Chapter 398 – Summer of the 6th Year
Spring is now over, and we have entered early summer.
Each person has different standards for the end of the infection war and the start of the survival era.
A person who takes the defeat of the last unified Korean army as the standard, and a person who takes the time when the government completely fled to Jeju Island as the standard.
Many people point to the moment when commanders collectively protested and rose up as warlords in the south.
Even though they are only a few months apart from each other. As the land is small, events happened in quick succession.
Anyway, now that summer is here, everyone can say it’s been 6 years.
A small fortress was completed in the port of Shandong Province.
Large-diameter surveillance turrets were installed on the new Level E barricade, which surpasses the existing Level D barricade.
Starting from there, a large cargo ship comes and goes from the West Sea.
Inside are raw materials that China worked hard to stockpile six years ago.
Once they are all moved, they will rob oil fields, mines, and factories everywhere.
One more cargo ship is scheduled to be added next month, and we hope to have about four floating in the winter.
It’s been a long time since the sea monsters were annihilated, but no power other than us that operates large ships has yet been found.
Warships were sunk during the war, and most civilian ships were requisitioned and met a similar fate.
There were ships anchored on the coast for one reason or another.
However, these places became temporary shelters for refugees and became targets of looting, and infectious agents flowed in, causing serious damage.
Even large ships that were lucky enough not to be damaged need various repairs and veteran crews due to the oil-eating monster.
There will not yet be a force that can handle them.
Of course, just because the risk of infectious agents is reduced does not give us peace of mind.
When the monster threat disappears, it is natural for the human threat to take its place.
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Reports are being uploaded every day as information between continents is collected and compiled in earnest.
Let’s summarize it one by one.
First, China was destroyed.
There may be some overseas Chinese living here and there, but in this era of endless competition, they are nothing more than good targets for plunder by the local people.
[Several military units joined forces to attack Chinatown.]
Old Man Hudson spoke over the communicator.
[It’s called Chinatown, but it’s a camp where surviving Chinese immigrants are united. Although it is quite large, it is not particularly wealthy and is barely scraping by.]
“Why are you targeting a place like that?”
[I guess it’s just a way to vent your anger and secure slaves, right? The commander of the military unit that led the work was a neo-Nazi.]
“It looks like slavery runs there. “It hasn’t been that long since we beat this one too.”
[It’s a shame. But not all camps are like this. Some places have slaves, some don’t, everyone is different. Is it true that federal systems are always full of individuality? Haha.]
Although not as severe as China, the United States has also suffered a crushing blow and has been split into dozens or hundreds of organizations.
“Do you see any signs of merging with each other?”
[At all! They are much more hostile to each other than the Southern and Northern armies of the old Civil War.]
It was originally a federal country with strong regional characteristics, but it is said that there was great discrimination between regions in supply and relief during the infection war.
It is not simply because the government or military hated a specific region.
Since there was no strategic way, it was close to throwing it away with the feeling of cutting out a cancerous lump.
Of course, from the perspective of being abandoned, there is a lot to say.
Thanks to this, the separatists gained tremendous strength and became the United States of today during the Warring States Period.
Moreover, the initial plan to move government ministers and command centers to the aircraft carrier strike group to fight the war had fatal side effects.
It was a reasonable decision since the infection spread faster than expected and the land was devastated.
It’s just that it’s too late to properly understand the danger of marine monsters.
In the United States, there was Mr. Hudson, a reliable source of information, but it was difficult to obtain information on Europe.
However, drone carriers were sent with difficulty, survivalist communications and broadcasts spread throughout Europe, and cargo ships traveled along the coast of the South China Sea.
By combining these three things, we were able to obtain meaningful information.
First, European powers such as France and Germany were not safe.
“At one time, I thought it was natural to litter the border with troops, landmines, and defense posts.”
There are quite a few Koreans who do not know that the Korean border is a special case.
EU countries are connected by land and have virtually no border defenses, causing a chain of collapses on a massive scale in the early stages of the infection.
This part was expected, and my biggest interests are the two countries.
Britain has the conditions of being both a powerful country and an island country.
The other is Russia, a natural fortress.
It hurts to say how advantageous the island nation is for defense. You can tell just by looking across the water at Japan.
Russia has an advantage over the United States in terms of defense, thanks to the cold that slows down infectious agents and the massive underground bomb shelters built during the former Soviet Union.
First, Britain is said to have lost most of its territory.
When Europe was devastated by refugees mixed with infectious agents, Britain naturally blocked everything and declared itself a neutral country.
It’s okay as long as you have that kind of attitude firmly planted in your head.
However, the problem was that the Allied forces refused to land on a transport ship carrying many wounded soldiers.
-We are not the EU!
-If you do not pass our quarantine standards, you will never be allowed to land!
It is said that this was Britain’s position at the time.
For your information, those quarantine standards were so stringent that they were virtually the same as not allowing entry.
In an extreme situation where wounded soldiers were groaning and dying one by one every few minutes, the captain of the transport ship made a decision.
-If you want to shoot, shoot! If we’re going to die anyway, we’ll die on the shores of England!
They attempted a landing with a strong attack, and the British really opened fire and sank the fleet.
