Chapter 123 – What They Are

Doo doo doo!!!

“Hey, strong Hajin!! Won’t you come down here?!”
“Brother! Where else are you going?!”

Min-seo and Ju-ha scream under the helicopter taking off.
Minseo, that’s why he often talks.

“People with this man are in danger! I’ll help you soon, so keep hunting hard!”
“Hey!!!”
“Brother!!!”

Drreuk- thump!!

With the closed door, the loud propeller sound has gone quiet, and Min-seo and Ju-ha’s voices are no longer audible.
By the way… Why are these things here?!

“Wow!!”
“Wake up! It floats!!”
“Boom! Booung!!”
“What a mess! Fuck it, it’s fucking dope!!”

When Min-seo and Ju-ha are told to get off quickly, they unfasten their safety belts as soon as the helicopter takes off, and the elementary school commandos who hurt them cling to the window like flies and scream as they look down at the shrinking ground.

“Guys! Didn’t I tell you to sit down because it’s dangerous?!”
“Hey, anchovies. Who are you giving orders to?!”
“You want to get hit again?!”
“Aren’t you itchy?”
“Are you going to kill me?”
“… “

The elementary school commando, who made the pilot shut up with threats to go away, was busy looking out the window again, and No. 5, the only one who was negative about helicopters, sat on my legs like a koala and hugged me with its arms and legs. There is.

“Scared… I’m afraid, Your Majesty… “
“… Should I kill them all?”
“Ah, aren’t they children…? .”
“To take sides while being threatened by kids.”
“… “

Woo Jin-hwan, the pilot of this helicopter and the man who came to the shelter, is a former air force soldier.
As soon as he became a retired soldier, he got a job as a helicopter pilot at a broadcasting station, and at one time he ate better and lived better than he did when he was a soldier, but now he is just a skinny young anchovy like the words of an elementary school commando.

“Then why did you come alone? A pretty woman… No, bring some others.”
“That’s it… “
“And tell me what the heck are those things you didn’t do before.”
“Oh, those are… Therefore… I’ll just tell you from the beginning. What happened there?”

Woo Jin-hwan started talking about a very long story when he could just do a simple job.
Well, there’s time on the way, so it’s not bad to listen to to pass the time.

***

After the appearance of zombies, the first thing to infer the existence of zombies was the broadcasting station.
Of course, that was just an extreme choice of words to pull off a sensational headline, but it was an accurate inference anyway.
Of course, no one believed that to be true.

“Is the helicopter still there?!”
“They say they will arrive in 5 minutes!”
“Reporting!”
“Reporter Park is preparing.”
“What about the desk?!”
“That is… Lee Song-ah…”
“Transfer? Why leave the desk to such a rookie?! Are you crazy?!!”
“He’s the only one who went to work right now… The other kids couldn’t contact me about what was going on and didn’t go to work… And these days, Lee Song-ah is said to be a beauty announcer, so she is quite famous on SNS, Director. She won’t react badly.”
“SNS? Hmm… Alright, then tell Songah this. Today, the purpose is not to convey and inform the facts. The purpose is to seriously inflate the situation with provocative words as much as possible. Also tell the camera to take only provocative pictures as much as possible. Don’t worry about the broadcast review, just go with something stimulating. Make the follow-up news only look at us, okay?!”
“Yes!”

The director hurriedly turned and watched the subordinate run away, but somehow cut it off, but still took out a cigarette and lighter from the desk drawer, put it in his mouth, and lit it.

“Whoa… If this job goes well, you’re the boss, boss. You must take the tower this time!”

However, it did not happen that the director recorded the highest ratings among terrestrial news, nor did he become the president.
It was because he was bitten by a zombie while going down to the co-control room of the news agency to direct the news, which will be broadcast live, and became a zombie, not the president.

“Pu-huh..! Senior, didn’t you say you were going out with Reporter Park right now? He said he was going to shoot some kind of zombie~”
“I’m leaving! My stomach hurts so I took a poop for a while.”
“But did a real zombie even appear? In the middle of Seoul?”
“Are you crazy? If a zombie appears, I’m a dragon. Right now, I’m in human form for a while.”
“Puhaha~ When is the enemy Yonggary? Fuhahaha~”
“Big..! Big..!”
“Hey… But isn’t that Director Choi?”
“Uh? That’s right, Chief Choi. But why are you doing that… Kyaaak!!! What, what, what?!”

