Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 44
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32. Black
Invaders from Palenet have been trashing the bulletin boards for three days straight.
In the midst of the flood of nonsense, our bulletin board users held their breath and waited for the storm brought by Jonnae-non to subside.
But these guys don’t seem to have any intention of leaving the room. In fact, the number is increasing.
Considering the nature of PaleNet, it seems like the number of people coming to fight will only increase, not decrease.
Palenet is something that you can access right now with just a mobile phone.
This means that anyone can connect and cause trouble as long as they have an environment where they can catch the signal and use data.
In the midst of this chaos, one user took action.
gijayangban : PaleNet User Manual.txt
A journalist who has been using PaleNet for a long time wrote a long article.
I guess it’s a change of mindset to say that if we can’t use our bulletin board, let’s play over there.
Since I was already interested in PaleNet, I carefully studied the reporter’s user manual.
Palenet is definitely different from our bulletin board.
Rather than a community consisting of a single bulletin board like ours, we can say that it is a multi-layered structure with multiple bulletin boards segmented by topic.
It seems that if you want, you can open a bulletin board on any topic you want with the administrator’s approval.
Each bulletin board is sorted from top to bottom by the number of users, and the bulletin board with the most users is the “Survival Information Bulletin Board.”
I clicked on the survival information bulletin board once.
ㅇㅇ: Can you eat zombie meat?
Holy Blood Cup: My butt got torn while I was drinking…
ㅇㅇ: The text below is a bait, don’t click
ㅇㅇ: A great tip for receiving a lot of government rations.tip
Pro Angbalman: (factos) That bastard Kim Ae-ba just keeps talking nonsense
Kim Ae-ba: Go ahead, you low class people. ㅋㅋㅋ My brother is going to study telepathy~
…
…
The atmosphere is not much different from our bulletin board.
The number of articles and users seems to be dozens of times greater than ours.
Although I wasn’t particularly curious about the content of the article, I clicked on the article written by a user named Proangbalman.
Pro Angbalman: (factos) That bastard Kim Ae-ba just keeps talking nonsense
-I have talent, so if I study I can become a guard officer (I couldn’t even pass the written test, let alone the mental test)
I’m studying hard while being an angler, so I’m different from the average repeaters (I have no intention of studying)
I have a lot of friends and I’m a normal person, but I use PaleNet to have fun for a little while (if the internet doesn’t disconnect, I’m in trouble all day)
The age group definitely looks younger than us.
Childish is a long and tedious thing, though.
There is also a popular post here on Palenet.
But unlike us, there are a lot of bulletin boards on Palenet.
This means that even if there are popular posts, there is a high chance that they will not be found and will be buried.
Accordingly, Jonnaenon created a hall of fame that collected the most popular posts from each bulletin board.
That is the “fire pan.”
According to the reporter’s manual, this grill is the alpha and omega of PaleNet.
So what does Palenet’s heart look like?
In fact, this is the real purpose of accessing Palenet.
I clicked on the grill with a pounding heart.
ㅇㅇ: The Legion is currently withdrawing from Yongsan-gu.jpg
ㅇㅇ: Tiger mutation that appears in Daegu Palgongsan.jpg
Philcrum88: The True Hunter – Episode 22
Anonymous: Getting clean water with a fog collector (2)
ㅇㅇ: Nutria Recipe for Nakdong River People “From Slaughter to Table Setting”
Meow meow daung kyaung: Former top idol Frika found on a refugee ship bound for Jeju Island!
ㅇㅇ: The Hope’s recent status.jpg (again)
…
…
“oh.”
This one feels quite good, unlike the survival board.
The quality and level of information in your posts is incomparable to ours.
Right now, Pilcrum88 is a top-tier webtoon writer.
It seems like he earns more from broadcasting than from webtoons, but he is a famous person to the point that even I, who doesn’t read webtoons much, know his name.
We also have a webtoon artist named Dragon C, but honestly, he’s not on the same level.
You could say it’s the difference between a writer who is on the verge of becoming a professional and a writer who is at the peak of his profession.
Anyway, this hot plate is an amazing place.
There are really only interesting articles.
They say that internet sites are a gangster’s playground, and it really is.
However, this failnet also has weaknesses.
Since it is a public bulletin board to begin with, there is no concept of an account, so there is no function to communicate with users separately through messages, and since users are not specified, the ratio of so-called “unruly users” who change their nicknames frequently and cause trouble is much higher than on our bulletin board, and above all, the site itself is slow and unstable.
Even for the webtoon from Pilcrum88, the download speed was so fast that I had to brew a cup of coffee and clean the house while waiting for the download to finish.
Still, there’s no denying that PaleNet has a lot more to offer.
It’s a good sign.
PaleNet users are causing trouble on our bulletin boards now, but won’t they all disappear soon?
By the way, there are a lot of bulletin boards.
There’s everything from beauty, games, movies, literature, construction, firearms, sewing and repairs, to flea markets.
Since there are hundreds of bulletin boards, it’s faster to find something that isn’t there.
But among these bulletin boards, there is one that particularly catches my eye.
