Infected - Chapter 27



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Episode 26

“ah…….”

Finance hesitated with his mouth open.

Anna, who couldn’t stand to see Minyoung’s face turn pale, answered on her behalf.

“It doesn’t really matter, right? Probably not. I don’t necessarily take non-combatants with me when I go searching.”

“Non-combat?”

Jae-jae looked at him with a look of inward surprise.

“Non-combat? Do you even know that term?”

“Why? Isn’t that what you say in this situation?”

“That’s right. I’m just curious. Anyway, Min-young, don’t worry too much. Someone has to stay here and guard the transmitter and receiver. But you, now you can speak informally naturally… … .”

“Then let’s do that and go to the rooftop. Shouldn’t we throw those things into the basement first?”

As Anna left the examination room, Jaejung followed her, shaking his head.

Min-yeong, who was left alone, also organized the medicine and hurriedly chased after the two people.

* * *

On the rooftop, preparations were in full swing to drive the infected underground.

The sky was covered with dark clouds and it looked like heavy rain might come at any moment.

“I’m going to beat you up soon.”

Young-man muttered as he combined the arrows and firecrackers.

The tent covering the transmitter and receiver shook dangerously in the strong wind.

Anna lit a firecracker and fired one shot for practice.

The onlookers wondered whether the arrow would be able to fly properly because of the wind.

Boom!

But as if to mock such worries, the arrow flew accurately.

The arrow flew in a parabolic arc and fell as if it was sucked into the circular underground parking lot.

Everyone was surprised, but Anna showed no emotion.

This is because the direction and strength of the wind were calculated and then shot.

It was neither surprising nor surprising.

Immediately after… … .

Boom! Boom!

The infected swarmed to the sound of firecrackers exploding.

But one had its limits.

They only gathered at the entrance to the underground passage, and then scattered to various places again.

As Anna reached out to the side, Beomsik held out an arrow loaded with a firecracker.

He pretended to pull the trigger, measured the angle, and then looked at Beomsik again.

“Then let’s get started. Give me the arrows right away. One or two shots won’t do.”

Beomsik nodded.

On the floor were piled firecracker arrows that had been combined with Yeong-man and Jae-jae.

Anna’s hands became busy with the sound of arrows bouncing, and the number of arrows falling underground also increased.

Immediately afterwards, all kinds of firecrackers exploded with a loud noise.

Then, all the infected people wandering outside ran towards the basement.

It was a fierce momentum, as if an impregnable fortress was being conquered.

Even though the leader fell down on the downhill, the guys didn’t care and just rode over him like a wave.

Because of this, some people were trampled by passing feet, and their heads were blown off or smashed.

Jaejae, who had been quietly observing this, frowned.

There was no hope for those who had not even the slightest intelligence.

This wasn’t a disease that could be cured with medicine or anything like that.

Monsters who only seek stimulation.

There was no way something like that could be cured with medicine.

At that time.

As the infected disappeared, something caught the group’s attention on the bare ground.

The gaze of finances also turned downward.

One infected person standing alone.

While everyone chased after the sound of firecrackers, the bastard didn’t move an inch.

To be exact, there was no movement at all.

I just stood there quietly staring in the direction where the sound was coming from.

Minyoung said, knocking on the wall.

“There’s still one left!”

“What, why aren’t you going?”

Anna protests as if she is annoyed.

Boom!

The arrow flew in a parabolic arc and disappeared back into the darkness underground.

Immediately afterwards, a loud noise and a strange shout were heard.

however…….

The bastard still didn’t move.

Finance’s eyebrows furrowed.

A similar look of discomfort appeared on the faces of the onlookers.

Moreover, the bastard even exhibited a strange behavior of following the arrow’s trajectory.

It would have been a natural reaction for a person, but he was not human.

So it couldn’t help but look even weirder.

Because zombies can’t act like humans.

Jae-Yeong’s eyes suddenly widened.

The guy was turning around.

The guy who was looking at the basement where the infected people had disappeared suddenly turned around to look at the group.

Everyone’s bodies froze.

It was clearly an infected person, rotten and festering from head to toe.

A perfect infected person without even a shred of suspicion.

But instead of just turning around, he raised his head and stared at the group on the rooftop.

It gave me goosebumps.

Rotten and sunken eye sockets.

The eyes, which were nothing but mucous membranes moving precariously inside, turned upward.

chance?

no.

There was absolutely no way that could happen.

Such behavior could not have been done without intelligence.

The man who had been nodding mysteriously as if thinking now began to look around the annex building.

“Hey, you’re not planning on coming up, are you?”

Minyoung stuttered in surprise.

Minyoung wasn’t the only one who felt that way.

Anna and Youngman, along with Jaejae and Beomsik, were also thinking the same thing.

I couldn’t tell exactly where he was looking, but I could clearly feel what his actions were suggesting.

I was examining the structure of the building.

The bastard looked up at the rooftop again, and his eyes met Jae-jae’s.

It was ridiculous.

He was already dead.

Yeah, it was just a corpse infected with a virus.

A lump of meat that cannot die even after it dies, using the brain as its host.

Just as the rationalization of finances was coming to an end, an arrow pierced my head through the strong wind.

On the rooftop, Anna lowered her bow and turned around with a displeased expression.

But then Minyoung suddenly blocked Anna’s path.

“Why did you do that?”

“What is it?”

Anna asked back with a puzzled look on her face.

“Why did you kill him?”

“Then should I let you live?”

Everyone’s eyes turned to Minyoung.

Anna’s behavior was completely unproblematic.

Killing the infected is a natural thing to do for survival.

But Minyoung thought differently.

“Zombies don’t act like that. They were clearly aware of us.”