The junior reporter, who was exchanging morning greetings and a joke with his senior cameraman, staggered out as if drunk and bit the neck of a passing station employee, and the reporter stuttered and screamed.

“What is it, what is it? Move to the side for now. Pick the picture first.”

Unlike the screaming junior reporter, the cameraman calmly started filming the director, who has become the subject of provocative news.
However, dozens of cameras were busy taking pictures of the zombies that appeared inside the broadcasting station, to be precise, the mutants.
Of course, mutants didn’t only appear inside the broadcasting station.

“Brother!!!”
“Wow!!!”
“Handsome!!”
“It’s awesome!!!”
“Please look here!!”

Idol singers go to the broadcasting station much faster than office workers on days when there is a music broadcast.
And countless fans gathered to take pictures of the idol singers on their way to work.

“Thank you!”
“Thank you!”
“Have you eaten your meal?”

An idol group that greets or communicates with fans who have gathered early in the morning to see them.
But at that moment, a girl fan crossed a low fence about waist-high and attacked an idol member who was waving at the fans.

“Ahh!! What, what?!”
“Ouch!! Whoops!!”
“Minseok!!”
“Help!!”
“Damn it..!”
“What are you doing?!”

The manager and bodyguards hurriedly rushing to the urgent request for help.
But faster than them were the other girl fans on the other side of the fence right in front of them.

Snap!!

“What are you doing, you crazy bitch?!”
“Hey!! Get away from my brother!!!”
“Pull it out!!!”

The power created by other girl fans, and more than 6 girl fans, pulling the hair and hem of the girl fan who attacked her star, eventually succeeded in removing the girl fan who attacked the star…

Shoot!!

Like a small fountain, blood gushed out of the neck of the idol who was lying under the girl fan, and at that moment, as if the world had stopped, the surroundings were engulfed in shock.
Only one person.
No, except for one monster.

“Aagh!!!”

Kwajik!!!

A zombie who bit the neck of a girl fan who was pulling her hair the most violently as if for revenge.

“Ah… Buy, save… Give… “

The people who were shocked by the desperate eyes of help and the helpless hands began to wake up from the accident, and the surroundings quickly turned into a mess.

“Kyaaak!!!”
“Kyaaaaa!!!”
“Aww!!”
“Crazy fuck!!”
“Go inside!!”
“Come over here!!”

Girl fans fled in all directions, and the surviving idols ran into the broadcasting station with their manager and bodyguards, but it was not a safe place either.
Because it was already hell.
Meanwhile, Woo Jin-hwan, who had been waiting for an emergency call on the roof of the broadcasting station, went down the roof to find the reporter and cameraman who did not show up after the promised time.

“What are these people doing calling people and not answering the phone?!”

This kind of sudden call is a very normal and natural thing because the work he does does not have a fixed commute time, but Woo Jin-hwan was very sensitive because he was suffering from a hangover from drinking too much last night.
Woo Jin-hwan, who came down from the roof with such a spirited spirit and took the elevator to the floor where the press office was located, sat down on the floor as soon as the elevator door was closed.

“Hey, what is this… Why… “

Corpses covered in red blood lying in front of the elevator.
Not only the terrifying corpse with naked flesh eaten here and there, but also all places Woo Jin-hwan could see were stained with blood.
And a mutant who preys on people who scream and beg for help.

“Keah!!”
“Aaah!!”
“Ugh, ugh!!!”

Ride on!!!!

Woo Jin-hwan frantically presses the close button at the two mutants turning their heads toward him.
However, the elevator door, which closed at an infinitely slower speed compared to the oncoming mutator, hadn’t closed halfway yet, and the moment the mutator was about to jump into the elevator.

“Keah!!”
“Keah!!”

Puck!!

Two mutants running from both sides collided with each other and rolled to the ground.
And the barely closed elevator.

“Hee-eok, hee-euk, what is this..?”

Woo Jin-hwan, who hadn’t been able to wake up to the vivid corpses and mutators yet, did not realize that the elevator was going down to the first floor by the button pressed downstairs, even though he had never pressed it.

-1st floor. The door opens.

Eugh-

“Keah!!”
“Aaah!!”
“Aww!!”
“Ah… “
“Kyaaak!!”