[ Pioneer Bulletin Board ]
Do pioneers also create and use bulletin boards?
I know there aren’t many users since it’s ranked around 700th, but it’s not closed, so it seems like there are people using it.
But this bulletin board is a private bulletin board.
According to the reporter’s manual for using PaleNet, some bulletin boards can be made private with the administrator’s permission, but these bulletin boards are usually password protected.
I clicked it once.
[ Please enter your password ]
As expected, there is a password.
But I’m not a typical user.
This Park Gyu is a friend of Jon Nae-non, the founder of PaleNet.
SKELTON: Are you there? Can I ask you a favor?
I immediately sent a message to the sub-account of the person who was discussing it.
Message from 183cm88kg18cm: Oh, Mr. Skeleton. What’s going on?
SKELTON: Are you Mr. John Nae-non?
Message from 183cm88kg18cm: No, it’s the same person I met before.
Are you an assistant to the chairman?
There’s probably no difference between John Nae-non and this guy.
Said the requirements.
This is the password that will allow you to enter the Pioneer Bulletin Board.
Message from 183cm88kg18cm: Pioneer board? Wait a minute. It’s [email protected]#4$5%.
SKELTON: Thank you.
It’s powerful and something to see.
Lee Park Gyu, in reality he is just a worthless trash hunter, but in the internet world he is a man who eats with gods.
I tried to enter the pioneer bulletin board with the power of God.
“hmm?”
There is writing.
Things believed to have been left behind by pioneers.
18 Kim Hak-min: Preventing bulletin board closure
18 Kim Hak-min: Preventing bulletin board closure
18 Kim Hak-min: Preventing bulletin board closure
18 Kim Hak-min: Preventing bulletin board closure
18 Kim Hak-min: Preventing bulletin board closure
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…
“······.”
At that moment, I felt a strong urge to leave a comment.
It’s a bulletin board, not a notice board.
Anyway, it’s a dead bulletin board.
There are very few active users, and all that happens is that one man posts something once every two weeks to keep the bulletin board from being automatically shut down.
Naturally, there is no content in the writing of a man named Kim Hak-min, 18.
Although it is now a ruin, this pioneer bulletin board also shows traces of activity about a year ago.
There were several posts, but they were all the kind of boring posts you would see on a company website introduction bulletin board, such as “The mindset of the pioneers,” “The song of the pioneers,” and “The code of conduct of the pioneers.”
Among them, I clicked on the article that seemed to have some content.
12Choo Yong-min: Come to your senses
There was a photo attached to the post.
The image quality was poor and difficult to make out, but the image showed a group of refugees, or so they seemed to be pioneers.
Below the photo, the writer of the post continued to write.
– I often see kids these days having meetings because they think we’re doing something wrong, but if it’s shit, just throw it away.
Look at the street right now.
There are too many useless people
They protest all day long, complaining and complaining. They eat and drink.
We’re not driving out young people who would help the country, are we?
The crippled older generation.
Those old bastards ruined the country.
A beggar paying the price.
Today again, I gave a few old trash men a few guns and sent them out to the countryside.
But what are they going to do?
The country runs because of people like us.
His post had two comments.
8 Lee Dae-ju: Are you watching Kang Kyung-sik? You son of a bitch. Get out.
20 Pyo Kyung-soo: What you said, senior, is a hundred percent right!
This is a short article by the pioneers a year ago.
To be exact, isn’t this the writing of the pioneers who sent the pioneers out to their deaths?
There was no further information to be found on this bulletin board.
There was another interesting bulletin board besides this one.
There used to be something called a beatbox bulletin board, right?
The moment I was about to click on that beatbox bulletin board, an alarm went off from Viva! Apocalypse!
Message from COOKIEMONSTER18: My daughter is on her way there!
A message came to Rebecca.
But what is this guy saying now?
SKELTON: What? Daughter alone?
Message from COOKIEMONSTER18: Bring it with you when you come.
“······hmm.”
I was having fun on the internet when I created this annoying event.
Well, this could be an event that happens because the gap between them and me has narrowed.
Even after acknowledging each other as neighbors, we remained distant for quite some time, but after bringing the scholar’s equipment, I feel like the distance between us has shortened surprisingly.
I checked my surroundings through the periscope, grabbed my weapon, and came out of the bunker.
The abandoned field was covered with spiders.
Lights are visible far beyond the horizon.
It is a fire started by pioneers who were driven out of the city.
Looking west, beyond the bushes, the sniper’s daughter was coming toward us on a bicycle, a gun slung over her shoulder.
“Skeleton!”
She gestured to me when she saw me.
“What is that? I’ve never seen that before.”
“I found it a while ago, but I looked up how to fix it on the Internet and fixed it.”
“Oh, really? Can I take a look?”
“huh.”
I looked at the bike.
It’s pretty good stuff.
The repair seems to have gone well.
“You saw it on the Internet and had it fixed?”
“Yeah. I searched on the laptop Skeleton gave me while Mom was napping.”
“Good job. By the way, I haven’t heard any gunshots lately. Are you maintaining your guard properly?”
“I think it would be better for me not to shoot right now.”
