Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 266
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110. Debt (1)
It’s already been a week since I returned to my territory.
Group living was awkward at first, but as I got used to it, it gradually found its way back to normal.
The first urgent matter is fortification.
If you decide to fortify, you must do it properly.
Although Ha Tae-hoon procured cement and built an outer wall around the narrow entrance, it did not surround the entire area.
The cliff-faced northern and northeastern slopes appear to be natural barriers.
It is an area with steep slopes and dense trees that is difficult for ordinary people to access, but that does not mean you can let your guard down.
Because the damage you’ll receive when an enemy appears from an unexpected place is uncalculatable.
You could install motion detectors, but that would involve the hassle of wiring them up, so for now, we’ll just install a trap made of wire and tin cans, which we found very useful on Jeju Island.
If you want to truly defend against a dangerous path, you have to go there yourself.
This is because the rough road inevitably has only one or two fixed penetration routes.
However, rock climbing is something I don’t really like and am not very good at.
Kim Da-ram is very good at rock climbing.
There is currently no news about her.
The legion left Seoul without sending any news from Seoul.
I can’t know because I wasn’t there, but from what I’ve heard on the bulletin boards, it was a reckless withdrawal, far from an organized retreat.
It’s as if each unit moves separately.
If you think about it, the Legion Faction is more of a confederation of warlord groups centered around generals and high-ranking officers rather than a unified system.
A very good future is not expected.
However, intermediate bases like Wonju and Chuncheon and major bases like Sokcho are still intact, so there is no immediate risk of collapse.
I contacted Defender to let him know that I was back in Jeju Island.
However, he has been busy recently and only gave short answers.
I sent a message to Dajeong, but I didn’t get a reply, either because she wasn’t feeling well or because she didn’t have access to the internet.
It’s true that I’m a little worried, but I won’t worry too much about it.
It’s a world where everyone becomes stronger.
Even children.
All the weak ones are dead and gone.
Anyway, it looks like we’ll have to wait until fall to test that rough road.
Because if I climb, I’ll be able to climb it with relative ease.
“We’re going to install a motion sensor in the blue chalk mark. It’s a device that will sound an alarm the moment a human-sized creature climbs over the fence.”
I checked out the upcoming opening work by looking around the exterior wall with Ha Tae-hoon and Cheon Young-jae.
They are all experts so I don’t really have anything to say, but that doesn’t mean I won’t express my thoughts.
“Here. Isn’t it a little loose? If you have good athletic ability, you can easily jump up the ridge and climb over the fence.”
“Really? I don’t think it’s that easy.”
If you stay for a long time, you can see things like a person’s hidden personality.
Ha Tae-hoon is stubborn.
This is the type of person who doesn’t like their ideas to be interrupted or modified.
They say there are a lot of friends like this in the art world, especially in the drawing world, and since our school is also a place that pursues its own craft, there were a lot of friends like that.
So I know very well how to persuade these people.
“Then let me show you.”
In front of the wall, Ha Tae-hoon ran as fast as he could up the hill and easily climbed onto the wall.
“hmm.”
When I showed him a direct example, Ha Tae-hoon quickly agreed.
“Let me think about it.”
As a team leader, you always have to convince your team members to build a good team.
In particular, differences in opinion must be corrected from time to time.
Demonstrating and demonstrating results is a small but effective persuasive skill.
As we were working on the exterior walls, we thought about how we could operate them more efficiently and safely.
I took my bike out of the area and took a spin around the area.
While Ha Tae-hoon was digging the cement, he headed to the nearby forest with Cheon Yeong-jae.
Cheon Yeong-jae was given a Joseon sickle.
“What? Are you going to make me do some weeding?”
“Similar work. I’ll ask you to weed from here to the point where I show the signal.”
“It’s not particularly difficult, but I’d like to hear the reason.”
“I want to see how the exterior wall looks from the outside when there are no grass or trees.”
“If that’s the case, then I have no complaints.”
While Cheon Yeong-jae was weeding, I cut down the shrubs with a chainsaw.
Since most of the trees were only three years old at most, there was no particular difficulty in logging them.
The cut trees and grass were gathered in a cart and placed in front of the base in a sunny location.
It could be used for anything, whether as fuel in the winter or as building material.
After weeding, I got back on my bike and headed outside.
This time, Cheon Yeong-jae also came along.
“oh.”
Cheon Yeong-jae let out an exclamation.
“That hill. It’s kind of fraudulent.”
The hill where my bunker is located is not so much abrupt as a hill in the back village, but rather has the shape of a trapezoid with one angle nearly a right angle.
It also has many rugged hills here and there, so there is more hidden than meets the eye.
