Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 191



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Episode 191

They say a wise man sees the future.

Park Gyu, who foresaw destruction before the war and built a bunker with bold action, could be said to be a wise man, even if he was not a sage.

Let’s try to predict what will happen to me now that the Legion faction has taken control of the metropolitan area and is reconnected with Kim Da-ram. One possibility seems clear.

Perhaps Kim Da-ram will try to use Park Gyu to hunt monsters instead of killing him directly.

Since she knows my abilities well, wouldn’t she be put on the most difficult and dangerous mission?

In order to avoid such a terrible death, I left the National Assembly and became a multiple debtor, thereby creating my own territory. I will never follow Kim Da-ram’s orders.

So, for the past few days, I’ve been thinking about how I can smoothly reject Kim Da-ram’s request.

The excuse of being sick is a solid excuse guaranteed by history and tradition, but it is also subject to many destruction methods.

If I were to make an excuse right now that I have a herniated disc in my lower back and can’t move like I used to, Kim Da-ram would be the kind of person to take me to the military hospital and get a CT scan.

Just saying you’re sick won’t work.

I also thought of the excuse that I couldn’t hunt because of mental problems.

The best way is to cosplay as a fanatic.

Because fanatics can’t hunt monsters.

I heard that mutations are somewhat cooperative on the fanatic side.

But pretending to be a cult member isn’t that easy.

Right now I don’t know anything about the rituals of the cult or the language they use.

Besides, Kim Da-ram, who knows my personality well, would know very well that I would never believe in a crazy religion that claims that monsters are our friends.

Therefore, cosplaying as a fanatic is not a wise choice.

I also thought about panic disorder and PTSD complaints, but I don’t think I could fool Kim Da-ram even if I used method acting.

I looked at the things hanging on the wall and in the room.

A black sheet of paper pasted side by side, a coffee maker, an artificial fish tank and goldfish, a two-shot of I am Jesus and the president of the product company that I printed and pasted myself, a portrait of me full of my cartoonish indulgence drawn by Da-jeong.

These are the traces that show that I am alive after the war.

And they give me strength.

The strength to live today and tomorrow

But people can’t live on hope alone.

I turned my gaze slightly to the side.

There is a Chinese-made sword hanging there as a trophy.

Kim Pil-seong’s Park Do-da.

Every time I saw that Park Do, I felt betrayed and disappointed in Kim Da Ram, but now it’s different.

The moment I saw that sword, a strong flash of light passed through my mind.

I immediately turned on the boiler and prepared to take a shower.

Shoo–

While the water was heating up, I placed a full-length mirror in front of the shower stall, took off my clothes, and looked at my body in the mirror.

It’s not because I have narcissism and get excited by looking at my own body.

There are several purposes.

The first purpose is literally a self-examination of my body.

Certainly, as I ate less, my muscle mass decreased.

If I had eaten lumps of solid protein and not eaten them because they tasted bad, my body would have become unsightly and skinny.

There are no other special problems.

The teeth are healthy and there are no pathological signs on the back, back of the legs, or under the upper arms, which are usually difficult to observe.

Although it was embarrassing, I bent over with my legs slightly spread apart and observed the anus area.

How many diseases are non-fatal in the age of destruction? But anal disease is particularly fatal because it is an organ that is used every day and receives a lot of sensory input.

There is no problem with the anus either.

Other places are also good.

It definitely pays to take care of your health.

The fact that I can take care of my body so perfectly in the age of destruction is itself a reward for my wisdom.

After confirming the stability of the body, we moved on to the next task.

This task is more important than the first one.

I found a scar on my body.

On the battlefield, our hunters suffer wounds big and small.

The battlefield itself is a stressful environment with an extremely high risk of trauma, and the place we were going was the most dangerous place that even the Chinese authorities had difficulty dealing with.

Above all, when scalping against monsters, you cannot avoid getting hurt.

