Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 24
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21. Faith
Faith is not the sole property of God.
There are many different beliefs.
Belief in love between lovers, the belief in one’s own luck that successful businessmen often have, the belief that a sports coach stubbornly employs a struggling player, etc.
I once witnessed a similar belief at a real estate cafe I briefly joined when I was looking at land in the past.
If I were to write from a vague memory, perhaps written by someone whose entire fortune was a house,
Real estate is always going up~ Even if there is war, even if a missile falls, even if the country falls~
I think it felt like this.
I generally agree, but I don’t think real estate will rise even in extreme situations like war.
There are people in our community who have similar beliefs.
mmmmmmmmm : (Breaking News) The United States declares national normalization!
mmmmmmmmm : (Flyer) Icheon-Yeoju food belt optimization
mmmmmmmmm: A cargo ship has arrived in Busan!
This guy, m9, who talks crazy every day, wasn’t crazy about tomorrow from the beginning.
He was an ordinary user with perfectly normal thoughts and standard values by bulletin board standards.
Things started to change for M9 after he won a spot in a state-of-the-art apartment called “The Hope.”
Until then, m9 had been just another ordinary user, but he suddenly changed and started criticizing the lifestyle he had chosen.
But our Viva! Apocalypse! Korean bulletin board users are not so easygoing people.
Since I have nothing else to do and spend all day logged onto the bulletin board, I know quite well how to deal with strange friends.
The method we have chosen is no response.
It is a social sanction that is imposed by collectively ignoring others without the need to engage in conversation or debate.
Considering that the primary purpose of this bulletin board is communication, collective ignoring is a severe punishment, comparable to a death sentence.
But this isn’t someone else’s story.
I’m a little bit at risk too······.
SKELTON: What would you like for breakfast?
I carefully selected articles that would be worthy of comments, even omitting the prideful, arrogant title, but no one commented.
The cause is human hunters.
The spam those guys posted before saying “I like skeletons!” is what really ruined my little reputation.
A user who was friendly with me messaged me about this.
Message from Kyle_Dos: Are you really friends with Defender? Do you know what image Defender has here?
I know.
Everyone hates it, but it’s a necessary evil that we just leave alone because his writing is different from other users’ and there’s a lot to see.
With such a weirdo harassing me, it’s no wonder my image is in tatters.
In fact, on the bulletin board, I am already treated as a full-fledged member of the “Defender Friendship Family.”
But a reversal is not impossible.
The role model is the m9 mentioned earlier.
M9, who was socially condemned to death by being ignored by the group, has suddenly emerged as a user who is receiving a lot of attention after a long silence.
His momentum was so strong that users who had blocked him unblocked him and searched for his posts.
The starting point comes from a recent post by m9.
mmmmmmmmm : “The Hope” Forest Manager
The post was accompanied by three low-quality videos, recorded without any explanation.
In the first video, M9 is shown coming out of a bunker holding a selfie stick and traveling to Seoul, with a lot of editing cut out.
The face of M9 reflected on the screen looked older than me, and for some reason, there were two dogs in the bunker.
Welsh Corgi? French Bulldog? Maybe something like that.
“Now, this is the road that connects my hideout to Seoul. As you can see, it’s very safe! There are always soldiers guarding here. Looters? There were no such things. But what good is security? If you stay in a bunker, your body will rot.”
Unlike my territory, which was now bustling with pioneers, soldiers and armored vehicles were marching in an orderly manner along the road around the M9 bunker.
For some reason, the army was heading towards Seoul instead of the front line, and that seemed to be a good thing for M9.
“I’m going to reveal my new apartment right now! Antis! Open your eyes and look! You’re dead now, so even if you wake up, you won’t be able to have this house!”
M9 must have been through a lot, because he vented his anger towards the camera.
But this human.
“Especially you skeleton! You punk. What? You said it would never be built? What? Official Jiin Bal? Ha! How can a real person be like that? Just swear at them. Don’t touch people’s hopes with such a dirty trick!”
Why are you always being such a jerk to me?
Anyway, I was able to learn about the current situation of The Hope through the video.
As times change, the country quickly built one model building instead of the entire complex, and planned to accept residents from the model building, test the living environment, etc., and use the data obtained from there to develop the rest of the complex.
