Apocalypse N-Student - Chapter 66



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Episode 66: Zombie with Sapphire Eyes (4)

As I came out of the alley and passed the road in front of Geumsa-dong Community Center, the sound of car engines and screams could be heard in the distance.

I stopped walking, hid behind the fence, and listened.

Looking at the direction of movement, it seemed like they were not running away, but rather spreading a wide net to surround us and search for us.

It is extremely dangerous and reckless to confront an enemy with a gun.

Even though we had suffered some damage, it would have been wise to retreat for now, but it seemed as though they were determined to kill or capture us.

It looks like you’ve been farming hard and now there’s a lot of oil overflowing.

It’s understandable that you’d be upset after losing three pit bulls, but people who act on whim won’t last long in the apocalypse.

Judging from the fact that they survived and formed and maintained a group, the leader on the other side must have at least some sense of judgment.

Aside from emotional reasons like anger over losing a dog or damaged reputation, there is only one reason for him to chase me.

gun.

Are you greedy and want to take away my guns even if it means sacrificing a few of your subordinates?

If Jong-seok, Yeon-hee, and even Lee Sun-ae had joined in with guns, those guys probably would have run away without looking back.

It seems like they decided it was worth a try since there was only one gun per child and one adult.

No matter how good your shooting skills are, your magazine has its limits, and without support fire, you’ll be completely defenseless while reloading.

Or maybe his eyes were rolled back in anger at losing his beloved pet.

If you consider your dog as a family member, this is entirely possible.

After looking around the surrounding terrain, we gave up on the west they had gone ahead of and changed direction to the north.

After running about 400 meters past villas and apartments, defeating wandering zombies, I arrived at the foot of Mt. Owl.

I hid in the forest and took a short rest.

“Is it worth doing?”

When I handed him the water jug, Kim Seong-hun nodded with a pale face and gulped down the water.

After taking out a chocolate bar from the pouch and sharing it with each other, we took a breather and headed west along the mountain path.

If only I could fly a small drone, I would be able to see the enemy’s status clearly, but I felt regretful once again.

As I turned south of Mt. Owl and saw Busan National University Station in the distance, I hid behind a tree and took out the walkie-talkie.

When I opened the promised channel and called, Jong-seok answered right away.

“Get the gun and drone and come to the station. Bring the walkie-talkie you got from E-Mart too.”

-Why is that?

“We don’t need to clean up those guys with our own hands, right?”

They are the ones who came all the way to the hot springs to farm oil, but they will eventually withdraw after searching for a while.

I don’t know when or where we will meet again.

A force of more than 20 raiders is no easy task.

You have to do it when you can.

Regardless of the means and methods.

As we met Yeonhee at Kim Sunghoon’s residence and headed to Jangjeon Station, Jongseok, who had been waiting, pushed open the glass door and came out.

“Hey, why is your face like that after only half a day?”

“Don’t be ridiculous.”

I went to Busan University and went up to the second floor of the Avenderch building.

I opened the window and flew the drone.

Because the room was dark, I connected the controller to the tablet instead of the VR goggles.

The medium-sized drone that flew south had a much longer flight distance and faster speed than the small drone.

Homer and the truck were still looking for me south of Owl Mountain.

Looters also roamed the alleys in groups of two or three, carrying makeshift shields.

I placed my drone on the roof of a nearby building and watched it with a camera while taking out the walkie-talkie the man in the suit had left behind.

I thought it might have been equipped with a location tracking device, so I separated the battery and the main unit, put it in a box that could not be tracked by radio waves, and hid it inside the front door of an empty house.

“Are you really going to use that?”

Jongseok scratched his head with an uneasy expression.

“It’s too risky for us to step forward and take care of it. It’s a waste of bullets. But we can’t just leave it alone.”

“That’s right. It’s better to see something through to the end once you’ve started it.”

After hearing the explanation of the situation, Yeonhee crossed her arms and stared at me with an interested expression.

I connected the radio, turned it on to channel 2 as the suit man had told me, and sent a signal.

– Please identify yourself when returning.

“E-Mart Fireman.”

There was a moment of silence when the suitman mentioned the unpleasant call sign he had given me, as if he didn’t understand.

As I was about to say something, a gruff, authoritative voice from a man in a suit came out.

– Fireman! I didn’t expect you to contact me so quickly. You weren’t just trying it out, were you?

“The zombie I was talking about before, I just saw it.”

