Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 12



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11. Lottery

It’s been one year and eight months since the war started.

It’s a lazy spring day and the air is gradually getting warmer.

Gunshots are heard in the distance.

Here we go again.

How many bullets do those mother and daughter have?

It must have been thousands of shots, but judging by the fact that they keep shooting randomly, it seems like they’ve set up a bullet factory or something.

It seems he has recently taught his daughter how to shoot a gun.

Sometimes you hear two gunshots in quick succession.

Could this be called early education during the time of destruction?

It’s true that crazy snipers are great marksmen.

Normal people would retreat with a chilling sniper shot, such as a toe or a car’s rear-view mirror, but when it comes to direct threats such as zombies or looters, he invariably shoots them between the eyes.

There is plenty of ammunition as well as heavy weapons.

Because the Humvees I’ve seen before contain not only Claymores but also guided weapons like Javelin.

What’s bothering me lately isn’t the gunshots between mother and daughter.

That sounds good.

What’s really bothering me is the roar of the transport planes flying across the sky right now.

The number of transport planes has increased significantly recently.

It is comparable to the situation just before the war.

I think all resistance from the Chinese side has disappeared, so what’s the problem?

They say that lottery tickets have suddenly become a trend in Seoul recently.

It’s definitely trendy.

Anonymous848: I heard through rumors that it’s pretty good.

Kyle_Dos: I had a brief stopover in Seoul and all I could hear was the lottery.

Anonymous458: I heard that the first prize is a real life-changing prize!

It’s interesting to see that our community members are willing to build walls between themselves and the world.

I thought I was a bit of a heavy guy.

I thought he was a serious person, someone who wasn’t easily swayed by the world.

SKELTON: (Skeleton questions) Where can I buy a lottery ticket?

But what can I do if I’m curious?

If you don’t know, you should ask.

Unfortunately, unpopular users like me don’t get many replies.

What could be the problem?

Surely (Skeleton Question) this isn’t a problem with the header?

It’s just a feeling, but I feel like I get more replies when I’m doing normal things than I do now…

Luckily, someone replied before my impatience ran out.

Defender: It’s not something you can buy. It’s something you can only get by participating in national labor.

“······.”

The one who answered was a human hunter.

I appreciate it, but I’m still a bit like that.

Please don’t comment on my posts.

But there was a reason for this answer.

Defender: Lottery Certification

This guy actually bought a lottery ticket.

His lottery certification was the prelude to a ‘lottery series’ he was planning to write.

Defender: From now on, I’ll be serializing the lottery story. Watch the ones you want to see, and ignore the ones you want to ignore.

It’s amazing.

This psychopath who only posts murder certifications is now writing about the hottest issues.

This guy’s actions are well known due to the Damien04 incident, but the reason he’s suddenly doing such good things is probably related to the Christmas tree incident a while ago.

Although it is not at the IAMJESUS ​​level, the human hunter posted a complaint after seeing the decoration filled with bad words.

Defender: No, was I that wrong?

He looked quite shocked to see the tree full of evil remarks.

After seeing that, I was convinced that this guy was a real psychopath.

Anyway, whatever the cause, the Human Hunter’s Lottery series satisfied the information thirst of users who live far from Seoul, including me.

The Hope Lottery was surprisingly similar to the Lotto.

However, while the total number of Lotto numbers is 46, the Hope Lottery has 44 numbers, so the odds of winning are much higher than Lotto.

This Hope Lottery cannot be purchased with money, and is paid out along with wages to those who participate in work projects required by the state and complete the required amount of work. The drawing is said to be held once every three days at a location designated by each district office.

Defender: The 5th place prize was toilet paper.

As luck would have it, the human hunter also certified the toilet paper he had won in the lottery.

Unlike the embossed, fluffy toilet paper I had stockpiled, this was a poop paper made of gangji, with a rough texture and low-quality color that seemed like it would irritate sensitive skin.

It seems that even this kind of low-quality toilet paper has value to Seoul citizens who are running low on basic necessities and can be exchanged for a few meals.

The higher the rank, the better the goods, and it seems to include not only sugar, rice, and reserve fuel, but also luxury goods such as cigarettes, alcohol, and medicine.

The long-awaited first place prize was a very Korean trophy.

That’s right, it’s an apartment.

There are ruined apartments everywhere, so I wondered what kind of apartment it was, but as expected, it was not an ordinary apartment.

Defender: Is this the kind of apartment it is?

The human hunter added one more photo.

