Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 432



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432 171. Cleaner (2)

“Is that a problem?”

Hong Da-jeong avoided eye contact and met Defender’s eyes.

The siblings looked at me at the same time and said at the same time.

“huh.”

*

There is a saying:

First, become famous.

Then even if you take a shit, the public will applaud.

There is some debate as to whether or not that quote was actually spoken by a celebrity, but few would deny that fame itself has power.

With Emgu’s help, the greatest live ever! Apocalypse! was broadcast to the entire world via a satellite in the sky on the waves of the crack.

As I predicted from my sickbed, SKELTON has become a living legend.

A true living legend.

The story goes that he became a walking myth.

But the place where my name is heard is not Madison Square, nor the fancy studio of a public broadcasting station, nor the vast Jamsil Baseball Stadium.

The place where people call my name is Viva! Apocalypse!, a custom-made internet SNS service created by the unrivaled businessman Melon Mask.

Dead34213: Didn’t Skeleton come in today?

Dead832: Skeleton. Is he dead?

Dead13311: Where is Skeleton?

Anonymous3213: Skeleton! Get moving! I know you’re alive!

LVRM: Korean Guys. Help! Can someone translate more of the Skeleton story? I don’t know why, but the Skeleton story is the only one that is blocked from translation.

Anonymous458: Skeleton will be alive······.

Dead Man 9921: This is Seoul, and they say the skeleton is alive.

Al_nasru_Alipasha : Thanks be to God.

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At first glance, you can see that the bulletin board is crowded with people looking for SKELTON.

The sight is reminiscent of the hordes of fans who flocked to see Korean Wave idols on TV before the war.

But even in this short piece, several problems are apparent.

The exact circumstances became clear when the Defender brought my laptop and satellite internet equipment from my quarters.

While Hong Da-jeong was cutting an apple into squares from an unknown source, I logged into Viva! Apocalypse! for the first time in a long while with my main account, another Nine Skeleton account.

Tiring~ Tiring~ Tiring~

I have so many alarms going off that I need to turn down the volume right now.

They’re all notes.

“Can I open your mailbox?”

Defender is notorious for being a ruthless killer and practically has blood on his hands, but at least he’s a sweet guy when it comes to internet manners.

“······are you okay.”

I opened the mailbox.

Indeed, hundreds of notes have arrived.

Message from COOKIEMONSTER123: Skeleton! Are you okay? Ha told me you were okay, but there’s no internet activity!

Message from Anonymous458: (Park Penguin) Well done. Skeleton. I guess what I saw that day wasn’t wrong. I think Anonymous848 and Kyledos also watched your exploits from the other world.

Message from dongtanmom: Yum yum… lol

Message from Denis_Oldman: We’ve never really talked to each other or had any contact with each other while using the same forum, so this might seem a bit random, but I appreciate it. Skeleton. You’re the pride of our forum.

Message from Dies_irae69: If you see this, please contact me.

A message from Foxgames: Skeleton! That was really cool! But what happened to the one I asked you about before? I have a really cool item. Just connect me with the government. I have a presentation ready that I can whip up in 10 minutes. Anyway, it was really cool and if you see it, please let me know. Best regards.

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Each message has its own story and content, but among them, there are some messages that stand out in particular.

It came straight to Vivabot.

I sat up straight and asked the Defender to scroll down slowly.

Message from VIVA_BOT014: Skeleton! Are you alive? I did as you wished. I was against it until the end, but Melon Mask’s will was so strong.

Message from VIVA_BOT014: First of all, I blocked messages from outside the Korean bulletin board because I received too many private messages from Skeleton. There were a lot of nonsense and strange challenge posts. What are you trying to do by going head-to-head with Skeleton?

Message from VIVA_BOT014: And haa.. this is just my own consideration. The number of Vivarians in the world, plus the number of people using Necropolis? Anyway, to prevent that many people from knowing the true identity of Skeleton, not only did I block the translation of Skeleton’s previous writings, I also made Skeleton’s writings not appear in search results. Only Skeleton can search for Skeleton’s writings!

Message from VIVA_BOT014: Anyway, thank you for your hard work! (Vivabot is impressed)

“······.”

My throat feels sore for a moment.

“Wow. Our Skeleton. You’re even friendly with the bulletin board administrator. I knew that, but isn’t this totally a help?”

Hong Da-jeong picked up a piece of apple with her fork and handed it to me.

