Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 8



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8. Damien04 and 1 other

The vast majority of our doomsdayers are men, and single men at that.

I have never seen a female participant in any of the Jonnae Discussion meetings, nor have I read any comments in the community suggesting that I am a woman.

If you think about it a little, the reason will come out.

Our doomsday people, in other words, are people who pray for the destruction of the world and hold memorial services.

If you live in gratitude for the present world, you will wish for the present to continue rather than prepare for destruction.

What would have happened to our fate if monsters suddenly disappeared and war never broke out?

In my case, Park Gyu,

This is a piece of shit······.

It’s not just about failing, it’s about going to the abyss.

The evidence remains intact in the cell phone, whose antenna is now cut off.

[Web Transmission] (Shinheon Bank) Notice of Auction Execution of Customer Park*Gyu’s Secured Loan

[Web Transmission] (Sanwang Money) Notice of transfer of debt regarding Lady’s Loan delinquency of customer Park Gyu

[Web transmission] This is Shinra Credit Information. http://sinramoneytaker.co.kr/….

Not only did they pour cement construction equipment into the shit land, but at the last minute, they were so short of money that they even took out a loan with the intention of not paying it back at all.

It was hard to imagine that there would be a female user as splendid as a flower in a place filled with such gloomy people.

But recently, a female user showed up without any notice.

It was one year and seven months since the war began.

*

There are problems that everyone experiences after living in a bunker for over a year.

It’s a lack of fun.

I don’t drink or smoke.

If it’s safe, you can have a drink, but drinking alone is linked to addiction, and addiction leads to death.

Tobacco is a moderate pastime, but it is also a valuable bartering resource and has the power to attract people.

I know from experience that the sense of smell of a human who has been forced to quit smoking for a long time is no less than that of a dog.

However, it is not easy to find fun elsewhere.

There are no dramas on TV every day of the week, and there is no place to meet friends and have a drink.

There are no teams for physical sports like soccer.

I don’t know about people who pursue group survivalism, but people like me who pursue individual survival can’t even play table tennis.

I thought about taking up fishing as a hobby, but gave up because the radiation levels in the nearby reservoir showed no signs of decreasing.

As time passed and the number of guests increased, I spent more time in the bunker, and my hobbies naturally changed to things I could do inside the room.

To be honest, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the most fun pastime at the moment is our doomsday community Viva! Apocalypse!

It’s a place where people with similar thoughts gather to talk about similar situations.

There are strange users like IAMJESUS, DONGTANMAM, and HUMANHUNTER, but there are also plenty of exemplary users like me.

At this point, more than a year and a half after the start of the war, even I, a perennial lurker, was actively writing in the community.

The reasons are complex.

Of course, it was also a feeling of boredom and a sense of connection, and seeing my colleagues disappear one by one, I didn’t want to see our precious community disappear.

The result is below.

SKELTON: (Skeleton’s daily life) It’s tonight haha

SKELTON: (Skeleton story) Hot news I heard yesterday on the military frequency.

SKELTON: (Skeleton Making) I made a wool felt doll!

SKELTON: (Skeleton Video) Skeleton’s Beatbox (3)

For some reason, my appearance in the community was starting to resemble my mentor, Jon Nae-non.

But it’s not a complete imitation of Jonnaenon.

Although John Nae-non only added the heading (John Nae-non), I was considerate of the readers by including detailed topics like this (Skeleton Image) after the heading.

However, unlike John Nae-non, its popularity was not very strong, with views always in the single digits and no likes or comments.

You could say that this is the limitation of an ordinary person who has neither dexterity nor writing skills, nor the knowledge to teach others.

Looking at popular users like DragonC, a former webtoon artist who draws his daily life in a stylish manner, and Anonymous118, who uploads crude but diverse homemade games, I feel like I understand why Jonnaenon was attacked so much.

As I was working at the bottom of the popularity caste, I naturally started noticing friends who were similar to me.

There are stubborn writers who still upload their own novels despite the number of views approaching binary, weirdos who upload hideous pictures of themselves naked with baseless confidence, and Sea Monkey Papa who serializes Sea Monkey Diary.

Sea Monkey Papa might have been more popular if he had raised something else······.

Among these subgroups, there is a user named Demian04.

He habitually uploaded drawings he had made with a ballpoint pen, but as far as talent goes, he didn’t show even a hint of talent.

