Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 111



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60. The Apostate (1)

Dies_Irea69: The fighting power of a group survivalist.jpg

In Diesirae.

The group survivalists representing the bulletin board were the quickest to leave the IAMJESUS ​​recruitment battle, but they are the most active in other directions.

According to the posts he made public, the doomsday group he leads, consisting of users of the Viva! Apocalypse! Korean-language bulletin board, recently engaged in a battle with a group of soldiers believed to be remnants of the Legion faction.

The result was surprisingly a complete victory.

It is said that the soldiers who attacked the community were annihilated without a single casualty, let alone injury.

In the photos, traces of a fierce battle and the sight of corpses lying in ruins could be seen.

The corpses were invariably wearing robes that covered their shoulders.

They are legionnaires.

Dies_Irea69: As the individual survivalist says, it’s true that we’re at a disadvantage in terms of stealth when facing large forces. But how likely is it that such a large force would go all out against a small group like us? Even if they do come, come. Even if I die, I’ll still sashimi them in the side.

In the next photo posted by Diesirae, men holding guns and their faces covered by sunglasses or masks were standing proudly in various poses.

The scenery beyond the photo looked like a rugged mountain range at first glance.

“······hmm.”

That’s great confidence.

But isn’t that too much?

Our bulletin boards are no longer the exclusive domain of our doomsday advocates.

A group that is incomparably more powerful than us, including our friends at Palenet, is constantly spying on the bulletin board.

If it was Diesirae, there was no way he wouldn’t know that fact, so I couldn’t readily understand why he would issue a challenge like this.

But if you think about his purpose slowly, it’s not entirely without reason.

He was trying to create his own world through the Internet, Viva! Apocalypse!

In the real world, not the Internet.

In the process, he came into conflict with the Defender, but the conflict ended in an abrupt manner with the Defender backing away.

But the Defender is back.

Sacrificing a family.

It’s unclear whether it was because he felt the bitter taste of public opinion on the Internet, or because he missed the special status of being a named person, but Defender’s recent videos, well, show signs of effort.

Defender: Drone Kill.avi

The short video the siblings released contained a trick they once told me about.

It shows a man with a gun running breathlessly across a field of grass in the sky, while something chases him from above.

The man would often look up at the sky with fearful eyes, despair, and continue running, but suddenly a huge object appeared at the top of the screen, covering the entire screen, and then quickly fell down, revealing the obscured screen.

It was a brick.

The brick hit the running man square in the temple, causing him to fall to the ground, stiffening as if shocked.

Color photos are more vivid than black and white photos, and videos are much more eye-catching than photographs.

Defender’s newly uploaded drone kill certification easily tramples over DSirae’s “certification” and rises above it.

Perhaps the exciting new wave trot song inserted into Defender’s video is the secret to its popularity.

Diesirae did not say anything or react to this.

This is a behavior typical of DS Irae, who is not obsessed with bulletin board popularity, but cares more about bulletin board public opinion than anyone else.

Fortunately, the invisible war of nerves between the two seemed to end with each other’s indifference.

Defender: Authentication

Defender has posted another certification.

I try not to look at his credentials as much as possible even though he is my internet friend.

Leaving aside the siblings’ personal friendship, I still cannot understand and do not want to understand the fact that someone else’s death is used as material for the internet.

But there were numerous comments on that certification post.

A whopping 200 of them ran.

This is a number that doesn’t even come close to the total number of active users who actually post on our bulletin board.

Either the PaleNet kids were here or a keyboard battle was going on, but the latter seemed less likely.

Inevitably, this Park Gyu-do could not resist the trend and clicked on Defender’s popular post.

The moment I saw the photo that filled the first screen, I immediately understood why this post had 200 comments.

The body in the photo was wearing a Chinese military uniform.

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Defender: Being asked a question.

These guys pretend not to be, but it seems like they had a pretty sad time as unpopular users.

If you look at the fact that they even created a separate post to answer everyone’s questions, it’s surprising.

Defender: He wasn’t anything special, he was just wandering around alone without a rifle. He came into my territory as if he was being chased by something.

Defender: What did you use to kill him? You can’t see a single drop of blood. I killed him with a hammer. I waited for him to get close so I could cave in his head. If you want, I can send it to you in a message.

Defendner: Aren’t you afraid of Chinese retaliation? If you worry about all that, how are you going to live in this world? To be honest, there are people on our bulletin board who are more worried than I am.

Defender: Even if the Chinese kids get mad at this, what can they do? Drop another nuke? If they invade my territory, I won’t care whether they’re Chinese, American, or Korean.

I took a quick look at Defender’s question post and then went back to Defender’s authentication post to leave a comment.

SKELTON: Wow······

It’s not easy to express ten million emotions in two letters and ellipses.

By the way, I’m Chinese.

Where did it come from?

One thing is certain, this Defender authentication has received a huge response from the increasingly slow-moving palenet.

ㅇㅇ: It feels refreshing. It’s refreshing to see a dead bug.

ㅇㅇ: Are you still alive and walking around?

ㅇㅇ: Where are you? I’ll go and kill a few guys.

ㅇㅇ: Didn’t your main base collapse? Why are you still alive?

ㅇㅇ: If it weren’t for those guys, we wouldn’t be living like this.

ㅇㅇ: It’s just mind-boggling. Those guys who haven’t been of any help in the history of the Republic of Korea.

