Chapter 232 – 232. The American Dream

On top of the hill overlooking the view of the eastern camp.

“Oh my god…”

McCline, an Awoken who hadn’t yet entered the Maw, looked down at the crumbling camp in real time with his mouth open.

“Hey, calm down. We have to get out of here quickly.”

“Oh no… Fuck…”

Becky pulled McCline’s arm, who was staring blankly at the people who were collapsing.

She was Mackline’s girlfriend, and she had run away with him at night after feeling a sense of it the day before.

“I thought it was strange… It was strange from the time he kept instigating me to come to Hell. Never be fooled.”

Becky takes the lead and harms the forest, stretching her thoughts to her boyfriend McClain. McClein responded to Becky’s words, but he continued to look disbelief.

The sight of thousands of swarms of insects covering people and mushroom-shaped monsters crushing humans like jerky was terrifying. Zombies are scared to death, but as monsters that are more terrible than that crawl out, Mackline even felt despair at the unbelievable reality.

Even in a scene where most of the camp’s Awakeners have already been brainwashed by their enemies, McCline thinks that maybe she herself would have been brainwashed by those alien monsters if she hadn’t listened to her girlfriend Becky.

“I can’t believe it… That Ericsson was a traitor… I’m sure… He wasn’t the kind of person…”

“No, that bastard was originally a baby bat. Mackline, don’t worry about that… There’s a zombie in front of you, get your weapon out… Oh, fuck… Two Revenants…”

“Ah… I’m going crazy…”

Two special zombies with worn-out armor and rusty swords were roaming around, groaning strangely.

The slaves of aim have to hunt zombies even if they don’t like it because of the master’s order, so evolution zombies may look like common mobs, but to Becky and McCline, the awakened people of the eastern US camp who stayed in the base and didn’t go out, they were tough enemies to deal with.

“Can it be a machete..?”

“I don’t know.. I haven’t fought with those bastards either..”

In particular, Mackline, who was a pharmacist before the disaster, had only to manage people’s physical condition in the simple ward after the disaster, so he had little experience of killing ordinary zombies even with a great class called Elementalist.

Maybe that’s why Mackline was still only level 5. Even if he didn’t have to hunt zombies, there were many people who would fight for him.

At least Becky, a sword dancer class who used to get some exercise, worked as a vigilante at the survivor camp, so she has more experience hunting zombies than McLain… There was no

“Let’s just wait until we go…”

“Know when to go… Let’s take a detour…”

“Okay..”

In the end, the two gave up their fight and turned away from them while hiding in the grass. In the first place, their goal was to get as far away from the camp as possible, so there was no need to take risks and fight enemies.

Even the United States is so large that there are not as many zombies on the outskirts as there are in Korea. Thanks to this, the two of them were able to avoid the zombies all day long without any danger.

“Ha…Here… Let’s rest in an empty house.”

After walking through the woods all day, they found an abandoned cabin in the woods and entered it as soon as they found it.

Occasionally, there were houses built as separate buildings for hunting. It is highly likely that the forest where Becky and Mackline are in was also someone’s private property. Of course, someone is already dead.

“Becky, here. Vitamins and supplements.”

“Ah.. Haha.. Did you get this in the meantime?”

“Huh. Nutrients must be replenished.”

“Oh, Mackie, you are you too. You are amazing.”

Becky laughed at the pills Mackline handed her.

Maybe it’s because he’s a pharmacist, but Mackline was a little too obsessed with these nutritional supplements. After taking nutritional supplements, the two broke the canned beans they had brought.

“Shall we light a fire?”

“Huh. If you’ve come this far… I think you can rest assured.”

It got progressively colder as the day got darker. McKline, an Elementalist, summoned Salamander.

– Hurray.

“I like it because it doesn’t smoke.”

“I know..”

The two sat next to each other. While hugging the salamander that emits warm flames.

******

“Get up, both of you.”

“Hmm..?”

“What…”

A man appears in front of McClain and Becky after waking up. He was aiming his bow at the two of them.

