Chapter 149 – Isolation (1)
Isolation (1)
Hehe—”
It was a treacherous voice that I had not heard in a long time.
A voice that seems to have gathered all the frivolity of the world, yet strangely without rejection.
“How did everything you hoped for come to fruition?”
Go Go-hoon’s familiar smile stands out even more under the bright sunlight.
I responded to that smile with a short laugh and nodded.
“Okay.”
“Ugh! Of course, I believed that would be the case. No-! I had no doubt about it! No-! Doubt itself-“
It wasn’t just the smile that was familiar.
As usual, Go Jeong-hoon begins to flatter violently as if he were convulsing.
I, too, was very accustomed to turning my gaze elsewhere.
Rather than trying to stop it, this was less tiring and ended more quickly.
Busy movements were noticeable behind Go Go-hoon, whose eyes were sparkling needlessly.
Campers busily going between parked cars and the department store.
They were male campers who were sent to Banseok with the search team that returned.
Male campers transporting newly replenished supplies to the department store and search team members supervising them.
I looked at the people who were whining and struggling to move supplies, and then turned my gaze to the side.
In that line of sight, a road connected to the department store parking lot appeared.
“Is there really a need to move from there?”
Just looking at it at a glance, it wasn’t a very efficient method.
Just as I decided that it would be more efficient to let Go Hoon’s flattery go to a certain extent-
It was also natural that the parking lot located inside the department store was more efficient than the parking lot in front of the department store.
“Ah~ Why are you doing this again when you know everything, hehe-“
I learned all this from someone, hehe-
Jang Hoon, who was grinning with a very unpleasant face, turned his head.
After looking at the male campers I was looking at, Jang Hoon turned his head again, bowed his back and continued.
“Shouldn’t we let those guys know quickly? Now the sweet vacation is over.”
It’s a sweet vacation.
In the end, I smiled the same smile as Ko Goh-hoon and turned my head again.
Looking at the people who were having a hard time, I let out another burst of laughter.
“It looks like you literally served the full course.”
“You really enjoyed it. “I would probably sell my soul if I could go back.”
“Is it that much?”
“That’s it!”
Ko Goh-hoon’s eyelids turn big with just one word.
“Of all the people who have come to know the rock, there is no one who is not like that!”
Rather, he raised his voice as if he was angrier.
Since the world became crazy-
“The only world safe from zombies!”
Zombies and mutants.
And a world safe from fellow human marauders!
At least I won’t be hungry!
The last society where people can at least live like human beings!
“Isn’t that the rock you created yourself, President?!”
It was another start.
Go Jang-hoon raises his voice loudly, ready to start a great battle right now.
Campers stopped transport due to the sudden commotion, followed by the voices of search team members urging them on.
“This is true – the president should have seen the expressions on their faces today.”
Then Ko Go-hoon lowered his voice again as if dead, lowered his head slightly and whispered.
“When I told them to get back in the car, everyone looked like their world had collapsed. There weren’t any pigs being taken to the slaughterhouse, hehe—”
I didn’t listen to the whispers of Goh Go-hoon, who was making a lot of fuss.
One of the words Ko Go-hoon shouted kept ringing in my ears.
Since the world became crazy-
The only world safe from zombies…
“It’s unique…”
“Isn’t this the final goal that the president will definitely achieve one day? Hehe― That Go Jang-hoon gave his passion, his passion, and even his life until that moment―”
The final goal, the only world.
… This is the height of irony.
This was especially true since I had entered into a secret cooperation with Yeon Si-woo just yesterday.
“With the utmost sincerity – no, my feelings cannot be fully expressed in words -“
Tuk—!
It was not an environment in which I could continue my thoughts.
I put my hand on Ko Goh-hoon’s shoulder, who was extremely tense today.
Thanks to that, I looked at the guy whose mouth stopped fluttering and smiled slightly.
“Full course, full course, and while those guys were taking a break from the full course, I guess our eunuch got some proper medical care too. “There is no such thing as full condition?”
