Chapter 24 – Jenga (6)

Jenga (6)

“… Great.”

Seol-hee, who came to her senses belatedly, slightly moved away from my face in front of her nose.

“You mean if I don’t want to die from you, then I just have to kill the zombies quickly, right?”

Seeing him ask me while glancing at me, I stopped the monkey wrench and glanced sideways at Park Hyo-eun, who was gasping for breath.

“Haha-! Haha-!”

Park Hyo-eun, who is sitting on the floor like an idiot for doing something great.

I made eye contact with Cha Seol-hee again and let out a laugh.

It’s a clumsy change of topic that is too obvious.

I knew that I didn’t ask in that sense, and Cha Seol-hee must have known.

To get out of this situation, she came up with a completely nonsensical answer.

“No way.”

But I didn’t bother to show it off and matched her rhythm.

“You never intended to make me do something like that?”

It was a great harvest just for her eyes, which had been motionless for so long, to tremble violently.

“You just stand next to me and watch. With that much, you can know everything you want to know, right?”
“… Wait, what?! That is nonsense!”

At my instruction, Cha Seol-hee raised her eyes and objected.

“Like you said, I have no intention of being treated like a princess at the end of the world, where you don’t know what will happen! I need to know how to defend myself in an emergency!”
“Huh- You got Girl Crush, you did.”

Whenever I argue with this woman, the story becomes longer like this.

I asked her to clear her ears and tilt her head.

“If I gave you this much, you would have to give me at least one. I can’t concede on this either, so just quietly stick by my side.”
“Me too-“
“Or go down.”

She cut off her words, and she closed her mouth in displeasure at the sentence she spat out firmly.

It repeats as if to remind her to keep her mouth open as if something is bubbling.

“What you can do and what you want to do are two different things. In a real emergency situation, if I’m in trouble and you don’t want to get into trouble too, don’t show up and just look hard.”

I warned Cha Seol-hee again and approached Park Hyo-eun.

Park Hyo-eun, who is still out of breath and looks around like a psychopath.

Took-!

“Uh, ah ah—!”
“Shhh.”

Park Hyo-eun kicked off the game as if in a seizure as soon as she touched his waist with her foot.

I grabbed him by the head and whispered to him to be quiet, and only then did he salivate and look up at me.

“Above, something rustling above -“

I looked up carefully at the excuse that the guy said in a hurry.

It’s a bit dark, but it’s bright enough to see the shape with the naked eye.

Tiles of a certain shape that form the top of the bookshelf and the ceiling.

Then, after checking the dark upper part, he shrugged his shoulders at Park Hyo-eun.

Park Hyo-eun hurriedly opened her mouth as if she felt sorry for my gesture.

“Annit—for real—”
“What does that have to do with this?”
“… Yes?”
“What does it have to do with the noise and the fact that you couldn’t kill a zombie crawling and screaming?”

Park Hyo-eun couldn’t find an appropriate answer to my question with her head down.

“You’re an obsolete part-timer with a honey-like part-time job, aren’t you?”
“…”
“I have to think about Cha Seol-hee’s safety from the point of view of receiving money, but the thing I just said was a bit like an idiot, right?”

Even if you return the pretentious words he said, he will continue to remain silent.

Park Hyo-eun, who was so proud and confident in the beginning, is a coward who just trembles while quietly listening to what I say.

However, this was not enough.

“Stop messing around and get up quickly and get ready. In particular, I will give you one more chance.”

I almost forcibly pulled him up from his seat.

Park Hyo-eun shows a puzzled face at the word opportunity.

I smiled lightly at him and continued talking.

“This time, we’ll do it with a zombie with intact legs, so you’d better prepare.”
“… Yes?”
“You can’t use taekwondo or boxing on zombies, so kendo is better, right?”

As my ridicule turned toward the monkey wrench, it seemed as if he understood it— his monkey wrench began to tremble.

I lightly shoved him on the shoulder and whispered.

“Whether it’s self-satisfaction or self-discipline, if life is at stake, I’ll have to use something.”

Oh, and…

As if imagining something, I added my words to Park Hyo-eun, who was terrified again.

As I couldn’t finish my words, the anxious eyes looked at me again.

“From now on, you only look up with a flashlight. If, as you said, something comes out from above, then you solve it. If there is none, you will be responsible for that too, right?”

Took-!

Park Hyo-eun staggers as if drunk on the shoulder lightly pushed as a last request.

I chinned the search team while looking at the face that was white like a sheet of paper.

The search crew hurriedly continued their search according to my instructions.

“… Still, the hardened body will heal faster the second time than the first.”

After passing through the center where the books donated by the graduates were gathered, and going to the second floor, it was about the time we entered the area where the survivors’ camp was located.

Cha Seol-hee, who had been quietly silent for a while, quietly recited.

