Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 83



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46. ​​Messiah (1)

There is a term called Oldby.

Newbie is a word that is mainly used on the internet or in games, meaning a veteran in contrast to a newbie.

This Park Gyu is a true old-timer on the Viva! Apocalypse! Korean bulletin board, and although he has some gaps in between, he is one of the early adopters who first applied for the Viva! Apocalypse! service.

So, I am proud to say that I am quite familiar with the history and changes of this bulletin board.

The atmosphere of the bulletin board felt different in each era.

If we were to categorize it, it could be broadly divided into three periods: before the war, at the beginning of the war, and one year after the outbreak of the war.

First of all, the atmosphere of the bulletin board before the war was a noble place where scholarly, intellectual, older, and socially respectable adult users discussed their own post-apocalyptic survival strategies and plans.

The representative figure of this period is, of course, our Jonnae-non.

The second age is the age of chaos.

A time when pre-war values ​​and the violence of the chaotic period were mixed together.

It’s a time when sophisticated users accustomed to academic discussions are blending in with the uniquely smarmy culture of the Internet.

The third era is the period of adaptation.

This is probably the most exciting time of all time, when all users have become accustomed to the resignation of the era of destruction and internet grammar, and even palenet users have entered the scene.

We are now living in a period of adaptation.

Everyone is familiar with the Internet and has become immersed in its culture.

But in those chaotic times, there were still many people who were not familiar with the fragile Internet culture.

Looking at it now, it’s really nothing, but at the time, there were four major madmen.

Murderers, schizophrenics, attention seekers, and cult members.

The double murderer was disguised as a named user named Defender.

The schizophrenic and the attention-seeking are dead.

The last one was reduced to something like dregs floating around on message boards, neither here nor there.

That’s I am Jesus.

He used to write Bible verses and talk nonsense like the rapture whenever something happened, and now he has become a user that no one cares about.

Let’s call them NPCs, for example.

He woke up.

With a radiant light shining from his eyes, like a prophet.

He became Awaken.

It’s a high-level Awaken that is welcomed with open arms in Jeju Island.

The story begins when I started to take interest in a user named IamJesus and started to watch him.

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It was about a year and a half ago that I first noticed IAMJESUS.

It was peaceful at that time.

I kept in touch with Kim Da-ram, the country was not divided in two, and the shield called Seoul was still intact.

Although the citizens of Seoul were excited by strange events such as lotteries, at least for Park Gyu, it was a beautiful time when he could wait for the end of the world without worry.

I confess now, but at the time I was ambitious.

There was a desire to make the little-known user Skeleton into a user with strong influence on the bulletin board like other named users.

So I uploaded a few of my creations, but the response from the bulletin board was cold.

My taste and the taste of the bulletin board were confirmed, so although my pride was slightly hurt, I thought of another way to become a popular user.

That’s “friendship.”

I came up with a somewhat shallow plan to increase the number of friendly users and have them support each other so that they can naturally become named players even without any special creative abilities.

At the time, I thought of this after seeing Kyle Doss, who was still alive, not having any creative ability but having a friendly family and being active on the bulletin board with some weight.

So, I also looked for a friendly user.

However, you cannot just choose just anyone as a friendly user.

If you choose a dog or a cow, you will be entangled with those guys wholesale.

You can advance to a higher level only by making friends with users who have a certain level of recognition and a strong voice.

It was at that point that I really started paying attention to IAMJESUS.

As one of the four major madmen at the time, he was a figure that everyone on the bulletin board knew, if not others.

Unlike the attention-seeker who just stares at the wall and writes in his diary, the schizophrenic who picks a fight with anyone, and the murderer who kills people and certifies them, I.M.Jesus at least seems like he can communicate at least by looking at his writing.

iamjesus : When will the rapture of believers occur?

iamjesus : Armageddon = a war between aliens on Earth

iamjesus : Zombies were predicted in 1 Corinthians 1:17

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These are the posts he uploaded at the time.

There’s something different about Pint from other people.

As soon as I saw it, I thought I shouldn’t get close.

Yet the reason I approached this guy was because of the human side he sometimes showed.

iamjesus : tonight

iamjesus : Today’s game progress

iamjesus : It hurts

iamjesus : Supermalio Time Attack

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At that time, the bulletin board users didn’t have much aggro tolerance, so I blocked this guy, and there weren’t many users who were kind enough to listen to the complaints and daily lives of users they didn’t like.

Is that why?

The number of views for the articles he posted was stuck at 1 or 2.

