Chapter 1019 – #100. Utopia (4)
Seonju Lee first stood up leisurely and stretched.
Stretching was essential to prevent me from crying out loud as soon as I woke up in the morning.
My back was sore, and my legs were weak, but as I stretched, my gently relaxed body regained strength.
Egugu-
Of course, just because I stretched didn’t mean the words I said while standing up disappeared.
She briefly washed her body and went outside to dry her hair.
I am dazzled by the warm sunlight.
I walk step by step with her back.
“Uhm…”
We pick up trash that has fallen on the ground, and we also take out rocks that are dangerously stuck on the road and move them to other places.
Her pastime these days was going for a walk and cleaning her surroundings.
Young people woke up and started their day.
Children run around innocently and burst into laughter with swollen faces that haven’t been washed yet.
A smile blooms on her face as she looks at Utopia.
I never thought the day would come when I would see a scene like this again.
‘I lost a lot, but still not everything was lost.’
Isn’t that what happened?
Utopia no longer needs her.
Her vacancy has already been filled by someone else.
She needed to spend her remaining time not for utopia, but for herself.
Her close brother said she wanted to spend the rest of her life without having to see any more zombies, so she stayed home.
There is a life that suits each person.
Now Seonju Lee also had to start living a life that suited her.
‘No matter how much I think about it, I don’t know what would be good for me.’
After returning home from her walk, she took out a book that was available in her house.
The easiest thing to do was read a book.
Creating a library in Utopia was a project she pursued when she was young.
She thought that there must be a library in utopia in order to safely pass on the knowledge of the past to the children of the future.
They criticized her project as being useless, asking why books are important when most people are going to die right now.
But she did not break her will, and eventually she succeeded in creating a library in Utopia.
“I would like to ask the people who opposed me at that time if they were still alive.”
Look at this. Didn’t I do that?
A library must exist for the children of the future.
Losing knowledge of the past would result in a huge loss.
Do you know how many children are learning knowledge in this library right now?
I was right.
I wasn’t wrong.
The project I planned was for a utopia.
“Thanks to you, I can enjoy reading novels in such a leisurely manner.”
The books she had long insisted on collecting suddenly became a very valuable resource in Utopia.
Although she retired, traces of the work she had done for utopia when she was young remained here and there.
‘Leave a place like this and live?’
Jelly-
He tried not to think about what the man said anymore, but the suggestion kept popping into his head as he went about his daily life.
He said that he would return his youth and allow him to live in a new world, a world without zombies.
Although she refused, it still shook her to the point of agitation.
“I already refused, so there’s no use regretting it now.”
Shouldn’t she have thought about it a little more?
She needed to answer carefully, but an ugly thought creeps into her head, thinking that she answered impulsively.
If she didn’t know at all, the fact that she could regain her youth was shaking her.
“Was it really true that she could go back to when she was younger?”
I couldn’t believe there were more people like that than that man.
The people of Utopia called that person ‘him’ and looked up to him like a god.
There are often people who do not pray to God, but to him.
To that extent, his influence on the people of Utopia is absolute.
‘You could have gone to another dimension without zombies, but you didn’t give up. Then isn’t it true that they are no different from gods?’
Is God a big deal?
I think there is no problem with worshiping someone as a god if he or she creates a utopia for humanity and works to restore the civilization of the past.
However, it is said that he is not the only such great being.
“In the world I don’t know, there are so many beings that we look up to as gods that we end up tripping over our own feet, right?”
I wonder how I should accept this.
Since he wouldn’t be able to get any closer to that direction until he died anyway, it seemed right to just forget about it.
“Sister! Are you there?”
While she was passing time reading her book, she received a visit from her close brother.
Since it was her younger brother who had extra time after her retirement, her visit was not new.
I was sure she would contact me in the near future if she heard that she had completely retired from her job.
“I heard the news! You said you retired. If you were resting, you should have told me.”
“I didn’t tell you because I was afraid you might end up like this.”
“How long have I been waiting for her sister to retire? Now prepare yourself. She has been holding back on doing everything she wants to do with her sister, and now she is going to do it all!”
Her close brother seemed to have no intention of letting her enjoy her peaceful retirement.
