Infected - Chapter 481



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Episode 480

Chanyeol and Mr. Kim followed the intruder who knocked on the door down the hill.

Under the sunset that dyed the whole world yellow.

A crowd of hundreds of people gathered in the open space located in the center of the village.

It was a number far greater than the population of Paradise.

Chanyeol, who belatedly made his way between them, looks around with a puzzled expression.

In the center of the empty lot, Raon and a group he had never seen before were standing together.

“Are you here?”

Su-ah and Dae-woong, who discovered Chan-yeol, approach him while pushing through the crowd.

“Yes. But what’s going on?”

Suah pointed to the three people kneeling in front of Raon.

“The believers have been captured.”

As she said, all three were wearing trapezoidal masks made of white cloth.

Chanyeol’s gaze, which had been scanning them, turned to the men standing shoulder to shoulder with Raon.

A tall and muscular figure reminiscent of a finance man, white skin not seen in Koreans, and an unfamiliar language occasionally heard.

Unless I’m mistaken, the men were clearly Russian.

But there was something that caught more attention than them armed with all kinds of firearms.

There were over a hundred people lined up behind the men.

They were all carrying personal firearms and their jumpers were stained with blood.

“Those people… who are they?”

“I told you last time. There are people out there.”

“You’re not Korean.”

“Yes. All the people behind are Korean, but all the people leading are Russian.”

Suah continued, pointing to the tattoos that covered their bodies.

“I heard that most of them are mafia, and some of them are soldiers who committed war crimes, but I don’t know for sure.”

“Why are people like that in Korea at this time?”

“I thought they were all chased to Korea and were hiding. Maybe they were illegal immigrants?”

“her…….”

Chanyeol was so shocked that he couldn’t speak.

It’s amazing that there are white people lined up right in front of me, but they’re all criminals.

What on earth did Raon do to have such monsters?

As I quietly felt the aura they were emitting, Daewoong’s words that each and every one of them was a hundred against a hundred became real.

At that time, Raon, who was scanning the large crowd, slowly walked around the kneeling believers.

Although he was much smaller than the Russians, his presence was unrivaled.

He said.

“The Raons who have been struggling to deal with the believers have returned to paradise. We will leave again as soon as the sun rises, but at least tonight, let’s get to know each other. Thanks to these cute guys, everyone can sleep soundly.”

Then he glared fiercely at the believers who had lowered their heads.

“As expected, this time, they have captured the believers. Well, I would like to let them stay in paradise, but as everyone knows, the Anonymous Church cannot be rehabilitated. That means that it won’t work to just capture and kill the leader. If we don’t kill the seed, they will keep reappearing like cockroaches. So, what should we do now?”

Someone raised their hand as Raon shouted with a smile.

Raon’s fingertips pointed towards him.

He was a man who worked silently right next to Chanyeol in the workshop.

An introvert who doesn’t say a word all day.

But what he said was not like that at all.

“Okay. Tell me.”

“Take off the mask and look at the face.”

“and?”

“Let’s kill them one by one… slowly. Not all at once.”

In an instant, the empty lot became quiet as if cold water had been poured over it.

How much time has passed like that?

Raon, who was fiddling with the gun, burst into laughter.

“That’s the answer I was hoping for. We have always treated the anonymous religion with the principle of zero tolerance. That is the same today and it will not change in the future.”

Then he gestured towards the managers.

As Raon’s closest associates, they began to remove the masks of the believers without hesitation.

and…….

Those who saw the three believers with their faces revealed were quite surprised.

I’m only in my late teens now.

If you hit all three, you would be 20 years old.

Raon’s gaze passed the two men and turned to the woman kneeling at the end.

And then he let out a sigh of regret.

“Oh my! How did such a beautiful girl come to be… … .”

In fact, only the voice was pitiful, but the expression or actions were not like that at all.

A pitiful person would never smile like that.

As soon as the masks were removed, the believers stared at the ground and did not move.

Raon frowned for a moment at the sight, but then quickly smiled.

“A good idea suddenly occurred to me. It’s good to be beaten, and it’s good to be stoned. But there’s something even more fun. It’s seeing fear. Not the fear that’s far away, but the pressure of imminent death.”

Raon walked slowly around the believers, his hand on the pistol he had placed there.

“Now, only one of you three can survive. The life or death of that one survivor will depend on how actively he or she cooperates.”

At those words, the faces of the believers turned pale.

“It may seem heartless, but I also have my own sense of justice. I won’t kill anyone unconditionally. If I did, there wouldn’t be so many people gathered in paradise, right?”

Raon stared blankly at the goddess.

Her shaking eyes and her chin shaking like an aspen tree.

“I mean, if you find a pretty flower on the side of the road, you should definitely pick it. If you leave it alone, it will eventually wither. People say that withered flowers provide nutrients and help other flowers bloom. Honestly, who cares? Whether you do that or not, it has nothing to do with me. So… … .”

Bam! Bang!

It happened in an instant.

Raon, who had been muttering while turning his back, suddenly turned around and pulled the trigger.

The goddess fell, leaving a red dot on her head, and never got up again.

“… So, you have to pick flowers when they are beautiful. That way, they are at least a treat for the eyes.”

People trembled in fear at the unexpected gunshot.

Some people screamed as they watched the goddess fall, bleeding, while others crouched low and gasped for breath.

There are countless believers who have died in paradise so far.

For Raons, who were living a quiet life, the murder itself became a trauma.

It was the same for Chanyeol.

His eyes became bloodshot as he grabbed Joshua’s shoulders and lowered his posture.

