Chapter 17 – Zombie Apocalypse (14)
After overhearing the men’s conversation from above, I looked around.
After checking out the deadly quiet city, I went into the room and Naeun seemed to wake up to the sound of the door opening.
“Haaam. Sian, you woke up first?”
Naeun welcomed me into her room with a sleepy voice and naturally picked up her smartphone.
Even now, more than 32 hours after the zombie outbreak, electricity, water, and communication are working well.
I think this is because the goal of the zombies is not to destroy infrastructure, but to infect humans.
Accidents like yesterday’s gas station explosion may have been caused by zombies, but it was clear that they were man-made.
What about me there? And I looked out through the window.
There were no zombies to be seen here either.
Did someone kill all the zombies overnight?
Or did they move because there were no more people around here to infect?
There were only about 8 people in this officetel, so there was less prey.
‘It could be because I killed all the zombies that came yesterday.’
When the zombies attracted by the gas station explosion came back, I caught five more for the zombie killing quest, so I think they were unable to spread the infection and the streets became clean without zombies.
Prevention is also important.
After checking the situation outside, I sat down next to Naeun, whose expression was slightly stiff.
“What happened overnight?”
“It is said that there was a bit of a fight at the mart that night. When they decided to bring more supplies for the number of people supporting the guard, they said that women should also stand guard, and one lady refused, which led to a fight between the sexes. In this case, men and women Where do they say it is?”
“I guess that level of fighting is okay. Wouldn’t it be okay for someone to die? It’s a fight over opinions, we had it yesterday too, right?”
I remembered the conversation between the men I saw in the morning, so I added it, and Naeun’s expression turned cold.
“That guy probably did that yesterday, right? Ugh…”
As if she had imagined it, Naeun wrapped his arms around her and trembled, disgusting her.
“Let’s not imagine. But now that I think about it, wouldn’t the bedroom you used be similar to this one?”
“Huh? It’s similar? It’s not as dirty as that woman’s room!”
Naeun raised her voice a little, thinking that she was comparing the dump in room 101 to her own room.
“That’s not what I meant, someone else can open it and go in. We were originally going to give them a grace period until noon today, right? I don’t know what they’ll do, so I thought if there’s anything I need to take care of, I should go and take care of it now.”
“You mean there could be a pervert who opens the door of a woman’s bedroom and steals her clothes or underwear? I understand. Let’s go right away!”
I guess I’ve been focusing on that since the night before, and I’m thinking only lewd thoughts.
In some ways, it seems like Naeun is making an effort to avoid heavy topics by having these light conversations.
The fight at the supermarket you told me about earlier may actually have resulted in someone dying.
Naeun didn’t explain exactly what happened, and his friend may have hidden the information.
“Shall we eat breakfast? I’m craving some properly cooked ramen.”
“Let’s go and eat. I want to go to my room quickly.”
At the same time, Naeun crawled onto the bed and rustled around, taking out two nutritional bars.
When I received one, I couldn’t help but sigh at the lightness.
“Whew. I’m crazy to think I could last a month with this.”
“You said that if an extreme situation arises in the future, there will be nothing better than this?”
Naeun quoted what I said and made it impossible for me to refute it.
We took off the clothes we had worn as pajamas and changed into the clothes we wore when going out.
Because I feel like I can get a little dirty by walking around outside and get more dirty.
When I went out, I carried my bag as usual, put a cardboard box under my arm, and picked up a baseball bat.
“Let’s modify this a little later. I have some supplies I brought yesterday.”
Wouldn’t using something like a sports band provide a little more protection?
As Naeun tried to go out, she went back to her bed and came out with a nearby condom containing semen and trash from the kitchen.
“Throw it away in room 101?”
“We should at least reduce waste.”
I went down the stairs with Naeun, who said the right thing, threw the trash in room 101, and came out of the officetel.
Naeun’s living room is located at a similar distance from the gym to the officetel where I used to live. If you calculate it using trigonometry, it takes 35 minutes.
Of course, you can’t go through the building, so it will take 40 minutes.
Naeun took out his smartphone as he walked, alert to his surroundings, his fatigue completely gone due to the battle break.
“Are you going to film?”
“If you can, do it. Even if it’s just small tasks like this, won’t it save time? I’ll bring my laptop with me when I go home.”
If you’re a college student, you need a computer.
But why aren’t you in my room? When I looked through Lee Sian’s memories, I realized that it had broken down a while ago.
As my assignments were quickly over and vacation was about to begin, I tried to purchase it in the second semester, but then a zombie incident occurred.
Naeun also knew that fact, so he didn’t say anything about not having a laptop in our house.
“It looked good except for the broken computer keyboard in the zombie man’s house downstairs.”
