Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 188



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Episode 188

The area where a woman named Jeon Yu-gyeong lives is a wasteland that spreads out to the east.

This was once home to countless greenhouses and farmland, but now it has become such a barren place that the cracked surface is clearly visible.

The few reservoirs here and there were the only places with water, but each reservoir had traces of human life, as if time had stopped and was covered with the passage of time.

If you ask me why no one lives around here, I would answer like this.

Because there are so many better places than here.

The abundance of zombies, mutations, and monster-occupied areas may also be important reasons for small-scale survivors to hesitate to settle down.

This wasteland is nominally the territory of the Legion.

It is quite far from the Yeongdong region, the stronghold of the Legion Faction, but it is quite close to the Yeongseo region, which is the Legion Faction’s forward base.

However, since the road conditions are not good, you must have a vehicle that can drive on rough terrain.

A general of the corps could easily obtain a jeep capable of driving on rough terrain. That would be why he could provide a house for his concubine here.

I don’t really have a hobby of speculating about personal history, but I get the feeling that the concubine’s hideout wasn’t set up with good intentions.

Especially when you look at that damn mountain of stuff.

The Legion is strict about enforcing the law, and especially punishes embezzlement.

If you listen to the Legion broadcast, any crime of embezzlement is punishable by death.

I can see my destination over the hill there.

It is an abandoned church building with its pointed spire broken.

The general said there was a hideout around the church. He stopped his motorcycle and approached slowly on foot.

We advanced, paying particular attention to cover.

When I arrived in front of the church, the smell of charcoal hit my nose.

There are traces of fire inside the church.

There are no signs of human death, but it is certain that no one has lived there since the fire.

Based on this church, there is a hideout of Jeon Yu-gyeong on the northeast ridge.

Faint traces of concrete are visible on the ridge side, covered with grass and dirt.

He approached slowly, holding a gun.

Indeed, there is a house.

It is a fairly well-built country house by pre-war standards, although the bamboo in the garden sprouts competitively as if it had exploded due to lack of maintenance, and there are dirty stains and signs of dilapidation here and there in the building.

You can tell just by looking at the experimental form of the house’s structure and the sophisticated interior materials that are inevitably revealed in the jungle. Below the ridge, you can see a green hill and lake that were probably used as a golf course.

The view is quite nice.

It is indeed a house that a general would choose as a hiding place.

As we come closer, traces of life become evident.

Traces of fire and recently burned and discarded briquettes.

A small flower bed is visible, hidden in a hidden area beyond the bamboo forest.

There were beautiful flowers in the flower bed whose names I didn’t know, but there was no one in the house.

Someone lived in this house but left.

The mountain of supplies that General Bang had mentioned are nowhere to be found.

There were only faint tire marks engraved across the garden.

I contacted General Bang.

I tried communicating once more, but General Bang did not answer.

I searched the house a little more.

There were ten briquettes left in the warehouse.

I wanted to take them all, but due to the volume issue rather than the weight issue, I could barely fit 6 briquettes in the storage unit and left the abandoned house.

There has been no contact with General Bang since then.

It was a week later that I heard news of him.

*

“Five people, including Lieutenant General Bang Su-byeon, were indicted on charges of embezzlement of war supplies and put on trial. The main culprit, Lieutenant General Bang Su-byeon, strongly denied his crimes, but based on clear evidence and testimony, the military court sentenced General Bang Su-byeon to death.
The execution is scheduled to take place at Chuncheon Military Prison the day after tomorrow at 5:00 PM. If you would like to request a visit, please contact the headquarters in advance.”

It was a strange experience to hear on the radio that someone I had been in contact with had been sentenced and was about to die.

It’s not particularly sad or shocking.

There was only a very thin thread of fate between me and Bang Su-byeon.

He called me from a wrong number and I went to his concubine’s house at his request and picked up six briquettes.

“······.”

