Infected - Chapter 4



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Episode 3

While everyone was focused on the news, Finance came out and walked towards the smoking booth.

Finance wasn’t interested in the news in the first place.

The reason I was focused on the news at the police station was to avoid talking to the squad leader who kept bothering me.

Actually, I wasn’t even curious about what to do or not do in Japan.

The bench next to the smoking booth was piled high with building materials.

It looked like they were trying to create a roofed lounge area around the bench.

Jae-Jeong, who had passed the bench and entered the smoking booth, took out a cigarette and lit it while his sweat-soaked T-shirt flapped.

Just as I was about to light the fire, my pocket vibrated.

It was a call from the class president.

It seemed that Jaejae, who was supposed to go find clothes, had contacted me after not hearing from me for several hours.

“yes.”

[where are you?]

“It’s a hospital.”

[Hospital? Why there?]

“I went to the laundromat and my aunt was passed out.”

[What? So what happened? Is your aunt okay?]

“Yes, I’m fine now. Why did you call?”

It was the moment when Jae-jae spoke bluntly into the receiver.

“Eww!”

A single scream was heard beyond the high-rise window.

[Can’t I call you?]

“No, that’s not it. If you don’t have anything to say, then hang up… .”

“Whoa!”

The screams are heard again.

This time it was a woman’s sharp voice.

I couldn’t understand what was being said next, but I could hear several people shouting in a desperate manner.

Panic, anxiety, fear.

Jaejae frowned at the voice that conveyed these three emotions at the same time.

[Talking about a swindler. That’s right, the Gangnam gambling den kids are here. You said he listens to you so well, right? How fast did he come, all these sausages coming in one after another… Are you listening?]

That was when.

Wow!

At that moment, the glass windows of the high-rise building were completely shattered, sending countless pieces of debris crashing down to the floor.

But it wasn’t just shards of glass that fell.

thud!

Beep- Beep-

A person fell through the debris onto a parked van.

The car body sank in an instant.

Shards of shattered glass scattered along with a loud warning sound.

The impact was so great that the ground shook.

[Hey, Han Jae-jung! Hello? Hello! What did you just say? Jae-jung!]

Jae-jae, who was speechless at the unexpected shocking sight, had to put his smartphone in his pocket without even hanging up the phone.

But it wasn’t long before Finance realized that even that shocking sight was just the beginning.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Figures falling from the building one after another.

It was clearly a person, falling simultaneously and irregularly, as if it were raining, and crashing into the ground.

The finances were so incredible that I couldn’t believe what I saw.

When they fell, their necks were immediately broken and their limbs were twisted.

Occasionally, someone’s head would explode during the collision, their blood and flesh flying everywhere.

It was not clear how many people had fallen.

Things happened so quickly.

Startled by the loud noise, security guards and medical staff ran out of the emergency room.

Jae-Jeong, who was barely catching his breath, met the eyes of the nurse who had just run out.

“Back, back, back!”

The nurse couldn’t even utter a single word.

The eyes, which had grown large as if they were about to swallow something, pointed behind Jaeyi.

Crack!

A creepy feeling ran down my spine.

A series of strange sounds I had never heard before were heard.

Finance slowly turned his head.

A van appeared past the faces of the people shouting.

A smashed window and a completely mangled car came into view, with ‘something’ moving above it.

Crack, crack!

Something was falling out of the window.

People who were thought to be dead, with limbs twisted, heads turned, and muscles and flesh torn off.

They began to raise their bodies, twisting the joints of their entire bodies as if nothing had happened.

A horrible sight that would not appear in any hell.

It was a face that had rotted so much that it had turned completely black.

Some even stood on the floor with their broken shin bones tearing through the flesh.

That wasn’t a person.

I couldn’t exactly define what it was, but it was definitely not a person.

There was absolutely no way that was a person.

Not only the finances, but everyone on site was thinking the same thing.

Thump, thump.

The heart of finance was beating so hard that it felt like it was going to explode.

Kwaaak!

Something in Jae-yi’s chest sank at the sudden, strange howl.

“Huh? Huh?”

The security guard standing in front of the wrecked van backed away, making an irritating noise.

“What, what! Eww! Save me!”

A woman transformed into a monster jumped out of a van and attacked a security guard.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Crunch!

