Chapter 115 – Stranger (1)

Stranger (1)

Banseok University Daehangno.

It was definitely a familiar street, but it was a street that gave off a strange feeling for some reason.

On the first day of the zombie outbreak, thanks to zombies pouring like ants from an overturned bus-

When occupying the College of Humanities, thanks to some giant zombie strain that makes the ground tremble with just a cloud of feet…

The next chapter in the wide cage of college that could not be easily passed.

The central road that stretches all the way to the university and the small roads that spread out like a spider’s web centered on the road.

I swung around at the buildings of various appearances that filled the roads.

Numerous franchise restaurants and fast food restaurants where college students could easily get their meals.

Numerous mutual coffee shops that seemed to be located one by one in each building.

At a glance, you can see who the target audience is—luxury-looking restaurants and bars with various concepts that naturally make you want to take pictures.

And the signs on the outer wall of the building, which were lined with contents promoting entertainment, were captured one by one again.

Room escape cafe, PC room, billiard room, coin karaoke, etc.

Recalling the streets of my youth, which were always filled with smiling college students, I let out a light laugh that burst out without my knowledge.

Where did all the couples who were so annoyed with cold eyes and the group of people who overslept and chatted loudly go?

In Daehak-ro, which was always bustling with people, only the gruesome traces of the tragedy of the day and abandoned vehicles rubbing against each other remained.

Clink-!

“Stop! How many times do you have to tell me not to block it with your fucking asshole-like body, but to block it with the shield you are holding—you ignorant bitch—!”

Eh eh eh!

The screams of zombies leaking out from time to time in the middle of the Daehangno building-

“Again, like an idiot, don’t touch condoms and cigarettes first, and clean up the food properly, okay?!”
“Yep-!”

Only the sound of my camp members busily collecting all the supplies in Daehangno was full.

One of my favorite amenities in Daehangno.

From a certain distance, I was very grateful- I looked at the convenience stores that were located close to each other and shed a bright smile.

Under the guidance of search crews who have had quite a bit of time, the camp members come and go from the convenience store to the prepared truck without rest.

Every time I put my eyes on the food and supplies piled up in the boxes they were carrying, a smile that would tear the corners of my mouth beyond the bright one spread.

When I saw the rice bags carried on my shoulders from inside the restaurant, I shook my head as if I had an orgasm.

Tung-! Tung-!

“Okay— car number 1 has been checked, so let’s go!”

The central road to the main gate of the university, which was hurriedly arranged to use the transportation vehicle.

On top of it, Goh, who was staring alternately at the truck loaded with supplies and the recording paper he was holding, shouted loudly and knocked on the truck.

The truck returns to the university with a strong engine sound at Koh Jang-hun’s signal.

At the same time that Car No. 1 left, Kang Cheong-shin, who was diligently recording supplies in front of Car No. 2, was seen handing the recording paper to Koh Goh, who hurriedly approached.

Koh Jang-hun, taking over the record sheet given to him by Kang Cheong-shin, hurriedly began checking the second car and the record sheet alternately.

The materials that have been filled in like this will be piled up in the training center one by one according to the type.

As the camp expanded to cover the entire university, it was no longer possible to store supplies only on the 6th floor of the library and in the basement.

For this reason, the teacher’s college closest to the library was repurposed and used as a material storage warehouse.

Since it was a college that had been remodeling as a second residential space following the library, it was easy to place campers to protect supplies-

It was located right next to the library, so it was not bad to prepare for an unexpected situation, so it was decided to change the use.

Tring-!

[The progress rate of the cradle of ‘Banseok University’, a national treasure, increases.]
[Progress rate: 7%]
(Securing drugs from convenience stores and pharmacies)

As soon as Car No. 1 entered the main gate of the university, the alarm sounded in my mind.

… 2%.

He shook his head lightly, thinking about the percentage of cradleization that was raised by the drugs in pharmacies and convenience stores he had collected as his top priority.

Now only 7%.

It was a progress that was too far to reach 100%, but I decided to place significance on the fact that the progress rate was rising.

No, it was much better for my mental health to think that way.

The progress of cradleization, where no clear breakthrough is seen except for occupying a large general hospital or securing an innumerable number of medical personnel.

However, the problem was that those two were not elements that would fall from the sky in a hurry.

There was a way to forcibly secure the medical facilities of the general hospital, but it was a factor no different from securing a group of medical personnel in that they had to be sent to the university anyway.

Don’t be impatient for nothing, calm down a little-

T-ring— T-ring— T-ring—

[A Tribute of Obedience]

[You have earned 1 point.]
[You have earned 1 point.]
[You have earned 1 point.]

