Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 78



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43. Worries (5)

“There is no answer other than a headshot.”

Baek Seung-hyun’s lips trembled.

“How do you fit it? It’s not easy to fit the torso.”

If you’re human, I don’t know.

Because at a distance of 150 meters, humans appear to be as small as ants and move as slowly as ants.

But it’s hard to hit that person if he moves around all over the place.

150m is quite a distance.

Even humans find it difficult, but that red-furred monkey named Red moves with a dynamic that is incomparable to that of humans.

With his long arms, he grabs the concrete rebar like a tree branch and flies up, then jumps down, grabs another rebar and returns to the back of another ruin.

The movements are unpredictable.

Considering that most mid- to long-range sniping is conducted in predictable and controlled situations, it is an extremely difficult target to hit.

While Baek Seung-hyun hesitated and gave him time, Mutation landed on the floor with a thud! and approached Cheon Yeong-jae, dragging his long arms and jumping around with his legs.

It’s a strange leap, but it’s faster than a human’s.

“Why don’t you shoot! Shoot!”

Cheon Yeong-jae runs at full speed, screaming, but Red has already caught up to him.

Cheon Yeong-jae turned around, pulling out his machete.

“Come at me, you little brat.”

Even as he was strengthening his resolve, he looked back.

The Baek Seung-hyun reflected in his eyes might be somewhat trustworthy.

If you look at him with a serious face and aiming the gun.

But Baek Seung-hyun is hesitating.

I looked at Baek Seung-hyun’s fingers.

A leather-gloved finger inside the trigger guard tries to pull the trigger.

But the trigger was not pulled all the way.

I let go of the trigger halfway through.

“Squeak!”

Meanwhile, Red swings his long arms wildly.

The length of the red-furred arm is approximately 2m.

It’s almost like a small crane.

I also put gloves on my elbows.

This is a custom-made armor plate made by twisting wires.

However, no matter how smart a chimpanzee is, he cannot reach the level of making full-plate mail like a human.

There are some exposed weaknesses.

The upper arms, hands, and the tops of the feet are the areas that face, neck, and wrist guards do not protect.

But it is too harsh to ask Baek Seung-hyun to match that exposed part.

Even for Kim Da-ram, who was the best shot among us, it was not easy for me to hit the weak points of that guy who kept moving so quickly and unpredictably.

To make matters worse, this area is a zombie zone.

They already know we’re in and are warming up.

If the gunfire continues, they will come in waves and push us back.

It means that the operation and the plan are all over.

These adverse conditions appeared to be the reason Baek Seung-hyun gave up shooting.

No, there was one more.

jeju island.

Jeju Island is hanging on one of Baek Seung-hyun’s feet.

This is the promised land that Kim Da-ram, whom he so envied and hated, could not go to.

I looked into his wavering eyes and spoke coldly.

“What are you doing? Are you shooting?”

“······The angle doesn’t come out.”

“If I don’t shoot, I think that guy will die?”

“I can’t do it.”

“why?”

“What do I do if the angle isn’t right? Damn it!”

Baek Seung-hyun shouted.

“Look at that monkey’s angle! Fuck, he knows everything and he’s doing it.”

That’s exactly what he said.

He is using Cheon Yeong-jae as a shield, standing between himself and us.

Cheon Yeong-jae, who knew this fact well, tried to swing his machete to create an angle, but it was a meaningless move against the clever and agile Mutation.

The bastard teased us with strange noises and possessed movements, as if he were enjoying the situation.

“Keek–it!”

The situation quickly became grim.

He added a shield called Cheon Yeong-jae to the guy who had already attached the armor plates so tightly that there was no square shape.

“Move aside!”

When Baek Seung-hyun screamed, Cheon Young-jae responded by screaming.

“I’ll fake it!”

I thought it was going to the left, but it quickly went straight to the right.

For a moment, a blind spot appeared.

bang!

The gunshot that came out without fail.

It’s a rare chance to see an old school hunter.

The shot itself was accurate.

Because it hit the mutation’s torso exactly.

However, the bastard is wearing armor plates.

Bang!

The bullet ricocheted off the giant chimpanzee’s armor, leaving only a small scratch as it flew into space.

“Squeak! Squeak!”

The chimpanzee pouts his large lips and suddenly raises his two-meter-long arms high.

What are you trying to do?

“?”

Baek Seung-hyun’s face turned pale.

So-called cuckoo.

The red guy made a stop sign with both hands towards us.

“Squeak!!!!”

The guy who had been holding up his stop, soon spread out his index finger and pointed to his head.

Baek Seung-hyun gritted his teeth.

“The baby monkey······.”

Cheon Yeong-jae started to run.

The distance was narrowed to within 100 meters.

It’s a distance that can be reached in one step.

If we give them distance, not only Cheon Yeong-jae but also we will be in danger.

However, Baek Seung-hyun is hesitating to take the next shot.

“Shoot! You piece of trash!!!!”

