Chapter 3 – 3. Preparing to Sweep

“Please open the door.”

-Ah… Ugh…

A voice that seemed to be shaking violently was heard. The woman beyond the door was crying sadly. She was so anxious that someone might come crawling from upstairs or downstairs, but she was crying, so she was a little annoyed.

“If it doesn’t show up, I just leave. “She has no time to cry.”

As soon as I got ready to go down at half-notice, the fire door opened. It seemed like I was leaving it behind so I opened the door in a hurry.

“Now, wait a minute.. Hmmm.. Hmmm. Go, let’s go together…”

A woman in her her suit her her, probably her her her her office worker her her her, came out rubbing her face her her, covered in tears and her snot.

She was crying, but if you had seen her when she was okay, she would have looked quite pretty… She was quite small and had a cute face.

‘That’s not important right now, but…’

I watched the woman closely to see if she had been bitten by a zombie.

The woman was shaking, as if her legs had lost strength as she ran up the stairs. She even fell halfway up the stairs, cracked her knee, and her blood was flowing, and she was incontinent, so her bottom was wet with urine.

There were no visible signs of a bite on her body. Still, she was worried so she told the woman to take off her clothes.

“Ah…”

“I want to check if there are any bites. Take them off quickly. It’s urgent.”

“Uh.. Yes..”

When I told her to quickly take off her clothes and prove that she wasn’t bitten, as if it was annoying, the woman quickly took off her suit jacket her her her.

The woman quickly undressed until she was left in only her panties and bra. Fortunately, she had no bite marks anywhere.

“Then let’s go down now.”

“Uh, hey.. I’m sorry..”

“Yes?”

“Can you please carry me on your back? I’m really sorry, but I don’t have any strength in my legs. If I go down the stairs right now, I think I’ll fall.”

“Oh, yes.”

I felt a little uncomfortable trying to carry a wet woman, but she asked so earnestly that I had to check one more thing before I had no choice but to carry her.

“But how did you get here?”

“Yes..?”

“No… It’s a zombie world outside… I was wondering how you got home from work. Looking at you wearing a suit, it looks like you went out to work and just came back to the apartment… Do you have any unusual powers?”

Before taking off her clothes, the woman had an employee ID card hanging around her neck. She must have run away from home while working because the zombie virus had spread. How did she get here through the streets full of zombies?

‘I was rescued by the screams, but…’

After saving her, she realized that she couldn’t trust the other person at all in this situation.

‘Could it be that this woman is an awakened person?’

If you are an awakened person, you should check now. Because, like me, this woman might have the ability to kill other awakened people. Or maybe she just has the ability to become stronger by killing people. There were many instances where she deserved to be stabbed in the back.

“I came in my car..”

“Tea? “There must be a lot of traffic right now, right?”

“Well.. Well.. My car.. Is a compact car so I went into the alley..”

“Hmm..”

“Joe, I ran into some zombies.. Actually, I couldn’t tell if they were people or zombies.. I’m sorry. Ugh.. I’m sorry.. I think it was a person… U-what should I do.. I think I hit someone on the way.. Uuuuu.”

The woman burst into tears, saying she thought she had hit someone with her car on the way. While she was rationalizing herself that she must have been a zombie and not a person, she seemed to be overcome with guilt when I asked her a high-handed question.

‘I don’t think he’s an awakened person…’

It’s not something that can be overlooked just because it’s juiced, but since there’s currently no way to find out whether it’s an awakened person or not, it’s hard to tell.

Still, it seemed like she was really crying, so I helped her up and put her on her back. Even when she was on my back, she couldn’t stop crying, and she cried for a long time, burying her face in my back. Thanks to this, my back she became wet with the woman’s tears and urine.

“If you keep crying, zombies will come, so stop crying.”

“Hmm.. Yes.. I’m sorry…”

When I scared her that zombies were coming, the woman stopped crying. After she stopped crying, I asked her what number her house was.

“Over there… The house on the far left…”

“Oh, it’s room 701.”

“Yes… That’s right… “

For some reason, I thought I didn’t know the faces of people who lived on the same 7th floor, but it was the end and the end. I was in room 710, the last house on the right, but she was in room 701, the last house on the left.

“Then, you’re good at wearing a dandori.. Uh.. What’s your name?”

“This is Yoo Sae-yeon. That one…”

“Oh, I’m Kang In-ho.”

“Ah… Yes… Uh… Hey, thank you for saving me.”

“Yes. Please come in.”

Yoo Sae-yeon bows her head, enters the password, and enters the house. I left her behind and went to the house next to me.

Originally, I was planning on going around the 7th floor and robbing empty houses today, so I guess I’ll check everything out before nightfall.

