Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 168



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Episode 168

Hwang Dae-seop: Why? Isn’t it fun? Isn’t it funny?

No one commented on Hwang Dae-seop’s “Wife”.

I didn’t even click recommend.

Those of us who have been on bulletin boards for a long time have no way of knowing the detailed intentions of the writer when we read a post, but we can tell whether it was written with good or bad intentions.

Hwang Dae-seop’s “wife” is the latter.

It was created solely with the intention of making us uncomfortable and making us see the truth that we are turning away from.

However, “the number of recommendations from my wife quickly increased.

PaleNet users sympathized with Hwang Dae-seop’s horrible work and forced the unsightly photo to become a popular post.

ㅇㅇ: It’s a bit spicy for a black comedy, but what can I do? This is reality.

ㅇㅇ: Since the terrorists started setting up, not only have we lost our rations, but also our electricity and heating.

Brake Dad: I also lost my second son last year. I was worried because he hadn’t eaten anything for two days in a row, but I hadn’t eaten anything for three days in a row. He died in his sleep.

ㅇㅇ: I’ve seen all sorts of things since the war started, but this is the most serious.

ㅇㅇ: This is modern art.

Viva! Amidst the ignorance of Apocalypse and the fervent following of Palenet, Hwang Dae-seop has uploaded his next work.

Hwang Dae-seop: Mother

The technique of the new work was the same as that of “Wife”.

They drag the body outside, pose it, and cover it with snow.

What makes it different from “wife” is that it exposes the hands.

The hand, with the index and middle fingers cut off, was covered in wrinkles that had been engraved over time despite its dark discoloration. Beneath the horrifying photo was a comment left by Hwang Dae-seop.

Hwang Dae-seop: Isn’t it fun? Huh?

Who would find this funny?

One thing is certain: since Hwang Dae-seop uploaded his work, snowman uploads on our bulletin board have stopped.

The bulletin board atmosphere is getting heavier and heavier, but if you put up a snowman in this situation,

The possibility of directly encountering the monster called Hwang Dae-seop seems to be what made people hesitant to upload.

Amidst the silence of bulletin board users, Hwang Dae-seop uploaded his third work.

Hwang Dae-seop: Father

Hwang Dae-seop’s third work itself was created using a technique completely different from his second work, “Mother.”

As before, our users did not comment.

In the end, the comments went back to PaleNet users as before, but for some reason, PaleNet users’ evaluations were not very good.

ㅇㅇ: As expected, a celebrity is a celebrity. It looks like you still live with your parents.

ㅇㅇ: Were you in a good shelter?

ㅇㅇ: I originally lived in Incheon, right? In the Songdo area.

ㅇㅇ: It was a decent life. Considering that I haven’t left my parents in the care of the pioneer group yet.

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When we look at it, there is no difference between Hwang Dae-seop and Palenet users, but anyone with even a passing interest in Incheon knows that there are ranks among the refugees in the city.

Even among the many refugees, Hwang Dae-seop seemed to have been relatively upper class.

They lived in warmer and safer places than others, ate better meals, used more electricity, and lived in places where even thug-like government agents could not touch them.

Maybe that’s why.

The third work also made it to the popular posts, but the number of views and recommendations was cut in half compared to the other works.

However, Hwang Dae-seop himself did not pay much attention to these evaluations.

Hwang Dae-seop: Isn’t it funny? Huh? Isn’t it so funny that you’ll burst out laughing? Huh? You loser bastards!

From the beginning, Hwang Dae-seop has been looking at us as a destroyer, and even now, he is only looking at us and continuing his provocative mockery.

I don’t really intend to take an antagonistic stance against this poor guy, but, you know,

I felt resentment.

It’s okay for PaleNet humans to give us a hard time, but it feels contradictory that someone like Hwang Dae-seop, who made money by insulting us, is forcing us to feel guilty.