I tried moving my hand while accepting it without hesitation.

“Ahem······.”

The idea of ​​the rocket axe, devised by my mentor Jang Gi-yeong, certainly provided a perfect way to defeat the telekinesis used by the General type, or rather the Nemesis type, but it ended up burning my palms pretty badly.

Aside from the excruciating pain, I can’t even move my fingers properly in this condition.

That means I can’t make use of my superhuman typing skills, which include posting 30 posts per second and typing 1,000 characters per minute.

Anyway, there was a reason why Vivabot took such measures.

Message from VIVA_BOT014: Please click the link to find out why I took this action.

Message from VIVA_BOT014: [ Link ]

I clicked on the link.

Dead28211: Korean friends! What does “Kkomul” mean? According to Skeleton’s writing, Kkomul got chubby. Korean. Too difficult!

“······.”

The title itself feels like a sharp spear tip.

The content of the post was, as expected, a screenshot of a nonsense post I had previously uploaded without even a second of thought.

SKELTON: My little one is getting fat again······.gif

The post was accompanied by a GIF format image of a horse baring its teeth and grunting.

There is one more.

Hong Da-jeong, who was watching from the side, sighed.

Even the Defender seems to be holding back his words.

But this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Before the war, there was a group of people in the Internet world called “Wreckers.”

This term refers to people who, without the ability to produce anything themselves, take all sorts of events that happen in the world and sell them as if they were their own.

Now here comes an internet tow truck!

mmmmmmmmm™ : (Skeleton’s friend – Captain M9) Translation of Skeleton’s past remarks (13)

It’s none other than Emgu.

I saw the article he translated.

SKELTON: (Skeleton) Are you giving birth? Am I the one who gave birth? Am I the one who got better?

SKELTON: ? Dongtan Mom, that kid. Whose stuff did he steal again?

SKELTON: (Skeleton Serious) Honestly, am I the only one who doesn’t find the Dongtan Mom videos funny?

SKELTON: (Skeleton New Year’s greetings) Dongtan Mom, tell me the news about the Dragon Palace~

SKELTON: Hmm······. Is that all?

SKELTON: (Skeleton Rumor) I mean, Emgu. There was a rumor that he was really nothing special before the war.

SKELTON: (Skeleton reasonable doubt) Mini? Isn’t that Mini an auntie? She looks like an auntie…

SKELTON: (Skeleton Insight) Will that help? 🙂

SKELTON: (Skeleton Performance) Skeleton’s Beatbox Inferno to Commemorate Hope Ship’s Arrival in Shanghai (3)

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“······.”

how.

How did you manage to collect such words like these?

I did leave a lot of comments, but capturing only those things is somewhat malicious.

Mgoo.

I thought we were friends.

As I was trembling with a sense of betrayal, Hong Da-jeong spoke bluntly next to me.

“That’s right, Skeleton really comments thoughtlessly. Even when it comes to lewd pictures that other people would just look at, Skeleton is the only one who would comment like, “Hmm······”.”

Defender also had a say.

“Skeleton does comment too much. Well, I guess that means he’s kind.”

It’s the words of the murderous siblings, but when I cool my head for a moment and think about it, I realize that I did leave a lot of comments.

You could almost call me a comment angel because I left so many comments.

It was an act of good intention, but I never thought it would come back to me like this.

“Should I erase it?”

I muttered without realizing it.

After thinking about it carefully, what Emgu posted was just the tip of the iceberg.

This Park Gyu’s actions in Viva! Apocalypse! are extensive.

When I used to browse the Red Archive bulletin board, I often copied impressive articles I saw there.

I searched for one of them.

SKELTON: (Skeleton) I’m bored. I should climax.

SKELTON: Coggoooooooooooo-

“ah.”

Hong Da-jeong finally sighed.

Defender reacted similarly.

The problem is that I keep writing articles like this.

To be clear, I did it with good intentions.

I just posted the same article I found interesting on the Red Archive bulletin board.

The problem is that it was only fun for me, and when I posted that, I was a named person but not a living legend.

Even at this very moment, there are people who are searching the bulletin board with bloodshot eyes, trying to track down the living legend’s whereabouts.

“What should I do?”

I’m not feeling well right now.

Even if you are feeling well, you need professional help in these situations.

The Defender siblings looked at each other and exchanged glances.

Soon the siblings nodded and looked at me all at once.

Hong Da-jeong said.

