Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 115
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61. Recommendation (2)
I thought about a guy named Anonymous848.
He was a cheerful person.
Kyle Doss, along with Anonymous458, was a licorice-like person on the bulletin board.
I vaguely knew that beyond the persona on the Internet, there was the real face of a murderer, a rapist, or a predator.
An inconvenient reality suddenly appeared before me.
Counseling and mediation are not my specialty.
But since he was caught up in this unexpected incident, Park Gyu-do had to wear the incongruous outfit of mediation.
“It was right after the war. It was a time when Seoul was bombed and nuclear missiles were intercepted in orbit, and lightning flashed like lightning even during the day. That’s when I found that woman.”
Anonymous848 also had talent.
It is the skill of growing tobacco and rolling it deliciously.
The tobacco leaves he gave me tasted pretty good.
Anonymous848 muttered with a bitter smile, exhaling cigarette smoke.
“Actually, she was a girl I knew. She was from a nearby university, not a good one. She lived alone. I think she was a freshman. There was only one convenience store around here, so we met often. But, before the war, would a girl who was just a freshman be attractive to an old man like me? I just stole her because she was pretty, nice, and had a good body. But you know, the day the nuclear bomb was dropped on Seoul, I saw her at the bus stop in front of my bunker, unable to do anything. I thought it was my chance.”
The meeting between the two, as Anonymous848 remembers, was an extension of their relationship.
The war entangled the fates of two people who seemed destined to run parallel forever.
“The house was destroyed. She must have died. The city itself was completely destroyed. She had nowhere to go. Where else could she go? She couldn’t contact her friends. Seoul wasn’t her hometown, so if she went to Seoul, she would be a single woman selling her body. So she accepted it. That’s how we ended up living together.”
The two seem to have gotten along well for several years.
Although there was some discomfort and awkwardness, it seems that through mutual concessions and understanding, the two developed a relationship similar to that of uncle and nephew.
It is said that they farmed and worked together.
But perhaps the two’s fate was foreshadowed when Anonymous848 happened to see a woman named Yejin at a convenience store.
“I was drinking that night, and shit. I touched her without knowing it. So we slept together. She didn’t really resist. I was mistaken. I thought she finally accepted me. But shit, from then on, our relationship was completely ruined.”
Anonymous848 rolled another cigarette.
After telling him to wait a moment, I went into the bunker.
The woman’s name was Kim Ye-jin.
Unlike Anonymous848, she revealed her name in detail.
Anonymous848’s bunker was pretty good.
It wasn’t a factory-style mass-produced building, but rather one built by a contractor like me using concrete and steel reinforcement, and the interior was quite spacious.
However, the reason the space appears narrow is probably because of the curtain dividing the fairly large bunker in two.
One space belongs to Anonymous848 and the other space belongs to Kim Ye-jin.
Living alone, I was shocked to see that even though they were all in the same bunker, the bunker could be so different depending on the colors of the people in it.
Kim Ye-jin looked at me with worn-out eyes, squatting on the mattress where her dolls were placed in her splendid domain.
She said in a hushed voice.
“······Are you on that guy’s side too, sir?”
“What, sir? You’re thirty-one now.”
“That’s right, sir.”
“······.”
I was convinced when I saw inside the bunker.
Contrary to her words, Kim Ye-jin was treated quite well here.
You can tell just by looking at the fact that half of the bunker was given up.
Under no circumstances will this Park Gyu give the inside of my bunker to anyone else.
Just as kings do not share power, I do not share the inside of a bunker.
“Be honest. There’s nothing I can do, but I can at least listen to what you have to say.”
“Is that a gun?”
She saw my rifle.
“Why? Just shoot that guy and kill him.”
“I would like to do that.”
“Can you live alone?”
“Yes. So-so.”
“It looks like the looters haven’t come around here yet?”
“I did come. Ah.”
Kim Ye-jin suddenly sighed and began to shed tears.
“······We weren’t bad.”
She turned her head and looked at the shelf.
There was a picture frame placed on its back.
I listened to her story, curious about the story contained in the frame.
“It was after the war started that I met you, sir.”
Unlike Anonymous848, the story that Kim Ye-jin tells begins after the war began.
At that time, she was at the convenience store, and to her hopeful gaze, full of anticipation for a new life as a college freshman, a man like Anonymous848 was so worthless that he left no trace of her memory.
The flow was generally similar.
Suddenly losing her family and having nowhere to go, she had no choice but to come here with fear.
It was true that Anonymous848 treated her well.