Wagjak, wagjak.

A fountain of blood gushed from the guard’s neck, accompanied by the strange sound of human bones and flesh being chewed.

It was a tremendous speed.

It was so fast that I couldn’t believe it even after seeing it with my own two eyes.

Jaejae couldn’t believe that someone with broken bones could move like that, that someone who fell from a high building could behave like that.

After that, people started dying helplessly.

Those who had turned into monsters ran out into the parking lot and onto the road, or into the emergency room where the lights were on.

The rest of them chewed up the people who remained in their seats, spraying bright streams of blood everywhere.

Jaejae, who was looking at the blood vessels steaming on the asphalt, felt like he was going to lose his mind.

Kwaaak!

Jaejae turned his head at the sound of a scream coming from nearby.

Someone was running towards him.

Judging from her attire, I couldn’t tell that she was a nurse, but judging from the pus dripping from her black mouth, I could tell that she had already turned into a monster.

Finance turned around and escaped.

The nurse who was rushing in hit the railing behind Jae-ui and fell down.

It fell from a height that must have been at least several dozen meters, and soon the sound of a car being smashed into pieces could be heard from the parking lot below.

That was when.

Boom!

The automatic door to the emergency room was ripped off entirely, and one of the security guards, who had been transformed into a monster, was blown several meters away and crashed to the ground.

“Did this kid take some medicine… … .”

The one who blew away the security guard was none other than Beomsik.

A strength that cannot be said to come from slender legs.

Beomsik, who was about to hit her again, stopped walking when he realized something was strange.

“… What is it? Why is your face like that?”

Only then did Beomshik realize his surroundings, but before he could think any further, two monsters attacked from both sides.

A normal person would have frozen and been unable to move in a sudden situation.

But Beomsik was different.

He then turned and kicked the monster on the left that was running ahead, and then kicked it to the right.

The man in the hospital gown who was kicked in the roundhouse rolled around several times, and the woman who was kicked in the stomach by the side shattered the windshield of a parked car and was thrown into the driver’s seat.

It went in properly.

However, Beomsik’s face, who was thinking like that, distorted in a pleasant way.

They were rising again.

And at an incredibly fast rate.

The woman who was pinned in the driver’s seat had shards of broken glass deeply embedded in her neck and all over her body.

But he didn’t seem to be in any pain at all.

The man who had been rolling on the ground ran forward in a strange posture, either with his spine folded backwards or in the limbo position.

Beomsik opened his eyes wide at the unbelievable sight.

‘Is it possible for a human being to not feel pain in such a state? No, is it possible for them to stand up normally after being hit by a direct kick?’

My judgment suddenly became clouded.

Every sound I heard came to me slowly, as if a tape had been stretched out, and I couldn’t react properly even when I saw those running towards me.

Coming.

It’s right in front of our noses.

Something, whether human or monster, came with its mouth wide open, spewing out rotten shit.

At that moment.

puck!

The monsters that were rushing at Beomsik were knocked to the ground in an instant.

Finance, who appeared among the construction materials holding a pipe, struck the backs of the fallen monsters.

Not one, but three or four people were all thrown to the ground at once.

But, as expected, they got up again as if nothing had happened.

“The head! Hit the head!”

Only then did Beomsik come to his senses, snatch Jaeyui’s pipe away and hit their heads on the floor.

Thud! Thud!

Bones and flesh flew into the air along with the pitch-black liquid.

Only after the maddening onslaught was over did the monsters stop moving.

“Whoa!”

This time it was inside the hospital.

A nurse covered in blood came running screaming from the hallway leading to the main building.

Finance ran inside first to check the situation.

‘What does this mean?’

It wasn’t even the general affairs department.

It wasn’t even an emergency room.

The sound was coming from the end of a dark hallway.

It was people.

There were dozens of people running at once.

The problem was their appearance.

I had to run away now.

If you don’t, you die.

I couldn’t think of anything else.

“Jump!”

Finance shouted as he passed the common people.

“Our kids are still… … .”

“Run, you little shit! If you don’t want to lose!”

“What the heck! What the heck is that!”

Beomsik, who heard the screams that filled the hallway late, also ran down the hill following Jaegye.

Ear-piercing screams could be heard from the emergency room and all over the hospital, getting farther and farther away, but there was nothing we could do.

