Chapter 2140 – 2140. Eternal Eden
I reviewed the data on the Ilwoo Group that Lee Yeon-hee had given me.
The Ilwoo Group was larger than I had anticipated. From home appliances to food, there wasn’t a business they didn’t have a hand in. Since they operated under different names, the average person wouldn’t realize they were connected to the Ilwoo Group.
‘So, the NIS was also keeping an eye on the Ilwoo Group due to suspicions that they were taking orders from Japan.’
I clicked my tongue after checking the owner family. The one at the headquarters wasn’t the chairman but the vice-chairman.
The chairman of the Ilwoo Group was in Japan when the meteor fell and hasn’t returned to Korea since.
‘It’s not that he couldn’t come back, but that he didn’t. There’s intel that there are at least four players within the Ilwoo Group. He knew the world was going to shit and ran to Japan. He must have figured Japan was safer.’
Lee Yeon-hee said that Japan was planning an invasion starting with Busan, using the Ilwoo Group as a front. It was a very plausible scenario.
‘I need to go to Busan right away tomorrow. Thankfully, the spy didn’t report that I was moving around on a hoverboard.’
They wouldn’t have known. Only Lee Yeon-hee knew about the hoverboard. After Operation Blader, I was too busy working with my colleagues to pass information to the Ilwoo Group.
‘I got lucky. If they had prioritized installing anti-aircraft guns in Busan, it would have been hard to fly around.’
Busan was being fortified, but it wasn’t at the point where anti-aircraft guns were being installed. Right now, they were focused on building walls over 5 meters high.
While reading through the data, I found a piece of information that made my eyes widen.
‘…The Ilwoo Group is sponsoring at least eight groups of raiders in Seoul?’
The raiders who attacked today were just one of them.
‘They could come together. There’s a high chance they’ll strike at night or dawn. The security team needs to be on high alert for the time being.’
I’m going to sleep comfortably. That’s what I need to do to conserve my energy.
***
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
The siren blared.
Na Chae-young, who was naked and in my arms, was startled and tried to jump up. I held her down with my hand.
“Ugh. Let go. Can’t you hear the alarm? Seongak Elementary is under attack! There’s no time to be lying around!”
“We have a security team.”
Na Chae-young pinched my hand, so I had no choice but to let her go. The naked Na Chae-young hurriedly put on the clothes she had taken off next to the bed.
I stared blankly at her. My handprint was still on her butt, and there were kiss marks on her neck and chest. Maybe it was because she was in such a hurry, but her breast was peeking out from the side of her bra. Na Chae-young put on her clothes, threw on a white gown, and left the room.
It was obvious where she was going. The control room on the fourth floor.
I slowly changed my clothes and went down to the control room. Na Chae-young was the only one there. It was a place where most of the facilities of Seongak Elementary could be controlled, so even the managers couldn’t enter the control room carelessly.
I checked the small monitors on one wall. I could see all over Seongak Elementary through the installed cameras. The first place I checked was the food storage warehouse. Thankfully, the food warehouse was fine.
“What’s the situation?”
“The AI detected them trying to climb over the wall with ladders and sounded the alarm.”
“The AI? Was it that smart?”
“I programmed it to sound an alarm if there’s anything unusual on the wall in the CCTV footage.”
“Dr. Na did a good job. So, the wall wasn’t breached?”
“No, it wasn’t. The security team is moving and shooting. The raiders near the wall… they’re running away.”
I didn’t think they would just give up and leave, so I kept an eye on the monitor.
‘They’ll probably get violent with bombs. Or they’ll risk luring zombies or mutants to Seongak Elementary.’
It’s fine. I was confident in dealing with mutants. The mutants they could lure were probably the same ones I’ve dealt with before.
‘I wish they’d bring a horde of zombies. There might be some pretty ones among them.’
I’m collecting high-quality beautiful female zombies and storing them in coffins in the freezer. Carefully selected beautiful zombies. I plan to revive them later when I have the time using my recovery ability.
