Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 167



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Episode 167

ㅇㅇ: There are corpses everywhere. Every house, people are freezing to death, being shot to death, or being beaten to death with clubs. How can we be so peaceful?

One of the PaleNet users is giving us a hard time.

Our bulletin board friends don’t care one bit.

Anonymous 1311: Snowman of the day

Anonymous 458: Snowman ver 3.1

rokaGG : Snowman!

Anonymous853: I made a snowman too

Berkut_break: I don’t want to follow the trend, but since the mood is the mood, I made a snowman

mmmmmmmmm : The Hope Made of Snow “SNOW PALACE”

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New friends, little-known friends, and friends with a bad reputation all talk about snowmen.

The reason we can ignore the criticism of anonymous users on PaleNet is probably because such tragedies happen every year, but the biggest reason is probably the resentment that any doomsday enthusiast would have.

Before the war, our abolitionists were treated harshly.

Only those who have experienced it can understand how much criticism we have received.

Especially in a society like South Korea where society sets certain exemplary standards and imposes harsh social sanctions on those who do not follow them.

Becoming an abolitionist required a great deal of determination before any great wealth.

As far as I know, the only country with a higher difficulty level of destructionists than South Korea is Japan.

There, things went even further than in Korea, and the bunkers that the country elders had painstakingly built were demolished overnight.

Koreans, who are more affectionate than the Japanese, don’t go that far, but this is no joke either.

At that time, abolitionists were treated as, well, somewhat lacking people.

During the Joseon Dynasty, unmarried men with ponytails were treated as immature infants with little brains.

There was even a comedian on TV who did a show with the concept of criticizing doomsday activists.

It’s probably a comedian named Hwang Dae-seop.

Even I, who hardly ever watches TV, know it well because I searched on YouTube.

One episode stands out in my memory.

A destructive person (played by Hwang Dae-seop), who is obviously a social misfit with a scrawny head and squinty eyes, wearing a shabby tracksuit, is buying a lot of meat from a mart.

We wait for destruction to come, but destruction does not come and time flows peacefully (this is expressed by the minute and second hands of the clock turning very quickly and the day and night changing rapidly outside the window in the background).

Then, the old refrigerator broke down and all the meat I had stored started to rot.

Hwang Dae-seop eats like a food fighter, but soon reaches his limit and starts to cry, spitting out what he was eating in an ugly manner while looking at the screen.

That’s where the episode ends.

Hwang Dae-seop created several programs with similar concepts.

Honestly, even I, a doomsday person, found it funny.

I remember the name of the program was “The Destruction of the Neighborhood.”

The name “destruction” was probably inspired by the term “depressionist,” which refers to a person who hopes for a fall in apartment prices.

Anyway, we doomsday activists who had to endure such a painful time while enduring such social ridicule and contempt do not have many reasons to feel sympathy for the fact that people in the world are dying and suffering.

Rather, their suffering and miserable end are proof that we were not wrong.

That’s why the criticism from anonymous users from PaleNet is nothing more than the common malicious comments or nonsense to us.

ㅇㅇ: You guys aren’t even human. People are dying! The government is just watching! I really thought you guys were the concept, but you guys are really crazy…

Nobody listens to the opinions of these friends.

Rather, there is an emerging opinion on our bulletin board that it would be better to simply block “ㅇㅇ,” a nickname mainly used by anonymous users.

When PaleNet friends first came in, they were quite cheerful friends, but when life got difficult, they became less cheerful and only wrote frowning posts, so I just blocked them all.

The idea that users of our bulletin board should communicate with each other is gaining ground.

In fact, the number of users who have blocked “ㅇㅇ” on our bulletin board is rapidly increasing.

But not all “ㅇㅇ”s are mean or mean to us.

Some good-natured “ㅇㅇ”s, even though they don’t have satellite equipment, were willing to fit in with our bulletin board atmosphere.

For example,

ㅇㅇ: I made a snowman too······.

ㅇㅇ: Incheon’s best snowman craftsman

ㅇㅇ: Snow Artist’s masterpiece “Untitled 0013”

They are moderate PaleNet friends who like to build snowmen and go along with the flow of the bulletin board.

Although I feel like people have become a bit more toxic lately, this Park Gyu-do is also a true destructionist.

He was treated as a social misfit, mentally immature, and a failure in life, and was also treated unfairly in various private areas.

I don’t laugh out loud at the fact that people are dying in large numbers in Incheon, but I don’t feel any sympathy either. Well, it’s not like I can save them even if I try.

I think it’s just something that should have happened last year or the year before that is happening now.

Naturally, Park Gyu-do is also joining the snowman-making trend.

However, Park Gyu, who is sensitive to trends but also pursues his own identity, does not allow his pride to allow him to make an ordinary snowman like others.

I want a snowman that is a bit more unique and can get recommendations from other people.

However, it is extremely difficult for me to make an attractive snowman, as I have never made a snowman in my life except when I was young.

So I decided to introduce a new way of working that I had been thinking about for a while.