– Are you sure?

“I guess so······”

I tried to be as vague as possible in order to make up an excuse.

“It does the same thing as other zombies, but its eyes are blue when the sunlight hits them. They’re really shiny. What kind of zombie is that? Why are you looking for something like that?

– I don’t know, but I’m not seeing things, right? Where is the location?

“Is the truckload of supplies we promised earlier still valid?”

– Yes. If it’s true. Where is it?

“South of Owl Mountain, Seodong. They are looting with home trucks and trucks.”

– What about zombies?

“It looks like they put him in a truck. It was so scary that I couldn’t check it in detail.”

– If you lie to me, you will regret it very much.

The man in the suit made threats, but I responded indifferently.

“Then don’t believe it. I just said what I saw. You are the judge.”

I disconnected the radio, removed the battery, and placed it in a radio-blocking box.

“I have to throw this away.”

“That’s right. They’ll be pissed if they find out they were tricked.”

I threw the radio box in the cafe bathroom and went outside to a Starbucks far away.

After killing the zombies, the three of them sat shoulder to shoulder on the second floor sofa, staring intently at the tablet.

About twenty minutes later, a dull, heavy roar, louder than thunder, rumbled through the dry sky.

I went to the window and looked up, and beyond the tall buildings in the eastern sky, a black dot was rapidly approaching, revealing a familiar shape.

“A helicopter?”

“That’s amazing.”

I expected mercenaries with machine guns to arrive in a car, but it turned out to be a helicopter. They must be really messed up.

As expected, the man in the suit was connected to the government.

I had no intention of handing over the Sapphire Zombie, but now I can’t.

The helicopter descended to the location I had told you about.

As soon as it landed at the intersection, armed soldiers poured out, sweeping away trash and dust in all directions with the crushing pressure of the tremendous wind.

The looters who had been watching in amazement abandoned their cars and fled.

The soldiers fired at the looters who scattered in all directions without even offering to surrender.

In an instant, five or six people fell.

Soldiers who had chased away the looters headed toward the lorries and trucks, keeping watch over the area.

An arrow possessed by evil flew from somewhere and struck down a soldier.

When their comrades were attacked, the soldiers, their eyes rolled back, exchanged hand signals and crossed the street into an alley.

After a loud blast of gunfire and screams, the soldiers returned and searched the vehicle.

I searched every inch of the truck bed, but of course there were no zombies.

The soldier who appeared to be the leader held the radio to one ear and covered the other ear.

The leader had to shout as if in a war zone because of the tremendous noise made by the helicopter’s propeller.

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Because the aggro was properly drawn, the hidden zombies staggered and appeared one by one, but they were pushed by the wind and could not even approach easily.

The leader, who had been chattering with a frown on his face, put down the radio and whistled sharply.

When the soldiers on guard looked up, he pointed to the sky with his right index finger and drew a circle.

The soldiers boarded the helicopter in the same order as they had disembarked.

As the helicopter disappeared eastwards with the wind, the zombies began to swarm the freshly killed corpses to dispose of them.

After flying the drone to check the area around the vehicle and inside the alley, we found a total of 17 bodies.

Only three or four people escaped alive.

He got rid of those who would have definitely caused great trouble if left alone without even raising a hand.

After a brief search for survivors, I retrieved the drone.

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Two days later, Jong-seok and Yeon-hee visited a night market near Geumsa Station.

The number of zombies, which had been over 100, had been reduced to 19.

Judging by the absence of the body, it appears he had followed the looters out and not returned.

The three of them easily defeated the remaining zombies and opened the warehouse door.

The sapphire zombie that had been standing there blankly slowly walked out.

“Just a little empty?”

As the stench of a rotting corpse wafted in, Jong-seok held his nose and stepped back.

The bright sunlight poured down on the face of the zombie who instinctively stretched out both hands while holding the towel I had stuffed in his mouth.

“Really? Your eye color is changing?”

“Before you appreciate it, grab this first.”

Together with Jong-seok, he tied the zombie’s waist with a clothesline, connected it to the warehouse door, and retreated to a safe distance.

Jong-seok and Yeon-hee watched the zombie with blue eyes that looked like they had sapphires in them for a long time.

Yeonhee just had a curious expression, and Jongseok was quite excited at the thought of meeting something that would prove his hypothesis.

“Aside from your eyes, what else? Any special abilities? Like necromancer or telekinesis?”