When I first put up the outer wall, it seemed as if the confidentiality of my area would be lost forever, but when I actually weeded and looked at the hill again, there wasn’t much of a mark.
Even in winter, unless you look closely, you’ll likely pass it by just by looking at it from the outside.
This secrecy will at least not pique the interest of any hostile raiders passing through my territory.
My opinion is that combat should be avoided as much as possible, even when forming a group.
“I think just a little finishing touches are needed on the exposed outer wall over there.”
“What are you going to end it with?”
“Let’s use natural stone. We have an excavator.”
While working on the exterior walls, we also discussed defensive operations.
Now that the Legion Faction has left Seoul and even the Legion Faction broadcast has been cut off, it is impossible to know when the academy hunters who were kicked out or left behind by the Legion Faction might come after us.
Some people say that practice and planning are completely different from actual combat and therefore of little help in actual combat, but I disagree.
Daily practice and thorough planning will give you a milestone that is close to the correct answer in an actual combat situation.
“Let’s assume that a fight breaks out on the premise that a motion detector or sound detector is activated.”
It was very hot in the middle of the day, so I took a break in my bunker with the air conditioning on and discussed the operation plan.
Valentine also attended this event.
His main job is still to poke holes in Jeju’s intranet, but since he is one of our members, he is also responsible for one axis of the defense plan.
“Mr. Park Man-su, please take charge of this area.”
The place left to Valentine is on the cliff side.
The terrain is rugged and the high ground is easy to defend.
A single gunshot can stop an entire platoon of troops.
We, who are in charge of the full-scale battle, have each set our own boundary zones.
Cheon Yeong-jae decided to stay outside as before, but to follow the plan he had established from the beginning: to respond from outside when the battle began.
Therefore, the two defensive forces inside the base are me and Ha Tae-hoon.
To be honest, it’s lacking.
I wish there were two or three more.
This is because Ha Tae-hoon’s spending habits are so large that there is a lot of space left to protect by surrounding the outer wall with a generous amount of money.
If there are no people, we must use machines.
I asked Ha Tae-hoon.
“Hey, senior. Can’t you make something like the stationary drone that the Chinese military uses?”
“It exists, but with my technology, I can’t implement the function to identify enemies and shoot them with IFF.”
“In this day and age, things like PIAs are a luxury.”
“Then what should we do?”
“Is it possible to set up a kill zone?”
“That’s a basic function.”
“Let’s create a no-go zone. We’ll install drones in areas where we absolutely cannot pass, and shoot at anyone who passes by. Of course, only at night.”
“Okay. Let’s give it a try. Okay.”
The outline of the defense plan is roughly visible.
With three skilled fighters, it’s a breeze.
Ordinary people would not have come to this conclusion so easily.
“Park Gyu.”
Ha Tae-hoon called me.
“why?”
“Electricity, isn’t it a bit lacking?”
“It’s electric······.”
Just turn the generator.
My generator is, frankly speaking, no one within a 20km radius has a better generator than me.
If we limit the target to individuals, we can count them on one hand.
However, the generator requires oil.
While I was running errands for Woo Min-hee and Kim Da-ram, I had managed to build up quite a generous reserve, but that standard of abundance only applies to when I use it alone.
At this point in time, when the number of people has increased, it can never be said to be a large number.
“I think we might need some auxiliary power.”
Ha Tae-hoon uses electricity a lot in particular.
This is because all the machines he handles are machines that run on electricity.
Not only that, Valentine also consumes a lot of electricity.
The desktop he brought with him consumes a lot of electricity.
Consuming electricity in this way would require turning on the generator every day, which would lead to depletion of fuel.
But how do you get electricity?
It’s not easy.
There is one method that comes to mind right away.
“How about solar energy? Why isn’t there any here?”
That’s what I thought.
Solar power generation has been avoided for several reasons so far.
It was considered a trap card, especially because it was vulnerable to drone reconnaissance.
But at this point, when the group is formed, it is a card that can be fully considered.
“Not bad. But where do I get the solar panels?”
“There used to be a few power plants built by carving into the mountains, but now they’ve all been torn down.”
“then?”
Ha Tae-hoon crossed his arms and looked lost in thought.
“It would be better to make a deal.”
“It’s a deal.”
“When I was in Seoul and Incheon, there were markets.”
“There’s no place to stand right now.”
“If we can find a group to trade with, even if there is no market, we might be able to get solar panels.”
Ha Tae-hoon showed off his K-walkie-talkie.
“If you say something on the public frequency with this, you will get a response at a high frequency.”
He chuckled.
“Isn’t it the predators who answer with high frequency?”
Ha Tae-hoon responded with a big smile.
