Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 436



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6 173. Going

“Here? Well, it’s okay.”

I got in touch with Ha Tae-hoon after a long time.

I wanted to contact you earlier, but due to injury issues and poor communication conditions on your side, the schedule was postponed.

“The American soldiers and their wives are doing well too. I guess people need to keep a certain distance to get along well.”

Despite being one of the hunters who defeated the Nemesis type, Ha Tae-hoon returned to my territory without properly enjoying the glory of victory.

There is one reason.

To go back and bring his wife.

Yes, that’s right.

Ha Tae-hoon also decided to leave my territory.

Well, now that I’m proudly listed as one of the first Nemesis-type defeaters, and despite some internal squabbles, I’m still running the city for an organization with a government title, so I guess I don’t really need to be in a bunker.

It could come right away, but I know it’s still in my area because I have some things to sort out.

I don’t know what you’re preparing for that’s kept you dead for over a month, but you must have your own thoughts.

Well, thanks to that I can ask about the current situation in my area.

“It’s not bad. But I heard that the area around the US military base has been crowded recently?”

“American military base?”

“The American army is here.”

Finally they came.

I expected it to come, but I didn’t think it would come this quickly.

Those guys must have been in a hurry too.

“It looks like the advance party is here right now, but it looks like they’re getting estimates here and there to reorganize the base.”

“okay?”

This is not very good news.

The best thing about my area is that it’s quiet and secluded, but if the Americans come, it’ll be noisy and it’ll be hard to move around as freely as before.

The fact that the roads we use are under US military control.

It’s also not a very pleasant thing to have a powerful armed group in the next town.

You may be able to build friendly relations and ask for protection, but such a relationship will eventually lead to one side bowing its head.

As demands increase and interference becomes more severe, the moment of choice eventually comes.

“Why? You don’t like it?”

“Rather than saying I don’t like it. Well, that’s what it is. Anyway, are you and your sister-in-law getting along well?”

“What about us? We’re just living. Oh, I’m a little tired these days.”

“The tears are falling. I’ll hang up.”

After hanging up the phone, I took a moment to think back on my conversation with Ha Tae-hoon.

“hmm······.”

A person’s mind is different when going to the bathroom and when coming out.

Before the Nemesis type was defeated, the help of the US military was a resource that had to be saved even when the city was on the verge of collapse, but now that the Nemesis type has been defeated, the US military is a bother to me and the government.

What’s more, those guys are settling down next to our house?

This is definitely bad news.

If you look at the US military as a whole, they are good guys.

No matter what, aren’t they allies?

However, the US military as a whole and the US military as individuals are clearly different.

Let’s say there’s an American soldier A – let’s call him Thomas – who lives in the neighborhood next door.

Thomas, who usually relies on alcohol to combat homesickness, may shoot us while drunk.

It is also quite possible that Thomas, whose sexual desire has not been satisfied for a long time, discovers Ha Tae-hoon’s wife and harbors lust for her, invading our territory.

The problem becomes even more serious if Captain Thomas wants to eliminate us all, either because he wants our bunkers, or because we are just an eyesore, or for whatever reason.

You can get hit with a Javelin or Claymore attack while riding a truck as usual and end up screaming to death.

Alternatively, you could deploy elite troops equipped with night vision goggles late at night.

Of course, this is just a scenario I imagined.

However, the victims of most crimes that occur in society are people close to the criminal.

That there is a possibility.

In a world where 0 is more familiar than 1, the possibility is reason enough to review everything from the beginning.

“Genius.”

Cheon Yeong-jae has been coming to my office recently.

He is working like a workaholic, regretting having missed the last battle due to injury.

He is originally a smart and capable guy, so when he takes charge of his work properly, you can see his reputation rising in real time.

“uh.”

This Cheon Yeong-jae has a bunker.

This is the bunker his father used.

“The bunker your father used. Isn’t anyone still using it?”

“Why are you suddenly asking that?”

“······Hmm. I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to settle down there if I were to leave here later.”

The entire bunker was well built.

The problem is the surrounding circumstances.

It is located in the rugged mountains and the bunker itself is well camouflaged, so there is no chance of being attacked by looters, but supplies are insufficient.

If you have a self-sufficient system, it might be okay, but if not, you will have to endure considerable difficulties living in a bunker.

As we can see from the part where Cheon Yeong-jae’s family starved to death there, completely isolated areas have a significantly lower chance of survival than those that are not.

Because it lacks flexibility.

The flexibility we are talking about here is the possibility of interacting with other human beings.

“If senior wants to write, let him write.”

“Really?”