“So you’re saying you’re a human being?”

“That’s not it, but I can’t say for sure that it isn’t. What if… … .”

“Sister.”

Anna’s face hardened coldly.

He seemed to think about something for a moment, then let out a long sigh and continued speaking.

“If that was a person, the zombies would have eaten it before I could kill it. Right?”

Minyoung couldn’t answer.

If that thing lying on the floor was a person, as Anna said, it would have died several times over already.

But the uneasy feeling didn’t go away easily.

It’s not like there were no cases at all.

It could be a mutation or a special case.

It’s just too thin.

“Don’t take it too seriously, Min-young. He’s just a monster.”

Young-man patted Min-yeong, who was lost in thought.

The conversation did come to an end, but it was still really strange.

Even from a financial standpoint, that is true.

Thud.

Jaejae, who was listening to the conversation between the father and daughter, blinked.

It was a raindrop.

The raindrops that had been falling intermittently one by one suddenly became two, then three, and began to fall haphazardly.

There was no time.

The clouds were ominous, so I didn’t know when or what stimulus would pull them out from underground.

“Let’s go down right now. If the thunder makes them come out again while we’re at the main building, we’ll be trapped.”

The group hurried down the stairs and headed downstairs.

Finally, Jae-jae, who was leaving the rooftop, looked up at the sky.

Thick clouds were slowly filling the sky.

Silent lightning began to flash across the dark sky.

It wasn’t a cloud that would disappear any time soon.

* * *

Below, people who were watching the situation outside through the windows had very encouraged faces.

Now is the time to tell the truth.

As Min-yeong stepped forward, Beom-sik and Young-man turned their gaze away.

I wonder how they will react if they know that rescue teams aren’t coming.

Minyoung opened her mouth carefully.

“I have something to tell you. Please listen calmly.”

Everyone just looked at Minyoung’s face.

“The rescue team… won’t come.”

The hall was as quiet as if cold water had been poured over it.

As Min-young closed her mouth tightly after finishing speaking, questions and despair poured out as if they had been waiting for it.

“why?”

“Damn it! If that’s the case, why did you take all my belongings? Where’s my bag?”

“Then should I die here?”

“It’s all over. We’re all going to die.”

As expected, there was a strong reaction.

Slowly, the curses began to mix in.

Young-man, who had been loitering around, suddenly stepped forward.

It was because he couldn’t bear the anger and resentment he felt toward his daughter.

Youngman’s scream rang out like thunder.

“Listen to the story a little more! There must be a reason why the rescue team can’t come!”

“It’s okay, Dad. They’re just disappointed, too.”

It was just as Minyoung said.

Disappointment was evident on people’s faces.

Although only a few people were raising their voices and causing a commotion, others must have felt the same way.

Maybe that’s why.

Min-yeong also looked quite a bit more intimidated than before.

People only temporarily became quiet at Youngman’s shouts, and then fought back with several times more words.

“Hey, old man. Come here for work.”

The finances were in dire straits.

He walked out with his arms flailing as if his T-shirt was about to burst, but his legs were thick so he couldn’t walk nicely.

It was very similar to the way the older brothers walked in the movies.

Beomsik frowned at that sight.

‘I never thought I’d see that familiar gait here.’

In addition, the way he made a face while wiggling his thick fingers like a pot lid was quite threatening.

But there are dozens of opponents.

Even hyenas won’t run away from a lion if they are in a pack.

Besides, it was a situation that was enough to make you angry.

The man who had been swearing seemed to hesitate, then frowned again.

“Where the hell is that kid seeing an adult… Don’t you have an uncle? Hey, stop right there! Huh? Huh? I told you to stop!”

As the finances approached, the man raised his voice in horror.

Before they knew it, the distance between the two people had become close enough that they could touch each other if they stretched out their hands.

“If you tell them to come, they’ll come. Why are you talking so much? Let’s not swear. Who doesn’t swear because they can’t? We didn’t send the rescue team back, and they said they couldn’t come, so why are you making a fuss about us?”

Finance looked around at everyone with a face that looked like it was going to crash at any moment.

The man just swallowed dry saliva and did not answer any further.

Strictly speaking, the group could not be held responsible for the rescue team not arriving.

The middle-aged woman who had been behind came forward.

The aura that flowed from head to toe was something that even the wealthiest families couldn’t even show off.

“Why can’t you come? At least I need to know why.”

“They say there’s a safe zone in Yeouido. But if the helicopter wants to come straight to us, it has to pass by that area, but there’s a risk that those guys will hear the sound of the helicopter and rush to the safe zone, so they don’t approve it. And we don’t have much fuel either, so we can’t even turn around and come back.”

“Approval? What approval?”

“Who could it be? Well, it could be the kings.”

“No, wait. Are there no more helicopters? If not in Seoul, where else? There are many other cities in Daejeon and other provinces. Oh, this is frustrating. Please tell me how to talk to the person in charge. What is this? I can’t talk until the phone rings. This is driving me crazy.”

Finance looked embarrassed.

If my guess is correct, these people were clearly under the illusion that the current outbreak was confined to Seoul.

Finance slowly looked around at the people.

It seemed like everyone was waiting for an answer, thinking along the same lines as this woman.

People were either unaware or too ignorant about the current situation.

It’s literally like a mountain beyond a mountain.

Where should I start telling this story?

Haven’t these people even watched the news?

no.

If there had been an infection in the hospital, it is possible that they would have been informed of the situation earlier than Finance and Beomsik.

Before the news even aired.

But until then, communications were good so you would have been able to get various news through some media.

Anyway, I had to explain.

“that…….”

Jae-jae scratched his forehead with a troubled face.

Infected people