My back her her was a little wet … But it was too much of a hassle to go home, change clothes, and take a shower. Even if it’s a little dirty, it would be better to finish your work and wash up. If you catch a zombie, you’ll get dirty again anyway.

-Ding Dong.

-Knock knock knock.

“Anybody home? Madam, it’s me. “The bachelor next door.”

There was no response to room 709. I put my ear to the door and concentrated on the sounds coming from inside.

-Wow…

All I could hear was the sound of an old refrigerator. It seems like there is no one.

‘The lady next door is definitely…’

Room 709 is a house where a woman who cleans a pharmaceutical company builds lives alone. She was the lady who sometimes asked me to change the light, but she said she lived here alone after losing her husband and raising her children.

Sometimes, when I make kimchi, he makes a lot of kimchi and gives me a kimchi to spare… It looks like he went out to work and never came back.

‘The lady’s kimchi was delicious… ‘

Putting my regret aside, I grabbed the security window on the window in the hallway and shook it. The apartment was so old that it was so flimsy that an adult man could pull it out if he shook it with all his might…

Why doesn’t it fall out?

-Rumbling..

“Whoa.. Fuck.. It’s not coming out so bad..”

I barely managed to tear off the security window. Naturally, the window was locked from the inside, so I carefully broke the glass with a knife. I hope the zombies will ignore this level of noise.

-Click..

I unlocked the lock and opened the window. I climbed over the window frame and went inside. There was really no one inside the house.

“Let’s see..”

First, I immediately opened the front door and removed the battery from the door lock. Now the door does not lock when closed. Then I opened the refrigerator and checked the contents.

“Oh…”

It was filled with all kinds of side dishes, including milk with a week left until its expiration date. There were vegetables and seasoned seaweed in a bean soup. There was also slightly discolored rice in the rice cooker.

I think we can eat dinner at this house tonight.

“There is also ramen…”

I robbed the house next door and bought a week’s worth of food.

Of course, I didn’t forget to wish the lady rest in peace.

‘I hope you go to a good place..’

Just as they robbed room 709, they also broke into room 708 by tearing off the security window. Of course, there was no one inside.

“Hmm..”

I remember that an old grandmother and her grandson lived together in room 708. The two of us didn’t have much contact, but sometimes when we went to the convenience store, we saw the grandson of this family smoking a cigarette in the alley with his friends.

‘I thought it would be very difficult for an old woman to raise a wandering child alone…’

Both of them are probably dead now. The old woman would have gone out to work and given a different order, and the grandson would have gone to school and died, or he is still locked up at school. Judging by his school uniform, he went to a boys’high school 30 minutes away by bus from here. It seems like he will never come back.

“Let’s see..”

Most of the things the old woman left behind were worn-out things. These are items full of blemishes that clearly show traces of time.

On the other hand, my grandson’s room was filled with all kinds of game CDs, including the latest game consoles. And there was also an aluminum bat erected on the veranda.

This is a weapon that is much easier to wield than a jangdori and has a longer reach.

I swung my grandson’s aluminum bat lightly around the room a few times. It had a good grip and fit perfectly. I think this would be good for removing zombie pots and destroying them.

“There is enough food… “

There was quite a bit of food in room 708 as well. Since there was pork, I thought I was planning on grilling it for my grandson today or this week, but I ended up eating it myself.

After closing the refrigerator door, I opened the TV shelf and found it full of medicine. These must be the things the old woman had in stock. With this amount, there seems to be no need to go to the pharmacy right away.

‘Next is room 707.. It’s the house where the man lives alone.. I wonder what’s there..’

The middle-aged man living in room 707 said to be the wild goose dad, according to the woman next door. I understand that he sent his entire family to study in the U.S. And he remained in Korea alone. Maybe that’s why the house smelled a bit like a widower. Is this person living without ventilation?

‘It’s so empty..’

It didn’t seem like a house where people lived. There was nothing that could be called furniture, and it was a bleak house with just a TV sitting on the floor.

“Kaaaaa.. Kahak.. Keaaaaa.”

While I was looking to see if there was anything to take, I heard the sound of a zombie crying from the closed bedroom.

“…”

I carefully opened the door to the master bedroom.

I thought it was an empty house, but there was a man inside the house. In a way I didn’t expect.

“Fuck..”

The man had turned into a zombie in the room. Judging by the fact that he was hanging himself from a laundry rack on the veranda, it appears he committed suicide and was resurrected as a zombie. Moreover, sleeping pills and soju bottles were lying around in the master bedroom.