Contacting the personal identification number SCARLET was something I did without much thought.

I’m not trying to offer words of comfort to someone who is about to die, but I’d like to know a little bit about the details of the matter he was curious about.

Beep- beep- beep-

To your surprise, you hear a beep.

The story is that a radio with the personal identification number SCARLET is turned on.

As expected, someone got in touch.

“who are you?”

Despite the noisy and heavily distorted radio, it was a clear and elegant voice of a young woman. For a moment, I had the feeling that this woman was the woman that General Bang had been looking for, Jeon Yu-gyeong. However, I didn’t ask.

Instead, he ended the conversation by asking pointless questions.

“Please change the volume a bit.”

“yes?”

“Isn’t that Eomchang’s house?”

“no.”

As soon as contact was lost, I prepared to go out.

Well, I guess I got a feeling.

I am certain that Jeon Yu-kyung will be in that house.

It’s not that important and the story of the water change is practically over, but my pathological curiosity made me want to dig into this matter a little more.

Well, if we’re lucky, it might get picked up later as Skeleton’s “story”.

The experience of having been there recently also helped lighten my steps.

The church I found again was only a hazy figure in the morning mist. I got off my motorcycle at a greater distance than before and walked towards the hiding place. A truck was parked in front of the front yard where bamboo had grown to an unsightly size.

A woman was squatting in front of him, looking at the flowers.

Is this woman Jeon Yu-kyung?

There’s one more.

A man, a young man.

Rather than being handsome, he had a manly look and a sturdy build.

He was carrying something from his truck to his house.

“······.”

I took my time observing to see if there were any other people.

There are only two.

The female soldier who had been assigned to the waterproof mask was nowhere to be found.

He waited for the man to load his luggage, approached him from behind, aimed his gun, and spoke briefly.

“Put your hands up.”

The man was not easy.

He ran towards me, pretending to raise his hand.

He probably intended to grab a gun and engage in close combat, but he chose the wrong opponent.

puck!

The head of the baton struck the man and a boot kicked the kneeling man in the face. The beating continued for a while.

Until the man’s resistance completely ceases.

“under.”

I sighed as I looked at the bloody face of the man and the thoughtful face of the woman.

“No, if you’re told to raise your hand, just raise your hand. Why are you doing something useless?”

The man hugged the woman’s body tightly with one arm, even though it was in such a mess that he could barely control his body. He looked at the woman’s face.

Young, elegant and beautiful.

I had the feeling that she was indeed the general’s concubine.

“I didn’t come here to do any harm to you. I just wanted to confirm one thing.”

I looked at the woman’s side.

“Are you Jeon Yu-kyung?”

The woman nodded with a fearful face.

“You know General Bang is dying, right?”

The woman hesitated, then nodded when the man noticed.

Finally, I asked one thing.

“You deliberately ignored the call from General Bang?”

The woman nodded again.

I got up from my seat.

“I know everything I wanted to know.”

I looked at the man.

“I’m sorry for hitting you. But you were rushing at me as if you were going to kill me.”

I stared at him intently and blurted out:

“Oh, while I’m here, could I ask for a can of synthetic oil and some food? That’ll do.”

Transportation expenses should be paid.

The man stood up, but was not stopped.

There’s a hostage in front of me and no matter what he does, he can’t do anything to me.

Soon the man brought out what he had asked for from inside the truck.

He instructed me to put it down in front of him and step back.

“Who are you?”

The man asked, stepping back.

After thinking about it for a moment, I answered honestly.

“The water level sensor sent me. A woman I know wasn’t answering her phone, so she sent me here.”

“Oh, so how many briquettes······.”

“The client is going to die soon, so it’s all over. I came here out of curiosity. Now that my curiosity has been satisfied, I’m going to go check it out.”

I slowly backed away from the scene, just in case the man took out his hidden gun.

Looking at the two couples whose love seemed deep at first glance, I felt a little pity for the man named General Bang.