“Oh. I have no use for it there, and I don’t want to go there. The smell of the corpse has completely disappeared, so I can just put my luggage down and I’ll be able to live.”

“I see.”

“But why are you suddenly bringing up the bunker story?”

Cheon Yeong-jae looks at me blankly.

“Are you really going back to living in a bunker?”

It’s an expression that seems difficult to understand.

Well, I guess that can’t be helped.

It’s not like the old days when our old school hunters were treated as accessories to the Awaken, but now that they’re recognized as full-fledged hunters, there seems to be no reason for them to leave the government organization.

Even Ha Tae-hoon is trying to come to the city right now.

There are certainly some advantages to bunkers in terms of freedom and personal life, but one misstep can be all it takes.

It’s a story about how you can lose everything with one mistake, one carelessness, or one whim of fate.

Coming to the city would definitely be a safe choice for Ha Tae-hoon, since he has a family to protect, unlike him.

I don’t know what he’s been doing there for over a month.

Cheon Yeong-jae’s strange gaze towards me is also in this context.

“Senior. Are you really going to leave here?”

He asks with a rather serious face.

I thought about it for a moment.

“That could be the case.”

Even I can see that my position is solid right now.

For security reasons, Skeleton denies that I am Park Gyu, but anyone who knows knows that I am a Nemesis-type destroyer, and even that arrogant Jeju Awaken acknowledges this achievement.

Although he has no current job, he is a respected elder.

That’s how I’m treated in the city now.

In Cheon Yeong-jae’s eyes, it was impossible for him to understand why I was trying to leave the city.

But it remains to be seen whether I will leave the city or not.

After the defeat of the Nemesis type, the Jeju government naturally took over the entire new Seoul.

It was expected.

Despite the fact that the new Seoul was hostile to the Jeju government, the two were originally the same organization, and the new Seoul administration itself was a subsidiary organization attached to the Jeju side.

After a long battle, the people were exhausted and there was a serious shortage of troops and military supplies.

Even though the monsters have been defeated, the threat of the Legion still exists, and even though many of the Sega have died, there is still the threat of the fanatics.

Above all, in order to move a city of hundreds of thousands of people, there must be administrative power to support it.

The city had no choice but to accept the Jeju government.

The biggest reason of all is Woo Min-hee.

Immediately after the battle, she called Kang Han-min and handed over all decision-making power in the city.

People criticize Woo Min-hee’s decision, calling her a spy from Jeju Island or a humiliating submission, but that is only saying one thing and not the other.

The city was already stretched to its limits in many ways.

Woo Min-hee’s decision was an inevitable choice to protect a city on the verge of collapse.

The problem comes next.

Factional strife between Jeju personnel and existing personnel, conflict between those who came from Jeju and those who stayed behind, old feelings between those from the corps and the regular army, etc.

A problem that inevitably arises when people gather together.

That is to say, politics is something that bothers me.

Even now, people who want to sit down with me come to me all the time.

“By the way, didn’t someone come looking for you again earlier?”

“For what reason?”

“What is it? I guess he wants help with the election campaign.”

“okay?”

“I declined outright because I thought I wouldn’t go.”

“good job.”

People who stick to me like flies are annoying, but the Jeju Committee’s checks and balances annoy me just as much as the citizen committee candidates.

I feel like there is a dark restraint in place, acknowledging that I have achieved unprecedented feats and become a hero, but not giving me real power.

I guess it’s a good thing though.

In the end, there is only one thing I see.

It’s Kang Han-min.

I talked to the guy, but I couldn’t figure out exactly what he was trying to do.

But it’s clear that he’s up to something, and I want to watch it with my own eyes.

If you need anything, I’ll be there to help.

That’s why I have to stay in the city.

If that reason disappears, I’ll have to leave the city.

There is no reason to stay.

If Kang Hanmin fails, the fate we will ultimately face will be destruction.

“······.”

Click-

There is a message.

Message from anonymous68: Anyway, I’ll take care of you in the future! Aniki!

It’s not that surprising, but Kang Min-do was also a Viva! Apocalypse! user.

I exchanged nicknames with him.

This may be the only tangible takeaway from this conversation.

It’s not used that often.

If you look at his room, you’ll see that there’s no place to plug in a LAN cable, let alone a laptop.

They say it’s only used occasionally, but where is that?

Anyway, Kang Han-min is one of the few people who can exchange messages with the legendary “Skeleton.”

“By the way, senior. Are you not going to write under the Skeleton account anymore?”

Cheon Yeong-jae asks abruptly while fiddling with his cell phone.

