Chapter 1856 – 1856. Eternal Eden
“Let’s make a detention facility.”
“Why all of a sudden?”
Na Chaeyoung turned to me, asking back. It was a crucial moment. I instinctively knew I had to persuade her here.
“Look at zombie movies or dramas. Most incidents start from human relationships. We’ll remodel the dorms to manage people. And we’ll kidnap and detain the capable ones before the zombie virus breaks out. When the world goes to hell because of the zombie virus, they’ll probably be grateful, right?”
“…It’s not entirely a bad idea. It’s good to have skilled workers. It’s hard to go and persuade them when the world is ending… But there’s no guarantee they’ll all understand and cooperate. What if they start a riot?”
“We’ll give those bastards a taste of power. Anyway, when the virus breaks out, people will flock to our side, right? We’ll use them as stepping stones. If they taste power, they’ll do well, won’t they? And we can execute the useless ones.”
“……”
Na Chaeyoung didn’t show disgust or contempt, but thought seriously. Efficiency was what mattered to her. You could say it was about cost-effectiveness.
“Don’t you think we should all try to live well together? Power-oriented forces are prone to collapse.”
“And equal forces are fine? I’m not saying we should go back to a barbaric age. Let’s be efficient. Efficient.”
“The detention facility plan is good. But let’s talk about how to run the organization later.”
“Okay.”
Night fell.
As if it were natural, I stripped naked and called for Na Chaeyoung. She sighed and slowly approached.
Just like yesterday, I undressed her myself and started the massage. This time, 20 minutes for the massage. 40 minutes for kissing and caressing.
“Hhh…!”
Na Chaeyoung bit her lip and trembled in my arms, as if trying to overcome the pleasure. Of course, her pussy was wet and gushing out fluids. She fell asleep in my arms again this time.
• • •
D-24.
Na Chaeyoung and I drove around Seoul in a truck. It was for buying used goods. We could buy home appliances at cheap prices. If we saw broken appliances illegally dumped, we loaded them onto the truck. These could be turned into quite a lot of resources in the dismantler.
While driving the truck, I casually opened my mouth.
“Can I kidnap one of the celebrities?”
“…A celebrity? Why?”
“Sex slave. You know I’m a pervert.”
“Be satisfied with prostitutes. Celebrities are not good, considering the aftermath.”
“Prostitutes are boring. Well, if Doctor Na gives me her pussy, I won’t need a celebrity.”
“If you want to fuck so badly, why don’t you? I can’t resist you anyway.”
I just grinned.
While driving on the outskirts of Seoul, a black sedan came out to our left and started sticking next to us. Sensing something was wrong, Na Chaeyoung started to tense up.
The passenger window of the sedan rolled down, and a man with a menacing face shouted. He subtly showed a pistol. It was a pathetic threat.
“Doctor Na! Stop the truck! Let’s have a chat! The big boss really wants to see Doctor Na!”
“Bullshit.”
I also rolled down the window. The gangster looked at me with a menacing face. I pulled out the pistol with my left hand and fired it at him.
Ta-ta-ta-ta-tang!
Even if I’m bad at shooting, I couldn’t miss at this close range. The guy in the passenger seat became a honeycomb and died, and the panicked driver jerked the steering wheel.
Screeeech!
The sedan screeched as it slammed on the brakes and crashed into a utility pole.
“Doctor Na. Let’s throw a grenade.”
“…I don’t have one.”
“That’s a shame.”
I made a U-turn with the truck. I wanted to ram the sedan and show them the greatness of the pickup truck, but Na Chaeyoung was in the passenger seat.
“Wait! Are you going to cause trouble on the road?!”
“It’s okay since it’s not a highway. If we let these guys go, they’ll keep coming back. And I liked the Seongak Elementary School. We need to cut them off before our base is discovered.”
There were three people, including the driver, excluding the dead guy in the passenger seat. They seemed out of it from hitting the utility pole, so I put bullets in their heads.
Well, the gangsters would take care of the bodies. Like a loan shark office.
I returned to the truck and grabbed the steering wheel.
“……”
Na Chaeyoung stared out the window with sunken eyes, looking at the mountains and fields.
Two hours passed.
A man in a black suit came to the school gate. He jumped over the iron gate and entered. I, who was exercising next to Na Chaeyoung, frowned.
“Shit. We’re discovered. They’re really good at tailing. Should we just kill all those Gosan bastards?”
My sword was still being made, so I stood up empty-handed. I could kill one guy with my bare hands.
“Wait. That man didn’t come to fight us. He’s probably a messenger.”