It was awkward at first, but eventually, as they made concessions to each other, cooperated with each other, and overcame difficulties, the two developed a relationship in which they relied on each other.
“This was taken a year ago.”
She turned the picture frame she had placed behind her back to the front again.
Inside the frame was a printed photo of her and Anonymous848 smiling against the backdrop of a tobacco field.
Although the two were not related by blood, they looked similar as if they had the same blood.
But the good times were already gone.
“It was half a year ago. I got her drunk and… yes, I raped her. I thought it was going to happen. I saw the signs. But what can I do here? There’s no one outside, and all I hear is gunshots, and there are no police to report. But if I leave here, it’s obvious, right?”
Kim Ye-jin crouched down, buried her head in her knees, and sobbed.
“······The first time is always difficult.”
“······.”
He nodded and got up from his seat.
She raised her head and stood up.
“Can I take you with me?”
“I’m a guy too. I could do the same thing as that guy.”
“As long as it’s not that person, it’s fine.”
Hatred was lurking in Kim Ye-jin’s wet eyes.
“······If only it weren’t for that person.”
He left the bunker, leaving her behind.
Anonymous 848 had quietly approached right in front of the bunker and was standing with his back to the wall, arms crossed.
Looks like you’re worried.
It’s like he’s forgetting his shame out of fear that he might lose Kim Ye-jin.
The answer has already been decided.
I beckoned him over.
“Capsule, where is it?”
“Hey, capsule? Suddenly?”
“Didn’t you call me to help you get rid of the capsule?”
“That’s true. But I’m also flustered because it happened so suddenly.”
First, I went to the motorcycle, took out the Hunter weapon, and went into the dense forest with him.
The capsules were neatly placed next to a broken swing set in a former public kindergarten.
“Wait a minute, stand over there.”
He placed his Hunter weapon on the shelf and took out two axes.
“What, what are you doing?!”
“I’m watching.”
He swung his axe at the capsule.
As the reflective field unfolded, my axe was aiming for my carotid artery without fail.
Chaengkang!
I blocked my axe with my other axe.
“······.”
The capsules are safe.
I let out a shallow sigh, loosening the tight strings of my heart.
“What, what······?”
He turned around, pulling out the axe that was half-submerged in the reflective field.
“It’s a light test.”
“It’s true. What Kyledos said is true! Skeleton is no joke.”
“Don’t say anything on the bulletin board. It might be annoying.”
“S, Skeleton! You. Wow… This is no joke. You’re awesome. You’re awesome!”
The first thing he did was enter the capsule, partly to prevent him from having serious thoughts.
Because this guy has a gun too.
Even if a person gets shot by a sick man like this, he will die.
I asked for his cooperation while holding the capsule.
“Can you help me?”
“Oh, yeah!”
After placing the capsule on the motorcycle’s luggage compartment, I looked up at the sky.
Clear, blue and tall.
It feels like the sky is in the season of the thousand-year-old paralysis.
Although the leaves haven’t fully fallen yet, I can see them slowly losing their green color.
I watched a single leaf blow down in the wind from a tree that had turned brown faster than the others.
It drew a parabolic curve in the air and then soared again, but soon, unable to withstand the call of the Earth, it fell to the ground and mixed with other fallen leaves.
I broke the long silence watching that scene.
“One of us has to leave here.”
Anonymous848, who was smoking a cigarette next to me, looked back at me.
“Wh, what are you talking about?”
“You or Kim Ye-jin. One of you has to leave this place.”
“No. Skeleton!”
“That’s the answer. One of us has to leave this bunker and go somewhere else.”
I turned towards him.
“That’s my conclusion.”
I saw Anonymous848’s face disintegrate in real time before my eyes.
I looked coldly at his face, which was swirling with various emotions: anger, shock, regret, and desire.
That’s what he wanted.
This is the person who requested mediation.
Anonymous848 didn’t cross the final line thanks to the way he handled the capsule.
Instead, he opened his mouth with a flushed face and a grin.
“Why am I leaving? This is my bunker! I made this place while being cut off by my parents and being pointed at by my successful siblings. Why am I leaving this place? Would you leave your bunker?”
“It seems like you don’t understand what I’m saying.”
I looked toward the bunker.
Kim Ye-jin was standing next to a tree and looking at us.
I raised my voice so she could hear.
“You two are finished. One of you has to go.”
“You, you’re trying to take me?!”
Anonymous848 screamed.
“No. That won’t happen.”
“Then why?! You know you’ll die if you go out here, right? Skeleton!”
I called Kim Ye-jin.
She came over and I said the same thing to her.
That one of the two has to leave.
