Infected - Chapter 531



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Side story episode 18

“…Is that the answer?”

Sanha was quite embarrassed.

That’s all I want.

“Yes. Warm water to shower in, a room to sleep in, and plenty of food to eat. Indefinitely. How about that? I don’t think that’s too much to ask.”

“Of course. But… … .”

“however?”

Sanha couldn’t believe it at all.

If you just satisfy that, I will continue to help you in the future.

Seoul, as I heard from the governor, was a place that had everything.

It could truly be called a paradise for survivors.

That’s all a person from that place can ask for.

“… No. Is there anything I should know?”

“Yes.”

“What is it?”

Gaon, who had narrowed the distance between them, tilted his head slightly toward Sanha.

“If you betray, you die. But if you keep your promise until the end, there will be a reward.”

“What is it? That compensation?”

“Because I see what you’re doing.”

“under…….”

Sanha was so dumbfounded that he couldn’t even laugh.

In fact, there was nothing else he could do.

Because the whole situation was going in a way that required Gaon to cooperate.

The problem is that nothing has been revealed about her.

That he came from Seoul and that he understood the governor’s intentions.

These are only Gaon’s words.

But Gaon’s attitude was so natural that I couldn’t refute it.

I thought I had been through everything in the 11 years I had survived.

This young woman was unlike any other person he had ever met.

A completely new type of human being, never experienced before.

If only he were older, he would be less threatening.

Her fresh, young appearance made her seem even more dangerous.

“I am…….”

Sanha continued speaking, his eyes tightly shut.

“I don’t need anything else. As long as my people can live safely, that’s enough for me. I’m not greedy.”

“Don’t forget that feeling.”

“Of course. That’s the only thought that’s kept me going this whole time. Oh, and about the vaccine. Is there really a vaccine in Seoul?”

“Why is that?”

“Why? This is the first thing anyone would wonder.”

Gaon let out a faint smile.

“Sanha, you are such an honest person.”

“There’s no reason not to be honest.”

“There are many people who are dishonest even without a reason. Of course, I haven’t experienced it yet, so I don’t know if that honesty will lead to action.”

“I told you, I’ll cooperate with you in anything.”

“Really?”

“yes.”

Sanha answered confidently.

But when I heard the answer, I stopped.

“Hand over the military power. Only while I stay here.”

“… … !”

Gaon’s head tilted again.

“What is that reaction?”

“… the military already has someone leading it.”

“It’s not because that person can’t do it properly.”

“If the commander suddenly changes, there will be complaints here and there. It will be even worse if it is an outsider.”

“That’s what you need to do from now on, Sanha. There might be noise. There might be complaints. But, whatever it is, isn’t it better than dying? Those kids standing outside. They were like that at first too. They couldn’t accept me.”

“Where on earth does such confidence come from?”

“In terms of skill.”

As he said that, Gaon placed his hand on the dagger on his waist.

Then he stared intently into Sanha’s eyes.

“Until the next battle, Sanha will take control. After that, I will take care of everything.”

Sanha was silent.

But the answer was already decided.

A situation where there is no choice but to do as Gaon wants.

“There is a saying that silence is positivity. So, I guess that’s what I know.”

Then he got up from his seat and disappeared out the door.

* * *

“Finally a break!”

“Oh, I think I’m going to die… … .”

“hot water!”

The platoon members who entered the communal shower room cheered without saying who would go first.

I can’t even remember when I last washed and slept.

Not only did everyone have dark circles under their eyes, they were so exhausted that they would nod off even if they sat down for a short while.

For them, taking a hot shower was an unthinkable thing.

Inside a public shower room filled with steam.

The spotted man, who was washing the foam off with hot water, looked at his men and said.

“Wow, this is killing me! This is it!”

“That’s why. I want to go there quickly and pass out.”

“But now that I think about it, it really was just as you said, Captain. You said you’d let me rest comfortably tonight. You’re a man who keeps his promises.”

“It’s not Captain, it’s the Captain.”

The polka dot felt strange listening to the conversation between the platoon members.

If you think about it, it all happened suddenly.

Gaon appears in a completely unexpected situation and is persuaded out of the blue.

In fact, I followed her blindly in order to survive, but I couldn’t believe what she said until the battle was over.

Isn’t the governor’s safe zone the largest in the southern part of the metropolitan area?

At least in the west.

The idea that we could fight and win against them was hard to believe.

But I finally did it.

Of course, this was just the beginning.

Anyway, the platoon members survived with minor injuries and were just waiting for a sweet rest.

Suddenly, I thought that Gaon was scary.

She not only possessed outstanding individual skills, but also had the ability to see through the battlefield and command.

What would have happened if Gaon had not met Eugene?

They might have been the ones who died in battle today.

Now all that remains is to subdue the governor’s safe zone and rescue his family.

It wouldn’t be an easy fight, but it was now something that could not be undone.

You have to fight whether it means death or life.

The spotted man, who came out after washing his body, looked at his platoon members.

There were quite a few cuts and stab wounds here and there.

But his expression was brighter than ever.

“Today… everyone had a hard time surviving without dying.”

At that moment, the platoon members’ eyes all turned to him.

Originally, DotBag was a regular platoon member without a rank.

He became an adjutant after the confrontation with Gaon.

It took time for my perception to change, and now I was in an ambiguous position, neither here nor there.

“Let’s survive the next battle. Let’s survive and live like humans from now on. With our families. I know I’m lacking. But I’ll do my best like I did today. I’ll try my best so that you don’t die or get hurt.”

The expressions on the platoon members’ faces suddenly became serious.

It was the first resolution I made as an adjutant.

There was an awkward moment.

