Infected - Chapter 575



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Side story episode 62

A week later, Seoul.

Seungwoo, carrying a bag, is examining a crack in the building.

The notebook was full of notes of unknown origin, and his eyes were tired from walking around all day.

“… … .”

It seemed like that even more so because it had only been a few days since I got the vaccine.

Chanyeol advised Seungwoo to take a break, but he did not accept it.

I wanted to do the job I was given properly.

They wanted to prove their worth.

I wanted to be irreplaceable, not a useless coward.

Seungwoo’s eyes move busily as he goes back and forth between compartments.

There were no particular cracks in the safe zone.

Everything written in the notebook was useless.

Just to recap, where I went today.

But Seungwoo didn’t slack off even for a moment.

A suspicious person would not be easily noticed.

So, this was a battle of patience.

That doesn’t mean there was no harvest.

Several observation targets were discovered, and Chanyeol and Choi Hoon were observing them constantly.

If they showed any suspicious movements again, they would immediately go on a cattle hunt.

After looking around the basement, he headed to the water tank.

There were several giant water tanks, each as large as half the size of a large commercial building, placed in each section.

If, as expected from Finance, the enemies plan to poison or start a fire, the water tank will be the first target of attack.

As we went down underground, beneath the water tank, we saw pipes connected to the water channel.

Click!

He turns on the flashlight, looks around, and shines it on the sand he has scattered in the darkness.

There was no sign that anyone had been there.

As expected, it was the same today.

Time passed day by day, but the enemies made no significant movements.

“Where and how do you plan on starting… … .”

At first, I started doing it without thinking much about it.

I just want to do what I’m told and be of help as soon as possible.

But now it was different.

After spending sixteen hours a day doing the same thing, work became my life.

Seungwoo closed the iron plate leading down to the basement and moved to the next destination.

The safety zone was so large that to get around it, you had to move diligently from early morning until midnight.

To avoid showing a pattern, the starting point also changed every day.

This time it’s a water purification plant.

Although the water from Paldang Dam has been purified through several processes and has come in clean, it has been purified once more in the safe zone.

And he boiled the water and drank it.

The water Seungwoo was drinking now was that too.

He arrived in front of the water purification plant, having closed the lid of the water bottle.

At that moment, I was about to naturally enter the water purification plant.

Seungwoo stood in front of the door and looked down at the floor.

A small piece of colored paper that is put in the crack of the door every time you pass by.

The colored paper was lying on the floor.

Someone has been there.

Or maybe it’s still inside.

Seungwoo slowly stepped back and did as instructed.

Chi-chik!

“I hope you support the Gangbuk water purification plant.”

[Okay. I’ll go right now.]

The support team arrived in an instant, as if they had been waiting for us.

Armed with a staff and daggers, they open the door and enter the water purification plant.

Seungwoo waited outside.

How much time has passed like that?

A sound of something crashing and crushing was heard in the water purification plant.

Boom! Boom!

Seungwoo tilted his head and took a wrench out of his bag.

In the safe zone, weapons were not allowed to be carried by anyone except those who were permitted to, but Chanyeol and Choi Hoon provided their three friends with weapons for self-defense.

There is only one entrance anyway.

Even if he succeeded in escaping, he had to pass Seungwoo.

After a while.

A man ran out through the groans of the people.

He was a man who was under observation a few days ago.

Seungwoo grabbed the wrench he had hidden and swung it with all his might.

The target was the shoulder.

but…….

The man dodged it lightly as if he had expected this.

Then he kicked Seungwoo in the stomach and passed by.

“That guy!”

Seungwoo quickly got up as soon as he fell.

Then she threw down her bag and started chasing after the man.

“wait for a sec!”

As I followed her retreating figure, someone grabbed my arm from behind.

He was the head of the support team.

“You call people and check the water purification plant first! You have to check the water condition first!”

“Ah… … . Okay, I understand.”

Only then did Seungwoo come to his senses.

Now was not the time to chase after them.

