Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 335



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Episode 335 135. Generation (2)

The number of opponents is about 50.

There are many in number, but they are a rabble.

There is no training or discipline.

They just scream loudly and move around excitedly.

Some even showed excessive excitement, as if they were drunk on drugs.

The equipment was even more dire, with most of them carrying North Korean-made rifles, and one or two carrying domestically or American-made firearms.

Four hunters lined up on the outer wall at regular intervals against the fifty enemies.

The wind is calm and visibility is good.

The sun at 10 a.m. illuminates everything unconditionally.

Crunch!

Crunch!

Each of them loaded their guns and waited for the enemy to appear.

A one-sided massacre was expected.

Boooo …

However, since the other person is also a person, they don’t want to be treated stupidly like a computer.

A car was barreling towards us.

It is believed to be a vehicle-based IED.

Although they did put armor plates on the engine compartment, being conscious of gunfire.

“I’ll take the left front wheel.”

“Then I’ll go back.”

We are hunters.

We are not professional soldiers, but we are marksmen who are professionally trained to shoot with the greatest precision at a moment’s notice.

Bang! Bang!

As soon as two shots were fired, the entire left wheel of the oncoming vehicle exploded.

Squeak–

The car, with one axle broken, lurched over the slope and uneven surfaces, then made a 180-degree U-turn with a ripping sound and crashed into rocks and trees.

Boooooooooooooo–

Meanwhile, he fired a shot while watching the wheel that had the accelerator locked spinning violently.

Kwaaaaang!

A grand display of fireworks exploded in front of the outer wall.

In an instant, there was an explosion so powerful that the ground shook.

“Skeleton. Are you okay?”

Rebecca, who was waiting in reserve at the back, asked.

“No problem.”

He looked down the ridge with his gun drawn.

The figure of a looter watching from behind a huddle of vehicles comes into view.

I set the K-walkie-talkie frequency to public and told them.

“I don’t know why you’re suddenly attacking us, but I think it’s best to let go at this point.”

Whether it’s a favorable or unfavorable battle, there is a cost to it.

Even if we kill them right now, their corpses will remain.

Disposing of a dead body is a very tedious, tiresome, and mentally unhealthy task.

There is a way to do it using prisoners, but dealing with prisoners is also a hassle.

If there is room for negotiation, it is better to negotiate.

There is no answer from the other side.

Soon the guys started advancing.

The number is about 30 people.

They appear to be acting tactically, taking cover, running, and crawling, but to those on high, they are nothing more than slow targets.

“Once you get over that white painted rock, we start shooting.”

As someone who is always concerned with territory defense, I naturally prepared for this type of battle in advance.

Marking distances with geographical features is a time-honored strategy that has been used since before the Middle Ages.

Distances were marked with various colors of paint on natural features located on the ridge, especially on hard granite rocks.

The white-painted rock I just mentioned is 400 meters from the outer wall.

It’s a fairly long distance, but we can still score significant results with aimed fire, but it’s a distance that the bullets of untrained raiders can barely reach.

If you go a little further, there is a rock marked in blue, and about 100m away, there is a pile of waste.

As expected, the entrance road was also renovated, and any objects or terrain that could serve as cover were renovated.

The painted rock is also an ordinary one, no more than 30cm high.

It would not be wise to climb this path, which is guarded by not one or two, but four hunters from the school, without any preparation.

bang!

Bang Jae-hyuk’s gun fired first.

“Ahhhh!”

A man with a terminal illness collapsed, spewing blood.

Beyond the white rock, it is at least 450m away.

Bang Jae-hyuk shrugged his shoulders as he looked at me.

“Is this okay?”

“It doesn’t matter.”

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The guns are firing.

A superior gunner’s shot from high ground against an enemy who is not covered can be lethal.

“Ahhhh!”

“100 million!”

Every time a gunshot rings out, a hole is made in the looter’s body and death comes.

Five minutes after the battle began, the raiders retreated, leaving behind ten corpses.

bang!

One more ball was just added.

He ordered a cease fire and picked up the radio.

“Are you going to continue?”

Short question.

“······What is it? You guys?”

This time the answer came.

Even without looking at his face, his trembling emotions were clearly expressed in his voice.

I saw a camp of looters with a wall made of several cars.

The tall guy wearing what looks like a suit is probably the leader of the group.

He has dyed his hair green, and like his other friends, he looks like he’s in his early 20s.

“What’s the answer?”

He asked calmly.

Although I take all possibilities into account, my outlook is positive.

Four years have passed since the war ended.

Young age is not a problem.

