Former Agent’s Attitude to Dealing with the End - Chapter 126



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Episode 126

It may have seemed a bit rash to respond without avoiding a one-on-many fight.

At least it was a situation where I could have stalled for time with words or waited for my companions to arrive.

But all those actions that seemed radical actually had a calculated intention hidden within them.

The first is to instill fear by creating a situation that is as threatening as possible.

The second was to observe how the passengers and Ahn Hyo-ik would react.

Fortunately, both of them were within the same major category, so I was able to achieve the desired result.

Perhaps, for the time being, they would be hiding and would not be able to approach or attack easily.

But the real problem is that all of these measures are volatile and will eventually evaporate.

As time passes and all the items you own are depleted, you never know what will happen next.

To prepare for this, I had to move diligently now that I had some time to spare.

“If you count to one, two, three, you can get it.”

“Tch!”

While the passengers were distracted, they moved all the desks and chairs in the communal dining room.

And they began constructing a full-scale barricade, layer by layer, in front of the guest room entrance.

Tick ​​tock tock.

These are a group of people who have been fighting off infected and looters and are skilled at building barricades.

Since he was able to kill people without even saying anything, he proceeded with the work without having to give any instructions.

A temporary barricade made of steel and reinforced plastic frame with towels tied around each important part.

Even if it looks flimsy on the outside, if you make up your mind and don’t push, it will never fall off the door.

After working like that for a long time, we were able to finish all the work before the afternoon.

“You’re on night watch starting today, right?”

“Yes, let’s take turns eating in pairs.”

Since boarding the cruise, I have only locked the doors and have not kept any night watch.

But given the circumstances, at least two people had to be awake and staying up.

“I’ll be the first one to stand.”

“I’ll help too!”

When I volunteered to be the first one who could be most dangerous, Yebin volunteered as if she had been waiting for me.

For the sake of the combat personnel’s condition, two non-combat personnel had to help.

After a while, the twilight floating on the horizon disappeared and darkness finally came.

After finishing a simple meal, the group quickly spread out their bedding and went to bed early.

Everyone was tense for a long time, so after a while, the conversation stopped.

Click.

After making sure everyone was asleep, I grabbed my weapon and flashlight and walked to the entrance.

Just then, Yebin crawled through the group and squatted down opposite me.

Yebin looked at me and laughed awkwardly, feeling awkward about being on night watch for the first time.

I smiled and quietly crossed my arms and looked outside, telling him to take it easy.

The current time is 10pm.

The corridors of the guest rooms where the power had gone out were covered in a hazy darkness, as if covered in fog.

Only the occasional undulating floor and the sound of waves told me I was on the sea.

Fortunately, the hallway on the other side seemed relatively quiet, as if no one had any intention of moving on the first night.

I let out a deep sigh and tried to continue my night watch while looking at the slowly ticking clock.

Square, square.

“… … ?”

But at that moment, the sound of a pencil being moved was heard from the chair opposite.

I looked up and saw Yebin, wearing a small headlamp, diligently writing something.

I called Yebin in a small voice, just in case the others woke up.

“What are you doing?”

“I’m writing a diary.”

“diary?”

“Yeah, I’ve been using it for a long time.”

As soon as I showed interest, Yebin came over and sat next to me as if she had been waiting for me.

And he showed me a thick notebook that seemed to have been brought from campus.

I rubbed my dull eyes once and began reading the notebook that Yebin had given me.

Judging by the dense writing in pencil, it was clearly a handwritten diary.

“This is a diary?”

“huh.”

But when I read the contents, it seemed closer to an academic report than a diary.

First of all, it was really unusual that the narrator was not me but my companions and I.

A vivid and realistic story, as if all the stories we heard were put into print.

In particular, the drawings made to depict the appearance of the mutants were so realistic that they looked like photographs.

“Why are you using this?”

“Um, I was bored and thought it might be helpful if I wrote it down like this. I just wrote it like an assignment given by a professor.”

He said that at first, he started writing a diary to kill time because he had nothing else to do.

Then, it became fun and I wrote it in a report format, which eventually became a whole volume of notes.

I read Yebin’s diary as if I was looking back on the journey I had been on.

“That’s fun.”

“Hehe, I’ll publish it as a book later.”

The writing itself was good, and the personal opinions thrown in here and there were fun.

If the world goes back to how it used to be, it might actually come out as a book.

I patted Yebin’s head, still dreaming of hope, and smiled.

While some people are unable to forget the past, others are preparing for the future like this.

