Infected - Chapter 528



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The more this happened, the more violently the zombies convulsed.

While pushing each other’s bodies and stretching out their arms.

As one of them lost his balance and fell, the zombies around him quickly stepped on him and climbed on top of him.

The height changed in an instant.

Eventually, the sentry had no choice but to pull the trigger.

“Oh, shit… … .”

Tata tata tang! Tata tang!

As their guns shot up, the faces of the zombies stretching out their arms became covered in honeycombs.

While he was despairing as he watched his comrades dying.

The reinforcements that had just arrived quickly dispatched the zombies near the outer wall.

Then he placed his rifle between the covers and began to fire back.

A hail of bullets and fire-spitting guns.

A loud noise, as if thunder and lightning were striking, engulfed the city center.

How many seconds passed like that?

At a point where not even half of the magazine was used.

The radios attached to the soldiers’ chests began to ring out in unison.

Chijijik!

[There has been a fire. Leave only the bare minimum of troops at each gate except the south gate to help put out the fire immediately. I’m announcing this again. There has been a fire in the warehouse. Leave only the bare minimum of troops… … .]

The heads of the soldiers who heard the radio suddenly turned.

Not far away, a plume of black smoke rose as if a volcano had erupted.

The problem is that this warehouse is no ordinary warehouse.

“Excuse me, isn’t that a food warehouse?”

“that’s right.”

“What the hell is going on!”

That’s right.

The place where the pillar of fire rose was where the food storehouses were gathered.

The soldiers’ faces turned pale.

Autumn was passing by before we knew it.

Soon the terrible cold of winter will cover the world.

When that time came, we had to survive only on the food and canned goods we had grown and harvested from spring to fall.

Until the warm spring breeze blows.

For them, loss of food meant immediate death.

A disaster worse than zombies was looming.

It was not easy to put out a fire that broke out suddenly.

It was a great help that I kept water in the water tank whenever it rained.

But it was only helpful to a certain extent.

The fire was finally put out after more than half of the food warehouse had been reduced to ashes.

We lost half of our food.

Among the bewildered soldiers, a middle-aged man who looked to be in his fifties appeared with his entourage.

A small, unattractive body with a face covered in dark freckles.

However, the look in his eyes was so fierce that it would not be enough to gather all the soldiers standing around him.

As he arrived at the warehouse, the soldiers who had been resting, blackened and charred, suddenly woke up.

“Governor, are you here?”

The soldier commanding the scene bowed his head.

The governor’s face, which had been tightly shut, began to tremble.

It was a food warehouse that had been worked on for a really long time.

We have been constantly managing and managing so that not even a single bug or spark can be created.

But I never dreamed that it would end up burning down like this.

The governor’s eyes scan the surroundings sharply.

He needed someone to take responsibility for this situation, rather than the future food shortage.

Someone to be the public arrow shield.

“What the hell is going on!”

His shouts echoed around the warehouse, where acrid smoke billowed.

The soldier in charge of the scene could not raise his head.

“Where did the warehouse manager go!”

“I’m leaving, sir.”

The governor’s eyes burned brightly.

“What? You tell me yourself.”

“I don’t know either. Suddenly, flames shot up and spread to several warehouses in an instant.”

“In an instant? Does that make sense now?”

The manager swallowed dry saliva and didn’t know what to do.

First of all, I had to say something.

“I, I think the fire didn’t start in one warehouse, but occurred simultaneously in several warehouses. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have spread this far. And the distance between the warehouses… … .”

The governor, who had taken a step closer, poked his chest with his fingertips.

“So… what you’re saying is, who set the fire intentionally?”

“Yes, that’s what I saw.”

“Don’t tell me what you think, don’t tell me your perspective. Tell me objective information. If you don’t want to have everything turned upside down.”

The manager suddenly became scared at those words.

“Oh, it’s true! Someone set the fire!”

“Someone started the fire. Who? Why?”

“I’m also good at that… … .”

The governor walked with his arm around the manager’s shoulder.

“Listen carefully. Don’t talk nonsense in front of people. You’re the one who manages this warehouse. That’s why I put it there. That’s why I tolerated the things you put in your family’s mouths without telling them. Got it?”

“…All right.”

“Find the kid who set the fire right now. You’re the one who lives here. If you can’t find him, at least make him up. Otherwise, you’ll know.”

The governor shook his head.

“I mean, I don’t want to carry someone else’s mistakes. I don’t want to. So let’s wrap this up properly.”

“Yes, I will do that.”

The governor turned around and tapped him on the shoulder.

The soldier in charge of the scene received something from his subordinate.

“Governor!”

“what?”

“This… … .”

He held out a piece of blackened paper.

Although the white background was dirty due to the ash, it was not so bad that the contents were illegible.

It had this phrase written on it:

“The ceasefire is over.”

Basasak!

The governor became very angry and distorted the paper in his hand.

“These crazy kids… … .”

That wasn’t the end of it.

A soldier came running hurriedly.

“Governor!”

“What now!”

There was no way the words would come out nicely.

The soldier was panting so hard that his saliva was running before he could finally speak.

It looked like he had been running for a long time.

“Sanha… Sanha has destroyed all the forward bases in the middle! It is said that all the troops stationed there have been taken prisoner!”

