Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 162



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Episode 162

The sudden departure of Rebecca and her daughter from my territory coincidentally came less than a week after the Defender siblings had taken their truck to the Legion’s territory.

In the midst of the -20 degree cold, a US military helicopter suddenly arrived and took Rebecca and her daughter away.

The sudden arrival of the US military helicopter was something that neither Rebecca nor her daughter expected.

Because of that, I couldn’t even give them the juicy gift I had prepared for our farewell and I couldn’t even give them a normal send-off.

“Skeleton, I’ll contact you online. Thank you so, so much for everything.”

They managed a brief farewell via the radio, but Rebecca was so sobbing as she left that she could not continue speaking.

“Skeleton, this won’t be the end. Just wait a moment.”

Although Su-woo was more mature than her mother, it was clear that she was trying hard to suppress her emotions.

I didn’t really have anything to say.

“Okay. Live well. Be well, and live long.”

The last greeting I could give was a commonplace compliment.

But as Suu said, this is not the end.

Because we have the Internet.

No matter how far apart we are, as long as Viva! Apocalypse! is maintained, we can keep in touch.

“······.”

I stood on the hill above the bunker for a while, listening to the rotors of the invisible helicopters moving away.

The planned separation finally took place.

When the matter actually arose, I felt surprisingly relieved.

It feels like I’ve finished a big homework assignment.

If you think about it carefully, it would probably be a wise decision to leave now.

Considering the situation in Incheon, which has virtually entered a state of civil war, this year will be more dangerous than last year, but it will not be less dangerous.

There will be more refugees pouring out than there were last year.

Those are friends armed with war weapons spread by the Legion.

Besides, South Korea is one of the most dangerous countries I know of when it comes to weapons.

Because it is a country where most adult males receive military training and perform compulsory military service.

The story goes that there are many people who can handle heavy weapons such as mortars and field guns, beyond simple gunfire.

Anyone who has survived until now would have fighting prowess beyond words.

If such people come out, both Rebecca and her daughter, as well as the Defender, could be in trouble.

As I cleaned out the freezer and put the gifts I had planned to give to Rebecca and Sue back in their proper places, I felt a little sad, but that was it.

As the days passed, I found myself adapting to my new life surprisingly quickly.

I patrol every day, check equipment and supplies, check for any abnormalities in the bunker facilities, repair anything that needs to be repaired, organize my thoughts and write down notes if there is anything to improve, and use the Internet in my spare time.

While getting information from the outside world, I also find comfort in “communicating” with my bulletin board friends.

It feels like I’m back in the early days of the war.

There are a few changes.

Equipment was actually better than it was at the beginning of the war.

We obtained a motorcycle, an all-weather, highly efficient vehicle, and a Humvee, a lightly armored, highly mobile vehicle, as well as several hunter equipment, including the Javelin.

This means that there is a minimum possibility of taking down not only the dancer type, but also the medium-sized type, and if you are lucky, even the large type.

The fuel I was worried about has been replaced with synthetic oil, which is better than I thought, so I think I will continue to use it if I can get it. However, the food side has clearly decreased.

The freezer, which was once full, is now less than half full, and that’s by design.

Because I learned from experience how dangerous frozen food can be at a time when it was difficult to operate a freezer.

Although the amount of frozen food has decreased, the amount of preserved food is still sufficient.

Preserved foods such as canned foods, freeze-dried foods, and bricks.

In fact, if you eat just this, you can last for three more years.

Besides, I farm.

As a survivor looking forward to the fourth year after the third year, I have now acquired the knack for farming and have sufficient seedlings.

Until last year, I was worried about aerial reconnaissance by drones, so I only planted small crops here and there on my land, but this year, I plan to create a “medium-sized farm pretending to be a coincidence” on the abandoned farmland below.

If I’m lucky, I’ll be able to grow my own fresh food to last a year.

After a brief second cold snap, temperatures rose rapidly.

A week after Rebecca and her daughter left, the outside temperature is currently -8 degrees Celsius.

It’s spring.

It’s true that as the weather gets warmer, things get noisier around here.

“Fuck! Fuck! There’s no one there! The kids are freezing to death!”

It seems that Jang Sang-sa was a master of survival skills, if not anything else.

The children of the general are still alive.

And that too in a lively manner······.

It’s not the radio that’s really noisy.

The humming sound of an airplane has been heard for some time now.

Judging from the shape of the sound, it seems to be a military transport plane using propellers, but it is circling around for some unknown reason. Could it be an American soldier?

A helicopter came and went a while ago, so maybe another American soldier is circling around the old base.

After donning a minimal amount of snow camouflage with a white poncho, I sneak out of the bunker and observe the sky. Sure enough, a transport plane is flying across the distant sky.

I wondered what his intention was, and as I was watching silently, the K-walkie-talkie rang.

Personal identification number: REDMASK

This is Woo Min-hee.

She told me earlier that she had a favor to ask of me when the weather got warmer.

Is now the time?

I went into the bunker and received communication.

“senior.”

“Okay. What’s going on?”

My mood is also a bit gloomy.

I’m willing to take on her request as long as it’s not too dangerous.