Bush.

“… … !”

While we were chatting and laughing like that for a while, we suddenly felt a presence in the hallway.

My expression hardened, I got up from my seat and looked out the window in the direction where I felt the presence.

dump!

“Eek!”

Then, with a single scream, an unidentifiable shadow fell down.

After confirming that the other person was a person, I quickly shined the flashlight in the direction where the sound came from.

“Wait, wait! Don’t attack!”

There was a man sitting there with his hat pulled down low, his hands raised in the air.

I wondered who it was, and it turned out to be the rascal who had recommended me as a representative at the meeting.

I remember him as one of the people in the back room who did not join Ahn Hyo-ik’s side.

For now, I thought it wasn’t an enemy, so I carefully lowered the spear and flashlight I had been aiming at.

Then the man let out a sigh of relief and quickly got up from his seat.

“I’m sorry for suddenly coming to see you. Do you, do you remember my face? When we first met… … .”

“Yes, I will. So, let me keep it brief.”

It wasn’t like an apartment complex party or anything, so it wasn’t a situation where I could laugh and talk about it.

When I firmly drew the line, the man looked embarrassed and lowered his voice.

“I came here because of what happened this morning. Actually, the people here were talking about getting together.”

“If it’s this person?”

“You know, the people who voted against the meeting. Some of them.”

I remember that at the time, there were about three other people besides me who opposed the communalization of materials.

Since they were all representatives of each room, it is said that at least 30 people participated.

They also seemed to have felt something from this incident and showed signs of joining forces to respond.

“I wanted to ask you, Mr. Daesu, what are your thoughts? Do you have any plans?”

At this, the man looked at us through a narrow gap in the barricade and looked around hesitantly.

Whether it was his facial expression or his words, his intentions were clear.

It was obvious that if I took up arms here, I would be left with all sorts of trouble.

‘It was planned anyway.’

But our current situation wasn’t good enough to just reject it outright.

No matter how skilled the party is at fighting, they can’t defeat dozens of people with their bare hands.

If Ahn Hyo-ik and the passengers decide to push in, the fight will end right away.

At least in order to get the numbers right, it would have been right to gather like-minded people and respond.

I let out a deep sigh, pretended to think for a moment, and then nodded.

“I will discuss it with my companions.”

“Really?”

“Yes, I will come see you tomorrow morning.”

The man who had been quietly observing us was visibly pleased when we said we would discuss it.

I sent him back to his room and then carefully looked around the dark hallway.

It’s quiet.

Like the calm before a storm.

The night, so anxious that it seemed as if it would break at any moment, quietly faded beyond the horizon.

* * *

Last night, the first night of the lockdown, fortunately passed without any signs or symptoms.

Thanks to that, we woke up early in the morning, made our beds, and had a quick meal.

And as we drank a cup of light coffee mix, the time for our appointment soon approached.

“If anything happens, please radio.”

“Yes, brother.”

I couldn’t take my party with me because I didn’t know when or where they would attack.

Instead, I decided to go alone, so I packed my bag and weapon and carefully left the room.

Squeak.

Even though it was early in the morning, the inside of the cruise ship was dark because the power was out.

Instead of turning on the flashlight, I groped my way forward along one wall of the hallway.

The flashing emergency exit lights in the distance helped me figure out where I was.

I walked to my destination, relying on the flashing green lights as if I was running through a long tunnel.

A moment later, room 118 came into view, along with an unusually dirty hallway floor.

I quietly approached the guest room, looked around for a moment, and then knocked on the door twice.

dripping.

Then, inside, there was a murmur of surprise and the sound of many people.

I spoke quietly to the person on the other side of the door so that there would be no misunderstanding.

“I’m going, Jang Dae-su.”

At that moment, the barricade blocking the entrance was removed and the tightly closed door opened.

“You came!”

The first person to greet me was the same rascal who had come to my room last night.

Passengers were crowded together in the back, as if they had all been in a meeting since early morning.

“Excuse me for a moment.”

I put down the weapon and bag I was carrying and carefully entered the room.

Then, as if by magic, the commotion stopped and everyone’s eyes were focused on one side.

Feeling burdened by those gazes, I sat down with a cough.

Relief, fear, curiosity, all kinds of emotions were tangled like a thread in the room.

“Is this the correct number of people?”

Considering that there were four votes against, I thought there would be at least thirty people.

However, there were only about twenty passengers currently gathered in the cabin.

Of these, only ten were adult men and women, and the rest were preschool children, including elderly people.