That’s right, it’s a visit to a foreign bulletin board.

With the return of Melon Mask, I think the winning strategy is to use the power of superior automatic translation to appreciate the masterpieces of bulletin board users around the world and “reinterpret” them in a Korean way.

I searched the keyword ‘snowman’ in regions where art is traditionally highly regarded, such as the United States, Canada, and Europe.

I found a few posts, but nothing really struck a chord with me.

What about Japan then?

It’s a nearby country, but not a very important one.

When the war began, they implemented a complete blockade policy, making it virtually non-existent, and the fact that the number of bulletin board users was significantly smaller than that of Korea also contributed to the lack of interest.

Judging from the information coming in, it seems that despite their splendid blockade policy, they are not well prepared for destruction.

If you look at the fact that half of the Gwandong Plain has been eroded and gangsters and warlords are running rampant.

Still, there are some useful articles.

About two years ago, I discovered a colorful post about snowmen by a user named H.Sawatari who lived in Hokkaido.

“······.”

Is this what it feels like to discover a Nodaji?

I felt a smile of conversion spread across my lips as I looked for something that could be easily “reinterpreted.”

Although it’s not a snowman, the snow rabbit is easy to follow, cute, and looks well-made.

It’s perfect as a first work.

Meanwhile, H.Sawatari has not posted any more since his last post a year and a half ago about having a stomachache.

The current temperature is minus 15 degrees.

It’s gotten a little cold, but it’s still warm compared to -30 degrees.

I decided to set up my workshop in a place where it was difficult to specify my area and started making a snowman.

But the atmosphere around me today isn’t very good.

There are a number of drones hovering over the airport.

I think it’s King’s gang that attacked the airport before, but I guess they’ll just hang around for a day or two and then disappear.

I observed the sky with observation equipment, but there was no such thing as a high-altitude drone.

Even if there were, it wouldn’t be enough to stop my passion.

While keeping an eye on the airport, make a round shape by cupping the snow around your eyes, then press down on the surface with your hands as if you were molding pottery to shape it.

According to H.Sawatari’s advice, the trick is to keep the shape of a water drop.

Once you have created the appropriate droplet shape, it is time to get your clay hands to work.

As a skilled carpenter, I am quite handy with a trowel.

There were many trials and errors and a time of severe learning, but my stenciling is so precise and detailed that even the craftsmen are amazed.

With that precision, he perfectly shapes the rabbit with his clay hands.

Swish swish- swoosh~

It feels good.

Create a mouth with a delicate touch, ears with two frozen camellia leaves, and eyes with similarly frozen red thornbush berries.

Finally, I take a step back, fold my arms, and admire my work.

“······.”

I made it, but it’s perfect.

A perfect “reinterpretation” of H.Sawatari’s work.

Click-

I took pictures from different angles, ran to the bunker, and uploaded them.

SKELTON: (Skeleton Art) “Untitled 1972”

I wonder what kind of reaction there will be.

Anonymous 458: Oh, cute.

Anonymous 1311: That’s pretty good on the skeleton topic.

There are two comments.

That’s a pretty friendly response for a Nazi.

As expected, a message arrived for Da-jeong.

Message from SeamonkeyPAPA: What is that? Is that made by a skeleton? Isn’t it cute?

SKELTON: It’s been a while since I showed off my skills.

I wanted to briefly say hello to Da-jeong, but now I am an artist, not an ordinary skeleton.

I’m sending a message that it’s worth living and I’ll tell the story when the time comes.

It won’t be too late to listen to the story.

In fact, even while exchanging short messages with Da-jeong, several additional comments were posted.

Yeah : So cute

-Comment from a blocked user-

rokaGG: Did you make it yourself?

ㅇㅇ: Where have I seen this before······

Add 4 comments.

One is Diesirae.

Anyway, this is not the end.

Foxgames: Oh, a snow rabbit? I saw it at the Hokkaido Snow Festival.

Berkut_break: Our concepts overlap?

mmmmmmmmm : Hmm……..

gijayangban : ?

The comments keep coming.

The number of recommendations shows no signs of increasing from 2, but in fact, the number of comments is more important than the number of recommendations to gauge the popularity of a post.

Because people tend to click on things that have a lot of comments.

Based on my experience writing popular posts several times, receiving this many comments early on means that there is a very high chance that the post will become popular.

But we shouldn’t be satisfied with just this much.

I looked at a collection of H. Sawatari’s works saved in the snowman folder and thought about my next work.

After about an hour of brainstorming for a “reinterpretation” I clicked on my post.

There were a couple more comments.

But that’s all.

It didn’t make it to the popular posts.

I wonder if it was a little lacking to become a popular article.

Anyway, it’s my first work and honestly, it’s not that great of a work.

I guess I can just post it in the popular posts from the next work.

Anyway, I wonder what kind of snowmen my competitors are making. I clicked on the popular posts section.

Among the numerous snowman articles, one unusual article stands out.

It’s not about snowmen.

Hwang Dae-seop: Hello? Losers?

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A photo is attached.

I clicked on the text.

