Infected - Chapter 39



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Episode 38

Beom-sik, left alone, raised his gun as he watched the infected rushing in, filling the construction site.

If you can’t use a close-range shot, you have to shoot roughly like you see in the movies.

You can’t hit a head from this close range?

Bang! Bang! Bang!

One by one, holes began to appear in the heads of those who had rushed toward the fence.

While Beomsik was guarding the lower levels alone, the situation above wasn’t so good either.

Hyunsoo was nowhere to be seen, and Jaejae had been supporting Chaemin on his own for some time.

This is because infected people who were thought to not exist are appearing in various places.

Even though Min-yeong was holding Jae-jae’s gun, he didn’t dare to shoot it at the infected.

Because just encountering them was painful.

Bang! Bang!

Every time a gun was fired, Min-yeong screamed and fell to the ground.

Because the left and right sides were blocked, the sound of gunshots was deafening.

She had never heard a gunshot in her life.

As any man who has ever been to a training camp knows, the shock of hearing gunshots for the first time is beyond imagination.

Hearing it over and over again right in front of my nose, it was understandable to scream.

It was fortunate that Hyunsoo was dealing with them well.

The problem is that it’s only the second floor.

Minyoung slightly stuck her head out and looked outside.

The line of infected people still extended outside the construction site.

It was truly a huge number.

There were a few crises inside the building due to guys appearing from unexpected places, but things seemed to stabilize little by little when Young-man and Anna joined.

When we reached the 3rd floor.

Footsteps were heard from below.

Youngman and Anna’s faces darkened.

The popularity rose much faster than expected.

The rise of the common people means that the fence has become useless.

From the first floor, they would have been coming up forming a human staircase.

I can hear it.

The roar.

The disgusting sound of their bodies being crushed and trampled slowly drew closer.

As soon as we reached the third floor, infected people rushed at us from both sides at the same time.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Bodies fall down with a few gunshots.

Beomsik went back down to the lower landing.

It was to check how high they had climbed.

But I had to come back up before I could even get halfway there.

Because before we knew it, the infected people had already climbed up to the second floor.

If there were no gunshots, I could just stay on any floor and hide, but the damn infected kept coming out, so I had no choice but to shoot.

Beomsik went down again.

He held the gun upside down and stepped on his comrades’ bodies, hitting the heads of the infected with the butt of the gun.

One, two, three, four.

The number of broken heads increased, but the situation did not change.

It was really the worst.

If things continue like this, everyone will die.

They would all die within a minute.

Jae-jae, already drenched in sweat, was also showing the limits of his physical strength.

At that time, there were three steps left until the fourth floor.

Someone blocked Jae-jae’s path while he was supporting Chae-min.

and…….

A black gun appeared in front of Jaeyi, who raised his head.

At that moment, it seemed as if time had stopped for Jae-jae.

As if a long piece of tape had been stretched out, all I could see was the muzzle of the gun.

The gun spits fire.

Taang!

A single gunshot was followed by an ear-splitting tinnitus.

At the same time, he felt the strength drain from Chae-min’s body, which was leaning against him.

The gaze is completely directed upwards.

“Brother! No!”

Hyunsoo’s voice.

Minyoung was standing on the fourth floor above the stairs.

In Min-young’s eyes, which were wide open as if they were going to burst out, Chae-min, with a hole in his forehead, was lying down with his eyes open.

The arm draped around his neck slips away.

Finance instinctively tries to grab the arm, but it disappears too quickly, leaving him feeling for air.

I looked back.

Chaemin was falling down the stairs.

Beomsik, who was just coming up, twisted his body to avoid Chaemin, who was falling.

And the infected are rushing in.

The guys who had been jumping up without thinking stopped moving and started biting Chae-min as soon as they saw him.

At the same time, a scream mixed with a scream is heard piercing through the tinnitus.

“Run!”

Min-young, her face flushed red, screamed.

Beomsik grabbed Jaegye, who was standing there blankly, and pulled with all his might.

If not now, the opportunity will never come again.

From then on, I climbed the stairs like crazy.

As if it were a twist of fate, no infected people appeared from the 5th floor onwards.

The group soon reached a height of so many floors that they couldn’t even tell what it was.

Only then did I lie down in the wide open space and catch my breath.

Since when have I not heard any sound from them?

It seemed as if he had no intention of chasing the group as he was busy covering up Chae-min who had been thrown onto the stairs.

Should we call this Chaemin’s sacrifice?

Should we consider this as Min-yeong’s murder?

Finance knocked on his ears several times because of the tinnitus, but soon gave up.

After a long time.

As the sun disappeared behind the building, a cool breeze slowly blew in.

A white heron playing in the Han River flew leisurely across the blue sky in the view of finance.

Just as the tinnitus that had been bothering my ears was completely gone, a rustling sound was heard from somewhere.

I sat up and looked around.

Min-young was fingering the trigger with her face buried in her knees.

Young-man was sitting next to me.

There was no conversation between the mother and daughter.

At that moment, Hyunsoo, who had been lying silently, sat up.

Then he looked at Minyoung with eyes filled with resentment.

“Why did you kill him? I saw it all. My sister shooting him with a gun.”

Minyoung didn’t respond.

She still had her face buried in it.

“There was another way. You just had to go a little further… … .”

“stop.”

Beomsik spoke as if warning.

But Hyunsoo still had something to say.

“If only we had gone one more floor, just one more floor, it would have been over.”

“Stop it, kid.”

Min-young raised her head as Beom-sik urged her with his murderous eyes.

With a face as pale as if in pain.

“Another way? What other way?”

“If we had all shot together, we could have bought some time by pushing back the fallen men.”