By the time he was talking into the walkie-talkie.

Similar incidents occurred simultaneously throughout the safe zone.

In the area of ​​Yeju, and also in the area of ​​Siwon.

It was the moment when the spies who had been waiting like dead mice began their activities in earnest.

* * *

Same time.

A new wind was blowing from the south.

Several large-scale survival forces in South Korea.

They gathered their army and began to advance north.

The gathering place was the border area between North Chungcheong Province and Gyeonggi Province.

A few more days passed after that.

In the city center near the assembly point, the Chungcheong region troops that arrived first were taking control of the city center.

In the middle of the troops, a white-haired old man stands on a tall building and looks out over the area.

The number of troops gathered from nearby areas alone reached 50,000.

If the units advancing north were to join, the number would exceed 150,000.

Even if it couldn’t guarantee that it would reach Seoul, it was a number that could easily crush the safety zones of the mountain and the branch office.

The first target is the command center staying in the safe zone under the mountain.

If we were to capture them and take them hostage, it would be a fight worth fighting.

So, we had to gather together and strike at the enemy before they noticed.

A commander who was a former officer came to see the old man.

“It looks like everyone will be gathered in a few hours.”

“Okay, thanks for your hard work.”

“No. Do you have anything else to say… … .”

“No. You take care of the on-site command yourself. We’ve already had a boring conversation.”

“Understood. Then, as you instructed, we will begin our march north early tomorrow morning.”

The old man nodded slowly and looked down at the wide open city center.

A war with Seoul that had been prepared for 10 years.

The goal was said to be balance, but the real reason behind it was that Seoul had to be destroyed.

The four executives and Kyeon Yuk-seong, who are the main figures who created today’s organization.

They all had a debt to pay to Seoul.

We’ve done a lot of research and put in countless people.

Finance, the leader of Seoul, maintained close ties with Zhang Liming, who had gone over to China, and achieved rapid development with her support.

If there’s a variable, it’s the Marines, and they’ve taken care of it.

If they were to step forward, they could have used the nuclear power plant as a leash.

That was all the organization knew.

Of course, I didn’t figure everything out.

A horde of zombies suddenly appeared and completely destroyed the outpost that the organization had worked hard to build for many years.

And that’s not all.

Even the family members who had been held captive as hostages have all disappeared.

It was like a ghost town, only the people had disappeared.

And that too overnight.

Even a mouse will bite a cat when cornered.

In the end, Ken Yuk-seong pulled out the all-out war card he had been trying to pull out for the last time.

It was the will to end the war by turning the situation around in one room.

It was a disaster for the enemies.

In Seoul, in the rear, people are dying from poisoning, vomiting blood, and at the front, a large army is rushing in.

I wonder how long I can last.

It was such a perfect operation, but why do I have this uneasy feeling?

“hmm…….”

The old man groaned in discomfort.

At this age, you will have intuition even without any special abilities.

Moreover, the old man spent his entire life studying physiognomy and feng shui.

He was so outstanding that even experts wouldn’t even hand out his business card, but after experiencing an unpleasant incident, he lived hiding his identity.

In his eyes, it was not yet time for Ken Yuk-seong to die.

The perfect revolutionary statue.

“If you take off your glasses, you’ll see that this isn’t an ordinary face. Anyone can tell that it’s a face of the opposite sex… … .”

The problem came when it came to finances.

He was the king’s prize.

He was destined to face hardships when he was young, but as he entered middle age, he was destined to become an emperor.

In the old man’s eyes, this war was a fight between a king and rebels trying to overthrow the king.

If you succeed, it’s a revolution, if you fail, it’s treason.

To him, Seoul was like a strong castle protecting the king.

The old man knew his own fortune and physiognomy well.

A fortune that will make you stand at a crossroads of fate in your later years, when you should be at peace.

But fate was decided from the beginning.

Even before meeting finance, a relationship with Ken-yuk-seong was formed.

So I gave my all for the organization.