Unlike Anonymous848, she was calmly listening to me, but then she looked at me intently and asked.
“You’re not going to take me?”
“huh.”
“Why? You don’t like me?”
Every time she said a word, Anonymous848’s sigh could be heard.
His feelings are a good thing to me.
He looked straight at her and said.
“I don’t even have food to eat. I live alone.”
“······.”
She gave me one last desperate look, but I looked away.
When she saw my appearance, her eyes also grew cold.
“Oh, really?”
She turned and went into the bunker.
Anonymous848 smiled brightly and asked her.
“Yejin. You’re going to stay here, right? Huh? You’re going to stay here?!”
Kim Ye-jin raised her fist without turning her head.
I don’t know what it means, but it seemed like a positive sign to both of them.
Anonymous848 smiled with a face full of joy.
“That, that’s right! From the beginning. No, we can go back to how we were before. Like we were before······.”
Anonymous848 told me to wait.
After a while, he came out with tobacco and corn that he had grown himself.
Tobacco seeds were also mixed in.
“Because I have connections with the tobacco industry.”
It’s worth a lot.
It is clear enough that he is a kind-hearted person.
“······.”
You can turn back like this.
But he is my message board friend.
What can I say, from a third party perspective, his future seemed so obvious.
“······Can you be cruel to that woman?”
I gave him some final advice.
“what?”
“Can you do it?”
“Ha, that’s it! Is that difficult? That!”
“If you stay with that woman, you will die.”
“Yejin is killing me? Is she going to kill me?”
Anonymous848 laughed.
“He’s a guy who can’t even kill a bug.”
I spoke calmly to him who was denying reality.
“You called me, didn’t you?”
“what?”
“She knew you could call people on the Internet. Don’t you understand what that means?”
This guy has been on the internet longer than me.
Besides, he had already met people on the Internet and seen them kill them with his own eyes.
Enlightenment may be a tragedy for him, but it is inevitable.
“Fuck, shit······!!”
Anonymous848 took a step back.
The joy was nowhere to be found.
Since it was created from an illusion in the first place, it is bound to disappear quickly.
“What, what did I do wrong?”
It seems that he too had a vague sense of his future.
The resentment that clearly appeared on that shadowy face was something that only someone who knew the price he had to pay could create.
“For three years, you ate my food, used my fuel, and lived safely, right? You played games and didn’t go hungry, right? You read webtoons together, went on outings together? You even made kimbap and went on picnics! Right? But why······?”
“······.”
“What did I do wrong?”
I got on the motorcycle.
“If Kim Ye-jin were a man, would you have brought her to your bunker?”
He couldn’t answer my question.
“······That, that.”
Anonymous848 sat down.
His face looked ten years older than when I first saw it.
He sobbed, his wrinkled face aching with sorrow.
“······I just wanted you to like me as much as I like that girl.”
“Go.”
His rambling continued even as he started the engine.
“We lived together for three years. Like family… You treated me well···.”
As I stepped on the accelerator, his last voice faintly passed by my ears, mixed with the roar of the engine and the wind.
“It’ll go back to how it was before. Like before······.”
Well, I don’t think so.
A relationship once broken cannot be restored.
It just heals.
In the case of the two people, the distortion was particularly severe.
The two will never go back to the way they were before.
Maybe, as Na Hye-in said, their fate was already decided when they first met at the convenience store, when Anonymous848 saw Kim Ye-jin and Kim Ye-jin didn’t see him.
This is what I experienced in the realm of anonymous848.
It was quite some time later that I posted this on the bulletin board.
That is, at a time when there weren’t many people left on our bulletin board to make recommendations.
*
From that day on, every time I wrote, I got a recommendation without fail.
chamberlain,
SKELTON: (Skeleton wakes up) Woke up
SKELTON: (Skeleton Beauty) I cut my nails!
SKELTON: (Skeleton listens) Reggae party
SKELTON: (Skeleton Memorial) Remembering Samguk Rice House where the soup was thick and there was a lot of meat
SKELTON: (Skeleton yawning) Haaaaaa~
Even if you post something like the above on the bulletin board with no content, the number of recommendations goes up by 1.
Well, despite all the things that happened, it didn’t feel all that bad to have someone recommend my writing.
But a user on the bulletin board with a twisted mind who took offense at this bet my number of recommendations on it.
keystone: Ha, that skeleton kid. He’s been getting really excited lately, and he’s even getting into self-defense.
“I’m going to do it myself.”
Although I do occasionally press recommend on my own posts, I’m not crazy enough to press self-recommend on every post.
