Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 132
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Episode 132
69. Message from Space (1)
Even people who aren’t interested in current affairs have probably heard of the name Melon Mask at least once.
He had already made billions by creating an internet payment site in his early 20s, and became a global celebrity by successfully launching cutting-edge businesses such as advanced electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, and space projects.
He is also the creator of our bulletin board.
Opinions are divided on whether it is quantum communication or not, but the Obelisk system, which has performance far surpassing existing satellite communication equipment, and the community called Viva! Apocalypse! that is paired with it are businesses that Melon Mask has run purely for his own taste, without any intention of profit.
It is a well-known fact that he had a strong attachment to the so-called “community.”
It is to the extent that they are spending a huge sum of money, amounting to trillions of won, to acquire a SNS service called “Tchaek” that has no expectations of profitability, with the intention of doing whatever they want with it.
The businessman, who had been so ostentatious and keen to appear cutting edge, was presumed dead after the war began.
Why, if a human being who likes to show off like that is alive, he should have been the leader of the Viva! Apocalypse! that he created, but he didn’t do that.
Some say he was hit by one of the 72 nuclear missiles that fell on California and was vaporized; others say he died when his private plane crashed in the aftermath of the blast.
Some even say that he went to another world through an unknown portal in the famous Bermuda Triangle.
Rebecca is a strong supporter of the third theory.
“Melon Mask went to Another World!”
The only realistic opinion is that Melon Mask’s acquaintances or bodyguards who had been jealous of him killed him in a war situation and took everything he had, but on English message boards, which are Melon Mask’s home base, the prevailing opinion is that the legendary businessman is in space.
Rumors of a space shelter being built had already spread far and wide before the war, with some references to it, and it was confirmed that large rockets had been launched in succession from the Mellon Mast space center before the war began.
That means Melon Mask is currently living comfortably and comfortably in a completely self-sufficient, high-tech space bunker.
In fact, the “space colony concept art” of Melon Mask that Rebecca showed felt like the embodiment of science fiction itself.
But even if it’s a melon mask, isn’t that too far-fetched an imagination?
A space bunker.
I heard that even the President of the United States lives in an underground bunker.
Well, my bunker may be smaller and cost less than theirs, but at least Park Gyu is satisfied.
Yeah- Yeah- Yeah- Yeah-
The boiler is running satisfactorily and sucking in the old fuel,
Chiik-
Steam radiators emit a faint plume of steam, driving away the chill that seeps into the room.
The unusual cold snap from the Arctic had no effect on the Skeleton House.
In this stable comfort, I have recently been absorbed in a new work.
The mini skeleton house next to the cabin where Rebecca and her daughter planned to live is planned to be converted into a sauna.
The trigger was a series of survivalist DVDs stockpiled before the war.
I was very impressed by the scene where the Finnish people built saunas to fight the cold waves of the Arctic.
It’s not that the work is particularly difficult.
All you have to do is tear down the slightly ugly mini skeleton house and make it look nicer, make a sauna curtain out of the industrial packaging plastic embezzled from my old company, and make chairs by arranging fragrant wood such as cypress.
There are no cypress or birch trees around, but I have seen cypress trees planted next to a group of nobleman’s tombs located on a sunny spot on the other side of the mountain.
They towed the truck and started cutting down the trees without mercy and getting to work.
It’s true that winter is cold, but it’s actually easier to move around in.
As the weather gets colder, human activity tends to decrease, and the whitened ground provides an environment in which it is easy to distinguish approaching humans or animals.
I spent a full day cutting and shaping cedar with a wood saw and creating the lining for the skeleton sauna.
It was quite tiring and physically demanding, but it felt good.
I guess it helps with mental health.
To be honest, I was a little shaken by the news that Rebecca’s family was leaving.
It seems like we’ve become attached to each other before we knew it.
To solve such shaking, the Internet is good, but I think that moving your body a lot and doing something rewarding is more effective.
Anyway, in these times, you won’t see much good if you go online.
There is no food, there is no fuel, please save me.
This is a post that has been frequently posted on bulletin boards recently.
Some users even took pictures of themselves lying down in a bunker, begging like beggars, and asked for charity.
If the distance was close, I could have gone, but it was too far for me to do anything about.
It’s been three years since the war started.
Even our bulletin board users who had prepared for destruction have now reached their limits.
“······.”
I was planning to take a quick look, close the internet if there was anything bad, and watch an animal documentary or something.
But there’s something I’ve never seen on the bulletin board.
Above the countless posts, there was a post that was larger than the other users’ posts, written in a shiny, colorful font – reminiscent of something John had discussed before he died – and it was sitting there proudly.
