Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 28



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24. Magic Potion (1)

I had a dream after a long time.

It was humiliating for me, who strives for short but perfect sleep, to dream, but the dream itself was interesting.

Park Gyu prepared for his future in the United States, not in Korea.

They easily obtained firearms and built a huge fortress in the vast wilderness that could stand up to the chairman of a conglomerate.

From the highest tower of that citadel, you shoot and kill all the invading Yankees, cowboys, superheroes, crazy mice, etc., crush the monsters with an 18-wheeled trailer, and somehow have dinner with the President of the United States.

At the height of my dream, I tried to say something to the President.

But no words came out.

I knew what I wanted to say, but my unfamiliarity with his language and my doubts about whether I was expressing myself correctly kept me from speaking.

In an instant I realized that I was a stranger in that land and woke up with a feeling of being steamed.

There is nothing to add or subtract.

It’s a dog dream. A funny dog ​​dream.

But the background and circumstances of that dream seemed to faintly foreshadow the future that was about to unfold for me.

I felt that way when I thought about the people I would soon meet.

There has been a lot of gunfire lately.

Judging from the one-sided shooting, it doesn’t seem like a combat situation has broken out, but the frequency of gunfire is excessively high.

I wonder if there’s a problem.

I don’t think it’s a situation where we can communicate, so I’m just waiting and seeing, but I’m worried.

Perhaps the frequent shootings are not simply signs of intruders, but signs of madness.

Two years have already passed since the war began.

That’s enough time to drive one person crazy.

The sniper has always asked me for drugs.

But what drug can soothe her empty heart?

If there is a magic potion, I don’t know.

But where can you find the magic potion?

*

A person has a good reputation and is worth seeing.

There are still people on the message boards looking for Kyledos.

Anonymous848: Kyledos! Are you alive? Where are you?

Anonymous458: Kyledos! Sorry. I was a bit disappointed when I heard you were going to be the main character of a webtoon. I’m begging for your forgiveness, so please come back!

Today, Dragon C uploaded the latest version of Remnant.

The latest episode depicts the final story of Kyledos, who fights desperately to protect his wife from invading deserters.

At the last moment, he realized he was overpowered, held hands with his wife, shared a final kiss, then pulled the grenade’s pincers out, glaring at the enemies rushing into the bunker.

bang!

Explosion ending.

The reaction was extremely enthusiastic.

Anonymous458: ㅠㅠ

roka3218 : ㅠㅠ

keystone : ㅠㅠ

THE_LAST_MAN : ㅠㅠ

Anonymous848: ㅠㅠ

kimcic : ㅠㅠ

gijayangban : ㅠㅠ

Defender: ㅠㅠ

James_Catterer : TT

James_Catterer : Can somebody translate this to English?

..

…

Everyone was shedding tears at their keyboards.

Even the Defender.

But that didn’t happen to me and one other person.

SKELTON: Hmm….

unicorn18 : You were a virgin?

Objectively, they are good at grouping and beating each other.

One of them is a boring defender friend, and the other one is a weirdo who started losing his cool after his first year and became a real unicorn, just like his nickname suggests.

Anonymous848: Skeleton. Isn’t that too much?

Anonymous458: I feel like they got the concept wrong this time.

DragonC: Mr. Skeleton?

roka3218 :

kimcic : sir

keystone: A guy with nothing but flaws keeps complaining…

…

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As expected, we’re all tied up in a set and getting beaten up, but why does it feel like I’m the only one getting beaten up?

Even the Defenders noticed.

Message from Defender: (Defender is shocked) Skeleton, you… are you? A psychopath…?

Although I have been falsely accused, I am innocent.

This is my honest impression after going to the bunker in Kyledos and trying to confirm the truth.

To be honest, it wasn’t an explosive ending, right?

There was no news about Kyledos on the bulletin board.

I didn’t think it was necessary to do that.

I thought it would be better to leave him as the main character of the explosive ending rather than leaving it open to interpretation in multiple ways.

