Chapter 76 – A Group of Survivors
Whisk.
“Off, off…”
The last surviving gangster fell to the floor with his eyes wide open, let out a faint moan, and soon, all strength left his body.
It is dead.
I looked around, wiping the blood splattered on my face with my sleeve.
On the floor, the bodies of nearly thirty gangsters were lying sprawled out and bleeding profusely.
Not even the slightest moan is heard.
They couldn’t be heard because they were all dead.
“It’s quite overwhelming.”
If you attack in the same, consistent pattern every time like zombies, you can save stamina and deal with a large number of people with minimal movement, but it will inevitably be quite overwhelming for people who are unpredictable as there is no fixed pattern.〈 Br〉
That’s because one of the gangsters, who was so scared that he only backed away and crouched in the corner until it was his turn, suddenly ran in while biting his lower lip and holding something as if he had made up his mind the moment he saw the slightest gap.
Still, it wasn’t a big threat, but since I was dealing with a large number of people alone, my gaze and senses were dispersed, so I couldn’t say that there were no crises big or small.
In the end, I took care of everything, proving that my power dealing is not a big problem even when with people.
Above all, as I was killing zombies that looked so human-like, I did not feel any sense of rejection or guilt after killing them, so I just felt foreign.
I smiled bitterly, wondering if I was always like this, and vigorously shook off the blood that had gotten on the blade of my sword.
“… !”
After not allowing even a single thug to be left alive, I looked back.
There, ordinary people were seen blocking the gangsters who were trying to escape and forcing them inside.
As soon as they caught my gaze, they started shaking with fear, as if they had seen a devil.
“Is there anyone who can look at the map… No. No. Is there anyone who can look at the map and find out what’s on this side?”
If I looked in the mirror, I would probably be acting in a way that would freak me out, but for now, I smiled and asked.
Then the woman who brought the map carefully raised her hand.
“Me… “
“Good.”
I immediately told her to take the map I had brought and spread it out on her floor.
She looked at the gazes of the people with her and spread the map she had brought on the floor as she was told.
It was a very large map, probably because it was used in real estate, but despite its size, detailed information was not written on it.
So, I asked her one by one to point out what looked roughly like her her large building her with her hand her and what was in here, as well as her her specific store her and location her her her .
At the same time, I kept my guard up completely, thinking that the people who had been one-sided by the gangsters might suddenly change and attack me.
Fortunately, those people didn’t seem to have any intention of harming me.
Of course, I had just killed nearly 30 thugs in an instant with my bare body, but there was no one here strong enough to attack me like this.
If he had been there in the first place, he would have died fighting against the gangsters before I came, or he would have changed everything.
Anyway, while I was asking her about this and that, if there was anything she didn’t know, I also tried asking her questions to people who were glancing at her cage.
Like that.
“Uhm…”
I fell asleep while looking at the large, spread-out map.
Unlike the first time, I had made a lot of notes on the map so as not to forget them.
Although I succeeded in finding out about large supermarkets, inevitably needed places, and information, I couldn’t hide my disappointment.
That’s because even if I told them half of what I asked, the other half came back saying they didn’t know much about it or that it wasn’t around here.
I sighed in frustration without realizing it.
Still, this is pretty good. Anything more than this might be greed.
Anyway, I got what I got.
I nodded with a satisfied face and stood up.
“Thank you.”
“Oh, no.”
Then, when he took her her map her her and expressed his gratitude her her, the woman shook her head vigorously.
“Everyone too.”
“Hehe. Thank you. In fact, we are more thankful.”
A man who seemed to be the oldest said with a lonely smile.
He expressed some inexplicable resentment, saying it would have been better if he had come a little earlier, but I didn’t care.
“Then I’ll just leave.”
I decided to go back.
As the day was getting late, I felt like if I went back now, I could get home before the sun completely sets.
However.
“Yes… ? Let’s go… ?”
These people didn’t seem very happy about me going.
“Just… Can’t you stay here? What will we do if you leave without any regrets… “
I asked them carefully, as if they were going to kill all the gangsters who were at least protecting them and then leave them like this.
To be honest, even though the goal was to deal with the gangsters in advance and save them at the same time as fear of harming Seo-ah and Seung-i, he had no intention of embracing them with great generosity.
“How do I know that?”
When I spoke as if it was none of my business, laughter broke out everywhere.
I guess they all thought that I would reign over them and protect them instead of the gangsters.
After seeing this double appearance, I started to think that I had saved him for no reason.
“Looking at it, it looks like you have quite a bit of food and supplies… Don’t you think?”
In response to my question, one person looked around and opened his mouth.
“Even though my mouth has decreased, I think it will only last about a month.”
Even though one man lost as many as 30 people, he announced the sad reality that he would only last a month.
No, the gangsters only distributed the minimum amount of food and ate among themselves, so their mouths may have increased.
Anyway, even if that was the case, there was still no reason for me to embrace them.
“You can take care of it. How long do you plan on living on someone else’s back?”
I gave a warning.
They have to think about getting up on their own. They can’t starve to death while waiting for someone or a group to come along to lead them.
“Ha, I will do it. I will do it, but just a little bit… Please protect us just a little bit… !”
The woman who brought me the map began to beg urgently.
“Well, I’ll do anything.”
Her body is already defiled. She continued as she held her shabby clothes, saying that it wouldn’t be a problem if she got dirty again.
“Please… Please take us too. Or just me… “
She pretended to care for others, but then she spoke in a low voice so that only I could hear.
If things don’t work out, I laughed at his shameless and selfish attitude of everyone asking to take him with him.
To be honest, the building our house is in is quite large, and we took care of all the zombies inside and outside, so even if we took them all, there would be a place to sleep.
But the problem is food.
If we started giving away what we had, it was obvious that even our food would run out in an instant.
However, it is not trustworthy to supply food to them.
Perhaps because the world would have been destroyed like this anyway, many men decided to stand side by side with the gangsters out of desperation. A total of 60 people survived, of which only 40 were women and 20 were men.
Even that didn’t seem to be of much help since the men were all older.
Therefore, even if you take them, they are like cockroaches that only throw up food.
Furthermore, what about 40 women?
“Haa… “
She opened her mouth with a deep sigh.
“I can let you sleep. I can protect you from zombies. But I won’t give you food or supplies. You have to supply it on your own.”
In a big way, we were able to share the empty house with them.
Also, although they could protect them from zombies, they could never give them the most important food and supplies.
When this was mentioned as if it were a notice, naturally there were some complaints, but they were only a small minority.
Most people are just happy to hear that they will protect them from zombies.
In fact, we don’t know that the supply of food and supplies is more important than that.
Nevertheless, they just put a smile on their faces just thinking that they have somehow solved the threats they can see right now.
“What should I do?”
There was no respect anymore.
“I would really appreciate it if you could do at least that much.”
Nod. And he bowed.
“Okay, thank you…”
“Thank you so much!!”
“Haha, I’ll finally be able to live like a human!”
“Ahahaha!”
Those who are still happy.
“I’ll say it again, I can give you a place to sleep and protect you, but there’s nothing more than that.”
“Yes!”
This was emphasized again.
“Then get ready. I have to go and discuss it first.”
I still have doubts about whether this is true.
I wonder if taking them with them would be a good choice considering the future. With my mind wondering if it was just a bad choice, I walked home, saying I would come back tomorrow.
