Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 369



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Episode 375 151. Sincerity (2)

Wherever people live, there is always something called evaluation.

Who is doing what?

Everyone has a certain disposition.

Who got body shaming?

Although the body that Gong Kyung-min suffered was very impressive, since I am not interested in personal matters, I still found it a good thing to be evaluated by someone else.

However, there are not many people who are talked about as much as Woo Min-hee.

Because she had a series of events, including a legendary male philandering, an uncontrollable temper, and a turbulent daily life that always caused a stir.

But my first impression of Woo Min-hee is that she was surprisingly a quiet girl.

It was probably during freshman orientation.

I knew that Jang Ki-young was going through a harsh pruning process to create the “fallen ones” he liked, but at the time, as Jang Ki-young’s disciple, I was training to become a monster slaughter machine – especially with an axe – at Jang Ki-young’s discretion in a dedicated training ground.

At that time, I was silently concentrating on my training while pondering the youthful concerns such as, “Why an axe among so many weapons?” and “Were Jang Gi-yeong’s ancestors lumberjacks?”

There were onlookers.

Although I didn’t react hysterically to the petty, insignificant techniques or know-how being revealed like Lee Sang-hoon, I didn’t really want anyone to interrupt my time.

I turned around and tried to chase them away, and saw that they were girls who looked like freshmen.

It’s harmful now, but back then, my face was hard and my eyes had a poisonous aura, so when people saw my face, they would run away or pick a fight.

These girls chose to run away.

Only one guy remained, staring at me with eyes filled with fear, yet with a hint of curiosity.

She was a pretty child.

I’m sure he lived with a lot of love from his family.

He asked curtly, with such pointless thoughts in his mind.

“······What is it?”

When she finally opened her mouth, the girl ran away with her friends.

As I found out later, the identity of the girl who stayed and stared at me until the end was none other than Woo Min-hee.

It was just a minor incident, like an accident, and since I wasn’t interested in other people during my school days, I never imagined that the girl at the time would soon be Woo Min-hee, whose name would be famous throughout the school.

Well, our lady was quite noisy.

“That vixen bitch.”

This is what Jang Gi-yeong, who does not give any special evaluations to anyone other than his direct disciples, said.

I don’t know if she’s a vixen or not, but it’s true that most men who dated her experienced misfortune.

A college student who was attending medical school applied for a leave of absence, and Woo Min-hee’s senior, one of my classmates, tried to give up on being a hunter and transfer to a regular high school, but the school did not recognize his school experience as part of the regular curriculum, so he had to take the qualification exam.

I don’t know much about Woo Min-hee’s behavior because she wasn’t a very capable team member by my standards at the time.

However, there is something that both Gong Kyung-min, who was my close friend in the past, and the late Lee Sang-hoon, have in common.

Never become friends with Woo Min-hee.

There isn’t really any chance to become close.

It’s hard to believe for anyone who knows me now, but in the past, I spent almost all of my free time training, analyzing the enemy, and planning new operations.

Of course, if we were to work together publicly, that is, as a team, we might have a chance, but at the time, even that was impossible on the Chinese front.

Because until the early and mid-term of the Chinese front, the “one team” system advocated by Jang Gi-yeong was in operation.

The one-team system literally means a system that considers one team as an irreplaceable combat unit, so if one team member has a problem, it is considered a problem for the entire team.

This is because they adopted a doctrine that values ​​team cooperation and team unity more than individual fighting power.

Therefore, if a team member gets injured, if the injury is minor, the team operation will be suspended until the member fully recovers. However, if the injury is serious or the member dies, a new team will be formed, the team will be reorganized, and the team will be reunited.

When people were plentiful, accepting team members was an important criterion for the entire team, so a problem child like Woo Min-hee was blocked from entering our team, which was famous for being elite.

Well, even if Woo Min-hee had been excellent, Kim Da-ram would never have forgiven her.

However, as people became scarce, the one-team system collapsed and we eventually entered an era where people had to be rotated.

It was also at that time that I was briefly teamed with Woo Min-hee.

Contrary to expectations, Woo Min-hee was a hunter who could do one person’s share, contrary to rumors.

Even when Kim Da-ram showed his dislike and showed his antagonism, the way he smiled brightly and brushed it off like a snake gave me a chance to see the problem child that is Woo Min-hee again.

After a short operation, she joined Lee Sang-hoon’s team, but that was our first private meeting.

The host was Gong Gyeong-min.

While northern China was being devastated, the southern coastal areas, including Shanghai, still enjoyed the wealth of their past.

Chinese government officials chartered a restaurant specifically for us.

At first glance, it looked like a jaw-dropping high-end restaurant, but I thought it had another purpose.

Still, it is a suitable place to spend some time during your youth.