The troublemaker scratched the back of his head and lowered his head as if he was ashamed.

“Originally there were about ten more people. But they were all from the front room. After what happened yesterday, we lost contact with them all.”

Unlike the back room, which is far from the elevator, the front room is close to Ahn Hyo-ik’s group.

It appears that the remaining ten people have already been robbed, just like the young newlywed couple who had their supplies stolen yesterday.

I let out a weary sigh at the news that came while I was feeling sorry for losing one hand.

“I’m sorry for unintentionally deceiving you. But I thought it would be better if we were together rather than alone… … .”

Yeah, I guess we’re trying to join forces since we have this many people.

I waved my hand at the apologetic male bully and then got straight to the point.

“Do you have any countermeasures?”

“Oh, yes! I was thinking about building barricades in the hallways. I thought that might be more efficient than blocking each entrance.”

It is certainly more efficient to block the entrance to a hallway than to block several individual guest room doors.

Contrary to concerns, all passengers gathered here were preparing countermeasures with a serious attitude.

“Good idea. Let’s block the access road with the barricade we have.”

“Jeong, is that really okay?”

“Yes, that’s what it was all made for.”

There’s a barricade here that’s already been made, so all you have to do is loosen the straps and move it.

People who were already worried about the lack of materials clasped their hands and felt relieved.

Since it has come to this, I checked each and every countermeasure I need to prepare for going forward.

“What about weapons?”

On the other side, they had already made a blunt instrument using materials such as a desk leg or a wooden curtain rod.

If the fight was to be successful, we too would have had to be fully armed with similar weapons.

“For now, this is all I’ve found… … .”

But all they had now were ridiculous things like brooms.

I sighed tiredly once again and called the people together to teach them how to make weapons.

“Do you have any socks?”

“Socks?”

“Yes, it should be as thick and long as possible.”

When suddenly told to take out their socks, people quickly opened their bags and held them out.

I took the socks out of it, stretched the opening as wide as possible, and put a handful of coins inside.

“What is this?”

“It’s called Blackjack.”

On the surface, it looks like a bunch of socks with 100-won coins clinking around in them.

But if you hold the entrance tightly like this and swing it using the centrifugal force of the rotation… … .

Kwajik!

This makes it a blunt weapon with tremendous power, capable of easily shattering even a thin panel like this.

“Swing your sword, aiming for the head or face. One hit will knock out most adult males.”

When I handed over the blackjack I had just made, the troublemaker accepted it with a bewildered look on his face.

The rest of the people also took good care of their socks, probably not expecting it to be this powerful.

[older brother!]

While I was training people like that, Private Oh Chan-il suddenly sent a radio message.

I frowned and quickly grabbed my weapon, put on my shoes, and answered the radio.

“Are they guys?”

[Yes! I came to the elevator just as you said. But strangely, there are only three people.]

They arrived with only three people, a small number, and the timing of their approach was faster than expected.

I frowned at the obvious behavior and asked Private Oh Chan-il.

“Do you want to talk?”

[Huh? How did you know? That old fart named Ahn Hyo-ik was talking to you hyung.]

As expected, the little snake who thinks he’s a great person is trying to wag his tongue again.

I hung up the radio with the final reply that I would be there soon, and then spoke to the people.

“Please come over to us as soon as you are ready. I will go first.”

I welcome this trick, since I was already in need of time.

I packed the weapons and bag I had brought with me and hurriedly tried to return to my group.

“Wait a minute! Take this!”

But at that moment, a startled man ran over and grabbed her arm.

Then he took out a bundle of newspapers from his bosom and carefully held it out to me.

I was wondering what on earth it was, so I unfolded a bundle of newspapers and found something unexpected inside.

The object was a sashimi knife, a type of knife used in restaurants, with a sharp blade.

“I found it on top of the restaurant refrigerator. I think it was used by one of the chefs, and it’s still in good condition. I changed it overnight.”

It is not a crude knife or cleaver, but a sharp willow knife.

Although I don’t know who the owner is, it was clearly a genuine sashimi knife made by a skilled craftsman in Japan.

“Do you also handle things like this… … .”

“I like it.”

“yes?”

“I like you.”

While the greatsword and the jungle sword are the main weapons, this type of sword is considered a special weapon.

It’s not that I can’t digest it, so I happily grabbed the hilt and lifted it.

Sreung!

The sashimi knife hidden deep inside the restaurant gleamed sharply as if it had met its master.

It was the perfect weapon for catching snakes.