Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 122



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65. Block

Collective survivalism.

I thought it was a bad way, but it is a way of survival that I will soon adopt.

ㅇㅇ: Is there anyone I can team up with? I’m thinking of going out of the city. By the way, I’m a former soldier.

Hyuk’s Dad: This is family. I want similar families to stick together. We have guns, food, fuel. We have cars.

ㅇㅇ: I am a former manager at Daejin Group. Do you have any other Daejin people?

Survival Man: Is there a woman I can live with? I am in my mid-thirties, and I have everything from food, fuel, weapons, and a comfortable home. I also have to be pretty. If you are a woman with a sense of humor, please contact me.

ㅇㅇ: Recruiting skilled people such as engineers, doctors, and nurses. There are seven of them. All are graduates of Seoul National University.

ㅇㅇ: Looking for someone who knows how to fix cars. Our group’s average age is between 20 and 30. People of similar age are welcome.

ㅇㅇ: Is there anyone who wants to share a house in the Michuhol area? The surrounding air is getting increasingly dangerous. Women are welcome.

Team Thundering: Any doctors? Looking for doctors. Farmers are welcome too.

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There is currently a boom in group formation on the PaleNet, where speeds are gradually slowing down.

With the government no longer trustworthy and rumors of mutant meat spreading like wildfire, people are trying to find ways to survive by joining forces.

The place where such people gather is Palenet’s “Let’s Join” bulletin board.

At first, the bulletin board ranking wasn’t that high, but after our Nyamnyamman vaguely revealed the true nature of the refugee fleet, the ranking rose rapidly, and now it’s a popular bulletin board that’s in the top 10 almost every day.

However, there is a characteristic that can be seen even if you just look at this bulletin board for a little while.

Even the hot posts that have just come up are like that.

ㅇㅇ: (Urgent) Seeking doctors!

They prefer people with skills such as doctors or engineers.

It’s consistent.

It feels like the will to only accept capable people as team members is like background music on the bulletin board itself.

There are only a handful of articles looking for ordinary people, and even those that do require special qualifications like delay or school ties.

Perhaps groups of people are looking for such technicians when recruiting new members?

It’s a bitter story, but it means that it’s difficult for people without skills to form a group.

By the way, there is a group survivalist on our bulletin board too.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that he was not just an ordinary group survivalist, but a thinker who had been preaching group survivalism since before the war.

It’s Diesirae.

Recently this guy posted on both Palenet and our bulletin boards at the same time.

Dies_Irea69: Recruiting team members.

-There was a time when tomorrow was better than today, but don’t we all know that tomorrow will be worse than today?

We are looking for brave friends who will survive with us.

However, the following people will be rejected:

1. Drug addict

2. Alcoholics and drug addicts

3. Disabled people

4. Homosexuals

5. Patients with serious illness

6. Single women (with husband is possible)

7. Negative people

If you are a friend who does not fall into this category and is willing to join us, please briefly and honestly write about your history before and after the war. I will review it and respond.

I don’t know about anything else, but if you’re with us, you can survive.

The recruitment ad for Diesirae included a group photo of men armed with guns and their faces covered by sunglasses and masks against a rugged mountain backdrop.

Slurp-

I savored Diesirae’s writing while drinking coffee.

It’s different from PaleNet.

He doesn’t ask for doctors or technicians.

Unlike those scoundrels who still seek out women while the world is going to hell, he proudly put single women on his rejection list.

He targeted ordinary people, especially men, who were neglected by the PaleNet.

Regarding this, some of Palenet’s crooked friends inevitably left malicious comments.

ㅇㅇ: What great work are you talking about? It looks like you’ve gathered a bunch of shitty kids together.

ㅇㅇ: Don’t these kids have a conscience and don’t go to the doctor?

ㅇㅇ: Why aren’t women allowed? Are they gay? But gays are also banned. What the heck? You guys.

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My feelings toward the man named Diesirae are not very good.

At the time of the Defender incident, I vaguely understood what kind of person he was.

I am not a human being who can be grouped into the category of ordinary.

A cold and cruel person.

That’s the abstract image I have of him.

Above all, Diesirae was a thinker who advocated and personally practiced group survivalism from the beginning of the war.

There’s no guarantee that what he says is true, but isn’t it at least more convincing than the guy on Palenet who wears a mask called ㅇㅇ and talks nonsense?

Slurp-

I took another sip of my coffee and thought about what DSIRAE had in mind when he wrote the recruitment notice.

As someone who was once a team member, I have a vague idea of ​​what DSIRAE values ​​and what kind of group they are trying to build.

Isn’t the stability of the group what Diesirae values ​​the most?

This is evident from the fact that they value personal issues and character more than ability, and that they thoroughly exclude any elements that could cause even the slightest rift in the group.

