Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 196



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Episode 196

It’s been a long time since I’ve had this experience.

I saw a man named Kim Byeong-cheol from afar.

He is not very tall.

His physique is average and he has no outstanding features.

He had his hair cut short and was wearing a neat military uniform with a simple medal on his top.

However, I was curious because one of his eyes was strangely sparkling, and upon closer inspection, I found that he was wearing a pair of glasses called a monocle.

I heard that it was difficult for an Asian without a supraorbital prominence to wear these glasses, but Captain Kim Byeong-cheol must have had his own know-how, as the sunlight would sparkle and scatter the light of the monocle here and there every time he turned his head.

Kim Da-ram explained the operation with a stern face in front of Kim Byeong-cheol.

He was probably expressing his opinion that the current situation was very unfavorable and that it would be better to wait for the next time. Kim Byeong-cheol was listening to Kim Da-ram’s words in silence, and then suddenly raised his head and let out a strange sound.

“Ack!”

What’s going on?

Other people involved besides Kim Da-ram listened to Kim Byeong-cheol’s words in a stationary position.

Kim Byeong-cheol’s voice is small so it’s hard to hear what he’s saying, but judging by the people’s expressions, it doesn’t seem like things will go well.

Soon, Kim Da-ram came towards me, sighing.

“······They said we have to get it done by today, no matter what.”

“okay?”

“There is a reason for that.”

“For what reason?”

“The fact that there will be more fanatics tomorrow than today.”

“I admit that.”

Kim Byeong-cheol is right.

Now that the Capitol has been declared a holy place, more fanatics will flock there.

And based on those numbers, we will build a strong and powerful fortress.

“But what should I do? I can’t see any way.”

The cult’s reinforcements have arrived at the National Assembly and are stationed everywhere. The story is that the work we’ve done for hours has been ruined. We have to wipe out each cultist’s resistance point one by one. That’s the safest way to kill monsters while reducing damage.

But now the time is 4pm.

The sun is already setting.

The sun must set.

“Wait a minute. Let me think about it.”

I went into the operation barracks with Kim Da-ram and reviewed the operation from the starting point.

Various thoughts came and went in my head.

It’s been a long time since I’ve had this experience.

It’s about racking your brain to come up with a plan of action.

Although I’ve hunted occasionally since the Monster War, this is the first time I’ve deployed and moved team units on the battlefield since leaving the battlefield.

To be honest, it was a headache, but I quite enjoyed it.

Because I’m the one who’s setting the whole board.

The experience of seeing my drawings move organically and come to fruition just as I expected is one of the few refreshing experiences I can have on the battlefield.

I can feel Kim Da-ram’s gaze.

It’s absurd to see a bastard wearing a blindfold when he’s already been caught, but I also limp a lot, so there’s no need to bother me.

However, her face looked similar to that of the past.

The face of my loyal assistant, who was just waiting for me to open my mouth.

“Let’s do it this way.”

He came up with a rather wild plan.

Kim Da-ram made a dumbfounded expression.

“You need a helicopter?”

“Speak to the General. If you want to take over the Capitol today, this is the only way.”

Kim Da-ram rubbed his chin nervously and spoke to me as if giving me a request.

“It might not work.”

*

beep—

The sound of a horn echoed across the setting sky of Seoul.

A total of 55 fighters advanced toward the Capitol.

We gathered together all the people who could be gathered from those deployed in Seoul.

Drones were floating all over the sky, monitoring all directions without a single gap, while behind them, three armored vehicles and five designated marksmen were providing support fire.

Their mission is to prevent the enemy from showing their face at all.

bang!

If there is even the slightest hint of a person by the window, a bullet or a 20mm machine gun shell will fly.

With this overwhelming support firepower, the fighters stormed the Capitol.

Tata tata tang!

pop!

There was fierce fighting from the beginning.

The fanatics were much better armed and fought more fiercely than those we had dealt with earlier.

“Protect the rookie!”

“They’re trying to steal the rookie from us!”

They are desperate too.

But I’m desperate too.

I want to go home.

Is there any reason to be more desperate than that?

