Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 33



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26. Gold (3)

Since Gold joined the group, it was natural for me to join Jichangsu’s group as well.

Because it was obvious that the gold guy who knew of my existence and location would lead a group to kill me.

“With Hunter Park Gyu together, there is no other army like us!”

His subordinates, who were former employees of the company run by Ji Chang-soo, may not seem all that attractive, but they are well-armed and have the power of numbers.

Mutations are honest enemies.

If you lack firepower, it’s a nightmare, but if you have enough firepower, it’s no different from the safari hunting that white people used to do in Africa.

“Don’t shoot from too far away. Wait until you see the whites of their eyes, then fire a volley. The most important thing is to land an accurate shot.”

I hid my troops at the bottom of the gentle hill and climbed the hill alone.

I see them.

Five mutation dogs.

That’s a lot of numbers for a rifle, but we have machine guns.

But were the numbers really this small?

The group I saw earlier seemed to have at least ten of them.

Besides, the one guy I’m desperately looking for is nowhere to be seen.

Gold. Where did that guy go?

It certainly seemed like he was accepted into the group.

Rather, it is a good thing.

The fact that the gold guy isn’t here means he won’t be caught up in the impending massacre.

I shot a mutant dog with half a bullet.

bang!

You can see blood splattering on his shoulder, but that’s all.

They rarely die from one bullet.

When they open their mouths wide, aiming for the weak cartilage under the chin to crush the brain, or aiming for the gap in the shoulder blades that the huge head shields like a shield to crush the heart is a textbook one-shot, one-kill method, but it is hard to find someone crazy enough to try such a thing in real combat.

The mutation dogs glared at me and growled in unison, then began to run at a terrifying speed.

The battle has begun.

As I hurried down the hill, I saw Ji Chang-soo and his staff hurriedly checking their guns.

“I’ll be here soon. Please get ready.”

I didn’t think it would be a particularly difficult fight.

This is a fight that ends when you just keep your position and shoot the guys who show up.

There are only seven people with 5.56mm automatic rifles, not even pistols.

The bullet may miss.

While they’re tied up with our bait, our machine guns will wipe them all out.

No matter how strong the tendons and bones of a mutation are, they mean nothing in the face of the punch of a 12.7mm machine gun.

The gunner who takes charge of that important machine gun is a trustworthy man.

A person named Jeong Joong-sa, recruited by Ji Chang-soo, is a veteran from the legion who has experience fighting on the front lines.

In addition, Ji Young-hee is waiting behind the wheel of the bus with the engine running in case of an emergency.

If we fail, we plan to drive a bus with armor plates over them and rescue them.

Above all, I, Park Gyu, am here.

If Ji Chang-soo’s gang did even half as much, it would be easy to sweep them away.

If there were any Kim Da-rams that I couldn’t contact right now, I would kill them all.

Crash

Since even one bullet would be a waste in an emergency, I loaded one more bullet into the magazine and attached the magazine to the gun.

“Okay, here you go.”

The heavy breathing of dogs could be heard from behind the ridge.

Soon the first guy appeared from under the ridge.

Tata Tang!

The machine gun opened fire.

With just three shots, a mutant dog was crushed, blood spraying into the air.

I gave him a thumbs up.

“Nice shot.”

however.

“this.”

I found those guys so funny.

No, I thought that guy Gold was too funny.

He appeared at the beginning of the war and reigned as the loser of the southwest, avoiding countless pursuits and subjugations and allowing his group to prosper until now.

If we were to compare him to a human, he would be called a founder monarch.

When I actually dealt with him, I found that he was so smart and cunning that I would have thought he was a four-legged person.

The guy is aiming for the bus.

“Your Majesty!”

He immediately shouted at the shooter to warn him.

Jung Joong-sa quickly entered the ventilation shaft with his upper body sticking out like a veteran, but Gold had other plans.

Bang!

It’s a machine gun.

Gold’s teeth bit into the barrel of the machine gun and crushed it with their terrifying bite force.

“Krrrr.”

As soon as the battle started, I lost full power.

Ji Young-hee immediately stepped on the accelerator with all her might to throw Gold off the bus, but the fact remains that she lost the machine gun.

To make matters worse, huge dogs began to appear one after another on the ridge.

Ji Chang-soo’s employees began to back away with pale faces.

“Don’t worry. Not yet. Just follow my instructions······.”

This fight.

“Younghee! Younghee! Come here quickly!”

“Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!”

“It wasn’t coming!”

“Run away!”

“where?!”

I’m out of luck.

No, maybe it was because I secretly looked down on that dog named Gold.