Before the war, when you went to a hair salon, the hairdressers would ask if you had scratched the areas where bullets had gone while cutting your hair.

I left it as is, but Lee Sang-hoon planted hair there and Gong Kyung-min got a flashy tattoo on his scar to show off.

But what’s important now isn’t the scalping marks on your head.

I look for scars on the legs, waist, and other vital organs for human functioning.

What I’m looking for is mainly things on the legs.

“hmm?”

There are some moderate injuries.

There is a scratch in front of the knee.

These are not wounds received on the battlefield.

This is a wound that occurred when I fell after taking a bath in a Chinese bathhouse because the floor was too slippery.

It was only a minor injury, just a tear in the skin, but perhaps because of the ingredients in the bath water – I remember it had something to do with drying it – the scar was dark.

“······.”

The wound is shallow, but the scar is deep.

Wouldn’t this be okay?

Yeah, let’s tell him that Kim Pil-seong engraved this on me.

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When a less than legitimate ruler takes power, one of the primary means the ruler uses is to give something to the people.

There have been many instances of turning people’s attention away from unpleasant political landscapes and toward more enjoyable ones, such as opening arenas and distributing bread in Rome and implementing the 3S policy during the Fifth Republic.

This legionnaire government also seems to have been inspired by its predecessors and has implemented similar policies.

Coincidentally, the entertainment they provide is something we are all familiar with.

Yeah : Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

ㅇㅇ: Eww! Eww! Kkiyahoo~~!!!!

ㅇㅇ: Nizoral, Commanding, Sacharidas.

ㅇㅇ: General Kim Byeong-cheol, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty

Yeah yeah: National Assembly member, get out lol

ㅇㅇ: What is survival of the fittest?

ㅇㅇ: Viva kids! Nice to meet you!!!!!!1

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PaleNet is back.

To be exact, we took over the base station that the National Assembly had abandoned and re-established the wireless network, and as a result, our PaleNet friends showed up on our bulletin board for the first time in a long time.

But their invasions were not as severe as before.

Compared to the days when even if you turned dozens of pages, it was full of ㅇㅇ, I would say that the firepower has decreased dozens of times. I thought it was because many of our bulletin board friends could not endure the harsh times and disappeared. In addition, there is not much time left for PaleNet friends.

Ballantine: (Palenet operator) I tried to hold back because it felt like I was pouring cold water on it, but if it suddenly doesn’t work out, I’ll throw it out now because I’m afraid everyone will be curious. To be honest, Palenet is currently at its limit.

In fact, it’s a miracle that it’s running now. It’s been over a year since we last did any maintenance. The servers that are running now are only 1/5th of their former state, and even that can’t be guaranteed to last long. So don’t be too depressed if PaleNet suddenly stops working.

I personally asked Valentine about Palenet’s lifespan.

Message from Ballantine: A week at most. Maybe today or tomorrow. It all depends on how well the few remaining vulnerable servers can handle the sudden increase in load.

There really isn’t much time left.

I think it’s called a backlight.

A brief moment of consciousness before death.

Valentine brought up a story I didn’t even ask about.

A message from Ballantine: A guy who calls himself a Legion Faction Intelligence Officer wants to take a look at the server.

SKELTON: (Skeleton puzzled) Huh? The server? Why?

Message from Ballantine: I won’t go into details, but it looks like someone has been secretly uploading large files to the PaleNet server. I think they asked me to find it, but is there any way to do it? The place you are in is a radioactive paradise.

Valentine reportedly told the Legion Faction’s request to find the Palenet server location and tell them to find it themselves. If they found it, they would either create a second Palenet or shut down Palenet themselves.

Message from Ballantine: Instead, I would like to request that you bury John Nae-non or at least cremate him.

SKELTON: Sir John. He’s not still alive, is he?

Message from Ballantine: I wish I could, but I guess it’s impossible, right?

I was just trying to say something.

Our lord will meet his eternal death along with his palenet.