Because those four years must have been like 40 years of harsh teaching to someone.

“······I’ll stop.”

“I will allow the recovery of the bodies and equipment.”

“······.”

“If you don’t like it, you can just go.”

“No, I will take it back.”

A ceasefire was established.

It had been less than ten minutes since the battle began.

It’s such a one-sided battle.

To begin with, the units of combat power themselves are different.

The looters began to creep forward, keeping an eye out.

Clank-

To avoid the possibility of betrayal, Bang Jae-hyuk and Ha Tae-hoon hid in cover and aimed their guns at them.

Men with various tattoos and strange clothing dragged the corpse while women carried guns.

An eerie silence hung over the ridge and below as we worked.

We attempted to communicate when we had about half of the body removed.

“Were you the ones fighting with that group of old people at the nursing home?”

“Yes.”

The green-headed man in the suit looked this way and answered.

Recovered from the shock, but still quite dispirited.

As soon as the battle began, a third of the total force was lost.

The fact that he can maintain that level of composure proves that he’s no ordinary looter.

“What did you hear from those people that made you come here?”

It was the moment when the green head was about to answer.

Third party communications were interrupted with noise.

“We didn’t say anything.”

It’s that old man from back then.

I can see Cheon Yeong-jae’s eyes rolling.

“We didn’t say anything. They just went there on their own.”

Ignored it.

Instead, I looked towards the green head.

“we are······.”

The moment he was about to speak.

“AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!”

A childish interruption comes in.

Cheon Yeong-jae sighed.

“Let’s go today and sweep it all away.”

He went down to the outer wall.

“They are not human babies. We must exterminate them without leaving a single one behind.”

I agree that special measures are needed for the elderly.

but,

“Ahhhhh! Ah …

Can a person be this ugly?

Green Head was still a courageous friend.

When the radio was interrupted, he threw the radio away and straightened his shoulders and came over to me.

I stood on the outer wall and looked down as my friend approached.

The green head raised its voice at a distance where they could see each other’s irises.

“hey!”

He nodded.

If you can’t use the radio, just use your voice.

The old man on the mountain is still doing things that are incomprehensible.

“AAAAAHHHH!!!! AAAAAHHH!!!!!!”

Do you have dementia or something?

The opponent came unarmed and there was no threat to me in the line of fire, and most importantly, Cheon Yeong-jae confirmed that there was no threat in the surrounding area with his power.

He put down his gun, went down the outer wall, and faced the green head.

They faced each other right in front of each other.

“Why did you attack us?”

“I heard there are a lot of supplies here. I also heard there are a few men, but they are few in number.”

“We don’t know anything about those old people. We only know that they live there. We have never traded or communicated with them.”

Then someone suddenly spoke from above the outer wall.

“You got fooled.”

It’s Cheon Yeong-jae.

“I was tricked by my parents.”

The green-headed man’s expression hardened into a grim expression.

I looked towards Cheon Yeong-jae.

It was meant as a warning.

Cheon Yeong-jae kept his mouth shut, but his eyes still held a murderous intent.

Let’s discuss this issue separately.

He asked, glaring at the green head.

“What happened?”

The green-headed man thought for a moment, then told what had happened to him in a tone filled with regret and remorse.

“······Those old people. They are actually my saviors.”

I have had a connection with the old people on the mountain for quite some time.

“I’m from Angbal.”

“Angel?”

“Yes. Thanks to that, my life was saved. They were annoying old people, but they weren’t all that bad. But, you know, if you keep bumping into people’s relationships, they’ll eventually start to creak, right? Unless you add some lubricant.”

The old people had the medicine and the green heads had the labor.

In the fall, the green heads did farm work and woodwork, and the old people provided medicine in return.

It was a reciprocal transaction.

However, as time went on, their complaints towards each other grew and eventually led to a fight.

As the fierce fight continued, a group of elderly people provided some juicy information.

There are guys nearby who have stockpiled a lot of food, alcohol, medicine, and fuel.

“They even showed me a picture.”

That’s how we got into battle.

“······.”

I thought about it for a moment.

Should I kill all these guys or just let them go?

There are too many of them to kill them all.

And these guys too.

I have nothing.

The ammunition for these trash North Korean guns is not factory-made, but homemade.

It’s amazing how all the vehicles roll together.

The only ones that are worth selling are a few young women, but there is a risk of sexually transmitted diseases and we do not engage in human trafficking.

Above all, my domain has become too large to maintain confidentiality.

There’s no telling when these guys will come back and start causing trouble again.

It could be tonight, it could be tomorrow or the day after.