I boarded the helicopter as I watched the battle intensify.

An old soldier with four stars flashing beyond the helicopter watched me from afar.

He looked away from his gaze and spoke to Kim Da-ram.

“let’s go.”

The helicopter took off.

Now is the most dangerous time.

Does the enemy have anti-aircraft weapons such as Stinger type?

I bet my life on that nonexistence.

In order to increase the chances of survival, we are providing persistent covering fire with designated marksmen and armored vehicles to the point where the enemy in the approaching direction does not even dare to show their faces, but anything can happen on the battlefield.

“Approach it as is.”

The existence of anti-aircraft guided weapons has not yet been discovered.

Without letting up on his guard, he grabbed the rope and attached it to the harness he was already wearing.

“Distance 500.”

The pilot’s dry voice is heard.

The military helicopter slowly approached the Capitol building amidst the thunderous roar of its rotors that seemed as if it would burst a heart.

“300.”

I took a deep breath and mentally reviewed the locations of my weapons.

“200.”

bang!

A gunshot rang out.

It’s Kim Da-ram’s.

“Tango down.”

Clank-

Kim Da-ram spoke briefly while reloading.

“100.”

Below you can see the abandoned gardens around the Capitol, numerous barracks, armored vehicles and prone gunners still firing.

“50!”

I held onto the rope and looked down.

Suddenly the pilot screamed.

“S, Stinger!”

bang!

In the meantime, Kim Da-ram fired another shot from his rifle with such force that his body staggered at the moment of detonation.

“Tango down.”

“30!”

It is visible.

A building composed of a square and a hemisphere, which is the center of the constitutional history of the Republic of Korea.

The iconic hemispherical roof was half destroyed during the war.

We know very well that under that roof stands the House of Representatives, where the representatives of the people gather.

And I know.

A monster lurking in that Capitol building.

The monster is a normal spider type, but at the same time it is not normal.

That guy who was summoned from the capsule literally turned the human who was moving the capsule over like a hat when he was summoned.

“10!”

He grabbed the rope and jumped down, accompanied by the pilot’s shout.

“descent.”

Charge into this gap.

No prior reconnaissance was conducted so as not to give the enemy a clue.

So, what I’m saying is that since the battle started, I’m the only one out of all the drones to have gone down through this hole.

All we know is that this hole is connected to the Capitol.

In the flow of moments, landscapes pass by without pause.

There is only one thing I look for in it.

It’s a huge hall with about 300 seats, overlooking the half-collapsed hole.

bang!

Meanwhile, Kim Da-ram’s gun is firing.

And I see.

The floor of the Capitol building was stained with gray and white.

thud!

I landed right there, cut the rope, and found some cover.

“What?!”

“Enemy! Enemy!”

After all, there are people.

Two people.

But they were not prepared.

Bang! Bang!

After confirming that the two people had fallen, I looked around.

there is.

The owner of this house.

Commonly known as spider type.

Although it is named for its resemblance to a spider, the spider type in the Capitol has a very different appearance from the others.

It carries the torn upper body of a human being on its head, like a statue.

The man’s face, which had turned a pale gray and frozen like a decoration, was the face of someone I knew well.

“······.”

Park Sang-min.

Although quite some time had passed, his face still vividly remembered the scene from the capsule explosion, as if time had stopped.

Maybe that’s why.

The fanatics must have called this monster a god.

Without even thinking about how that poor man ended up being reduced to a monster’s ornament.

“Protect the rookie!”

“The enemy is after the newcomer!”

Bang! Bang!

Gunshots are heard from the roof.

Before we knew it, Kim Da-ram had landed next to the roof and was providing support fire.

“I’ll watch your back.”

When I saw her from afar, she had already taken off her blindfold.

In that case, I have no choice but to do my best.

I looked up at the spider type who was slowly trying to stand up, releasing the strength in his left leg that had been set to limp.

Srrrrung-

He took out two axes.

Already within the reflective field distance.

Spider type can’t beat me at close range.

Two axes danced without a circle.

Bam!

Snap!

Bam!