“… Uh.”
Tuk- Tuk-
A hand that pats the guy on the shoulder regularly.
As the hand tapped his shoulder, his tension, which seemed excessively high, was seen slowly fading away.
Only then did the eunuch return to the look in his eyes that I had always seen before.
After a short sigh, the closed-mouthed bastard slowly opened his mouth.
… Uh-
“… Will it come soon?”
“You said you wouldn’t shut up, but you said-.”
He chuckled at the last word and lowered his hand that had been patting his shoulder.
Probably Ko Go Hoon would have used up all the flattery he had accumulated at this rate.
No, even if it were, it would stop at this point today.
Because he was always outstanding and had no one to compare him to.
When I thought about that, a light laugh came out again.
Maybe it’s because I’ve only heard the voices of female camp members for the past 5 days, but Ko Goh-hoon’s fuss and flattery were strangely welcome.
Probably, if there wasn’t something more important to do, there wouldn’t have been anything to stop Go Go-hoon like now.
Quietly-
Ko Koh-hoon’s eyes gather all the strength he used to flatter and examine my expression.
Beyond those cautious and cunning eyes, I felt countless gazes.
After Ko Goh-hoon’s fuss, I could clearly feel the male camp members transporting supplies coming out and glancing towards Koh Goh-hoon, knowingly or unknowingly.
Men who do not stop glancing while carrying heavy loads.
Their eyes were looking at me, completely different from when I first met them.
Extremely heightened vigilance and violence.
A rebellious spirit that could not be hidden even after accepting them as new camp members.
Even though I sent out search crews and stepped on them, in the end, all the traces that remained at the end of the pupil disappeared.
New emotions that took place in place of the pieces of rebellion.
If I were to bark, I would bark like a dog right away-
If I were to die, I would even pretend to die right away.
To put it in one word-
“I’m ready to sell my soul.”
He smiled, reciting the same words that Koh Go-hoon said.
The look in the eyes that I had only seen in the search team members I personally raised, and the library camp members had already taken root in them.
No, his eyes were more earnest than theirs.
Eyes secretly hoping for something.
Buuung-
At that moment, a truck with all supplies out on the road entered the department store.
A vehicle entering the parking lot as if it were the first day of settling down in Seodaemun-gu.
The heads of the male campers turned in unison to follow the steady exhaust sound.
Their expressions as they look at the tail of the truck slowly entering the department store.
There was a deep sense of regret that could never be hidden.
As expected-
“There is nothing that drives people more crazy than giving something and having it taken away.”
As sweet as the rock they enjoyed was, their thirst also intensified.
If they really fell into the world of rock like Ko Goh Go-hoon made a fuss about, then—
That alone was enough reason to send them to the rock on purpose.
And that was the reason why they were dragged back like pigs being dragged to the slaughterhouse, according to Ko Goh-hoon’s words.
Honestly, what I’m doing right now isn’t very efficient.
The new camp members are already immersed in the world called Rock.
They are the ones who are more prepared than anyone else to contribute themselves to the camp called Rock.
Those who no longer need to undergo a kind of ‘mental education’.
They were dragged back to Seodaemun-gu.
By squeezing large humans into a space where more supplies can be stored-
Now I am using oil, which is truly more precious than blood-
Even using the manpower of people with special abilities that can never be converted into money-
We had to bring those male camp members back here.
There was one reason.
To increase my presence here at Hyundai Department Store in Sinchon.
It was a very simple and perhaps insignificant reason, but the effect that could be achieved with this was clear.
They were living proof to me.
This is more effective and destructive proof than the promises I made to the female campers about the future.
The more desperately they sell their souls to me to return to the rock-
The trust of the female camp members who will be watching this will also increase at the same time.
Then, the female camp members, including Kim Hyo-jin, will work harder to please me.
A combination of the rock I told you about and the rock the male campers shouted about –
I will do anything to be granted the one and only remaining paradise in this world.
There was only one thing that could be achieved by doing so.
And I-
I was ready to do even more for that one thing.