In the end, no one answered.

The atmosphere naturally changed to the commotion going back and forth in the locker room.

Around that time.

Eugene, who had finished suturing the wound, came in holding a bath basket.

Then, starting with the voice of the sergeant, the platoon members saluted.

Eugene passes them with a bewildered look on his face.

“What’s with this reaction? Keep doing what you’re doing, you little shits. It’s disgusting.”

“But, Captain. The adjutant is shouting that he will spare your life if you just trust him and follow him. Can we trust him?”

One of the platoon members asked in a playful voice.

“Of course you should believe it. If it weren’t for him today, several of you would have died. He blocked almost all the attacks from behind. He kept poking and stabbing like a crazy person, and I really thought he was crazy.”

“ah…….”

At those words, the platoon members just blinked like carp.

“There’s a reason why people tell you to trust them. Did you guys have anyone’s back when you fought today? Me. I suddenly got a new leader, and I had to stab and kill someone I knew a few days ago, but I’m sure of one thing. You have to trust and follow a strong person.”

Then it was Eugene who went into the shower room.

The platoon members who filled the locker room were taken aback by the unexpected words.

Then, someone opened his mouth.

He was a man who had been an adjutant until a day ago.

“Adjutant, I will believe what you said earlier.”

I wonder if it works.

His platoon members also added their own words to his courageous words.

“If you can’t do it, I’ll come up right away.”

“Why you? I’m next, you little shit.”

“Honestly, I’m not used to it, but I’ll try to follow along. I’m still awkward with being respectful like this… … .”

Dotted smiled faintly at the words of his platoon members.

For now, this alone was enough.

* * *

That moment.

Gaon was looking around the safe zone with his group.

Some people welcome the news of victory with joy.

There were also some who looked at me with strangely wary eyes.

Han Seung-woo, who was looking at them, said.

“This place doesn’t seem prepared for mutations at all. Isn’t it?”

“That’s because we live in one house.”

Gaon pointed to the person opening the door with a key and entering.

“You can prepare for that?”

“If you lock the door from the inside, you can’t come out even if you turn into a zombie.”

“ah…….”

Han Seung-woo was so dumbfounded that he was shocked.

There is such an easy way.

The governor’s safe zone was used as an excuse to confine and control people under the pretext of mutation.

That’s what it’s like to be human.

Even if it’s something obvious, if you get brainwashed and get used to it, you won’t even think about it.

This can be seen from the fact that there hasn’t been a single escapee in the past year.

The will to run away itself disappears.

Son Ye-ju patted Han Seung-woo on the shoulder as she watched someone lock the door with a key.

“Look at that. That’s why I always keep it locked.”

“Why do you lock the door when you go out? There’s no one inside.”

“I guess they’re doing that in case someone breaks in. Just imagine if someone breaks into the house while the owner isn’t home and mutates.”

“Oh, that’s a good idea. Seonwoo, you guys don’t have anything like this, right?”

“Yeah. Thanks to the vaccine, we don’t have to worry about that.”

“Wow, you’re developing a vaccine.”

“Of course it wasn’t easy. It took a lot of time, and there were sacrifices from many people. No, I heard that it was. I heard that it was a process that was more intense than I could have imagined.”

“A fierce process… … .”

The group was lost in their own thoughts.

“I know Gaon because he’s been around adults since he was little, but I don’t know much because I’ve always been at home.”

“How was it, Gaon?”

Son Ye-ju approached Ga-on closely and asked cutely.

Gaon’s eyes narrow as he walks without thinking.

A military truck rushing towards him from the safe zone.

The moment when I was rolling on the floor in Beomsik’s arms flashed before my eyes.

The raft, the poisonous snake, the gangsters, and Beomsik’s dying face come to mind.

In the midst of all this, the pale figure of Beom-sik, who had been begging me to run away to a safe place and to survive until the end, flashed before my eyes.

Gongdu, Gyeonyukseong, and Hyeontae, who saved the life of such a commoner, and even Jinna, Elena, and Jake, who met on the roof of the mart.

Just thinking about it this far, there are countless memories to be had.

Considering the journey to the bunker, even this was just the beginning.

Gaon has been trying not to forget any of those moments.

These were precious moments that she did not want to forget, so much so that she even wrote them down as if she was writing an autobiography.

“Seonwoo is right. Every moment was a series of intense crises.”

“As they say, people who are destined to become great are different from the start. Thank you, Gaon. If it weren’t for you and Seonwoo, we would have been dead by now.”

How many crises have we overcome?

An invisible, strong bond was forming between them.

“That’s right. We want to be helpful in the future, too. Not just shooting guns from afar.”

Han Seung-woo and Hwang Si-won spoke with determined eyes.

Gaon looked at the two people with a faint smile.

“Want to help?”

“Okay! I’ll do anything!”

“You too, help someone someday. That’s all that matters.”

“Hey, what is that… … .”

Han Seung-woo and Hwang Si-won looked as if they were really excited.

“Doing good deeds is like giving love. I said it before. If it weren’t for us, you would have died already. Seonwoo and I are the same. If it weren’t for the hands of adults, it would have ended already.”

“I guess so.”

“We helped you just like the adults helped us, and later on, you can help someone else. Of course, it will take a lot of hard work to do that. But, one thing is for sure, it is worth it. So, you don’t have to repay us.”

The faces of the three people became serious as they listened to the long story of Gaon, who was a man of few words.

At the same time, he showed a look of longing.

We were definitely the same age.

It will take a few months to see any difference.

But the difference in opinion was immeasurable.

The three people thought.

It is possible to do something because the thoughts are strong.

So, they decided that they too must become stronger.

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