Infected - Chapter 68



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Episode 67

Jae-Jae and Young-Man left the barracks and walked toward the production area.

The soldiers who had become familiar with the face of finance opened the way for them.

From the direction of the outer wall, the loud noise of construction equipment could be heard.

Occasionally, I could hear the sound of a truck engine, and it felt as if I had returned to my normal life.

Except for the vegetable gardens that fill the apartment complex.

The production area was also full of workers.

The ages also varied.

There were a wide range of people, from students who looked like they had just started high school to middle-aged people with gray hair.

Young-man, who had been looking around the production area in silence for a while, opened his mouth.

“But, you, do you have any other worries besides this?”

“why?”

“I don’t think you’re a very sensitive person. Especially when people like that worry or show concern about something, it shows a lot. Tell me. There’s nothing in this world that can be solved by hiding it.”

“There’s nothing I’m hiding… … .”

Finances were a blur.

I was worried, though.

They said the soldiers would visit the market until the exterior construction was completed.

Private Kim Chan-yeol was also included there.

The problem is… … .

It was the platoon leader that Kim Chan-yeol was talking about.

That obsession and possessiveness are growing like paranoia.

Finance was concerned about that.

I somehow ended up getting involved with Kim Chan-yeol, and although I approached him first for personal gain, he was a guy I felt attached to.

‘Am I getting old?’

“At first… … .”

Jae-jae spoke as if he was pouring out his heart about his work with Kim Chan-yeol and his platoon leader.

Then, Young-man, who had been listening, nodded and crossed his arms.

“You’re more affectionate than I thought.”

“It’s not like that in particular… I just keep worrying about it.”

“What could happen? Whether it’s taking the loot or harassing the juniors, the important thing is that he’ll be very careful about his own life. The zombies won’t avoid the division commander’s son, and they’ll know to run away when danger comes.”

The problem was that those guys were mostly mean.

To survive, I am willing to easily sacrifice other people’s lives.

Finance didn’t say out loud the thought that suddenly occurred to him.

It was even more awkward because I felt like this.

After experiencing several crises since the virus outbreak, I began to feel a vague sense of justice without even realizing it.

He suddenly rushed to the barracks with Jeong-jin, saying that he had to change the plan to prevent unnecessary deaths.

Even without saying anything, Jeong Ijin probably thought something was strange.

For others who are not even colleagues with whom you have shared life and death.

In fact, I had long since forgotten anything like a sense of justice.

It’s not that I’ve lived without distinction between good and evil, but I’ve crossed that line quite often depending on the situation.

Because no one can turn their head away from the visible benefits.

I lived like that, passing it on.

I have never lived my life thinking deeply.

If talking didn’t work, then I just hit him.

When pressure was applied from above, beyond his reach, he took sudden action regardless of whether it was an ally or an enemy.

It didn’t matter whether I was disciplined or suspended.

There was only one person who followed obediently in front of the class president.

Because he was the only one I could trust and follow.

The class president must be… … by now.

I stared into the hazy fog in silence.

He might be wandering around somewhere out there, or he might be hiding somewhere and writing a survival story.

‘If you can’t be righteous, at least pretend to be. You have an innate cruel nature. It’s not something you can hide by trying to hide it. So, I’m saying you should use it to catch guys who are worse than you.’

The class president’s words flashed through my mind.

If I think about it carefully, it’s been like that even more since I met Jeong Ijin.

The other face inside me that I had been suppressing was raising its head.

Wasn’t it because he became close to Jeong Yi-jin and thought of her as a brother that he resembled her?

An innate violence that we try to hide, but cannot.

The two clearly felt a sense of kinship.

It was also about enduring the harsh training and roaming the battlefield, and about losing my comrades and leaving the military and finally settling down in the violent crimes unit.

Everything seemed inevitable.

“From here?”

Jae-jae turned his head at Young-man’s words.

