Chapter 163 – Resume Communication (6)
A military Dudonban departed from the Yeosu garrison.
The private on board was shaking his legs.
It’s not that discipline is missing. I was just scared. The tremors were so strong that the panels of the body armor he wore were rattling.
“Are you nervous?”
“Private! Jeong Min-tae!”
When the sergeant who was watching across from me spoke to me, I responded hysterically.
My knee, which was shaking for a moment, lost about 5 cm! It looks like he was quite surprised when he jumped up.
“Wow.”
The corporal sitting to the right of Private Jeong sighed.
As the scope of activities of the Yeosu garrison expanded, new soldiers were received from refugees, and one person I did not like arrived.
“Don’t be too nervous. Even though it’s the outermost area, it’s not like they’re out on patrol, they’re just on guard duty. “It’s actually better this way to be safe.”
“Yes! Thank you!”
Jeong Yi-byeong answered, shaking his legs.
Due to problems with the supply of ammunition, new soldiers were being deployed without even firing a few shots.
Thanks to this, grenades are only issued to veteran soldiers who have experienced the infection war.
“I don’t think it was as bad as it is now during the Korean War.”
“That’s right.”
There were 5 soldiers on board the transport vehicle. They are reinforcements for the external base newly developed by the garrison.
“We’re all here. Stopping.”
The driver in the front seat glanced at the back compartment and shouted.
“Everyone, get ready. You just need to come to your senses for a week. We are not going as a permanent force, but we are only providing temporary support to stabilize the outpost.”
“Yes!”
Everyone repeated the sergeant’s words.
After arriving at the destination, we got off one by one.
Before Dudonban made a U-turn and went back the way he came, he stopped for a moment next to the sergeant.
“You guys have a hard time.”
The sergeant in the passenger seat said.
“Loyalty! Thank you for your hard work.”
A car disappears while waving its hand out the window.
This is a commercial complex built near a highway. Several service companies, including gas stations, maintenance shops, and small motels, were operated in conjunction.
“You look like a bitch. The weather is cloudy and hazy.”
The black-haired private said.
The floor was dirty with rotting leaves, torn newspapers, and weeds creeping up between the broken sidewalks. The sky itself is gloomy.
“But where can you sleep in a motel?”
The bowl-haired private looked at the motel across the street with an expectant face.
It was messy because it wasn’t maintained, but it was much better than the group camp at the garrison. Here, you will be able to use a private room to your heart’s content.
An officer with the rank of lieutenant approached from two guard posts installed at the entrance of the shopping mall.
Inside the guard post, each soldier was pointing a gun at the road.
“Nice to meet you. “I am Lieutenant Yoo Min-ho, in charge of this outpost.”
“Loyalty!”
Lieutenant Yu pointed toward the motel.
A few soldiers can be seen smoking cigarettes at the entrance.
“As you may have guessed, that is our quarters. You can go anywhere you like. Do not touch the room with the ‘Sleeping’ sign on it. “Everyone is very tired because of the bad shift work.”
Next, he pointed to gas stations and repair shops.
“The mission is nothing special. All you have to do is guard this side, kill any infected organisms that creep in, and accept friendly vehicles that come for refueling and maintenance.”
The last thing I pointed out was the guard post and highway.
“It’s not a good place to keep. There are many elements that block the view and it is geographically open. However, it is a necessary base for the time being. Do you have any questions?”
“Do you often fight?”
The dispatched sergeant asked.
“To a certain extent when we first took over. There were no significant incidents after that. There’s nothing to be too nervous about.”
“All right. Let’s all go in.”
“Oh, and one more thing.”
Lieutenant Yu grinned and pointed inside the maintenance shop.
From there, sounds like hammering and something being welded could be heard intermittently.
“There’s a guy repairing equipment, and he’s a sensitive guy, so try to stay away from the repair shop as much as possible. Guard duty is also excluded, so please be aware of that.”
“It looks like they are high-quality personnel. “I can’t believe you care so much.”
The dispatched sergeant spoke sarcastically, but Lieutenant Yu just nodded silently.
“It’s a high-quality workforce. “Your body is more precious than you or me.”
Lieutenant Yoo pointed his finger at the dispatched sergeant and his group.
“But is everyone wearing body armor and talking to others? Even though I was an officer, I didn’t even get a single uniform.”
“I was lucky. “The team that went out to search just before departure found several police body armor.”
“Okay, let’s go. “It would be better to rest while you can.”
