Chapter 122 – The Man From the Helicopter

Doo doo doo!!!

The roaring wind accompanied by the loud sound of propellers blows the dust from the parade ground in all directions.
And I follow Kim Hyeon-joon’s face as he spins around avoiding my gaze, continuing to stare into his eyes.

“Poem, that was a mistake! And it’s your fault for doing that there in the first place!”
“Shut up, none of that matters. Did you see it or not?”
“If you saw it..?”
“You should pluck out your eyes.”
“… I didn’t see it.”
“Really? Sounds like a lie?”
“I really didn’t see it! All I see is your dirty ass! If you pull it out, as a reward for my dirty eyes, not mine, pull out your ass!”
“Hmm…”

I honestly don’t think it’s a lie.
Door, me and Camilla were in a straight line, so like he said, he couldn’t see anything but my butt.
However, given that he couldn’t look into my eyes this far, I can’t rule out the possibility that he did see something…
I don’t intend to pluck Kim Hyun-joon’s eyes out anyway just because I saw him for real, but I’ll at least hit him so that he can’t keep his eyes open for a while, so I’ll be sure to do that.

“Hajin-ah!!”
“Captain!!”
“Hey, here! Come quickly!! And you go away! I have nothing to say to you!”

Kim Hyun-joon, who firmly refused to talk with me, raised his head, pushing Kwon Joo-hyuk and Kim Ji-hoon, who rushed to me, like a shield.
Now the helicopter was flying low enough to land soon.

“A broadcasting station helicopter?”
“Are you talking back?”
“Please stop! I didn’t see it! I didn’t see anything!!”
“What did you not see?”
“Hey, Captain, why are you like that?”
“You do not have to know. Anyway, let’s talk again in a quiet place next time.”
“This persistent child…!”

While I was promising the next time, the helicopter with the logo of the broadcasting company landed safely at the parade ground like Kim Hyun-joon muttered.
It’s probably not because the broadcasting station is still running it, so it’s probably a group of survivors who are earning coins enough to operate a helicopter…

“Is not it?”

I automatically tilted my head at the sight of the people getting off the helicopter with the propeller still spinning.
It was because he looked too pitiful to be a survivor earning coins leisurely.
His cheekbones jutted out sharply, and his limbs were skinny to the point where he could see through his short T-shirt and shorts.
Is it like seeing starving North Koreans or African refugees?

Doo doo doo doo-

“Ah… This is… Uh, ah… “
“What do you think you are talking about?”
“I’m sure what you’re saying… Why didn’t you come all the way here and do that over there?”

As Kim Ji-hoon and Kwon Joo-hyuk said, the person who got off the helicopter seems to be saying something, but I can’t hear what they are talking about because of the propeller sound that hasn’t stopped yet.
Did you come alone?
Except for that man who got out of the cockpit, I don’t see anyone else.

“Hajin-ah, Captain Kim. But can I not go to that person?”

As if in a confrontation, not only the man who got off the helicopter, but also the guards, including Kim Hyeon-jun and me, hurriedly gathered, stood still as the order was not given.

“First of all, I don’t know what he is doing.”
“You’re right. Most of the survivors we’ve met so far have been dangerous to us. For now, I think it would be best to wait and see until you reveal your identity and tell me why you came here.”
“But it looks like you need some help…”
“Mister, have you forgotten? Chaewon Yoon seemed to need help that year.”
“Ah…”

Yoon Chae-won, the captain of the plaza, was also an ordinary woman who seemed to need help, but many people, including Jung Min-soo, died because of her careless kindness.
In order not to repeat the same mistake, you must maintain a certain level of vigilance towards outsiders who are not residents of the shelter.
Well, there are kids who don’t have that kind of vigilance.

“Wow! It’s a helicopter!”
“Bigger than our helicopter that exploded!”
“This is a broadcasting helicopter! It’s just like the one on the news that Dad used to watch!”
“Mister! Give us a ride!”
“What good is this…”

Elementary school commandos are busy popping out of the crowd and gathering around the helicopter to watch.
Except for No. 5, who hates heights, they were very excited, especially No. 4.
And the price of approaching an outsider without any vigilance…

Snap! Clap-

“Wow! I got caught! Help me!!”
“That stupid bastard..!”

The rest of the elementary school commandos right next to him reacted quite resolutely to the action of a man who raised his bony left arm around his neck and aimed the pistol he drew with his right hand at No. 4’s temple.
Would I rather be surprised?