It’s addictive to dismember and destroy the monster’s tree-like body.

What can I say, every time the thing disintegrates and gets closer to extinction, I feel a dual pleasure of morbid excitement and mental clarity.

I don’t know if it’s to satisfy my desire for revenge or my sadism toward a monster I don’t even know.

The important thing is that I enjoy this process.

Bam!

It’s not just a fleeting thought of the day.

This is an objective fact proven by the forbidden records accumulated by killing numerous enemies on the battlefield.

“Clear!”

“Entry into the Capitol completed!”

The audience just arrived.

The hunters who were in charge of Yangdong entered the Capitol.

Among them was a fierce man with a tattoo on his face.

He looked at me with surprise, but I was just happy to see him.

Because their appearance means another clean hunt is complete.

I simultaneously struck the monster’s front legs, which had already been tattered from multiple blows, with two axes.

The bastard’s legs snapped in the opposite direction and he collapsed.

At the same time, Park Sang-min’s upper body lowered to my eye level.

He stared at Park Sang-min’s face, which had turned pale and gray, with his mouth open, and spoke calmly.

“······It’s a little late.”

After telling him the rest of the story, he chopped off his head with an axe.

Bam!

May the last member of this House rest in peace.

*

The hunt is over and night has come.

The fanatics who had been resisting fiercely fled into the ruins as if nothing had happened when they saw their new god being destroyed.

Around the Capitol, hunters were celebrating their victory with small toasts.

Naturally, I did not participate in their festival.

Kim Da-ram approached me amidst loud cheers.

When our eyes met, we both smiled awkwardly, as if we had made a promise.

The first one to take action was Kim Da-ram.

She took off her blindfold with a bitter smile.

In an area where I thought there was nothing, the same clear and bright sparkling eyes as before remained intact.

When I looked at her questioningly, she protested with a bitter smile.

“You’ve cosplayed before, haven’t you? Anyway, I thought you’d follow me because of your senior personality. It was impossible.”

Kim Da-ram looked into the sky and smiled sadly.

We’re laughing together, but I can definitely feel it.

An invisible, transparent wall between her and me that seemed like it would never be erased.

But today I want to end it with a casual laugh.

“Kim Da-ram. You too······.”

That’s how I feel.

“I’m a mother now.”

Kim Da-ram signaled to the armored vehicle with a strange smile that was hard to tell if it was a bitter smile or a sneer.

The door opened and we boarded the armored vehicle.

“I’m going.”

The armored vehicle took off.

Even as the armored vehicle was leaving, Kim Da-ram stood on the side of the road and saw me off alone.

I looked at my junior absentmindedly.

The dignity that came from his tall stature and muscular body came across as a solidity that was no less than that of a healthy man.

And she walked out into the bright festival grounds with movements like a leopard I had first seen at school.

“Team Leader!”

“Team Leader Kim!”

She was in the light.

With the applause, respect and welcome of countless people.

I once was in that world of light and wanted to be there again.

But now, that world of light is not so dazzling.

What should I say, it’s boring, or it doesn’t fit my body.

As my thoughts flowed that far, one thought suddenly took over my mind.

Perhaps my true record of taboo is not the skeleton’s actions engraved on the Internet, but the history of hatred I wrote on the battlefield?

If you think about how he was excited and enjoyed hunting with his old colleague Kim Da-ram, even though he knew it was wrong.

At least, if you look at the world of my subconscious, where I put my long-standing hatred and the armband on the same level, it might be a possible story.

“stop!”

Suddenly the armored vehicle stopped.

The person who gave the order to stop wanted to see me so I came outside.

The man standing in front of the headlights was a soldier wearing sunglasses and four stars.

“Are you that Park Gyu Hunter?”

This is Kim Byeong-cheol.

I was wondering where you went when you disappeared in the middle of nowhere, but you never expected me to find you here. And you even changed your monocle to sunglasses in the middle of the night.

“Thank you for your hard work. Thanks to you, we were able to regain the heart of the Republic of Korea.”

Kim Byeong-cheol smiled sadly and held my hand.

