Chapter 43 – Plunder (2)

Loot (2)

The bright sunlight makes you feel the weather getting warmer.

“Kieh!”

I found myself at a distance and eagerly waited for the zombies to come running.

Pooh-!

As soon as it approaches me, I pick it up—a zombie that collapses.

Looking down at the zombie who was desperate for the blunt temper that didn’t give much strength, he shook the metal pipe.

Tring-!

[Strength: 40 (30+10)] [Agility: 40 (30+10)] [Intelligence: 1] [Sceptre: 104]

[Remaining points: 75]

Thanks to the stat pumping of the exclusive skill ‘vulgar dignity’, this level was nothing for the strength stat that reached 40.

I lightly bent down and grabbed the shoulder of the zombie lying on the ground.

Then, he threw him into the smoking area of ​​the library.

Poo-!

A new corpse that lands on a small hill exactly where the corpses are piled up.

Wow!

I looked around, frowning at the hallucinations that automatically replayed in my ears just by looking at the corpse.

It is an unfamiliar view of the library from the outside, not the scenery that I used to look out of the library window every time.

A total of 6 floors of library with modern architectural beauty.

I stared again at the exceptionally empty area among the glass layers glistening with sunlight.

The first floor and lobby of the library, where all the windows that have already been torn from the zombies’ desperate attempts to break through have been cleaned up.

There, I saw campers moving around busily here and there.

Camp One tries to connect the bookcases that act as barricades by wrapping them with tape, and Camp One tries to draw blackout curtains in the space where the windows have disappeared.

Koh Goh-hoon was also seen instructing the camp members diligently in the area where the curtains had not yet been drawn.

And a huge object occupied the road in front of the bookshelf barricade, still covered with dark red blood.

Vehicles with their wheels forcibly removed surrounded the library with new barricades.

I stared straight ahead as I checked the faces of the search crews who were busily searching the inside of the newly deployed vehicle barricade.

A four-lane central road connecting the library and the university.

There, I carefully scanned the vehicles irregularly occupying the road.

Whether the door is open or closed—

I wonder if there are zombies inside that I haven’t been able to check yet.

I calmly checked the inside of the black Mercedes-Benz through the open driver’s seat and nodded my head.

Most of the vehicles left on the road were discharged because they had been left for a long time with the engine turned on.

Well, the guy who checks to see if the engine is running before running out of the car at that desperate moment must be a crazy bastard.

I checked the vehicles around me once more and called the nearest search team.

“Hey!”
“… Yes!”

A familiar face started running at my name.

I pointed at the cars behind me with an iron pipe to Kim Woo-jung, who stood in front of me with a puzzled face.

“Search the cars here first.”
“Yes-!”

It was Kim Woo-jung, who was small but answered clearly enough for anyone to know, but he did not rush towards the vehicles.

A cautious attitude as if he had something to say.

As he tilted his head and made eye contact with him, Kim Woo-jung gulped down his saliva and hurriedly took something out of his pocket.

“I… I-I found this over there in Tivoli.”

I held in my hand the small box that he carefully held out.

The exterior that starts to shine in the sunlight and the number ‘003’ that is heavily engraved as if to emphasize it.

Besides, if you read it, you can know that it is Japanese at once, and the English spelling.

“… Oh.”

I smiled as I turned the pack of condoms in my hand.

In front of me like that, a condom was handed over and a stupid face carefully looking at me.

Took-!

I lightly tapped him on the shoulder and lightly bowed his back.

“Why did you give this to me?”

Kim Woo-jung hardened his expression at once, probably not expecting me to ask such a question.

Seeing me urging him to answer quietly, he hurriedly opened his mouth.

“Uh, uh— uh, I guess that’s just how it should be.”
“…”

The face of a guy who licks dry lips after struggling to answer.

I looked at that face for a while, and at the end smiled slightly.

“… It seems like I’ve finally become a useful search crew.”
“…”
“Your face has suffered a bit now.”

Took-!

Even when he tapped his cheek quite hard, he didn’t show any displeasure at all.

Rather, it is clear that he is biting his molars tightly as if to hide a smile that is about to leak out.

“Yes― what should we give to Woo Jeong-i, who is now a real search crew member?”