The content of the article is as follows.
MELON_MASK: Hello! With love from space! Melon Mask!
“uh?”
The creator of our world was alive.
*
Melon Mask, perhaps the world’s most successful attention-seeker, fearing that he might be a spectator, simultaneously translated his post and posted it as an announcement on all language bulletin boards.
Even on the Mayan bulletin board that was still in the process of being created, a notice was posted.
Why did that super-lenient Melon Mask remain silent for over three years since the war began?
The reason is that let’s borrow Melon Mask’s fingers.
MELON_MASK: Unexpected solar wind interference caused malfunctions in both the main communication equipment and the standby equipment, requiring considerable time to repair.
The melon mask then revealed the shelter he currently lives in, “Plus Ultra.”
MELON_MASK: The furthest shelter from Earth, created by launching five of the company’s Space Mountain-class rockets toward Lagrange Point L4 and docking the independent modules on board the rockets.
Melon Mask’s space colony was no ordinary space station.
It was a small world, made up of modules the size of a single building, each with its own purpose: housing, food, water supply, power generation, work, etc.
The water supply area was so filled with water that it would be no exaggeration to call it a small ocean, and the food area was a fully automated, state-of-the-art agricultural robot that sowed seeds, watered and fertilized them, washed them, and shipped them all automatically, without any human intervention.
All environments in the colony are controlled by artificial managers equipped with high-performance AI, so the colony’s residents can enjoy the rest of their lives in a comfortable and cozy environment provided by the artificial managers without any worries.
The highlight of this colony was the work area, which itself was a small rocket.
Later, when the monsters disappeared and peace returned to Earth, he even prepared a rocket to return Melon Mask to Earth, where he was born.
But nothing in this world is 100% perfect.
MELON_MASK: There’s a little problem.
When Melon Mask left Earth and came to Plus Ultra, he brought a pet with him.
It was a baby sloth named “Bumpy.”
They say they were brought here because they are sluggish, slow, eat less, are less noisy, and less active.
He was cute when he was a puppy.
While docking and optimizing the colony module and preparing the necessary conditions for space life with his colleagues, Bumpy grew up eating the food provided by the kind staff.
At that time, Melon Mask and his five colleagues had no idea the disaster that was about to befall them.
Bumpy has turned into a mutation.
The reason is unknown.
Even though we washed it several times and even sterilized it with ultraviolet rays to remove the mutation factor, it eventually turned into a mutation.
Maybe Bumpy’s mutations have been going on since poachers killed his parents and kidnapped him in the jungle.
The Melon Mask crew consisted of engineers with specialized knowledge in a variety of fields, including space environments, advanced machinery, and hydroponics, but none of them were monster experts.
So, they failed to distinguish between “mutation” and “growth” and interpreted Bumpy’s strange behavior as a rite of passage that occurred during the process of adapting to the unfamiliar environment of space.
It is said that there was one attempt to kill Bumpy.
Donald McGaley is a communications engineer.
As a former military man with a keen eye for combat, including marksmanship, he suspected Bumpy of being a mutation and insisted on killing him.
But his claim was not accepted.
The employees who usually liked Bumpy started to surround Bumpy with their arms.
Melon mask was one of them.
After repairing the broken communications equipment, the possibility of Super-Endless killing Bumpy, who was full of thoughts of shocking the world by appearing with the “Space Sloth”, was close to zero.
They paid a high price for their animal love when Bumpy showed his true colors.
MELON_MASK: I’m the only survivor now. There used to be one more, but he died. I managed to send him into space, but the problem is the other guys.
Melon Mask’s space colony “Plus Ultra” has a total of five modules.
The melon mask is in the housing module.
The remaining modules are filled with mutations and zombie-turned-former comrades.
To make matters worse, Melon Mask lost one of his legs.
This is because, in the desperate escape process of lowering the emergency shutter to avoid the bump, the shutter caught his left leg, which was unable to come out in time, and severed it.
Donald McGarley, who was with him, saved his life by nursing him, but now Donald McGarley has also lost his life.
His cause of death was said to be suicide.
MELON_MASK: He was floating through the hatch leading to space when he suddenly muttered, “Melon. I can’t work with you.” He then cut off his lifeline and flew towards the sun.
Despite having created a space bunker more ingenious than all of humanity’s imagination combined, Melon Mask’s last three years have been little more than a prison sentence.
He lost a leg along with his colleague and was trapped in a residential building, barely surviving on emergency rations.
Fortunately, it seems that the three years of effort were not in vain, as Melon Mask successfully isolated the source of all evil – Bumpy – in the cultivation module by remotely manipulating the room.
