Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 170
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Episode 170
keystone: What if someone shows up next to your bunker and builds a little house there, and they’re not looters or thugs, they’re decent, harmless people.
Let’s just say there’s no such thing as attractive young women. But those people are building their homes right next to your bunker. You have weapons, and they don’t.
How should we act in this situation? What is the right answer?
Keystone has posted for the first time in a long time.
He said the reason he couldn’t post for a while was because of his neighbors.
He had a strangely large number of neighbors living around him, and this time, he had to watch out for new neighbors.
They barely managed to survive with only minimal heating until they froze to death.
It is said that he once risked his life by going out of a bunker to turn on a generator and even started a forest fire.
Could this really be considered the seasoned behavior of an old-time user?
Keystone is an original bulletin board user whose number is decreasing, but who is not on good terms with me.
The original bulletin board users are those who signed up for Star Obelisk rental and Viva! Apocalypse! membership contracts before the war and paid a large sum of money of over 200,000 won per month.
It’s unfortunate, but the number of original bulletin board users is decreasing every day.
“New influx of users who have bartered for satellite equipment or acquired it through other means are filling the gap, but they cannot share the same sensibilities as the original bulletin board users.
Because we are doomsday people to the core and we put our beliefs into action.
Before the war, we talked and debated numerous methodologies and plans for dealing with destruction.
Anyone who is a regular bulletin board user has probably had the experience of staying up all night and engaging in a heated discussion.
Keystone brought up a topic that made him feel nostalgic for the old days.
In fact, the issue he brought up was a story that was concluded a long time ago.
The answer is to kill.
Being invisible to others – low visibility – is the greatest virtue of our doomsdayers.
Having someone right next to you not only greatly harms your visibility, but also runs the risk of that person attracting other predators or other dangerous things.
Even if they are unarmed right now, you shouldn’t ignore them.
You never know when an acquaintance of that person, an armed acquaintance at that, might show up.
Moreover, in the Age of Destruction, most contact with neighbors ends in destruction.
You can tell just by looking at how long it took Rebecca and I to become close.
It is also a relationship that was established because of my one-sided offer of help.
If you don’t have that kind of determination or space, it would be wiser to give up on making neighbors.
Finally, the opponent is unarmed.
They say it’s easy to kill.
People with guns and people without guns are completely different creatures.
No matter how strong a person is, how good he is at using his fists, how courageous he is, and how he has killed people, all of that is a good thing.
In a time of destruction, if a neighbor has more to lose than to gain, and is unarmed and easy to kill, there is no need to hesitate.
Helpfully, Keystone even added the caveat that there is no such thing as “a young woman with charm” to ease our worries.
People with the sexual appeal of young women are cruel, but they have a different value from ordinary people, so they cannot be put on the same level.
Well, to a cold-blooded person like Defender, they’re all just one person.
Anyway, Oldbee users were excited and left comments because they were happy to see the long-awaited issue brought up by Keystone.
mmmmmmmmm: This is a problem I’ve seen a long time ago.
berkut_break : I remember you trolling on this topic
Anonymous 424: So you concluded that killing was the right answer?
Anonymous 458: Yeah
-Comment from a blocked user-
DOLSINGMAN: I lowered the difficulty by removing the young woman.
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I was thinking about leaving a comment, but since I was already famous, I didn’t feel the need to show off my old-timey side here, so I didn’t leave a comment.
But Old Bee wasn’t the only one who commented on Keystone’s article.
Anonymous 1311: Can’t we just live together?
Before the war, the numbers following anonymity did not exceed four digits.
That is, any anonymous nickname that is currently longer than four digits is either someone’s sub-account or a new user.
Anonymous 1311 is a representative example of a new user.
Even though they are all Viva! Apocalypse! users, there is a subtle, invisible wall between our original bulletin board users and new users.
Historically speaking, this is a natural trend.
There have been several unfortunate incidents of satellite equipment being stolen.
The scholar incident, which has now become half a legend, is one of them.
The raiders who were active in the early days of the war either abandoned our satellite equipment – the obelisks – without knowing what they were for, or dismantled them and sold them to junk shops.
As PaleNet opened and Viva! Apocalypse’s existence became known to the rest of the world, our satellite equipment and accounts were traded at quite high values.
Of course, the satellite equipment being traded belongs to a dead or murdered bulletin board user.
This means that it may have been a relationship where we just exchanged words in passing or left a comment or two in the past.
In the first place, it is not true that we treat a person who is not a doomsday activist as a user of the same bulletin board as us just because he uses the equipment of a friend who died on the bulletin board.
It’s something that you can understand with your head, but it’s difficult to accept with your heart.
The most common form of discrimination that old-timers show to new users is ignorance.
If a comment is left, he will respond to an old user he knows, but if a new user leaves a comment, he will not respond at all.
This is true even for this Keystone article.
I tried to express my opinion, but no one answered anonymous 1311’s question.
Actually, this is not the only time.
