Chapter 39 – Rescue (7)
After securing information on all personnel in the marine prison, the time for coordination of opinions continued.
About 60 women gathered in the auditorium, which was used as a place of worship and spiritual education. Each of them is a flashy leader with their own influence.
It takes too long to lead and persuade more than 2000 people at once, so it is convenient to move other prisoners through them.
Sasha played a big part in this part.
I understand the desire to impress the owners of the new location, but it is beyond imagination.
Without walking for a moment, he ran around to the extent that his whole body was covered in sweat, calming the leaders and gathering them into the auditorium.
They sat together in chairs on the left and right of the aisle in the center of the auditorium.
It seemed that the western dong was divided into the western dong, and the eastern dong was divided into the eastern dong.
The prisoners in the west wing, including Sasha and the tall woman who had been thrown out of the warden’s office, looked a bit languid, but seemed manageable.
On the other hand, the prisoners in the east wing all showed signs of starvation and were full of lethargy.
His cheeks are sunken, his hands and feet have lost weight, and his bones look bulging. There were also women who seemed to have difficulty opening their eyes properly. I probably won’t even last a week at this rate.
The leaders who sit in the long church pews also look different.
A woman with a fierce impression.
A woman with a fierce look.
A woman with a good impression who doesn’t look like a criminal at all.
Short cut.
Sports cut.
Skinhead.
Land kid.
Tall.
Muscular woman.
Skinny woman.
A woman with piercings on her face and nipples (you can see them protruding from her top in the shape of a U).
A woman with tattoos everywhere.
A woman who looks like a drug addict.
A naturally neutral woman.
An androgynous woman, as if doped.
Slavic women.
South American women.
A minority woman with leadern blood.
Black woman.
There was even a Muslim woman wearing a simple hijab with a towel.
The images of women filling the screen of the central control room were really diverse. It felt like I was not in prison, but in a vocational training center with multicultural families.
They guarded the entrance and looked at the security robot watching them with anxious eyes.
[All foreign criminals have been sent here.]
Seyoung said.
A few years ago, society in Korea was so chaotic that it could be called a war against foreign residents.
Whether they came in legally or illegally, they were involved in crimes big and small. Mainly the part about prostitution or trafficking.
Even if they are caught, they say that life in prison in Korea is better than life on the streets in their own country.
[I’m not defending the prisoners. However, there are also cases where a person becomes a victim due to ignorance or carelessness and then becomes an offender trying to escape from it. There are many women who reflect and work hard enough. It is not possible to see all of them in one lump.]
In between, Sasha calmed them down as the murmur grew and individual words came out. Surprisingly, she communicated with people of any race.
It’s good to have an attitude that eagerly appeals that you are useful and that you are cooperative with us.
But is he doing that considering his criminal history?
I was wondering if I would do anything wrong with Sasha’s ability, passion, and influence.
Well, it’s welcome if you’re doing that to figure out your situation and find a way to live with your head on.
[Isn’t that role yours to play?]
Rose asked, watching Sasha diligently moving between the prisoners.
[Even if you are angry, you have to admit what you have to admit. Prisoner control in this situation is better for her than for me. I have had control based on administrative power and bureaucrats. In a situation where the authority of public power is not supported, it is just ink.]
Seyoung pointed at her feet and said self-deprecatingly. She was barefoot
[If you want to see the presence or absence of authority here, just look at whether she is wearing shoes or barefoot.]
When we started negotiations like that, there were things that were different from what we expected.
The first is that the number of people in this maritime prison was smaller than originally expected.
[I knew about 2700 prisoners and 252 prison guards.]
[After the rebellion broke out and the guards were detained, the prisoners were divided into two. Those who will leave the island and those who will stay.]
Sasha answered Rose’s question.
This is because she had a better understanding of the situation here than Se-yeong, who had been imprisoned the whole time after the rebellion and was briefly released to repair the communication device.
[We left the island on emergency boats. By burning almost to the limit of the number of people. The number that escaped like that would be about 400 people. After a while, only two ships returned.]
Sasha frowned at her as if she remembered her hatred.
[One boat carried only dying people, and the other boat had half-mad women covered in blood. It took several days just to get the conversation right. No matter how much I talked to him, he only repeated the word ‘monster’.]
Sasha shrugged her shoulders.
[What about the other one, the one who is dying?]
[Nina! Come here for a second.]
At Rose’s question, Sasha called another woman.
She is a Slavic woman with bobbed brown hair, according to her profile, she is 22 years old, and she is of the same Russian nationality as Sasha.
Her crime is assault.
After she finishes her work, she goes to Hoppa to relieve her stress.
Her problem was that it hit her and Nina also turned her eyes back and turned her into porridge. She did not stop her fists even though the woman passed out, and she struck close to 20 times in total. As a result, she went to bread and was exiled here.
[You were the one who saw the boat closest, right?]
[Boat? Oh, that was absolutely horrible.]
Nina wrapped her arms around her.
[It looked like it had been dipped in boiling water and taken out alive. She didn’t come close because I didn’t think she would last a day anyway. If I get sick, isn’t it my loss?]
Rose pulled out her PDA and showed her a map of the Marine Prison.
[Do you know where the boat is?]
Nina pointed with her hand.
[I will send the drone.]
Rose told me.
A moment later, the drones arrived and transmitted the sight, as Nina said, horrifying.
A boat wrecked on the rocky shores of the prison was loaded with bodies, with several dislodged bodies lying on the nearby rocks.
It was like a metaphor, ‘It seems to have been boiled once and then taken out’. There is even corruption going on, so it’s hard to see with your eyes open.
But there was something more troubling than that horror.
