Chapter 332 – Zombie Apocalypse 4 (6)
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Puck!
“Off…”
Sasak! Sasak! Sasak!
This was a common sound heard by those who scouted out Unit 524 and those who communicated with it.
Because the status of the scouts could not be completely confirmed through communication, they were additionally watching through a telescope from the rooftop of the apartment complex, but when something black moved, the scouts made a falling sound and disappeared from sight.
Something must have broken the Bluetooth earphones the scout team was wearing and destroyed their phones, so when they couldn’t make contact, the heads of ‘Danji’ were thrown into confusion.
“What on earth is in Unit 524?”
“Even evolved zombies can be seen.”
“So, second-evolution zombies specializing in surprise attacks are in Unit 524 to secure modern firearms?”
When even more terrifying sounds of a second zombie were heard in the unit, a member of the now-disbanded ‘Hyorim High School’ cautiously spoke out.
“After all, isn’t Batman in Unit 524?”
“Batman…? That baseball bat?”
“Why is that person here?”
On the 5th day of the zombie apocalypse, the name of the legendary Korean who defeated the evolved zombies came out of Hyo-rim’s mouth.
In the early days of the apocalypse, many people who were encouraged by Batman’s video and fought the evolved zombies using all kinds of methods died.
As more and more people died while trying to become a hero by following Batman, it became common sense to avoid evolved zombies, and the survivors chose to avoid them as much as possible and have survived so far.
The people in the complex were puzzled by Hyo-rim’s words, but decided to listen to her until the end.
“When I was at Hyorim, there was a rumor that Batman had joined the supermarket. The reason a group of only about 60 people was able to achieve success is because there was a strong person with such overwhelming force.”
The people in the complex also knew about Mart and Batman, who were now gone.
Several evolved zombies appeared in this area, and there was a story going around that the reason so many people were able to survive was because Batman crushed the heads of the evolved zombies.
Since the people in the complex were listening to her, Hyo-rim continued talking.
“It is said that the pig that played a big role in the disbandment of Hyorim lured about 30 college students to attack the supermarket, and then Batman appeared from the shadows and kidnapped one of them. Even now, people are disappearing by appearing from the shadows, right? Daytime I didn’t know Edo could do something like this, but I think the person who can pull off such eccentricities is Batman.”
There was an incident in which a vested student at Hyorim High School was beaten to death after being caught secretly provoking the mart.
That pig was the owner of a small business with a lot of money, but after he was killed by a search leader, the vested interests seemed to have realized that they could not stand on top with the power they had before, so they started to leave, taking only a few of their followers with them, and some kind of problem arose in the government. With no further material support coming, Hyorim High School slowly dispersed.
“Then there is a supermarket batman in Unit 524, and what can’t be done with just one or two people?”
“Batman is stronger than the evolved zombies, so even a few hundred people wouldn’t be able to do it.”
“But he’s still human.”
“Can someone who beats an evolved zombie with a baseball bat be considered a person?”
At those words, the heads of the complex kept their mouths shut.
After reconnoitering Unit 524 and planning a vehicle invasion route to secure modern firearms, you have to give up on attacking Unit 524 because of one person with overwhelming power? In two days, when the era of melee weapons ends and the era of modern firearms begins, the world will change dramatically again.
I managed to survive by avoiding the zombies that were spawning like crazy and formed a group of people I could communicate with and established some level of order, but then came the crisis of losing everything due to a gunshot.
The heads of the complex could not give up easily because they did not want to give up what they had achieved.
“Wouldn’t he have a weakness? That bastard is also human, so maybe he has an emotional arm.”
“Should we put the kids in front? We need guns to protect people from zombies.”
“Are you crazy?”
When I brought up the story of the child, people’s eyes turned cold.
No matter how messed up the world is, using a child is a shameful thing.
“Then… Should the firearms just be taken away helplessly?”
“It might be better if the unit monopolized modern firearms.”
There was an opinion that we should prevent others from having what we cannot have.
But surprisingly, the opinion was quite good.
Anyway, there is an asymmetrical force called Batman in Unit 524.
However, what Batman did with such great power was to kill the evolved zombies and save many people. In fact, conflicts between groups have become more common recently after Hyorim was disbanded.
I don’t know if only one person has a gun, but what if a group that protects many people has it? Now I was no different from a soldier who had lost meaning.
“I’m going to put the kettle on…”
The opinion of the complex began to lean toward preventing everyone from having it if we couldn’t have it.