There were countless turncoats that the old man had singled out.

He even predicted who among the forces under his control would rebel and when.

Maybe that’s why.

The old man overestimated his abilities.

Since I’ve lived that way my whole life, it’s only natural that nothing would change.

His senses were screaming that he was missing something.

“What on earth… … .”

But nothing really came to mind.

At first, I thought it might be just the worries that come with getting older.

Actually, I wanted to pass it off like that.

But as the departure date approached, my mind became even more confused.

At that moment, I was lost in thought, watching the sun rushing toward noon.

The commander returned to the rooftop.

“Sir, all troops have been assembled.”

“What is the condition?”

“It’s better than I thought. The scale is also big.”

“Today… can you leave right away?”

“Huh? Today?”

“Yeah. I just wanted to change something.”

“I will check.”

“Okay, and you don’t have to come up with everything. Just relay it over the radio.”

“All right.”

The commander bowed his head and went down the stairs.

About an hour had passed.

The walkie-talkie the old man was holding began to emit a tone.

Chijijik!

[Sir, this is the commander.]

“Tell me.”

[Available to depart today.]

“You shouldn’t force yourself. You have to move within the limits of what’s possible.”

[Yes. I have fed them well and am getting enough rest. Just give me a time.]

The old man looked at the rising sun and thought for a moment.

Then he quickly nodded.

“Let’s get moving at noon. Divide the army into five groups. The 1st to 3rd groups will take control of the governor’s safe zone, and the 4th and 5th groups will take control of the empty house while the reinforcements leave from their safe zones.”

[All right.]

Now everything is ready.

As the sun rose into the sky, a war that would determine the fate of the Korean Peninsula was about to begin.

The old man didn’t move from the rooftop after that.

He didn’t drink any water or put any food in his mouth, and just looked up at the sky.

The fateful departure time has come.

Only then did the old man come down to the ground and board the command vehicle with the commander.

“I, teacher.”

“But why?”

The commander sitting in the passenger seat looked back and asked.

“What do you think Seoul will be like?”

“Well, it’s probably become a disaster. At least tens of thousands of people will die. Why do you ask?”

“As you know, we have put everything on the line for this war. If things go well, please send us to Seoul as the vanguard. Isn’t this an environment where anyone can survive if they just enter?”

The old man chuckled.

“That’s obvious.”

Only then did the commander look forward with a bright face.

In fact, they were the ones who were deeply troubled when the organization was going through repeated regressions.

But soon the order was given for a general offensive, an operation that could not fail.

There are hundreds of spies planted in Seoul so far.

It was impossible for all of them to fail.

If just one person had succeeded, the war would have been as good as won.

The vehicle carrying the old man and the commander slowly moved toward the center of the long marching column.

At this rate, the battle would be fought before the sun set.

I knew it.

Until I heard this radio transmission.

Chi-chik!

[Commander! To the front, to the front… … .]

“What? Tell me straight.”

[A large army has appeared in front!]

“prince?”

The commander looked back with wide eyes.

The old man had a similar expression.

He quickly snatched the radio and asked.

“What are you talking about? A great general?”

It was nonsense.

If the main force had departed from Seoul, news would have already been delivered during the preparations.

But the radio transmission that followed was even more spectacular.

[There are dozens of tanks parked on the highway! I have combat helicopters too! Give me the order!]

If it was an expressway, it was only a few blocks ahead.

An old man steps up onto the sheet and increases the magnification of his telescope.

The radio transmission was true.

“Where on earth… all those troops… … .”

On the Korean Peninsula, where oil has disappeared, tanks and helicopters have long been forgotten.

Who the hell are they?

At that moment, an unfamiliar loud noise echoed from the clear sky.

A formation of fighter jets streaked across, their white tails waving.

The old man’s hand, which was increasing the multiplier once again, stopped.

A red flag towering over the center of the rotary.

It was the Chinese flag.

Zhang Liming returned after eliminating all rebel forces in mainland China.

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