The monocle sparkled strangely in the starlight.

“I can’t help but lament why such a great hunter as you had to go into hiding. The Awaken are definitely the enemy of humanity. They cloud the eyes of humans. I don’t like the Chinese, but we need to learn from them when it comes to how we treat the Awaken.”

I guess it’s this guy.

I think he likes me.

Of course it would catch your eye.

I provided several services for him today.

“Hey, do you have a K-walkie-talkie? If not, send me one with a personal identification number.”

“I have it.”

“Oh? Really? Then call me. Just a moment.”

Well, I guess we don’t have a choice.

It’s not Kim Da-ram, but the leader of the legion faction who asked me directly, so I have no choice but to teach him.

He is the most powerful person in South Korea right now.

The point is that there is nothing good about being out of favor.

“Okay! Verite! Ready!”

Kim Byeong-cheol prepared to type on a smartwatch that did not match his age.

“Okay, let me call you.”

“This is SKELTON.”

Kim Byeong-cheol entered my personal identification code into his smartwatch and then suddenly raised his head to look at me.

“······Skeleton?”

He stares at me.

And with an intense gaze.

“Skeleton······.”

Kim Byeong-cheol asked me in a low voice with a meaningful smile.

“Do you use the internet by any chance?”

“?”

“Viva! Apocalypse! Right?”

what?

What does it mean?

End

ⓒ Road Warrior#

(Main comments)

(Ja**) -Recommendation 117-

Oh my god, there are only three people in Korea who have the golden fleece, and the person in charge of Jeju Island is the nobleman who is no different from the highest authority in the peninsula.

The record of doing viva apo is forbidden ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

(Lasan**) -Recommendation93-

There’s a reason why M9 lived so long. He’s been alive for so long because his LAN friends were considerate of him.

(cjsa**) -Recommendation78-

ㅋㅋ Even the commander of the legion knows the likable skeleton ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

(now***) -Recommendation77-

Viva’s 5th Madman Skeletonㅋㅋㅋㅋ

(What***) -Recommendation75-

ㅋㅋㅋㅋ This is how you get named after aggro and teasing

(Ro**) -Recommendation 63-

Oh, now that you’re so high up there, you’re saying you wouldn’t do Viva Apocalypse, your only entertainment? Lol

(Outside the world***) -Recommendation 58-

Army Group B is the army group that fought the Battle of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front, and the unit commanded by Rommel and Model on the Western Front, so it’s enough to make a German general go crazy…

Achtung is roughly equivalent to attention. In English, it’s attension. As for the monocle, it’s probably the Walther model Ppadol, which is famous for its mobile defense.

You could commit suicide at the last minute and go to the afterlife…

(mand***) -Recommend55-

That guy must be Army Group B, who used to speak German. Haha. I enjoyed watching him today too.

(ddkk***) -Recommendation 50-

Haha …

It was a fucking community…..

(SSF**) -Recommendation 49-

Viva Apo’s favorite skeletonㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

(Donggle***) -Recommendation 41-

Park Sang-min, who had an accident while trying to leave behind great achievements for his supporters, has finally been given peace.

It’s cool to see them finally wrapping up the cases they couldn’t finish in the past.

(Villain Kim***) -Recommendation 39-

Just looking at the commander’s reaction, no matter how much the writer packages it, the forbidden record is a skeleton lol

(Ilan**) -Recommendation 36-

Kim Da-ram and Skeleton cosplaying each other is so funnyㅋㅋㅋㅋ

(olr**) -Recommendation 19-

One of the reasons why our Mini didn’t go to Jeju Island is because of Park Gyu!?

I’m delusional that this monster lure is actually to protect the place where Park Gyu is.

(Mr.***) -Recommendation 15-

Park Gyu said that he gets sleepy and his eyes get blurry every time he fights, but his mind becomes clearer when he fights with Kim Da Ram.

Is it the difference between accepting something you previously wanted to avoid?

(H**) -Recommendation 15-

The whole world is a place of sympathy…..

(Moon***) -Recommendation 5-

Yeoncham, the best birthday present ever