The dispatched sergeant nodded.
“I know very well.”
It may be a dreary place, but it doesn’t seem like it would be boring to stay here.
An incident has already occurred.
“Ugh, fuck! “What is this?”
Private Jeong opened the door of a room on the first floor of the motel and was startled.
“Fuck? Did this bastard attack?”
“S-sorry. “I was so surprised.”
“What is it? “What did I see?”
The dispatched corporal frowned after pushing Private Jeong and looking through the open door.
“Aww shit.”
There was a body on the bed in the room, almost completely rotted.
Although it had been completely blown off from below its nose as if it had been shot, it was possible to guess that it was a walker through its fingers, which were more than twice as long as a normal person’s.
Is this a characteristic of Walker? The smell wasn’t too bad.
“No, there’s a body, why didn’t you clean it up here?”
“It must have been neglected because the smell was all over the room, and it was unusable anyway. “Close the door first.”
The dispatched sergeant who suddenly appeared spoke.
And so the new family of five began life at the outpost.
Does an influx lead to another influx? Customers came to the quiet outpost every day.
The next day, a family appeared at the end of the road.
“Don’t shoot!”
A man and a woman are riding a scooter on the road, each with a young boy and a young girl on the back.
“I came here after hearing that they were accepting people from Yeosu.”
The man said with a nervous face.
“Go straight down this road and turn right. From now on, we will mark our station on the signposts along the way, so you can follow them.”
Lieutenant Yu kept his eyes focused on their hands and scooters throughout his explanation to the refugees. I was wary of the risk of taking out a weapon that might have been hidden.
Playing a frightened family member and suddenly turning into a predator is something that often happens these days.
“Thank you!”
But it seems like they were real refugees.
A battle broke out on the third day after joining.
“Keeeeek-!”
A walker walking with difficulty from the field.
“You take care of it.”
The dispatched sergeant gave instructions to Private Jeong.
Bang!
I missed it.
Bang!
I missed again.
Bang! Bang!
It also missed the mark.
The dispatched sergeant, who could not bear to waste bullets, stopped him and smashed Walker’s head with one shot.
“I’m sorry.”
“… It’s done.”
Even if you are a senior soldier, it is quite tiring for a single soldier to be on guard duty and even worry about supplies. I didn’t even feel like getting angry.
Anyway, the Yeosu garrison led by Lee Seong-bong is doing quite well.
Just one unsettling factor.
Military life that follows this routine has the advantage of being easy for new recruits to adapt to, but it also has disadvantages.
It is generally used in times of semi-peace or when infectious agents are assumed to be enemies.
The back of the motel that evening.
“Ha, that sucks. “I want to go back quickly.”
The dispatched corporal opened the zipper of his pants with a cigarette in his mouth.
Cigarette smoke billows out toward the field along with a crackling sound.
“Why is the weather so beautiful…”
His words could not continue.
This is because a hand suddenly appeared from behind and covered his mouth.
Phew!
The dispatched corporal’s eyes were wide open as if they were about to be torn apart.
He looks in disbelief at the knife sticking out of his chest.
The urination had already stopped, but instead, the blood pouring from his chest began to soak the floor red.
The limp corpse fell, and a muscular soldier appeared behind it.
The dark camouflage uniform has a shaded special forces symbol engraved on it. This is a unit dispatched from Goheung-gun and is comprised entirely of executives.
Five shadows crawled from the field and stood up. Divided into 3 teams of 2 people, they moved quickly while maintaining a low posture.
Among the two people moving in the direction of the guard post, the special forces soldier in the lead clenched his fist and extended his index and middle fingers to indicate the number 2.
Then, he pointed to himself with his index finger, then pointed to the right guard post, and after pointing his index finger to his partner, he pointed to the left guard post.
The partner behind me nods and both take out grenades at the same time.
Ping!
1 second.
2 seconds.
Two grenades flew silently and rolled into the two guard posts.
Kkkwang!!!
While the guard post was destroyed, screams, gunshots, and explosions were heard in succession from the direction of the motel.
However, Yeosu-gun was not completely helpless.
“It’s an attack!”
First of all, Lieutenant Yu did not keep a separate gun safe and ordered everyone to sleep armed.
In addition, instead of all troops resting in motels, they were rotated to rest at gas stations or other stores.
Since it was an unfavorable place to protect, they made preparations for such a surprise attack.