As we reached the back of the apartment complex, the shape of a warehouse appeared vaguely through the fog.

There were several single-story buildings.

But then a problem arose.

A fence was erected at a point far from the warehouse, and soldiers were standing guard.

It was strange.

We are in a situation where we are short on manpower due to expansion work, and yet we are putting people inside.

Finance brought to mind the production area manager.

A person who constantly tries to please the finances.

If you think about it, the manager didn’t direct the finances in this direction.

Finance looked at the soldiers with sharp eyes.

They were yawning and chatting with bored faces that showed no sign of tension.

As I moved a little closer and closed the distance, I heard a conversation.

“Oh, this is so fucking boring. Do you have a lighter?”

“Can I smoke while I’m working?”

“Hey, who’s coming here… … .”

“I lit it. But what’s inside it?”

“Where? Warehouse?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“I don’t know, me either.”

“I have never seen anyone come in or out during that time.”

“Me too. But don’t think too much about it. We just have to do what we’re told. But compared to the kids who went outside, aren’t we just getting a piece of the pie?”

“That’s true. The problem is that time doesn’t pass quickly.”

The two smoked cigarettes and giggled.

“This makes me even more curious, but I’m worried because the fence is so tight.”

Young-man muttered as he took in the sight.

Then Jaejae, who had been looking around, took a step forward and said.

“Follow me.”

Finance hid itself in a relatively low-lying place.

Then he moved in a low posture, using the fog and trees to conceal himself.

“What are you going to do?”

“We’ve come this far, so we need to check a little more. The old man told us to come.”

Although Finance had come this far thanks to Youngman’s persistence, he did not want to return without any gains.

“Look, it’s true that you came because I asked you to, but the situation itself is more complicated than you thought, so please think about it for a moment… … .”

Young-man, who had been thinking of using the fog, seemed hesitant because of the fence surrounding the warehouse and the soldiers standing guard.

But finances were already ahead of their time.

“Damn… why is it so stubborn?”

Young-man followed behind, muttering something barely audible.

I was halfway through the garden surrounding the apartment complex.

There was a space between the fence leading to the border area and the fence surrounding the warehouse.

“Oh my… Have you ever been here before?”

Young-man looked at Jae-jae, who had found the loophole without much difficulty, and said in surprise.

“In a world where even fences can be breached, this is a small gap. You must have been sick and tired of military life, right?”

“There was no such thing in our time. There were times when they came down in a submarine openly.”

With those words, the two approached the warehouse.

The surroundings were as quiet as a mouse.

dripping.

Finance knocked on the wall.

The thickness was considerable.

It didn’t seem like it would be hiding monsters or infected people like one might imagine.

There was no reason for that.

If that were the case, the screams would have come out long ago.

After another half circle, I arrived at the door.

As expected, there was a numbered lock on the door.

“See, let’s go back now.”

“Wait a minute.”

The funds were moved to another warehouse.

Likewise, they were all locked.

I remembered the number of the first lock I saw, and took note of the listed lock numbers for the second and third warehouses.

“What are you doing?”

Youngman, who quickly followed, asked.

“There are three numbers that are the same except for one digit. The problem is that the number is a different single digit… This warehouse has the number ‘2’ set to it, and that warehouse has it set to ‘4’, and the other three numbers are the same, so probably… … .”

“It must be ‘3’.”

Jaejae nodded and put his hand on the lock.

If the numbers don’t match, I plan to try to match all the numbers except 2, 3, and 4.

Of course, not all predictions could be wrong.

At that time, I really had to step down… … .

“Huh? What are you doing here?”

At the voice that came flying in without a sound, Jae-jae and Yeong-man broke out in a cold sweat for a moment.

I slowly turned my head and saw a man standing against the fog.

He was the production area manager.

widely!

He came right up to my nose and started making a fuss, hitting Jae-Ye’s arm that was holding the lock.