Considering that 1 is the default view count, it means that his daily life was hardly seen by anyone.

I may not be the first, but at the time, it was none other than this skeleton who added the number 1 to the number of views of his daily posts.

As I watched his daily life being revealed little by little, I was able to get a vague clue about what kind of life this friend, who seemed a little sick, had lived and how he was living.

From what I know from reading his daily life, that he lives in a small factory-made bunker, so-called “factory-style bunker,” and that most of his food is military combat rations bibimbap, and that he sits cross-legged on a mattress instead of a chair, uses a laptop on a hunched desk to surf the internet, and that all sorts of adult products are strewn about on his dirty-looking mattress, and that he spends most of his day playing games.

I.M.Jesus enjoyed a variety of games, but the ones he really liked were classic side-scrolling action games.

So, his preferred type of game was the one where you press a button to jump and make the character run, avoiding obstacles and enemies and reaching the goal.

Although he has never revealed his face, his hands, which are occasionally shown in authentication photos, show that he has never done hard work and his age is clearly young by our standards.

What I felt from him was loneliness.

The fact that there’s a friend here who only looks like he’s in his mid-twenties means that he’s been preparing for this kind of life since his early twenties, and he probably prepared for living in a bunker with his parents’ money, not his own.

In the world he arrived at with such difficulty, he is cut off from his parents, unable to become close to anyone, and lives a life of staring at walls and talking nonsense.

Overcoming loneliness by eating trashy dried food in a dark corner of the room and sleeping in a dirty onahole.

It wouldn’t have been a happy life.

I didn’t really feel like approaching him.

Above all, I am Jesus himself was rejecting others.

I once saw a now-defunct user trying to communicate with him.

RealKorean: Hey. How long are you going to keep posting stuff like this? Are your tastes in games similar to mine?

Real Korean.

I remember him as a user who expressed strong antipathy towards refugees.

I think I lived in Paju, and I met a similar fate as other users who lived there.

At some point, I thought I had lost sight of him, and then all contact with him disappeared forever.

Anyway, he tried to communicate with I.M.Jesus several times.

But IAMJESUS ​​never took the hand he extended.

RealKorean: Are you ignoring me?

After a short, sharp comment, this guy never approached IAMJESUS ​​again.

It’s ironic.

You endlessly post all kinds of things on bulletin boards in hopes of getting someone’s attention, but when someone actually reaches out, you hide like a turtle.

Even after Real Korean left, I.M.Jesus continued to post his own unique routine of Bible verses – rapture – daily life on the bulletin board as before.

Like white noise.

So my interest left him and I never paid any attention to him again.

But then, out of nowhere, that friend who had been reduced to white noise became the most important person on the bulletin board.

Users’ reactions to seeing IAMJESUS’s authentication photo are largely divided into two categories.

Anonymous848: What is that?! That?

Anonymous 458: Did you eat some fluorescent substance? Why are you acting like that all of a sudden?

Anonymous121: You didn’t use the TingTok function, did you? That Chinese video editor.

Foxgames : ???

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People who don’t know exactly what the phenomenon that happened to IAMJESUS ​​means.

Dies_irae69: Can I send you a quick message?

Anonymous777: Wow

CrunchRoll: Check Messages

dongtanmom : Yum

armeegruppe_B : attacking!

inevitable: Congratulations on your newfound insight.

gijayangban : !

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People who know what that phenomenon is.

and.

mmmmmmmmm : You idiot. Did you ingest radiation?

SKELTON: Hmm… Is that it?

unicorn18 : Kyuing

Wise men who live apart from the secular world.

Anyway, among those who knew about the phenomenon, four people showed up whom I was seeing for the first time in my life.

Anonymous777, Crunchyroll, Army Group B, Inevitable.

I swear I’ve never seen them before.

Among those who have shown interest, there are some people to watch out for.

Diesirae. A representative of collective survivalism.

I knew he wasn’t an ordinary person, but I didn’t know he would even recognize Alpha’s awakening.

What’s more, he is even making a very bold proposal.

Clearly this guy is using our bulletin boards as a tool for his own “kingdom.”

However, it is likely that Diesirae was not the only one who sent the message.

It is clearly visible even in the flow of numerous posts posted on the bulletin board.

A fierce underground battle over who will be chosen by the god known as I AM JESUS.

iamjesus : Mmmmm… why are you being so noisy, mmmmm…

This might be the first time.

This young boy, who had been treated as a background character and called a mentally ill person for nearly three years, received so much attention from so many people.

Dies_irae69: Did you see my message? Please review it positively. We are a gathering of users from our community.

inevitable: Please check my message too.

