Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 126
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Episode 126
67. Hero (1)
The people in the camp who resisted Yang Sang-gil’s last desperate attempt were the people who joined hands and formed a chain of people to resist the soldiers.
It is said that men, women, and even small children volunteered to join the chains to fend off the relentless invasion of soldiers.
We cannot ignore the efforts of people from other camps who appeared behind the soldiers at a good time, blocked their retreat, and shouted.
If they had not gathered the men properly and stopped the soldiers, the resistance of the camp with its chain of people might have been in vain.
There is also a story that a soldier hesitated when men he had never seen before approached him and gave him instructions, but this is just a rumor.
Whatever the truth, I didn’t actually do anything in the process.
I just heard the facts from a friend who knew the plan and passed it on to Fox Games.
I don’t think I deserve to be a hero.
And yet I became a hero.
ㅇㅇ: Who is Skeleton?
ㅇㅇ: Viva Angga?
Yeah: Oh. There was this weird guy who used to hang around Viva. He’d always say shit.
ㅇㅇ: At least 40 years old, right?
ㅇㅇ: Anyway, thanks to that human, our camp was able to survive.
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There is no one on PaleNet today who does not know the name of this skeleton.
Suddenly, this skeleton went from being a nobody to a national celebrity.
SKELTON: (Skeleton himself) I just did what I had to do.
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t happy with this sloping flow.
SKELTON: (Skeleton himself) Today’s lunch.jpg
SKELTON: (Skeleton himself) The daily life of an alpha male
SKELTON: (Skeleton himself) The Hope’s expected collapse point. science
SKELTON: (Skeleton himself) Skeleton’s beatbox concept.txt
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I enjoyed it a little bit.
The daily life of a named person.
The life of an unpopular user who never got a single comment no matter what I wrote felt like a dream from the past.
The reason why Skeleton, an unpopular user for years, became a named character overnight is because he is a hero who saved 15,000 lives.
But am I really a hero?
“Here’s today’s distribution.”
A family, destined to die, looks back at me with faces full of despair.
“Is this all? What about the firewood?”
He turned around, ignoring them with a blank mask on.
“······.”
The real heroes who deserve praise are inside the makeshift tent.
*
“Really? What about that house’s daughter? She’s still not so happy? Oh my. She always said she’d hang herself if she got kicked out of there. It seems like she really didn’t have the courage to die.”
For a moment, I mistook you for a human named Woo Min-hee.
She may seem a little more lenient to me, but she is still cruel and merciless to others.
“Do you need some stimulation? Are there any looters you know nearby? I want to make their families feel the same pain that ordinary people have suffered. Oh, no? Hmm. Well, time passes.”
Every morning she asked me to report on the Yang Gil-sang family’s day.
I guess keeping in touch with her every day is a positive sign in terms of survival, but I’m not sure.
Would the mind of a person who observes the destruction of others in a journal be at ease?
The only good thing is that Yang Gil-sang didn’t recognize my face.
“What about you?”
I vaguely remembered him, but he didn’t seem to be that important of a person, so he couldn’t remember my name or my personal information.
He recognized me as a spy sent by Woo Min-hee.
There is only one thing he is curious about me.
“When can I get out of here?”
Yang Gil-sang was confident that he would get out of here.
“I am close friends with Supreme Council member Gong Kyung-min who is in Jeju Island. Please contact him. If Supreme Council member Gong Kyung-min finds out about this, he will definitely release me. For a mere colonel like Colonel Koo Min-cheol to banish me, the acting president, to a place like this is a violation of military law, no, the Constitution! Please contact me in any way you like. I will take responsibility and send you, your family, and all your acquaintances to Jeju Island!”
Yang Gil-sang didn’t even know who had sent him here.
Well, there are plenty of things I want to ask him.
Things from the past, things from the present, things about my colleagues.
But you shouldn’t say useless things to this person.
Yang Sang-gil is a man who has maintained his position and been promoted through betrayal and backstabbing throughout his life.
Like people who have lived their whole lives in a mean manner, Yang Sang-gil had no awareness that he was a traitor and that his actions were wrong.
I thought I was a moral person, constantly hypnotizing myself that I was doing the right thing no matter what.
Crucially, Yang Sang-gil is also carrying a walkie-talkie.
This means that you can tell Woo Min-hee everything I said.
I give him just enough food to feed a family and enough fuel to keep them warm for ten minutes.
Other than that, there is no interference, no conversation, no contact.
I just monitor whether they go out of the golf course or not, but I know very well that the Yang Sang-gil family will not be able to escape the narrow world of the golf course.
Even if the threat from outside were a different matter, without me to provide them with the meager food and fuel they need, their bodies’ stored nutrients would determine how many more days their family would live.
That doesn’t mean Yang Sang-gil doesn’t struggle to survive.
Beep beep beep beep—-
“CQCQ! This is Yang Sang-gil, the Acting President of the Republic of Korea. Yes, it’s me!”
Here we go again.
That bastard’s struggles.
“I, Yang Sang-gil, have been kidnapped by unidentified terrorists and are now imprisoned in a remote place! I was caught in a coup by anti-government forces! I was arrested unilaterally and exiled here without any trial or explanation! Please! Please save me and my family! I will give you a generous reward! I will do my best······.”
