Infected - Chapter 49



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Episode 48

Beomsik, who had reached the other side of the road, grabbed Hyunsu’s shoulder, who was standing stiffly like a totem pole.

A deafening roar could be heard right nearby, but I didn’t have time to turn my head.

“Wake up!”

Behind Hyun-soo, a truck was seen with its door open and crashed into a utility pole.

He pushed Hyun-soo into the passenger seat, jumped over the gear lever, and leapt into the driver’s seat.

At the same time, I pushed down the lock button on the driver’s window.

Click!

“Bow down!”

Kwak …

Beomsik, sitting in the driver’s seat, grabbed Hyunsoo’s hair and crouched down.

A violent vibration, as if an earthquake had occurred, shook the car from all sides.

The loud noise caused tinnitus.

Hit your head on the handle several times.

Beomsik raised his head slightly.

Black waves passed endlessly outside the truck window.

It felt like I was sitting in the middle of a herd of massive rhinoceroses charging forward.

I didn’t know what would happen if the car flipped over or the window broke.

Is this a blessing in disguise?

Because they were moving so tightly around the area, there was no room for the truck to flip over or fall over, as it was stuck in the pole.

I’m just shaking like crazy.

“Eww! Eww! Eww!”

Unable to withstand the vibration and noise, Hyunsoo screamed like a crazy person.

But even that was buried.

Beomsik, who was in the car with them, could barely hear.

How much time has passed like that?

It was more than ten times that I thought it would be over.

Outside, it was as quiet as if a typhoon had passed by.

“Ugh… Ugh… … .”

Inside the truck, only Hyun-soo’s voice, his teeth chattering, could be heard intermittently.

Beom-sik, who had come to his senses and was looking out the window, quickly covered Hyun-soo’s mouth.

“Oww! Oww!”

“Calm down, you punk. Look outside.”

Only then did Hyunsoo open his eyes and look out the window.

Thanks to the light pouring in from the buildings, there were easily over a hundred infected people walking around on the street, which was as bright as day.

Those who fell out of line.

They completely took over the empty road.

What about the rest of the group?

I looked across the street.

A human silhouette appeared in the brightly lit gas station office.

“after…….”

Only then did Beomsik breathe a sigh of relief.

You survived.

I had a hunch, but as expected, it was finances.

I burst out laughing at the thought that I had worried for nothing.

“thank you.”

When I looked to the side, I saw Hyunsoo with his head bowed like a criminal.

Beomsik, who was about to say something, was so exhausted that he didn’t even have the strength to express his annoyance.

He answered blankly, leaning his head against the back of his neck.

“You should have lived, you little punk.”

“yes…….”

Beomsik, who had been looking down at Hyunsoo with only his eyes turned, closed his eyes tightly as if he was annoyed.

Then he rubbed Hyun-soo’s sweaty hair with his palm.

“Listen, Inma. Have you sinned?”

“My brother already hates me, so I feel like I’m causing more trouble.”

“Ha, kid. You’re quick-witted. Did you notice?”

“Yes. A lot.”

Beomsik laughed quietly at Hyunsoo’s answer.

Then, as if he had no more strength to laugh, he closed his eyes and let his body fall limply.

“What do we do now, anyway? There are so many people gathered outside.”

“That’s right. There’s no way to contact them. I’m stuck.”

The car was filled with silence for a while.

There was no way to escape, and no matter what I did, it was difficult right now.

I needed time to conserve my strength.

Fortunately, there was still water and food left in the bags the two people were carrying.

All I could hear was the occasional crunch of a biscuit and the sound of someone swallowing water.

And so time passed again.

Maybe it was my imagination, but it seemed like there were more infected people roaming the streets than before.

Where do they keep coming from?

Beomsik turned the key slightly and sprayed washer fluid on the fogged window.

The infected reacted simultaneously to the sound of the drug splashing and the wipers spinning.

But I couldn’t figure out exactly where the sound was coming from.

I was just moving my head and jaw frantically like a chicken pecking at a tree.

