Chapter 71 – Princess Steal (1)
Princess Robbery (1)
Do-doo-duk-!
The torrential rain continued to hit the front door windows with regularity.
A gloomy dark cloud cooling the world for a while in time for the approaching summer.
Even though it was bright, I quietly stared outside, which was still not bright.
It was always raining.
From the inside, there is no sound as calming as these drops of water—
When I thought I had to go outside where those water droplets were getting wet, I had to look for an umbrella with my eyebrows naturally furrowed.
Do-doo-duk-!
I flicked at the object I was holding instead of an umbrella, watching the water droplets slowly fall down on the window of the front door.
The heavy feeling of the iron pipe that informs itself in my hand so familiar.
“I won’t be that late, and I have no intention of being late, so if you can, never leave the library.”
“Yes, I understand, Chief.”
Lastly, I was instructing Goh Goh to keep in mind.
“Dispatch of the search team and Yoo Seo-jun to the student center will also be implemented after I return. Just keep quiet in the library and watch over the campers.”
“Yes, manager.”
“Ah—what happened to the female search team I told you about yesterday?”
“Among the survivors of the student center, there are many survivors who have expressed their intention to apply. If you give us a little more support, it is estimated that the number of survivors will increase.”
It was a very satisfactory answer.
I nodded slightly and turned my gaze from the front door to Koh Goh.
“Without exception, all the survivors who apply are scratched and sent to Park Tae-ha. The basic training should be done by the senior search team.”
“Yes, manager.”
“Ah—and.”
As if emphasizing the meaning of “Must keep in mind,” The finger pointed at Koh Goh.
“Tell Park Tae-ha to deal with it by chance if there is a cub who touches the same search group that is not a merit reward. If the bastard who did that is still alive when I come back – then you guys are dead.”
“… Yes, I will keep that in mind, Director.”
They are the survivors who have hit the bottom of hell and are enduring tenaciously with the miasma.
If you have to use your vengeance against the world and your miasma to contribute to the camp, but if there is a bastard who re-sprays it—
Such a pup was the type of survivor who didn’t need to be in our camp.
Do-doo-dududuk-!
The conversation was cut off for a while, and the first floor was again stained with silence.
The sound of rain carefully waking up the first floor broke my thoughts and took a step forward.
An iron pipe in his hand and a kingship in his fully recovered body.
And a sidearm and a backpack in the inventory.
Recalling the simple food in the backpack, he calmly nodded his head.
As I put the backpack with food in my inventory, I was worried that it wouldn’t be stored like a ‘Matryoshka’, but–
Fortunately, that worry was for nothing.
Tring-!
[Strength: 74 (30+44)] [Agility: 74 (30+44)] [Intelligence: 20] [Sceptre: 220]
His rapid growth was incomparable to the first time he climbed the ladder to go up to the second floor of the library.
I glanced at his stats, which became reassuring just by looking at them, and turned his head for the last time.
“Goja.”
“Yes, manager.”
“If something dangerous happens, waste water and electricity like crazy. I will check the amount of reduction every hour.”
“I understand, boss.”
He looked at the woman standing behind Koh Goh, who bowed his head respectfully with the answer.
Cha Seol-hee just quietly looks at me with a very complex face.
Even though her face was slightly distorted, a small smile spontaneously burst out at her beauty that did not lose her splendor.
I opened the front door without saying a word as I watched my brow furrow even deeper at my smile.
Awesome profit!
Even if I don’t add my share anyway, her mind is complicated enough right now.
There was no need to add anything else here.
The smell of damp earth wafting through the wide open front door.
Whoa-
The white breath rising on her lightly exhaled breath was quite unfamiliar.
Do-doo-duk-!
As I stepped forward a little more, I felt a damp sensation permeating my head and shoulders.
I felt the rain hitting my head and turned my head toward my destination.
A college in the north far away from the library and teachers’ college.
A very large jewel comparable to Cha Seol-hee, who may still be there.
He smiled a little while repeating another face he had seen so much in fancams and videos.
As expected, the more flowers and jewels, the better.
Pad-!
A body that shoots through a small puddle of water.
Facing the light moisture that instantly absorbed my entire body, I gently set my next foot on the floor.
Took-!
***
Do-doo-duk-!
What would it look like if you put Banseok University on a square map?
First, at the southernmost part, the most representative entrance, the ‘main gate’, will be located.