If I stayed there any longer, I wouldn’t even be able to pick out my bones.

Jaejae, who had come out onto the narrow road behind the hospital after going down the hill, ran forward without looking back.

On the streets, people who had not yet grasped the situation were walking around as usual.

The only other thing is that you can hear sirens blaring and quite a few ambulances rushing to the hospital.

I knew I shouldn’t send those cars to the hospital, but I couldn’t stop them.

How can we stop ambulances from running red lights and entering hospitals?

“hey!”

Beomsik shouted at Jaebyeong, who was running ahead of him.

“What did that kid eat to make him jump like that? Hey!”

Jae-jae, who had been slowing down at the sound of the voice again, looked back while catching his breath.

“Did you just say hey to me?”

“How far are you going to run!”

“Why? Are you following me? I’m going to a place you don’t like very much.”

When Jae-gye smiled strangely, Beom-sik’s forehead wrinkled.

“People on the street here… they don’t know anything.”

“so?”

“What are you talking about? You should tell him to run away.”

Beomsik said as he watched people walking peacefully down the street.

“You do it. Then it will work.”

“You’re a police officer.”

“What the… … .”

Finance, which had come right in front of his nose, glared at Beomsik with a cold face.

“Don’t pretend to be righteous. The most dangerous people in the world are people like you. People who don’t care about shit and blood on their hands and only seek justice when necessary. Do you understand? If you’re going to do it, do it yourself.”

Jaejae, who had finished speaking, turned his back coldly.

Beomsik wiped his sweaty face.

Who would have thought you’d be so serious?

I didn’t expect that at all.

I just meant to tell you to try anything.

As expected, I was not naturally suited to being a police officer.

Beomsik looked at the back of Jaeyi’s head, which was just starting to move away.

‘Should I run over and just stick it in?’

no.

Now was not the time for such a fight.

I was losing my sense of reality.

I had just experienced something that was hard to believe even with my own eyes, but strangely enough, it didn’t feel like it was happening to my skin.

It was like getting off a thrilling ride.

Beomsik thought about it carefully.

It was unknown how those monsters were created.

They just talked about Japan on the news, but that was it.

If there’s one thing that’s certain, it’s that when you’re attacked, you change.

The reason the monsters haven’t yet appeared on the street may be because there are still many survivors in the hospital.

There were dozens of people lying in the emergency room alone.

In that moment, the faces of his younger brothers passed before Beomsik’s eyes.

Although we often hear these days that gangsters are thugs, Beomsik loved his younger siblings very much.

He was a man who thought that he looked up from below as much as he looked up from above.

okay.

I have to go again.

Even though I ran away because the situation was dire, I couldn’t leave to live alone.

And I felt like I had to confirm with my own eyes once again the existence of a monster or something.

Because I couldn’t believe it even after seeing it with my own eyes.

It was at that moment that Beomsik, with his mind made up, turned toward the hospital and took out a cigarette and lit it.

I felt a single footstep, buried in the various noises and people’s conversations, closing the distance in an instant.

Beomsik reflexively turned his body to avoid the collision.

What quickly passed through Beomsik was none other than finances.

Even as finances were getting further away, they looked back and shouted and shouted again.

“What are you looking at? Run! Run!”

Beomsik felt a strange sense of alienation.

It was as if the gaze of finance was not general, but was looking somewhere beyond one’s own head.

Beomsik slowly looked back.

And… after hearing Jae-ui’s words, he regretted his choice not to take action right away.

Waves filled the space beneath the streetlights at a nearby intersection.

The identity of that thing swaying like a mirage was a crowd of people.

People rushing forward in irregular formations.

If a person in the front row stumbled and fell, the next row would step on him before his forehead could even touch his forehead.

The asphalt road, not the playground, was covered in a thick layer of dust.

Two layers, three layers, four layers… … .

The number of people stepping through the fallen ranks was beyond imagination.

If there was a human tsunami, would it look like this?

As soon as it hit the tree, hundreds of people passed by, covering the tree.

It was a truly unrealistic scene.

Beomsik felt like his heart was going to burst at the sight that came crashing down like waves.

The legs were already moving without my thinking.

It was a moment when the instinct for survival overtook reason.

Tata-tat!

Beomsik’s steps, running along the finances, became faster and faster.

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