There was a constant flow of sumptuous food and drink, along with silly jokes, stories, and concerns about the future.

As the place became more crowded, Lee Sang-hoon sat down at the grand piano in the hall and showed off his skills.

He played the piano like a rich boy.

The performance ended with Gong Kyung-min singing passionately, interrupting without notice, but the individual performances continued after that.

At the time, I was hesitant to try out the beatboxing performance I had been practicing, but the most important thing.

I lacked courage.

But I was able to gain courage because Kang Han-min, who was very drunk, made a fool of himself by dancing a Cossack dance that wasn’t even a dance.

When Kang Han-min, who had fallen over and over again, was finally about to stop the Cossack dance because of the pain, a Chinese official called me aside.

“Professor Brothers.”

The purpose is obvious.

They are telling us to come over to China.

I’ll give you anything. I’ll do anything you ask for.

He didn’t reject it outright.

This is because I have learned from long experience that it is important not to incur resentment when dealing with Chinese people.

After responding appropriately, I was returning to the chairman.

Someone was standing there waiting for me.

“senior.”

I wondered who it was, and it was Woo Min-hee.

As expected of a woman who always creates a buzz, today she was wearing an elegant yet luxurious dress that revealed her slender figure.

It looks like they decorated it with a lot of different things.

I’m not sure, but there were a lot of shiny things.

“Oh. Minhee.”

I am not a person who is swayed by other people’s opinions.

I do take note, but I always make decisions after looking at them with my own eyes.

Despite his bad reputation, Woo Min-hee was not a bad team member.

He may not be able to be the main force like Kim Da-ram, but he is at least a resource who can be entrusted with supporting roles.

It’s not a very important story, but I put Woo Min-hee above Kang Han-min.

In the sense that you don’t feel fear.

Kang Min-han has the will, but he tends to hesitate in critical situations where his life is at stake.

It’s strange.

He and I shared the same conclusion that when a person dies, it’s over and there is no afterlife.

Anyway, Woo Min-hee has something to say to me.

“Senior. Do you have any plans after today?”

“schedule?”

“Yeah. I feel like something is missing here. I’m thinking of having another drink.”

She added with a refreshing smile.

“Senior? Do you like Nanjawans?”

“Nanjawans?”

“I know a really good restaurant. They say it’s been around for over 200 years.”

He answered immediately.

“Sorry, I don’t really drink alcohol, and I’m full right now. Besides, I have some data to analyze when I get back.”

“Monster······? Is there anything left to analyze?”

Woo Min-hee asked, the smile on his lips disappearing.

I think I broke some expectations, but at the time, I couldn’t forgive myself.

“I’m talking about a monster that controls a monster that has been rumored to come from the kidney area recently.”

“Oh, really?”

In some ways, Woo Min-hee and I have something in common.

In the sense that you quickly come to conclusions and make up your mind.

About 10 years later, the two of them had a drinking party together.

The location is the middle floor of the old hotel where Woo Min-hee lives.

Although there were traces of ruin here and there, it was still somewhat presentable.

There were other people besides us, but they all sat far away, as if they knew Woo Min-hee.

“Do you remember Hansik? He wasn’t a bad guy, but he died too easily. What the hell is instant death after a bullet bounces off of you? He trusted himself too much.”

Contrary to my fears, the atmosphere wasn’t bad.

Actually, it’s hard to be bad.

If someone who shared the same time and experiences uses the past as a drinking snack.

“You mean Song Han-sik? He was a pitiful friend. He was too confident. Even if it was a gun with a zeroed-out point, he should have used tracer bullets to estimate the trajectory when engaging after sunset.”

The topics were varied.

“There was a young woman sitting at Lee Sang-hoon’s funeral. I didn’t think she was his wife. I know her face. I saw her when she gave him a huge sum of money, 50,000 won.”

“······As you can see, she must have been a mistress. That guy had a local wife wherever he went. He couldn’t live without a woman in bed. He’s a typical case of lack of affection. But did he love his family? Judging from the fact that he hung himself with that pride and arrogance.”

From our school days to Viva! Apocalypse!, there was a mountain of stories piled up that took up more than half of our lives.

“Jon Nae-non did something unexpectedly big. But when I looked at my records from my time as a Hunter because I was bored, I saw that it wasn’t even a C-rank? That means that I didn’t even get a proper license. I passed the written test, but failed the practical test. In the past, if you just passed the written test, you were given a certificate. But if you wanted to go into the field······.”

“Stop. He was a true hunter······.”

But now that they’re both adults, they both know.

That there hasn’t been a single truly heavy story about our future.

What should I say?

There is something like that.

What’s meant to happen is going to happen, and that time is coming.

That’s how it is now.

Woo Min-hee shook her highball glass and stared at me with a deep gaze.

“······.”

It was when I was forcibly avoiding eye contact and making gestures to slowly leave the place.