His object was always a woman with long hair (or so it seemed). Even if it couldn’t be drawn to the level of a spiritualist, he drew her breasts to an excessive extent.

If it was just excessive, I wouldn’t have said anything, but in the case of Damien04, he hung two rice sacks.

Did you not eat well as a baby?

Damian04 mainly uploaded modern art paintings and rarely wrote articles expressing his own thoughts or opinions.

His consistency in posting only those ugly, ugly chest monsters that he couldn’t even draw may have been what made me remember him.

But at some point, this man suddenly became very talkative.

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(Search results: demian04 – 4,553)

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Demian04: Yuri, you are so pretty~

Demian04: Today, I picked a flower for Yuri and took a picture of it.

Demian04: Current status of Damian’s food warehouse.jpg

Demian04: (Demian04 Food) It’s dinner tonight, it’s a shame to eat alone~ haha

Demian04: (Demian04 Art) Yuri’s fan art!!

Demian04: (Demian04 Story) Just kicked out the refugees

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“······hmm?”

No, why is this guy suddenly imitating me?

Actually, that weird headline is a trademark of Jonnaenon, but I inherited it and improved it in a wonderful way.

Damien is imitating me, not John.

I think I know the reason.

Not to brag, but I’ve been gaining a little bit of popularity lately.

SKELTON: (Skeleton Story) Memories with Chairman Je-pung-ho (1)

The series, which tells the story of a conglomerate in a savory way, has struck a chord with users of the tricky Viva! Apocalypse! Korean bulletin board.

The third part, which can be called a double climax, also showed off its prowess in becoming a popular article.

Damien seems to have read that article too.

But why is this guy suddenly talking so much?

In a time of destruction like today, it’s not uncommon for people to suddenly go crazy or do things they’ve never done before.

There are so many things that can drive us crazy: accumulated stress, ignored truths, external threats, disease and radiation, drugs, anxiety about the future, etc.

In Damien’s case, it was clear that he had gone mad through a different route than the usual causes of madness.

Demian04: (Demian04) Yuri’s fan art!!

I clicked on one of Damien’s posts to check the contents.

As always, he painted his nymph, a woman with long hair.

Although his drawings were still terribly bad, one difference stood out in the eyes of Park Gyu, who had seen all of his drawings.

I put my heart into it.

That too, very much.

Suddenly, a question occurred to me.

Who is this person named Yuri?

A real person? Or an imaginary girlfriend? I’ve never seen anyone like that in the community.

In the first place, this is a world where women do not exist.

Since I couldn’t figure out the answer, I asked the community for advice.

SKELTON: (Skeleton questions) Who the hell is Yuri?

It was an unexpected person who helped me.

Message from Defender: Looks like you’ve been blocked. Turn on the feature to show blocked users’ posts.

It’s a human hunter.

In reality, this guy is a psychopath who kills indiscriminately, but within the community, he is a great user who is a bit squeamish but only says the truth.

그러니까 현실 개새끼에 인터넷 현자라고 할까.

Isn’t it usually the opposite?

Anyway, I took the human hunter’s advice and turned on the ‘show blocked posts’ function, and the hidden truth was revealed.

Yuri_need_man : Yuri is here~

Yuri_need_man : A photo taken after putting on makeup for the first time in a while

Yuri_need_man : Depressed

Yuri_need_man : I want to go to Starbucks

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…

“What is this?”

She’s a woman.

She is also a young and pretty woman.

She attached a photo of herself to each post, and although her full face is not visible, her vaguely visible face is that of a beautiful woman in her early 20s.

Her body was sexy, and she seemed to know it because she liked to wear revealing clothes.

I remember there being quite a few tattoos.

The location was inside a bunker, and this is not a photo from the past, but a photo from the present.

however.

“Huh?”

After a long time, my good impression hardened.

This is a trap.

Why would I block that ID called Yuri?

I didn’t block Yuri.

The person who used the account that Yuri used was blocked.

I checked.

Yuri_need_man’s account information

Account ID: viva103472

Nickname: Yuri_need_man

Number of posts: 10,323

“also.”

Viva! Apocalypse! Bulletin board nicknames can be changed at any time, just like group chat nicknames, but account IDs have unique values ​​and cannot be changed.