The reason I remember anonymous 1311 is because this guy, a newbie, is very active.
The fact that newbies are very active means that they have been ignored and treated coldly by oldbies.
This skeleton also once had no comments, but that and anonymous1311 not having any comments are completely different issues.
If the former did not comment because he was jealous of this skeleton or because he did not sympathize with what I wrote,
The latter means that regardless of the content of the article, people did not even click on the article because they had a preconceived notion that it was a four-digit anonymity, that is, a person they were seeing for the first time.
But Anonymous 1311, perhaps because of his durability or perhaps because of his different way of thinking than ours, continues to raise his head and ask questions despite being ignored so many times.
But I’m not sure if I’m being too dull, so I’ve been writing articles that recognize reality more often these days.
Anonymous 1311: Why isn’t anyone commenting…?
Naturally, there were no comments on the article criticizing his situation.
Instead, new posts with a nuance that targets that article are uploaded.
dongtanmom: Yum yum…. Do you have no sense, no concept, or both… Yum yum…..
In fact, the worst quality type is the intermediate imported seed like Baek Seung-hyun.
If you look closely, these people are also part of the influx, but they oppress the influx that came later even more viciously.
If you were to say that m9 is second to none when it comes to newbie oppression, it would be sad.
Anonymous 1311: Whenever the same user appears, there is a word he always says.
mmmmmmm: Don’t you think there are a lot of pings on the bulletin board these days?
Pingpong.
Short for Finger Princess, it refers to a malicious newbie who appears on game bulletin boards and asks questions because they can’t be bothered to lift a finger when they know all the information they need with just a little searching.
M9 used the word “ping” a lot when it came to new users, putting silent pressure on them.
mmmmmmmmm: Ah, there it is again.
Anonymous 1311, who had been holding back from Dongtan Mom’s sarcasm, seemed hurt by m9’s words.
Anonymous 1311: I’m not a pump…….ㅠ
For some reason, a unicorn commented on that post.
unicorn18 : ?!
What did you detect?
Anyway, the problematic PingP posted a question again.
Anonymous 1311: (Please reply!) Why is there no one living on a deserted island? Isn’t a deserted island the safest place?
“······.”
I heard that this Park Gyu was a cold person, but he was not the type of person to judge or discriminate against people based on external factors.
When I was a professor, all I saw was ability.
Of course, it is true that character is also included in that ability, but that character is only sufficient to satisfy the obedience, cooperation, and courage required to carry out the mission.
No matter how dirty and messy my private life was, or whether I was suspected of killing civilians, it was of no concern to me.
Now I am just a named user skeleton and not a professor, but I think some of the fair and impartial rhythm from back then still remains.
And isn’t this guy cute?
Added a header.
Most likely, it was influenced by this skeleton.
That little gesture moved me.
SKELTON : ······.
A precious body commented in a shabby place.
It gives off an atmosphere like that of a reclusive mystic.
As expected.
Anonymous 1311: Skeleton?! Wow! A real skeleton?
You seem quite happy.
Well, I know because there was a time when I didn’t get any comments.
I’m talking about that feeling when, after a long time without any comments, I finally get one and want to run out barefoot to greet it.
I wrote a comment with a kind smile on my face without realizing it.
SKELTON: No one lives on a deserted island?
Anonymous 1311: Yeah, I want to know that! I’ve always wondered since I came here. Why is there so many people here, but no one lives on the deserted island?
SKELTON: (Skeleton Teacher) That’s right············.
For our anonymous 1311, this Park Gyu-ga gave a lecture after a long time.
Uninhabited island.
In some ways, it is the optimal survival environment.
Water may be a bit scarce, but it is isolated from the outside world, and with the technology, food can be obtained, and most importantly, it is virtually immune to the threat of monsters.
As far as I know, there are no monsters that come across the sea.
The water problem can be solved easily with the right machinery and knowledge, and some uninhabited islands even have potable springs.
Needless to say, sewage treatment is easy.
But why not a deserted island?
That’s because it’s an uninhabited island.
Uninhabited islands are essentially impossible to trade with.
In particular, it is said that the method of obtaining tools necessary for survival, such as weapons, is blocked at the source.
The island is isolated from the outside world, but is far from being a place of low visibility.
The limits of visibility at sea tend to converge to the curvature of the Earth.
The basic field of vision is said to be several tens of kilometers.
A single plume of smoke rising from the island can be seen and tracked from tens of kilometers away.
Even the island has no feet.
It’s always fixed in place and there’s not much room for confusion with other places.
If South Korea had uninhabited islands in the Pacific Ocean like Japan or the United States, I don’t know, but most of South Korea’s islands are adjacent to land. And they’re not that many.
To be precise, because it can be counted, it is more dangerous.
What could be the problem?
In the end, they are people.
A deserted island is nothing more than an easy prey for raiders on ships.
This is an issue that has already been resolved on our bulletin boards, along with the issue of unarmed people starting to build houses in our neighborhood.