“… … !”

The governor was so dumbfounded that he was speechless.

Who initiated this ceasefire?

At the time, they were trying to push forward with overwhelming force.

The Sanha side knew that they were heading to Seoul and requested negotiations.

With the promise to close the door and quietly clear the way, and to provide troops whenever needed.

The governor had to argue with key figures leading the safe zone over the issue.

For him, the vaccine was more important than anything else.

But unlike other places, it was a group formed by several forces coming together.

Even if you sit in the leadership position, you can’t do everything as you please.

Those who want to conquer and those who want to postpone.

The two opinions were in sharp conflict.

The governor felt a headache coming on that he had never had before just thinking about it.

But in the end, they accepted the ceasefire.

What followed was a barbaric act of burning food stores and raiding outposts.

For him, it was a serious incident that could cast doubt on his qualifications as a leader.

“And now, people from the occupied outpost are coming from Sanha. It seems they want to talk.”

The governor ground his teeth.

Action has a reaction.

I had to do something so that my qualifications wouldn’t be questioned.

The people here had never experienced defeat before, so something needed to be shown.

The governor gathered his troops by radio and headed straight for the north gate.

Big names from the safe zone arrive one after another.

The mood suddenly became heavy when a soldier with burn marks on one of their faces arrived.

Commander-in-Chief in charge of the troops in the safe zone.

He approached me, his long hair and combat uniform on, his eyelids bulging from burns.

Is it because of his particularly tall height?

Standing face to face with the governor, it was like seeing David and Goliath.

“… What happened?”

The commander’s voice, echoing like a snake, coils around the governor.

After his brother came back crippled with a ruptured Achilles tendon, he cut down on food and sleep.

It was a pledge that I would not give up even for a moment until I caught that bastard, no, those bastards.

The soldier standing next to the governor explains the whole story.

The face of the commander looking out of the north gate was hardened.

This was not a simple provocation.

If they had only attacked the outpost, it might not have mattered.

Not only did they infiltrate the interior, they also burned down more than half of the food warehouse.

In fact, it was as good as starting an all-out war.

The corners of the angry commander’s mouth twitched.

“… What did I say? Didn’t I say that peace must be achieved through force?”

Arrows of resentment were pointed at the governor.

“Since you said you sent someone, let’s meet up.”

As soon as the governor finished speaking, a van started to drive by.

The commander-in-chief glared at him with a furrowed brow as if he was frustrated.

“Why? Are you going to call another ceasefire?”

“If they were planning an all-out war, they wouldn’t have sent anyone. They would have attacked right away. That means there must be a reason, but when you fight, you have to know what you need to know. This time, I don’t plan on just sitting still.”

“reason…….”

“After you hear the reason, you can tell us your answer.”

The commander-in-chief snorted.

Then he snatched the rifle from the soldier standing next to him.

He changed his gear and strode out of the gate.

“Hey, Commander-in-Chief!”

The panicked governor hurriedly called out, but he was already that far away.

and…….

Before people could even get out of the slow-moving van.

Tata tang! Tata tang!

The commander walked over, rifle at arm’s length, and pulled the trigger.

Bullets pouring down without hesitation.

His thick shoulders and sturdy physique, like those worn with armor, helped absorb the recoil.

The glass windows were breached and the driver’s and passenger’s seats became honeycombed.

Tata tata tang!

Even people who opened the doors on both sides and came out collapsed with multiple gunshot wounds to the face and chest.

The car was full of bloody flesh and shards of glass.

and…….

The whole area became quiet as if nothing had happened.

As the commander turned around, lowering his gun.

A group of soldiers rushed towards the van, rifles strapped to their shoulders.

As soon as he passed through the gate, he handed over his rifle and spoke to the governor.

“… This is my answer.”

Then he glared at the safety zone officers standing around the gate.

Except for those who were on the same boat as the commander, everyone was busy avoiding eye contact.

He dominated the atmosphere with just one look and spoke to his subordinate officer.

“Gather a thousand men with combat experience. Now.”

“All right.”

The officer saluted and hurried into the safety zone.

The governor, who was watching the scene, asked with a bewildered face.

“No, what if you kill them all of a sudden? At least listen to their story… … .”

“From now on, I will take control of all situations.”

“…What did you say?”

The governor’s eyes, looking up from below, sharply rose.

“The governor said he would clean up the mess for you. So don’t get involved and make things complicated for no reason, just stay still.”

“Hey, Commander-in-Chief.”

“I don’t think you have anything more to say.”

“Are you sure you won’t regret what you just said?”

The commander-in-chief burst into laughter.

“Because I’ve never lived with regrets.”

“Oh, right. I’ve been so nice to you all this time, haven’t I?”

“Shouldn’t a favor be repaid?”

The governor grabbed the commander’s combat uniform with a strange smile on his face.

Then he gently pulled the part that was folded like a knife.

“… They dress up something that’s about to die in a military uniform, and they think they’re human. The commander-in-chief once said something like that. A dog that bites a person doesn’t deserve to exist.”

“That dog turned into a human.”

The eyes of the two people facing each other were burning as if they were going to devour each other at any moment.

The once solid structure of power was shaking.

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