He has been broadcasting distress signals in all directions almost every day except the day he was exiled here.
But the radio broadcast to the random crowd only called for looters, not saviors.
A car approached the golf course.
I don’t know the car.
It’s safe to say that all the cars in the world today that we don’t know about are looters.
I immediately contacted Woo Min-hee.
She usually doesn’t respond to calls often, but now she’s different.
“Yeah, senior. What’s going on?”
You will be contacted immediately.
“What should we do if the looters go to Yang Sang-gil? They might kill him.”
“That might be a good ending. Oh, no. Can you just handle it yourself?”
“I?”
“Senior. I gave you synthetic oil and food as a deposit, right? Do you need more?”
“Oh, no. That’s enough.”
“As expected, seniors are quick to understand.”
When he arrived on his motorcycle, looters had already broken into the makeshift tent on Yangsang-gil and were causing a commotion.
Yang Sang-gil and his wife were rolling around on the floor, his son was crouching in a corner, shivering, and his daughter was being dragged into a tent by two looters.
“Hey. Didn’t you hear what I just said?”
The man with the rifle looked around and shouted at the other two men who were dragging the woman into the tent.
“What? What are you talking about?”
“No, there was an engine noise!”
I haven’t increased the engine torque even once since I came here.
That is, I came here at a constant speed of 50 km and turned off the engine.
Human ears are sensitive to change, but they tend to ignore familiar sounds.
So, it seems like you didn’t hear me very well.
Still, these guys have a sharp edge.
Usually, the predators who have easy prey right in front of them are too preoccupied with that to pay attention to anything else, but at least one person was standing guard.
But today luck is not on their side.
He took out an axe and threw it at him.
The axe flew in a parabolic arc, flying slowly like my motorcycle and slamming into the back of the man’s head.
Phew!
As soon as he saw the axe blade sink into the back of his head, he jumped out of cover with his gun drawn and took aim at the looters.
I can see only one person.
The other one is beating up a woman inside a tent.
It seems like there have been similar experiences several times already.
If you look at the brutal violence that is wielded before taking off the clothes.
bang!
A gunshot rang out and a looter outside the tent fell to the ground, blood pouring from his head.
“What?! Who are you?”
Clearly these raiders are seasoned.
You can tell just by looking at the noise he makes inside the tent instead of running out.
They’re probably packing guns inside the tent and planning a counterattack.
however.
bang!
I’ve already confirmed the silhouette.
A tent may hide your view, but it can’t stop bullets.
After confirming that a few drops of blood were splashing on the tent’s fabric, he appeared in front of Yang Sang-gil’s family.
“Hyun-ah!”
Yang Sang-gil and his wife ran into the tent in a panic.
Yang Hyun-soo, who had been sitting there, also realized the situation belatedly and went into the tent.
Soon the family came out, hugging each other and crying.
They bowed their heads to me.
“Thank you! Thank you so much!”
“······Don’t use the walkie-talkie carelessly. You might have gotten lucky, but next time I might not be able to help you.”
I tried to avoid looking at their faces as much as possible.
I don’t pay attention to people who are leaning on me.
It’s a habit I developed while working in China.
If we experience repeatedly how easily expectations can turn into resentment, we will all develop similar habits.
Besides me, other comrades also treated civilians on the battlefield coldly.
Only one person, Kim Da-ram, tried to show goodwill to them until the end.
When I asked her why, she answered curtly.
“You can’t just ignore someone who’s having a hard time, right? It’s not like it’s someone else’s problem. Why, you’ve had hard times too, senior?”
The fact that she, who was once the most humane of us all, has become the most ruthless of us all gives us much to think about.
“······Thank you, I will send you the food tomorrow at the appointed time.”
Yang Sang-gil seems to be hesitating to say something.
I didn’t give him a chance to speak.
He got back on his motorcycle and left the place.
Yang Sang-gil’s voice echoed faintly in my ears over the sound of the wind blowing.
“I think I know who you are!”
Hearing that, I muttered without realizing it.
“······What good does it do to know?”
The wind feels cold, but it’s not just because of the dropping temperature.
*
The saying that you become famous after waking up is something I recently experienced as well.
But what if you wake up and suddenly your reputation hits rock bottom?
ㅇㅇ: Hey, you’re not a skeleton?
Yeah yeah: This scammer bastard
ㅇㅇ: I can see this kid if I look at his last post. Hey!
Anonymous458: Skeleton… you…..
ㅇㅇ: It’s too much to pretend to be someone by using the same nickname
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Suddenly, the blame was focused on the savior of 15,000 people, Skelton.
I closed my laptop for a moment, drank some cold water to calm my mind, and then looked at the bulletin board.
The cause of the problem was soon discovered.
keystone: (Skeleton himself) I have proof that I am the real Skeleton.
Keystone.
What the heck is this kid?
Aren’t you the guy who always whines about there being refugees in front of your house?
Why didn’t I die and instead write something like this?
With these questions in mind, I checked the bastard’s authentication.