Her first words, which she kept still as she thought deeply, as if she was agonizing over something.

“No matter how scared you are, the third rather than the second. You’ll get used to the fourth more quickly than the third.”

It was her response to my words, which she listened to with her mouth shut.

“I admit that you are greater than I thought. But with time, someone else will get used to it just like you.”

Now that she has recovered her clear eyes like before, she kept an eye on me and continued her words.

“I did too. At first, I was scolded by the trainer teachers for being an incredible headbutt.”

But-

“Look at me. If you only have the time and effort-“
“Stop.”

I cut off her voice in a rather annoyed voice.

I didn’t have to listen to the end to know what he wanted to say.

I glared at her, not hiding her irritation.

“Why does the smart kid keep swarming like this?”
“…”
“What high queens public service announcement or documentary am I watching? Well, since you became a top idol with dancing and singing that you worked so hard on, you can become like that if you work hard too. So in other words-“

If I try, I can do just like you.

“What is it? Stop pretending to be naive. Why is a person who knows everything suddenly talking like a child?”

I whispered ferociously at her as she glared at her blatantly.

“You know that. The reason you are sitting in the tower, that is to say, on the money cushion, is not because you are good at singing and dancing.”

I sighed as I scanned her face.

“I made money just because this pretty girl can sing and dance well.”

She would never have achieved the success she has today if she hadn’t been exceptionally good looking.

She already knows that in order to achieve a goal, you need something special other than willpower and hard work.

And, knowing that, of course she knows why she vomits at my words as if she’s using a group like this.

Well, even if I were Cha Seol-hee, if the only option she could do was to rape her with a warning about when it would explode, she would have gone crazy.

Like her, I probably struggled to find another option for her other than me.

He must have tried to avoid the present reality where the only option was a pre-announced rape.

Still-

“I also have a limit to my patience—”

The mouth that was about to warn Cha Seol-hee was closed in a hurry.

Kieh eh eh—

As I was glaring at Cha Seol-hee, I heard a familiar groan in my ears.

I immediately raised my hand and stopped the search crew.

Kieh eh eh—

The search team’s flashlight naturally follows the direction of the noise.

On the second floor, the upper left corner, which is perfectly the area of ​​the library camp.

In it, the artificially adjusted bookshelves appear in the dim light.

Irregularly scattered and collapsed bookshelves here and there.

Only one regularity crosses my mind along the floor, which is too blood-red compared to other areas.

Kieh eh eh—

That the bookshelf was moved to block something.

Chin-!

I hurriedly reached out behind her, and I blocked Seol-hee’s flashlight as she tried to point it upward.

Numerous human legs shimmering in her light.

As if waiting for something, the rotten legs kept their place, trembling slightly.

Now I could understand why the third floor was quite spacious compared to the other floors.

On the third floor, the number of zombies was not small, but rather they were gathered in one place.

The survivors of the day desperately build barricades out of bookshelves to stop the zombies.

And more and more zombies led by the survivors who are gradually gathering in one place.

The light from the flashlight reflects the cracks that cannot be easily blocked by bookshelves.

And the dark bloodstains that are very clear in the cracks of the bookshelf.

The place where all the survivors and zombies on the 3rd floor unintentionally gathered.

And eventually we set foot in a zone where everyone became zombies.

The flashlights of Cha Seol-hee and Koh Goh-hoon barely stay between their legs.

The legs of at least 20 of them were so dense that they looked like they could easily cross over.

As he slowly raises his hand to give the next command—

“Uh, aaaaah!”

Suddenly, a terrified scream erupts from behind.

At the same time, the flashlight that was scanning the ceiling trembled and illuminated the front.

“Eh eh eh!”

As if responding to the screams, a grotesque chorus rips through the third floor of the library.

Flashlight lights and human screams.

They started sprinting toward a place full of only the most fantastic things.

Whatever is there

Thud-! Thud-! Thud-!

The bookshelf that was blocking them is greatly shaken by the zombies’ melee attack.

Zombies in front of the bookshelf eagerly reach out their hands towards the lights and people.

Dozens of hands protruded from the cracks in the bookshelf, and the number increased.

Thud-! Thud-!

At last-

Awesome profit!

The bookshelf, unable to overcome the weight of the zombies, slowly collapses.

I hurriedly organized my thoughts while looking at the bookshelf falling to the floor as if in slow motion.

The large number of zombies had nothing to do with me.

It’s because I’ve already achieved the agility stat enough to fight a guerrilla war against them.

I didn’t have a problem, but the people behind me now had a problem.

It seemed possible to kill them all, but it was clearly impossible to kill them all while protecting them.

Then, should I just run away to the inner stairs?

Another plan popped into my mind for a moment, but this also wasn’t a good idea.