“Senior. I have something to say.”

Is this how it turns out?

“······Who is Eomchang?”

But I’m talking nonsense.

“I’m talking about the large monster that my senior discovered.”

It doesn’t even taste like cereal.

furthermore.

“There was something called the General type. Do you remember?”

The choice of topic is excellent.

I closed my mouth and took a deep breath through my nose.

“······.”

Why don’t you know?

The guy who cut off the last remaining string in my heart that had remained strong despite all those misfortunes.

Woo Min-hee shook his glass and stared at the ruined city shrouded in darkness.

“It still hasn’t been eradicated······.”

“Is that true?”

That’s a bit hard to believe.

You still haven’t hunted the large species that was discovered 10 years ago?

Unlike the time when I was active, the time since then has been the era of Awaken.

This is the era in which Kang Han-min and Na Hye-in, who were everyone’s heroes, were active.

I can’t believe they couldn’t hunt that monster, unless that guy had run away.

So I asked.

“Was that guy avoiding Kang Han-min and Na Hye-in?”

A similar example would be mutation.

Mutations, which deliberately avoid humans, are known to be more difficult to hunt than any other monster.

It was a solid illusion.

“no.”

Woo Min-hee shook his head.

Dalgrak- Dalgrak-

The hooked hand holding the glass shook so much that it made the ice in the glass rattle.

“It’s the opposite.”

Fear appeared in Woo Min-hee’s eyes.

It’s hard to believe.

She had not been afraid of Jang Gi-yeong since her student days, and she did not feel much fear of monsters either.

It is said that even when she lost her hands and legs in an accident, she was smiling.

In fact, I thought she was a human being with a mental deficiency, with a weakened sense of fear.

Woo Min-hee is showing clear fear.

“Kang Han-min and Na Hye-in seniors avoided it······.”

The unknown savior’s true face revealed itself in an unexpected way.

“You said you were running away······?”

“That was one of the reasons why the work to close the Jeju Crack was so sluggish. As the senior named it, it was a monster that led an army of monsters like a general and pushed them forward, and humans could not defeat it.”

“Kang Han-min too?”

“······huh.”

Woo Min-hee tried to calm her trembling by holding the wrist on which her prosthetic hand was attached.

As the prosthetic arm’s tremors subsided, she opened her mouth, still staring at me helplessly with a hint of fear in her eyes.

“And that monster. Does it have human intelligence?”

“······.”

Was that so?

It seems that what I had only hypothesized has painfully turned out to be true.

Thinking monster.

A monster with intention.

A monster with a purpose.

I think they are synonyms.

In that it could give the gift of extinction to humans who are already on the edge of a cliff.

“Do you know why Kang Han-min doesn’t come here?”

Woo Min-hee stood up from her seat.

“······Your senior’s arch-rival is nearby.”

“okay?”

I also got up from my seat.

“Where?”

Woo Min-hee asks the day she is about to leave.

He spoke coldly, turning his back.

“Do you know why I left the battlefield?”

“Yeah. I know.”

“I think most of your requests have been carried out well.”

“If you leave, this city will be destroyed. No, maybe this entire country will be destroyed.”

“It has nothing to do with me.”

“Only a senior can stop it.”

He burst out laughing.

I slowly looked back at Woo Min-hee with a bitter cynicism in my eyes.

For a moment, I felt as if time had gone back in time.

A teenage Woo Min-hee was looking at me.

He was standing there awkwardly, looking up at me with eyes filled with fear and yet a hint of anticipation.

That magical illusion shattered like a mirror as she opened her mouth.

“A monster’s voice is different from a human’s. Unlike a voice that is only transmitted as sound, the thoughts themselves are transmitted to another person.”

However, Woo Min-hee continued speaking with the look in her eyes of a teenager.

“We could see in the voice that contained the emotion that it was the only fear that was felt.”

I tried to take a step back.

But, unknown to me, the undying hatred burning in my heart resolutely blocked my steps to turn back.

In the deathly silence, Woo Min-hee’s nasal voice resonated like fate.

“Included in that confused vision is the vague figure of a human being holding two axes.”

I sighed and closed my eyes.

“······okay?”

He opened his eyes again and asked.

Woo Min-hee nodded with a smile.

“Yeah. He’s afraid of you, senior.”

“······.”

“Of all the hunters who challenged it, you are the only one who almost killed it.”

Woo Min-hee smiled.

For some reason, that face looks very attractive.

But there is something more dangerous than that.

I sighed.

After all, it was something I shouldn’t have done, drinking with such a dangerous woman.

Even with this intoxication, I can feel it clearly.

A flame of hatred that burned beyond my chest and seemed as if it would burn my entire body.

Death is closer than ever.

Hiding a House in the Apocalypse Episode 376