Infected - Chapter 483



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Episode 482

“…are you okay?”

“Yeah. Thanks.”

Su-ah smiled awkwardly and gestured towards the women who had stepped back.

“It’s okay now. Everyone, don’t be afraid and come this way.”

At those words, the women who had scattered returned to their places one by one.

“Oh, I can’t help it. Should I drink here? Is that okay?”

Daeung sat down on a cardboard box on the floor and looked around.

Then the women nodded their heads vigorously as if they had been waiting.

Daewoong’s presence was tremendous.

Even the men who had been wandering around trying to talk to the women had all disappeared.

Dae-woong, who was unwillingly surrounded by women, asked Su-ah.

“Chanyeol hasn’t come out yet?”

“Yeah. I was waiting for him too.”

“…Where on earth did you take him?”

“I don’t know. When you come back, I’ll tell you firmly. Don’t show your teeth like that. No matter how much I tell you, you won’t listen. You’re just stubborn.”

“Still, it’s better than me.”

“What are you talking about?”

Su-ah asked, pouring soju into a paper cup.

“I… can’t even express it when I see something wrong. Chanyeol is much braver than me.”

“Is that brave? Is that reckless? Oh, really, why are you both like that? It’s because of you that he does this.”

“Su-ah.”

Daewoong, who had been staring blankly at the campfire, spoke with a serious face.

“You guys… whatever you’re thinking, stop it here.”

“Stop what?”

“You know what I’m talking about.”

Su-ah pretended not to hear and just drank the soju.

“If you’re really worried about Chanyeol, you should stop here. You can never run away.”

“Brother.”

Suah took another sip of her drink and exhaled the heat rising in her mouth.

“Excuse me, can I ask you something personal?”

“say.”

“Do you know anything about your family?”

Daeung, who had been fidgeting, suddenly stopped moving.

“No, I don’t know. Why is that?”

“What if, really, you found out that your family, whom you thought were dead, were alive?”

“no way…….”

“Oh. That’s right. My dad is alive.”

As Daewoong’s head suddenly turned around, Suah filled her cup with a troubled face.

“… Really?”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

“Didn’t your father say he was the director of the vaccine center?”

“That’s right. I’ve been to Gangseo-gu several times. I should have stopped by at least once. I naturally assumed he would have passed away.”

“But who did you hear that from?”

“I heard it from Chanyeol. He came from the vaccine center.”

Daeung snorted with a complicated expression on his face.

“Are you still there?”

“No. He said he is somewhere else and can’t tell you.”

“why?”

Su-ah looked around before speaking.

Everyone was so busy talking at a distance that they were out of their minds.

“My dad is researching a vaccine. In a safe place. The people who were with Chanyeol are helping with it. That’s why Chanyeol is trying to escape from here too.”

Daeung was speechless.

He had a complicated look in his eyes, holding a beer in his hand.

Then he muttered in a small voice, barely audible.

“…both of them will die.”

“what?”

“You’ll die trying to escape.”

“So you’re going to keep staying here? I knew your father was alive.”

“It’s not something you can just pass over like that.”

Daewoong put down the beer can and continued talking while staring at Suah.

“What do you believe in about me that makes you say such things so casually?”

“Well, oppa… is a trustworthy person.”

“Are you sure?”

“What’s with that expression?”

Su-ah’s face, which had been telling her story as if complaining, became filled with embarrassment.

Because Daewoong’s expression changed as if he were a different person.

“Are you sure, Joshua? Can you really trust me?”

“Why are you like this, it’s scary.”

“When you talk here, you have to assume all situations. I could die just because I listened to this and stayed silent.”

“Ah… I’m sorry. I didn’t think of that.”

“Just because each day in paradise is peaceful and safe enough to be boring, don’t let yourself go. Got it? Even when you’re not aware of it, Raon is watching over you. And I’ll tell you once more, don’t even dream of escaping. I don’t want to see you kneeling in an empty lot and dying. The same goes for Chanyeol.”

“but…….”

“Even if not my father but my entire family is alive, it won’t work. Why don’t you just walk on the nameless bridge? Pray that they win the battle and push their way into paradise. That’ll be faster. You can escape during the chaos. Or, when the couriers come, send a letter to Raon without telling him. That you’re alive here. Isn’t that better?”

Daewoong was usually a man of few words.

To the extent that he has no qualms about meddling in other people’s business except in the workplace he manages.

That’s why every word he uttered felt so weighty.

“…I’ll think about it.”

Su-ah just said that.

In fact, Chanyeol’s determination to escape was more of a problem than her thoughts.

Because it wasn’t in a condition where it could be dried even if dried.

But I couldn’t tell Daewoong about my worries.

The expressions he showed earlier.

There was something in it that I couldn’t bring myself to say.

Su-ah poured the soju into her cup and glanced at Dae-woong.

Since Su-ah came to paradise, Dae-woong was like a big tree to her.

He listened to all my complaints as if he were an older brother I had known for a long time, and he also accepted all my requests, big and small.

But today’s reaction was really the first time.

Suddenly, I remembered a rumor going around among people.

Laon hid his people all over paradise.

It censors people by interfering with their lives deeply.

Could Daewoong be one of them?

Suah shook her head.

If that were the case, I wouldn’t have even given you this advice in the first place.

After pretending not to know everything, she would run to Raon and tell him everything.

It wouldn’t be Daewoong, let alone someone else.

Su-ah exhaled white breath containing the rising intoxication.

At that time, I was looking at the stars floating in the night sky.

I saw someone walking slowly through the middle of the noisy empty lot.

A man walking alone, lost in thought, among drunken and excited people.

He was Chanyeol.

His face and clothes, dimly revealed by the campfire flames, were clearly stained with blood.

Suah said.

“Isn’t that Chanyeol?”