They scare you so much that you have to be prepared to do so much.
“What did you want to do with me so much?”
“There are so many things I want to do.”
“I guess there’s not much you can do in here, right?”
“Hehe, I thought you didn’t know.”
“What do I not know?”
“In the past, people carried their cell phones as if they were their own hands. All kinds of things were made with those cell phones and entertainment was always included. Do you think it’s any different now?”
If the world were not like this, she would have lived traveling here and there after her retirement.
Everyone had that desire, and even though they were busy working, they couldn’t give up entertainment that could relieve stress.
“Follow me. I’ll introduce you to places she could never have imagined.”
The building she moved to after her close brother.
In the meantime, many new buildings were built in Utopia, and it was impossible to know for what purpose they were being used.
Therefore, she could not even imagine that such a space existed in Utopia.
“Is this a casino?”
“It’s like a casino, but you don’t bet money. What good is money in a world where currency has disappeared in the first place?”
Inside the building, all kinds of machines were flashing brightly and making strange noises.
“How is electricity generated here?”
“He did something special for us. We can use as much electricity as we want here. If there wasn’t a space like this, people would probably get bored and something would happen, right?”
Usually, if stress cannot be relieved in time, problems arise between people.
In order to prevent that, she said that he made an exception for this place and made sure that people could enjoy it comfortably.
“Why didn’t I know about this place?”
“It’s a place where no one can enter.”
“They said they made it to relieve stress. But they say no one can come in?”
“As you can see, it’s a place similar to a casino. We shouldn’t see people who lose their temper and cause trouble come out and reap the benefits they gave us here. This is a space that a select few can enjoy.”〈 Br〉
Unbeknownst to her, a ‘class’ had been created in Utopia.
“Who decides who will be chosen by the few?”
“Hmm… Anyway, we sacrificed a lot for utopia. So, it’s people like us who work at the center.”
“Are you saying that the people working in the center have a higher rank?”
“Hmm… You don’t like these parts, do you? I can tell just by looking at the expression on your face. I don’t like this.”
“Don’t you know what happens when people like us create classes? We didn’t even create a president because we were worried about that. Now, we’re just creating classes and making special people out of such trivial things? Since when on earth have we been doing this?”
I was angry.
In a world where laws and regulations had collapsed, it was very difficult to re-establish rules.
Utopia has repeatedly overcome crises that almost created its identity.
We all knew that it was wrong to create a ‘status’, and we were able to overcome the crisis of neglect because we thought that our basis was democracy.
But I didn’t know that they were creating a class because of poor entertainment.
If you miss this small part, the situation will escalate out of control.
“Who is the manager here? Call me now.”
“Sister! Don’t do that. I was wrong. I didn’t mean to introduce you here. Furthermore, I didn’t know you would be this uncomfortable. Furthermore, I thought people would have relaxed a bit since I retired. Let’s just leave.”
“Do you think this is a problem that can be solved by leaving now? Don’t you even think about the unpleasant feelings other people will feel when they find out about this place? You were being discriminated against because of the class you didn’t know about?”
“Sister, stop it, okay? Even if you protest like this, nothing will change.”
“Why isn’t anything changing? If I knew what was wrong even now, I should fix it!”
“The people here like the current system. They say they are satisfied. If anyone can come in here, problems will arise. We are not the only ones enjoying it because we like it.”
I thought I was her close sister, but I felt like I needed to reconsider my relationship with her in the future.
“That’s an excuse after all. You guys just made an excuse because you wanted to play class. Do you think I don’t know how much you want to be superior to others and pretend to be better?”
“Sister!”
“Excuse me. What’s wrong?”
A manager appeared after hearing the commotion.
Seonju Lee spoke coldly to the manager.
“I just heard how this place is run. Are you sure it’s only being used by a select few?”
“Yes, that’s right. This is a reward space created for those who worked hard for utopia.”
“Well, to me, it looks like a space for discrimination, not a space for compensation. Can you say no? Does the person who supplied electricity to this facility know that you are doing this?”
When I mentioned him, the manager’s face hardened.
Since she was respected by everyone, it seemed unpleasant for her to mention him so easily.