Cheon Yeong-jae’s sharp scream erupted.

Red was right behind Cheon Yeong-jae, trying to reach out.

If Cheon Yeong-jae had not swung his machete at the right moment, he would have been caught long ago, lifted upside down onto the building, dragged up, and fallen to the ground to his death.

“Shoot!”

Distance 80m.

It’s really right in front of our noses now.

In this desperate moment, Baek Seung-hyun proved for himself why he was not chosen by Kim Da-ram.

“······I can’t do it.”

Baek Seung-hyun put down the gun.

He ran away from his mission on his own.

Instead, he pulled a metal bar, shaped like a blade, from his bosom.

It is an American-made suicide blade drone.

When you set a target, a blade-like drone flies out and explodes in front of the enemy, mixing in shrapnel.

It looks like he brought it with him to use at the last moment.

But I have a question.

I wonder if that toy will work on that monster.

Regardless of whether it works or not, Cheon Yeong-jae is definitely dead.

“senior.”

He grabbed her arm and shook his head.

Baek Seung-hyun looked at me with tired eyes.

“······Park Gyu.”

In the old days when hunters ruled, there was a lot of debate about what the true qualities of a hunter were.

In my teacher’s case, he even coined a new but old-fashioned term, “hunter’s heart,” which is a heart that is not afraid of death, and insisted that a disregard for death is the most important quality of a hunter.

Jang Ki-young also had a rival.

Go Jong-beom was once a powerful rival, but was relegated to second-class status due to factional logic.

Unlike Jang Gi-yeong, Go Jong-beom, who went to China and sold K-hunter’s know-how, insisted that the ability to improvise and flexibly deal with crisis situations is the greatest quality of a hunter.

In addition to this, many other virtues appeared and disappeared on the stage, each with its own logic.

I’m not particularly interested in establishing theories, but as I’ve gained more experience, I’ve developed an eye for what’s important and what’s less important.

In my case, I would say this.

Can you let yourself go?

In other words, you could call it self-objectification.

I think that the fate of our old school hunters is determined by whether or not they can see the world in the third person rather than the first person and even write about themselves in a long-term perspective.

I always instilled that in my team members.

In extreme situations, anyone can be a sacrifice and there can be no exceptions.

Even I told him to throw it away.

I created the persuasive power myself.

Because he took the lead and took on the most dangerous role.

I put myself in the shoes of a long-term strategist and put myself in the toughest of situations.

But I’m not the only one who’s been using long-term language.

There have been times when I have abandoned and sacrificed my colleagues.

I didn’t feel guilty.

Didn’t they teach that in school?

We say that a thousand people move like one.

So, one of the parts that makes up that one person is thrown away.

That’s all.

Of course, I couldn’t be free from the fate of that part.

It was when I lost to a general type in another world.

He was thrown into a corner of the other world with almost all of his bones broken.

A white fog covered everything and my comrades abandoned me.

He was left stranded in a corner of the other world with broken limbs, waiting for death.

Although he managed to survive thanks to a few strokes of luck and whimsy, it is true that he was on the brink of death.

Some people whispered that that terrible experience led me to retirement.

No, it is not.

I have no resentment about being abandoned.

I had no choice but to choose retirement simply because the circumstances and process of my abandonment negated my entire life history.

But I don’t want to see my teammates die in front of me.

I don’t want to see this professor’s team, even if it was just hastily put together a few hours ago, fall apart for no reason.

I told Baek Seung-hyun.

“I’ll shoot.”

He handed me the gun.

Baek Seung-hyun handed the gun over to me without saying anything.

The moment I received the gun, I felt a heavy weight that made my arm drop.

Even though it uses the most advanced lightweight materials, it is a gun that uses 12.7mm bullets.

The reduced weight is 8kg.

Personal firearms are disqualified.

It may be our fate to fight with such ignorant weapons.

“Stay still.”

He silently aimed his gun and simultaneously captured Cheon Yeong-jae and Red, who were growing bigger and bigger.

Distance from target: 60m.

I got to know my surroundings.

“Shoooooooooooooo!!!”

Cheon Yeong-jae screams.

55m.

Red reached out.

50m.

Cheon Yeong-jae swung his machete, but the blade bounced off his wrist armor.

About 48m.

Cheon Yeong-jae was caught.

“what are you doing?!”

Baek Seung-hyun looked back at me, but he didn’t even blink an eye and just glared at me diagonally.

Cheon Yeong-jae was captured and dragged away by the guy.

Even if I have the skills of an S-class hunter, there’s no way I can deal with a monster that doesn’t meet those standards.

I wouldn’t have been much different.

“What are you doing?! Park Gyu!”

Baek Seung-hyun screamed.

Ignored him and aimed the gun.

The movements of this giant chimpanzee are extremely fast and unlike anything we have ever encountered before, making them difficult to predict.

In addition, he was wearing a helmet on his head and armor made up of woven armor plates on his torso and back.