The best breakthrough was to expand the occupied territory step by step and secure medical facilities like the points that are still being piled up one by one.

“Eh eh eh!”
“Ugh, uhhhhh!”

Pooh-!

“What are you doing-! If you get bitten, don’t be dazed, pour in the medicine, the medicine first!”

Coo-! Coo-! Coo-!

However, the scenery of Daehak-ro, which was very different from the mindset just before, was unfolding.

“Does it make sense for a kid to cry in this situation, you bastard! Don’t do anything nonsense, call Linnea first!”
“… Yes, yep! Lee, Linnea Cee― Please apply for a variant here!”
“Yes, I understand-!”

Daehak-ro is too crowded to be a step-by-step process.

He let out a small smile while watching Linnea, who was busily going back and forth to Daehangno and supporting the search team.

Clearly, there are no variables and safety is overwhelming to secure each building in Daehakro step by step.

But, that’s contradictory again…

It wasn’t the situation I was hoping for.

“… Daniel-!”

Linnea’s shout as she came out after dealing with the mutant Siren hidden inside the coffee shop.

I stared at Linnea’s destination as I hurriedly started my run, her eyes wide open.

A foreign camper walking out of a convenience store carrying a box of food.

In the name of regrouping the search team, one of the scattered dormitory campers raised his head at Linnea’s shout.

“No-! The damage, the damage—!”

After meeting Rinnea’s eyes while looking at the box, her head lifted up again following her gaze.

In their pupils, there is a mutant that sticks its face out from the roof of a shopping mall toward the ground.

“Ooooo!”

Vomit pouring from his wide-open mouth behind a disgusting sound.

Dump-!

The dormitory camper, who watched the vomit fall to the ground in an instant, sat down on the ground.

It was the aftermath of the act of forcibly moving his trembling legs.

The disgusting vomit dripping down from the rooftop, and the dormitory camper sitting on the ground and staring blankly at it.

And Linnea desperately runs to stop the vomiting.

Looking at the urgency that I could clearly feel from her back and waist, I threw the preparations I had prepared in advance.

Whee-ae-ae-ae-aek-!

The body of the car that overtakes Linnea in an instant with an intense blast sound.

Aaaaang-!

A useless vehicle that had already been searched was parked in the center of the mall.

Chii-i-i-i-!

A vehicle that protects a camper from vomiting like an umbrella.

The vehicle exposed to the vomit that flowed down made a bloody noise like a scream and creaked.

The part that the vomit touched was the bubbling car body and the white smoke rising above it.

The mutant, noticing that the surprise attack had failed, was collecting something with a trembling face again.

Kwaaaaang-!

Another vehicle in succession locking itself in the mall before he collects his next vomit.

Took-! Took-!

Then there was the sound of light footsteps stepping over vehicles stuck in the mall like stepping stones.

Lynnea reached the roof of the shopping mall with her rich blonde hair fluttering like a butterfly.

In an instant, her anomaly came face to face with her, and she swiftly swung her hand.

Along with the hand gestures that cut through the atmosphere in a straight line, the sunlight flashes the sword light.

Squeak-!

A cutting sound that resonates clearly as you slit the mutant’s throat, and a mutant that loses its head and collapses.

Whoops-!

I raised my head while looking at the head of the vomitworm, a mutant that crashed to the ground and was crushed into a bizarre shape.

Just like me, Linnea looked back at the deformed head crushed to the ground.

“…”

She nodded her head in response with a faint smile in response to the lightly bowed head without saying anything.

Just today, a new variant of the vomit bug that bothers the campers and Linnea, who sends thanks for the unknown number of times.

“… Ugh-.”

At the moment when I was receiving a thank you from a rather familiar sender – the dormitory camper, who raised his body from a collapsed body, let out a pained sound.

He hurriedly raised his trembling body and glanced at the food box he had missed in the middle.

After going through her food box to see if there was anything wrong, the camp one tapped her own pocket and opened her mouth wide.

“… Ah-.”

A camper rustling and taking a broken glass bottle out of his pocket.

I began to stare at the empty space in the glass bottle, which should have been filled with golden light.

“Daniel.”

At that moment, a voice recited her name exactly as Rinnea had shouted in surprise.

The dormitory camper, who turned his head to follow the voice, hurriedly reached out his hand toward the object flying in a parabolic arc.

Chin-!

A new glass bottle that calmly lands in the hands of a dormitory camper.

Ugh-!

The dormitory camper, who looked at the brilliant golden light in it, turned his head back to me.