It feels like they have the will to secure a majority that can blend in well with the group without being monopolized, and to use that number as a weapon to achieve a greater goal.

As expected, in a subsequent post, Diesirae revealed that my guess was correct.

Dies_Irae69: People say I’m homophobic and misogynistic, but I don’t feel that way at all. But they cause trouble, don’t they?

Dies_Irae69: In a world full of monsters, mutations, deserters, and bullets flying around, how frustrating would it be to lose over a petty fight? I don’t accept pretty women. It’s not that I don’t like them. I like having pretty girls around me too. But why don’t I accept them? Because they’ll cause fights. Don’t you think that’s possible? Problems will naturally arise as you live longer. There’s no such thing as a business before the years pass. So even though you said you’re a married couple, I hope people like you don’t apply because your wife is pretty or because you think you’re pretty.

Dies_Irae69: If you have the ability to chew on that kind of stuff, I’ll accept you. So if you have the ability, don’t hesitate and contact me. Palenet friends, leave a secret comment on the bulletin board linked below, and our bulletin board friends, leave a message.

All things considered, isn’t it hard to deny that he is a capable leader?

You can see that the group has been maintained for almost 3 years and is gradually becoming more substantial.

The number of people in the photo alone is well over twenty.

This is twice the number of people compared to the commemorative photo taken after dealing with the Legion Faction the other day.

As the number of people begging due to food shortages increased and our bulletin board friends who could not overcome loneliness saw that Diesirae was dealing with deserters, they volunteered as a group.

As expected, there was not a single woman in the photo.

However, it seemed that recruiting team members for DSIRAE was not done through applications alone.

Message from Dies_irae69: Hey Skeleton. Are you alive?

I received a message shortly after DSirae posted an advertisement for recruiting team members.

I replied in surprise, as it was unusual for him to send me a message.

SKELTON: I’m alive. What’s going on?

He had some resentment towards it, so he didn’t give it the signature Skelton had.

You could say it’s a kind of hint to show some distance.

But Diesirae is a blunt and straightforward person.

Why doesn’t Skeleton give me a trademarked headline? Instead of thinking about it, he just says what he wants to say.

Message from Dies_irae69: Did you see the job posting?

SKELTON: Uh.

I didn’t put a header twice.

I hope you understand by now.

Message from Dies_irae69: You have a free pass.

“······.”

It seems like this guy and I don’t get along.

From the beginning, the two of us were at the extremes of individual survivalism and group survivalism.

Message from Dies_irae69: Are you a soldier? At least you seem trained. Maybe a hunter.

It’s true that he has sharp edges, but I can’t be with him.

SKELTON: Sorry, I have no intention of joining.

He and I are polar opposites.

What should I say, it feels like it’s a few steps ahead of the Defender.

There is absolutely no reason for Defender to be with this human when he feels alienated.

Message from Dies_irae69: Really? If you change your mind later, let me know. I don’t know if there will be a spot by then.

Diesirae readily accepted the rejection.

But Diesirae was more machine-like than I thought.

“Die Siera. That guy sent me a message. He asked me to join his team. What on earth was he thinking?”

Around the same time as me, Diesirae also sent a message to Defender.

He offered to join the Defender whom he had tried to kill and almost did so.

It seemed like a message to let go of past grudges and join forces to survive in the future, but I just couldn’t understand why they would send that kind of message to someone who tried to kill them just to make themselves look good.

Anyway, regardless of my thoughts, it is certain that Diesirae is currently enjoying its heyday.

The next day, DSIR calmly announced the results of yesterday’s recruitment on the bulletin board.

Dies_irae69: Over a thousand people have applied. Most of them are PaleNet users, but there are quite a few of our forum users. The world has finally recognized our worth.

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When do people change?

They say that great people change themselves like caterpillars, but ordinary people like me are often swayed by external stimuli.

In that respect, even the cool-headed leader Diesira seemed like a person not much different from us.

Dies_irae69: I’m really sorry, but I can’t accept all 1,000 people. The food we produced this year is enough for 300 people, based on 3 meals a day. You might ask if it’s okay to accept 300 people, but that’s not easy. Preservation isn’t as easy as it used to be, and we also have to consider losses due to mold, pests, and other natural disasters.

Dies_irea69: This time, I’ll only take a hundred. It may seem like too few, but I can’t control more than that. But if you hold out until next year, when I’m ready, then let’s do something real. Let’s create our own organization that’s not bound by anyone!

It wasn’t hard to see that he had lost some of his former coolness.

That’s not the answer.

Although he has already made some shaky moves, it is clear that he is slowly crossing the line.

Dies_irae69: It’s towards Yongmunsan. That’s where our team is located.