“Maybe so, but isn’t it harder to find someone in this day and age who isn’t a predator?”
“That’s true.”
It was the first time I seriously considered the concept of trading.
I have made several transactions when I lived alone, but in today’s world where public safety has disappeared, it is easier to make transactions with others than alone.
Even if you exchange one item right now, it can send a completely different message to the other person depending on whether or not there is an ally with a gun behind them.
“You want to make a deal?”
Cheon Yeong-jae, who had just returned from the bathroom, suddenly joined the conversation.
He nodded and explained the outline of the conversation.
“You mean you want to do a deal but it’s hard to find the other party?”
“Yes.”
“Then how about going to Sejong?”
“Sejong?”
“I heard that a pretty big city has been built there.”
I forgot about it for a moment.
Our king, the city he created.
Geographically, it is closer than Seoul and Incheon, and there is less of a threat from the remnants of the Legion faction.
Above all, there are people in that city who live fiercely.
Although they are called slaves by gangsters, their desire for a better tomorrow is incomparable.
In a city like that, things like solar panels might be easy to obtain?
Above all, I am the King’s friend.
“Okay. Let me think about that for a moment. Good job, everyone.”
I finished my day and went online.
It’s nothing new, but there has been a lot of “influx” to the bulletin board.
The numbers didn’t suddenly increase.
It’s just that the “ㅇㅇ” friends of Palenet, who had a large share of the bulletin board, were wiped out, and the friends who were relatively invisible started to stand out.
It is understandable that there is a lot of influx, as our Internet satellite devices have been popular items traded at high prices since the days of PaleNet.
The recent trend on the bulletin board is not Dongtan Mom.
His precarious return turned into a short-lived trend.
The topic that has been frequently discussed on the bulletin board is none other than Fox Game.
The game he ambitiously launched in collaboration with Melon Mask is now starting to lose its appeal.
In the first place, the game was created by a young couple working under Fox Games, so it was inevitable that there would be problems during the maintenance process.
The more patches you apply, the more broken the game becomes.
It’s satisfying to see Fox Games’ ratings go down, but as always, the message boards aren’t all filled with good stuff.
ONE_FAITH: The scene of the Wonju Massacre.jpg
A user I’m seeing for the first time uploaded a bizarre photo.
The picture was full of ashes and countless corpses.
Hundreds of naked corpses were piled like luggage against a backdrop of an unidentifiable concrete wall – at least 10 metres high.
I didn’t think it was particularly cruel.
It was just that the shape and appearance of the corpses lying around felt unrealistic.
Beneath the strange photo was written a message from One Face.
-This is the true nature of the Legion.
Our bulletin board users did not leave any comments on the photo.
This is because there is a deep-rooted post-war tradition of turning a blind eye to realities that one does not particularly wish to see.
But the friends who came in were different.
Anonymous1588: What is this? Is this a recent photo?
Anonymous1882: What did the Legion do?
Kronos: Oh my
Anonymous1429: It’s a photo from World War II······.
Anonymous1392: What World War II photos are taken in QHD quality?
Yappi: Huh
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It’s not a pretty sight.
It feels like our traditions, our bonds, are being destroyed by foreign seeds brought in from outside.
At that time, a man appeared like a comet.
mmmmmmmmm :
——Inflow cut line———
It’s m9.
Anonymous1588: What is this? Is this a recent photo?
Anonymous1882: What did the Legion do?
Kronos: Oh my
Anonymous1429: It’s a photo from World War II······.
Anonymous1392: What World War II photos are taken in QHD quality?
Yappi: Huh
mmmmmmmmm :
———-Inflow cut line ———–
As a veteran user, I have made a harsh judgment that all my comfort is an influx.
The moment I saw that writing, I unconsciously clenched my fists.
“Emgoo. Nice guy.”
I immediately contacted Vivabot.
SKELTON: Hey, Vivabot. I have a very patient personality, so I haven’t rushed you yet, but when are you going to give me the Hidden Armband permission?
There is no answer.
It’s dawn in North America, so it’s probably time to go to bed.
While waiting for a later contact, I was slowly thinking about how to send a message to Crunchyroll – King of Sejong.
Oneface posted another article.
ONE_FAITH : The Faces of Murderers.jpg
Oneface posted another article.
The photo is a different angle of the pile of corpses shown earlier.
Men in military uniforms, holding guns, stood guard in their respective positions with stern faces.
Some people were wearing masks called balaclavas, but some had their faces exposed.
But one of those faces looks familiar.
“······Defender.”
That’s right.
The face of the handsome man smoking a cigarette with a blank expression among the soldiers wearing balaclavas is unmistakably that of the Defender, Hong Jeong-ho.
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