Chapter 57 – 57. Subway Station 2
First, I woke up the man.
After sleeping hours, I just touch it a few times, and it wakes me up startled.
“What! This!”
“Quiet. Man, be quiet. He’s waking up.”
As soon as I hear the word Ae, I close my mouth.
Surprisingly calm. Not bad.
“I didn’t want to cause a fuss, so I treated him roughly. So please cooperate quietly. For the sake of the family.”
He seems to understand what I mean, but his expression is not very good, as if he feels that he has put his family in danger.
It’s a refreshing reaction.
“Mister. What is the skill?”
There is no answer. You probably want to resolve this situation somehow. This type of person is a bit difficult to talk to.
“Mister. I have no intention of killing you and your family. I’m asking this for my safety. If I’m going to kill you, I killed you earlier.”
“… Electric shock.”
Electric shock? 300,000 attack skills? Oh.
“Please explain.”
“You can electrocute anything you see.”
“What about the distance?”
“20 m.”
20 m… It’s shorter than sleep? But you have to be able to trust it. Should I at least bluff… I don’t like that.
“Please tell me honestly. If it differs from what I know, I might change my mind.”
“I don’t do stupid things with my children and wife by my side.”
“Okay. We don’t have trust between each other, but let’s make it happen. The child can’t use skills, right?”
“Okay.”
“Does the skill window pop up?”
“I can’t confirm it because I’m still young. I can’t even pronounce it like that.”
“Okay. Can you explain more about electric shock? How many people can it be used at once?”
“What do you mean?”
“Someone who can write at the same time.”
“One person.”
Ah… Isn’t electric shock as constant as sleep?
“Then, if there are more than one person, can I write to one person, write to another person, and so on?”
“Okay.”
Good. As expected, it’s worth 300,000.
“If you get electrocuted, will you die?”
“No.”
“Aren’t you going to die?”
“It’s just like I’ve been electrocuted, and I can’t move. I can’t kill you in one hit.”
Hmm… What. If you get hit by lightning or something like that, you just pick it up and die. There is no penalty, but the output is weak?
“What about skill?”
“Advanced.”
“You used a lot. What percentage is advanced?”
“I don’t know. I’ll have to wait and see.”
Hmm… Is it ambiguous? For a skill worth 300,000, it is ambiguous. It’s nice to be able to suppress multiple people at once, but… The distance is short.
No. Is 20 m long enough? Actually, 20 m is enough to neutralize it in one go.
It’s several times better than some idiotic punch.
“What are your wife’s skills?”
“Treatment of disease.”
“Ugh… Why?”
“Why?”
“You have a lot of skills, right? Why did you choose to treat diseases?”
“If you don’t have children, you won’t understand that.”
“Is the child sick?”
“No. It doesn’t hurt now.”
“But why? I’m asking because I’m curious.”
“The world is going crazy, but when I’m raising a child, all I can think about is the child. I had a hard time choosing between getting a Head and getting treatment for the disease. Of course, I’m satisfied now.”
I do not know. It would be nice to have it, but… It’s a skill that isn’t necessary for someone like me who lives alone.
If Seunghee masters healing, it would be perfect to ask her to choose a disease treatment.
But there is no way to check this.
I can’t accept it.
“Okay. The skill hasn’t been confirmed, so let’s keep talking like this. Answer the questions I ask.”
“Try it.”
“Where have all the humans at the subway station gone?”
“I killed them all.”
“Wow. You’re hot. So you were the one who threw the animal carcasses at the subway station?”
“Okay.”
“Why?”
“Why do you think that is?”
“Are you threatening me not to come?”
“That’s right.”
“Is it effective? A guy like me came in like this?”
“I’m curious about that too. How did they get inside here? It’s a place that’s hard to find even if there’s nothing like that outside.”
“It just so happened. But how did you know that you were here?”
“Because I worked at this station.”
“Oh. Workplace?”
“Okay.”
“Why aren’t you at home, and you go to a place like this?”
“Because I thought it was safer here.”
“Hmm. Anyway, what did you catch that animal with?”
“With skill.”
“Ah. Electric shock? Can animals get electric shock too?”
“Of course it would be if the body wasn’t made of rubber.”
Come to think of it, I’ve never used sleep on animals before. What have I been doing all this time?
“Okay, okay. Now I’m going to say what I really want to say. I’m not going to kill your family.”
“Thank you for that.”
I guess I have some free time. Talking has become easier.
“There is a large supermarket across from Jungdong to Hadong. Do you know?”
“I know. That’s where there are gangsters and such.”
“Oh. Do you know?”
“I’ve seen it from afar.”
“I killed them all. And now the people I saved live there.”