A man in his 50s who looks unwell at first glance took a selfie against the backdrop of a shabby residential building that looked shabby at first glance.

This face.

That’s right.

This is the Hwang Dae-seop we know.

We, the ones who mocked the abolitionists louder than anyone else.

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Every genre has an expiration date.

The gag genre is one of them.

Gag shows that once made countless viewers laugh have disappeared as times have changed, just like Western films.

There are various analyses, but I agree with the assessment that their humor code is too old-fashioned to keep up with the increasingly harsh world.

Hwang Dae-seop, a one-time comedian, was different from others.

We sought a way to survive by changing old sensibilities into modern sensibilities.

The new code that Hwang Dae-seop was aiming for was the doomsday ideology that was criticized and ridiculed by many people at the time.

As expected, “My Neighbor’s Destruction” received an unprecedented response from the very first episode.

There are plenty of people who have criticized our doomsday theorists, who are hated by everyone but are legally harmless and, moreover, who would be superior to them if the world really were to end.

This is because Hwang Dae-seop was the first person to openly give a shit on public broadcasting.

Naturally, Hwang Dae-seop was the public enemy of our destructionists.

Every time he taunted us, our ratings plummeted.

Some doomsday activists have confessed to having unforgettable and horrifying experiences of being stalked by children imitating Hwang Dae-seop’s voice.

As always, such a hit soon spawns countless copycats.

Hwang Dae-seop, who had ideas but lacked the basics, soon became one of the many mockers of doomsday.

It’s true that he made a lot of money and had a second heyday by mocking us.

It is also probably true that he truly hated us.

As the war broke out and the world entered a period of destruction, the name Hwang Dae-seop was gradually forgotten.

If he were alive, he would have revealed himself, but I haven’t heard any stories of him appearing.

There are stories that famous celebrities have gone to Jeju Island, but the general opinion among our bulletin board users is that it is unlikely that it was Hwang Dae-seop.

There’s no way Jeju Island would invite him, who only has the talent to make people laugh with just one idea.

Even the doomsayers he ridiculed went from mockery and contempt to envy and jealousy.

Hwang Dae-seop had already gone down in history and was now considered a dead man, soon to be forgotten in our memories.

The dead comedian appears in the Hall of Destructionists – Viva! Apocalypse!, three years after the war broke out.

As you can see from the Korean nickname, you connected from Palenet.

There is one thing I am curious about.

What on earth is the intention?

Why has the man who slandered us so viciously shown up now?

dongtanmom: Yum yum… what is this unheard of…. Yum yum…..

Let’s ignore Dongtan Mom’s comment.

He is a bulletin board user, but he is not a doomsday person.

In fact, despite the shocking appearance of Hwang Dae-seop, none of the doomsday activists, including myself, have left any comments.

Although he is thinner than in his prime, has a sickly look, looks dirty, and wears rags, Hwang Dae-seop is still Hwang Dae-seop.

The moment we saw that face with those precious eyes, we were reminded of the ill feelings we had before the war.

Amid the cold disregard of bulletin board users, Hwang Dae-seop wrote a new post.

Hwang Dae-seop: I made a snowman too, you losers lol

Hwang Dae-seop revealed a photo.

The outdoors has turned darker than white.

It probably looks like a roadside with people and vehicles passing by.

There is something particularly white in the center of it all.

It had the shape of a human being.

It’s a snowman.

But in many ways, it wasn’t what we’re talking about as a snowman.

He is a person.

It just covered the people with cold snow.

Beneath the cold photo of a corpse, presumably that of a woman, was a comment written by Hwang Dae-seop.

Hwang Dae-seop: Title – Wife

End

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(Main comments)

(Yeoncham***) -Recommendation93-

The ending of the episode is in sight… Skeleton is in a state of sentimentality after the incident involving the comedian.

When I logged onto the bulletin board, I saw a post disparaging the “reinterpretation” under the name [Skeleton Snow Rabbit xxx Parkuri One Sniper]

The beginning and end of the fury of the key

(infr***) -Recommendation68-

I don’t know about other guys, but I don’t think you can describe Skeleton as ‘unfair’.

Borrowing money with the intention of not paying it back is the worst of the worst, and then calling it unfair lol

(point***) -Recommendation 60-

It’s not a scam. It’s just following the teacher’s instructions.

(Home***) -Recommendation52-

It’s not that Daeseop doesn’t understand the topic and criticizes the destructionists.

It seems like he’s making his final satire by criticizing ‘the stupid self who couldn’t foresee destruction’… Am I the only one who feels that way?

(Hot***) -Recommendation 12-

sad

(hfk**) -Recommendation10-

Actually, when I saw the title, I thought there would be snowmen made out of corpses.

(ers***) -Recommendation7-

Surely they’re catching people. Surely China wouldn’t launch a nuke? Surely they wouldn’t kill me?

(SIN****) -Recommendation 2-

It’s been a while since the apocalypse, but people with flower heads keep showing up.

Could this also be an expression of the hope that flowers will never wither?