“Yoojunie was caught~”
“It’s nice.”
“What did you do the last time we hung from the roof?”
“Wow~ Helicopter is cool~”
“… “

When the rest of the elementary school special forces threw their bodies and clung to the rooftop to save Dasol, of course they were holding on together, but No. 4, who was said to have watched the scenery from the roof railing, did not show a sense of urgency nor the slightest will to save himself. He stared at me with amazement eyes, then hurriedly turned his head and shouted at me.

“Majesty! Please save the small man!!”
“Shut up! Didn’t this happen because of your mistake!”
“… “

Elementary school student No. 4, who was even more astonished at my appearance of accepting a situation drama as a situation drama, and Kim Hyun-joon, who was making a similar expression next to me, spit out a word.

“Is it time to play around?”
“He played the joke first.”
“But it is..!”
“Don’t worry. Can’t you see that child’s arm?”
“Eight? Ah… Right.”

Hyunjun Kim nodded at my words.
Even though he is holding his neck with one arm and holding it, his arm is trembling as he barely holds an elementary school chair.
That means that the stats are terrible or that the current physical condition is not normal.
Compared to that, although they are held hostage, elementary school commandos, including Kang Yoo-jun, who is the 4th elementary school student, have three characteristics each, and their stats are in their early to mid-20s.
Of course, I can’t help it because the gun is pointed at my temple right now, but four elementary school special forces are right next to me, Kim Hyun-jun, dozens of guards, and more than 100 people are crowded around.
So, if he kills a child he has nothing to do with, and he doesn’t intend to kill himself, he will never be able to shoot. In comparison, No. 4 is a guy who has the ability to get out at any time if he sees a small gap.
As time passed, the man’s small voice, which had not been heard along with the sound of the propeller, was heard in our ears.

“It’s cheap, I have no intention of fighting… I am here to seek help…”
“I don’t think you meant to hold hostages, did you?”
“… “

The man, who seemed to be having a hard time even speaking to me, looked at the people gathered around him with a face full of tension and worry, and the moment the muzzle attached to the temple of No. He nodded.

Piyung- Puk!!

“Ahh!!”

Widely! Taang!!!

A situation that happened in an instant.
The moment I nodded, I moved backwards, and No. 5, who was holding a crossbow, shot an arrow and hit the man’s arm. At the same time as I screamed, No. 2 swung the spear from the bottom up, lifting the man’s hand holding the gun and gunfire in the air. It rang out.
Well, a moderate assault followed.

Puck!!

“Chehehe..!!”

When No. 4, who had been caught, threw his elbow behind him and cut his stomach, the man’s arm holding his neck loosened and his back broke, and then No. 1’s right foot kicked the man’s left hamstring and brought him to his knees on the floor. He pulled the two arms behind his back and straightened the bent man’s body.
And after landing on the floor, a single word flowed from Number 4’s mouth, who had already turned toward the man.

“You bastard like an anchovy!!!”

Wheeik!!
Kwajik!!!

The small fist of No. 4, which had been swung with a very low trajectory, soared into the air and lifted the man’s chin, and the man, who floated into the air with blood spraying from his mouth, was hit back and turned upside down, ending the situation.
No, I had to stop Elementary School 4 trying to kill a man who had already passed out.

“Stop.”
“Leave this! I’ll kill that bastard… “

Swoop-

Despite my words, I grabbed the head of No. 4, who was still trying to run toward the fallen man, and turned it toward me, telling me what he was doing.

“Who are you shouting at?”
“Omg..!! Sin, sorry! Please contact me, Your Highness!”

Number 4 asks for forgiveness while prostrated on the floor as if bowing.
Does this bastard even know what this 12-year-old grew up watching?

“Where did you get that word from?”
“Your father liked historical dramas, Your Highness.”
“Under… Okay, it’s okay, so get up.”
“Your surname is at a loss, Your Highness~ By the way, little boy, I was very slightly disappointed a while ago.”
“Yes or no.”
“Shit…”

I walked past No. 4, who brushed off his dusty knees with a bitter taste, and walked towards the fallen man. I picked up the pistol that had fallen on the floor and removed the magazine.

“What? Is it an empty gun?”

The magazine had no bullets in it, I checked the chamber just in case, but there were no bullets.
Afterwards, he searches the body of the man who passed out to find a weapon, but all he has is the clothes he is wearing, and the only thing that can be called a weapon is a knife in the helicopter.