If you slowly raise your hand pointing to the map from the front gate, you will first see a large parking lot that fits the vast site.
And first, the college and humanities university that welcomes the finger.
The Teachers College welcomes your fingers every time you go up little by little, and the central library next to it.
And the student union, the main playground, the museum, the gymnasium, etc.
Some of those who quietly scanned the south side of the university like that would probably tilt their heads.
Central library.
Contrary to the meaning of the central (中央), the library was quite skewed towards the south in the overall university map.
The only building that is located exactly in the center of the university is the library, rather than—
Do-doo-duk-!
The church in the middle of the map was more appropriate.
Rock Church.
A name that fits Banseok University, whose base religion is Protestantism.
I quietly stopped my sprint at a modern religious facility that was still shining pure white in the thin rain.
The ruined world and God.
Not too many people would pass by that bizarre combination.
Buildings that must be occupied in the future anyway.
At the same time as getting back Cha Ha-yan, this time was also a time to explore the entire university in advance without having to protect anyone for the first time in a while.
Awesome profit!
A seven-story building that is too large and tall to be considered a religious facility, as evidenced by its size.
As soon as I opened the glass door and entered, I continued my steps, quietly scanning the lobby and cafe that greeted me.
Do-doo-duk-!
The first floor becomes darker as the glass door closes, and the sound of rain has been significantly reduced.
I searched for the stairs to go up the next floor while looking around the first floor where there were no zombies attacking me.
Tung-! Tung-! Tung-!
Every time I searched the building, the sound of metal banging around like a habit.
I explored the church, banging over and over on the metal pipes that let out a harsh resonant sound.
“…”
A church that remains silent even with the sweetest bait for zombies.
Only the sound of the rain hitting the building was loudly permeating my ears.
Zombies that cannot be seen even a single one, as if God blocks the devil.
However, I let out a faint laugh at the traces of the day that were already too dark for each layer.
The blood stains the floor and the church that has already become a mess.
The screams of the people who must have died miserably in this room seemed to ring in my ears.
“…”
Suddenly, repeating a sound I had never heard before, I paused for a moment.
The person the dying people cried the most and sought.
‘… Don’t bite-! Don’t ask -! Aaaaah-! Mom-! Mamaaaaa!’
Mother.
Then-
With new eyes, I swung around the worship hall on the 4th floor, which had already been shattered.
Did those who died here call their mother or God when they died?
“…”
It was a question that I could not easily guess as I was not with them at that moment.
I gazed silently at the crucifix in the center of the worship hall for quite some time.
Only one thing I can be sure of.
Be it Mother or God—
That they did not respond to their earnest call.
Thud-!
Perhaps because of the rain, the sound of the door closing reverberates louder than usual.
I continued to explore unfamiliar churches with fairly familiar steps.
Such a majestically large religious facility was not a scene that was unfamiliar to me.
Orphans and religion are inextricably linked.
So, I could have laughed out loud as I explored the church that had been swept away by the disaster, but I didn’t laugh.
At least, the people who helped the orphans, including me, were the ones who joined the religious organization.
그런 도움을 받고도 감사는커녕 비웃음을 내짓는 놈은 아주 파렴치한 개새끼가 따로 없겠지.
It was just the same death.
Either die crying out to God, or get bitten by a zombie while walking down the street.
Thud- thud-
Along with the deliberately loud footsteps, I finally found the traces made by people.
A familiar barricade blocking the 7th floor, the top floor.
All the chairs I could see around me quietly reached out to the barricade that seemed to have been driven in.
A barricade that gives up space with a light push.
However, there were still bloodstains in the corridor on the 7th floor beyond the barricade.
A landscape that does not change at all centered on the barricade.
Tung-! Tung-! Tung-!
“Eh eh eh!”
Before passing through the hallway, the decoy knocking on the chairs scattered on the floor finally resonates.
I kicked the hallway floor and silently faced the zombies rushing in to bite the bait.
Whoops-!
Zombies fall to the ground with a light swing.
From the center of the 7th floor, where only the sound of rain was once again noisy after several strokes of metal pipes, I looked down at the zombies who had now become real corpses.
University students with youthful faces that are no different.
However, I slightly tilted my head at the common marks on their wrists.
The broken tape marks common to their hands.
Do-doo-duk-!
I turned my gaze from looking down at the corpses to stare straight ahead.
Rooms of a certain size lined up around a dark corridor.