The part where the Geiger counter installed on the drone reacted like crazy. The entire boat was like a radioactive mass.
“Is it a nuclear weapon?”
It is unknown whether the nucleus fell from the exposure range while the boat was in operation, or whether it was baked by radiation after entering the place where the nucleus had already fallen.
I don’t even know who fired the nuke. However, it is certain that nuclear weapons have been dropped on the Korean Peninsula.
“Withdraw”
Going any further will have an adverse effect on the drone as well.
[Then, the actual number of people here is about 2550?]
Rose asked.
[I’ll have to count it, but I’ll have to subtract more from that. Quite a few people have died or gone missing for one reason or another. Including suicides. I don’t know the exact number.]
Said Sasha.
[But there is also good news.]
Sophia, who had been listening nearby, added.
[What?]
Rose asked.
[At that time, the people who left on the boat were mostly couples. I took the boat because I had power, what does it mean to have power in prison? I mean the fucking bitches of the world. Most of the instigators of the rebellion belonged there.]
Unlike Sasha, who cares about her tone of voice to impress the new landlord, Sophia poured out as if she was cool.
[Considering that, it seems that there are quite a few people like Sasha and Sophia who do it one way?]
Rose’s screen reflected a group of women gathered in one place.
These are the women classified as Ha Ji-su in the prisoner data and their gang.
The female gym director and her staff seemed to have been caught evading taxes as a group.
[Well, because each person’s situation is different. Women who just want to stay silent, women who stay because they are worried about their co-workers, women who stay because they know that the outside world is a more terrible hell. The reasons are different, but staying here wasn’t a bad choice.]
Seyoung said.
Certainly, by the time the female prisoners were quarantined on this island, the front line had already collapsed.
In a situation where the great exodus continues to the south and further south, it is unknown whether it will be possible to join the ranks by relying on the boat.
Unfortunately, if oil runs out near a city occupied by monsters and falls out, there is no choice but to die.
Do you risk your life for freedom, or do you prioritize immediate survival while waiting for an unpredictable future?
There are not a few women who choose the latter.
After gaining enough information, Rose presented her options to all of her.
Whether to stay here or come in as a shelter.
What remains is free, but if you come to the shelter, you will have to follow strict controls.
Each person is assigned a task to do labor for the city, and if they violate the city’s rules, they are punished.
[No, fuck it, then it’s like living an empty life again!]
Said Nina.
“The foreign girls here speak Korean really well.”
I was admiring the other way. The accent of the profanity was very natural.
[Then stay here. I know you guys are running out of food, right?]
Seyoung laughed.
[A bitch who was robbed like a dog and locked up in a cage is going to talk about how good he is and fuck him? Hey, your shoes are wearing really well.]
Said Nina, nuzzling, lifting one foot up like her peeing dog, her dress shoes on her feet.
You can see veins forming on Se-young’s forehead. It must have been Nina who took her shoes.
After that, the prisoners mocked Se-yeong and her voice rose.
Boom!
It was the security robots who made it quiet.
Behind Rose, at the entrance of the building, and in the square where the prisoners were sitting, they were watching as if they were besieging the square, and when they stomped their feet in unison, the stone floor dug up and there was a roar like thunder.
“Kyaaak!”
“Blood!”
“Hut!”
“Oh, fuck!”
Indeed, even the exclamation that came out of surprise among the women here was half of it.
[Again, what remains is up to you. But even if we wait here, Asa will be the only one who comes back. Let’s see this.]
A projector in the auditorium projected images onto the screen. These are the last satellite images of major cities in Korea.
There wasn’t a single place that was fine. Flames and black smoke, wriggling, terrifying anomalies.
[The ferry standing outside is the last boat to pick you up. No more ships come. Even if a ship comes, what’s the point? There are no farmers out there now, no livestock farmers raising cows and pigs. No one manages the water supply. There is not a single person left to produce what you eat and drink.]
Rose calmly explained their situation and showed the cities of Korea that had become hellish in turn.
Prisoners’ response was about 3 to 7.
Prisoners belonging to the 3 who came early responded that although they were surprised, they expected it to some extent.
It’s just that their brawny nature has created a reluctance to return to a controlled life again.
On the other hand, the prisoners belonging to the 7 who came later came by boat watching the process of being turned into hell in real time.
There are many people who have directly encountered the infected or even seen their acquaintances being attacked and dying.
Before that, I was cold and hungry. The weather is getting colder, but I couldn’t even dream of heating or hot water, and I wasn’t even given winter clothes.
It won’t even last until winter, but when winter comes, it’s definitely over.
They were in favor of taking the ferry from the beginning.
[We will provide safety, warmth, warm and sanitary bedding, medical care, and stable food. Labor will be imposed, but it is limited to labor for the maintenance and growth of the city, not to create added value.]
Most of the women who were in level 3 also started to come over.
It was because, for them, maintaining this current situation was tantamount to dying slowly.
However, there was another decisive blow, and that was a pile of 200,000 cans of beer.
After everyone boarded the ferry, it was the turn of the guards.
[Chief!]
Charlie Squad followed the prison warden and freed the detained prison guards.
The prison guards seen across the screen are all naked and starving.
All of them were wearing underwear because their guard uniforms were taken away from their dusty, black bare feet, or even without it, in some cases they were naked.
Since Seyoung had already finished explaining the situation, they were dealt with with minimal confusion.
An hour after that.
A total of 2,500 women gathered at the playground.
Prisoners are gathered together in their own groups, and the leader of the group leads them.
The guards banded together and lined up among themselves.
[All depart.]
Rose reported.
Finally, the great exodus begins.
Countless women have left the prisons with a shimmer of hope and fear.
The light footsteps of hungry women echo throughout the quiet island.