“I don’t think there was any real intention to fight.”
“It seems so. But why did you take hostages?”

It seems that he had no intention of fighting like the man said because he left his weapons and got off the helicopter in the first place, but since he was the one who held No. Could hear

“The most likely reason is that she fainted from being beaten, but she is still basically malnourished. I’ve set my glucose level for now, so I’ll take a deep breath and wake up and wake up.”
“Great job.”
“… “
“Why?”
“Am I still useless?”
“Oh, he’s a guy who doesn’t care if you search.”
“… “

Yeo Min-jeong, who was glaring at me, left the man to the nurse, then turned around and left the infirmary.
It’s embarrassing that she couldn’t make ends meet with Camilla, but there was no way to find her because she was embarrassed and disappeared.
It doesn’t work on the phone, and I didn’t take my walkie-talkie.
Unlike Camilla, however, I went out hunting with a walkie-talkie and returned to the shelter a few hours later when I heard on the radio that the man had come to his senses.

“Sah, save me!”
“You shameless bastard. Put a gun on someone else’s kid and ask him to save it?”
“There were no bullets! I had no intention of hurting you!”
“I know. I made sure there were no bullets.”
“Then I will ask. Why did you take hostages? You must have said that you needed help, but you know that kind of behavior doesn’t help at all.”
“I-I tried to protect me! I’m not sure if they’re trustworthy… “

First of all, he took a helicopter and flew to the shelter to ask for help, but he said he took No. 4 hostage because he wasn’t sure if we were good people to help him.
It was because we were on guard, not welcoming ourselves favorably and not talking to each other first.

“You are really stupid. Holding hostages to unfriendly people? Wouldn’t it be better to lay down your weapon and show that you have no intention of fighting?”
“It’s not a good world to throw away weapons that can protect you… I don’t know what this place is like, but at least that’s how the world I’ve been surviving has been…”

A face darkened as if there were many stories.
Well, that statement is not incorrect.
No, maybe that kind of behavior of a man is natural.
It’s a perfect world to get stabbed in the back if you blindly trust someone.
But even though you know that, even though you can’t readily show your faith, there must be a reason why you’ve come all the way here.
Well, it seems that this man’s face and physical condition tell the reason.

“So why did you come here? What are you asking for help with?”
“Ah! Please help! Even now people are starving to death!!”

Someone is starving to death.
It is unimaginable here.
We risk our lives every day hunting zombies and monsters and enduring day by day no different from them, but at least no one dies of starvation.
No, it’s because I ate too well.
How many times have hundreds of people gathered together to have a barbecue party at the parade ground?
But that doesn’t mean I want to help too much or I don’t care.
Would it be similar to the way we usually see UNICEF’s donation ad that says we can save someone’s life for 9,900 won per month, but don’t do it?
It’s true that I don’t see it with my own eyes, so I don’t feel it, and I wonder if I don’t need to help.
Moreover, starving to death means that humans are very useless in this world.
I’d rather have run right away if it was really a place where puppies like human puppies were gathered.
Even if you kill them, you don’t have to feel any remorse, so you can experiment to see if you can acquire evolution points through other people, and use them as trait vending machines or Sung Jun-myeong’s maruta.

“Tell me in detail.”
“Can you help me?”
“Isn’t that obvious?”
“Why is it obvious?”
“… Just shut up.”

Kim Hyeon-jun, who had covered my mouth with his hand, turned his head toward the man again and asked.

“It’s already been two months since the zombies appeared. If he couldn’t fight the zombies in the first place, he’d be dead already. But what does it mean to die of starvation when you’ve endured so far?”
“Yes, that’s right.. We’ve been holding up pretty well so far.. Until they started popping up around the station.”
“They are…”

Kim Hyeon-joon’s expression hardened along with the hardened man’s face.
And me.

“Broadcast stations?”
“Yes, I am from a broadcasting station in Ilsan.”
“Let’s go, I will help you.”
“… “

That’s how I decided to save people suffering from hunger.
After all, it’s a broadcasting station…

“Heh heh… “
“It’s a start again. Maybe Minseo and Juha… “
“Shut up, Kim Hyun-joon. If you carelessly tease me, I might pluck out your real eyes.”
“… “
“Then wake up, subordinate number two! Depart right now! Starving announcers and celebrities… No, to save people!”