Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 357



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Episode 363 148. Painkiller (3)

When I first got banned from using the name Twelve Square, I felt a strong antipathy towards Vivabot.

But as time went by, I began to think that her judgment was sound.

A person who has achieved everything in life will find it difficult to enjoy anything.

For example, let’s say you have a character who is at max level and armed with endgame items.

If it’s a game that encourages competition between players and has fun in that relative superiority, as Fox Games did in the past, then it’s understandable, but if the game itself has a goal, it’s hard to expect much fun gameplay.

Besides, I wanted to be recognized as a person, not as a hunter.

Although Twelve Square is said to be a legend who put on a legendary performance, that is only me as a hunter.

It’s a far cry from the “talent as a storyteller”, “artistic ability as a beatboxer”, and “popularity as a likeable user” that I’ve built up over a long period of time.

But sometimes we have to make exceptions.

Now is the time.

“Ker, why are there two computers? Huh? Could this be the Star Gazing Obelisk······? No, why are there two of these?! Why······?”

“······.”

He turned on the computer without saying a word and showed me the screen.

The screen I’m about to show you is a video of Twelve Square saved in the archives of Live! Apocalypse!

Bang! Tata tang!

bang!

“Oh, over there. Is this Jeju Island?! Is it Jeju Island?”

Kim Hanna, who was at a loss, soon became absorbed in the video of Twelve Square that shocked people all over the world.

“Oh my god······. The Executioner type alone······ without even a wave······.”

After the video ended, he looked at Kim Han-na, who was still in a lingering mood, and spoke calmly.

“how is it?”

“Wow, that was awesome!”

No matter how much of a wall you build in your heart, when you are faced with a scene that burns your soul, you tend to put that wall aside for a moment.

He asked for her impressions with his eyes tightly closed.

“······How do you like it?”

Kim Ha-na paused for a moment as if trying to gather her thoughts, then spoke a little quickly and told us her thoughts.

“It was amazing. Seriously! I can’t say anything else. It’s ridiculous to fight multiple soldiers alone, and it’s even more ridiculous to deal with that horrible monster alone. If the Executioner type mixed with the Macrophage or Yiddish type, there were always casualties… It’s ridiculous enough to be considered a deepfake video.”

The comments were long, but they didn’t say anything I wanted to hear.

I supplemented the questions to get quick results.

“Compared to Kang Han-min?”

“Kang Hanmin, the savior······?”

Before I even heard the answer, I came to the conclusion that I wasn’t going to get the answer I wanted.

When you see Kim Han-na’s face, which had been flushed with a slight fever, suddenly cooling down.

“hmm······.”

She gathers her thoughts again.

After a longer time than before, she opened her mouth with a shallow sigh.

“If I had to use an analogy, what would it be like the difference between a god and a superman?”

“God and Superman?”

“Yes. The person called Twelve Square in the video seems to show the extremes of a real person, but Kang Han-min, the savior, is different. Just by his presence, the surrounding scenery seems to change. The same goes for the Executioner type. Just by his approaching, he transforms into particles. There’s no need to fight so fiercely······.”

I guess that’s what it is.

I knew it was a childish thing to do, but I wanted to make sure of it.

The exact gap between me and that friend.

Superman and God.

Personally, I’ve never thought of myself as a superhuman, but I think it’s an apt metaphor.

No matter how superior a superhuman may be to other humans, he is still a human in the end.

Because the object of worship is a god who can never be reached.

“That Twelve Square is me.”

“yes······?”

“I am the main character in that video.”

“Really?!”

“Why would I lie?”

“P, Professor. No, Captain, that guy… Are you coming to Jeju too?”

“I was there for a moment.”

My heart has grown cold.

“······Then shall we go back soon?”

It wouldn’t be a bad idea to have some time alone.

It may not be as good as my bunker, but this new home is more or less livable.

however,

“Hey. What is this?”

It seems that Kim Hanna’s work is not over yet.

Like a child who discovers a toy she likes just as she is about to die from boredom, Kim Hanna’s eyes sparkle as she savors each pixel of our bulletin board’s user interface with her pupils.

