Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 184



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Episode 184

86. Story (2)

VIVA_BOT014 : Yes?

There is one reason why I requested a conversation with Vivabot.

A while ago, I entered a story about my true experiences into a story contest for the Movie! Apocalypse! event.

Even though I wrote it, it’s an incredible story even when I think about it.

This is a true account of the great struggle in which this skeleton, with a handful of my teammates, held off an entire front line against an uncountable horde of monsters pouring in through the final defense line of Beijing.

It is such a legendary story that the highest authority in China soon thanked me personally.

But my story was rejected for some unclear reason.

VIVA_BOT014: Despite your passion, you were eliminated.

Well, if you have a better story than mine, I’ll accept it.

There are many people in this world, and there must be some who have had more dramatic experiences than me.

But the fact that someone like Dongtan Mom is beating me out is a separate issue.

dongtanmom: Yum yum… I passed the preliminaries… Yum yum… Well, I’ll pass the finals too… But don’t feel bad… I’m just too strong… Yum yum…

I was already heartbroken after hearing the notice of elimination, but seeing Dongtan Mom’s deception made me go crazy.

I immediately started talking to Vivabot.

SKELTON: What am I worse than Dongtan Mom?!

VIVA_BOT014: What is your intention with this question?

SKELTON: No, why is it okay for Dongtan Mom but not for me?

VIVA_BOT014: Because Dongtan Mom’s story is better.

SKELTON: ?

VIVA_BOT014: What? That reaction? You don’t think Skeleton-nim’s story is better than Dongtan Mom’s story, do you?

SKELTON: My story is 100% true and cross-checked, and it is possible that the Chinese people who were there at the time were alive.

VIVA_BOT014: I evaluated Skeleton’s story. Well, it’s not bad. It’s also good for visualization. The battles continue endlessly.

SKELTON: Isn’t that a good thing?

VIVA_BOT014: But can you call it a story where you only fight in a row?

SKELTON: ?

VIVA_BOT014: No, 21:13. Two dancer type machines appeared across the gamma line. Jeong Gwang-hyun complained of trauma and left it alone, and Kim Da-ram and I responded together, and both machines were defeated at 21:30. Same time 42 minutes. The battle had lasted over 48 hours, so stimulant administration was permitted only for team members who wanted it. Jeong Gwang-hyun and Son Jin-seop administered stimulants······.

SKELTON: Oh. You read it correctly.

VIVA_BOT014: Of course. It’s the story of the Golden Fleece. But, can you call Skeleton’s story a story?

SKELTON: Yes?

VIVA_BOT014: What Skeleton sent me was just a battle log.

SKELTON: Isn’t it nice and simple?

VIVA_BOT014: I don’t know why, but it seems like you keep feeling inferior to Dongtan Mom and m9. I’ll send you the two story files that made it to the finals. Take a look and compare them to Skeleton’s story.

The first thing that Vivabot sent was the story of Dongtan Mom.

This will be the story from my arrival in Shanghai, where I used to write stories here and there on the bulletin board, to the present.

I opened the file dryly and took in the contents.

-This is a story about how we lose our neighbors.

The strong catchphrase caught people’s attention.

I turned my gaze to Dongtan Mom’s story with a feeling of slight bewilderment and a familiar sense of defeat.

The story begins when Dongtan Mom – Baek Seung-hyun boards a giant tanker named Hope.

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The Hope, the flagship of the 2nd Jeju Evacuation Fleet, is a very large ship that was converted from an ULCC (Ultra Large Crude Carrier) class tanker that was under construction in Geoje Island for evacuation purposes.

It was a super-large ship measuring 380m long and 68m wide, which could fit four international standard soccer fields side by side. It was so large that it was impossible to dock at Incheon Port, so a separate docking facility was built.

The tanker has a carrying capacity of 450,000 tons, which is enough to easily carry twice the number of Busan citizens.

The number of people on board this huge ship is officially 200,000, but Baek Seung-hyun thinks it’s less than 100,000.

Baek Seung-hyun recalled that on the day the Hope Ship set sail, there was a familiar yet unfamiliar air flowing inside the ship.

“A high society social gathering? No, it was something like that, but a little more vulgar. One thing was certain, there was a sense of complicity that we were better than those left behind on land. I can say that for sure.”

There is no need to elaborate on what the people on the ship heading to Jeju Island, the island everyone longed for, were thinking of those who were not able to do so.

But even within the same ship, there were things like rank and precedence.

The rank was clearly displayed as the class of the cabin currently occupied.

There are five class levels of rooms on the Hope Ship.

Special room – 1st class – 2nd class – 3rd class – Free room.

Baek Seung-hyun recalled that he didn’t know much about the special room.

“I only heard that there were people, but I had no way of knowing who exactly was in the special cabin and what kind of people they were. The Hope had strict compartmentalization by cabin class, and no one was allowed to invade those compartments.”

Baek Seung-hyun – cunningly – placed another narrator and questioner in the story, Vivabot014.