The warm eyes that look forward to something even though they are frozen in the arm that wraps the guy’s shoulder in a friendly way.

I looked into his eyes and quietly groaned.

“Is that really it?”
“…”

Kim Woo-jung looked at me at my question and nodded very weakly.

I burst out laughing at the sight and asked him.

“I guess you’ve been envious of the other search crew friends?”
“…”
“Well, since I don’t have a TV or a smartphone, I have nothing else to do but mess around with them. Then, what to talk about will be almost decided.”

I’m sure everyone, except for Kim Woo-jung, shared the new joy they had, implicitly, if not openly.

He nodded his head with a clearer movement than before at my question.

“Yes, I’m all good too, but there is still one problem left, Woojung.”
“…”
“A very important problem remains.”

A negative feeling that suddenly fell into a conversation that had been quite positive.

Gulp-.

Kim Woo-jung, who had been listening to my quietly whispering voice, hurriedly swallowed dry saliva.

The fear that slowly fills the eyes full of anticipation.

I stared into his pupils and smiled.

“The remaining women are the problem, Woojung.”
“… Yes?”

Kim Woo-jung, who had stopped for quite a while, finally spat out a stupid question.

As if I’m relieving the tension of a frozen guy! He patted his shoulder and smiled.

“The girls I can give you right now are already filtered and filtered.”
“…”
“Honestly, if I had to choose right now, wouldn’t there be a girl I really like?”

Honestly just tell me

At my coy question, his foolish face maximized and he stared blankly at me.

After waiting a little longer for his answer, he nodded his head with an idiotic laugh while saying hehe’.

“The kid speaks really honestly. If the women inside hear it, it will hurt them.”
“…”

Kim Woo-jung hardens his expression at once like a cartoon at the sudden change of attitude.

I opened the package of the condom carton he was holding in his hand, watching the guy’s face getting whiter and whiter.

I took one of the many condoms that came with my hand and put it in the hand of the guy who started to tremble.

“You’ll be the first to pick the next captured women.”
“…”
“I use it to cool off at that time.”

Took-!

Even though Kim Woo-jung lightly tapped his shoulder once again, he blankly looked down at the condom in his hand.

I looked at his blank face and quietly whispered in his ear.

“Tell me honestly this time, Woojung.”
“…”
“In some ways, isn’t it bad to live like now?”
“…”

Even after my words were over, Kim Woo-jung, who had been looking down at the condom for a while, cautiously raised her head.

“… Yes.”

Then, looking at me, he smiled softly at the clear affirmation that came out of his open mouth.

“No more, no less, just do it like you are now. Then I’ll take care of it.”

Okay?

Kim Woo-jung hurriedly nodded at my question.

“Then go and carefully search the remaining cars over there.”

Took-!

Kim Woo-jung hurriedly steps forward at the gesture of loosening his shoulder strap and lightly pushing him.

He bowed his head to me several times and shoved the condom in his hesitant hand into his pocket.

Then I slowly turned my back watching them run in the direction I indicated.

Moving the carton of condoms I had in my hand to my inventory, I swung around the wide empty lot next to the library.

Regularly divided white painted parking lines and neglected vehicles in places.

Now it was my turn to search for vehicles in the library parking lot.

At the sight of still quite a lot of cars waiting for their owners in the parking lot, I naturally smiled.

After all, the search for an abandoned car is not bad compared to the time.

It was also strangely full of the feeling of opening a random box, not knowing what the owner might have put in the car.

Condoms, snacks, simple tools or sporting goods as a hobby, etc.

It was a search job with a very high batting average to be a job that also serves as a barricade defense on the first floor.

“Chief.”

A thick voice calling me as I was walking towards the parking lot.

I stopped my steps when I saw Park Tae-ha approaching me with great strides.

“Because the leader is you, Taeha.”
“…”

When the names are sorted out, the bear-like face of the beast is distorted even more ugly.

Then, seeing the guy contemplating what to call me, I smiled softly and waved my hand.

After retaking the first floor and rolling them hard, it was time to give them carrots today.

“Once it happened. What did you come for?”
“… Ah.”

Only then did Park Tae-ha offer me the long bag in his hand.

“It’s a cigarette.”
“Yes.”

It was a carton of cigarettes, unbroken.

