Infected - Chapter 19



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Episode 18

“No, wait a minute. Hey, you too, come here.”

“Don’t come any closer!”

The man standing next to the pillar was holding a long kitchen knife in his hand.

“Oh, put that down. This guy is going to be a big trouble.”

“So don’t come near me! How do we know if you’ve been bitten or not?”

A middle-aged woman who had lost her daughter stood up and nodded.

“No, I’m sure I got bitten. Look down there! And what was it like outside? After rolling around with those things, it’s impossible for your limbs to be intact. You! What’s that wound on your arm?”

The survivors scattered all over reacted violently to the words of the man holding a kitchen knife.

Some people picked up their weapons and retreated, looking for a way out.

No matter where you looked, it was clear that they were ordinary people.

But in one night, they all became hunters.

Jae-jae, who had been quietly looking down at his own arms, smiled in vain.

“Who gets bitten? This is a surgical scar. Now, look.”

As the blood was wiped away, a wound that looked like it had been stitched up for years was revealed.

But people were already out of their minds.

They were making a lot of noise and causing a collective panic.

Although they understood it well, on the other hand, Jaejae and his group did not know how to react to the excessive hostility.

Min-yeong, who couldn’t stand to watch anymore, opened his mouth as if something came to mind.

“Hey, everyone, think about it carefully. When we were escaping from the first floor to the emergency exit yesterday, do you remember that… student?”

Why is that?

When I mentioned the student, the people who had been glaring at me as if they were going to kill me started coughing one by one and avoiding eye contact.

“It changed within seconds of being bitten. I think you can find it somewhere in the lobby if you look carefully. If one of these people had been bitten, wouldn’t they have changed already? That’s what I thought when I opened the door.”

“You never know, it might be different for everyone. And that’s not the point. Now we can’t escape. Do you understand? Thanks to you bringing in the zombie cubs that we barely managed to send somewhere else, we can’t even go down to the lobby, let alone outside the building. We’re stuck here, starving to death.”

“Okay, stop it. There’s nothing wrong with what the doctor said. What are you talking about?”

Surrounding the man holding the glass shard, people carrying various weapons began to try to stop him.

It was unclear whether his attitude had changed after the student’s story was told, or whether Min-young’s words made sense.

Only then did the rest of the people return to their original positions.

There were various types of people, such as someone who used a locker that was supposed to be standing against the wall as a bed by laying down a blanket on it, or someone who put several chairs together and lay down.

Everyone seemed to have been here for quite some time, and they were all relaxing in their own way.

Most of them were families, and they traveled in pairs here and there.

“I don’t think it’ll be possible to rest here. Let’s go up.”

Min-young, who had been checking the mood, guided the group into a hallway.

The stairs leading to the roof were separate from the central staircase.

Jae-jae, who had been following along, looked back for a moment.

Although some people avoided eye contact, it was clear that they had been staring at me just a moment ago.

‘Why are you so hostile?’

I couldn’t understand.

Even gangsters and cops join hands to survive, but they treat these monsters who won’t be able to get in anyways so selfishly just because they’re gathered in the lobby.

A bitterness spread across the tip of my tongue.

“You endured it well. You had to endure it. If you think about it, it was our fault.”

Young-man comforted him, knowing the depth of such finances.

“What on earth did we do wrong? You can’t escape because of us? It’s all excuses. Then why didn’t you just stay still until we brought them here? Mr. Min-young? Right? Since you were here, you must know something. If you know anything, tell me.”

“Well… you can hear that story now. You can see it all from here.”

Minyoung opened the rooftop door.

The hot summer sunlight that seemed like it would melt the world seeped into the stairs.

A human figure was seen at the edge of the rooftop, which was waterproofed with urethane.

Underneath the small tent, a woman was holding a large bow around her head.

He was so tall and had such an excellent physique that you could mistake him for a man just by looking at his back.

A blood-stained white tank top and tight leggings that reveal the shape of her buttocks and pelvis.

The woman stood there confidently, not even feeling embarrassed about her back view.

Min-young spoke to her as she turned around.

“It was my father. Fortunately, the people who came with him didn’t get bitten or anything. Is the radio still quiet?”

Then, the woman who had been standing still suddenly turned around with her bow in hand.

In his hand he held an arrow already drawn taut.

It was a fast and precise movement like a machine.

“Stop. Stop right there.”

A face with refreshing, straight features like a Westerner faced the group.

Her eyes, which were turned up like a taut bowstring, made her look even more vicious.

Young-man reflexively raised both arms and defended himself.

“Calm down. We didn’t come here with bad intentions.”

“I guess so. But bad things don’t always happen intentionally. The three men, excluding my sister, slowly circle around.”

Young-man and Beom-sik turned around obediently.

But Finance looked straight into the woman’s face as if he was uneasy about something.

There was a sense that came from dealing with criminals.

You can tell the difference between those who are really going to stab you and those who are just going to imitate you.

It went pretty much as expected.

It was a feeling gained through experience, as if life had evolved through DNA left behind for future generations.

Now that woman was real.