I found this account’s original nickname by searching by account ID.

kurogod: My father’s assets are worth about 120 billion won.

kurogod: I miss caviar~ American prime steak and such doesn’t satisfy my taste~

kurogod: The Bentley I drove before the war~

kurogod: Soljjiki If I had gone all in, I could have built a much better bunker than you guys~

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..

Kurogat. This guy is one of the four people I blocked along with the human hunter.

He was a friend who wrote a diary every day and told lies.

Judging from his words and actions, he seems young, but I remember the texture of his hands in the ID photo looking older than me.

The problem is that it’s been a year since this guy disappeared.

There is only one reason why a friend who wrote a diary every day suddenly disappeared.

He was robbed of his bunker and killed.

But these guys who killed Kuroga played a very funny prank.

Kurogod has taken all the few assets he has and discovered our community, so he is targeting my cheerful colleagues by putting forward a young and pretty woman as the face of the community.

The human hunter said a word.

Defender: No one would fall for this stupid fishing trick, right?

there is.

Demian04: (Demian04) Yuri~ You are really pretty today too~ (Heart-pounding emoticon)

This is Damian04.

He followed Yuri’s every post, liking and praising her fervently.

The wide-eyed users tore him down.

In particular, a user with the nickname SUNBI was the most active in dissing Damian04.

SUNBI: Oh my, it’s bad for a young friend to do this. Control yourself. I’ll send you a video of the night shift via DM, so have a good time and have some wise thoughts~

That’s fine. Being obsessed with pretty women is proof of a healthy man.

Moreover, the real-time photos of Yuri’s leggings were so destructive that even I had to save them.

But all things must come to an end.

The plunderer soon revealed his true colors.

Yuri_need_man : I’m lonely and need protection. Is there a man who can let me stay for one night?

The plunderer cast the line of death.

With a spleen weapon, a brain-busting photo in lingerie.

One outcome passed before me like a prophecy.

Demian04: Oh my!

The prophecy came true.

Damien took the bait in less than a second.

“Wow······Fuck.”

Now, a year and a half after the outbreak of the war, our community users, although not as strong as Rupert Reichpalace, still had a strong sense of solidarity, and they all came together to tear him down.

Defender: Don’t do it. I warned you.

Even psychopathic human hunters.

Of course, this Park Gyu-do also contributed to the story.

SKELTON: (Skeleton’s advice) Damian, please look at reality, even if you follow me.

The scholars were the ones who criticized this situation most vehemently.

SUNBI: Yuri-nim. I warn you. If you touch any member of our community, I will never let you off easy!

As the community backlash grew, the looters changed their tactics.

Yuri_need_man: There are a lot of people who are jealous, so I’ll talk to them through DM~

Direct messages, which means they want to talk to each other through visible notes.

As expected, no one has seen Damien04 since then.

The scholar who was trying to correct Damien04 also disappeared, perhaps disappointed by the incident.

The most mysterious outcome of this incident was the disappearance of Yuri.

The wolf, who had been hiding behind the guise of a community user, never appeared on the bulletin board again, perhaps thinking of just making a quick buck and ending it.

*

A week has passed since then.

I don’t know why, but I suddenly became curious about Damien04’s past.

What kind of person was he before and immediately after the war?

He first began his activities immediately after the war.

Even then, I just uploaded the picture without saying anything.

His favorite subject at the time was landscapes, not stupidly large-breasted women.

In contrast to his crude portraits, his landscapes were of exceptional quality.

In particular, the landscape painting titled Untitled 04, which depicts a sunset over the sea and a lighthouse island, was very beautiful.

So much so that I printed one out and hung it in my bunker.

The Damien episode, which I thought was over, had a backstory.

Defender: It’s a bit late, but Yuri-nim’s certification

Damian04 wasn’t the only one who attended Yuri’s murder meeting.

Our human hunters were also present, and they mercilessly killed all the marauders and face madams, and now they have posted the proof photos on the bulletin board.

It wasn’t just the looters he brought up.

Our old brother also certified (with his face covered) with more courtesy than a plunderer.

Their bodies, stripped naked and beaten to death, felt very different from those of marauders killed by human killers.

But there are two, not one.

Why two?

Damien04 wasn’t the only one who went to die.

Defender: Who’s the other one?

Who on earth could it be?

Defender: 10

10?

Defender: SUNBI.

“ah.”