“…that’s right.”

“No, what on earth happened to you to make you look like that?”

“Leave it.”

“How can you just leave that?”

“If you’re going, follow quietly after Chanyeol disappears. Don’t do it in front of other people.”

“Do you really have to do it that way?”

“You’ve changed a lot since Chanyeol came in. Before, you didn’t care about other people’s business, but now you act like you’ve met your own little brother. I told you that you don’t need to stand out like that. From now on, think about every action you take… .”

Daeung couldn’t finish his speech.

This was because Su-ah, who had gotten up from her seat, was moving away from me.

Daeung’s gaze scans the empty lot.

I wonder if anyone is watching closely.

Could it be that Raon or the managers are watching?

Not knowing what happened to Chanyeol, he couldn’t help but come up with all sorts of guesses.

Around that time.

Suah grabbed Chanyeol’s arm as they walked up the hill past the empty lot.

“Why do you look like this? Are you okay?”

But Chanyeol just pushed Sua’s hand away with a blank expression.

Then I walked along the road again.

Pale face and dull eyes.

It was an unfamiliar sight I had never seen before from Chanyeol.

Su-ah was about to shout, “What’s going on?” but she stopped as Dae-woong’s words came to mind without her knowing.

In the end, what she chose to do was to follow him at some distance.

Not long after Chanyeol entered the house.

Squeak! Boom!

Su-ah, who followed in, locked the door and checked the front door.

There was a bloodstain around the shoes that had just been taken off.

Chanyeol was sitting on the sofa by the living room window.

“…what’s the matter?”

Chanyeol blinked and took out a cigarette and lit it without saying a word.

At his touch, the pure white cigarette turned red.

He just kept smoking in silence, so it seemed like I wouldn’t be able to hear anything right away.

Su-ah took off her shoes, went in, and sat down next to him.

Then he waited quietly until I finished smoking my cigarette.

There was a heavy silence for a while.

A heavy sigh dispersed into the living room, which was filled only with the sound of cigarettes being pulled and smoke being exhaled.

Chanyeol put out his cigarette, ran both hands through his messy hair, and his eyes turned red.

“… Sister.”

“Uh. Tell me. What’s going on? Are you hurt anywhere?”

At the short word ‘sister’, Su-ah’s words poured out like a flood.

“I… killed someone again.”

Suah’s eyebrows twitched.

This has happened before too.

Even then, Chanyeol had a blank expression on his face and was half out of his mind.

He came in like a ghost and went straight into the bathroom.

But today the situation was much more serious.

“Do you happen to be a believer… … .”

“yes that’s right.”

The voice that was barely able to come out was so weak that it made the listener’s heart sink.

Su-ah, who had been looking at him with pity, soon became determined.

“Even if it weren’t for you, you would have died anyway. The believers are our enemies. That’s the same whether you’re in paradise or not. So eat your heart out.”

“but…….”

“You said you were going to escape from here. Are you sure you won’t kill anyone in the process? Are you going to act like a lunatic every time something like this happens? Don’t you think about me having to trust you and follow you?”

Chanyeol, who had been staring with his mouth open, eventually lowered his gaze.

Suah was right.

The Anonymous Church is the enemy of all survivors.

Who is responsible for whose safety, when you are just feeling a sense of guilt after killing the enemy?

I felt ashamed of myself for having persistently tried to persuade Su-ah all this time.

“Chanyeol. Eat your heart out. The world we live in now, the world we will live in from now on, is not as easy as the world we lived in before. Murder? Guilt? Look at the survivors wandering outside and the nameless sect. And what about the zombies still left everywhere? What are you going to do with such weak thoughts? When there are people everywhere trying to kill you, where do you have time to indulge in such sentiments?”

Chanyeol, who had been bowing his head, raised his head.

Then the tears in his eyes flowed down his cheekbones.

Chanyeol sobbed with sad eyes.

“That’s right. What you said is all right. But, sister. I’m not that kind of person. I’m… not the kind of person who would hurt others. If I see a dead animal on the side of the road, I’ll move it to the grass, and if it dies, I’ll buy it some warm milk so it doesn’t starve. I grew up in that kind of family, and that’s what my parents taught me. I’m sorry for being weak. But… I really can’t stand it anymore.”

With those words, Chanyeol sobbed quietly.

Su-ah’s eyes turned red as she watched.

I couldn’t stand seeing the man crying in front of me because it was so pitiful.

The men that Su-ah has seen throughout her life have been busy showing off what they have, and they have no qualms about using any means necessary to achieve that.

however…….

The man sitting on the sofa crying right now was as vulnerable and honest as I’ve ever seen him.

Why do I feel like a man at this moment?

Su-ah squeezed her eyes shut and hugged Chan-yeol to her chest.

Then she ran her fingers through my hair until my clothes became soaked with tears.

“… It’s okay, Chanyeol. You did well. You did well.”

“I’m sorry, Sister. I really want to become stronger, but it’s still too hard.”

Su-ah swallowed her surging emotions and wiped her moist eyes with her fingertips.

“We… must get out of here.”

Chanyeol just buried his face in her arms and sobbed.

Su-ah’s eyes, which were stroking his puppy-like hair, gradually turned poisonous.

Until now, she had left everything up to Chanyeol, but from now on, she planned to take charge herself.

And I couldn’t possibly forgive Raon for forcing a murder on an innocent child who knew nothing.

I’ve survived so far through swarms of zombies and lust-crazed survivors.

Even in situations where everything around him was death, he persevered.

Can’t I escape this little paradise?

Su-ah, who had made up her mind, muttered as if trying to calm a child.

“You’ve had a hard time. Don’t worry. I’ll help you now. I won’t give up until the very end, even if we have to die together.”

It was a peaceful evening, with the sound of people’s voices resonating outside the window.

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