If you look at the fact that they even revealed the location.

As he gained ardent followers and a sympathetic force, he also seemed to have forgotten his own situation.

John Nae-non, m9, close up like defender.

Did the number of applicants, a thousand, give him confidence?

I can’t say I’m particularly close with Diesirae, and I have a bit of a grudge against her, but we met offline once.

Also, he is not alone.

Next to him is the bulletin board friends who joined.

Feeling frustrated, I tried sending a message first this time.

SKELTON: There are legion factions here, isn’t this an expression of excessive confidence? If Yongmunsan is the legion faction’s territory, why are you doing this?

Diesirae wasn’t the type of person to respond very quickly.

He didn’t reply until an hour later.

Message from Dies_Irae69: Oh, Skeleton. You want to join our team?

SKELTON: Read the article. You guys are worried, right?

Message from Dies_Irae69: Oh, that? Don’t worry about it. It was intended.

SKELTON: That was intentional?

Message from Dies_Irae69: I’d like to check it out. How far can we stop it

If you only look at the content of Diesirae’s writing, it seems like a person who has gained reckless confidence is walking towards destruction.

Actually, I felt that way too.

But I have actually seen this person.

I also saw firsthand how he treated others and how easily he could kill people.

No matter how excited he is, this man will not suddenly commit suicide as if he has lost his intelligence.

“······.”

It smells.

Something similar to the many stench I’ve encountered in China.

I kept my mouth shut and typed on the keyboard, recalling the countless tragedies.

SKELTON: Diesirae. What are your intentions?

Message from Dies_Irae69: What do you mean? It’s literal.

In that moment, a surge of anger burst out from within me.

Knock knock

SKELTON: Are the kids we recruited this time bullet shields?

A statement of facts that is not typical of me.

Diesirae, who used to answer right away, didn’t reply for a while.

Only after a considerable amount of time had passed before Diesirae responded.

Message from Dies_Irae69: Skeleton! Why are you like this all of a sudden? Did I do something wrong?

But that gap in time, rather than cooling my heart, only deepened my hatred.

SKELTON: You want to test it out? How far can you stop it? Aren’t you going to test it with the kids you recruited this time? How do you think kids as big as the Legion will come out?

It’s a possible scenario.

If a human had a heart made of steel.

After a shorter delay than before, Diesirae replied.

Message from Dies_Irae69: Do you have a PIN?

There was no answer to Diesirae’s words.

It’s not just that I felt like I was living beyond the silk monitor.

The conviction that I should not get involved with this human was firmly established within me.

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armeegruppe_B : attacking!

A user believed to be a high-ranking member of the Legion Faction posted the article.

The photo in the article, which contained only a single photo and no sentences, showed a tall mountain towering against the clear autumn sky.

The mountain held two things that were difficult to distinguish: red maple leaves and the flames burning the maple leaves.

I don’t know much about mountains, but message board users said that the mountain was Yongmunsan.

ㅇㅇ: That DS 69? That kid was acting all smart and all, but he ended up getting a real education from the Legion Faction hyungs.

ㅇㅇ: I didn’t even send anyone. I just beat them up like a dog with artillery fire.

ㅇㅇ: That DS kid’s team? You must have searched through all the kids who applied, right?

Our forum users didn’t express any particular opinions about the photo, but their intentions are probably not much different from those of their PaleNet friends.

You were too bold.

In front of forces thousands of times more powerful than oneself.

But as always, the truth is uglier than it appears.

Message from anonymous1524: Hello! Skeleton!

A user I don’t know sent me a message.

However, it wasn’t that difficult to figure out who this user was.

Message from anonymous1524: I like you. You can read my true feelings at once. Are you a hunter? Are you a hunter? I can tell just by looking at them. Those who hunt monsters have a special kind of cold feeling.

It’s Diesirae69.

The person who recruited innocent applicants to test his fighting prowess and threw them into cannon fodder has now shamelessly changed his nickname and is now reaching out to me with his dirty hands.

Message from anonymous1524: As you can see, we won’t die even if the Legion faction targets us. Why won’t we die? I belong to the unit that became the Legion faction’s mother unit. All those bastards’ brains are in the palm of my hand.

Diesirae sent me a picture of the military cap he wore while on active duty.

The mark of a black skull stabbed with a dagger is engraved eerily on its crown.

I know this mark.

The so-called extermination force.

This is a unit that was active in Pyongyang at the time of the collapse of North Korea and is suspected of committing numerous massacres.

Message from anonymous1524: How about it? Don’t you want to join us?

“······.”

[ Dies_irae69, Do you want to block anonymous1524? ]

I used to love the blocking feature.

Most of them were released as the war progressed, and some died before they could be released.

But in no case will the blocking of Diesirae be lifted.