However, Woo Min-hee’s request was quite different from what I expected.

“Is there a plane flying around your house right now?”

“Yeah. But.”

“Isn’t there a runway around there?”

“Oh, right.”

“That plane is our plane. It seems like there’s a problem with the engine system, so we have to make an emergency landing, but our airport is not available right now.”

“why?”

“It’s chaos over here right now.”

She must have picked up the walkie-talkie and held it outside the window.

I can’t really tell what’s being said due to the radio’s audio quality, but it sounds like faint gunshots and explosions.

It seems that Incheon is still noisy.

This isn’t a problem that can be solved by catching just one Eom Nak-su.

Eom Nak-su is just one of the many results of long-standing hatred.

“Could you please guide the plane? I can’t see the runway very well from above.”

“There’s no signal flare or anything, but instead I’ll send out smoke.”

“Would you do that? Please.”

“i get it.”

“Oh, and.”

“Huh? What’s going on?”

“There are kids riding there.”

“Kids?”

“These are the children we will send to Jeju Island.”

I’ve heard the story countless times.

They say that talented children from Seoul and Incheon are sent to Jeju Island.

In fact, that is the real reason for maintaining the Incheon government.

This is my first time seeing it in person.

So this is how they sent it to Jeju Island.

By plane, not by boat,

It’s exactly as Woo Min-hee said.

“Can you watch the kids until our truck gets there? There are soldiers there too, but I guess you’re a survival expert out there, right?”

“My bunker is in a bad condition these days, so I can’t bring anyone in.”

“Internet problems?”

“No. There is no internet.”

“Let him sleep for a while. With the weather like this, he won’t freeze to death.”

“Okay, I’ll guide you right now.”

“Please.”

Communication was lost.

Suddenly, they are asking me to run a daycare center while taxiing an airplane.

It may be bittersweet, but it’s better than doing nothing.

At least Woo Min-hee definitely gives some oil.

I loaded a few cans of fuel onto my motorcycle and headed to the US military base.

Hwaruruk-

My inventory includes a variety of miscellaneous items, but tactical equipment such as signal flares or smoke grenades are not included. My plans after the war were originally designed based solely on the premise that I would survive alone.

But just because you don’t have the equipment doesn’t mean you can’t do the job.

He picked up a few drums scattered around the US military base, lined them up in a line toward the runway, and lit a fire with tree branches to create smoke.

If you feel that the smoke is spreading too much, put out the fire with a fire extinguisher and mark the entrance to the runway so that the aircraft can see it.

A tree chained to a motorcycle was used like a plow, creating a long trail of snow towards the runway.

Soon the radio rang.

“This is Bravo One. Bravo One, is there an obstruction on the runway side? It’s not clearly visible from here due to the smoke and altitude difference.”

“There may be some gravel or rocks, but no obstacles like vehicles.”

“Thank you for your assistance. We will now attempt an emergency landing. Please move away from the runway as this may be hazardous.”

Immediately after the contact was completed, the transport aircraft made a dangerously high turn to position itself for the runway.

That’s the exact angle.

I saw the transport plane land while I was on my motorcycle.

The heavy transport plane landed with a loud noise, grinding away at the snow piled up on the runway like a shaved ice machine.

Whew Whew Whew—

The speed of the four powerfully spinning propellers slowly slowed down, and the cargo door of the transport plane lowered like an animal’s jaws.

Soon, soldiers with guns appeared on the runway through the cargo hold.

He waved at them and spoke into the walkie-talkie.

“This is your guide.”

Even if it is obvious to anyone that this side is an ally, it is better to clearly distinguish between friend and foe.

Even if I’m okay, if the people on that plane aren’t okay, something unfortunate could happen.

Soon the soldiers spotted me and waved.

I think it’s okay to go.

He approached the transporter on a motorcycle.

One was a captain and the other was a sergeant major.

The sergeant squinted and looked around the US military base.

“It’s completely destroyed. It’s completely destroyed. Well, it’s strange that it wasn’t destroyed since it was hit directly by a nuclear weapon. But still, it’s strange that such a large base disappeared without a trace. The nuclear weapon was really strong.”

“Can I write here?”

When the captain asked the sergeant, the sergeant answered.

“It should be usable, Captain, the outer building is destroyed, but there’s a bunker down there. As far as I know, it was built from the beginning with the expectation of a nuclear attack. It should still be intact.”

“Then let’s take the kids there for a while.”

“I will do that.”

The captain looked at me.

“Oh, are you the hunter in charge of this area?”

“I’m not in charge, I’m just someone who lives around here.”

“Thank you for your help.”

“Excuse me, what’s going on?”

“Oh, that’s it. There was a sudden problem with the engine operation.”

No matter how well it was maintained, three years had passed since the war began.

Spare supplies are running low.

We had no choice but to maintain the aircraft by replacing consumables that were in relatively good condition, but that was not good for the life of the aircraft. The quality of the oil used for aviation fuel was also not good.

Eventually, something went wrong and I had to make an emergency landing somewhere close by, and that was right in my area.

“A maintenance truck will be here from Incheon soon. I’ll have to stay here until then, so I’d like to ask for your help.”