It wasn’t just me who thought that, some users started counterattacking Hwang Dae-seop.

dongtanmom: Yum yum… If it’s that cold, instead of making a snowman, why don’t you burn it as firewood… It doesn’t burn well because it’s not oily? Yum yum…

The bulletin board named Dongtan Mom tried to provoke Hwang Dae-seop with her characteristically barbed language.

Defender: Do you want to die?

Defender, whose presence has recently faded but who still lives within the frame of a murderer, made a murder threat for the first time in a long time.

mmmmmmmmm: You should’ve come to Hope before your family was ruined. You idiot. Why? You don’t want to live in a place that’s tilted?

Another named m9 also contributed to the story.

I won’t judge what he says.

Anyway, when Park Gyu sees it, Dongtan Mom, Defender, and M9 all got the wrong number.

Hwang Dae-seop is a dying man.

Your heart must have been broken as much as your health.

To such a person, insults or threats would not be of much help.

I decided to counter Hwang Dae-seop in a different way.

It starts with a look at H.Sawatari’s snowman collection.

Like any other artist, H.Sawatari also names his works.

Among his works is one called “Girlfriend.”

The snowman was a woman with long hair wearing a blouse and skirt. Although only snow was used, it was a work of art that had a smooth surface and beautiful form reminiscent of a marble sculpture.

In the text, the author says he only used snow and water.

It was hardened by spraying water on the places where hardness was required.

“······.”

It’s not a work that’s easy for me to imitate with my current skills.

However, the level that our bulletin board demands is not as high as that of the past Sapporo Snow Festival.

Wouldn’t I be able to get the reaction I want if I just made something similar?

Swish swish—

That’s how I started reinterpreting it.

He hardened the foundation with water to create a large mass, and then used his hands and trowel to delicately recreate the cold, white granules into the shape of a woman.

After spending a whole day, I finished the piece.

“after······.”

Because the difficulty level is high, there are many sloppy places.

The face is particularly gruesome, with a head that resembles a panda rather than a woman.

But overall, it’s a snowman that looks like a woman.

I uploaded this to the bulletin board.

SKELTON: (Skeleton Art) “Wife”

The title is “Wife,” the same as Hwang Dae-seop’s first work.

This is most likely an intentional duplication.

If Hwang Dae-seop made a snowman by roughly covering his wife’s corpse (probably) with snow just to make us feel bad,

This skeleton’s “wife” embodies the universal beauty of a human woman using only natural objects: snow and water.

The title is the same, but the intention, result, and effort are all completely different.

My new work quickly became a popular post, and unlike Hwang Dae-seop, it received widespread praise from users of PaleNet and bulletin boards.

Anonymous 458: No, even a snail can roll. Skeleton has a talent for making snowmen.

ㅇㅇ: Is this guy the guy who got kicked out of the captain’s armband in one day?

Anonymous 1311: Hoo. That’s pretty tolerable.

Yeah: It’s a bit harsh.

tntn_Orthopedics : How did you get the load?

Anonymous 424: The face is weird, but the female body features are well captured.

ㅇㅇ: Didn’t Hwang Dae-seop just put people inside?

dongtanmom: Yum yum… hmm… are you sure you made this yourself…? Are you scamming someone else by making it your own? Yum yum….

rokaGG: Huh…? I’m sure I’ve seen this somewhere.

gijayangban : ?

“······.”

This is the expected result.

Enthusiastic response.

I see some malicious comments, but malicious comments are the fate of popular people.

Anyway, there is no need to worry about habitual malicious commenters like Dongtan Mom, because they will leave malicious comments no matter what you give them.

Of course, the most important thing is Hwang Dae-seop’s reaction.

The real intention behind the production of “My Wife” was to challenge Hwang Dae-seop.

However, Hwang Dae-seop did not respond.

But he must have seen my work too.

My “wife” didn’t release a new post in the 24 hours she was trending.

Maybe he stopped working because he had no more dead family members, but if it was that friend who habitually spewed barbed words at us, he would have said something.

But I don’t intend to end it here.

