Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 169



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Episode 169

A man buried in snow took a selfie.

The man stared at us with his eyes dead, his face covered with snow like a snowman. His last words were replaced with comments.

Hwang Dae-seop: Why aren’t you laughing anymore?

It was the end of a comedian who was popular for a time.

Bulletin board users who had continued to tacitly ignore Hwang Dae-seop only then began to mention him.

There wasn’t a single positive note.

Here, let’s borrow the words of the Dongtan mom with the worst personality on our bulletin board.

dongtanmom: Yum yum… She keeps her mouth shut and looks like she’s going to be the one to get her family to leave and then herself to leave, so she’s struggling to make herself feel dirty… But what do you want me to do…

What if one of those guys dies? LOL Yum yum….

Although there may be differences in degree, the thoughts of other users are probably no different from those of Dongtan Mom in the big picture.

We’ve already seen so much death and tragedy.

He was also subjected to character assassination attacks,

It seemed like the story of Hwang Dae-seop, the main character of “The Destruction of the Neighborhood,” was going to end like that.

But I’d like to expand on that story a bit.

The impetus was provided by the artistic duel that followed.

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SKELTON: I just reinterpreted it?

I am different from John Nae-non.

What can I say, as a “disciple”, this Park Gyu always has the quality of a “younger man than his older brother”. It means that no matter who he learns from, he becomes a better disciple than that person.

Jang Gi-yeong and Jon Nae-non are no exception.

He may not have achieved such immortal feats, but he is more resilient, wise, and shameless as a human being.

If John Nae-non had as much face plate as I do, he would have stayed on our bulletin board. Then he wouldn’t have had to create PaleNet.

Anyway, after thinking carefully about what to do with rokaGG, who has been continuously threatening me, I decided to confront him with dignity. Of course, I didn’t forget to ask for advice from those around me.

Message from seamonkeyPAPA: Here? It’s pretty livable. You know that dentist from before? He’s here too.

It’s been a long time since I’ve contacted Da-jeong.

As soon as she saw my concerns, she spoke frankly.

Message from seamonkeyPAPA: It’s not that bad. You could reference the snowman from the person who died two years ago. You made the skeleton yourself, right?

SKELOTN: Well, there are circumstances that make it impossible to push things forward that easily.

It’s not that I didn’t think the same thing as Da-jeong.

But my desire for more perfection held me back.

For example, in the case of “Wife,” the author’s comment was added below the photo of the work.

-I am single, so I created this piece solely from my imagination. It was difficult. How should I express and structure my imaginary wife?

Creating a single image from countless images was as painful as giving birth to a child. (continued)

A similar author’s comment was added to “Mother”.

-I tried to express the material called time with my eyes. It was by no means easy. There was a great deal of agony and distress.

The idea came to me out of nowhere like a comet! I tried a technique that no one had tried before… (continued)

Message from searnonkeyPAPA: Why on earth would you write something like that…?

SKELTON: As it turned out.

Yes, that’s right.

If I had just uploaded a photo, I wouldn’t have been manipulated by Rokaji like this.

My meticulous consideration in adding commentary to the work ended up putting me in a difficult position.

Message from seamonkeyPAPA: You should have just been a little more blunt. You should have just written something that would be on an old man’s blog that no one reads.

SKELTON

: ······.

Message from seamonkeyPAPA: What can I do with this? Just call it a belly. What can I do? It’s not going to get any worse than the skeleton image anyway.

Although I disagree with Da-Jeong’s thoughts about my reputation, I decided to take her advice.

Let’s go strong.

In any case, this is a world where only the strong survive.

I think the same goes for the Internet.

Isn’t the Internet a mirror of the world?

So I chose to tackle Rokajiji’s challenge head on.

SKELTON: I just “reinterpreted” it. Okay, let’s say I did it a million times over. Can you do the same?

Unlike my role model, I acted boldly.

RokaGG didn’t reply, seemingly surprised by my wild response.

It was a day later that he messaged me again.

Message from rokaGG: Yeah

The moment I saw that message, I burst out laughing.

What kind of confidence is that?

Do you think making a snowman is child’s play?