Two people have now publicly admitted to having contact with I.M.Jesus.

That’s how desperately they want IAMJESUS.

but.

“······hmm.”

It won’t be easy.

A year ago I found out what kind of person IAMJESUS ​​is.

He is a dualistic character.

He wants communication more than anyone else, yet he also refuses to communicate.

iamjesus : Mmm… why are you sending me this? Mmm…

But his rejection went in a direction no one expected.

IAMJESUS ​​took a screenshot of the secret message he received and posted it on the bulletin board for everyone to see!

Message from Dies_irae69: You have awakened to the power of Awakening. Call it an awakening or an awakening. You are now a person of great strategic value. Join us. We will protect you. We will protect you.

Message from inevitable: Do you know anything about the Manryugui religion?

A message from CrunchRoll: What we can offer

Message from dongtanmom: Do you need any porn?

armeegruppe_B : Do you want to be a hero?

A message from gijayangban: Would you mind cooperating with my reporting?

A total of six people sent messages.

The worst of these is Baek Seung-hyun.

What the hell is porn? Porn.

I’m not even a middle school student.

What are you going to do with IamJesus, who became famous through mere porn?

“Wow, this kid. He doesn’t even say yum yum at times like this······.”

I ignored the curses that were coming out of my mouth and looked at the other guys.

Diesira sent a message exactly as everyone had imagined.

An appeal to the group, the group, the damn group.

Compared to that, Crunchyroll, a first-time user, prepared a surprising message that would make your eyes pop out.

I attached a photo to the message.

A photo shows women wearing revealing outfits similar to bikinis, holding alcohol and unopened convenience store frozen food while making a finger heart while blindfolded.

unicorn18 : keke

It’s not surprising that Unicorn18 is having a seizure.

Viva! Apocalypse! This is a picture I haven’t seen in 2~3 years.

I would say that the destructive power is so shabby that it makes me look like I borrowed Defender’s younger brother to pretend to be a woman.

But despite that striking photo, it’s the other two that really grab my attention.

Inevitable.

This kid is a perverted religion.

The story is that a pseudo-religious seed that destroyed China was hiding on our bulletin board.

The remaining one is Army Group B.

The photos he attached showed dozens of tanks, armored personnel carriers and helicopters.

That’s right.

This is the Legion’s main base in the southeast that I and the Defenders have seen with our own eyes.

The Legionnaires’ leadership, perhaps someone connected to them, attempted to contact I.M.Jesus directly.

“······.”

I’ve always thought there were some serious guys lurking on our bulletin board.

Woo Min-hee is also active here.

But the dark forces that were actually revealed were much larger than I expected.

He is active in an organization that can control many women, and even in the Legion Sect and the Manryu Gwijong religion.

But I am Jesus is not an ordinary person.

He is one of the four original bulletin board madmen.

No matter what anyone says, he walks his own path.

iamjesus : (Revelation) 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man; and his number is 666.

In the face of countless requests for handshakes, I write steadily and chicly.

iamjesus : Mmm… Send me a few messages… I’ll block you all, mmm…

Declares lofty neutrality.

This is the very definition of an old-time bulletin board.

Actually, it looks like they’ve all been blocked.

inevitable: Brother. Please don’t do this and unblock me. It’s good news.

CrunchRoll: Are you fucking revealing that? Well, I’ll say it while I’m at it. You’re a woman who can do whatever you want with her. You can play with her any way you want. Haha. Throw away all your onaholes in the corner of the room and come to us.

Dies_irae69 : At least I don’t stab my community comrades in the back

armeegruppe_B : A friend with small ambitions

dongtanmom : Yum yum…

Looking at the dark forces on the bulletin board (excluding Dongtan Mom) clinging to it so tenaciously.

Well, in a way, it might be natural.

The value of Alpha Awakening is immeasurable.

If an old school guy like me is a combat unit, those guys have strategic value in and of themselves.

So everyone has no choice but to hang on like that.

“······.”

But if you just watch, your balls start to hurt.

Are you saying that someone worse than me is getting special treatment?

Honestly, what is it that makes me worse than that guy······.

I couldn’t stand it any longer, so I threw a message at the center of the conversation.

SKELTON : Mmmmm

It’s a message sent without thinking.

Just like I suddenly picked a fight with Baek Seung-hyun.

Intense impulse.

But then something surprising happened.

Message from iamjesus: Memme

I am Jesus replied.

A man who ignored numerous powerful dark forces reacted to this skeleton.