If the opponent has lost their will to fight and you can feel the difference in power, it doesn’t seem like a bad idea to just send them back.

There is no need to bother a cornered rat.

After collecting the bodies and weapons, the group of looters headed south.

So one problem is solved, but another remains.

Clank-

“Okay, now let’s go and finish this.”

It looks like Cheon Yeong-jae is going to go kill the old people by himself right now.

He stared at me.

“What do you think, senior?”

He nodded.

“Of course we must retaliate.”

There will be bloody retaliation.

This is not a question of right or wrong.

It’s the same as putting a number into a function and getting a value out.

They put a price on it: death.

We too will produce the value of death.

They crossed the line.

*

Before the battle, I briefly heard stories from Ha Tae-hoon about the past.

Judging from Ha Tae-hoon’s expression, it seemed like he didn’t really care if he got caught.

“Before Youngjae came to us, he was at a shelter near Gaepo. As you might expect, it was a place where refugees who farted in South Korea gathered. When I asked him why he was there, he said he didn’t like people who were rich. He said he went there because he wanted to see the people who were rich before the war ruined.”

Ha Tae-hoon is the son of a wealthy family.

“······He took 50 people there. I heard he was going somewhere in Chungcheong Province, but he came alone.”

“alone?”

“I’ve been living alone. I lost my vehicle, my equipment, and my teammates.”

Ha Tae-hoon snickered.

“Isn’t that a real ace?”

When Ha Tae-hoon said the word ace, it seemed like there was a bit of sarcasm in it.

An ace who can wipe out both allies and enemies.

Wouldn’t he be a talent fit for an explosive ending?

Anyway, because of that incident, Cheon Yeong-jae fell out of favor with the Pioneer Corps and ran away to where Ha Tae-hoon was, but that’s another story.

Jerk- Jerk-

The current time is 10:20 PM.

I’m climbing the mountain path silently, unable to see even an inch ahead, using the moonlight barely visible between the trees as a guide.

There are two fighters.

It’s me and Cheon Yeong-jae.

I could have brought Ha Tae-hoon, but I left him to guard the area because the raiders might invade my territory again.

Since the goal was a perfect surprise attack, no drones were sent out or vehicles were used.

It’s a round trip of 20km, but it’s not too far to walk, and we’re used to the terrain here.

The biggest threat is mutation, but Cheon Youngjae’s detection ability can be used against mutations, so it can reduce variables.

As I was getting out of breath, the shadow of an eerie nursing home appeared beyond the dim sky.

“Three patrols.”

Cheon Yeong-jae spoke in a low tone, glaring into the darkness with his eyes that gave off a soft light.

“Should I wait a bit?”

I don’t plan on using guns until the very end.

I waited for a moment, watching for an opportunity.

As the sun sets, the earth cools rapidly.

It’s not so cold that I need a winter coat, but I feel my body shrinking from the sudden temperature change.

“I apologize.”

Maybe it was because of the cool weather or because the adrenaline rushing through his body had subsided, but Cheon Yeong-jae suddenly apologized.

“Have you been so excited these past few days?”

“Is there a reason?”

It wouldn’t be a bad idea to ask while you’re at it.

The past of being a pioneer is not a good career even to say the least.

“They say everyone gets one or two chances in life, right?”

With his softly shining eyes, Cheon Yeong-jae stared into the darkness.

“By the way, those kids. Are they standing firm?”

It’s no wonder the security is so tight.

Because we had a fierce fight last night and you even earned our wrath.

I will also be posting guards all night.

As the wait grew longer, Cheon Yeong-jae let out a long sigh.

“······The pioneer group seemed like that kind of opportunity to me.”

“The pioneer group?”

I was a little surprised.

He said with his own mouth that he had been in the pioneer group.

But if the cautious Ha Tae-hoon is saying it out loud, it doesn’t seem like it’s that big of a secret.

Cheon Yeong-jae’s eyes were now looking into the past, into the empty space.

“There was an old man in the shelter. He was handsome, had a loud voice, and even though he dressed shabbily, he looked handsome.”

There was a sneeze from above.

It’s a very loud sneeze.

Leaving the sound of his nose behind, Cheon Yeong-jae recalled the past once again.

“They say he’s a semi-chaebol. What? The club of less than 3 trillion but more than 1 trillion?”

“You’re rich.”

“That gentleman keeps saying that there’s a hidden bunker. He says he couldn’t get into the bunker because he didn’t know the war would break out so quickly, so he’s stuck here.”

The story returns to the turbulent early days of the war.