As the windshield was wiped clean, the situation ahead became clearly visible.

I counted the number of guys with my eyes.

But soon I gave up.

Even at a glance, the number of people was over a hundred.

Counting them was meaningless.

“hey.”

Beomsik called Hyunsoo with his eyes closed.

“yes?”

“You said you broadcasted it, right?”

“Yes, on YouTube.”

“You must have made some money. I heard you have over a million subscribers.”

“Well… I’d be lying if I said I didn’t make any money.”

“Hey kid, watch what you say.”

Beomsik muttered with a voice mixed with laughter.

“But why is that?”

“Just. I thought it must not have been easy for you either. They say a million, but how can it be easy to please a million people? It’s hard to win the heart of even one person in this world.”

“But it’s not as good as I thought.”

Beomsik, who had his eyes closed, turned his head and looked at Hyunsoo.

Hyunsoo’s eyes looking out the window looked strangely lonely.

“Why are you suddenly changing the mood?”

“I’ve earned over a hundred million dollars so far. Do you know how much I have left?”

Instead of answering, Beomsik moved his eyebrows.

“I don’t have a penny left. And I planned on having that much.”

“Do you gamble?”

“… If it were like that, it wouldn’t be so unfair.”

“Then what is it?”

He seemed quite interested, so he lifted his head and started listening intently to Hyun-soo’s story.

“There was debt at home. Well, every home has debt, but it’s not common to have debts in the tens of millions.”

“you?”

“No, my parents. My father, to be exact. It’s an obvious story. I trusted my close friend and stood as guarantor, and then everything fell like dominoes.”

“How much did you pay back?”

“I haven’t even paid half of my debt. People say I’m a shit show brat, but honestly, I’ve done worse things than just taking off my clothes. I’ve given up on selling my face a long time ago, and of course I can’t date. Even if I earn a lot, I don’t have anything left.”

Hyunsoo suppressed his emotions and continued speaking softly.

“It may sound crazy to say this, but I like it now. There are no debt collectors coming to me every day, crying and making a fuss, and I don’t have to live in front of zombies while lying to myself. I was really sick of the way I spoke, the concept, and the voice that didn’t suit me. Rather… I’m better now.”

Beomsik looked at Hyunsoo quietly.

When I see a guy with such good looks say that he’s never dated, I wonder how many strange things he must have done on TV.

“Yeah. You might be better off now. You don’t have to pay it back or earn it.”

“But are we going to stay here forever?”

“Is there any good way?”

“No, that’s not it… I just had a feeling that it would be you, hyung.”

“If I had, would I have just sat here and listened to you whining?”

“But I don’t think you can whine again… … .”

Hyunsoo’s voice echoed through the floor.

“Go out and do something. Put on a shit show like that. You know what? They might like it.”

“Oh, really. That’s not it. How can you use someone else’s painful story like that?”

“But this kid is talking back to me because I mixed the words a little.”

“sorry.”

Beomsik let out a short sigh as he watched Hyunsoo quickly lower his tail.

Still, I strangely felt attached to it.

It was true that it wasn’t as hateful as other cases, and it even made me feel sympathetic.

“Oh, but now that I think about it, it’s a shame. When I went to the mart from the hospital, there was a toy walkie-talkie. I should have brought that with me. Oh man, I feel like a retard.”

Beomsik, who had been blushing at the thought that I had brought a walkie-talkie, shook his head and looked outside.

It was after a long time that I was looking at the rays of light pouring down from the building.

The voice passed by like a dream.

‘If something happens inside that causes us to split up or if there’s a problem and we get separated, we turn it on in 10-minute intervals. We promise to contact each other whenever the last digit drops to 0. I tried it, and when I turned the volume all the way down, I had to put my ear to it to hear it.’

I sat up with a start.

Hyunsoo, who was leaning back, was startled and surprised.

“Why, why are you doing that? You were sleeping so well, all of a sudden!”

“Huh? Me?”