His post, despite being informative, received few comments, but the photo he posted at the end was an exception.

The photo showed a bird’s-eye view of an apartment complex with a design similar to that of a certain conglomerate’s castle that everyone had previously seen and been shocked by.

There were apartments densely packed around a concrete wall surrounding the entire area, farmland and a factory in the center, a sports facility with a soccer field and a basketball court, and an auditorium and auxiliary facilities for various events in the center.

Compared to the chaebol houses, the chaebol’s mansions have been replaced with numerous apartments, and small golf courses have been changed into soccer fields, etc.

Of course, the scale is thousands of times larger than that of the conglomerate houses for family members.

Anonymous848: This is it. This is it.

Kyle_Dos: Are you kidding me? Is this real?

Anonymous458: Isn’t this a completely standard conglomerate house?

Community users’ reviews were favorable.

It was to the extent that some users even denied our long-held beliefs.

DocKim: I want to live in a place like that.

qwer1234: If there was something like that before the war, I would have gone in there without having to go through the trouble of digging the ground and paying a lot of money.

mmmmmmmmm : I’m sick of living in a bunker. Koreans should live in apartments.

Sure, living in a bunker is a bit of a grind.

It’s cold in winter and hot in summer.

It’s damp, smelly, buggy, cramped and windowless.

The reason I try to go outside and get some fresh air whenever I get the chance is because no matter how well I decorate the bunker, it’s still stuffy inside.

My beautiful bunker, which has expanded through painstaking efforts and is more like an underground empire than a bunker, is like this. How suffocated would someone living in an ordinary standard-sized bunker be?

The reasons why my favorite anonymous 337 committed suicide are complex, but I believe that the stress of living in that cramped and uncomfortable bunker played a significant role.

Meanwhile, my thoughts on the popular apartment “The Hope” are:

SKELTON: (Skeleton examines) The Hope, before we get into good and bad, is this even possible?

It’s a question mark.

As usual, no one responded to my comment, but someone did give it a like.

Anyway, the small ball thrown by the human hunter resonated a small echo in each of our destructionists’ hearts.

But was this guy capable of doing his job properly?

It’s even creepier.

*

About a week after the Human Hunter’s Hope Lottery series ended, a post was uploaded to the community and it quickly became a popular post.

“no?!”

When I saw that article becoming a popular post in real time, I felt a considerable sense of self-loathing.

The story about the conglomerate chairman Je Poong-ho that I wrote a while ago barely made it to the popular posts list in episode 3, the last episode. To be honest, there was a bit of technical manipulation involved.

I couldn’t bear to watch my long and heartfelt post get buried, so I, Park Gyu, inflated the number of views by clicking infinitely!

I think it got about 100 views.

Viva! Apocalypse!’s founder, Melon Mask, seems not to have foreseen this situation, as he did not seal the ability to increase views on his own, making this a possible trick.

But this new popular post didn’t have anything like that.

Everyone who saw it commented and liked it at a high rate.

This is a free pass to popular posts.

I clicked on the article with a bit of jealousy and emptiness.

mmmmmmmmm: I won the Hope Lottery ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

“ah.”

It is indeed a worthy content.

I savored the content while feeling defeated.

-After reading the Defender article, I also came out of the bunker and applied for national labor. I went toward Jungnang-gu, and it was annoying when the military and police bastards at the entrance demanded an entrance fee like bandits, but I was so curious about the lottery that I went to the plaza in front of the district office where the beggars who believed in non-destruction were swarming, got a national labor position, and ran around for a while to get my lottery ticket.

Luckily, there was a lottery that day, so I checked at the city hall plaza and the results were as follows!

mmmmmmmmm.

The owner of this rude and confusing nickname won first prize in the Hope Lottery issued by the Seoul Metropolitan Government in South Korea.

In other words, they are granted the right to live in the future housing advertised by the government.

This means that instead of living a miserable life alone in a stuffy bunker, you can start a new life in a comfortable, newly built apartment with a guaranteed wide view, and in a house that is the envy of everyone, even a semi-chaebol house.

The winner was full of anticipation.

There was no need to look into his heart or examine his intentions.

mmmmmmmmm: Hey, where do you find a woman to marry now? If you win “The Hope,” there’ll be a line of pretty girls, right?

I was so excited.

He’s a typical example of a guy who lived his whole life without any luck and then got caught up in something.

But this guy.

