Chapter 69 – 69. Pre-Exploration 2
Logistics center.
It’s about an hour’s walk from here.
I regretted it 10 minutes after leaving the house. Oh fuck, it’s so fucking cold.
Why is it still winter? I’m really going crazy.
Should I at least hibernate inside the house for about three months? I really hate it.
It’s natural to be cold in winter, but it’s especially cold today.
It’s really so cold. I don’t think this is really it.
Is there any reason not to go? Is there any? Let’s find out. Reasons not to go.
There is none. Fuck.
Let’s go. If you keep making excuses and not taking care of it, you will never get anywhere.
Think of it as exercising. Aerobic trekking in the cold, fresh air. It’s so fucking good.
It is truly absurd to have unlimited electricity.
If electricity were lost, wouldn’t there have been this much left even if we hadn’t killed each other after the destruction?
Why on earth did they leave electricity and water behind? That’s the most confusing thing.
What is certain is that the goal of those who did this was not the annihilation of humanity.
There’s something I’m after.
I don’t know what that is.
I don’t know if I’m going the right way. This should be the right path.
The surrounding scenery changes little by little. Many tall buildings are disappearing, and they are becoming lower and older.
I think I’m coming to the right place. Even if I haven’t been to the logistics center, I’ve been to the neighborhood where it is located.
People… Does not exist. I’ve been walking for an hour, but there’s no one.
But… It’s hard to find people around here. What’s so good about living in a place like this?
Now, if you just turn around here, you will find a logistics center… This is right?
Ah. See. That’s it.
It’s so fucking big. It seems bigger than a supermarket.
A unique factory-type building. Height… Ugh. Is it the 5th floor? It’s high.
Moreover, it is not just one. There are two more next to it.
It’s a little smaller than the main building, but it’s still a formidable size.
Se Hee-nyeon ate here? Really? Is it possible?
They said there were over 30 of those red vest guys.
And they said they were also at the logistics center.
So who are these people eating here now? Why does everyone say it’s theirs?
Who will you believe? They’re all bastards.
I have no choice but to see it with my own eyes.
It is again a detection proficiency burning event. Fuck.
First, I decided to slowly look around from the outskirts. Anyway, today is reconnaissance.
Detection with a radius of 75 m can do a lot from afar.
Even if you can’t see inside the building, you can still go around the outside without being noticed… I thought so.
It’s hard.
There was no one at the entrance on the side of the main road, but the main road is very exposed.
And there is no road at all next to the logistics center. A floor built on an embankment. And the green fence on top of it. I can’t go around it.
In addition, it was difficult to get to the area under the embankment because it was a rice field, and there was a mountain behind it.
Under… Fuck. The location really sucks.
I think I can turn around if I turn to the bottom of the embankment… Should I try it? Let’s do it.
It’s not like I’m trying to infiltrate anyway. I guess I can at least go around the bottom.
I took a big walk around the logistics center like that.
And then I realized. This is a really shitty place.
The final entrance is the front door. Backstreet? Side street? Does not exist. It’s all just surrounded by a fence on top of the embankment.
If I were to make up my mind to overcome it, I would overcome it, but I think it would be difficult to do so with my bare body.
I’m not some kind of special force… How can I get over that with my bare body?
Additionally, there are CCTV cameras everywhere. And what’s even worse is that a red light comes on CCTV.
Watching. Clearly.
It is not a flimsy defense like the supermarket. They are clearly monitoring the surroundings.
Moreover, there were people in the building.
Two people at a time at what I thought was the door. Since it was from the outskirts, it was not possible to identify the exact building.
Ha. It’s all over the place, really.
Should I watch after daylight? But there are no tall buildings here.
I brought binoculars just in case… There is no place to look.
Want to go inside?
No. It’s too dangerous. I don’t know what kind of defense they are putting in place.
First, I have to do whatever I can…
Among the buildings across from the logistics center, I found the tallest one.
A three-story building. The rooftop must be difficult. It’s cold and exposed.
First, I entered the building. There is a bone hangover soup restaurant on the first floor, but there is no sign above. What is this place doing?
Ah. It’s a studio. A studio apartment would be nice. If only the door were open.
There is no way the door will open. Oh, it’s annoying. Is there even a paru somewhere?
I tried opening each door one by one, but fortunately, only one opened. Nice.
Seeing traces of someone’s life is not a very good thing.
If this were the fragrant room of a 20-year-old girl, it might have been quite enjoyable.
However, if there is an ashtray, a pile of cigarette butts, and the room smells like an unpleasant man and cigarette smoke, it certainly can’t be good.
A situation that is not nice at all.
Moreover, the logistics center is not clearly visible from the window here.