Vivabot014 asked Baek Seung-hyun a question.

“Even if the Incheon government estimates 200,000 people, and Dongtan Mom estimates 100,000 people, is it possible to control all of those numbers by cramming them into one ship?”

Baek Seung-hyun snickered and asked back at Vivabot014’s question, which suddenly intervened in the play.

“Why do we need to control it?”

“?”

“Even if you don’t necessarily control it, if you just set a level, it will automatically discriminate and control.”

The cabin that Baek Seung-hyun rode in was first class.

That would have been possible thanks to the help of this skeleton.

But on this ship, the cabin class wasn’t just about location on the ship.

The quality of the rooms is directly linked to the quality of the destination, Jeju Island.

I don’t know much about Jeju Island because I don’t live there, but it is said that the residential areas in Jeju Island are divided into five types based on the size of the house, surrounding infrastructure, and quality of life.

Special zone – Zone 1 – Zone 2 – Zone 3 – Reception zone.

It is said that this zone rating is directly linked to the room rating.

That is, people in first class will go to the first-class section, and people in second class will go to the second-class section.

Meanwhile, the people in the free room seem to be heading to the holding area.

To help you understand, let’s take an example: Zone 1 provides housing with a supply area of ​​84 square meters, called national standard, and a high level of welfare, while Zone 2 provides housing with an area of ​​59 square meters and an intermediate level of welfare.

Zone 3 is said to be a residential area, but it is not much different from a goshiwon, and the housing is cramped and lacks welfare, and the reception area is said to have an environment not much different from a shelter in Incheon.

As the ranks on board continued to extend to land, it was only natural that close interactions would develop between the people on board.

Baek Seung-hyun also exchanged greetings with the people in the rooms on either side of him.

“In room 1031 on the left, there was a middle-aged couple. They were said to be from a mid-sized company. They must have been in a nice shelter because they were dressed neatly. Above all, the old lady of the house was wearing Hermes? A rare luxury item. In room 1029 on the right, there was a young doctor couple. They were both doctors, but they didn’t have any children. They said they tried to have children, but it didn’t work out well.”

Baek Seung-hyun, who likes to classify people and evaluate their superiority and inferiority more than anyone else and is sensitive to such culture, is said to have observed the people in the first-class cabins around him with sharp eyes.

There were some things in common.

“Most of them were over 50 years old, well educated, and had a lot of wealth before the war. It felt like they were at least middle class. They were all very cultured. But these guys. It wasn’t long before they started looking down on our family.”

Baek Seung-hyun’s family consists of three people: Baek Seung-hyun, Baek Seung-hyun’s wife, and Baek Seung-hyun’s infant son.

Here, Baek Seung-hyun is said to have graduated from a school and worked as a hunter. After quitting his job as a hunter, he ran a small business and lived an above-average life (according to his own claim). Baek Seung-hyun’s wife says that his life was not easy even before the war.

He grew up in a not-so-good family environment, often ran away from home, and hung out with bad friends.

Baek Seung-hyun, who received education in school, has a language and intellectual level that exceeds the average expected by society, but his wife’s level was not like that.

The extreme age difference between Baek Seung-hyun and his wife, and the rude speech and behavior displayed by Baek Seung-hyun’s wife in every action, soon became a rumor among the fellow passengers in the first class cabin.

“He asked me if I was a middle school graduate.”

Baek Seung-hyun’s wife looked up at him with a bitter smile from the first class cabin.

“I’m a freshman.”

Baek Seung-hyun’s wife was mentally strong, but Baek Seung-hyun was not.

He harbored ill feelings toward those around him who ignored his wife.

After reading his unpleasant feelings, his wife tried to calm Baek Seung-hyun down, so Baek Seung-hyun decided to just let it go.

“We’re going to see them every day anyway. If we beat them up like we did in Incheon, we’ll be the only ones who’ll lose.”

The sparks of the fierce census in the first-class community soon spread to Baek Seung-hyun as well.

In fact, he was not a person who was free from hierarchy.

Baek Seung-hyun tried to hide the fact that he was a hunter.

I have unpleasant memories of being dragged around like a dog, risking my life, with no welfare whatsoever, barely able to make ends meet as a freelance hunter, not even as an official hunter in Seoul and Incheon.

Even if he went to Jeju Island, he planned to do something safe other than being a hunter.

But the first-class community did not leave Baek Seung-hyun’s family alone.

“I became a hunter.”

In the end, Baek Seung-hyun finally confessed the truth in front of people.

The man in the room next door asked rudely.

“It’s not Awaken, is it?”

“yes?”

“If you’re Awaken, why are you here? What is that? Old Hunter? Something like that? You’re not being treated like that right now.”

The man, who was now past middle age and entering his prime, acted as if he knew everything when he only knew a little, as is typical of shallow and arrogant people.

“No, Old Hunter. They’re the same as regular people, right? That’s why no one uses them.”