“Huh? Skeleton? Is this your ID, Captain?”

“······.”

It wouldn’t look good to be kicked out here.

I was the one who brought this guy here in the first place.

I pushed my cold heart aside and sat down next to her to explain the bulletin board to her.

“Yeah. That’s my nickname.”

“huh?”

“why?”

“I think I’ve seen that nickname before.”

“okay?”

“Ah. That piece of shit······.”

“?”

“No, it’s the Red Archive bulletin board.”

“Red Archive Bulletin Board?”

“Yes. There was a strange kid there. A kid who didn’t speak a word and only communicated with emoticons. What was it called on our bulletin board? A summary of the capture was posted under the title “Red Archive Bulletin Board User Who Lost the Ability to Speak.”

I fell silent without realizing it.

“······.”

No way. Is it me?

“Isn’t that really creepy? Imagine a scene where a hairy guy puts a cute slutty… no, female character emoticon on his face and thinks he’s cute like the girl in the emoticon?”

“······.”

Kim Hanna looked back at me with a suspicious face.

“Ah. Is that Captain······?”

“I only write here.”

I lied without realizing it.

“Viva! Apocalypse! Right?”

“Uh, yeah.”

Are you embarrassed?

What are my actions······?

While my thoughts paused for a moment, Kim Hanna moved her mouse around freely as if it were her own, and looked at the posts that had been uploaded to the first page of the bulletin board.

Dead3278: I want to have sex

Deadman73411: I came all the way to Seoul and now they’re telling me to go to Hanam again.

keystone: Ah. What is it this time?

Deadman4231: Are there no games? I heard there are games. Where did the game maker go?

Dead2131: Looking for a female companion to be with during the difficult times after the war (a woman with a daughter is also acceptable, but only if the child is a daughter)

mmmmmmmmm™ : Captain M9 Speaking! Just a shitty dog! (Click only if you want to see!)

Dead131: The bulletin board is messy. There are too many people. How can we separate the channels?

Anonymous1621: If they just go away, all the problems will be solved.

…

…

Kim Han-na stared at the bulletin board with a slightly dazed face.

“ah······.”

Even in empty words, this is not a high-level bulletin board.

It’s still full of human garbage.

As a veteran user, I immediately corrected the facts.

“······Originally, our bulletin board was a cultured bulletin board where doctors, professors, lawyers, successful startup founders, and other people of high social status gathered to prepare for war before the war.”

“Is that so?”

“Before the influx of Necropolis, the level was maintained somehow, but now it’s like this.”

“okay.”

Click click click

Like a fish in water, Kim Hanna began to enjoy the Internet world, where the mouse and mouse cursor moved for the first time in a long while, without caring whether I was there or not, and the posts she wanted were printed according to her will.

“Wow······. What is this? A disgusting picture?”

It looks like the guy who posted the picture of the corpse has been unblocked.

What does Vivabot do?

Is it your job to only interfere with what I do?

Well, I guess it’s a good thing.

He handed over the mouse with a big smile.

“Look carefully.”

[ Do you want to delete the selected post? ]

“uh?!”

Click

[ The post has been deleted . ]

Click

[ Selected users have been blocked . ]

“and······!”

I just found out.

I didn’t know Kim Hanna’s voice was this loud.

“No way. This authority······?”

“okay.”

I nodded, feeling my heart, which had been cold for a moment, warming up appropriately.

“I am the captain.”

“wow······!”

We have been together in the world of the Internet for quite some time.

There was no special purpose or reason, but does the world necessarily have a purpose?

“What, what is this? Beat box······?”

“How do you like it?”

“You took this picture to make me laugh?”

“No?”

“ah······.”

“?”

“It’s nothing.”

Anyway, in this short and strange time, I came to one realization.

“There were people living in that slanted apartment······. Life must be so interesting······.”

“Pilkrum! You serialized it here too? I haven’t read his comics, but it feels new to see the author I used to read in Jeju here.”