Even if the two forces are hostile, is it really necessary to go this far?

Raon was clearly crazy.

At least that’s what it seemed to Chanyeol.

How many people can pull a trigger without any emotion with an expression on their face?

And that too towards someone who is trembling with fear.

The faces of Mr. Kim and Daewoong, who were standing next to Chanyeol, also showed signs of surprise.

Whatever.

Raon continued speaking.

Even as the smell of blood disperses on the wind, he stubbornly continues to speak his mind.

He even seemed rather pleased.

“There are two left now?”

The believers who saw the devil’s smile with his eyebrows twitched and their shoulders trembled.

More than the anger at having killed their comrades, the fear of their impending death weighed on them.

Finally, the scene that Raon wanted was produced.

“Let’s stop here for today. I’ll take my time and think about which one of the two to kill. Hey, take these guys, wash them, and feed them.”

The administrators dragged the two believers away and disappeared.

Raon, who was scratching his head with the handle of his pistol, approached the crowd.

“No need to be surprised. As I always say, it doesn’t matter how you came here. What matters is that you are still alive and living in a prosperous environment. We will not forgive anyone who threatens our lives. The believers are like cancer cells. If we don’t eradicate them as soon as we find them, they will infiltrate us at any time. You all know this from experience, right?”

People standing in the front row nodding their heads.

They were all ordinary survivors, but at this moment, they were no different from Raon in terms of murderers.

The fact that he was completely unmoved by the murder right before his eyes meant that he completely supported Raon.

Meanwhile, the people standing at the back were still trembling with fear.

In it, Chanyeol was seen gritting his teeth.

At that moment, Raon’s gaze, which was scanning the crowd, fell on Chanyeol.

“There, you.”

Chanyeol didn’t answer.

He just glared at me with his fists clenched.

Even though Mr. Kim and Daewoong were flustered and poked each other in the back, nothing changed.

Raon smiled, revealing his white teeth.

“Follow me.”

Then he shouted at the Russians and the men following them.

“Thank you for your hard work! Today, drink and have fun to your heart’s content!”

It was a moment when loud shouts echoed through the quiet empty lot.

* * *

A time when the entire paradise was enveloped in an unseasonable festive atmosphere.

Chanyeol was sitting in the basement with Raon.

He seemed quite distraught, perhaps because the goddess had died earlier and he had come to the basement where he had previously committed murder.

Of course, Raon could not have been unaware of that fact.

Wasn’t that something you personally instructed?

He stands with his back against the wall and smiles broadly.

“You stood out from the start. You were clearly different from me, but you had the determination to kill to survive. Do you remember? Here… … .”

The chair that Raon pointed to with his chin.

That was the seat where the dead woman sat until her last moments.

“That’s why I kept looking at you. What are you doing? Are you doing your work well? Are you dissatisfied? Fortunately, your supervisors and coworkers didn’t say anything. Rather, they praised you for doing well whatever you were told to do. You also took good care of the new employees.”

Despite the praise, Chanyeol remained silent.

“Actually, I thought about sending you out. Seriously. I thought I’d take advantage of your tendency to do whatever you ask. You saw that Russian bunch earlier? Well, the guys out there are pretty rough, but they get along well with their comrades. Maybe you’d get along well. But… … .”

In an instant, the smile disappeared from Raon’s face.

“That look from before is troubling. Do you know how much of a crisis we went through because of the Nameless Church? Those crazy guys pretended to be survivors and not only forced believers in, but they even tried to burn down the warehouse. The warehouse where we stored food and medicine. Ha, even now, when I think about that time, my blood boils. Should I tell you a secret? Paradise wasn’t originally this small. At first, it was bigger than it is now because of the people who flocked there.”

Raon approached Chanyeol, who was leaning back, and sat down across from him.

“Who could have killed all those people? They poked at this small town several times a day. They would deliberately make gunfire to gather the zombies, and then they would come in again without even giving me time to take care of the wounded. In the end, I had no choice. Either be absorbed by them, or fight to the end.”

“So you decided to fight until the end.”

“Yeah. I lured them into the village under the pretense of negotiating. There was a first-class believer who was the closest associate of the anonymous cult leader there. I still remember how arrogant they were back then. As I watched them confidently enter, all sorts of thoughts ran through my head. Do you know that feeling? The thrill of knowing that you’re holding the other person’s life in your hands and deliberately bending down. That feeling of crouching down until the time is right.”

Raon’s face trembled in excitement.

The sparkling eyes were like he was on drugs and not in his right mind.

“That’s just human psychology. The higher you put something, the more pleasure you get when you drop it. The confidence that you’ve finally defeated your opponent and the arrogance that everything is under your feet are bound to show their weaknesses. When they passed the village entrance and came up the hill to the empty lot, I gave them a signal. And… … .”

He made a gunshot sound with his mouth, pretending to hold a rifle.

“… I tore them all apart. When they woke up as zombies, I tore them apart again, and tore them apart, and tore them apart again. But you know, killing people is a much greater thrill than you might think. Blood splattering everywhere, bullets ripping through clothes, guys crouching around using the corpses of dead believers as shields. Oh, you should have seen that.”

“I’m sorry to interrupt, but I heard that the nameless religion was touched by Paradise first.”

“What? Who said that?”

“I heard people talking.”

Chanyeol recalled the story he had heard from Daewoong during the day and talked around a bit.

But Raon’s thoughts seemed different.

“… So who is that?”

His eyes began to burn brightly as he asked the question.

Infected people