“Let’s turn on the cleaner.”

“Cleaner?”

“huh.”

“What is that?”

Cleaner.

It literally means a person or tool that cleans something, and according to Hong Da-jeong, it is a type of tool used to erase one’s records in the Internet world.

A proud and upright person like me is a tool that I would not have known until I heard its name.

The reason Hong Da-jeong recommended using that cleaner was also because of my fame.

“Skeleton. He wasn’t fun, but he was still an avid user who used to work hard on the message board. Now, even to Skeleton, he’s become a huge figure, right? Huh? A hero of humanity who goes up against big monsters and chops them down with an axe. What do people call such heroes? Somewhat holy? Stoic? They want to feel that way. If someone as big as Skeleton uses weird words like “ungooooooo” on the internet, it’s kind of weird, right?”

Although the words are a bit harsh, Hong Da-jeong’s words are mostly correct.

People want their heroes to be a little distant from them.

Is that why?

It was Vivabot that separated me from Twelve Square.

“······.”

Now I finally understand a little bit of the great meaning of Vivabot.

The potential for attack is too great.

No, like Vivabot said, there are young people like Suu among those who use the Internet.

As I have emphasized for a long time, in dark times like these, hope is more precious than food, water, or medicine.

A person who is deprived of tomorrow will not survive long, no matter how many resources he has.

If my writing is problematic, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to delete it.

Message from VIVA_BOT014: It’s not difficult. If Skeleton wants, he can delete all his past posts.

Vivabot said he would gladly accept my request.

This means that you can run the cleaner with just Viva! Apocalypse!’s own functions, without the need for a program called Cleaner.

however.

“······hmm.”

I had a feeling this wasn’t it.

No matter how much I want to hide my past and how much I don’t want to break people’s illusions, the many nonsense I left behind is also part of “Skeleton.”

The story goes that these writings came together to create a skeleton.

Although he uses gags that are a bit different from the general public’s taste and his sense of humor is different from others, there are people who like Skeleton.

The Defender siblings next to me and the friends on the bulletin board who sent me messages are the same.

I don’t want to throw away all that past for one myth.

An alternative was proposed.

SKELTON: I’m sorry, but instead of deleting it, could you please make it private?

Deletion is difficult.

Of course, there is also a way to delete it and then put it in the archive.

But the skeleton is something made up of the writings left on the bulletin board.

You can stuff them in an archive, but a record is just a record.

In this little world called Viva! Apocalypse!, I don’t want to turn back the fact that my actions never happened.

Message from VIVA_BOT014: (VIVA bot in trouble) That looks a bit difficult······.

That’s just how people are.

There are some unpleasant pasts and some slightly embarrassing pasts.

People can’t be perfect.

I think we need to leave behind and remember even the unpleasant past.

I’m sure Vivabot had the same thoughts.

Message from VIVA_BOT014: Okay, I get it. Even if it’s hard, I’ll try! Skeleton is my hero too!

So the past of “SKELTON” was temporarily kept secret.

There are a lot of miscellaneous articles floating around, translated by Rekkas, including Emgu, but that’s a good thing.

It looks like the skeleton craze will continue to blow through the internet world for some time.

*

It’s been a month since we defeated the Nemesis type.

His body, which had been completely torn apart, quickly recovered and he was able to stand up and walk.

However, my hands are not yet recovered enough to type.

Still, I was able to recover to the point where I could move the mouse and surf the web on my own.

Skeleton’s past, which Vivabot had locked away, has now disappeared into the distant past, difficult to find.

People are still looking for skeletons.

Just the fact that an ordinary person, not even an Awaken, can fight against such a powerful monster gives people hope that they had lost.

As you might expect, I have maintained mysticism ever since that incident.

The story of my alter ego “SKELTON” entering a long silence.

In that part, I could once again feel the traces of the fateful discussion.

That great bulletin board user was also holding back his words in the same way as I was.

But there will come a day when my posts will be unprivate.

Vivabot set that date back five years.

5 years.

If it’s long, … and if it’s short, it’s short.

One thing is certain.

If we can hold out for another five years, that could be interpreted as a positive sign.

Isn’t it that we humans have adapted to this situation of cracks?

Of course, we humans cannot see even an inch ahead.

Beep- beep-

It’s the same for me too.

I checked my phone text message.

-The strong savior, Min Kang, is waiting.

It’s time to meet the guy.

There is still no news about Woo Min-hee.