“Wow······ Look at what that Dongtan mom is saying··· She really speaks in an annoying way······.”

It’s no different from Awaken to us.

That they are people just like us.

If you think about it, it’s simple logic.

They just got one ability that’s different from ours.

People don’t change easily.

Having the ability to deflect bullets doesn’t make a lazy person into a hard-working and honest person, nor does it make someone who can’t eat oysters suddenly become an oyster fanatic.

We viewed them differently simply because they were different from us and had no connection to us.

Awaken is a special being that is completely different from us.

After some time had passed, the time came to say goodbye.

“Let’s stop here for today. We have a plan for tomorrow.”

Kim Hanna looks regretful, but it is already midnight.

We have to meet at 4 o’clock tomorrow.

“I’m sorry, sir. I haven’t been able to access the intranet since I got here. And I lost my cell phone… It seems like everyone else is using the intranet on their cell phones just fine, but I….”

“I’ll check what you’re doing tomorrow and ask the store manager if they have any cell phones in stock.”

“Me, really?”

“Instead, what happened today is a secret?”

“Yes, sir!”

They faced each other.

A smile appeared on each of their faces.

It might be a hasty conclusion, but I have a good feeling about it.

I think things will work out well.

*

There is only one risk factor in this mission.

A human being with hostility who may be lurking around.

It’s most likely a fanatic, but human hostility comes in many forms and motivations.

Only careful vigilance and reconnaissance can guarantee our lives.

That’s why I cleaned up my surroundings to an excessive degree.

We used drones to identify good ambush spots and personally searched each building that could be used as a hiding place to confirm signs of life.

Mission hours are from sunrise to sunset.

As we spend the next hour cleaning up the area, murmurs can be heard here and there.

“No, we didn’t come here to catch monsters?”

“To be exact, it’s called a purge of servants, but I guess fanatics are also included as servants.”

“The sun will set soon. Well. It’s good to be thorough, but you know. Sigh······.”

The reason I’m putting so much effort into cleaning up the area is because Defender reported seeing smoke rising from this area.

The reason why the battlefields of China were so messy and took so many lives was because the enemies we faced were not only monsters but also humans.

Humans and monsters are beings from different planets.

They differ in everything: patterns, relativity, weapons, and doctrine.

Dealing with these disparate enemies simultaneously is difficult, tiring, and requires a high probability of damage.

During the Chinese era, the Chinese military did this tiresome and arduous task for us, but we don’t have that luxury anymore.

Direct variables must be excluded.

I’d like to track down the person who started the fire around here and make sure it’s caught, but I have a deadline.

“Then let’s begin the operation.”

It’s not enough, but I’ve secured a certain level of safety, so I guess I’ll do what I have to do today.

All of the regular hunters being deployed today, except for one, are volunteers.

The only non-volunteer hunter is a hunter from the academy named Sim Hyeong-do.

Hunters from academies who were once compared to school graduates have now become full-fledged veterans.

In fact, he was a skilled hunter who easily threw away my prejudice against school hunters.

He was given the most important weapon of the day, the Hunter equipment – Inferno.

Of course, today’s main character is Kim Hanna, who has a physique that is not lacking even among men.

“Kim Hanna.”

I called her.

“Yes, sir.”

“Stay by my side.”

“yes!”

Your expression has improved.

Although his smiling face still looks awkward, he is nowhere near the shy and avoidant look he had when we first met.

There is some probability.

She served faithfully in Jeju for a year.

The story is about a guy who can do it.

For some reason, she left the battlefield and has now become a plaything, but if her broken wings can be fixed, Kim Hanna will be able to fly again like before.

– A regular hunter with good standing (level 8). Continued activity is expected.

As if it were the only phrase that proved itself in a record full of blemishes.

“atmosphere.”

He walked alone, holding a pistol, into the huge gaping hole in the power plant.

Let’s go into the pitch-black, open space,

Kickkickkick–

The sound of metal scraping the floor irritates my eardrums.

Spiderling, a spider-type servant.

This is today’s textbook.