Anyway, it seems that when bad things happen, good things sometimes happen too.

A familiar face appeared in the comments section of the latest Remnant update after a long time.

It’s none other than Mr. Reporter.

The civil war started and everyone thought he was dead, but he came back to life and was secretly leaving comments on the webtoon.

It was only natural that the return of a named user who was thought to be dead would cause a stir on the bulletin board.

gijayangban: We were lucky. The National Assembly faction gave up the area around our apartment and moved their main resistance line farther back.

gijayangban: The reason I couldn’t log in until now is because the drone jammer was running right below. Also, there’s a command center right below, and if I had turned on something like a generator, a few Panzerfaust rounds would have come flying through the veranda.

Certainly, Mr. Reporter deserves to be named.

He, who used to easily fill the list of popular articles with just survival reports, unleashed a bundle of the latest information he had gathered from PaleNet as if to make up for the gap he had left behind.

gijayangban : destroyed tank.jpg

gijayangban: A large monster that was said to have been sighted in Dongducheon

gijayangban : (Bibo) The Hope hasn’t collapsed yet

gijayangban : Current situation in Gangdong-gu.jpg

gijayangban : A cargo ship bound for Jeju Island that is currently under construction.jpg

…

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For us, trapped in a tightly packed bunker, it felt like another world had opened up.

Although they are all equally exciting stories, there are some that particularly catch the eye.

gijayangban: Current situation of Seokju Group Chairman’s house.jpg

Even the conglomerates were helpless in the face of the extreme variable of war.

Even the chaebol families who had been building their own castles in the suburbs and preparing for the future are now targets of attack.

The castle of Chairman Park Cheol-ju, a representative figure, is one of them.

Even the helicopter that stood elegantly on the helipad, the beautiful greenhouse reminiscent of the Louvre Museum, and the mini golf course that looked like a luxury country club could not escape destruction.

As the response to the article about the chaebol family heated up, the reporter himself added an explanation in the comments.

gijayangban: It seems that one of the legionnaires’ units marked the coordinates and opened fire. For no particular reason, just for fun.

I also agree with the reporter’s opinion.

Those shell craters are the remains of a 155mm field gun.

A corps-level artillery unit is bombarding a conglomerate house in Chuncheon, not even Seoul, which has no strategic value? What other reason could there be, other than for fun?

The fallen citadel still houses the tycoon family, but with its walls crumbling and its foundations destroyed, it will not last long.

Maybe Chairman Je-Pung-Ho was wise.

In any case, the revival of the reporter brought great vitality to the bulletin board, which had been in a slump for a while.

This could be said to be a moment where you can see the power of the named users.

But, it seems that the country has surprisingly many jealous men.

“······.”

The desire to write about Kyledos spread to the very nerve endings of my fingers.

SKELTON: (Skeleton Report) Visiting the bunker in Kyledos (1)

I already had a plausible title in my head.

It’s a handsome title that was born with the destiny of being popular.

But I think it’s better not to use it.

I don’t want to break the impression of the bulletin board users.

The reality I saw was something that could be interpreted from many different angles.

In the minds of our bulletin board friends, Kyledos would be best served with an explosive ending.

“······.”

But when I think about it carefully, my thoughts gradually change.

Is it really best to save this good material?

A dramatic ending is good, but isn’t conveying the facts equally important?

Honestly, even though I have fewer sources than the reporter, I think my on-site reporting skills are far superior.

My intense internal conflict was suddenly brought to an abrupt end by a noise.

-Chijijik!

The K-Walkie-Talkie received a transmission.

“Skeleton.”

A familiar voice was heard.

It’s the sniper’s voice.

“I need support.”

Before he could finish his words, a sharp gunshot rang out from the south.

*

I still think that humans are the biggest threat in the apocalypse.

Although erosion is an unavoidable disaster, Kyledos was unlucky.

He got his footing too close to the crack.

The erosion rate itself is not that fast.