A man who looked surprised at my words. Well, that’s not easy.
“This is my suggestion. Take your family to the supermarket. At least it will be better than here.”
“Why should I do that?”
“If you stay here next time, I’ll kill you.”
“… Why on earth?”
“It’s my heart. I’m rounding up all the people in the Middle East. So if you mess around here, I’ll kill you. Whether it’s a woman or a child.”
A man who thinks for a moment.
“I don’t understand. Why does it have to be that way?”
“Do you understand why this world is like this?”
The man closes his mouth and cannot say anything. Well, who would understand that?
“Okay. I’ll discuss it with my wife. Besides, even if you come next time, I can just stop you here, right?”
Oh… It’s refreshing to think like this again. He is a man who gives me a refreshing experience in many ways. Very fresh.
“Well, that’s what you said. Anyway, I said everything I wanted to say. When you wake up, everything you tied up will be undone. I hope you make good decisions. For the sake of the child.”
“That…”
It seemed like he was trying to say something, but he put him to sleep.
If I talk more, I feel like I might want to help. If a woman was attractive, she might secretly help her once, but it’s not true.
Tsk. It’s not that I hate Missy.
What should I say, nice guy? Good energy? I feel like that, and I don’t like it.
Feeling very healthy? The feeling that the reason for survival is to protect the family, and because of that, one is willing to kill and plunder.
He is not the type of person for me who kills and rapes people just for fun and sexual desire.
Now, I keep feeling skeptical about gathering people to the supermarket, but when I see people like this, I feel shabby.
There seems to be no purpose or meaning to living.
I cut off all the tape tied to my arms and legs and was about to leave, but my eyes caught the child.
A child sleeping with her belly exposed between her mother and father.
I thought she was a boy, but it turns out she’s a girl. I was confused because the clothes were blue.
Young kid. It makes you think a lot.
How old can this child live?
There are people like me everywhere. There will be more vicious and crazy people around.
I don’t know. Why am I thinking about this child’s fate? I’m not even a parent.
Opened a store.
While looking at the store, the thing I didn’t understand the most was snacks.
Fuck. It’s not cheap either. The reason why people buy canned food with coins is because it is the most edible and easy to store when considering the calories compared to the price.
I was wondering if anyone would buy things like snacks with coins, but now I know.
Here it is. Such a brat.
I didn’t know what I would like, so I bought them all.
Will you like it when you wake up in the morning? I feel like some kind of Santa Claus.
In this fucking sick world, just looking at a piece of snack like this would make them happy. A world like a tribe. A world that is a pestilence.
I walked out without looking back.
I feel like if I stay any longer, my heart will weaken.
Parents who live with a sense of duty and a child who has no sin.
They are scarier than people with any other skill.
It made me wonder if it was right to buy snacks with the coins I earned after killing someone.
There is nothing more scary than having your heart shaken.
I have to live alone. In this damn world.
You shouldn’t look down on them, and you shouldn’t show any loopholes either. Because death is always by your side.
We must desperately avoid, hide, and run away from death.
The moment you let down your guard or become complacent, you will die.
The moment I remove the tape from the eyes of that man who is awake, I have to think that I might die.
My wife said she was cured of the disease? I don’t know. The moment I believe that and release my eyes and mouth, I might be struck by another attack skill and fall down.
You can’t let down your guard unless you see it with your own eyes.
You must always be alert.
Second skill. This is a pain in the ass. It’s hard to check them all individually. There is no way to notice that there are two.
There must be quite a few people who have mastered the skill.
Then they will become terrifying people. It’s a combination of two skills. There is so much to think about.
If I master the second skill, will another selection window appear? Will it come out? Only then can we ensure greater safety.
The charm is good… I think telekinesis would be good too.
Telekinesis. Wouldn’t that be enough to load and shoot a crossbow? I guess it can’t be such a complicated task.
No, even if it’s not a crossbow, just a hatchet is fine. Or you can use a jackknife or at least a piece of glass and stick it in your body.
I don’t know. First, think about it later when you can choose.
Is the only place left now an underground shopping mall?
I don’t know where they come from, but this is a place where hidden humans appear one after another.
The perfect final place to wipe out this neighborhood all at once.
The date is tomorrow, so I’ll have to go in today like this. I never thought that the subway station would end so easily.
I’ll go in, take a nap, and go out again in the evening.
Ah… Before that, take a look at the subway station one more time.
I turn the detector and check every nook and cranny.
Doesn’t exist. Does not exist. I feel safe now.
I confidently walked out to the subway station entrance.
Subway stations are no longer scary and unsafe places.
It was a subway station that was like hell. A place that always made me feel uncomfortable has now been resolved so easily.