Beomsik had fallen asleep without even knowing it.

“Yes, you were snoring. I was already worried about whether I should wake you up because of the noise.”

“Be quiet.”

My head was in a state of confusion.

It was a dream.

But the content was clear.

okay.

It’s a bag.

Beomsik hurriedly unzipped his bag.

Inside was a walkie-talkie and an alarm clock.

“Huh? What is it? It’s a walkie-talkie.”

Hyunsoo’s eyes widened.

“What minute is it now?”

“It’s… 29 minutes now. Why?”

“We each gave each of us a radio in case we were to disperse like this. We decided to turn it on and check every ten minutes.”

Beomsik hurriedly turned on the radio.

The power light came on with a noise, then it connected to the channel and the green light turned on.

I clearly said to turn it on in 10-minute intervals.

We communicate every 10 minutes until the last digit drops to 0.

Soon, 30 minutes passed, and then 31 minutes passed.

“Hey, Han Jae-jeong, can’t you hear me? Old man. Can’t you hear me?”

But the radio was silent.

“Fuck, I can’t stand seeing things being resolved so easily. What the hell are you doing?”

“Calm down, bro! You might not even be thinking about it because of the situation. What are you going to do if the radio breaks?”

Beomsik, who was about to strike the handle with the radio, clenched his fists and held himself back.

Even if he was quiet, he would explode like a volcano if things didn’t go his way at an important moment.

To Hyun-soo, such a typical emotional pattern seemed irregular and had uneven changes.

What should I say? He looks like what people commonly call a psychopath or sociopath.

Beomsik, who had calmed down for a moment, rolled down the window.

Then he half-pushed himself out and looked at the gas station.

I waved the walkie-talkie around several times, but no one was watching.

“Oh, wait a minute. Bro, isn’t that an alarm clock in your bag?”

“Right, why?”

“I can use this to lure those bastards to one side. Then we can go to the gas station!”

“With this? How?”

“this!”

Hyunsoo straightened up the toolbox that was overturned behind the backrest.

Then the stiff tape rolled down.

“If I wrap it tightly with tape and throw it, won’t it break? What am I talking about?”

“Of course it will break. But if you do it like this… … .”

When Beomsik showed his disappointment, Hyunsoo took something out of his bag.

It’s none other than a thin fall jumper.

Beomsik’s head turned strangely.

“Wrap it up.”

I wrapped the alarm clock with a jumper several times.

And I struck it hard with my palm.

It was fluffy.

At this point, unless you were really unlucky, it wouldn’t break even if you dropped it.

A color came to Hyunsoo’s face.

“But does this watch work?”

“Oh. I checked everything before bringing it.”

Beomsik answered while setting the alarm.

The time is exactly one minute later.

“When there are exactly 20 seconds left, I’m going to work the clock with your jumper. Then, you can count the seconds exactly from that point on. Out loud. Can you do it?”

“Yes, I will try. No, I will definitely do it.”

The two just waited for the second hand to tick away.

The reason I didn’t wind it up in advance and wait for the alarm was because the seconds counting down and the second hand on the clock might not match.

If you do that, the alarm will go off before you even get out of the car, and you’ll die without being able to move.

50 seconds, 40 seconds, 30 seconds.

Suddenly Hyunsoo asked.

“But where do I throw it?”

“I’ll take care of it! Just watch the clock!”

Beomsik, who received the watch at 20 seconds, quickly wrapped himself up in his clothes.

Hyunsoo started counting the seconds from the side.

“15, 14, 13, 12, 11… … .”

Beomsik, who had just ripped off the tape, began to wrap the bundle wrapped in clothes with tape.

But there was no time to cut the tape.

I tried biting it with my teeth, but the tape, which had become wrinkled from being wrapped around and around, did not break easily.

“10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5!”

“Hey, shit!”

“3! 2! 1!”

Bam!

Beomsik got out of the car first.

He twirled the tape that was connected to his clothes around and around like a rat’s nest, then threw it with all his might.

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