Some of them were wide open, while others were still tightly closed, not showing what was inside.
Thud- thud-
I swung the iron pipe full of dark red blood to remove the blood, and then walked through the hallway that looked like a seminar room.
Traces of infection are still full in the wide open seminar room.
In the room that seemed to have been giving music lessons, blood spattered in all directions remained on the wallpaper.
Most of the wide open seminar rooms were concentrated at the beginning of the hallway.
Took-!
The closed door of the seminar room stopped with both feet coming together naturally.
I put my hand lightly on the handle just in case.
Awesome profit!
A handle that turns without restraint, following the gentle turning of the grip.
I frowned at the familiar smell wafting through the crack in the slowly open door.
“…”
Corpses are gathered in an orderly manner in the dull-colored seminar room.
A black bag over the face and layers of tape around the neck.
I silently looked down at the tape that bound their hands and feet very tightly.
Strong restraints placed on every corpse lying in the seminar room.
“…”
However, as I swung around the seminar room, which was too far apart for the restraint, my eyes stopped at a corpse.
A dead body leaning against something with a black bag washed on it.
I looked down at the thick book on which the head of a lying corpse rested eagerly.
Not just that corpse, but the same book that remains around all corpses.
‘Bible’.
After reading the cover of the book, I slowly closed the door.
Awesome profit!
The sound of the door being opened and the rotting smell of a corpse that never came out.
I closed the door of the last seminar room to the same scenery contained in all subsequent seminar rooms.
Thud- thud-
I walked forward again and looked down at the bodies I had killed.
The broken tape marks left on their hands and the black bags abandoned in the hallway that now know the cause and effect.
Looking down at the bags that were all torn by strong force, they slowly turned around.
There were no living beings left here.
They all fled to the safest refuge they could think of.
Apart from the question of whether it actually exists.
Do-doo-duk-!
The smell of damp earth exhaled by the sound of rain quietly pushed away the smell of rotting corpses that still lingered in my nostrils.
The outside, which comes into sight through the returned lobby.
The footsteps walking through the lobby to get out of the church stopped for a moment again.
“Keeeee
A zombie staggers and wanders through the window of the lobby.
The tape marks are more clearly visible thanks to the clothes already soaked in the rain.
Looking at the face of the zombie with the broken tape marks, I slowly turned my head.
Numerous traces of service decorating the lobby.
Children and students, or the elderly and the handicapped.
A benevolent smile always nestled in the center of them all smiling brightly as one.
I looked at the man with that benevolent smile and then looked outside again.
“Keeeee
A zombie that doesn’t notice my gaze at all and still wanders outside.
Now, he flicked the iron pipe while fumbling for a benevolent smile that was nowhere to be found on his face.
[Faith achieved through love and faith, the joy of understanding through service and sharing]
[Pastor Sung-han Seong]
When I entered the church, I read the placard in the lobby that I hadn’t seen before and gently opened the front door.
Do-doo-duk-!
The smell of the earth approaching more distinctly and the sound of rain beating on my ears.
“Kieh!”
And a zombie that finds the prey it’s been waiting for and starts to go mad.
I swung the metal pipe pretty hard, staring at the pieces of tape still remaining on his arms and legs.
Whoops-!
An iron pipe advancing, crushing his temples.
A pastor zombie who flies in the air for a while and is thrown to the ground a little far away.
I led the remaining people to the final destination of their faith, and I myself looked down at the end of the coward who fled in fear.
Now he must have returned belatedly to those who followed him.
Tring-!
As I was looking down at the pastor zombie, a cheerful notification sound suddenly rang out.
[You have defeated the mutant ‘Balloon’.]
[You have acquired 10 points.]
Through the message printed in the air, the corpse of the pastor gradually swelled up.
His corpse, hugely inflated like a balloon—
Whoaaaaa!
Flesh scattered in all directions and exploded in an instant.
A roar echoed throughout the university, like a thunderbolt striking the dry sky.
Took-! Took-!
I swung around as I brushed off the flesh clinging to my top.
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A sudden roar of thunder and a void of sound, as if not even the sound of rain could be heard.
However-
Du-du-du-du-du-!
I quietly lowered my hand that had been brushing off my shirt at the sound that echoed through the floor.
Ehe E -E -Es!
The roar of zombies whose direction cannot be specified.
No, howlings began to roll over from all directions, targeting the church.