“Uh…”

“Now, wait a minute…”

“Who are you both? This is my home.”

“Uh… That’s…”

The bearded man in a suit and ragged hair was a member of the Amish, a sectarian religious group believed to be concentrated mainly in Pennsylvania.

For reference, the Amish are, to put it simply, people who live like the Middle Ages even in modern times, like a kind of primitive tribe in America who didn’t even use buttons and electricity.

“Hey… Mister. Calm down for now. We have no desire to fight you.”

“Oh, that’s right… We ran away too.”

“You ran away? Where.”

“That is…”

Mackline explained the whole thing.

The survivors’ camp in the eastern United States was set up in the countryside of Chester, New York. At the news that it had collapsed, the Amish man drool and wiped his face.

“Nick, is he dead too?”

“Uh… Do you know Nick?”

“Okay. I have had help.”

“Aha… I’ve never seen Nick’s body, but he’s circumstantially supposed to be dead.”

“Oh, he was a good person… Then the largest survivor camp in the East must be over.”

“Yes.. I don’t know what their purpose is, but.. They don’t seem to be killing people indiscriminately. Maybe he’s thinking of grabbing people and going to something..”

“Maybe they’re thinking of setting up a human farm. Once Chester is down and they want survivors… It’s not safe here either.”

At the man’s words, Becky and Mackline’s expressions contorted.

“Both get up and get ready to leave.”

“Where are you planning to go?”

“I should go a little higher.”

So the three of them abandoned the cabin and moved upstairs.

An Amish male, Tony’s destination was New York’s Stewart International Airport.

It was because I heard on the radio that those who settled there were trying to escape to Europe.

Uncharacteristically for the Amish, who shun electricity, he worked hard on the radio. Amish men have long abandoned their religious beliefs in order to survive in a world that has been destroyed.

No matter how much he begged, his family members who were bitten by the zombies did not return, so his faith was in a state of ruin.

******

I was most surprised at the atmosphere of the camp to Ericsson was the mind of these chews.

Most Americans weren’t very keen on zombie hunting. Only a few people with combat-specialized jobs came forward and fought with a sense of mission, but most stayed at home cheering them on.

“What..? Aren’t you going to hunt zombies?”

“Yes. When most people couldn’t use ‘guns’… They gave up hunting zombies, saying they lost their motivation.”

“Will? Fuck…”

“There are hundreds of people who catch them even if they don’t dare.

“Is this America? Is this… America..?”

Without a gun.. No motivation to kill zombies.. How much firearms dependent nationality.

Yes, I fully understand the feeling of not wanting to die. However, the fact that most of the 4,000 or so people had never caught more than two zombies was shocking itself. That means that there are still people who have not yet been determined whether or not they are Awoken.

I’ve never felt this way before…

Yes, when Hyoseon Girls’ High School was invaded, the humans who were there also had this mindset. There are people who fight, so people who gave up fighting.

“They all enjoyed their irresponsible freedom too much.”

I wonder if all of this happened because there is no proper leader and commanding authority like me who blindly catches, brands them as slaves, and orders them to kill zombies.

As it turned out, Nick, their spiritual leader, only brought people in, but had no ability to manage them, and Michael tried his best, but he couldn’t manage thousands of people one by one. It seems that there was quite a lot of backlash because it was even racist…

In a word, there are too many locusts in Chester right now.

There’s no point in staying alive, and they’re stealing and eating food from people who need to live, so there’s no choice but to run out of food. I was dumbfounded when he said that he hadn’t even thought about fighting a zombie while eating so much.

Moreover, this world is structured so that it is difficult for humans who have not raised their level to 10 or higher by catching zombies in the first and second weeks to survive. Because. It was because there was a fucking update where all the normal zombies turned into evolutionary objects.

Zombies that had been walking around stupidly became intelligent and even used strange skills, but it was too much for an ordinary person who hadn’t even awakened to catch them. So, as a result of completely ignoring zombie hunting, most of the 4,200 people ended up living as non-awakened people.

‘Well… It’s not too bad.’