Maybe he loved that woman and thought she loved him too.

It’s a very common, crossed arrows game.

As they slowly moved away, Jeon Yu-kyung spoke in a trembling voice.

“Don’t ever tell the general about us.”

“yes?”

“Please, don’t tell the General about us!”

I didn’t understand.

Isn’t General Bang destined to die in the next day or two?

Why should we fear someone who has already lost the power struggle and is now nothing?

So I asked.

“Is it possible that General Bang is doing this because of his subordinates?”

“no.”

The woman spoke firmly.

When I made a puzzled expression, Jeon Yu-gyeong chewed her lips lightly and thought about it for a while, then looked in this direction and opened her mouth.

“He, General Bang, is away.”

“Awake?”

“Yes. He is an Awaken who is as strong as the savior Kang Hanmin, who is also incredibly strong!”

*

The high-ranking general of the Legion faction is actually an Awaken who has the power to stand shoulder to shoulder with the strong Min, and that powerful Awaken has been defeated by his opponent and is awaiting execution.

If we were to grade this story of Jeon Yu-gyeong on the aspect of unexpectedness, we could give it a pretty generous score.

But that story itself is impossible to establish apart from lies and truth.

If Bang Su-byeon was truly an Awaken who had awakened to the level of a strong people, he should have already made a name for himself beyond just being a strong people, and he would have enjoyed a high status within the Legion faction as a General – Awaken with his transcendent personality.

At least he avoided being shot?

However, because Jeon Yu-gyeong’s argument was so stubborn, I had another doubt and started researching Bang Su-byeon, a person I didn’t know much about.

Unfortunately, there isn’t much information available about the Legionnaires.

It seems that there are users of our Viva! Apocalypse! in the Legion faction as well, but they are not as active as me, and since most of the users were from Seoul or Incheon when Palenet was at its peak, there was no news about the Legion faction in the Yeongseo-Yeongdong region.

Still, it’s not like I don’t have any connections.

It’s not that common these days, but Defender joined the Legion faction, and the 7th Legion is the original unit of the Diesirae that I blocked, so shouldn’t they know at least a little bit about the person called Bang Su-byeon?

SKELTON: How are you? I have a few questions for you.

I tried contacting Defender but have not heard back.

Normally, I would have waited patiently, but Bang Su-byeon’s execution was not far away.

32 hours and 18 minutes.

After a little over a day, the water level drops to the level of dew on the execution ground.

So I contacted not only Defender but also Defender’s younger sibling who seemed to have more free time. As expected, Dajeong answered the call right away.

Message from DAJUNG: Skeleton!

Dajeong changed her nickname.

With the name Da-jeong, named after himself in Sea Monkey Papa.

But maybe because I’ve been on the internet for so long, I thought of “the crowd” before “affection.”

“······.”

This must be one of the evils of the Internet.

But I have no intention of quitting, though.

Message from DAJUNG: Long time no see. How are you?

SKELTON: I’m fine. How about you?

Message from DAJUNG: I’m in the hospital.

SKELTON: (Skeleton surprised) Hospital?

Message from DAJUNG: It’s not a big illness, but it’s not a good illness to leave alone. I’ll have to have surgery soon anyway. There’s not much left.

SKELTON: (Skeleton worried)

Message from DAJUNG: It’s a minor surgery, so no need to worry. The Legion Hospital is really good. Oh, and the quack who treated our teeth back then was also here. LOL.

SKELTON: I see······.

Message from DAJUNG: What else is going on? What do you want to ask?

I’m worried about Da-jeong’s condition, but let’s just trust her here. Her condition won’t get better just because I’m worried here. I asked Da-jeong the questions I wanted to ask.

Message from DAJUNG: General Bang Su-byeon? Oh, that guy. Now that I think about it, there were some strange rumors going around.

SKELTON: What rumors?