In fact, there were warriors who set out from a deserted island at the beginning of the war, but they did not last more than a year.
Since it was extremely difficult to obtain weapons by pre-war standards, most of the doomsday fighters who started out on uninhabited islands were unarmed and later traveled by ship.
They were all but slaughtered by sea raiders armed with guns and bright lights.
What makes uninhabited islands even scarier is that, unlike on land, there is no concept of passing.
That you can count.
This is no different from each island being a specific object in itself.
My territory, which is included in the wasteland next to the US military base, has no properties.
Who will count the number of wastelands?
The island is different.
And the space is narrow and livable is limited.
Sea raiders visited every island, using drones and dogs to search for habitable places, locate them, kill them and plunder them.
If I remember correctly, there were people who lived in family units, so I don’t need to imagine what their fate was.
SKELTON: Well, maybe there are people who still live on uninhabited islands. But that person would live anywhere.
A deserted island might have been fine before the war, but in this day and age, it’s not a place I’d recommend.
I answered the newbie’s question while recalling past memories for the first time in a while.
Let’s see anonymous 1311’s reaction.
Anonymous 1311: I see······. (Convinced)
Anonymous 1311: Thanks Skeleton! Seriously. This is the first time I’ve been treated this kindly here! (wink)
What the heck, this guy?
I’ve been feeling this way for a while now, but your speech is a bit off.
Should I say that I’m pretending to be cute?
It wouldn’t be surprising if Unicorn 18 caused a stir.
SKELTON : ······.
Finally, after creating the atmosphere of a reclusive mystic once again, he left the question post of anonymous 1311.
It is a well-known fact that anonymous 1311 has been asking many questions since then.
It is also a well-known fact that the question was completely ignored.
But until then, no one knew who anonymous 1311 really was.
Then one day it happened.
I remember the day when the Incheon oil depot was attacked and black smoke rising into the sky was visible from my area.
Anonymous 1311 posted a new post.
Anonymous 1311: You guys are really cruel.
Anonymous 1311 attached a photo.
If it were an ordinary photo, the text would have been buried in the cold indifference like other articles written by Pingp so far.
But that photo is no ordinary photo.
The subject of the photo was a woman.
That too is very beautiful.
It can’t be helped.
The actress named Yeo Sa-yul was one of the top stars representing South Korea.
mmmmmmmmm : (M9 shivers) Wow, really, Ms. Yeo Sa-yul
dongtanmom : Yum?!
The ugly bastards who had been harassing Anonymous 1311 attempted to dock as if nothing had happened. Anonymous 1311 replied.
Anonymous 1311: Yeah. Sister. (wink)
By the way, Yeo Sa-yul is the same age as me.
Anyway, there were 10 comments on Yeo Sa-yool’s certification post.
You could say it’s a little.
But the number of views exceeded 3 thousand.
Even if it’s just over 100, it’s far beyond the average of many of our bulletin boards.
The problematic newbie posted a question before the shocking certification had even subsided.
Anonymous 1311: What is this?
“······.”
Perhaps Anonymous 1311 was destined to receive comments even without revealing his identity.
The thing in the photo is a grayish-white sphere
It’s a capsule.
End
ⓒ Road Warrior #dp8g
(Main comments)
(One Two**) -Recommendation91-
When the capsule appears, the professor is dispatched.
To collect new bulletin board recommendations…
(mord**) -Recommendation74-
The unicorn’s tip is accurate
(k314**) -Recommendation73-
What is the unicorn detection ability lol
(antimatter***) -Recommendation53-
If it’s Skeleton, it seems like he’s not going to see the actress’s appearance, but rather he’s going to go and clean up the capsule himself to capitalize on the fame of the famous 1311…
(Park Syoung**) -Recommendation 47-
Like Comment Notification Settings It’s good to see Skeleton, who set out to clean up the capsule after receiving a promise.
(Pseudo**) -Recommendation 40-
Ahh. It’s the turn of the Dog Slave Collector…
(Battlefield Dang***) -Recommendation 32-
It wasn’t Pinkfong, it was just Princess
(Seus**) -Recommendation 3-
Speaking of the island number baby in the comments below
What the author is trying to say is that although there are many islands, there is one island that is ultimately specific.
Even if it is specified that there are survivors on the uninhabited island, just as the construction workers at the beginning of the work specified the location of the bunker, the same goes for the uninhabited island.
Even if we just identify uninhabited islands where there is a record of goods being moved, the list of candidates is narrowed down significantly.
If you can reduce such risks by taking care of everything from moving to installing survival supplies with your own abilities, there is no need to install it on a deserted island.
Because it is more comfortable and perfect to build a living environment inland.
(Party*) -Recommendation 2-
Author, you were wrong this time.
Korea has the 4th largest number of islands in the world.
There are only 3,348 islands in total, of which 47 are inhabited, and the number is decreasing, so there are a lot of uninhabited islands, about 3,000.
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