“I don’t know.”

“What are you going to do with this?”

“I have to keep it here somewhere.”

It was too far to take to the hideout and there was a great risk of being exposed along the way.

What secret is there in those blue eyes that I can’t find?

I stared into the zombie’s blue eyes, lost in thought, when suddenly a faint, faint hallucination flashed through my mind.

······ho······i ······ch······ a······

The endings of meaningless syllables echoed through my skull.

When I came to my senses, Jong-seok was shaking my shoulder with a frightened expression.

“Hey, are you okay? You just had this really crazy look in your eyes.”

“uh?”

“You saw it too?”

Yeonhee also stared at me with a serious expression.

“I don’t know if I was seeing things wrong, but there was a slight blue glow in his eyes.”

“what?”

I blinked blankly at the spine-chilling sound, then suddenly realized something.

That the meaningless syllables that lingered in my head were actually one word.

Round.

In an instant, a creepy hypothesis about this strange mutant and myself was formed.

Death is the end of all living things, but it did not apply to me.

I’ve lived in the apocalypse for 10 years, dying and regressing 5 times, but I’ll probably regress again next time.

And then the next time, and the next time.

Could this be it······

The end of the Nth regression······

It is true that every time you struggle in the apocalypse and die and return, your humanity wears out.

I was ruthless, calculating, and cold-hearted, but I was still human.

What happens when the regression goes beyond double digits?

If it’s three digits, if it’s four digits······

If I were to regress 200 times and live for 800 years in the apocalypse, would I still be human?

Their bodies would still be in their late twenties, but their souls and minds, built to last a hundred years or so, would be tattered and shapeless, unable to recognize anything and wandering the streets like ghosts.

Just like that······

If the blue-eyed zombie came before me and was a regressor who endured for hundreds of years······

When I thought that this might be my future, I felt as if my whole body was collapsing with an overwhelming fear, as if I was being crushed by an eternity.

I untied the clothesline, put the zombie back in the closet, and closed the door.

“Hoooo.”

Only after I got it out of my sight did I feel a little better.

I closed my eyes, placed my hand on the warehouse door, calmed my mind, and turned around.

He lifted the window, trying to show a calm smile at Jong-seok and Yeon-hee, who were looking at him with concern.

“Let’s find a place to hide it.”

The surrounding area was full of factories and studio apartments, so there were plenty of places where a zombie could hide.

You can put a normal zombie or corpse anywhere, but this one must never be lost.

A more secluded space was needed to avoid being swept away by looters who happened to wander in or by the mass migration that would take place in August.

I found a suitable space in the tile factory manager’s office over the fence.

I carelessly pushed aside the bookshelf covering one wall, revealing a hidden wall.

When I pushed the wall, a dark, windowless room appeared.

He took out the lantern, turned it on, and opened the window.

I went in, guessing it was for a perverted purpose, and it turned out to be a lounge with a sofa, refrigerator, TV, and game console.

There was no one in the room.

“Can we use this later?”

As Jong-seok said, it seemed like it would be perfect to stock up on supplies and use it as a shelter.

I dragged the sapphire zombie and put it in the secret room.

They tied the zombie to the toilet handle with a clothesline and poured all the water and food left in the three people’s backpacks onto the table just in case.

It was perfect when I closed the wall and put the bookshelf back where it was.

The owner of this office was probably dead, so we were the only ones who knew the whereabouts of the sapphire-eyed zombie.

I grabbed my backpack and weapons, went outside, and returned to my hideout.

“······I must live a long life.”

Jong-seok glanced at Yeon-hee as she muttered something like a rambling, then exchanged glances with her.

I paid no attention and slowly transformed the shock I had just felt into determination for the future.

In this life, I will do whatever it takes to not die.

You will definitely survive.

I got my hands on a mutant zombie I haven’t heard of in the last 10 years.

It is still unclear whether it is a sympathy, a delusion, or an illusion, but it is clear that the mutation is related to regression.

Wouldn’t the suit guy know something?

I’ll have to catch him and ask him later.

And the guys above them.

I would do anything to break the cursed chain of regression.

As I was taking steps forward with burning determination, Jongseok suddenly spoke to me.

“Shall we eat kimchi stew for dinner?”

“Okay.”

He turned his head with a big smile and looked at Jong-seok and Yeon-hee.

Here was another reason why I shouldn’t die in this life.

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