Skeleton: Status Window
Level: 28
Class: Heavy Gunner
Strength: 25 Dexterity: 8 Intelligence: 13 Charisma: 1
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“What is it?”
What Keystone uploaded as authentication is the status window of Fox Games’ ambitious project – Monster Park.
But the nickname written on the photo is,
It’s a skeleton.
“······.”
There is nothing to add or subtract.
It’s just a skeleton.
Keystone, the guy who never dies, saw that I was gaining popularity and started impersonating me using the nickname Skeleton.
“This guy······?”
Now that I think about it, I wasn’t able to use the nickname Skeleton when I was playing Monster Park.
Fox Games was unable to use my account because it was a super account and could cause discomfort to others.
I had forgotten about it ever since, but I never thought Keystone would do such an ugly thing.
But I guess it really hurt my stomach to be called a named person.
There are a few more.
These skeleton impersonators!
mmmmmmmmm : (real skeleton) I am a skeleton
skelton : status window
Level: 45
Class: Heavy Gunner
Strength: 44 Dexterity: 18 Intelligence: 13 Charisma: 2
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unicorn18 : Actually, I’m… [Skeleton]…?
SKE1TON : Status window
Level: 18
Class: Battlefield Idol
Strength: 14 Dexterity: 8 Intelligence: 6 Charisma: 32
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Both m9 and unicorn were impersonating me.
By making up a nickname in broken English.
I immediately reported this fact to Fox Games.
SKELTON: No, there are too many scammers, you guys. Seriously.
Not long after I sent my complaint to Fox Games, I received a reply.
Message from Foxgames: Sorry! I think I confused people by saying skeleton in the game. I’ll post a correction notice right away!
Of course, it is right to correct it.
Because I saved the lives of 15,000 people by hitting the keyboard with my godlike typing skills of 700 strokes.
But why is that?
What is this hesitant feeling?
“······.”
I replied to Fox Games.
SKELTON: No, just leave it for now.
Message from Foxgames: Why? Don’t you care if they impersonate you?
SKELTON: Well, there’s something like that. Let me think about it for a bit.
Message from Foxgames: Are you······ Netmajo?
SKELTON: What is Netmajo?
A message from Foxgames: On that internet······ I get pleasure from being cursed at······
SKELTON: (Skeleton strongly denies) NO!
This Park Gyu did not fall to the point where he felt pleasure from being cursed at on the Internet.
It just felt like something wasn’t right.
It’s nice to suddenly be treated as a hero, and it’s nice to have followers, but it’s out of order to be treated as a hero without any build-up or major accomplishments.
The person who is really at the center of the incident is Ang Hyeon-su, who is still waiting for death at that golf course.
furthermore.
“······Phew.”
Wasn’t this incident itself a well-planned play?
It may be a bit of a leap, but this is the thought that comes to mind when I see Yang Sang-gil being left there as if it were natural, without any trial or procedure, after the incident broke out.
-Chijijik
The radio rang.
Public frequency.
The receiving distance is very close.
Is it Yang Sang-gil?
“cq! cq!”
It’s Yang Sang-gil after all.
What kind of pointless attempt are you trying again?
“Hunter Park Gyu. You’re Hunter Park Gyu, right? The one called Professor.”
Oh, you remember things quickly.
“I clearly remember talking to you before the war, so why did you pretend not to know? I was so flustered that I couldn’t remember, but I just remembered now! Would you mind coming over here for a moment?”
By the way, this guy.
It’s really consistent.
It somehow manages to find its way into the cracks of a person’s heart and find a hole to live in with its characteristically cunning tongue.
“I was going to send you to Jeju Island! I know you’re old school, but how could I leave a great man like you here, with such a high record and knowledge, and who survived in the Rift Zone for over two weeks?”
I was about to let out a sigh and turn off the radio.
“But Kang Han-min vehemently opposed it!”
This human.
“······under.”
I started to think that there was a reason I stayed in Jeju Island for so long.
End
ⓒ Road Warrior #dp8g
(Jeon Ye***) -Recommendation 101-
It seems like it’s true that Kang Han-min stopped going to Jeju Island…but looking at the past descriptions that have been released so far,
It seems that they didn’t block the trip to Jeju Island with malicious intent. It turns out that Jeju Island isn’t a paradise after all.
(Dreambangi***) -Recommendation83-
It’s so funny that they’re all pretending to be real people. They probably know everything.
(Yuricon***) -Recommendation 68-
Park Gyu is such a monster ssamdak that if he comes without being away, he will definitely fight and die, so he probably didn’t bring him.
Jeju Island is more like a battlefield than a paradise.
(Korang***) -Recommendation 49-
Kang Han-min told me to bring him, but Yang Sang-gil must have been vehemently opposed.
(OneTwo***) -Recommendation27-
When I asked what your name was
When the Viagra users answered that we are skeletons,
(Snowman**) -Recommendation 24-
I guess they told me to stop and rest
(n695**) -Recommendation 24-
Yang Sang-gil, Yang Gil-sang, Yang Sang-chu
(metro**) -Recommendation 11-
(Skeleton Jug) I am the Legion
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