Anyway, thanks to that failnet, I was able to connect to the Incheon line that I had no news about.

Incheon has been largely reorganized around three shelters, and it is said that less than a million people remain. The population of Seoul, which was over ten million in the past three years, has fallen to less than a tenth.

The story is that if there are 30 people in the classroom, only 3 of them survived.

The Legion now intends to bring that population back to Seoul.

The reason the National Assembly sent people to Incheon in the first place was the empty bait of sending them to Jeju Island, but now there is no reason or way to go to Jeju Island.

In addition, the Legion faction revealed the truth about Jeju Island to the people.

It was just as I knew.

Jeju Island is another hell.

Although it may be safer and offer a higher quality of life, it has become a den of chaos where capsules emerge and mutations occur in every corner untouched by human hands.

Could this be a side effect of the crack violently resisting as if it were conscious when trying to close it?

It has been a long-standing hypothesis that monsters have no reason, but the cracks themselves have a will. The problem is that moving to Seoul is not so easy.

Let’s hear about the current situation in Seoul through the mouth of m9, who is living in a corner of Seoul at this very moment.

mmmmmmmmm : Honestly, it’s fucking true. The looters and human traffickers of the past are all gone, but instead, mutations, monsters, and other shit are running around. The Cheonggyecheon area in particular has been completely eroded, and it’s not like this world.

No, I don’t even know how the water flows in that stream, but there were arm-sized loaches and crayfish? Crabs? swimming around in that water.

mmmmmmmmm: Currently, Seoul is a place where only a strong person like me can survive in an iron fortress like The Hope. For this reason, I am recruiting residents for “The Hope.” By the way, the representative of the residents is this m9, so you shouldn’t even dream of trying to take my place.

No one will move to The Hope just because M9 says so.

According to a user who recently visited The Hope, a large crack has appeared on the exterior wall of The Hope. Could it be soon?

In any case, the Legionnaires’ will to reclaim the country’s capital, recognized by the so-called “customary constitution,” appears firm.

It is by no means easy to move hundreds of thousands of people and establish a base, but it is ambitious to see it being pushed forward.

The problem is that this relocation of the capital is directly linked to my fate.

If Seoul is a monster mutation expo, Kim Da-ram will definitely call me in and deploy me for the cleanup operation.

As expected, not long after, a disgusting beeping sound rang out.

Personal identification number: DARAM2

“······What’s going on? Kim Da-ram.”

I’ve often been criticized for having a blunt voice and low emotional ups and downs.

Now, I lowered my tone by two keys compared to usual and poured in a ladleful of gloominess.

“Senior, I’m going to the bunker. Do you still live there?”

“······.”

“senior?”

“······I live because I can’t leave.”

“Are you feeling unwell?”

“······It’s always been like this. Since that day.”

“I’m going to go now, so stay outside. I’m not going inside. I have no interest in looking into other people’s toilets.”

After a while I felt a vibration.

It looks like several vehicles, including armored vehicles, are coming.

It was a military jeep heading towards my territory.

It stopped straight in front of my main bunker.

Kim Da-ram got out of the armored vehicle.

“?!”

I felt a brief moment of surprise.

Kim Da-ram is missing one of his eyes.

I’m wearing a blindfold.

Beyond the blindfold, there was a deep scratch mark left by something.

“······.”

I knew it.

How difficult and painful it was for her, a former member of the National Assembly, to secure a position in the Legion Faction.

But that’s that and this is this.

“Senior, it’s been a while.”

“…..okay.”

Then another person got out of the jeep.

It’s a defender.

He winked at me secretly when he saw me.

It looks like you haven’t told Kim Da-ram about your relationship with me.

But how can this be done?

This is different from my calculations.

But we old school hunters don’t stop just because the calculations are different.

Moved slowly.

Limping on one leg.

“?”

The defender tilted his head.

He limped towards Kim Da-ram, maintaining a gloomy expression.

“senior?”

Kim Da-ram asked.

“What happened?”