I have to go out. My head hurts a little.
I think this room labeled room 301 would be good… Can’t open the door?
Should we go to another building? It doesn’t deserve it.
Ah. I think there was a car center in the building next door earlier. Wouldn’t there be a paru there? Let’s go first.
The car center is a great place. A place full of various tools. Although there are a lot of oil stains, the performance is good.
Or factories made of sandwich panels. If you go there, you will find quite a few useful tools. Power drills and things like that.
There was a paru at the car center.
Heavy and cool feeling.
I think I can overcome anything with Paru.
After receiving the energy of Paru, I came back to my studio, hung it on the door, and tore it open.
It’s a cheap door from a cheap studio, so the door opens right away. After all, Paru is a god and invincible!
The room was really empty.
Is there anything? Looking at the blankets, it looks like someone lived here.
I searched one by one and found something.
Some women’s underwear. A bag of leftover sanitary napkins. Tumbler. Condom.
Hmm… I thought about my officetel job, so I opened my underwear.
It’s smaller than expected. I guess he wasn’t a generous person.
It’s okay. If it’s like this, it’s not that bad.
When I looked at the logistics center through the window, the visibility wasn’t that good because of the trees, but I could still see something.
There is no place around here where you can secure the view as well as here, so you should be satisfied with this.
I tried detecting in my spare time.
The end of the largest building in the logistics center was within the detection range, so I could sense the presence of two people inside the entrance.
It’s a drawback that it can’t be seen with the naked eye or binoculars because it’s inside a building, but it can’t be helped.
Waiting for something is really boring.
That’s probably the same for those on guard all night. Still, since it’s just the two of us, we’re going to talk to each other.
What should we talk about? A story before the world became like this?
Family, lovers, fun things, enjoyable things, strange things… Things like that?
Or we could talk about something else.
For example, stories about the Year of Jubilee and things like that.
A witch? I think I know why it got that name.
Charm is truly a deceptive skill.
The scariest thing in this world is not ghosts or ghosts. Of course, it’s a person.
But people like that are controlled. No, it’s not manipulation. Because we do it voluntarily.
From what I know, when you are charmed, your affinity for the person who charmed you goes up to the maximum.
So, you hear everything that person says. Immediately, without any conditions or compensation.
The problem is the aftereffects.
The human mind is simpler than you think.
And fascination digs into that simple loophole.
A person who is charmed becomes a completely friendly person for the time he is charmed, but when the charm is released, cognitive dissonance occurs.
A person who was more attractive than anyone else, who had to be cherished, protected, and cherished.
If a person like that becomes nothing, his brain will start whining. What? And.
And if such a person repeats the fascination again and again, the brain gradually breaks down.
Rather than saying it breaks down, should I say that it adjusts itself because it is under load? Therefore, it creates a level of favorability that was not there even when the fascination was released.
Whether you have feelings of hatred or disgust, you rationalize them all and create a middle ground between the times when you were fascinated and the times when you were not attracted.
Eventually, the midpoint becomes higher and higher, and eventually becomes somewhat favorable even without the use of charm.
The idiotic human brain is that weak.
That’s why fascination is the scariest thing.
Because you have complete control over the opposite sex within a certain period of time, you also exert influence even after the time has expired.
Such a bitch… Even if you call me a witch, I won’t have anything to say.
Then again, another question arises.
How did the red vests still survive?
Honestly, if Se Hee-nyeon decides to attack, it doesn’t seem that difficult to eat a logistics center like this.
It is not a battle of power vs. Power, a war of attrition. Charm literally converts the other person.
A fucking skill that turns the enemy into an ally and immediately becomes part of your power.
Why, why haven’t we taken over this place yet?
At that time, what did that bastard Jeong Jong-chan get from those assholes? What did you give in return?
That… Should I find out first? Then will there be some clue?
First… There is no choice but to watch.
Since I’ve come this far, I’m going to get all the information I can for now.
It stayed like that for three days.
As an insomniac, I also start to feel weak after two days.
I couldn’t sleep in a place like this, so I held back, but I could definitely feel my body breaking down.
I put up with it because the two-hour round trip was annoying… It won’t work.
Nothing really happened at the logistics center.
There were no people coming in or leaving, and there were only shifts at set times.
3 shifts of 8 hours each. The time is 8 a.M. 4 p.M. And midnight.
It’s a fairly stable place. It seems difficult to break through easily.
No… Maybe it will be difficult forever? The defenses are not that lax.
I wish I could throw another group in there. Because there is no better method than the two-party plan.
Ah… First, I need to go home and get some rest. It’s no longer the limit.
I’m not sure how I’m going to walk home for an hour, but I can’t do this here.