The EU allied forces, no longer able to withstand within Europe, use that as an excuse to declare war on Britain.
He declared that he would occupy Britain even by force and use it as his last survival base.
A war of slaughter has begun, not only between infectious agents but also among fellow humans.
And soon, ballistic missiles were coming and going from one to another.
According to Artemis’s guess, it is highly likely that the first bread was sent by France.
As a result, the EU took over the UK, but the infrastructure and everything else had already been destroyed.
Of course, there was no way quarantine could be done properly, so when infections spread again, it became a helpless island of hell.
In the end, it was Ireland that barely survived.
There, a few surviving British people, EU refugees, and remnants of the defeated soldiers are living a difficult life together.
The master-servant relationship of exploiting and being exploited in the past has been reversed.
Although it is unclear information, it is said that in the British camps set up in Ireland, only potatoes are fed every day.
In the case of Russia, bases were established in underground air raid shelters and fortress-like subways as mentioned above.
Unlike the United States, where government ministers took refuge on aircraft carriers, they went underground from the beginning.
This was largely due to the fact that a significant number of Russian naval forces had already been lost in the difficult international situation before the Infectious War.
However, there was a problem here, as infections were rampant inside the sealed interior.
“Can’t it be like the Metro series?”
I thought about the novel I enjoyed reading when I was isolated in the upper echelons of the infection outbreak.
“It’s a radioactive apocalypse, and it’s a catastrophe caused by infection. “Wouldn’t it be wise to hide underground?”
Artemis said.
She showed me a log containing the Russian survivalists’ communications records.
“Furthermore, the country is as corrupt as China. It was good to hide underground, but the problem was the high-ranking people who said, ‘I can’t abandon my precious family!'”
“Did we force a hole in quarantine by trying to bring them in?”
“Huh. It was the same way the eastern coastal cities of China fell. Furthermore, it wouldn’t be any better if it was a sealed basement.”
The underworld, which could withstand hundreds of thousands of heavily armed human armies, was rotten from within.
Of course, not all bomb shelters and subways have been completely destroyed.
There were places that survived unharmed and continued the closed cycle. But it is said that the situation there is no good either.
-You bastards! Open the door! If you open it when I say good things, I will end it by killing you painlessly.
This is because there are marauder warlords roaming around trying to open the door by living outside, etc.
As Peter and his Russian friends told us, during the infection war, the Russian government devoted all its national power to protecting the western metropolitan area, led by Moscow.
Men conscripted at gunpoint from all over Russia were endlessly moved west and west.
However, as defeat in the war against infectious agents deepened, it is said that at some point the command went into hiding underground.
The conscripted troops, who were suddenly deprived of supplies and abandoned without command, had to fight a truly gruesome fight.
And surprisingly, he somehow managed to survive.
Although they were unable to wipe out the infectious agents, they secured a certain level of safety and established a base.
The problem is that in addition to the biochemical weapons used in large quantities like other countries, nuclear weapons and dirty bombs were also used.
Even after driving out the infectious agents, there was a lot of land that could not be used.
Because the situation was so extreme, the Russian ground forces changed from an army to a large group of marauders.
Currently, Russia is home to the largest slave market, and robberies, rapes, and murders occur on a daily basis.
What these people hate most is not the infectious agent they fight with such force.
They are a government force that forcibly dragged people from their hometowns, drove them into limbo, and then suddenly abandoned them all and hid underground.
Kwadang!
-Finally opened! “Tear these cowards alive… Argh!”
-Keeeeek!
There was also an incident where an air raid shelter filled with monsters was opened as the infection spread inside, and a unit was wiped out.
The surface is bisected by infected entities and hungry marauders, and the basement is half a den of monsters or frightened fugitives from the old world.
That is today’s Russia.
In Africa and the Middle East, there were more warlords who survived than expected, but most of them are areas surrounded by vast deserts.
A place where there are few organisms to infect, movement is restricted, high fever during the day and cold at night.
In places like this, it was easy for the survivors protesting to stop the infectious agent.
Thanks to this, even when the country collapsed, tribal societies were created in various places in the form of point organizations.
In Australia, infections spread uncontrollably as people flocked to large cities along the coast.
Thanks to this, the survivors fled to the vast inland desert.
The inland desert, which makes up the majority of Australia but was home to only 2% of the population, now accommodates 90% of the population.
It is said that there is a daily battle going on over the few water sources.
Its glory as a warm and peaceful tourist destination has disappeared.
It was ironic that Third World countries, which were known as dead countries with constant coups and civil wars in the past, managed to maintain more survivors and more land than most advanced countries.
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My life hasn’t changed that much.
As always, I watch the government affairs of the shelter and joke around with Artemis. Cute the AI assistants and nymphs.
I patrol leisurely and spend my time studying and training.
However, we carefully observed the emergence of emerging powers that could pose a potential threat to us.
However, even now, six years later, there is still no strong army towing aircraft or warships.
A barbaric world that slowly regenerates after destruction. In contrast, the daily life of a perfect shelter.
Just when I thought this environment surrounding me would continue in the future.
A small change occurred.
It may not be a big deal, but on the other hand, it is a change that can change everything.