‘They’re too beautiful to be called corpses.’
Women who were more beautiful than celebrities when you only looked at their looks. It was too much of a waste to kill them just because they were zombies.
My prediction was wrong. Even after an hour, there was no second attack from the raiders. Na Chae-young thoroughly checked the surroundings with drones. The raiders had retreated.
“Haa.”
I hugged Na Chae-young from behind as she sighed. Na Chae-young, who was used to skinship, wasn’t surprised at all.
“Let’s go back to sleep. You’re tired from waking up in the middle of the night, right?”
“They might attack again after making us let our guard down.”
“The security team isn’t just for show. That’s why we give them equipment and food.”
“…Okay.”
I went back to the bedroom on the fifth floor with Na Chae-young. It goes without saying that we did a little exercise before going to sleep.
***
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I woke up to the goddamn siren. 10:15 AM. It was already broad daylight outside. I put on my clothes and headed to the control room. Na Chae-young was glaring at the monitor.
“Raiders?”
Raiders were camped out at the main gate. A few raiders were also loitering at the back gate. They were watching to make sure no one went out the back way. There were over 200 raiders visible right now. More than the security team.
“The raiders nearby have temporarily gathered and set up camp.”
“Why don’t we send out drones and wipe them out?”
“…Look at the raiders in front. They’re not carrying weapons. They’re disguised as civilians. There are raiders with cameras behind them. If we attack first, they’re planning to start a propaganda war. Seongak Elementary attacking civilians. It’s the perfect headline for an article.”
“That won’t do.”
My plan to become a hero of Korea and even become president?!
I didn’t think the public opinion would turn bad just because of something like this, but I knew that people were surprisingly easy to manipulate.
-Please, we beg you again! Please share some food with us! There are children starving to death! We don’t want much! Just a little! Please share just a little food! We heard that there are mountains of food at Seongak Elementary! So please, show us your compassion!
“Compassion my ass. Let’s kill them all with bomb drones. Their formation is so dense, it’s perfect for killing them all at once.”
“There are cameras, remember? Look, this scene is being broadcast live right now.”
I looked at the laptop. It was really being broadcast live. The number of viewers was 60, but it was slowly increasing.
“Can’t we just reveal that they’re raiders?”
“Even if we reveal it, it could be distorted. Especially if the Ilwoo Group is behind them.”
“I guess we have no choice… Should I give up on the hero route and go for the conquering monarch route?”
Starting with Seoul, conquering the Korean peninsula one by one. There was a fatal flaw that the production facilities of the Korean peninsula would be destroyed and, in the worst case, the national power would be less than 1/10th of what it was. It would also be annoying to have to fight every day. And above all, as long as the Korean government and military remained, we could lose.
“I think it’s better to share some food and get through this situation for now. If we give them a reasonable amount, they won’t ask for it right away.”
“They’ll ask for it again next time, won’t they?”
“…Then what do we do? There’s nothing else we can do right now.”
“The annoying thing is that camera. If we can just do something about that camera. EMP would be perfect.”
“Suddenly EMP…? We don’t have any equipment to emit a pulse, do we?”
“I do. Me.”
I pointed to myself with my thumb. Na Chae-young quietly looked at me and then nodded.
“If you use EMP here, all the machines will shut down, you know? Then we’re screwed.”
“Of course, I know. Don’t worry about the EMP range. Right now, I can only do about 10 meters? That’s all.”
So, I had to get close to them.
***
I took an ice cream cake from the freezer and went out the entrance. I even put candles on it and lit them. Everyone’s eyes were on me. As long as the raiders were pretending to be starving civilians, they couldn’t attack me first.
It would be better if they attacked first. I could manipulate public opinion by saying it was a dirty trick by the raiders.
‘I’m wearing a bulletproof vest under my clothes. Go ahead and shoot.’