M9 is said to be one of the test units moving into the demonstration building.
But something feels awkward.
Even if it’s just one apartment, doesn’t it take some time to build?
Just leveling the land would take at least a year.
How on earth did they shorten the construction period?
The answer was in the video of m9.
For a moment I doubted my eyes.
“and······.”
It can’t be helped,
That apartment is tilted.
It is tilted at such a serious angle that it is scary to see, as if to show off that if Italy has the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Korea has The Hope.
But it seems that m9 doesn’t see anything like that.
“Okay, then I’ll reveal my sweet home. No more moldy bunkers!”
The inside was somehow decorated.
Built-in display cabinets and closets, bathroom with bathtub, boiler, flushing toilet, sink, refrigerator, washing machine, friends of the household.
However, it was only a fancy one, and the interior of the apartment shown on the screen was full of defects.
The wallpaper was peeling off as if it had been glued with adhesive, there were cracks all over the bathroom walls, the built-in refrigerator wouldn’t turn on, and there was no water coming out of the faucet.
What was most impressive was the scene where, when m9 dropped the pen, it rolled gently down the living room floor.
The community’s reaction was a question mark in itself.
Anonymous848: ?
Kyle_Dos : ?
Anonymous: 458 : ?
DragonC: ?
unicorn18 : ?
Defender: ?
Surivival_KING : ?
SKELTON: Oing?!
Anonymous118: ?
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This is truly shoddy construction.
People who won the lottery realized the reality and complained, so I uploaded it in a ridiculous way by urinating on their feet.
A reporter based in Seoul actually brought us accurate information.
gijayangban: (Palenet pump) The Hope pilot generation is not a lottery, but an application. About 2,000 people went, but they turned around and left after seeing the apartment leaning. The actual safety diagnosis results are that it could collapse at any time, but the higher-ups cut it and determined it to be habitable. Currently, Seoul citizens are betting on when The Hope will collapse.
Palenet, which is mainly used by journalists, is a community that uses wired and wireless internet networks, unlike our Viva! Apocalypse!, so the connection is very unstable and even the server crashes from time to time, but as an open internet, it has an overwhelming number of users, so the reliability and vastness of the information are incomparable to ours.
The last photo of Chairman Je-Pung-Ho was also taken from PaleNet.
There are many rumors, but the reporter had the eye to distinguish between the fake and the real, and with that ability, he became a named user in a short period of time.
All community users nodded in agreement with the reporter’s words, but only one person got angry and denied it.
mmmmmmmmm: You read the novel well~ It looks like you live in the outskirts of Seoul, so don’t pretend to know me and go your way~
Despite the harsh sarcasm, the m9 became a popular user experience.
People wondered.
When will the m9 apartment collapse?
When will m9 disappear from the bulletin boards?
Since that day, m9’s posts have received an average of more than 10 comments per post.
The content was largely similar.
Anonymous118: Brother, are you okay?
unicorn18: Didn’t your house shake today?
Anonymous458: Boom, boom!
Anonymous848: Moving on~
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Although it wasn’t a result I induced, I was strongly stimulated when I saw that m9, a user who had to be blocked, was receiving many comments.
I’ve come to the realization that even if I get blocked a lot, if I’m having fun, other friends will unblock me.
I have some good material.
This is the construction of a camouflage house that was planned just a while ago.
The plan itself was simple.
All you have to do is put the old container house on the site of the collapsed bunker and make some repairs.
After a long time, I took out the forklift and moved the containers to make it into a place where people can live, and then posted a post on the bulletin board.
SKELTON: “The Fake” Forest
I uploaded it again with a different title because the title was not intuitive and it seemed to have low views.
SKELTON: “Skeleton Second Condominium” Forest
The title wasn’t the problem.
Many users just read my posts and then disappear.
Later, the Defender, presumably his younger brother, told me the exact reason.
Defender: This is a crappy house. You want to live in a place like this instead of a bunker? Are your circumstances that bad?
It seems that the quality of the house itself was the problem.
It’s a disguised house, so I just roughly touched it up, but even though it’s a disguised house to me, other users won’t know that fact.
Who likes to hear a rattling noise in a corner of a beggar’s house?
