Chapter 58 – Establishing Domination (3)

Establish Dominion (3)

“… Those were the words of Geumgwaokjo, who became blood and flesh, sir!”

While going down the stairs inside, Goh Goh’s voice quietly flowed.

“I will definitely use the director’s words as a lamp to light a fire properly for this one-body camp! No-! It’s already burning, Chief!”

Turning his head slightly, he was expressing the crucible of emotion with his torn eyes and facial features.

Now I have a soul that I can’t even confuse whether it’s flattery or sincere.

If it wasn’t acting, for some reason, I opened the door on the 5th floor lightly, appreciating the performance of the guy who was more creepy.

Thud-! Thud-! Thud-!

While listening to the footsteps of the search and strike team members who were still stomping their feet hard, I looked at the panoramic view of the 5th floor, which was quite unfamiliar to me.

The 5th floor is completely different from when I stopped by to defeat the remaining zombies in the library.

Awesome profit!

I opened the graduate school reading room, which occupies the widest part of the fifth floor, and looked inside.

As the name suggests, the inside of the graduate school reading room was packed with partitioned desks.

The floor and desk were still filled with books on majors and the memories of training search teams here were clear.

However, all the partition desks that the zombies had to hit dozens of times while running were all gone.

Partitions that divide the space margin obtained in this way at regular intervals.

Thud- thud-

I slowly looked around the graduate school reading room, where partitions captured from department offices were regularly erected.

Cots and blankets placed in each space between the partitions.

After filling the sixth floor first, the remaining surplus furniture was already full of traces of life.

“What about the campers?”

On the other hand, a question that recognized the camp members who did not show nose plucking.

Koh Goh, who was following me from behind, hurriedly replied.

“Camp members are waiting for the director to inspect them on the 4th floor.”

4th floor.

I nodded slightly at Goh Jang-hoon’s answer and looked around the graduate school reading room, no, now Camp One’s dorm.

The structure has been changed to such an extent that those who first visited this space would never recall that it was a graduate school reading room.

It was the hardest of the hardest labors that could not be easily done with tolerable effort.

It was a kind of laborious work to remove all the desks filled with partitions and move them to the basement, and arrange furniture captured from the Teachers College in an orderly manner.

It must have been quite unfamiliar high-intensity labor to ordinary college students.

And that high-intensity labor is still ongoing.

As Goh Jang-hoon mentioned, the camp members who completed the 5th floor will continue to work on the 4th floor.

“Shall we send someone to gather here?”

I shook my head lightly at Koh Jang-hoon’s question.

It was a little too much to give a speech to the camp members right after he had just given a speech that didn’t sound like a speech on the 6th floor.

“Let’s say we check the 4th floor last. First of all, where is the restaurant?”
“Yes. The restaurant has been remodeled from the old literature library across from the accommodation into a restaurant.”

I opened the door of the old literature library opposite the camp accommodation and started checking the same as the accommodation.

A long row of tables and chairs on a clean, empty space.

I looked around the space where the camp members gathered together to have a meal.

The camp cafeteria is too clean to be called a dining area, probably because I announced a full inspection.

He glanced over the polished tables and chairs and slowly closed the dining room door again.

Thud-!

“Are you doing the rationing and washing the dishes properly?”
“Yes. Every morning, the search team gives out 2 ration tickets to campers. Among them, campers who want cigarettes are given cigarettes instead of distribution tickets.”

Food rations twice a day.

It is held in the morning and evening except for lunch, and you must present the ration ticket provided by the camp to receive rations.

The ticket was a sloppy ticket made of paper overflowing in the library, but at least a counterfeit was prevented by choosing a stamp that seemed to belong to a library employee.

It is true that the situation becomes quite embarrassing if you decide how to forge it, but no camp member has yet come out who commits a big deal.

Of course, if I was caught, I was willing to set a very good example for everyone.

“In addition, dishes are washed only with a set liter of water every day.”
“Good. Aren’t you still buying and selling tickets?”
“Yes. Tickets are not yet exchanged for other items or bought or sold.”

Okay. I’m suffering from heavy labor all day long, so I don’t think I have time to do anything like that.

There won’t be an idiot who will give someone else a precious ticket to fill his stomach that keeps rumbling because he’s very hungry.

But you never know if things get a little better.

Instead of starving for a meal, there will definitely be guys who want something else.