It may be child’s play, but art that I create with my eyes is not something that just anyone can do.

You need to know the properties of the fleeting flower called snow, the skill to mold it like clay, an aesthetic sense of form, and patience for the cold.

Message from rokaGG: Then let’s have a go with “Pieta”, the most difficult of Sawatari Honoka’s works. It’s hard, so I’ll give you 3 days. After 3 days, I’ll upload it on the bulletin board and get it evaluated. If I win, I’ll apologize on the bulletin board.

SKELTON: (Skeleton questions) What if I win?

Message from rokaGG: I don’t think that will happen… but I’ll grant you one wish.

SKELTON: (Skeleton dumbfounded) Do you think you can fulfill my wish?

Message from rokaGG: Oh, I’ll do as you say on the bulletin board.

SKELTON: If you lose, you become my recommended slave.

And so began an unexpected artistic duel.

Pieta.

It is literally a visual copy of Michelangelo’s famous work of the same name.

I also consider Pieta to be the best among the many works of the Japanese, but the problem is the difficulty level.

H.Sawatari expressed with his eyes something that is difficult to make even with clay.

Three days is not a long time at all.

But I have endless time to kill and the experiences I have gained from my creative work so far.

For people like us who are in exile with no end in sight, it is a blessing to be able to focus on something.

Not counting the time.

Focusing and creating something in the midst of nothingness.

If the fruits of your labor can be rewarded with applause, that would be even better.

The three days passed quickly.

I see my finished product.

“······.”

To be frank, it didn’t even reach half the level of perfection of the original.

The face of Jesus Christ had blurry eyes, nose, and mouth like a monster, and the Virgin Mary resembled a panda, just like her “wife.”

Above all, I was concerned about recreating the crown of thorns of Jesus Christ.

How can you make such a sharp texture?

Inevitably, the crown of thorns had to be omitted in a lumpy manner.

SKELTON: (Skeleton Art) “Pieta”

Yet I do not think of my defeat.

Because I’ve never seen anyone better than me

But it is also true that there is a bit of uneasiness in my heart.

Lokajiji, that unknown person wouldn’t have challenged me without any basis.

Right after I uploaded my work, Locaji uploaded his own work as if he had been waiting for it.

rokaGG : Pieta

“?!”

The moment I saw Rokajiji’s Pieta, I reconfirmed H.Sawatari’s Pieta.

I did not steal the photo.

This is a work by Rocajiji.

The sentiment is simple.

This won’t work.

The game doesn’t work.

Rokajiji has recreated H.Sawatari’s snowman almost 100% perfectly.

The sorrowful expression of the Virgin Mary, the agony of the dying Jesus Christ, and even the image of the crown of thorns that I had so much trouble with.

Compared to Rocaji’s, my Pieta was nothing more than a cheap Chinese imitation.

In this moment of crisis, I acted quickly.

“······.”

Click

Removed Skeleton’s Pieta.

It’s a half-beat quick action to leave the stage before going up to the execution stand.

Message from rokaGG: ? Where did the skeleton pieta go?

SKELTON: What are you talking about?

Message from rokaGG: Pieta, you know. Pieta.

SKELTON: Paella? Looks delicious.

Message from rokaGG: No, I just uploaded it. (Skeleton art) Okay.

SKELTON: ?

Message from rokaGG: Did you delete it in advance because you thought it wouldn’t work out? Looks like you have an eye for it.

Message from rokaGG: lol

Message from rokaGG: I’m majoring in sculpture lol

SKELTON : Slowly

I don’t mind being ridiculed by Rokajiji.

I guess I am also worn out from it.

The important thing is that I won in the end.

rokaGG: I denounce Skeleton’s atrocities

He wrote a long article on Rokajiji, proudly criticizing my “reinterpretation.”

The reaction, however, was cold.

Anonymous 458: What are you talking about? We can copy some of the Japanese stuff. We’re not artists, so isn’t it meaningful? Why are you nitpicking like it’s some kind of big deal?

Ballantine: If you’re so good at it, why don’t you brag about it from the beginning? It’s not nice to see someone praising you and complaining about you when you think you’re so good.

dongtanmom: Yum yum… That kid was a total failure, but this kid is just as hopeless. Yum yum…

mmmmmmmmm: Honestly, my snowman is a bit more creative.