It was my mistake to not be able to meet the customer’s eye level.
By the way, why is this guy so clingy?
Message from Defender: (Defender shy) Shall we merge???
Anyway, m9 has been on a roll ever since.
In particular, on the day he left the bunker and moved into The Hope under military escort(?), he received a whopping 122 comments.
It got to the point where even Yankees from foreign bulletin boards came to ask what was going on.
As is the case with all things in life, the gossip about m9 was quickly consumed and quickly forgotten.
The bigger problem is that the minor incident called m9 has been lightly buried.
The clue was already in the footage taken by M9.
The army marching towards Seoul.
They were the troops guarding the front lines.
The troops guarding the eastern front collectively mutinied, turned their units around, and “marched” toward Seoul.
Their cause was based on facts.
“Citizens. The government of the Republic of Korea is lying to you right now. The president and other government ministers have already taken out all the equipment and high-level personnel, especially the hunters, and moved them to Jeju Island. They have abandoned us.”
It wasn’t just one army that entered Seoul.
Another army from the west entered Seoul.
Their justification also had some merit.
“The mission of the ROK Armed Forces is to protect the country and its people. Politics, as the tainted constitutional history of the ROK shows, is an area that soldiers should not touch or overlook. I, Lim Myeong-su, will protect Seoul from all threats in order to protect the people of the ROK, the National Assembly, and the Constitution of the ROK.”
The two armies faced each other in Seoul.
The capital of a country already divided into the South and the North was now divided into the East and the West.
Soldiers wearing the same uniform faced each other at crossroads, building barriers and preparing combat supplies.
The military, backed by the National Assembly, and the military, backed by the Legion, entered into negotiations over their demands, but the chances of a successful outcome were slim.
A reporter who has lived in Seoul and experienced various incidents firsthand expressed his feelings of despair for the first time.
gijayangban: Choosing Seoul might have been a mistake.
At that point, I tried contacting Kim Da-ram.
Kim Da-ram didn’t answer my call.
Have you ever been on a transport that crosses my territory before?
Or maybe there were other circumstances that prevented you from contacting me.
While Kim Da-ram’s reply was increasingly delayed, I read the bulletin board in silence for a while.
A prominent author appeared.
mmmmmmmmm: It’s good news that the military has come.
It’s m9.
I searched for his writing after a long time.
mmmmmmmmm : (In Seoul Desk) The reason why civil war doesn’t happen.txt
mmmmmmmmm: Don’t touch “The Hope”. Why? Because it’s where the generals live!
mmmmmmmmm: (Negotiation settlement imminent) General’s Apartment! The Hope!
mmmmmmmmm: When the negotiations are over, our neighborhood will be booming~
Even when everyone was anticipating catastrophe, he was singing a hymn of faith.
I know m9 blocked me, but I still felt bad so I sent him a message.
SKELTON: Do you know you’re really dangerous?
I didn’t expect a reply.
But then a reply came.
That’s right!
Message from mmmmmmmmm: I know. But what do you want me to do?
reversal.
m9 didn’t block me.
Besides, he also knew that his choice was wrong.
Maybe that’s why.
m9 sent me a message without hesitation, as if he had been waiting for me for a long time.
Message from mmmmmmmmm: Yeah. Skeleton. Defender buddy. You don’t kill people, do you?
SKELTON: Don’t treat me like that.
Message from mmmmmmmmm: Skeleton, you keep giving me attention, hey. Can I go to your bunker? Okay? I have two dogs, can I come with you? You can eat them if you want.
SKELTON : Block
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One day, two years and one month after the war began.
There’s still no contact with Kim Da-ram.
A civil war broke out in Seoul.
Two armies wearing the same uniform and speaking the same language pointed their guns at each other and sprayed the flames of anger.
The week-long civil war left much of Seoul in flames and created millions of refugees.
A photo taken inside that hell was posted on a bulletin board.
The photo showed a lonely apartment building against a backdrop of a fiery sunset and actual burning ruins.
That’s an apartment I know.
The Hope.
A symbol of hope.
And the faith of one man.
A state-of-the-art apartment building, occupied by only one generation, still stands slanted in a corner of Seoul at this very moment, serving as a landmark of hope.
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