“……that is.”

Kim Da-ram desperately ignored the questioning gaze of the defender that was poking at him like an awl from behind and answered calmly and lonely.

“Kim Pil-seong. He was quite good.”

The Defender looked at me and nodded with a knowing look on his face.

As expected, my internet friend.

It’s telepathy.

“okay?”

Meanwhile, Kim Da-ram surprisingly wasn’t that surprised.

I understand.

For someone who has lived a life so hard that he lost an eye, one of my legs probably doesn’t have much of a moving meaning.

“So you were depressed?”

“······.”

“How have you been? It’s been over a year since Kim Pil-seong passed away.”

Kim Da-ram stares at me intently.

“With your senior’s personality, you probably wouldn’t have been able to endure it without doing anything.”

“······I?”

“Yeah. Senior, you’re surprisingly the type of person who gets lonely a lot, right? You’re such a picky person.”

“······.”

Kim Da-ram was underrated.

This guy, he was basically working with me as a duo.

Although there were many changes in the members of my team, Kim Da-ram and I were always the mainstays.

I take the lead and Kim Da-ram provides support fire.

I killed countless monsters over and over again.

It means that Kim Da-ram knows me as well as I know this guy.

“Is it true that your legs hurt?”

“······Do you think I’m faking my illness?”

“No, Jeon Si-hun.”

Oops.

“The Jeon Si-Hoon thing, wasn’t it your senior who went?”

“······.”

“Even if that gang leader is Awaken, he can’t possibly handle an Annihilator-level being. As far as I know, there’s only one person in the world who can handle that without Awaken’s help, my senior. That’s why I thought my senior took care of it.”

“······You said you were curious about how I held out?”

Certainly, Kim Da-ram is Kim Da-ram. You can’t fool her with flimsy words. Now that it’s come to this, I have no choice but to show it.

“······I will teach you.”

“Skeleton” not “Professor”

End

ⓒRoad Warrior#

(Main comments)

(Fermentation***) -Recommendation 109-

No… Well… I know there’s nothing you won’t do to survive, but… wouldn’t it be better to just die?

(antimatter***) -Recommendation78-

No, the forbidden record is talking about skeletons… Do you know deep down that you do weird things on the internet? Lol

(SSF**) -Recommendation 66-

I’ll show you a completely different me!

(H**) -Recommendation 65-

What the hell are you doing here opening a gallery??????

(Myself**) -Recommendation 60-

Are you giving up your dignity as a senior, Skeleton?

(Whinning***) -Recommendation 55-

Kim Da-ram How shocked would he be if he found out that his respected senior was on the internet… I think he would think he was completely ruined.

(g373***) -Recommendation 52-

(Skeleton Beatbox) If you hit it just once, Kim Da-ram will probably get scared and cut ties with you lol

(Seizeni***) -Recommendation 47-

No no please die as a professor!!!!!!!!

(jim***) -Recommendation 47-

Skeleton, not a professor… If you say it the other way around, it’s a famous mountain, so why lol

(Dream Bang**) -Recommendation 40-

If you can’t cut off your hand, then just have it cut off!

(g2886**) -Recommendation 39-

Why is there such a big difference between when it’s really insignificant and when it’s really cool? ㅋㅋㅋ

(bra**) -Recommendation36-

It’s so funny to think about how much fun they’ll have behind the defender lol

(Look at this**) -Recommendation 33-

Why are you committing social suicide?

(Gea***) -Recommendation32-

No shit, even if it’s a novel, what kind of bathhouse is this? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

(Passionate***) -Recommendation 17-

Secondly, it’s nice to see the Defender appear after a long time

Incheon, m9 description of the apocalypse’s brutality

I thought the title was “Forbidden Secret” and was trying to give some kind of hint.

Skeleton Coming Out??

Surely you wouldn’t reveal your real name just to get points from Jsquirrel, right?

(Angbol**) -Recommendation 13-

Empathy level is coming