The captain nodded lightly at me and asked me a favor.

“If there’s anything missing, please let me know.”

“There’s not much lacking.”

The captain smiled bitterly.

I had a bad feeling about his strange expression.

“I think we might have to go to Incheon for a while.”

“yes?”

“That’s…………. There are no people. People. What we’re saying is that we have to bring the parts and materials and do the repairs here ourselves.”

“Are there no people in Incheon?”

“There are some, but they don’t have the knowledge. No matter what we ask, there are only people who don’t understand. There is a shortage of skilled workers, and the few skilled workers we have have all gone to Jeju Island, so we were planning to go to Jeju Island ourselves.”

I saw his name tag.

Captain Kwon Seong-yul.

He looks young for his class.

At most, there are only about twenty-three or twenty-four of them.

Sergeant Ki Byeong-ho, who was looking at me with a sullen face from the side, also looked to be in his mid-thirties.

Class inflation is a characteristic of a failing military group.

Besides, listening to what these guys say, it seems like even the Air Force base is being removed from Incheon now.

Is Incheon also being abandoned?

Unicorn 18, who is not sure if it is Kang Min-in or Na Hye-in, said that something changes when spring comes.

Of course, change isn’t something that happens easily.

And since it’s a task I’ve been given, I plan to do at least as much as I can.

I absolutely do not want to be the director of a daycare center, but on the other hand, I also have a slight desire to see the children who will go to Jeju Island with my own eyes.

I want to see it once.

Unlike me, the appearance of children chosen by God.

“Guys, come out.”

As Captain Kwon spoke, children dressed in thick clothes emerged from the cargo hold one by one, with unfamiliar and fearful expressions on their faces. There were eight of them in total.

The average age is mid-teens, exactly the same as a third-year middle school student.

I saw the youngest child.

The boy, who was probably about ten years old now and should still be by his mother’s side, was being held by the tallest girl like a penguin baby with a fearful look on his face.

I saw a girl holding a baby boy.

A tall, slightly older face than the other kids.

Twenty, or something like that.

But somehow, I feel like I’ve seen that face somewhere.

“?”

That’s right.

It’s a face I remember.

Where have I seen it?

The girl looked at me.

The moment our eyes met, a place I had long forgotten flashed through my mind as if by fate.

There was a place I heard about before Seoul was destroyed.

There lived a poor but good-natured family.

The boy and I were close and received a laptop, but at some point, the boy and his family disappeared without a trace. The boy had an older sister.

She was a slender girl who kept her distance from me.

He’s older and gaunter than he was then, but that’s for sure.

She is the older sister of the boy who gave me the laptop that still brings me joy and sorrow.

The tattoos that go up to my neck and the piercings that cover my ears to an extreme are something I didn’t have before, but it’s been two years since I last saw you. There must have been as many incidents as my daily life.

I told her the name of a now-defunct lodging establishment.

“International Residence?”

The girl’s eyes shook slightly.

Soon she pointed at me with her finger and asked in a trembling voice.

“That old man from back then?!”

They say fate is a strange thing, but that phrase doesn’t really resonate with me.

For us, fate is mostly a futile drama that ends in sudden or fleeting death.

But at least for this girl and her family, fate is something twisted like a pretzel.

The boy who was expected to send his family to Jeju Island died suddenly, while the girl who had no expectations went to Jeju Island after a gap of two years.

“Fuck! Fuck!”

The brief silence was broken by a light radio noise.

“What are these?”

The originator glared at the radio and frowned.

“These are the children who live around here.”

“Children?”

The priest’s eyes turned friendly, so I told him the truth.

“He’s a plunderer.”

End

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(Main comments)

(One Two**) -Recommendation 75-

Skeleton is bored, so he gives him some work to do and leaves.

In the meantime, Woo Min-hee asks if it’s an internet problem.

(Donggle****) -Recommendation 52-

Park Gyu avoids Awaken, who attacks him by saying that it is an internet problem, through Intimidating

The fight is fierce today, but he is still alive and well.

(g4857**) -Recommendation 42-

Shit, you’re really surviving for so long

(air***) -Recommendation26-

The biggest mystery of Azimsum, how much does Woo Min-hee know?

(che**) -Recommendation 24-

Come to think of it, wasn’t there an Awaken in that group of looters, albeit a lower rank?

It would be nice if I could bring the dog and its sibling too.

(Dragon***) -Recommendation 20-

Woo Min-hee is so bad ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

(***Handwriting) -Recommendation 18-

My younger brother died and I’m taking care of him like a ten-year-old younger brother. It’s so pitiful.

(Akir**) -Recommendation 17-

Haha …

(BU***) -Recommendation 16-

That thing is surprisingly popular, it survived the winter

(Unliving**) -Recommendation 15-

I feel like I need to give Jang Sang-sa’s kids a big hug. I feel annoyed.

(Bear and****) -Recommendation 10-

Although it was a time of fear and violence, Jang Sang-sa Ham taught children to survive…

(gano***) -Recommendation9-

The subtitle of the story is “The Kind of Children”…

(Kim Kimchi**) -Recommendation 6-

What word would you use to describe a person?

Varieties