Thus, a battle broke out between the Yeosu conscript army and the Goheung special forces.
Although the Yeosu army was larger in numbers, the battle was one-sided.
“Aaaaah!”
In the midst of an intense gunfight, it is Yeosu’s soldiers who fall down, sprinkling blood.
Ta-ta-tang!
Bullets rained down in the motel hallway, windows were broken, and wood chips, dust, and stone dust were flying everywhere.
Good!
The gun of the Goheung Special Forces soldier who turned two Yeosu soldiers into oatmeal got jammed.
“You bastard!”
The soldier who noticed this aimed his gun, but the special forces were no longer there.
“What?”
The special forces soldier, who fell vertically after kicking the ceiling of the hallway, planted his fist in the soldier’s solar plexus before he could react.
Ujijik.
The sound of ribs breaking was loud, and the soldier vomited blood bubbles. It was Private Jeong Min-tae.
The Goheung Special Forces are elite soldiers who not only have overwhelming shooting skills and combat experience, but also have received power-strengthening treatment.
“Aaaaah!”
The hallway door a little away opened, and another soldier appeared.
Ta-ta-ta-tang!
He collapses into a beehive under the fire of the special forces who took Private Jeong’s gun.
Jeong Yi-byeong, whose ribs were broken, is not yet alive.
Thumping.
“Khahaha.”
A special forces soldier charged forward, holding Private Jeong, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, in front of him like a shield with one hand.
If you include the bulletproof vest and equipment, it weighs over 90 kg.
The screams of Yeosu soldiers rang out every time the rifle held out between Private Jeong’s armpits spewed fire.
Some soldiers died without being able to shoot the same person in front of them, while others lost their aim in fear and died.
Young men who were trained only on how to protect citizens from monsters.
They could not withstand veteran soldiers who were thoroughly trained to kill humans.
Young men who enlisted just for better food or to give their families a safe place to sleep fall helplessly to the bullets of their seniors.
The special forces soldier who threw the corpse of Private Jeong, who had become a rag, walked trotting away.
“Save me… Please save me.”
A gun was pointed at the forehead of a young man who was lying down, spilling his intestines, covered in tears and snot, and pleading.
Bang!
The special forces took out a field syringe that looked similar to KMARK-1 from the biscuit bag.
After inserting it into her neck, she exhaled violently for a moment.
“Kaaak! Hehe!”
The phlegm he spit out was strangely blue. A thin nosebleed is flowing from his nose.
The special forces man grabbed his gun again and ran. Power overflowed from all over, and there were still many people to kill.
Bang!
“Ahh!”
A soldier who ran away to the repair shop was shot by a special forces soldier who was in pursuit.
“Please… Please!”
A soldier is clutching his legs and begging for his life.
Conscripts easily lose their will to fight after feeling their lives in danger a few times.
From the perspective of a special forces soldier who is a reinforced human, it was like hunting a rabbit with sharp claws.
Just as I was about to aim my gun and blow off his head.
Bang!
With a strong explosion sound, the wall right next to the special forces collapsed in pieces.
“Aaaaah!”
The hand of the special forces soldier holding the gun had evaporated.
Bang! Bang!
Two shots followed again.
The first shot blew off the special forces soldier’s right shoulder, and the broken arm fell to the ground.
The second shot evaporated the area above the neck, causing the corpse to fall to its knees.
It was a signal of change in the once one-sided battlefield.
The Yeosu soldier, clutching his leg, looked at the hole in the wall with trembling eyes.
Kwaaaaang!
A being that appeared by collapsing the wall with a loud noise and a headbutt.
A 2 m-tall monster with an exoskeleton power system and reinforced Kevlar gloves tightly applied.
“It’s a reinforced armored soldier!”
The special forces partner appeared late and shouted over the radio. That was his will.
Bang!
The Devastator Shotgun is nearly three times the size of a regular rifle.
When it spewed fire, several metal balls the size of ping-pong balls tore the special forces to pieces.
After briefly looking at the burning guard post, the reinforced armored soldier replaced the magazine and headed to the motel. Gunfire is still heard sporadically inside.
At the entrance of the motel, there was a soldier lying face down in his underwear, shaking.
“You there.”
“Hi!”
He dropped his pistol on the head of the astonished soldier, as if to start a fight.
“Hiccup!”
A soldier who hiccups after being hit on the head without even thinking about getting hit.
“Fight if you still have breath. “I will go in first.”