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Palenet’s reaction is one of anger.

They all displayed murderous intent and hatred, but their hatred did not seem all that different from the hatred I had for monsters.

Meanwhile, the atmosphere of our bulletin board is quite different.

Berkut_Break: Where did the Chinese people killed by the Defender come from?

Anonymous848: Aren’t those guys beyond Dangjin?

Anonymous1131: Is that the new arrival?

tntn_Orthopedics : Could he be a deserter?

Anonymous424: I agree with the idea that they are deserters. I disagree with the idea that they are a new landing force.

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Unlike PaleNet users who only vent their hatred and anger, we are trying to understand this situation objectively and realistically as a “professional survivor community.”

The flow even had some aspects that reminded me of scenes I used to see in the early days of our bulletin board.

Actually, the anti-Chinese sentiment on our bulletin board is not that strong.

Although I have a negative perception of China, similar to the average Korean, as the main culprit who started the Sino-Taiwan War that pushed not only South Korea but the rest of the world into the abyss, my resentment is not so deep that I only pour out hatred when I see the corpses of dead Chinese people like Palenet.

This is probably because of the way society viewed us before the war, which our bulletin board users can relate to.

If China had not started the war, “destructionists” like me who had sold everything they had to prepare for the future would have been the subject of endless mockery on YouTube and terrestrial broadcasting.

Maybe this Park Gyu is in prison.

This is a story about a so-called professor who could have been a petty criminal who embezzled money and went to prison.

I haven’t contacted Defender specifically about this matter.

Not only did I get my curiosity answered by reading the Q&A thread that Defender had created, but the exciting music played during the video of the drone dropping a brick and crushing the head of a person trying to reach for the communicator also made me shrink back from reaching for the communicator.

There’s quite a bit to prepare for Rebecca’s guys’ move.

I was able to build a decent cabin thanks to Rebecca, but the boiler, wiring, insulation, and finishing work inside it were all my responsibility.

Sudo also made a special request of me.

Living with my mom is unavoidable, but I want to have my own room where I can have my own privacy.

I couldn’t add a wall to the already finished yard, so I had to find some suitable plywood to make a room. Since this was also part of the design process, I had fun thinking about it.

So, as I was wrapping up the day with my thoughts and work and lying down in bed like any other day to try to sleep, I heard a dog barking from afar.

In the realm of gold, I guess it’s the sound of mutation dogs.

Maybe they’re hunting.

It was a sound from far away and I was so tired from the day that I fell asleep right away.

the next day.

After washing my face and rinsing my mouth, I went out to the bunker with a towel draped over my shoulders and scouted the area.

There is nothing particularly unusual around the bunker.

Same as yesterday.

Beyond the bunker, there is something unusual around my area.

A man was lying down next to a stream at the bottom of the hill.

Usually, when a person is found around my territory, I would endlessly expand my thoughts and reach a conclusion about preserving my territory, such as whether the person is alive or dead, if alive, is he armed, and if armed, what is his intention? Does he have any allies? This time, however, it is different.

The moment I saw the man, I found myself clicking my tongue without realizing it.

It couldn’t be otherwise, because the clothes the man was wearing were of the same design as the corpse in the Defender’s certification.

Yes, that’s right.

It’s the Chinese army.

He picked up his gun and carefully scouted the surroundings.

I don’t see any other Chinese people.

Still, I left it alone for a day to be cautious.

The man lay there, barely moving.

Is he just dead?

No, he’s not dead.

Although very slight, the rib cage moved periodically.

So is it bait?

When war with China was imminent, the media portrayed the Chinese as demons, but having worked in China for a long time, I know that the temperature of the blood flowing in their bodies is not much different from ours.

Rather, some Chinese people had hotter blood than I did.

Anyway, even if you use a colleague as bait, you usually don’t go that far.

Even if I were the bait, it would be difficult to endure the scorching midday sun and the chilly night without moving an inch while wearing only a thin military uniform.

Our hunters don’t even receive endurance training like a week of survival training like soldiers.

Well, if necessary, I tend to endure it of my own volition.

“······.”

He approached the fallen Chinese soldier slowly, holding a gun.

He had no weapons.

Even if you hide it, it’s probably only a pistol.

From the moment he appeared, he aimed his gun at the man, and even when he got close enough to touch him, the gun never left his body even once.

He kicked the man and flipped him over.

“Ugh. Ugh!”

I clicked my tongue for a moment.

I thought it would be better if I were dead.

Clank-

If you’re not dead, then you have no choice but to kill them.

It’s not because I hate Chinese people.

There is no reason to keep him alive.

What good would it do to keep alive this person who speaks a different language, and who is not even an ally, but an enemy soldier in a war?

Nothing but harm comes to mind.

“Hey, save me.”

The man said.

In fairly natural Korean.

The only mercy I can give him is a quick death.

It was when I was aiming the gun between my eyebrows and slowly increasing the pressure on my finger that was on the trigger.

“Seoul is in danger! Nuclear bomb! They’re going to explode a nuclear bomb!”

The soldier shouted weakly, as if he was gulping down empty water in a hoarse voice.

“Even this country is ending······.”

It’s not for some naive reason like humanity that I didn’t kill him.

It’s because of a pathological curiosity that can’t be shaken off even as you get older.