Despite the popularity of “Wife,” he immediately started working on his next new work.

Of course, my work begins with exploring H.Sawatari’s work.

Hwang Dae-seop’s “Isn’t there a work that can correspond to Mother?

There is one.

The work is called “The Witch Granny” and although the title is a bit pretentious, it is the only work dealing with an old woman and the difficulty level seems appropriate.

Wouldn’t it be okay if we just removed the pointy hat, which is like the trademark of the witch hag?

It immediately went into “reinterpretation”.

Unlike two days ago, there were no drones, but an unfamiliar mutation was wandering in the snowy field in the distance.

As the weather gets warmer, I wonder if this guy has started to forage.

It looks like a cat, but it’s not a cat.

A bit bigger and sturdier than a cat?

No way, is it a wildcat?

Although we never had to come this far anyway, we prepared two guns just in case and started working.

SKELTON: (Skeleton Art) “Mother”

In this new work, what I paid special attention to was the wrinkles and the agony of time revealed on the faces of old women.

Unfortunately, with my current skills, the result is nothing more or less than that of a witch hag, but it received great reviews on the bulletin board.

There are many compliments, but one that appears repeatedly is that he reminds me of my elderly mother.

In fact, most of our doomsdayers have abandoned their families.

There are some who prepared for destruction with their families, but as far as I know, they all died in the first year of the war.

Most of the rest lost their families, especially their parents, during the war.

No, maybe there are more cases where you cut your losses before losing them.

Anyway, after I released two consecutive hits, Vivabot also showed interest in me.

VIVA_BOT014: Is that really what Skeleton made?

It’s to the point where you can even have a private chat.

SKELTON: ? I made it.

VIVA_BOT014: Please authenticate me.

SKELTON : Image file .jpg

VIVA_BOT014 : Ah······ Really······?

SKELTON: Aren’t you going to pick the bulletin board manager again?

VIVA_BOT014: I won’t pick it.

“······.”

What a dishonest woman.

Anyway, the skeleton snowman series, which reinterpreted H. Sawatari’s work, became a huge hit.

It’s to the extent that it blows away all the bad feelings from the past armband incident.

Of course, I know very well that this success was possible because there was an antithesis called Hwang Dae-seop.

In other words, the antipathy towards Hwang Dae-seop fueled this skeleton’s popularity.

If it weren’t for Hwang Dae-seop, the Skeleton Snowman series would not have become so popular.

While Park Gyu was heralding his second heyday, Hwang Dae-seop broke his long silence and released a new work.

Hwang Dae-seop: Son

To briefly describe the piece, a dead boy who could not become an adult is thrown onto the road and snow is poured over him.

He is holding a pair of basketball shoes, which appear to have been his favorite during his lifetime, in his bare hands, visible from his eyes.

As always, Hwang Dae-seop did not forget to challenge us at the end of his work.

Hwang Dae-seop: Isn’t it fun? Huh? Why aren’t you laughing? Why aren’t you laughing? Isn’t this what you guys wanted?

Hwang Dae-seop probably didn’t use the Internet much.

As is often the case with older people, he seems to have lived comfortably within the world he knows, even if he feels aversion to new things and is somewhat uncomfortable.

Is that why?

He doesn’t know the workings of the Internet very well.

Tautology is not popular.

“Wife” was shocking, but he repeated the same repertoire three times, using the same blasphemous material that was not aesthetically pleasing but frowned upon.

Perhaps the material for his latest work was heavier than any other material for Hwang Dae-seop, but the public’s evaluation was harsh.

“Son” didn’t even get the usual compliments from PaleNet users, let alone being a popular post.

Conversely, the one who had high expectations was Park Gyu-da.

Message from Defender: Skeleton! Looks like you’re doing well! So, when are you releasing your new game?

SKELTON: New work?

Defender: My son. My son.

He is my son.

Can we do this one more time?

It feels good to be featured on popular posts, get tons of comments, and get compliments.

To be honest, I haven’t been able to think of anything like Rebecca and Defender lately.