People who already had negative views of the Baek Seung-hyun couple exchanged glances and openly expressed their ill feelings toward the Baek Seung-hyun couple.

The only people who were close to Baek Seung-hyun’s family were the doctor couple who lived in the room next door.

“Anyway, we are all just outsiders on Jeju Island, so I don’t understand why they are trying to classify rooms in the same class and rank them accordingly.”

The man, a pediatrician, sighed as he looked at the barricade set up in the corridor where first-class passengers headed to second-class.

The planned sailing time of Hope is 20 hours and 30 minutes.

After 10 hours and 30 minutes the ship stopped once.

The ship’s public address system announced that some third-class cabins were flooded due to water leaks and that some third-class passengers would be moved to other ships.

No one questioned the broadcast.

Who would be interested in a story about a third-class cabin, let alone a first-class cabin?

Only Baek Seung-hyun’s wife was rocking and soothing the baby and suddenly asked Baek Seung-hyun a question.

“Are there any empty seats on the other ships? I heard they’re all full?”

“well.”

Baek Seung-hyun also actually felt a strange premonition.

There’s a leak in such a big ship.

But he tried hard to deny his keen intuition.

The moment he began to doubt himself, he was afraid that his dream of Jeju Island, which he had so desperately wanted, would disappear.

As flights resumed, a party was held in the first-class community.

He invited people over to drink some expensive champagne that a wealthy man who rode with him had brought.

Baek Seung-hyun did not attend that meeting.

Because it’s obvious that if I go out, I’ll just be ignored.

Twenty hours and thirty minutes passed in silence.

It’s the time of promise.

Dongtan Mom connected the obelisk hidden in the emergency battery she had been saving and saved and logged into Viva! Apocalypse!

“Yum yum.”

This is to broadcast the historic Dongtan Mom’s landing on Jeju Island in real time.

Although he is treated as an inferior family member in the first class, he is a much better person than the others who were left behind when he arrived in Jeju Island.

I was taking pictures of the scenery of Jeju Island approaching with my cell phone camera, smiling triumphantly.

I heard some murmurs coming from around me.

“What is this? Is this Jeju Island?”

“Why are all the signs in Chinese?”

“No. That Chinese sign. It’s in simplified characters, not traditional characters.”

“Shanghai······. It’s Shanghai!”

“What happened!”

The destination of the Hope Ship was not Jeju Island or something like that.

It was Shanghai, China, where erosion had already begun and the last human signal had been lost for more than two years.

Tens of thousands of people only then realized the truth.

That they were abandoned.

There, petty distinctions like first class, second class, and third class had no meaning.

thud!

With a dull roar, the huge ship, which had already lost its momentum and was drifting by inertia, lightly collided with the abandoned port.

In the midst of the sound of the waves crashing down, as if heralding fate, Dongtan Mom saw her family.

Now he has only one goal left.

Saving our family.

“What should I do?!”

“Who doesn’t have a radio? There’s someone I know on the National Assembly! Who is that? He’s someone I know with Assemblyman Jeong Seong-ryong!”

“Where did the captain go? Let’s gather up our men and go to the captain’s cabin right now!”

Outside in the hallway, the first-class passengers can be heard murmuring.

Baek Seung-hyun calmly checked the supplies and equipment he had.

There are no guns.

All I need is a kitchen knife and a pair of scissors.

There is food for five days and water for two days.

“Sir, what do we do now?”

The wife asks with an anxious face while holding the child.

Baek Seung-hyun spoke calmly to his wife, who was looking at him while gathering her few weapons.

“Don’t worry. I will definitely protect you.”

End

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(Main comments)

(One Two**) -Recommendation 109-

Dongtan Mom’s story is so funny, but I can’t admit it. If it’s Skeleton, I’d recommend it. ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

(Bureo**) -Recommendation90-

I don’t know if you could explain the battle log in detail, but what if you skip the entire 17 minutes of defeating the 2 dancer types?

(Gomsom**) -Recommendation 64-

It was the end. There was no hope of survival. This was the story of our death.

If they had started off this simply and written down the battle in more detail, it would have been a masterpiece in documentary format…

Skeleton with useless parts highlighted… Sprinkle some MSG on it!

(als**) -Recommendation55-

Thank you for loving Hide Your House in the Apocalypse.

From now on, I will start supporting my family in Shanghai.

(Goobne**) -Recommendation 49-

There is Lee Woo who likes Skeleton and Kim Da Ram.

Men are crazy, but women have mental power, physical power, and fighting sense.

(31am**) -Recommendation43-

Baek Seung-heon, Kang Han-min, Park Gyu-do, and other hunters, why do they go crazy whenever they log into the community? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

(H**) -Recommendation 41-

I admit it…Dongtan Mom is the GOAT…yum yum…

(air**) -Recommendation 21-

No Skeleton! Out of all those stories, which one would you choose to report on a mission? LOL

(Sponsor**) -Recommendation 13-

In the King episode, the skeletons were highly praised.

I’ve only passed one chapter and I’m already a kelton lol