“…”

He awkwardly lowers his head towards me who threw the glass bottle containing the partial incompetence.

The stranger’s manners were perfectly localized, and she nodded her head with the same smile as the one she sent to Linnea.

Eh eh eh!

The roar of the zombies, unable to withstand the short hiatus, roars through Daehak-ro again.

Took-! Took-!

Hearing that roar, he got on the vehicle stuck in the mall again and smiled quietly as he looked at Linnea, who ran along with the screams.

Instead of the safe method of securing one building at a time, the speed battle was chosen unilaterally without the opinions of others.

The omnipresence of the newly formed search team and scattered dormitory campers for more efficient searches.

The more I blend in with my campers and cross the line of fire—

The more I use the anti-infection medications I provide—

It was obvious that the meaning of ‘we’ would gradually change.

Not the dorm campers who don’t come out of dorm camp—

As we go through the crisis together.

***

In the afternoon, the sun started to set.

After today’s search, I looked at the campers gathered in one place and glanced at the waiting trucks in the back.

“Let’s take the third truck here for the dormitory side today. Take them all.”
“… Really?”

Linnea asks with wide eyes as she looks at the food piled up in the third truck.

I nodded as I looked at the foreign campers who alternated between the third truck and me with eyes similar to hers.

“… And.”

Linnaeus gasps in admiration at my confirmation.

But I smiled as I quietly looked into her bright eyes.

That’s right- now, just looking at that food must make you happy and full.

But will I feel the same now when I have to share this with the dorm campers who struggled?

“Anyway, you’re not just going back on the day when the jackpot hit, right?”
“… Huh?”
“If you think about it, there is still a lot of Daehangno area left, so why bother going back to the dormitory?”

It’s the same that we have to leave together from the library tomorrow anyway.

“Why don’t you stay at the library while exploring Daehangno? It would be much better for maintaining condition.”
“… Ah, no, I’m so grateful, but we—”
“Besides, no matter how much you enjoy the festival, it’s right to have a welcome ceremony for new campers.”

Aaaaa!

Linnea, who was about to decline her offer with a light smile, was interrupted by a chanting voice.

As soon as I finished my words, I smiled and clapped my hands at the search crew who cheered loudly.

Match-! Match-! Match-!

Whii profit! Whii-i-i-i-!

Search crews clapping their hands enthusiastically and blowing whistles after me who clapped first.

Lynnea, who had waved her hand to reject her proposal in that hot atmosphere, looked around her head while stiffening her body.

The foreign camp members quietly gathered behind her.

The camp members, who had been looking at her head the same way as Linnea, end up with awkward smiles at the bright smiles and whistles of the search crew.

Match-!

After my final round of applause, Daehangno is tinged with silence.

I looked at Linnaeus and her foreign campmates behind her and smiled broadly.

“Then you knew you were going and prepared like that? Gojaya.”
“Yeah, President!”

Koh Jang-hoon replied with a vigorous salute as if to say not to worry at the slightly turned head.

She smiled lightly at him and waved her hand.

“It’s weird not doing anything on a good day like today.”

Chin-!

I pointed to the trucks lined up behind me while holding the metal pipe that was wrapped tightly in my hand.

“So many new supplies—new foods—new tools—”

And-

“… Even a new rat.”

Finally, a low whisper, pointing to Linnea and her campmates.

At the end of my whisper, the brightly rising atmosphere sinks underground in an instant.

Knock-knock-knock-Rinne’s eyes widened at the gesture of her hand shaking the metal pipe.

She and the campers behind her hurriedly looked around her in amazement.

“Hey.”

I tilted my head and called one of them.

Camp One is the only one among the crowd looking around frantically, making eye contact with me.

No, a cheeky rat who secretly mingled with the group of foreigners.

Thud- thud-

Steps gradually approaching Linnea and the group of strangers.

I walked past Linnae, who froze and put her hand on the hilt of her sword.

Like waves crashing, following my footsteps—the strangers getting out of the way.

“What are you?”

I asked quietly, standing in front of a real stranger among strangers.

“Heo-eok-!”

Only then do the foreign survivors notice a new survivor among their group and launch their flagship.

The hands of the dormitory campers reaching out to grab the shoulders of the survivors like instinct—

Tong-!

It is blocked by a transparent wall and bounces back.
Tring-!

[You cannot harm the other party during the temporary protection period!]

A message flashing countless times in front of my eyes in an instant like a warning.

“Uh-.”

Beyond that transparent notification message, the little mouse opened her mouth and spoke.

“I got caught.”

Without the slightest disturbance—

It was a calm and businesslike answer.