“…Who are you?”
A raider with a megaphone asked. He was a man wearing a torn suit and rimless glasses. He seemed like some kind of intelligent character.
“I’m Sung Yu-jin, the representative of Seongak Elementary.”
I smiled and acted like a good person. Even without the acting trait, I had enough experience to pull this off. This level of acting was nothing.
“I didn’t expect the representative to come out in person. What is that cake?”
“Haha. Of course, I had to come out in person for something like this. The cake is an ice cream cake to commemorate our meeting. It’s a very precious item in this day and age.”
The raider’s eyes darted around as if he was flustered. He was where the raider leader was. The leader was just watching with his arms crossed.
“…There are rumors that Seongak Elementary is a very harsh place, contrary to its appearance.”
“That’s baseless slander. Seongak Elementary is a safe place, and everyone is welcome. Let’s go into Seongak Elementary together. I’ll treat you to some food.”
Treat them my ass.
The moment they enter Seongak Elementary, I’ll turn them into livestock below slaves and make them work for the rest of their lives.
“…All we want is just a little food. We can’t cause trouble for Seongak Elementary. Please just share some food.”
“I understand. Please take this cake for now. It’s starting to melt because of the hot weather.”
I approached the raiders. The raiders were flustered. They were fidgeting as if they were about to take out hidden guns. The leader raised his hand to stop them.
‘Killing me isn’t their goal. These bastards are after the assets of Seongak Elementary.’
Even if they were acting as dogs for the Ilwoo Group, their essence wouldn’t change.
The leader stepped forward himself. He sneered at me. I quietly looked around. The cameras, trucks, and other equipment were all within 10 meters. It was a dense formation to block gunfire from the outside. It was even better.
“Haha. I’ll enjoy the ice cream cake.”
Brain Heaven Style (雷天流) Electromagnetic Wave (電磁氣波) EMP.
I spread electromagnetic waves in all directions at maximum output. Electrical equipment that wasn’t prepared for EMPs would be instantly disabled.
“Yeah, enjoy it, you bastard.”
I threw the cake at the leader’s face.
Thwack!
“Cough?!”
I lunged at the flustered leader and snatched a military knife from his waist. Immediately after, I slit his throat before the leader could pull out his gun. Blood gushed out.
“Leader!”
“Damn it! Kill that bastard!!”
“Move the trucks and take position! An attack is coming soon!”
“The trucks aren’t moving!!”
Ta-ta-ta-tang!
Gunshots rang out. I used the leader as a shield to block the bullets. As expected of a leader, he was wearing a bulletproof vest, so he was a great shield. The trucks were blocking me from behind.
‘Did I set off the EMP too strongly? I can’t use the electromagnetic barrier.’
I kept my head down as much as possible and endured. My arms and legs were stinging as if they had been grazed by bullets.
Woooooooong.
The drones I had been waiting for appeared.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
First, the suicide drones went into the raiders and exploded. The combat drones fired at the raiders from the sky.
While the flustered raiders were scattering in panic.
“What are you doing, you bastards! Return fire immediately!”
“Are you going to die like this?!”
“Damn it, those drones are nothing!”
The leaders of the other raider groups shouted and rallied their subordinates. As the chaos subsided and they took cover behind the trucks and began to respond to the combat drones.
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
The security team, protected by bulletproof vests and shields, charged forward with a shout. Of course, the security team also had guns. But instead of guns, the security team was holding batons.
Why was the security team’s morale so high? Because I had declared that I would give the captured raiders as slaves.
It was the first time I had acknowledged ownership of slaves.
‘The security team are my slaves. The slaves of slaves are naturally mine, their master.’
The security team especially rushed towards the female raiders. Most of the security team were men, so they were eager for female slaves. Although there weren’t many pretty female raiders among them.
‘The leader’s girlfriend is pretty though. Those are mine.’
I was relaxed. I could just take the pretty female slaves.