How could you ever have thought that a dog would act like that?

The guy is a human in dog clothing.

Even if he had been born human, he would have been an exceptional warrior.

Tata tata tang!

The gun fired.

I knocked down the guy who was running at me with his mouth wide open by blowing air from inside his mouth.

Tata Tang!

While firing a deflecting shot at the guy turning to the side, I picked up the gun I had thrown on the ground and fired a deflecting shot at the guy turning to the opposite side.

bang!

“Boom!”

He’s crying with blood dripping from his side, but it’s probably just a joke.

At the same time, two men from the left and right rushed in as promised.

Tatang!

Two rooms were revealed under the shoulder blades in a split second.

Tata tata tang!

He aimed both guns at the guy on the other side and pulled the trigger hard.

“Kurrrrrr!”

The first one is already dead in midair, and the second one is coming towards me as if he’s going to pounce on me, drooling and leaning towards my body.

Even if it’s a mutation, if you get shot 50 times in the body, you’re bound to die even if it’s not a vital point.

As I throw down my gun and try to grab the next one, another one comes running at full speed from the front.

Srrrrung

Two axes gleamed in the winter sun.

I waited for the bastard’s torso to barely pass by my body and then struck the joint of its front legs.

Bam!

“Krrrrrr!”

Ignoring the fact that he raised his head and gaped his teeth, he even destroyed the joints of his hind legs.

Bam!

“Crunch!”

I watched him scream and fall to the ground, then stepped back, picked up my gun, reloaded it, and fired a full round into his struggling stomach.

“Hunter Park! Forward! Forward!”

I looked forward, feeling blood splattering my face.

There’s a big black one.

He is the new leader who pushed out gold.

If it was just this one guy, it might have been worth a try.

Next to him stood a fellow with golden mane and fur, walking gracefully.

I called the guy’s name.

“Gold.”

It’s not just gold.

Behind the black guy, guys I had never seen before began to appear one by one.

“ah.”

Did the guys I didn’t see before join in?

But why are there so many numbers?

Four, five maringas.

The situation, which had not been good from the beginning, was now heading towards catastrophe.

Two mutations were attached to the bus driven by Ji Young-hee, while another one was chasing after the rabble including Ji Chang-soo, taking them out of their minds.

I’m the only one who can fight.

“······.”

The opponent is seven mutation dogs.

That includes one overgrown individual.

It is a force that is too much for a naked human to handle alone.

“Phew.”

I thought I would die someday.

Maybe now is the moment.

What if I die here?

It’s a shame.

Dying leaving my bunker behind.

But that’s only a matter of time.

I know.

This Park Gyu-do will also die and disappear in destruction someday.

It’s just a matter of time.

But now,

Let’s just think about surviving.

What I’m good at.

Something I liked.

Let me do something that is the only thing in the world that will get me recognition.

He threw away his empty gun and picked up two axes.

Oddly enough, my axe felt lighter than usual.

It feels good.

Looking back, there were many situations more horrific than this.

For example, when a fanatic attached a bomb to a zombie’s body and forced him into close combat with hundreds of zombies.

Close combat specialized monsters – such as when fighting one-on-one with a dancer type.

Above all, when you are abandoned beyond the cracks.

Compared to that time, now I am full, mentally relaxed, and my reasons for living are much clearer.

Why, because I have something to protect.

Social distancing in bunkers, on bulletin boards, etc.

If the world’s best skeleton suddenly disappeared from the bulletin board, it would be obvious that everyone would be sad, right?

“Krrrrrr!”

The black one bared his teeth.

Looks like we’re going to have to deal with it directly.

I prepared for a fight that might be my last dance.

I saw gold just before the clash.

The guy just stands there, staring blankly at me.

What is he thinking?

“Crrrrrrr!”

It was when the black one roared and tried to charge forward.

A miracle happened.

Gold, who had been silently standing next to the black guy, suddenly turned around and bit the black guy’s neck.

“!”

The black guy glares at the sudden attack and tries to turn his head, but his neck has already been bitten.

Kwajik!

Gold’s teeth, which had even distorted the steel barrel, now crushed the black bastard’s neck.

The black one convulsed and flailed its forelegs in an abrupt manner before collapsing to the ground.

The miracle didn’t stop there.

“Gold!”

Gold, who had bitten and killed the black one, came to me with his bloody teeth exposed.

You’re not trying to fight me.

He wants to fight with me.

The species that should hate humans more than anyone else has taken the side of humans.

Human and dog became one.

Another tooth blocked the gunshot as it lunged forward.