Suu looked at me with sparkling eyes.
An innocent yet confident face.
A lot of thoughts come to mind.
This guy, when he first came to my bunker, was just an ordinary, timid kid.
Who would have thought that you could grow up so well without even a single friend in such harsh and rough times?
I’ve never had children and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to, but I guess I’m proud of it.
“Is there anything you want to eat?”
“Juicy- something.”
“That juicy thing. By the way, is that in the cargo hold a Javelin?”
Suu nodded.
“You said you were tired before so you didn’t take it. That’s why.”
“That’s why you came.”
“Yeah. I’m bored. Mom’s on the internet again.”
“Come in.”
Suuga came into my bunker.
She frowned slightly at the sight of the toilet in the center as if it were her first time.
“It’s strange.”
“Is it that strange?”
“You seem like a pervert.”
“······.”
I kept my mouth shut and prepared a snack for Suu.
She liked it juicy.
I took out two frozen mangoes, defrosted them in the microwave, and served them to Suu with a little bit of ice left.
“Wow!”
Suu gratefully accepted my kindness with gusto.
After she finished eating the mango, she stared at me.
“Do you have anything to say?”
“Isn’t Skeleton super strong?”
Is this an extension of that time?
“me?”
“huh!”
What should I say?
Should I say it was strong?
No, if you look at it from the human average, it would be more on the strong side.
The problem is that there are too many guys passing me.
After thinking about it for a long time, which is unusual for me, I answered with a bitter smile.
“So-so?”
“Lies. Skeleton is really strong. Isn’t he a hunter?”
“Well, I was a hunter. But not anymore.”
“why?”
Suu raised her head strongly.
“Well, I don’t have any strength. I guess you could call it ability.”
“Abilities? Psychic abilities?”
“I know. Ah!”
There was a psychic test paper like litmus paper that Woo Min-hee gave me.
Now that we’re on the subject, let’s try it out.
Even if the results are good, I have no intention of telling Woo Min-hee, but isn’t there such a thing as “what if” in this world?
Imagine if we were to be hit with an overwhelming attack, Rebecca would die, I would be mortally wounded, and Suu would be left alone.
If that situation arises, wouldn’t it be worth contacting Woo Min-hee?
Of course, you can’t move that woman with your bare hands.
The telepathy test that the woman gave me wasn’t given to me in vain. She gave it to me because I needed it.
If the results are good, she will gladly come and pick up Suu.
This is 100% certain.
Woo Min-hee is, in a sense, a very honest person.
Woo Min-hee is the one who doesn’t even give you a tissue if he thinks you don’t need it.
That woman didn’t give a single penny as a wedding gift to Kim Da-ram······.
“Soo. Want to put this in your mouth?”
“What is this?”
“They said it was a paper that could be used to determine if someone had the qualities of a hunter.”
“really?”
“Yeah. It says that the more white the color becomes, the higher the quality. What do you think?”
“I want to try!”
Suu showed strong enthusiasm.
“If I become strong like Skeleton, I might be able to protect everyone.”
“That sounds good.”
“And kill any Koreans you don’t like.”
“······Don’t be too influenced by your mother.”
“I’m kidding.”
Suu asked for the test paper.
I wonder what the result will be.
Will the new white color come out enough for Woo Min-hee to come out barefoot to greet me?
Or maybe it will just turn into a shade of gray that’s enough to save face.
Gray is an ominous color these days, but it’s a necessary color for the insurance I want.
“uh.”
Suuga tilted his head.
It’s black.
The color didn’t change at all.
It was a sad result, but for some reason I ended up laughing.
“Why are you laughing, Skeleton?”
“Sorry. I didn’t know.”
“Ask Skeleton too!”
Suu handed over the paper he had asked about.
An unscheduled test.
Of course, I took out a new piece of paper, not the one I had written, and put it in my mouth.
It’s true that I had some hope when the bitter paper touched the tip of my tongue.
There is still some regret.
There comes a moment when God’s choice comes to me too.
A day when I can proudly work as a professor with the somewhat excessive title of professor like in the past, instead of living in a secluded place like now.
So, the moment when I team up again with those who hurt me and who hurt me in return, Kang Han-min and Na Hye-won, and confidently walk through the cracks and banish the monsters I hate from this world.
The hatred in my heart still has not cooled.
But as always, reality is cold.
“What? Skeletons are black too!”
This time, Suu laughed out loud.
I stared at the unchanged black sheet of paper with a smile on my face.
“······.”
Two black sheets of paper were placed side by side.
One belongs to a girl from a faraway foreign country named Su-u, and the other belongs to me, Park Gyu.
She taped two sheets of paper to the bunker wall as a souvenir.
“We’re both black.”
Despite being a dud, Suu seemed pretty happy.
“Let’s go. I’ll take you to Mom.”
“huh!”
After Suu left, I stared at the black sheets of paper stuck together for quite a while.
A thought suddenly occurred to me.
Is black necessarily bad?
“What’s Skeleton doing? He’s in that weird toilet?”
“······.”
I think we need to seriously rethink our toilet placement.
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