But it seems that Anonymous848’s service was seen as self-incrimination, as everything looks strange to a strange person.
Since living in South Korea with an unjust accusation is nothing but a loss, this skeleton also broke the taboo and started to pursue self-incrimination.
So, every article I write gets a recommendation of 2.
Then one day it happened.
One day, when the mercury was at 0 degrees, I suddenly discovered that an article I had written had 10,000 recommendations.
I searched anonymous848.
I haven’t written anything for four days.
After the war, the activity of people who had been posting comments every day ceased.
He nodded, leaned back in his seat, tilted his neck back, and stared blankly at the ceiling.
One of my friends who was supposed to give me recommendations is gone.
Strangely enough, I didn’t feel sad or regretful.
It was a predicted ending, like falling leaves in the fall.
You forced her to do it, but she saved your life, so you think
it’s okay to clean it up??
Is the current setting of the novel a normal situation?
There’s a war, a nuclear explosion, monsters appear,
and people are hungry and eating people in an apocalyptic situation.
If you don’t like rape, just leave. Where the hell
are we discussing morals and manners?
Are you an idiot?
If you don’t like rape, you can go out to the bunker and fend for yourself. But since you can’t do that, you flirt
with Skeleton and ask him to live with you . Based on the context of the novel, it seems like Kim Ye-jin killed anonymous 848 while he was sleeping or called someone else online to kill him?
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This won’t be there 2024.01.15 08:59 declaration
So, aren’t you saying that they were confined so that they couldn’t run away even if they wanted to? Damn.. I’ll apologize if I saw it wrong.. I thought they prevented them from running away, but the kids didn’t run away and just clung to me like that..ㅜ I saw it before so I don’t remember clearly, but I thought it was kidnapping and confinement..
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sosojj 2024.01.15 14:00 declaration
Be honest with me, is your Korean score serious? I think
the confinement you’re talking about is
probably mental confinement. It’s not like you ‘re physically tied up, but the outside of the bunker is dangerous and the chances of survival are low, so if you go out you’ll die, so you have to stay in the bunker or need the company of anonymous 848 to protect you when you go out, so it ‘s practically no different from confinement . Is that why you’re obsessed with ‘confinement’ rape? If you read it before and your memory is hazy, just read the anonymous 848 bunker chapter again. You only need to read the part right before this one.
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This won’t be there 2024.01.16 12:32 declaration
That’s right, I remembered after reading it
. It’s not actual confinement, but if you go out, it’s a zombie field so you can’t run away, and even if you do go, you’ll be caught and hunted down right away, so I thought not being able to go out was confinement… Sorry..
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This won’t be there 2024.01.09 14:30 declaration
These kids are really…
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This won’t be there 2024.01.09 14:30 declaration
These kids are really…
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Gangin07 2024.01.11 23:18 declaration
This guy doesn’t seem to know what the problem is, so you can tell he’s at his level.
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Daepodongpodong missile 2024.03.24 16:08 declaration
Prisons take in people who are maladjusted to reality, give them money, feed them, and give them a mission to make sure they don’t cause any more harm to the country, but they don’t do it because they want to.
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I want to read a web novel 2024.07.16 12:50 declaration
Idiot lol
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ihw1004 2024.02.09 02:19 declaration
Haha, that’s right. If you’re not going to go out and kill zombies with a knife, you should live like a real doll. Haha
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Bosing game 2023.09.06 14:33 declaration
It’s unfortunate, but in that kind of worldview, I’m weak~ I can’t even kill a bug, so if I have the mind, I’ll have to open a bag
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Dokku 2024.01.02 03:56 declaration
The Lee Jung-jae noodle meme suddenly appeared ㅋㅋ
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04sus 2024.01.02 12:22 declaration
Literally, if you were a man you wouldn’t have accepted it lol
Then you have to pay with your body
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Geto x ray 2024.01.21 14:06 declaration
Transporting capsules by motorcycle…? The capsules are smaller than I thought.
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Hololololololol… 2024.01.24 23:50 declaration
The content is deep
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Akimomo 2024.06.09 03:24 declaration
A valuable recommendation…
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outline 2024.09.14 22:11 declaration
If you go to Incheon once,
you will realize reality,
but you raised it too much
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Park flower 2024.12.02 20:38 declaration
I’m a woman too, but women are really ㅋㅋㅋ. Anik, why would that man take that woman for nothing? If he were to write, he would have gotten his own food. But that woman would 100% die if she ran out of food. She doesn’t know any hardships outside of this, so she’s a fucking idiot. She sticks a straw in a man’s back and expects to be treated.
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