Even thinking a little deeper, I automatically thought of female camp members selling themselves for ration tickets.

If we increase the number of types of cigarettes and other necessities that can be received instead of ration tickets, these examples will explode.

“Hmm-“

I slowly scratched my forehead and continued thinking.

This is a fairly complex issue to decide in a short amount of time.

There were a lot of things that were difficult to blindly ban transactions through tickets.

“For now, keep this system as it is.”
“Yes, manager.”

It was first to postpone this matter a little later and finish the things that had to be done today.

Thud-! Thud-! Thud-!

The cloud of footsteps of the search and strike teams that had been quietly waiting for Koh Koo and me began again.

I went down to the next floor through the internal stairs and quietly stared at the fourth floor that I passed by.

Some kind of camp ‘executives’ on the 6th floor, and ordinary campers who are working hard on the 4th floor.

Both were important to me in order to solidify the ruling system.

If the 6th floor promoted a sense of belonging and superiority among the executives, the 4th floor general campers would need similar stimulation.

As I descended the stairs, I slowly organized in my head what I had to say to the campers on the 4th floor.

The most important thing is to make them resign and conform.

In order to do that, I have to establish myself as a special being in their brains.

A superior and great being who deserves to be above their heads.

In order for me to become deeply embedded in their brains, what I need above all else is ‘repetition’.

Violence, talk, speech, pressure, etc.

It had to be deeply rooted in their brains by repeating it evenly in various ways.

The perception that I am better than them, to the point that it is only natural for them to follow me.

In the meantime, violence and pressure were mainly used, so today I have to use speech.

If I could buy their loyalty with a few simple words, I could go on with this non-speech again and again.

3rd and 2nd floors of the library.

After looking at the 5th floor, which has been completely transformed into a lodging and restaurant, I slowly looked at the scenery and structure that were not so neat.

Still, after securing the second floor, there was no feeling that it was messy, perhaps because the camp members had been rolling for a long time.

Afterwards, if new campers were to be secured, they went down to the first floor after lightly sweeping the area where they would be nesting.

Awesome profit!

As soon as you open the internal connection door, you can see the wide lobby and two campers stiffly standing.

The sound of footsteps thumping through the library made me realize that he had already fixed his posture and was waiting for me.

Took-!

“Yes, it is a lot of trouble.”
“No, sir!”
“You’re right! It’s not hard at all!”

A shout that jumped out like a musical instrument as soon as I hit the shoulder.

Two chairs and blunt instruments on the table in front of them.

And a drum that I don’t know where it came from and paper books full of it.

I passed the drum barrel, which seemed to be used to light up the darkness during the night, and carefully swung around the first floor.

Long rows of bookshelves and blackout curtains.

I quietly rolled my tongue at the thought of the two rows of vehicle barricades beyond.

Most of the university buildings located close to the library were secured, so it was impossible to move the loot on foot.

“Choose a few cars out there that are in good condition and can be started.”
“Yes, manager.”

I continued, pointing the iron pipe at the lobby.

“And put all the usable bikes and motorcycles in the lobby.”
“Yes, manager.”
“Ah- have you looked for someone who knows how to get that oil out?”

As if he had waited for my question, Goh Goh nodded several times.

“Yes. We have secured a camper who says that if you have a long hose, you can drain the oil using the principle of a siphon. I heard you learned from your father-“

… What fun?

I waved my hand long at Koh Goh, who was about to spread a long story.

“Then tell them to drain some of the gas from the cars overflowing here and keep it. It will come in handy later.”
“Yes, manager.”

I hurriedly took out my notebook and opened the door to the inner stairway again, passing by Koh Goh, who was scribbling something.

Awesome profit!

As I climbed the stairs I had just come down again, I took in the last remaining floor with my eyes.

4th floor.

The last floor where regular campers are waiting for me.

Thud-! Thud-! Thud-!

Even as I climbed the stairs, I gently opened the door on the 4th floor, listening to the footsteps resounding loudly.

A rather cluttered atmosphere that welcomes me with the creaking sound of light chips.

“You are here, Director!”

I sent a faint smile to the two jjeori that I haven’t seen in quite a while.

It seemed that those two were supervising the labor of the campers on the 4th floor.

The regular campers who stopped the 4th floor remodeling in advance and waited for me in a long line.

I swung their rope all the way, which was much thicker than the 6th floor executives.