The problem is four zombies.
They neither jump nor run.
They are floating around in zero gravity, in a state similar to hibernation, and their life activities are suspended.
I thought I would die after about 3 years, but that didn’t happen.
When he tried to open the shutter and come out, he opened his eyes, flailed his arms and legs, and tried to kill Melon and his companions.
MELON_MASK: Well, that’s the situation. But it’s not like I’ve been playing for 3 years. I’ve developed a new feature! Okay, I’ll open it right now!
Melon Mask has revealed a new and exciting feature of Viva! Apocalypse! that has never been revealed before.
The name is Live! Apocalypse!
Our Viva! Apocalypse! is a full broadcast that is broadcast simultaneously on all bulletin boards.
What you need is satellite equipment – an obelisk and a smartphone or other device that can link to it to take and share video footage.
When a user who wants to broadcast applies for broadcasting on the Live! Apocalypse! tab and receives permission, the communication satellites in orbit will have priority for that user, allowing them to transmit and receive much more data than usual, and provide the ability to broadcast in real time in FHD quality.
The first demonstrator was, of course, the creator of our world.
“Hello, everyone?”
Above the text being translated in real time, a skeletal man with a messy beard and messy hair looked at the screen with bleary eyes and waved his bare hand.
That’s right.
Although she has become thinner, unlike in the past when she was overweight, those eyes and facial features are undoubtedly those of the unrivaled genius businessman Melon Mask.
“I contacted headquarters, and fortunately, they said he’s still on his way back. So before my life ends, you guys! I’m planning on preparing a surprise gift for the doomsdayers.”
Melon Mask put a message on the window.
-Apply for Live Now! Apocalypse! and be the first to be on the show!
“······.”
Heart pounding
My heart is pounding.
The razor-sharp gaze that had slain countless monsters and mutations soon detected the change on the bulletin board.
there is.
At the top left of the screen there is a tab called “Live! Apocalypse!”
I tried pressing it.
Please write your broadcast topic in the chat window below (real-time translation is provided, so feel free to type in your native language!).
Knock knock
SKELTON : Beatbox
“······.”
It doesn’t matter if Woo Min-hee finds out.
If I could be recorded as the first batter at this historic site, wouldn’t that be the record of the ideal image of the last human being that I wanted?
If I could promote the form of culture that is my specialty, beatboxing, I would have no more regrets.
A reply came soon.
VIVA_BOT014: Beatbox? I’ll give you a brief review. Press the live button and try it.
I pressed the live button and showed off my skills that I had been honing.
“Chicka-chi-bak-chi-chi-chi-ka-chicka-bak-chi-chi······.”
Suddenly a window in English popped up.
– You have been banned!
“?”
English text is translated in real time and changed to Korean.
-You have been kicked out!
“no?!”
I immediately ran to my laptop and swore at him in the chat, but it looks like I got kicked out, so the chat didn’t work.
As I was taking a deep breath to calm my ragged breathing, the word “Live!” suddenly flashed on the top left of the screen.
Could it be that someone else besides me has earned the right to perform live?
“······Phew.”
I suppressed my anger and pressed the Live! button.
Suddenly a pale, ashen background appeared.
I can hear someone breathing.
Breathing rough and phlegmy, but still strong.
A rustling sound is heard from behind, along with what is presumed to be a baby’s murmur.
The clarity of the screen, the crispness of the sound.
It’s the same high definition broadcast that we used to watch at home before the war.
The screen shook and then took a different picture.
It was a city of ruins, similarly filled with ashes.
Beyond the ashen fog, ghostly skyscrapers and gray-white lights glowing ominously between them can be seen.
“······.”
That’s right.
It’s an erosion zone.
It was also a large city that once boasted a huge scale.
Where could it be?
India? Or China?
As I was estimating the location of the city among the vague outlines of skyscrapers, a familiar, yet unwelcome sound suddenly came from the speakers.
“······Yum.”
End
ⓒ Road Warrior #dp8g
(Invincible*) -Recommendation88-
I got goosebumps from the last word…
(round and round**) -Recommendation 62-
While everyone else was filming the apocalypse on Earth, I was filming a space survival story all by myself.
(***nowar) -Recommendation 44-
This episode is amazing and fantastic
Melon Musk and Live Baek Seung-hyun who fled to space…
I thought m9 would come out
(Juteka**) -Recommendation 31-
I was like, no way, no way
“Yum” okay lol
(Antimatter fermentation**) -Recommendation 24-
Dongtan Mom is alive! Dongtaesik!
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