The odds of others, especially Cha Seol-hee, repelling the chase of the zombies who started to break through the straight line were very low.

However, it was too wasteful to consume Goh Goh and the two jeo-ri on zombies like that to take care of only Cha Seol-hee.

In the end, that’s the only way to fight.

And that while protecting those behind them completely.

In my fast-rolling mind, places on the 3rd floor that could carry out this goal flashed by.

The third floor is almost the same as the second floor, but with a slightly wider structure.

The structure of the second floor, which is so familiar to me, quickly overlaps with the third floor.

Conditions I need right now.

It’s close, narrow, and it’s easy to kill them while protecting the search team.

Thud-!

“Restroom!”

I cried out loud as I watched the bookshelves collapse.

“Run-!”

At my instruction, the sound of footsteps echoed as the search team quickly ran to the bathroom.

Correspondingly, the grotesque sound heated up the third floor more passionately.

“Eh eh eh!”

The bookshelves fall over and the zombies run at me, trampling on the zombies at the bottom.

Even those trampled on by those guys get up without any problems and follow them.

I rather chose to get closer to them than to get away from them.

But I couldn’t wield an iron pipe like I always did.

This time, there were too many zombies to attack the gap where I was wielding an iron pipe.

Rather than wielding an iron pipe, I reached for the bookshelves arranged in a mess around me.

Whoa!

Collapsing bookshelves faithfully obstructed the zombies’ path.

Occasionally, I saw zombies rummaging through the bookshelves, but most of the zombies managed to get out of the bookshelf and reach out to me toward the bathroom.

“Go Jang-hoon—!”
“Yeah!”

Koh Jang-hoon, who was running to the bathroom, responds to the shouting and breaking down the bookshelf.

Before I had time to turn my head to check, I yelled even louder.

“Let Park Woo-jin and Kim Min-joon into the bathroom first!”

If the two of them were blocking any zombies with their shields—I was going to quickly go in and sort it out.

In response to the command that was issued without any lengthy back remarks, a clear answer of “Yes!” Came.

Pooh-!

Gradually, more zombies attack me from close range.

I knocked down everything in sight that could become an obstacle and steadily hit the heads of the zombies.

“Eh eh eh!”

Their roar still resounds vigorously despite the steady harmony of obstacles and iron pipes.

“Yaaah! You fucking bastard, Hyo-eun Park!”
“Stop-! Fuck us first—!”

At that moment, I naturally turned my head to the urgent sound of the two shouts.

Now, the bathroom door that slowly revealed itself to us.

A search team hurriedly runs toward the toilet, which exists in the same location as the second floor, comes into view.

The backs of the two hurriedly reaching out their hands and the front of the search team toward which their hands are directed.

His muscular back, soaked enough to be felt from a distance, hurriedly opened the men’s bathroom.

A flashlight illuminates the open men’s bathroom behind, and a zombie in the bathroom reacts to the light.

Like a zombie roaring, the flashlight of Park Hyo-eun at the forefront danced dizzily in my open mouth.

His arm, struggling like a drowning man, found something to support.

Then, like a person trying to get out of the water by squeezing the support pole, he puts the support pole forward.

The elongated jeans dragged along in an instant by a sudden, desperate force.

His long hair blowing in the wind made his eyes widen.

My body reacted first without even having time to think.

[Agility: 18(17+1) -〉 21(20+1)]

[Remaining points: 15 -〉 0]

The remaining points that were not taken immediately to take skills were put into agility.

Whoa!

The sound of the last bookshelf collapsing and the sound of footsteps echoing at the same time.

Kkeudeuk-!

Along with the sound of the floor being distorted, Park Hyo-eun’s back, which had been quite far away, grew in size in an instant.

“Kieh!”

And even the zombies who are more enthusiastically welcomed by Park Hyo-eun’s live sacrifice.

Coo-!

The unstoppable sprint mercilessly pushes Park Hyo-eun’s back.

He grabbed the zombie’s neck as he reached out in front of Cha Seol-hee and Park Hyo-eun, who fell on the floor immediately.

“Eh eh eh!”

I grabbed him by the neck and drove him to the bathroom wall as he went crazy.

Whoa!

A zombie that reached out to me without thinking about the impact of hitting the bathroom wall.

Kkeudeudeuk-!

The thrill of breaking something came up in the grip that gave me quite a bit of strength.

Zombies falling to the ground with their necks grotesquely bent.

Pooh-!

Just in case, the moment he hurriedly turned around after finishing the confirmation kill on his head-

Sasasak-

A noise that hit the five senses, sharpened by the effects of the ongoing skirmish.

‘Above, something rustling above—the sound of—’

Park Hyo-eun’s frightened face and voice are repeated naturally.

Even now, Park Hyo-eun, who is still making that face in front of the bathroom, was staring at the ceiling in fright.