Message from DAJUNG: Oh my god, you had an affair with a concubine, abandoned your family, and sent all the embezzled money to her? You were going to use it when you lived together later. Fortunately, you were caught before you left home, otherwise your family would have been accused of embezzlement and almost executed.

Message from DAJUNG: My son noticed and reported it to the military police. He was abandoned by his family.
The story that Da-jeong told me definitely had some interesting aspects.

But that’s not the kind of story I want.

SKELTON: When are you having the surgery?

Message from DAJUNG: Why? To visit me?

SKELTON: If you can go.

Message from DAJUNG: I appreciate your kind words, but I feel a bit uneasy right now, I’ll contact you later!

“······.”

I had vaguely expected this before.

I wonder if there is some unknown reason for the Defender’s excessive haste in joining the Legion.

I heard that there was something wrong with Dajeong’s body, but now it’s confirmed.

I guess he went to the legion to treat Da-jeong.

The one who figured out her problem was probably Heo Jong-cheol, whom Da-jeong hates so much.

I secretly prayed for Da-jeong’s speedy recovery and put Plan B into action.

First, unblock Diesirae, and then post a message.

SKELTON: (Skeleton Story) The secret of General Bang Su-byeon who is being executed this time.TXT

– General Bang Soo-byeon is actually a very powerful Awaken, and it is said that he is hiding powers that even make the savior Kang Han-min nervous······.

I wrote down a story I had made up in my head and sent it to Valentine as a message.

Message from Ballantine: No, you’re going to do it again? No, why are you doing this? There must be a reason for this, right?

SKELTON: (Skeleton serious) For the public good.

Message from Ballantine: No, what public interest?

Fortunately, it looks like we won’t have to put in any effort to convince Valentine.

A comment was posted.

Dies Irae69: Ah, Colonel Bang? You mean that contract officer from the reserve force of the Non-Profit Corps?

It’s Diesiraeda.

It’s creepy that he comments on my posts, but at least he knows something I don’t.

Dies Irae69: There was a time when a company was ambushed by the remaining North Korean troops near Sariwon and was completely annihilated, and the gentleman was the only one who returned alive.

Dies Irae69: Later, when the main force arrived at the battle site, there was nothing left, everything was in ruins. It was as if thousands of megatons of explosives had been detonated.

Dies Irae69: But there has never been a single shelling or bombing of that area.

End
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(Main comments)

(Che**) -Recommendation 64-
Does a shit star hide its power?

(Donggle**) -Recommendation 51-
Skeleton’s fabrication that even makes Valentine scream
This time I’m trying to save someone, but the karma is huge.

(olr**) -Recommendation37-
But what on earth did that woman believe to come back to that house… If Colonel Bang escapes, won’t it be over?

(Pire**) -Recommendation 34-
Jeon Yu-kyung, you needlessly stimulated my curiosity about skeletons

So what will be the outcome of this snowball?

(cjs***) -Recommendation 30-
The chief of the room hides his power

(Ajib**) -Recommendation 25-
That damn slut lol

(Muyaho**) -Recommendation 22-
The lieutenant general who wants to enjoy a game of breathing and even a huffy house

(Slim Pig**) -Recommendation 11-
Dajeong, don’t be sick!

(love***) -Recommend9-
Did you hide it because you didn’t want to go to Jeju Island and work a dirty job?

(groz**) -Recommendation8-
A firecracker weighing several thousand megatons would make sense… A megaton is a huge unit, right??
Well, I guess it’s just an exaggeration haha

(n267****) -Recommendation 6-
Falling in love isn’t a sin!!
Sappajoe Bang Joong-jang His future is revenge after prison escape?

(now**) -Recommendation 6-
What is the power of the Savior-class Awaken?
The top level ones are insanely strong, huh?

(Final**) -Recommendation 4-
Isn’t Da-jeong being experimented on away?

(n89***) -Recommendation 3-
Hide the bomb in subspace