Another tooth rushed forward, but was blocked by an axe, and another tooth bit its owner.

In the midst of the chaos of battle, I was constantly haunted by questions.

The dog’s sudden behavior of roaring and fighting next to me was either a response to my kindness, or a resentment toward the group that turned a blind eye to its downfall.

No, perhaps the dog’s genetically engraved nature has been expressed to the extent that even the intelligence created by the mutation has faded.

Because without humans, dogs are just another form of wolves.

*

Jichangsu’s adventure for his old master ended in vain.

We didn’t lose anyone, but we lost a vital weapon and the man himself was broken.

His staff gossiped about me and looked at me like I was a monster.

“Are they the same person? I’ve seen Awaken a few times, but they’re on a different level?”

“Was the rumor about him being an S-class hunter true? More importantly, what was that dog?”

“I don’t know. Everything is confusing.”

In the midst of the familiar commotion, Ji Young-hee came straight towards me.

She stared at me.

She spoke brazenly as I felt uncomfortable with the excessive stares.

“Would you like to go to Jeju Island together?”

“yes?”

“The ship to Jeju Island will be leaving soon. I have a ticket. A ticket that will assign you a nice place to go.”

“You, it happened so suddenly.”

“Do you know? Where Jeju Island is now?”

“I know that, but why should I go?”

“Are you single?”

Ji Young-hee showed a sad smile.

Since the original was such a beauty, even if she was a little dirty and her hair was messy, it was still quite stimulating.

I avoided eye contact, feeling burdened by the excessive approach.

“That’s true, but······.”

She continued, looking up at the sky.

“They say that even just one brush with fate is enough, but this is already our second time, right?”

“······.”

“I don’t think someone like you would be a widow twice. I think you’d be able to adapt to a new life on Jeju Island more easily.”

She clasped her hands together and wiggled her fingers.

She was taking the ring off her finger.

I looked back at her, feeling the sparkle of the ring slipping off her beautiful finger sting my eyes.

“Is this a proposal?”

“Yes. It’s a serious marriage proposal.”

She smiled sheepishly, waving the ring on her finger.

Soon her gaze turned to the mutation’s corpse lying on the floor.

“It’s this kind of era, isn’t it?”

“······.”

I understand, but why did you suddenly propose marriage like this?

Honestly, I’m embarrassed.

I get that the other person is beautiful and from a good family, and even in this shitty era, they have enough money to hire mercenaries and machine guns on buses, but isn’t it too soon?

“······I’m sorry, but I have no plans to get married yet.”

I took a step back.

“You’re old enough, aren’t you? You’re almost in your mid-thirties, aren’t you?”

“Even if you eat a little more, it’s still early.”

“Am I anything special?”

Ji Young-hee approached lightly.

A distance where a scent that stimulates my instincts, a scent that could be called a woman’s scent, could faintly waft to the tip of my nose.

Could we say that this is the movement of a woman who knows her own charm well and knows how to use it?

Honestly, she is an attractive woman.

She is such a beauty that if you give up, you will regret it.

I am also a healthy man.

It’s inevitable that you’re attracted to young, beautiful women.

But I don’t think this is the kind of combination that happens.

Not only do I not know much about her, but it also doesn’t make sense.

Above all, the intention was evident.

A kind of inner self that only humans, and even cunning things, can have.

“Younghee is attractive enough.”

“So?”

She had an expectant look on her face, but the answer was already decided from the beginning.

“I decline this offer.”

A look of surprise crossed Ji Young-hee’s face, but only for a moment. She nodded with a faint smile and left me.

“I see. I’m sorry. I said something unnecessary.”

The results are good.

This is the result I wanted.

But it is true that I felt regretful seeing her moving away.

“······after.”

In the distance, the howling of dogs can be heard.

Over there in the abandoned field, black dots are receding.

Gold and his new gang.

After a fierce fight with me, when the dogs felt defeated and started to run away, the guy quickly left me and made them his subordinates again.

He returned to where he belonged.

Maybe the real winner of this fight is that sly bastard.

I gave a thumbs up to the guy walking away in respect.

A dog barked as if in answer.

Happy birthday. It feels like this.

*

After that, there are occasional animal corpses in front of the area.

I’ve also had a goral, a wild boar, and occasionally a wild yellow cow come to me.

There are books on slaughtering and deboning, but I’m more delicate than I look, so I’ve never actually done it, but I guess I should give it a try.

I’m starting to run out of meat too.

Sometimes I feel it when I’m patrolling the area

Gold’s gaze, watching us from the other side of the ridge with his golden fur fluttering.

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