It’s quite slow, only dyeing about 1cm of radius per day.

But sometimes there are exceptions.

Although the exact conditions are unknown, there have been instances where large areas were eroded overnight.

There is a story that a sedentary monster is the culprit, but a sedentary monster only creates its own territory and does not act as a catalyst to speed up the erosion rate itself.

There may be other causes that we don’t know about, but generally speaking, areas with monsters tend to have faster erosion.

The reason they trained so many hunters from the old days must have been because they knew this fact from experience.

Don’t let Jeong Joo-hyung live, don’t wait for them to disappear, track down and kill the one the army missed.

This is a lesson learned in school.

Anyway, some reason caught up with Kyledos and made him leave the forum.

In my case, there is still time.

There is an absolute distance.

Another point is that Seoul is in the middle.

Even if Seoul collapses, there will be plenty of people who will settle down there and live there.

The value of Seoul will only rise, not fall.

Even if it becomes a ruin, everything you need will be underneath the ruins.

If my area is at risk of being eroded, abandoning the bunker may be an option.

There probably won’t be many people roaming around South Korea by then.

It means that the most deadly enemy has disappeared.

bang!

Why are humans our most feared enemy?

That was easy to see just by looking at the marauders who had invaded the sniper’s territory.

bang!

A group of looters are camped on a ridge about 1.2 km from the sniper’s building.

Two naked men, completely naked, jump around on the ridge, appearing and disappearing like moles in a game of whack-a-mole.

There’s a reason they do such crazy things in the middle of winter.

To mock the sniper.

bang!

No matter how good a sniper is at shooting, it is difficult to hit a fast-moving target 1.2 km away.

As gunfire rang out, naked men raised their fists and raised their middle fingers to taunt the snipers, and the laughter of several people could be heard from the ridge behind them.

bang!

Another nervous bullet slices through the air, only to be swallowed by the air itself.

“······.”

It may seem like a comedy from afar, but it can be extremely stressful for the people involved.

Because the guys who are clearly going to kill me and take everything are just within arm’s reach, mocking me.

In nature, it is no different from a predator that spots a hedgehog and instead of giving up, observes the hedgehog from all angles and figures out how to kill and eat it.

I’ll harass you by looking at your liver and eating away at your nerves until you drop.

“Kkiyahot!”

One of the guys jumped out onto the ridge, stretched out his body in a large heap, and let out a strange noise.

bang!

A nervous gunshot rings out, but before the gunshots can be heard, the naked looter hurries to take cover,

bang!

Another bullet struck the man’s body.

“Kiyahou!”

Even though he was shot and bleeding, the man screamed and ran for cover, and even louder laughter could be heard behind him.

Only humans can do this.

Only humans kill fellow humans with a clear purpose.

Monsters have no such purpose.

That’s why I rank monsters below humans, despite their deadly strength.

We went back a long way and reached the sniper’s territory.

I could see three corpses frozen solid at my feet.

Judging by the armband on his arm, he appears to have died in the fall, when they were at their most active among the pioneers.

“······.”

Is there no time to dispose of the body?

The whining of the sniper, who was always looking for drugs, came to mind.

Maybe she’s at her limit.

I waved my hand with some determination.

Soon, light reflected from the mirrors on top of the building flashed.

It’s Morse code.

The content tells you to wait.

I waited for the contact person to come with a stern face.

What soon appeared in front of me was not a sniper, but her daughter.

The kids were growing really fast, they were a head taller than when I saw them last time.

But the US military helmet on her head still looked bigger than her head, and the gun she was carrying didn’t look good on her body.

“Skeleton.”

The sniper’s daughter looked at me with a pensive face.

You can tell just by looking at the face.

That I’m under a lot of stress.

Your nutritional status will not be at a dangerous level, but it will not be abundant either.

“let’s go.”

No words of comfort were offered.

What they need is a solution to the problem.

I’m here to solve this problem.

But under no circumstances will drugs be handed over.

Because drugs are not short for magic potion.