Did he hang himself because he couldn’t die with medicine? In any case, he had so hard while hanging by his neck that he had become a zombie, so much so that almost all of the skin on his neck his was torn off and blood was flowing out.

“Kaaaaa…Kaaaaa.”

It appears that he has not been able to keep in touch with his family who went to the United States. So maybe he just committed suicide.

Well, since he was already dead, I can’t know the details… Anyway, through the uncle’s corpse, I was able to learn new information that even if you don’t get bitten, you will become a zombie when you die .

The news article did not provide detailed information about how infection occurs or how many hours after being bitten, the person turns into a zombie. There was only information that she was sensitive to light and sound and that her head, especially her brain, had to be destroyed to die.

‘To turn into a zombie even after death… It must be seen that all people in the world are already infected with the zombie virus…’

It may not be that you change just because you get bitten, but that you just change quickly if you get bitten while everyone already has the virus. If this is true… It’s a headache. If you are already infected with a virus, you never know when it will change…

They even said that if you die, you will always be resurrected as a zombie, so people who looked like they were going to die had to have their heads destroyed in advance. Today and tomorrow, people over 80 years old may die in their sleep and become zombies… This may lead to the era of attacks on the elderly.

“Kahak! Kaaa!!”

First, let’s send the man who tried to end his life by suicide but was unable to die and remained in this world to the afterlife.

-Bah!! Bah!! Pap deuk!!

Since it was hanging awkwardly on a laundry rack, there was no angle to hit it with a bat, so I took out my long sword and swung it. Soon the man passed away completely.

“Whoa.. Fuck..”

After smashing the man’s head, blood splattered on his face again. It’s so uncomfortable that the zombie’s blood keeps splashing on my face. Later, if I find something that can cover my face, like a helmet or a gas mask, I will wear it.

“Whoa…”

I dragged my uncle’s body down and threw it out of the veranda. It was clear that if the body rotted, it would naturally become infested with insects, so he did not want to leave it in the house.

‘There’s nothing special to take care of… ‘

I took five cans of beer from the refrigerator and my uncle’s car keys and came out. I think I can take my uncle’s car and go when I leave here later. Because I don’t have a car.

Fortunately, my father told me to get my license in advance, so I have a standard class 1 license. I also learned driving by following my father in a truck in my hometown. Driving is no problem.

“Then what’s next… “

When I came out, putting the car keys in my pocket, the cleanly washed woman in room 701 was waiting for me.

As expected, it’s pretty. Although she doesn’t look like a celebrity, she looks quite cute and pretty. Moreover, when she tied her hair in a ponytail, her thin neckline was clearly visible, which strangely stimulated men’s hearts.

“Over there..”

“Yes?”

As I stared, she hesitated and made me a suggestion.

“Would you like to go with me?”

“Yes?”

You probably realized that it would be difficult to survive alone. She was small and didn’t seem very strong, and she was barely 160 centimeters tall. It would not have been difficult to realize that in order to deal with the ruthless zombies, you would need help from a man.

‘She looks pretty… But carrying around a weak and incompetent person… Is a burden… ‘

Under the condition that it satisfies my sexual desires… It might be okay. In a world where the value of money has disappeared, a woman with nothing will have to sell everything she can to survive on her own.

But she had unexpected abilities.

“Um, I.. Did I just use a strange skill? I got something like that…”

“Yes?”

He said he hit someone with his car on the way… It seems his abilities have finally awakened. From what I see, it seems like this skill can only be awakened by killing something.

“Well.. I heard they acquired something called inventory…”

For a moment, I couldn’t believe my ears.

“Now, tell me in detail. Effects, penalties, everything.”

“Ah, yes..”

Yoo Sae-yeon began to give detailed information about the inventory. She probably thought that if she let her know about her abilities, she would treat her with respect.

“First of all, items under a certain size can be stored indefinitely. Uh… If you forget the items you put in with your handicap, you can never get them back.”

The moment I checked the inventory details, I was conflicted.

Are you going to kill this woman here and rob her of her of her of her of her her of her her powers her of her her?

Or should I just take him with me?

“Well, hey.. If you come with me.. Uh.. I’ll do whatever I can for you..”

At that time, Yoo Sae-yeon tightly held my hand that was holding her baseball bat.

Her heart was a little shaken. If she kills someone here and takes away their abilities, she has to write them down every time she puts them in her inventory so she does not forget them. However, if I take this woman on my side and take her with me, I just have to guarantee her her safety.

Then… You can have both inventory and Yu Saeyeon.

“Yes. Come with me. “I will protect you, Saeyeon.”

I smiled and held her hand.

She smiled as Yu Sae-yeon faced me, not knowing that she had just almost died.