After winning the lottery, the person changed very suddenly and strangely.

mmmmmmmmm: They say I’m moving in next year, but do I have to stay here for another year? Honestly, I think I’m going crazy.

mmmmmmmmm: Now that I think about it, it would have been enough to just hide the supplies in the corner of the house where we originally lived, without having to dig a bunker and make a fuss. It seems like we get rations in Seoul too.

mmmmmmmmm: People should live together in groups. If you live alone, you’ll just become prey to predators.

mmmmmmmmm : I’m dizzy thinking about winning the lottery and staying in this hell forever~

Now he is out in front criticizing our colleagues and our methods, saying he is going to a better place.

I’ve known this guy for quite some time, but he’s never been the type to write much, and he’s never been the type to write such rough-hewn pieces.

I understand you’re happy, but it’s a little bit awkward to look at.

So I said something.

SKELTON: (Skeleton’s advice) Mr. m9. Is winning the lottery a job? Let’s do it moderately.

It seems that I wasn’t the only one who thought this way, as several users, led by Skeleton’s advice, gave him some words of advice.

But our lottery winner (hereinafter referred to as “m9”) did not stop.

mmmmmmmmm : If you’re jealous, then say so. Let’s be honest. Do you guys want to give up living in a bunker? There must be some kids who are running out of supplies, right? There must have been some kids who almost froze to death last winter, and of course there are no women, right? You losers who got eliminated.

m9 continued to hurl at us abusive language that bordered on curses.

It was the moment when a new bulletin board villain was born.

Naturally, the bulletin board friends did not sit idly by and watch this happen.

Anonymous848: Blocked

Kyle_Dos : I block this kid too

Anonymous 458: What are you doing, human hunter? Aren’t you going to catch that kid?

Block and ignore.

This is a sanction imposed by our community users on those who disrupt the order of the bulletin board.

Human Hunter, who was once on the block list of many users but rose to become a ‘named’ player with some significance due to unexpected positive functions, also left a short but sharp comment about m9.

Defender: Do you trust this country?

m9 did not respond.

You probably don’t want to die.

He doesn’t just kill those who come into his house, he doesn’t hesitate to go on expeditions to kill, he cosplays as a normal person, sneaks into Seoul, and even works for the country to bring home toilet paper, so how could he not be scary?

But this guy called m9, at least I have good memories of him.

I know him.

He was an early member of the fan club.

I had a few friends in my 20s.

He may not remember me, but I remember him.

I picked up the K-Walkie-Talkie while thinking of him grilling meat at the raw meat restaurant.

Personal Identification Number: Would you like to be contacted by DARAM?

One-to-one communication using personal identification numbers.

It is a privilege of the era of destruction that only those who have been issued a personal identification number can enjoy.

“The senior contacted me first. What’s going on? I don’t have any work to do right now. Oh, of course there are plenty of positions on the front line. There’s plenty of room.”

Soft jazz music could be heard over the radio.

The scenery and air are probably different here.

“I have something to ask you.”

I asked about the apartment in question.

The reason I contacted this annoying junior was because I myself had doubts that the apartment would be built properly.

The conglomerates have now been relegated to the status of barbarians, and there are no companies that can undertake construction projects.

Even if they were to rescue people and build it, how would they obtain the materials and the completely self-sufficient system they promise?

It is not a large-scale complex for a dozen people like a conglomerate, but one for thousands of households.

Above all, the very fact that the country was providing these lotteries felt like something was fundamentally wrong.

“Hope is······.”

The image of Kim Da-ram exhaling cigarette smoke appeared before my eyes as if drawn in a painting.

“It’s just a mirage.”

Perhaps she is looking at the ruins outside the window.

A city that has already lost its present and will lose its future, a city destined to die.

After a brief silence, she sighed deeply and told me another fact.

“Let’s go to Jeju Island. We’ll all withdraw by next spring at the latest.”

As if by coincidence, right after he finished speaking, the roar of a transport plane overhead echoed particularly loudly inside my bunker.

“······.”

One question that I had been wondering about for a long time has been answered.

“Don’t tell anyone else this story. It’s a secret.”

Her request was of course accepted.

Only I knew and I didn’t tell anyone.

I did what I could.

SKELTON: I heard there’s a very high chance that that apartment won’t be built. You never know what’s going to happen in this world, so make sure to take good care of the bunker and supplies.

I sent a direct message to m9.

This is my way of thanking you for your sincerity in grilling and cutting the meat at Yamaesanggogi that day.

A reply came soon.

mmmmmmmmm : Block

Good intentions are not accepted as is.