“······hmm.”

Should we do it one more time?

There is also some good material available.

This is H.Sawatari’s “Baby Angel”.

If you just give Baby Angel wings and a pepper, he’s a son.

Swish swish-

Reinterpretation start.

Already a professional snowman artist, I was able to create a fairly high-quality new piece in just three hours.

SKELTON: (Skeleton Art) “Son”

Well, I won’t bother to write down each reaction.

Roughly speaking, it’s enthusiastic.

Is this what it feels like to be a star?

Why didn’t I become an idol?

But there is one comment that I am concerned about.

rokaGG: This… is it a direct copy of something a Japanese person made?

Locajiji?

I’ve never heard of this user, but he’s one of the malicious users who brought down my idol, Jon Nae-non.

Why are you still alive?

It’s sad to see bulletin board users disappear, but I hope that Lokaji will disappear quickly and watch Hwang Dae-seop’s reaction.

There is no response.

After the failure of “Son”, Hwang Dae-seop did not post anything.

Meanwhile, Dongtan Mom, the leader of malicious comments, did not stop attacking Hwang Dae-seop.

dongtanmom: Yum yum… Are there no family left to leave behind? Should we recycle? Yum yum…..

He’s still a bad guy.

My nose is three inches thicker than that.

A message was sent to me by a forum user.

Message from rokaGG: Japanese message board user H. Sawatari – Honoka Sawatari CH. Is that where you copied it from?

“······!!”

Locajiji.

This piece of trash is threatening me.

Message from rokaGG: When you say something nice, you blow it. You imitate me and then you fall down and do the same thing.

I have been struggling and worrying about what to do in this new situation, but I can’t find an answer.

Finally, it was time to give long-distance counseling to Da-jeong.

Hwang Dae-seop uploaded a new work.

Hwang Dae-seop: Me

End

ⓒ Road Warrior #dp8g

(Main comments)

(Yoo**) -Recommendation 66-

But it’s not even a work of art, and it’s something to be criticized for copying the shape of a snowman ㅋㅋ

(Im Chang**) -Recommendation 51-

I didn’t pick up the snowman from somewhere, I made it myself, so why is it an issue if I copied the snowman…?

(Star***) -Recommendation 51-

I reinterpreted it and made it myself

Lotus, punish rokaGG severely..

(One Two**) -Recommendation 50-

Mr. Hwang Dae-seop, where did you store the bodies of your family members? They keep coming out like oysters.

You’re not making it by killing people live, are you?

(Cher**) -Recommendation 48-

Is this something you can be threatened with for imitating a snowman? LOL That guy seems to have never been on the internet

(antimatter***) -Recommendation 43-

Now it is time for the likeable and plagiaristic Skeleton to die and for Professor Park Gyu to be born.

(Yogurt**) -Recommendation 39-

Why should I be looked down on just because I made an identical snowman?

If you made a 3D sculpture, not a 2D tracing for an internet post, then you’re just a genius lol

Anyone who sees it would think it’s an official competition with prize money.

(now**) -Recommendation 25-

It’s not Hwang Dae-seop’s real family, but it looks like someone else’s body… A body that was killed directly

(redra***) -Recommendation16-

The snow rabbit is just so common that it would have been overlooked, but the ones after that seem to be counterfeit works with only some props removed.

Wouldn’t it be okay to just admit that what you post on the Internet is a fake?

If you don’t admit it, it’s a problem…lol

(Eupgong***) -Recommendation 15-

If you think about the imagination of attaching a rocket to an axe, Skeleton is really uncreative lol

(SSF***) -Recommendation 10-

The readers are also shocked by the skeleton fuss lol

(Ranmal****) -Recommendation 10-

Why are you nitpicking over a “reinterpretation” of a snowman… Let’s just leave our skeletons happy ㅜ

(Story***) -Recommendation 4-

Asking if I’m going to vote for the bulletin board manager is really unscrupulous ㅋㅋㅋㅋ