“······It will be difficult to write.”

This is not an empty promise, it is true.

I understand John Nae-non’s feelings better than ever.

The sadness of having divine fame and power and not being able to say a single word on your favorite internet.

The weight I’ve been carrying can be felt right now just by searching for the three letters Skeleton.

Dead3411: Skeleton Oh my gosh!

Anonymous1521: Where did Skeleton go…?

Dead1882: Korean friends. Any news on Skeleton? I haven’t seen him in almost two months.

Anonymous2131: I think I’ve seen the skeleton article before, but I can’t see any now. Did they blind everything?

Dead28113: Has Skeleton become a constellation like Hercules?

Deadman88921: Come back Skeleton······.

…

…

Everyone is looking for the skeleton.

Beyond a living legend, Skeleton has become a “religion.”

The story is that, with this weight on my shoulders, I can’t write nonsense and be friendly like I used to.

In retrospect, Vivabot’s judgment was correct.

There is a limit to becoming famous on the Internet.

If you become too famous, you won’t be able to write.

They say that once you become famous, people will clap their hands even if you take a shit, but that’s only one person who knows and the other person who doesn’t.

When you become too famous, you can’t even take a shit.

“It would certainly be difficult to write if I became famous like my senior.”

“Well, it can’t be helped.”

I sighed as I scrolled down, feeling like I was mute and suffering from a cold heart.

“That’s why there’s been so many strange things going around these days.”

“Something strange?”

“Do you know something called chatCPT?”

“What is that?”

“A conversational AI service created before the war. I thought it was lost after the war, but someone somehow recovered the data and it’s now up and running again.”

“But what does this chatCPT thing mean?”

“Oh, after that day, Skeleton disappeared from the bulletin board and all the posts were deleted, so people tried to find information about him through that.”

“okay?”

It’s artificial intelligence.

There was a time when that was popular.

I believe that at the very moment when it was becoming mainstream and was replacing the human domain, a war broke out and everything was destroyed.

Since I won’t have anything to do for the time being anyway, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to ask the AI ​​about me just for fun.

[ Welcome to chatCPT ]

Is this the artificial intelligence?

It is said that if you ask questions as if you were chatting, the learning AI will naturally provide information acquired through deep learning.

Seeing is believing.

Let’s get started.

“······.”

Knock knock

SKELTON: What kind of person is SKELTON, a Korean bulletin board user?

chatCPT :

SKELTON is a named user on the Viva! Apocalypse! Korean bulletin board.

He is classified as an engaged user who comments more than he writes.

Engaged users are evaluated as more interested in others and have more human maturity than users who write more posts than comments.

He gained worldwide fame for his performance in Live! Apocalypse!, where he defeated powerful monsters one-on-one.

However, he has not been seen since then, causing concern among users around the world.

…

…

“hmm.”

“how is it?”

“Not bad.”

AI Down is an objective and cold analysis.

Certainly, such an evaluation would be possible if viewed through the eyes of a third party.

But it seems like AI still has something to say.

chatCPT: There’s also a story about SKELTON’s internet activities. Would you like to read that too?

There is no way it won’t work.

SKELTON: Yeah.

chatCPT :

SKELTON’s internet activity records have been deleted for unknown reasons and can no longer be checked, but based on the data confirmed so far,

1. Write comments mainly on popular posts.

2. In cases where the posts are not popular, it has been confirmed that they actively leave comments on adult content (including pornography), jokes, and posts bragging about bunkers.

3. On the other hand, Skeleton’s writings were mostly about defamation of others, gossip, beatboxing, and gags, and generally, there weren’t many comments on those writings.

Meanwhile, Skeleton appears to be on bad terms with other bulletin board users, such as dongtanmom and mmmmmmmmm, and habitually posts slanderous comments about them.

I read up to there.

I saw that there was an article about SKETLON’s sexual preferences in the latter part, but I couldn’t read that far in my right mind.

“What is this?”

I protested while looking at Cheon Yeong-jae.

“What is it? It’s artificial intelligence.”

“What do you know about tin cans, so you can judge others so carelessly?”

There’s no way this will work.

I should tell Vivabot to ban it.

“······.”

Knock knock

It was when I was sending a message to Vivabot after a long time.

Cheon Yeong-jae, who was looking at his cell phone, spoke in a surprised voice.

“Uh. Senior.”

“What is it?”

“What’s wrong?”

“what?”

Cheon Yeong-jae showed me his cell phone screen.

This is a news screen provided by the government.

The moment I checked the contents, my eyelids fluttered slightly.

“······This is.”

Woo Min-hee is in danger.