“No, it’s okay with him.”
Naeun, out of reluctance, refused to accept the items of the man who tried to post about his pain on the community before he died.
If you look at this, you can see that although you are strong, you also have a weak side.
Since I have been to Naeun’s apartment often, I am taking the lead and taking the shortest route.
Actually, wouldn’t I have used this path more often than Naeun?
A quiet road with no people wandering around and no zombies to be seen.
Tutterduck boowaaaaang
The noise that brought life to the road was a motorcycle making a loud exhaust noise.
I thought a car or motorcycle would be the best weapon, but what if it was a motorcycle modified to make that loud exhaust noise?
“The sound is so loud… The sound?”
Naeun put the smartphone he was holding into his pocket with the intention of taking pictures if he had the chance, took out the baseball bat he had kept in his bag, and came closer to me.
“Xian, should I hide?”
“The motorcycle continues to make noise as it moves away, so let’s wait and see what happens.”
The entrances to all the stores below were damaged, so I headed for the safest stairs.
After the motorcycle passed, there was no sign of zombies running out, so I headed back to Naeun’s room.
“It would be nice to have a quiet means of transportation.”
Naeun said that, and I silently agreed.
By shortening this travel time, your chances of survival will increase significantly.
“Now that I’m here and thinking, neither of us got into the dormitory.”
“That’s right. The dormitory needs to be expanded, but if there were fewer people left alive, wouldn’t the competition rate for the dormitory have decreased?”
Will college be okay? I thought that there was surprisingly an abundance of supplies.
Since there are various drugs and laboratory equipment, I think I can do anything if I want to do it, right?
*
I arrived at the officetel where Naeun was living on foot in a little less than 40 minutes without coming into contact with anything other than the roaring motorcycle.
Seeing the corpses of zombies piled up near the officetel, it seemed like the place was properly fortified and patrolled.
I don’t know where I got it from, but it was surrounded by barbed wire, and there were two men standing at the entrance holding a piece of wood.
I think our officetel also needs to prepare for defense like this.
The men were taken aback when they saw the two of us approaching, and one man spoke in a trembling voice.
“Please stop there! Are you from the supermarket?”
It seems that Mart has already become a fairly large group.
“No. My girlfriend was staying alone, so I came to pick up her things.”
“If I tell you to drop your weapons, you won’t listen, right?”
“Who in today’s world would abandon their means of self-defense?”
I could see the men worrying about whether what I said was wrong.
At that time, Naeun came forward slightly and said.
“I don’t think you are residents here in the first place? I don’t remember seeing you in half a year.”
Then the two men came close and started talking quietly.
“I’m sorry. I guess you’re the one who originally lived here?”
“Should I let them in? Should I not?”
I spoke in a low voice, but I could hear the entire conversation because the surroundings were quiet.
At that time, a grumpy-looking man came down from the building holding a long iron pipe.
His hair was slightly yellow, probably due to bleaching, and his ears had a lot of piercings.
“Ah… I’ve seen that guy before.”
Naeun whispered softly to me.
“Hey? What are you doing? Are you a guest?”
“Uh, Geon-wu. I heard you used to live here?”
A yellow-haired man called Geon-woo approached with a frown and looked at Naeun and me in turns.
“That’s right. That woman lived here. The man has a boyfriend. I saw him smoking a cigarette upstairs.”
“Then shall we let them in?”
“Hey. Fuck. Are we the bastards? What did you do when the zombie outbreak broke out? You must have been clinging to your boyfriend and squeezing the juice out of it. But we gathered people like this and set up defense measures, huh? So other bastards can’t come in. Did you say that? We killed all the zombies on the street. Then, let’s ask who has the ownership of the things in this building transferred. I guess they did some looting, am I wrong? “
Oh my gosh, I can’t believe that there are people here, not just at the Global Academy, who say such correct things but are annoyed.
I spoke to a person named Geon-woo who irritates me by saying only the right things.
“So, did you open the door to room 203? Didn’t you open it?”
“Yes, I got all the way to the third floor.”
“Then wouldn’t you have taken what was helpful and left behind what was left? The original owner said he would pick out what was left, but couldn’t he?”
“Yes. I can allow that much. Take what you can of what is left.”
Since they had already robbed us, I guess they were thinking of pretending to be strong and not letting us in.
There is a possibility that someone may have evil feelings for entering their room without permission, pretend to be crazy, and gather zombies.
I think they conveyed to us that their way was right by making threats to prevent such troublesome things from happening in advance.
Naeun also seemed annoyed that he opened his room on his own, but he still seemed satisfied that he could take care of what was left.
Let’s go to room 203 to see how much we’ve lost.