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“Ugh. Throat… Ugh… It’s cold…”
Oh Gyu-seong, who went out to scout out Unit 524, woke up to the cold.
Oh Gyu-seong hugged himself with both arms and looked around, his body shaking.
It seemed to be quite dark when I looked around, but I could see the outlines of men sleeping from the cold.
“Huh?”
And then I came to my senses.
My last memory was eating lunch while watching Unit 524.
But why are you here? He touched his ears to find the earphones, but he could only hear the wind.
Oh Gyu-seong immediately put his hand into his pocket and found his smartphone.
As he turned on his smartphone, he shook the person from the complex to wake him up.
“Ugh… Neck…”
Oh Gyu-seong smiled bitterly, recalling that he had said something similar.
“Wake up, you’re in big trouble.”
Shortly after the smartphone was turned on, a huge amount of texts and missed calls poured in.
Oh Gyu-seong calmly called his friend who was in charge of him at the complex.
“Uh, Gyu-seong! Are you alive?”
Oh Gyu-seong calmed down his mind, but he got a little upset when he thought that he had treated him like a dead person before he called.
“Fuck. What happened? Why am I here? Where am I?”
“The raid on Unit 524 is cancelled. There is a monster there.”
After hearing that he was a monster, Oh Gyu-seong looked around.
It seemed like it was on the roof of a building, but it was dark, so I couldn’t tell where it was.
“Monsters? Zombies? Zombies kept us alive?”
“No, Batman. The guy who caused a stir in the beginning by killing the evolved zombies is in the unit.”
Oh Gyu-seong also knows who it is.
In the community he used to attend, there is a Batman in Korea! There were people who wrote like that consistently, but they disappeared after a few days.
“Fuck! He would have cut down a tree with a chainsaw! That person would have done it all!”
Oh Gyu-seong thought that since Batman can kill evolved zombies that cannot be killed even by hitting and pressing them with heavy equipment with a baseball bat, he would be able to cut down a tree with ease.
“Can you come back first? Are you the only one there?”
“No, I could see about ten people, but weren’t there eight of us?”
When I looked around with eyes accustomed to the dark, I saw a completely unfamiliar person among the familiar faces.
“It looks like it’s another group. Let’s subdue them. I think it’s better not only that we can’t get guns, but that everyone can’t get them.”
“Can’t we just keep sending other guys? That might make Batman angry, right?”
“Then if they give out real guns, we’ll be screwed. We’ll just have to stop it, we’ll have to go to war.”
“Fuck… Guns will come out tomorrow, so do we have to keep fighting with spears?”
“If you tease them, they fight with baseball bats.”
“I can’t do something crazy like that. For now, I’ll keep the call on even without earphones.”
“Uh. Do you have enough batteries?”
“Oh, that’s enough. I need to wake up everyone I know.”
Oh Gyu-seong started waking up everyone he knew.
There are no zombies around now, so if you wake up the sleeping person and then head to head, you will be able to return to the base safely.
‘Still, the gun is disappointing.’
***
“He’s not coming.”
If I continued to use just presence detection, I would get a headache, so I used presence detection-wave to see if anyone else was coming.
I went to the ammunition depot a little further away from the barracks and used presence detection-wave to look around, but there were no additional visitors until late at night.
‘Is it because I sent you away alive?’
Or you could say you saw me.
If you walk around wearing a military uniform, you can certainly avoid people’s eyes, but you cannot avoid machines.
After listening to Naeun and Gyeongjo, I looked like a black lump, so I thought that if they had seen that, they might have given up on approaching.
‘I can’t go on like this until the end.’
There is still one more day left.
From then on, when the people in the mart are armed with modern firearms, we will have a force that cannot be compared to other groups nearby.
The highest score was always high because I was there, but the average will rise significantly.
In addition, since I have learned martial arts, which allows me to have a healthy body, wouldn’t I be able to shoot a gun better than an ordinary person?
I returned to the barracks and went into my room.
Naeun was sitting on the bed and eating breakfast. He closed the door so as not to disturb him and went straight up to the 4th floor.
“Haaam… Uh. Mr. Xian.”
The security guard who was watching the monitor yawned and lowered his head when he saw me.
“Yes. There’s nothing wrong outside, right?”
“It’s very quiet. I think I’ve given up today.”
“I hope it continues like this in the future.”
“I hope so too.”
After looking at the dark monitor together for a moment, I came down to the room where Naeun was.
*
The next day, people started flocking.