I could clearly feel that the general campers were quietly avoiding my gaze with nervous faces.

Took-! Took-!

Those who are surprised by the slight vibration whenever the metal pipe strikes their thighs.

I slowly shook my head at the reaction that was not much different from the camp members on the 6th floor.

If you instilled in them a sense of superiority—

I had to instill desire in them.

“Is it very difficult?”
“…”

No one was willing to open their mouth to my soft question.

Took-! Took-!

I continued to hit my thighs with an iron pipe and walked slowly through the fourth floor.

As if taking a walk, he glanced at the regular campers and suddenly burst into laughter.

“Well, right now, when the campers on the 6th floor are taking a nap or gathering lightly and chatting, you guys are-“

Long, unfinished words and slightly narrowed eyes.

The sweaty camp members looked up and down with a mixture of pity and pathetic eyes.

And the faces of the camp members who met that gaze naturally hardened.

“It will be quite unfair for you guys. Especially those who think they are no different from the campers on the 6th floor.”

And-

“That idea is not entirely wrong.”

I calmly admitted it and continued to speak to the general camp members.

“Rather, there might be people with more abilities than the campers on the 6th floor.”

“There is only one reason why you guys do chores here on the 4th floor and the campers on the 6th floor are resting comfortably.”

There is only one difference between the 6th and 4th floors.

“Unlike the campers on the 6th floor, there is still no trust between us.”

“And trust is not something that can be built in such a short time. Trust is completed with a very long time and effort.”

“What is more important here is not the time to build trust, but the effort to build it.”

“Anyone can do just staying in camp for a long time.”

“Just because an employment relationship lasts for a long time doesn’t mean long-term part-timers become family.”

I made eye contact with Sung Jae-hee, who was listening to me in the middle of the line.

A female camper who joined my camp sooner than most of the campers here, but who suffered severe humiliation as an “Example” For disobeying orders.

She was still downstairs, not on the sixth floor.

“What’s the problem if trust doesn’t build up over time?”

While I was asking Sung Jae-hee, I also asked all the regular campers.

“Of course, it must have been that no effort was made to build trust. Part-timers get paid the same whether they work hard or not.”

“No one works while paying attention to the sales status of someone else’s house. That is-“

I dragged my horse again and caught everyone’s attention.

“Even if it’s your own house.”

“The attitude of treating a temporary home and your new home will be as different as the sky and the earth.”

“And it shows in your actions that you can’t hide.”

“You guys are downstairs because you didn’t show me that spot.”

Took-! Took-!

I pounded on the metal pipe and raised my voice to everyone.

“Prove to me that this is not a temporary home for you guys, but a new home.”

“Anything to make your new home safer and more prosperous.”

For example, working harder than anyone else–

To provide the necessary skills and abilities for camp—

To accuse me of anyone who disparages or endangers our new home—

A voice that gets smaller and more coy as you listen more and more.

The general campers were listening to me very quietly.

“Whatever the effort is, if it is true, I will never waste it.”

I stopped and looked at everyone.

After he paused for a moment, he spoke again calmly.

“The world has already ended so obviously, and we may be the ones on Noah’s ark, if not Adam and Eve.”

A very small ark called a library.

Too few people nestled in it.

“Noah is not me here.”

“Neither do you.”

“It is us, not you and me, who make the ship strong and safe.”

I looked at them and held up a finger.

“Only one thing I can tell you guys is that the ship will get bigger and bigger and new people will continue to board the ark, if not monkeys and horses.”

The bigger the ark gets—

“The process of building trust will become more complex and difficult, not easier.”

In that sense, you are lucky.

You can think for a very long time whether to go up or stay here.

“What you need to rise to the top is not money and life. It’s the trust and effort you guys can already give me.”

I took a slow breath and then spoke.

“If I may add one thing, this is not coercion. Since the outside is such a hell, people should be able to live here.”

“I don’t have any intention of penalizing the camp members who are always good at what they tell me to do. I have no intention of forcing them to work harder than this.”

However-

“If you want more than that, if you want to enjoy more than that, show me more effort.”

I stared alternately at the search and strike teams lined up behind me and the regular campers lined up in front.

With just a light look, you can instantly tell who’s downstairs.

He chanted quietly, keeping his eyes on the general campers who were already covered in sweat from early morning.

“Remember.”

All I want is effort.