Infected - Chapter 23
Only Noblemtl
Episode 22
The arrows flew without hesitation towards the infected running from the front.
However, contrary to expectations that it would head towards the head, the arrow headed downward.
Anna reloaded her bow and stood there dumbfounded.
‘Is it a misfire?’
The arrow that he had thought of accurately pierced the instep of the infected person in the lead.
The infected man who had his instep grabbed fell forward, causing all those following him to roll along the floor, tangled together.
Jaejae, who was approaching Anna to catch her, doubted his own eyes.
‘Surely… you didn’t calculate that and then shoot it, did you?’
But Anna’s actions were too natural to say no.
As if she had calculated all this, she fired arrows at each and every head of the rolling and rising infected.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
In an instant, three infected people collapsed.
Those who were hit directly in the head never got up again.
But that was it.
They jumped over the bodies of their dead friends.
The behavior of stepping on and jumping up from behind when the front row fell became a pattern that continued endlessly.
Anna, who was shooting arrows without thinking, was aiming at the eyes of the infected who was advancing right in front of her.
Wow!
Anna’s body floated up, wrapped around something.
I just closed my eyes for a moment, and I was rolling around in a room in the hallway with a thud.
The sudden situation left her with no time to accept the situation.
When I opened my eyes, Jae-jae was closing the door and carelessly knocking over the desk and refrigerator.
Anna instinctively touched his arm.
It was clearly Jae-Yi’s arms that had been wrapping around her entire body, pressing down on her just now.
She had never once thought that someone would lift her up and move her.
Also, I have never experienced or thought about receiving protection or help from anyone.
And that’s not all.
No one had the power to manipulate Anna like a balloon.
I thought that kind of person was just a hero in a movie.
“What are you doing? Don’t just stand there and stop it!”
Finance cried out in urgency.
Anna, who had been sitting blankly, shook her body as if she had just woken up from a dream.
It was an expression as if he had seen a fantasy.
When I raised my head, I saw Jae-jae struggling with the rattling door.
Even though the door was blocked by a desk and a refrigerator and the huge man’s finances were weighing him down, the door kept rattling.
Boom! Boom!
There were several loud bangs, and then the middle of the wooden door was ripped open.
They were frantically thrusting their hands and arms into the hole.
He didn’t care at all as the sharp pieces of wood protruded and dug into his skin, tearing at it.
Anna swallowed dry saliva as she witnessed the scene where life and flesh were torn apart.
I looked around.
There was no furniture in the small room to block the door.
All that’s left are a few flower pots.
It didn’t seem like anything could be done with this.
thud!
It was clear that their numbers were increasing.
The body of Jae-ui, who had barely been holding on, was now jumping up like a fish.
I thought that the finances wouldn’t last long if things continued like this.
Jae-jae, whose eyes were red, shouted at Anna who was approaching him.
“Break the window with that flower pot!”
It didn’t seem like Anna’s strength would make things any better.
Moreover, the size of the door was similar to his own size, so there was not enough space to add strength.
It would have been better to secure an escape route.
The infected were too unintelligent to control their speed and were driven by instinct, so they tried to escape through the window.
How many large flower pots were smashed?
The glass, which had been cracking with a loud bang, shattered.
“You go out first!”
“What about you, brother?”
“Oh, please listen to me! Listen!”
He frowned as if his finances were tight.
Only then did Anna take her foot off the gas and stretch her leg out of the window frame, pushing away the remaining glass shards.
Fortunately, there was a narrow sill outside the window, just big enough to fit my feet.
Anna went completely out the window and stood holding on to the upper window frame.
Then, he spread out space to the side like a crab to allow the money to come out.
Then I looked back.
The back of the annex was as high as a cliff.
Although the building was only two stories high, the ground level dropped sharply due to the downhill slope leading to the park.
I felt like if I fell from here I wouldn’t even be able to pick up my bones.
“Okay!”
Finance, hearing Anna’s signal, fell from the rattling door.
bang!
With just one blow, the desk and refrigerator blocking the door were pushed back several dozen centimeters.
Anyway, now was not the time to be looking at this.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The door began to open halfway as the attacks continued.
Finance immediately stepped on the fallen monitor and flew towards the window.
With one push of the large hand holding the broken window frame, a Hulk-like figure suddenly burst out.
“Brother!”
The moment Jaegye, who had come out of the window, turned toward the window, Anna’s sharp scream struck his ears.
At the same time, an infected person screamed and passed through the finances.
Kwaaak!
The infected person fell straight through the finances and out of the building.
If the avoidance had been delayed even by a second, Finance would not be standing on the windowsill now.
One after another, infected people filled the room and reached out the window.
But it was not a threat because it was just writhing around in the room without being able to climb up on the window.
Jae-jae, who was holding on to the window frame, looked to the side.
Anna’s face, standing next to me, was turning pale.
His gaze was also looking uneasy, perhaps due to the strength draining from his arms.
“Hey, how long do you think you can last?”
“Be honest?”
“Of course. Do you want to joke around now?”
Jaejae frowned as he watched Anna holding on bravely.
“I don’t know. I can’t feel my arms, my arms.”
“Come here. Can you move?”
“Wait a minute, ugh!”
Anna screamed as she misstepped while trying to move sideways.
For a moment, Anna lost her balance and staggered, but fortunately she held on thanks to her characteristic athleticism.
“Just stay still. I’ll go over there.”
“What are you going to do?”
Anna asked anxiously, looking back and forth between Jaegye and down, approaching him little by little.