“Talk to him? We’ve already killed over 20 of their guys, do you think they’ll want to talk? I bet my hand he’ll just spout nonsense!”
“It could be Taehwang, not Gosan.”
The man stopped in front of the main building. He looked at the camera at the entrance and waited for us. A black suit, hair slicked back with wax, sharp eyes. He tried to look like an office worker, but he couldn’t completely hide the smell of violence.
Na Chaeyoung put her mouth to the microphone, pressed the switch, and spoke.
“Who are you? What’s your purpose?”
-Ah, so there’s a microphone and speaker here. Doctor Na. I’m from Taehwang. I’ve come with a message from the boss. Please don’t misunderstand, I have no intention of fighting. My name is Oh Seong-sang.
Oh Seong-sang spoke politely. He took out a letter envelope from his pocket.
-Here’s an invitation from the boss. It’s not to meet right away. I understand that would be burdensome for Doctor Na. I’d like to meet and talk in Incheon tomorrow night.
“Well, I have no intention of meeting.”
-Of course, I understand Doctor Na’s anxiety. But think carefully. The fact that I’m here means the boss also knows your location. You chose a place that’s relatively easy to defend, but what if hundreds of our members rush in at once? Can you hold out for more than an hour?
He was threatening us as if it were natural. And even I would be helpless if hundreds of gangsters attacked. If they were ordinary people, we might be able to fight inside the school, but it would be different with armed gangsters.
Na Chaeyoung’s face hardened at that obvious fact.
“How did they know we were here?”
-Haha. We didn’t find out right away. Our guys had a hard time. We also used a bit of the public power. I can’t understand you, Doctor. If you wanted to go into hiding, you shouldn’t have stayed in Seoul, you should have gone to the countryside. If you had gone to a remote mountain area, even we wouldn’t have found you so quickly. Well, leaving Seoul is like going against the trend, so it’s hard for a player to choose that.
“…So you came here convinced that I’m a player.”
“Yes. And a technologist, right? The boss is very interested in you. Oh, by the way, I’m also a player like you. As a fellow player, let me give you some advice. This isn’t Eternal Eden. This isn’t a world where you can easily survive with a mouse and keyboard in front of a computer. Stick to those with power. That’s the best way to survive. And our boss is generous to the capable.”
“I don’t like the way that guy is talking. Let’s catch him. If he’s a player, he’s worth catching.”
“…What after we catch him?”
“Negotiate with the boss of Taehwang?”
“The boss of Taehwang is known to be cruel. In the worst case, they might abandon their subordinates. If we want to negotiate, we have to accept Taehwang’s invitation tomorrow. If we take hostages, it will only worsen the relationship.”
“If that guy is a player, he’s a bionics. Isn’t it better to catch and use bionics?”
The drug that the Gosan gangsters had. It was definitely a drug made by bionics.
“No.”
Na Chaeyoung seemed determined to negotiate. I stepped back. If that player were a beautiful woman, I would try to bring her to our side, but he was just a talkative guy. I didn’t care.
‘The boss of Taehwang is a woman, right? I want to see her.’
Na Chaeyoung turned on the microphone switch.
“We’ll accept the invitation, so leave now.”
-That’s a wise choice. I’ll leave the invitation here.
After confirming that Oh Seong-sang had left, I went to the entrance of the main building and retrieved the invitation that had fallen on the floor.
There was only one line written on the invitation.
10 PM, Incheon Abandoned Construction Site.
I let out a hollow laugh. When I searched the address written on the invitation, it was a construction site where work had been suspended a year ago due to financial irregularities. This was a trap. If they really wanted to talk, there would have been a safer place. 10 PM. And an abandoned construction site? Isn’t that the perfect time and place to bury someone?
“It’s a trap. And you’re going there?”
“…What if we don’t go? Should we just watch hundreds of gangsters attack? Even you can’t handle hundreds of people at once. We have to go and negotiate. What the boss of Taehwang wants is the cooperation of a technologist. They want weapons.”
“You’re not thinking of going under Taehwang, are you?”
“…If that’s necessary.”
“I didn’t know you wanted to put a leash on yourself.”
“I don’t want to be used like a slave either! But there’s no other way! No other way! Or do you want to go and die fighting?!”
“If we go like this, there won’t be an equal negotiation. We’ll just be dragged around by them.”
“…Negotiation depends on how you do it. If I give up some benefits… we can avoid the worst-case scenario.”
Our opinions differed. I just nodded. Na Chaeyoung still didn’t know the cruelty of the world. It might not be bad for her to experience it this time.
“Where’s my sword?”
“It will be finished by tomorrow morning.”