“Was there ever a situation where we could all shoot together? Neither Dad, you, nor Anna had time to look back because of the zombies coming out of each floor.”

Compared to the excited Hyun-soo, Min-young’s voice was calm and quiet, which made it even more memorable.

“They said there weren’t any guys starting from the 5th floor.”

“The problem is that I only found out about it on the fifth floor. If I had known in advance, I wouldn’t have pulled the trigger.”

“No, my sister is just a criminal who killed someone.”

“Think as you wish. After all, you are alive thanks to that criminal.”

Min-young was speaking coldly, but her expression was already half dead.

At some point, the fingers holding the gun began to tremble.

Young-man held my trembling hand.

But Min-young avoided her father’s hand.

Instead of feeling my father’s warm hands, I felt a cold rifle.

Tears welled up in my eyes and soon the tip of my nose turned red.

“You… don’t know.”

Minyoung continued speaking in a trembling voice.

“You don’t know how difficult it is to become a doctor. Do you think I became a doctor because of my social status or fame? I became a doctor only to save people. You don’t know how difficult a decision it was for me to kill someone with my own hands.”

The tears that had gathered in both eyes shook dangerously.

“I was watching the whole situation that you couldn’t see. In the end, I had to make the inevitable choice to save everyone. So I did it myself. I got blood on my hands, and I feel guilty. But you’re swearing at me? What right do you have to criticize me? What can you do besides babble about how there was a better way? You’re a hypocrite. Do you understand? If you had such a great idea, you should have done it then. Don’t you think so?”

Hyunsoo was left speechless as Minyoung’s words poured out like a flood.

No, I couldn’t refute it.

I regretted not being able to control the emotions that surged up in me at that moment.

Hyunsoo knew too.

That it was an unavoidable situation.

But I couldn’t stand it.

A person died.

It wasn’t based on who was closer to others or anything like that.

The only thing that was painful was having to kill someone to save the majority.

Min-yeong pushed away Young-man’s arm, which was trying to wipe away his tears.

The story isn’t over yet.

His face was slowly distorting, but he didn’t stop.

“I still remember the look in his eyes as he looked up at me when he pointed the gun at me, as if I were experiencing it right now. I feel like he’ll torment me every single day until the day I die. I’m the one who’s heartbroken and in pain. So please don’t say anything to me. I know, I know I was wrong.”

She finally burst into tears.

The surroundings were quiet, and no sounds from the infected could be heard.

The atmosphere was so heavy that the open view from the high-rise building was meaningless.

Suddenly Anna jumped up.

Then he walked somewhere along the hallway.

In fact, it was so open on all sides that there was nothing that could be called a hallway.

But strictly speaking, it was a hallway of a commercial building.

Anna, who had moved far away from where the group was, stood at the edge of the building.

The winding hill looked down just below.

She lit the lighter.

I lit the firecracker arrow.

I aimed my bow at a certain point on the hill.

As the protest was pulled, the bowstring bent and screamed.

Boom!

The arrow, which had been stretched out, fell somewhere between the trees.

A few seconds later, the firecrackers exploded.

But this one was a bit strong.

If the firecrackers we saw before were one-time events, the firecrackers exploding now are occurring in succession.

Although not in the sky, colorful lights were floating here and there along the mountain pass.

Anna took something out of her pocket.

Soon the papers will fall, fluttering in the wind.

They were ten thousand won bills.

It seemed like a pretty big amount.

Anna turned around and thought.

I am not friends with you.

But I’m grateful that I was able to survive thanks to that.

There is no room for a funeral.

Instead, he sent me a sturdy bundle of money to take with him on his way to the afterlife.

If I ever meet my parents… … .

Please say hello to me.

I mourned like that.

At the sound of firecrackers, all the infected people who had gathered at the construction site and in the surrounding area turned their heads away.

Looking from high above, it looked like a tsunami was crashing down on the mountain.

“They said they were saving it because it was the strongest firecracker.”

He told Anna that the finances had returned.

Anna had her hair tied up in a ponytail as it blew in the wind.

“I don’t even want to see those kids. I want to see some clean scenery, I might die at any moment.”

“It’s a lot better now that I can’t see those things.”

I muttered as I looked at the empty construction site and the riverside.

“Ha, good. I should have gone hiking a long time ago. I was always exercising, so I didn’t realize how wonderful the world looked from up high.”

“I don’t think this exclamation is very appropriate for the current situation.”

“Don’t make a fuss, just keep it in your eyes. You never know when you’ll see it again.”

“Hey, you are to my brother… … .”

“wait for a sec.”

Anna stood up, leaving Jae-jae behind.

Then he walked forward as if possessed by something.

I felt dizzy because I thought I would fall if I went a little further.

Finance quickly grabbed her arm.

“it’s crazy?”

“No, I’m not crazy. But that’s a little crazy. I didn’t know they were that close.”

Anna pointed somewhere.

With my financial eyesight, I couldn’t see exactly what it was.

The small building appeared to be floating on the river.

“Everyone, look at that!”

At those words, everyone followed Anna’s gaze.

“It’s a boat dock.”

Youngman’s eyes widen for a moment.

Likewise, it was a face I never expected to see so close.

A smile of conversion spread across Anna’s face.

It was just as the finances said.

If I could just get there, going to Yeouido would be a piece of cake.

Because you can cross the river by boat.

At the same time, one regret follows.

If I had known it was this close, there would have been another way.

Someone didn’t have to die.

but…….

I didn’t have time to think about that.

Young-man looks at the boats floating on the dock and thinks about finances.

“It is indeed as you said.”

A bright color came to the faces of the group.

Except for one person, Min-young.

Infected people