown me the utility of the bunker and its complements, and in return had disturbed the peace of my domain and left me with tasteless candy, turned into cold corpses just a few hours later.

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Defender: Authentication

It’s not very pleasant to see someone you just saw dead, and to see them consumed as a common internet joke.

Defender: It doesn’t matter what you say.

Defender: I’ve been quiet lately because I moved. Justice Min? That bastard is so evil.

Defender: Anyway, as long as there’s an intruder in my territory, my authentication will continue. If you want to kill me, kill me. The guys who hate me will continue to hate me anyway, right?

The Defender is back.

He even gave an unusually lengthy explanation.

It certainly seems like the timing is what makes a post popular.

Defender’s return post quickly became a popular post with an invisible number of recommendations.

Come to think of it, the time he became a named person was when refugees were a huge problem.

Defender, who had been trolled and kicked out of the bulletin board, has returned to his place once again by making himself a named player in a similar way to the past.

“······.”

Even after seeing my internet friend’s splendid return, my heart still wasn’t at ease.

“Uh. Skeleton.”

The Defender contacted us via the communicator.

“What happened? We were a bit busy earlier.”

“Yeah. Are you looking at Skeleton Internet? Did you see what we wrote? Did you see the kids’ reactions?”

I don’t know what to say.

“Yeah. Congratulations.”

He threw out a congratulatory message that he didn’t mean and hurriedly ended the conversation.

The wrapper for the cheap candy my child left behind, stamped “Provided by the Government of the Republic of Korea,” still sits on my desk.

I’ll decide tomorrow whether to throw it away or burn it.

I want to close my eyes for a bit today.