If these guys actively killed zombies, it means that my resources will disappear. In a way, I’m glad that I’m rather helpless.

‘Because zombies are also a resource to me…’

Somehow, during this attack on the Maw, the jet-black wheel evolved, and as a result, its offspring increased to hundreds of thousands. There was not enough food to feed these guys, but the United States, where zombies remained without being properly wiped out, could be said to be a land of yolks.

‘There’s no need to let the flesh of Hell eat away…’

I heard there are so many zombies in New York and other big cities, so I wonder if we can just send them all there.

‘Not just zombies.. Blind resources are everywhere..’

If you swallow the United States, it seems that you will get ridiculous supplies. Even if it’s directly connected…

‘Being able to walk between Seoul and the US in 12 hours… Is a ridiculous merit.’

Even if you try to walk from Seoul to Busan, it may take several days, but it is ridiculous that you can walk a distance that takes about 14 hours even if you fly. Even having set foot in the United States, you can reach not only Canada above, but also South America below.

‘I’m going to have to make a way through the hell…’

By connecting the entrance to the United States and the entrance to Korea in a straight line, you can travel between the United States and Korea at a faster speed. Even time flows differently inside and outside, to the point where it almost feels like teleportation from the perspective of people outside the Hell.

‘It’s actually a great integration of the North American server and the Korean server…’

Large agricultural fields and huge numbers of cattle. If you can get all the way to the American West, it might happen that you can eat LA Galbi in LA. I could make all of America’s ridiculously grand dairy and mega farms my own.

‘America’s new ruler…’

Just imagining something makes me feel strange. How did I end up drinking American water?

“Choose people who can operate an airplane, such as a person who can maintain an Ericsson vehicle or a pilot. And…”

I set all the humans I caught in the plaza. They were all non-Awakened. First of all, all the disabled who were judged unsuitable for survival among them were excluded from one side. He also drove the gray-haired old men into a corner.

“I kill all incapacitated insectivores. Among the old people, those who are useful and those who are just old are divided. And the super-high height and obesity are all going to be used as food for the jet-black cockroach, so leave them out separately.”

I have no intention of keeping alive those who needlessly survive and eat only food. Moreover, it would take an absurd amount of time to enslave all of them, so I ordered them to interview as the first strainer. Except for those who can be used as technicians or labor force, all the rest of the incompetent ones will be sacrificed.

In addition, since those with disabilities did not like evil spirits too much, they are all planning to give them a new life by making them infected through Ha-Jun Yoon, an Alcid infection. Finally, the useful old people were to be left to Hellus to be used as clinical trial samples for brainization.

“I’ll give you a week, so it’s all over.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Indeed, we have gained tremendous human resources. In addition, I monopolized the items Nick collected and the idol of the god he brought from the forest of the missing… Nick now has no place to return to. Although he doesn’t seem to have resurrected here in the first place.

******

“People are gathering inside and out.”

“Is that so… That’s really… Good news… Soon we’ll be able to reach our goal, right? Whoop whoop.”

Mei-Ling, a Chinese-American, looked down at the people gathered at the airport and smiled slightly.

Thousands of Americans had already fled to France. I thought maybe I could fill 10,000 people within today.

“Since it moved to the time of revelation… You will surely give me a chance to meet him again…?”

“Uh… Yes… Maybe…”

“Huh-huh.. I’m sure he will be happy too. The World Tree promised me. If I do this well… He said he would give me a potion of enchantment as a gift.. Then he said that only I would see it.

“Uh… That would be really nice..”

“That’s right. I’m sure.. It’ll be so good.. I just need me by his side. Yes, isn’t this what ‘pure love’ is? Huhuhu.. I’ll make you regret.. That you abandoned me.. Leaving such a good woman behind. Girl.. Make me regret it for the rest of my life by my side.. Huhehe..”

Mei-Ling was on the move after receiving a revelation from some of the gods of Mangwijeon who decided to be hostile to Manmajeon. She was following the orders of the gods only to reunite with Jo Joon.

Without knowing that Jo Joon had already entered the United States.