Anonymous 1311: What did Hwang Dae-seop do when he was alive?

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I lost in the artwork, but I won in public opinion.

Rocky knows how to criticize, but he doesn’t have the mental toughness I do.

Lokaji deleted his sniper post and Pieta without even the usual protest.

It is true that his Pietà is much better made than mine.

I won’t distort that fact.

The problem is intention.

The intention behind the installation of the Pietà by Rocaji was extremely impure.

Me and Hwang Dae-seop, who was spreading malicious comments on the bulletin board, clumsily reinterpreted the situation and made a snowman.

The difference between Rokaji and me, who made me into a snowman with the sole intention of sniping and humiliating me, is what brought about this result.

But even if the duel had continued, it would not have attracted much attention.

Hwang Dae-seop’s follow-up story has been posted.

A PaleNet user living near Hwang Dae-seop discovered Hwang Dae-seop and his family as snowmen, and investigated and organized the area around the house where he lived, posting the results on our bulletin board.

ㅇㅇ: The Songdo 3rd Shelter where Hwang Dae-seop was was a so-called hidden honey shelter where rich kids gathered, but it seems like the kids living there also joined the rebellion. Naturally, all rations were cut off.

ㅇㅇ: Looking at the tail, it looks like he can’t survive without rations. What can I do? I could just take off the wooden frame in the corner of the house and burn it, but since he didn’t burn anything, it looks like he wasn’t destined to live long.

ㅇㅇ: I think he started posting on your bulletin board after his family members died one by one and he was left alone.

ㅇㅇ: Oh, and there was a will.

The will of Hwang Dae-seop, revealed by anonymous PaleNet user “ㅇㅇ”, contains the following in one line:

-Why isn’t anyone laughing?

The moment I saw that note, for some reason I remembered the content of Hwang Dae-seop’s last comment.

Hwang Dae-seop, why aren’t you laughing anymore? / ㅁ

At the moment when his body and mind reached their limit and he was rushing towards death, his body would not have been able to move as he wished.

That typo is the present progressive form of death.

I interpreted the typo “/” as “?”.

Because we are in the same place.

This is a typo that occurs when you don’t press the shift or keyboard change key.

So what does the incomplete letter “ㅁ” mean?

Other people didn’t see much significance in the typo, but lately I’ve been obsessed with the concept of “intent.”

“······.”

I looked up the article written by Hwang Dae-seop.

He called us losers.

We felt a strong antipathy towards him and interpreted his series of actions as the curse of a dying man.

But Hwang Dae-seop asked in almost every post why people weren’t smiling.

In particular, I repeatedly asked why I wasn’t having fun.

It’s a strange thing.

If we don’t like something, we can just curse or swear at it.

There is no need to choose language that does not necessarily make you feel fun.

I recalled “The Destruction of the Neighborhood” that I watched on YouTube in the past.

The lackluster Myeolmyeo, played by Hwang Dae-seop, was a straightforward character who spoke through actions, not a complex character who gave us meaning and then received a response.

Destruction’s actions are one-dimensional.

What Hwang Dae-seop’s question may be is not a mockery or a curse, but a literal question about our inaction.

Meanwhile, Hwang Dae-seop’s will contains a short phrase asking, “Why is no one laughing?”

With this in mind, let’s analyze Hwang Dae-seop’s final intention.

The Hwang Dae-seop who greeted us with a selfie is not the real Hwang Dae-seop in my opinion.

He is not the comedian Hwang Dae-seop, but rather “Destruction Hwang Dae-seop” himself, who gave him a second heyday before the war.

Could it be said to be a combination of Myeolmyeol and Hwang Tae-seop?

His last snowman series is a gloomy epilogue to “Destruction of the Neighbor” played by “Destruction of the Neighbor”.

He thought that his own miserable fate itself was a joke that our doomsday activists could laugh at, and based it on that, he unfolded his final comedy.

The reason his comedy didn’t seem like comedy was probably because the reality he was facing was so dark.