“… Ah.”

A weak sigh was heard while lightly handing over a cigarette cradle.

Then, after the bulwark left, he laughed at Park Tae-ha’s trembling hands.

“Were you a smoker?”
“Yes.”

Even while he was answering, his pupils were fixed on the cigarette holder I was holding.

His face stupidly followed the moving bulwark.

“How much per day?”
“I smoked about a pack a day.”
“Is that average?”
“If it’s average, it’s average, and if it blooms a lot, it’s about to bloom a lot.”
“I know roughly what you mean.”

Took-!

I tossed the bulwark lightly, caught it again, and nodded.

“Taeha, what would you choose between a meal and a pack of cigarettes?”
“… I would choose a pack of cigarettes now.”
“You are honest. That’s the smoker’s honest answer…”

I stopped my head and opened my mouth to Park Tae-ha.

“Announce that you will be given a choice starting today. You can choose cigarettes instead of food rations.”
“Yes.”
“If you’re going to choose a cigarette while delivering the notice, tell the eunuch.”
“Yes.”

Alright, this should put a pretty effective brake on food consumption.

I nodded my head in satisfaction, then quietly stared at Park Tae-ha, who was still staring blankly at the cigarette silo.

The expression on his face became similar to when he stimulated his sexual desire with Guyeri.

In the meantime, I clearly felt that the desire to smoke, which had been suppressed in the extreme situation, improved and exploded at the cigarette placed in front of my eyes.

The more means to control them, the better.

In addition, the more frequent the task of reminding oneself of ‘obedience’, the better.

“Unlike Park Tae-ha, you show off to me, keep going.”
“…”
“Should I be that earnest, or should I be cocky?”

Took-! Took-!

Whispers murmured as he lightly tossed and caught a cigarette cradle.

It was only then that Park Tae-ha hurriedly began to adjust his expression.

“Why? If you looked at me so pitifully, did you think I would calmly tell you to just go?”
“… No.”
“No, I can see it all in your face. Tae-ha-.”
“… Yes.”

I called him with a sharp voice and killed his expression.

After making eye contact with him for a long time without expression, he quietly opened his mouth.

“Didn’t you really think so?”
“… I-I-“

Took-!

Park Tae-ha is greatly excited by the palm lightly placed on his shoulder.

His natural reaction from experience makes his pupils similar to those of that night.

I lowered my back a little more and recited to him.

“Did our Taeha forget what I said back then? Why are you rolling your eyes?”
“…”
“Didn’t you really think so?”
“… I did.”
“What did you think?”
“Good job. I thought you would reward me for doing better.”
“…”

Took-! Took-!

A light gesture of patting the guy’s shoulder without saying anything.

However, Park Tae-ha’s expression, accepting it, gradually grew darker.

“It’s Taeha.”
“… Yes.”
“Then why not talk like that from the beginning. Why did you say no?”
“Joe, Captain-“
“Are you afraid I’ll get angry when I hear that?”

A soft question that cuts him off.

Park Tae-ha creaked and answered with a nod of his head.

“Why do you judge that?”
“…”
“What did I say?”

Took-!

The question continued as he lightly kneaded his shoulder once again.

Looking at his trembling eyes, he urged an answer.

“… He told me not to think, not to judge.”
“Okay. I remember it well.”

Took-!

I asked him again as I slapped him on the cheek with the cigarette cradle I was holding in my shoulder.

“Answer me properly again.”

Why were you staring at the cigarette silo like a dog that has lost its bowl?

Park Tae-ha hurriedly opened his mouth at my low cry.

“I thought the captain would give me cigarettes as a reward if I did that.”
“Okay.”

Took-!

I nodded his head as I pushed the cigarette cradle deeper into his cheek.

“Don’t think, don’t judge.”
“…”
“That’s because I do it. That’s how to get better results.”

Okay?

Park Tae-ha quickly nodded her head at my question.

“Ruler.”

Took-!

The cigarette silo he was holding in his hand was placed in Park Tae-ha’s arms.

Park Tae-ha suddenly receives a cigarette sconce.

I pointed to the library with my chin and said to Park Tae-ha, who was looking at ‘better results’ with blank eyes.

“Go and call the eunuch.”