Instead of answering, Jae-jae stretched out his arm that was holding the window frame.
My body, which had been bent over and pressed against the window, fell straight into the air from my buttocks, creating a circular space in the middle.
“Come in.”
“What did you say?”
Anna asked with an incredulous face.
“I’ll spread my legs, and you stand inside me with your legs together. Then, even if you let go of my hand, I can support you with my body.”
“Ah, no. Even so, that’s a bit… … .”
“Is this the time to be talking about good and bad? Are you going to fall to your death? I don’t even have the strength to say this. Please, please listen to me!”
Finance let out all the anger he had been holding in.
Anna, who had been thinking with her brow furrowed, looked down again.
If you fell, you died.
It certainly was.
Absolutely can’t live without it.
But I didn’t have the confidence to delve into finances.
If I took just one more step, I felt like all the strength would drain from my arms.
“I can’t do it. Just hold on, oppa. I don’t think it’ll be easy for me.”
Finance closed his eyes tightly.
“You’re really disobedient. You, just stay still and don’t move, right up against the window like you are now.”
After taking a few deep breaths, Jae-jae moved towards Anna on his right with crab-like strides.
As the distance between us became shorter, I spread my right hand, which was holding the window frame, into the air.
Now the only thing supporting my body was my left hand.
I maintained my balance with only the strength of my left hand and left leg.
Anna’s eyes widened at the unbelievable sight.
Before long, the large hand and arm reached the window frame that her right hand was holding.
The large body of Jae-jae completely covered Anna, as if wrapped in a blanket.
“Hold on as long as you can. I have my limits, too. When you absolutely can’t do it, just tell me and let go. Then I’ll try to hold on somehow.”
“This isn’t a problem that can be solved by holding on. If we continue like this, we’ll both die.”
“Let’s not talk, it’s exhausting. Since you broke the window, anyone would have heard.”
Anna’s whole body tensed up.
It was my first time being this close to a man, and I felt like my limbs were going to cramp up because I was so scared that I might die.
It was too much.
I gritted my teeth and endured it until my fingernails tore into my flesh and blood flowed out.
But I couldn’t stand it any longer.
“Oh, I can’t do this. I can’t stand it anymore.”
“Then let it go.”
“Ugh!”
Anna didn’t let go even when her blood-soaked fingertips slipped, but eventually she completely lost sight of the window frame and had no choice but to surrender herself to Jaegye.
Jae-yi’s body, which had been pushed back with a gasp, approached the window again.
“Relax. If you keep pushing like that, I’ll have a hard time.”
But Anna couldn’t do that.
I could even feel the heart of finances beating on my back.
The tension made me feel like my breath was going to stop, and goosebumps appeared all over my body.
“Hey, aren’t you going to answer? Relax.”
No matter how many times I said it, there was no answer.
“Oh, okay. Just leave it like that.”
Finance kept his mouth shut as if he had given up.
The problem is that the arms of finance are now starting to reach their limits.
‘Fuck! Someone come here!’
That was the only thought in my head.
It didn’t make sense that it was so quiet outside and no one heard the window shatter.
It could probably be heard from hundreds of meters away.
‘Why can’t you hear me even though I’m right upstairs?’
Swish―
Jae-yi’s palm, which was holding onto the window frame, was slowly pushed back.
Anna, who couldn’t stand to watch anymore, raised her hand again and said.
“I’ll try holding the window frame again.”
“With those hands?”
Anna looked up at my hand.
It was covered in blood.
I continued to feel a dizzying pain.
Blood flowed endlessly from between the split and pushed-out fingernails.
“Then am I going to die like this? What should I do?”
“wait for a sec.”
Jaejae, who was looking down, tapped the window with the tip of his foot.
There were no windows that opened or closed inside because it wasn’t a room, but there was a small window that could fit one person.
If only I could break this with my feet… … .
My foot could have been broken.
No, it was definitely going to break.
“Still, it’s better than dying.”
“What did you say?”
“No. Hey, I’m going to break this window with my foot, so just hold on to the frame and hold on until then.”
Anna didn’t answer.
He saved my life in such an absurd way, and now he’s trying to escape in a sadistic way.
Finance looked down at his shoes.
They were just ordinary sneakers.
Obviously, your toe bone will break.
Maybe only the bones would break and the window wouldn’t break.
No, there’s almost a nine out of ten chance that that will happen.
I closed my eyes.
This is the end.
If I close my eyes, I won’t be able to see the falling process, so wouldn’t the pain be less?
It was at a time when such complicated thoughts were running through my head one after another.
“Hey! Finance! Is that you?”
A welcoming voice was heard from the rooftop.
Anna felt like crying.
The same goes for finances.
It was a truly tearful and thankful moment.
From that moment on, I cried out for help as if my throat was about to burst.
He said he would fall if he wasn’t rescued immediately.
The group on the rooftop was moving busily.
Soon after, a thick rope began to descend from the rooftop.
Finance grabbed the rope falling in front of him with his left hand.
Then he wrapped it around the back of his hand so he wouldn’t let go.
There is nothing left.
Anna was almost exhausted.
I was sweating so much that my ten fingers started to spurt blood.
Finance grabbed Anna, who was looking at the rope, with his right arm.
He could barely support the weight of two people with one hand.
Because of this, Anna ended up hanging on the horizontal bar with her stomach draped over it.
“Pull!”
On the rooftop, Young-man, Beom-sik, and Min-yeong pulled the rope with all their might.
Infected people