Even the material that he thought would make him laugh couldn’t escape the pitch-black darkness that surrounded him.

Everyone misunderstood his true intentions.

In the midst of indifference colder than snow, Hwang Dae-seop died as a snowman.

So, I think the “ㅁ” is the unfinished form of the apology that Hwang Dae-seop sends to us.

Skeleton’s “Pieta” was re-uploaded to the bulletin board with a new title, “Hwang Dae-seop.”

Made some modifications.

He changed the face of Jesus Christ, wearing a fake crown, into a form similar to Hwang Dae-seop, and likewise, he changed the face of the Virgin Mary, made in a similar way, into a man-like form and added the word VIVA to the forehead.

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Unlike other works, this one did not have a single line of comment.

“Hwang Dae-seop” did not make it to the popular posts.

It’s a fitting tribute to a comedian who has long since ended and broken down in despair.

End

ⓒ Road Warrior #dp8g

(Main comments)

(31am*) -Recommendation69-

A guy who knows how to think this deeply is so annoying lol

(Che***) -Recommendation68-

Knowing how to remember someone who is so thoughtful and has passed away

Why on earth does the internet freak Skeleton have such a weird feeling… ㅠㅠ

(YoR**) -Recommendation 64-

It’s really a rock bottom reputation, so even if you go half and half, the other person gets cursed at lol

(OneTwo***) -Recommendation54-

If we delve into the concept of ‘intention of the parties’…

Even Rokajiji tried to go to the popular article by ‘discussing’ Sawatari’s snowman

Could it be that he was trying to look at the Dongjemuk Skeleton Goroshiro’s inscription while he was a little late?

(Red Rel***) -Recommendation 43-

Skeleton you idiot! Get out of the professor’s body!

(olr***) -Recommendation 43-

The skeleton’s deletion speed must have been faster than the professor’s axe.

(Gangrimju**) -Recommendation 41-

He was telling me to laugh at what he had become… just like he had laughed at the doomsday activists.

(Blue***) -Recommendation32-

I wonder how rokaGG will reappear. I’m getting more and more used to the bulletin board user nicknames and it feels strange to see them dying one by one.

(code***) -Recommendation 27-

Commonly found around guys like rokaGG.

They keep nitpicking and nitpicking, and they act like they are talking about justice when they are not.

But when it comes to the issues that really need to be addressed, they remain silent and indifferent.

(Thief**) -Recommendation 20-

Skeleton In this episode, Hwang Dae-seop and rokkGG, two people were caught…

The legend of the Skeleton King of Viva Apocalypse begins now.

(SSF**) -Recommendation 19-

Sharp judgment after seeing the other party’s estimate… Proof that there is still a professor inside the skeleton…

(Eupgong***) -Recommendation 18-

This article seems to be mainly about RokaGG rather than Hwang Dae-seop.

There are a lot of people on the internet who say things like RokaGG, but they’re anonymous.

If you just look at the YouTube comments, the aggression is no joke.

It’s not that Skeleton did well, but sometimes I wonder why they can’t catch others and get impatient.

Hwang Dae-seop… well, did he really want you to laugh??

(Sensei**) -Recommendation 15-

Skeleton Season 1 Viva Gallery wins the public opinion war against him ㅋㅋ

(Sun**) -Recommendation 15-

At the point where he has nothing to lose, he is considered a loser rokkaGG…

(Donggle***) -Recommendation 14-

He used aggressive language, calling me a loser.

It was a self-deprecating joke that made people laugh at their own failures and affirmed that the destruction was right.

(Balcon**) -Recommendation 13-

Hwang Dae-seop: Why isn’t anyone laughing? You crazy guys!

(Mar**) -Recommendation 12-

You have to post things like that to become popular…

(Calfran**) -Recommendation 11-

Slow down lol

(Yogurt**) -Recommendation 6-

His words and actions were too aggressive to be a joke, and too miserable to be an appeal.

Despite his sensational ideas before his downfall, his popularity quickly waned.

His last gag also ended in failure.

(qort**) -Recommendation 5-

I totally agree with the saying that killing time with something you can focus on is a blessing.

So I’m reading this piece.