And it didn’t seem like this was the first time he had shot someone.

Even if other people didn’t know, I could definitely tell about the finances.

Perhaps Young-man noticed that too and was the first to raise his hand.

Jae-jae followed the others, closed his eyes, and slowly walked around.

The woman carefully examined every nook and cranny of the three’s bodies.

I checked to make sure there were no bites, bandages, or anything else wrapped around it.

“If you’ve been bitten, you’ve already changed. You should know because you’ve experienced it.”

Beomsik, who had already made a full circle, spoke in his characteristically rambling tone.

He deliberately looked her up and down as if teasing her.

The madman was provoking.

‘Do you not have even the slightest sense of survival?’

Finance shook his head.

But the woman’s answer was unexpected.

“Come and see for yourself. What have you done?”

She lowered her bow and pointed outside the fence with the tip of her chin.

Finance breathed a sigh of relief.

I don’t know how they got there, but first of all, I was more curious about what the group had done.

The three people who followed her and looked outside the rooftop fence were left speechless.

Countless infected people were swarming across the hospital grounds where not a single ant had been seen.

“What is this… … .”

I couldn’t believe it.

Crazy, where the hell did all these come from?

Finance chewed on the six letters in his mind.

“Where did all this come from?”

Beomsik looked down and wrinkled his face.

Then, the woman who had been watching from a step behind turned to the tent where the transceiver was and said.

“What I’m curious about is not where they came from, but how they were summoned here.”

“Call me out? What are you talking about?”

Young-man asked with a puzzled face.

The woman tried to answer, then shook her head and walked towards the transmitter.

Young-man’s eyebrows twitched as he saw that appearance as being quite rude.

“Dad, let me tell you something. The hospital has several large underground parking lots, and the zombies were originally all under there.”

Jaejae seemed to be getting tired little by little as he listened to Minyoung’s soulless voice.

Why on earth would a doctor talk like that?

My head was pounding.

In comparison, Young-man had an indifferent expression.

‘Was it like that from the beginning?’

“Anna attached firecrackers to arrows and shot them into the underground parking lot. She hit them multiple times, with great accuracy. Thanks to that, all the zombies inside and outside the hospital were driven into the basement. We were using that opportunity to call for help. But I don’t know how they did it, but this happened after Dad and these guys showed up.”

After finishing speaking, Minyoung blinked her big eyes and looked around at the group.

‘Anna’ sounded like the name of a woman holding a bow.

The group, who had become dumb after eating honey, only looked at the infected.

“None of the survivors left in this building will be happy with you. Who would be happy to get a big piece of shit like this? Right? I guess you’re going to have to explain what you’re going to do now. It’s a rescue request and all, it’s useless.”

“Ah… Where do I start explaining this?”

He continued, wiping away the sweat from his flowing finances.

“You said you were going to call for help? Yeah, calling for help sounds good. Sounds good, but no one’s coming.”

“what?”

An uncomfortable smile spread across Anna’s face.

“It’s not that no one is coming, they can’t come. There’s no one coming. Since you keep using informal language, I’ll just be comfortable. What extent do you think this is happening? Since you had some kind of prediction, you must be requesting rescue.”

“Do you need a prediction? Whether the country ends up like this or the whole world ends up like this, the ships floating on the sea, the planes and helicopters in the sky will be fine. Are you ignoring the soldiers?”

“Let’s say that’s true. Do you think those people would come to save us if they were crazy? There are more than one or two survivors. And we don’t even know how many of us there are, so how could they just come and pick us up? Even if they came to the city, it would only be a helicopter.”

Finance pointed to the buildings that were packed tightly around the hospital.

“Then should we just sit there and do nothing and starve to death?”

“No… That’s not what I mean. What I mean is that saying that the rescue request is meaningless because of us doesn’t quite fit the current situation.”

“What do you mean, sir, is the situation right now or not? Do you know how we spent the night? All the people who survived here are ordinary people. People who can’t even swing a sword properly. Are you saying that the fact that I threw them into the basement to save those people was a waste of time?”

Anna glared at Jaegye as if she was displeased.

“That’s not it… … .”

“Wait a minute. By the way, do you know how to use that machine?”

Youngman, who had come between the two, pointed to the transmitter and receiver under the tent.

There was also a microphone attached for transmitting.

“I learned it before, so I have a general idea, but honestly, I don’t know. I wonder if what I did was right.”

“Can I take a look? I’m pretty close with that person. Just do as you always do.”

Anna, who had been licking her lips, soon turned around, snorting.

Then he squatted down and started operating the machine.

Everyone watched the situation from behind.

“You’re doing better than I thought. I don’t know who taught you, but you learned it well. But if we send it like this, no one will find us. To be exact, no one will listen on this frequency. There’s a fixed frequency that we usually use in times of emergency. But now, rather than that… … .”

Young-man, who had been fiddling with his chin, skillfully operated the transmitter and receiver.

I was planning to try again what had failed at the garage.

It’s been quite some time, so maybe things have changed.

Chichijik— Chijijik—

After a few moments of mixed noise, a human voice was heard.

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