Just before entering the motel, the armored soldier stopped and looked back at the soldier.
“Be visible to me at least once during the battle. Otherwise, you will die by my hands.”
The soldier in underwear picked up his pistol with trembling hands.
* * *
A motel hallway where fighting is in full swing.
Tatang!
The special forces soldier who put two bullets into the heart of a soldier in Yeosu replaced the magazine.
Bang!
However, before he could even fire a single shot from the new magazine, his head broke, and he fell down.
“Reinforced armored soldiers!”
Other special forces returned fire, but it only briefly broke his posture and did not inflict fatal wounds.
Because there was a battle going on, there were not many bullets in the magazine.
Slam!
When six shots were fired, the sound of hitting the empty compartment rang out.
The moment the armored soldier recovered his collapsed posture and aimed his shotgun, a special forces soldier kicked in the door of the room.
“Damn it! “There was no rumor that something like this existed!”
Even if you are a special forces soldier who has undergone strengthening procedures, you have no chance of winning if you are sandwiched back and forth.
The special forces took out a syringe from his pocket and stuck it in his neck.
As the bio-battery was injected, the strengthened muscles began to be revitalized again.
Degurrr.
But before the medicine could take effect, a grenade with the pin pulled out rolled in front of him.
“Damn it…”
Wow!
Wood chips, dust, and pieces of meat flew around with an ear-piercing sound.
A fire had started at some point, and flames were raging at the end of the hallway.
“The remaining soldiers. Are there any surviving soldiers?”
A heavy voice resonates between them.
Ta-ta-tang!
Sparks flew on the armored soldier’s shoulder and his body tilted.
He turned reflexively and aimed the shotgun.
Bang!
Beyond the flames, I could see a human figure collapsing.
The reinforced armored soldier approached with his gun pointed.
“Cool… Lucky…”
“…!”
The one who had fallen was a soldier from Yeosu. A soldier with a young face pointed in a certain direction with a trembling hand.
The bullet flew half a beat faster than the armored soldier turned his gun. He raised his arms and covered his neck and face.
“Keuuu…”
Surprisingly, he did not collapse even after being hit by an entire magazine.
“This is crazy…”
The special forces soldier, aiming his smoking gun at me, looked dumbfounded.
Bang!
That was his last.
Although death was avoided, the armored soldier was bleeding all over his body.
“Yuck!”
The reinforced armored soldier spit out a bunch of blood.
With trembling steps, he approached the soldier who gave him directions. The soldier was already dead.
The armored soldier who retrieved the dog tag from him staggered out of the motel.
Ta-ta-tang!
Before he could even take a few steps from the front door, the armored soldier’s neck became a rag, and he fell down.
In his blurred vision, he saw a dead soldier in his underwear lying around. The one next to him is a special forces soldier with the rank of major.
“Mission completed.”
He activated the radio attached to his front chest.
“The damage is…”
The special forces hesitated for a moment.
“Everyone except the team leader is killed.”
[… I get it. Come back quickly. I had a hard time.]
It was already night, and the flames were burning the entire motel.
That day, an outpost of the Yeosu garrison disappeared.
And then a full-scale war between the two powers began.
* * *
When we arrived, the outermost outpost of the Yeosu garrison’s sphere of influence was in ruins.
[No risk factors.]
The stalker robot that searched inside sent a safety signal.
“Lee Man-cheol, you son of a bitch! Now, I can’t even see them as a family eating together.”
No matter where you looked, there were bullets and explosion marks, and corpses were left cold everywhere.
“Four of you, go to the border position, gather the remaining corpses together.”
[Roger!]
The stalker robots were busy moving around, and the bodies were piled up one by one.
If we were to follow the example of the deceased, they shouldn’t have been piled up like this, but it’s also not possible to hold a funeral in the current situation.
The only thing I can do is makeup.
As each body was laid down, a stiff expression of despair and fear appeared in my eyes.
Those who died that way were all Yeosu soldiers.
Oil brought from a gas station was sprinkled on the corpses and set on fire, causing huge flames to erupt.
I thought as I clenched my fist and placed it on my forehead.
About what is the best choice I can make in the current situation.
Things were going so fast and so bad.
But one thing was clear.
Lee Man-cheol This beastly bastard is not something that can be solved with words.
[Everything has been recovered.]
The stalker robot handed me a bundle of dog tags soaked in blood and soot.
The fist that received it gained strength and an unpleasant sound rang out.