There’s not much you can do against a guy like that unless you’re Awakened.

But I heard the information from Baek Seung-hyun earlier.

“AAAAAH! SAVE ME! FUCK AAAAAAH!!!”

“Park Gyu!”

The chimpanzee grabbed onto a bent streetlight, jumped up, and reached for the concrete rebar.

“Please be quiet.”

He spoke calmly and pulled the trigger.

bang!

At the moment of detonation, I looked at the target, feeling the recoil like a hammer hitting my body hard.

The bullet, which contained the heavy destructive power of 12.7mm, flew in a spiral through the air filled with the stench of zombies and landed precisely where I wanted it.

Phew!

“Kkieeeek!!!!”

The bullet was lodged in the back of the chimpanzee’s hand.

The part that the armor doesn’t protect.

But because it moves so quickly, it wasn’t even considered as a target.

“Uh, how?”

Baek Seung-hyun asked with a surprised face.

“Didn’t my senior tell you?”

I handed him the gun and ran towards Cheon Yeong-jae.

“That kid enjoys dragging people up high places and then dropping them.”

“So you were waiting? For Cheon Yeong-jae to be caught?”

Baek Seung-hyun followed with a heavy rifle and asked.

“Isn’t there a set point where he climbs up the building anyway?”

I’m talking about concrete rebar.

No matter how variably it moves, there is a section where the number of cases converges to zero.

I set up Cheon Yeong-jae as bait and controlled the variable.

The next thing that happened was that the chimpanzee fell in love with Cheon Yeong-jae.

“under.”

Baek Seung-hyun stuck out his tongue.

“As expected of a shooter like Kim Da-ram.”

The height from which Red fell must have been at least 10 meters.

Even when you were a normal chimpanzee, falling from a height would hurt, but now that you’ve grown so big, the shock would be even greater.

Cheon Yeong-jae was rolling around, groaning, next to a crumpled, scrapped car.

“F*ck! It hurts like a dog. Aaah······.”

Looks like everything is fine.

If you look at the way he swears passionately.

I aimed my gun and looked for Red.

The bastard was limping and barely able to support himself with his two large, strong arms.

The chimpanzee’s face, transformed into a demonic one, glared at me.

The guy opened his mouth and made a strange sound.

“Ba······. Ba······.”

What are you trying to do?

No way, that movement.

Are you trying to talk?

An impossible guy for an ape?

“Ba······Park Gyu.”

“?”

My name?

Mutation called my name.

But it could just be a coincidence.

I can see the guy pointing the finger at me.

The word he was trying to convey with his underdeveloped vocal organs and tongue would probably have been “peek-a-boo.”

Anyway, the guy is alive.

It can move and be alive.

Although badly wounded and limping, the creature is still a dangerous prey.

Srrrrung–

Now it’s my turn.

“Come, monkey.”

He pulled out his axe, walked around to the guy’s side, and swung it threateningly at him.

Red looked at Baek Seung-hyun, who followed him while being wary.

“Where are you looking?”

He threw the axe.

It’s a fairly fast throw, but as expected, Mutation’s reflexes are incomparable to those of a monster.

“Squeak!”

I see him swing his blood-soaked hand and strike my axe against the floor.

“senior!”

But now I have a trustworthy colleague.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Baek Seung-hyun fired his gun.

Although it was a close-range shot, his shooting was flawless as there were no obstacles.

“Squeak!”

The bullet pierced his neck, armpit, and under his chin, where his armor did not protect him.

Mutation fell down without even screaming.

dump

The monster has fallen.

“Phew······.”

Baek Seung-hyun looked at me with a tired face.

“Fuck······.”

He gave me a thumbs up.

I also returned the favor with a thumbs up.

Only one person, Cheon Yeong-jae, who was stuck on the floor, threw a double punch at the two of us.

I looked at him and said a word.

“Didn’t you say you like this kind of thing?”

Then, Cheon Yeong-jae’s twin pecks changed into twin likes.

“······.”

One friend with a definite color.

Woof woof woof —

The situation is not over yet.

I can hear the cries of zombies.

The price for breaking the three-legged rule has come.

Because our Baek Seung-hyun shot four times, not three times.

“What should we do? Hey. Can Youngjae walk by himself?”

“······Twin! I think my leg is broken.”

“I guess I should call a car.”

“okay.”

Baek Seung-hyun calmly communicated through the communicator.

“This is the laser. This is the laser. We just took out the primary target. One casualty. Assistance required for recovery.”

I hear a truck roaring toward me.

“Phew······.”

I sighed and picked up my axe from the floor.

The dead mutation was staring at me.

I’m not particularly impressed by this monster.

Just looking at myself reflected in that guy’s eyes, I can kind of see my future.

I guess I’ll live like this from now on.

I guess I’ll have to live in that shitty house with my cheerful neighbors and hunt endlessly for my life with the hunters of the old days.

“······.”

I think my worries will end surprisingly quickly.