“Oh my, sir! You’re going to get in big trouble! You absolutely must not come in here. If you do, I’ll be in a very difficult position. You said you clearly told me, so why are you here? Get out, get out!”

The manager, with his skinny body like a thornbush and prominent cheekbones, made a scene as if something really big had happened.

Thanks to that, even the soldiers who were standing guard came running to the warehouse.

They looked at the two people as if they had seen ghosts.

“Oh, how did you get in here?”

“Does that matter now? How on earth do you draw the line? I’ve already given you two names, so I’ll tell you everything!”

“I’m sorry. I’ll make sure this never happens again.”

The senior of the two bowed his head and took off his bulletproof helmet.

But the manager’s voice did not diminish; it grew louder.

“Of course! First of all, there will be punishment for today’s work! Oh my, how on earth are you going to teach work? No matter how foggy it is, how can you not know that people are coming and going in this situation?”

The manager, with his skinny body, managed to push the large man, Jae-jae and Young-man, out of the fence.

However, he did not stop criticizing the soldiers.

“Sir, please. If you do this in my area, I will be in trouble. Why on earth did you come here?”

“Well… I was just wandering around here and there… It’s foggy so I can’t really tell where I am.”

He scratched his head, pretending that his finances were poor.

Fortunately, that seemed to work and the manager didn’t say anything else.

“If you see it, Doctor, it’ll be a headache for nothing. Please don’t come here from now on. I beg you. Well, you might be wondering what’s inside there, but I don’t know what’s inside. I just don’t look because you told me not to.”

“Yes, yes. Thanks for your hard work.”

“You two, follow me! You’ll be able to eat well while doing this kind of work. I guess I’ll just choke you down.”

The manager turned around and glared at the soldiers.

It was a creepy duality.

“You’ve endured it for ten years.”

Young-man let out a short sigh.

Finance looked down at his wrist as he watched the manager moving away.

There was a red handprint on his wrist.

It happened so quickly that I don’t remember it clearly, but it wasn’t an ordinary strength.

Did you hit it so hard because you were so surprised?

I felt uneasy for some reason.

“But why?”

“No. Let’s go, now.”

The manager’s gaze kept following the back of Jae-jae’s head as he turned around.

* * *

Construction was in full swing along the riverside.

The workers, including Beomsik, Anna, and Hyeonsu, were working so hard that their clothes were soaked with sweat.

Meanwhile, the foreman walked around and gave instructions on the work.

“There’s no time! Let’s move a little faster!”

“Oh my, that kid doesn’t do any work and just talks nonsense.”

Hyunsoo, whose anger was rising, expressed his discontent.

“But you don’t give us shit.”

The goblin tattoo that was making mud next to him spoke soothingly.

It was clear that the foreman was nagging at a group of people, excluding them from the group.

“That’s true… but will it end today?”

“I have to finish it no matter what. I can’t keep doing this until tomorrow. As soon as the construction is finished, I’m going to take a shower at the water fountain by the river.”

This time the dragon tattooist said, wiping the sweat from his forehead with his shoulder.

At this, Hyunsoo’s eyes widened.

“Is there water in the sink?”

“It will come out.”

The eyes of the workers working around them were all fixed on him.

“Water?”

“There was a water fountain, huh!”

Suddenly everyone’s expressions brightened.

I wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but I thought it would be okay to drink the water from the water fountain.

Because when I was playing soccer at the school playground and got thirsty, I would run to the water fountain.

That was when.

“Huh? Huh? Everyone get out of the way!”

The workers working at the front shouted in a panic and scattered in all directions.

As I looked up to see what was happening, a line of six-ton ​​trucks appeared with a loud noise and rushed inside.

And at incredible speed.

At that moment, a crying sound coming from somewhere stimulated Beomsik’s ears.

When I turned my head to the familiar voice, I could tell it was the daughter of the man who had applied with Beomsik.

And then the six-ton ​​truck that appeared through the fog was hurtling straight towards the child.

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