So-so!!

“… “

A terrible sight that left me speechless.
Woo Jin-hwan, whose thoughts stopped and his body stiffened at the sight of the lobby as if it had become hell, had nothing to do but blink his eyes in a daze.
Until one of the corpses lying in front of the elevator rises as a mutant.

“Big..!!”
“No… “
“Aagh!!!”
“Ahh!!”

Snap!!!

Woo Jin-hwan, who had been in military uniform for over 10 years even though he was already retired from the Air Force, instinctively stretched out his arms and jumped into the elevator, grabbed the neck and forehead of the mutant who attacked him, and pushed him hard, unlike countless people in the lobby who died. Not lost
However, the power of the mutant was too strong for a veteran over 40 to endure, and he kicked the mutant in the stomach with all his might, kicking the mutant in the face of the mutant who was gradually approaching him.

“Huh..! Huh..! Huh..!”
“Kuaa!!”

He barely succeeded in knocking down the mutant, but Woo Jin-hwan, who screamed as if he had not received any damage and kicked the mutant’s head, ran out into the lobby to avoid the mutant who was stuck in the corner of the elevator with a rough breath.
But it’s the worst option.
The lobby, which escaped from one mutant, was infested with dozens of mutants.

“Oh, don’t come!!”
“Aagh!!!”
“Keah!!”

Mutants who found their prey that appeared voluntarily and rushed like crazy.
Woo Jin-hwan, who was somewhat familiar with the geography of the broadcasting station, started running toward the emergency stairs right next to him, and the moment Woo Jin-hwan opened the emergency stairway door and entered, a zombie jumped out and bit him.

Snap!!

“Big!! Big!!”
“Leave this! You crazy bastard!!!”

Puck puck!!!

Woo Jin-hwan hit the head of the mutant who was biting his thigh with his fist without mercy.

Chewy!!!

The mutant hit by Woo Jin-hwan’s fist fell and his pants were torn.
And fortunately, he was not injured because it was just his pants, not his thigh, so he succeeded in removing the mutagen without getting injured, but the torn pants part was the pocket with the key to the helicopter.
And Woo Jin-hwan knew instinctively.
That the mutant could only survive by taking out the helicopter key from his trouser pocket that he had swallowed.
However, facing only one mutagen, his legs trembled, but Woo Jin-hwan, who had no choice but to run away due to other mutants rushing from all sides, had no choice but to turn around and run into the emergency stairs, and there was no way out. I was confined to the broadcasting station, which is a prison.

***

“Whoa… These were truly horrifying moments that made my teeth tremble just thinking about them. After that, we managed to survive by working together with the survivors to find out that we had game-like powers in our bodies.”
“… “
“… “

Woo Jin-hwan sighs and shakes his head.
And Hyunjun Kim and I staring at him.

Scratch- scratch-

I scratched the itchy tip of my nose with his fingernail and said to Woo Jin-hwan, who looked back as if he wanted an evaluation of his story.

“So what.”
“Yes..?”
“If you look at me like that, what will you say to me!”
“No, why are you angry… And I’m not asking what to do, I just…”
“Is your hair bad?”
“It’s not that bad… “
“No, my head is bad. Are you sure. You don’t even understand the question. I asked why you came alone and he asked what they were. But why the hell are you talking about your survival story?! Who cares about that? Just answer any questions! If you talk nonsense, I’ll throw you out!”
“… “

Woo Jin-hwan, who turned his head forward with a sullen face, finally started answering Kim Hyun-jun’s question with me.

“I didn’t intend to come alone, but there were a total of 7 people who moved together… I accidentally found a zombie walking around after eating a helicopter key… So, I went outside with the others, killed the zombies, split the ship open to get the key, and on the way to the rooftop, all 6 people I moved with died… I barely survived…”
“Wait for a sec. The people who went outside and split open the belly of the zombie and took the key died while going up to the roof? Something doesn’t make sense right? If you’re going to die, you should have died when you went outside. Why do you die inside the safe?”
“That is… Those outside like beasts barely escaped. I was really lucky. We risked our lives to go out, so I don’t know if God looked upon us favorably and helped us… However, they could not avoid those on the emergency stairs. Those demons…”
“Ghost?”
“A ghost, what is that?”
“I don’t know either. I’ve never seen… I just live there. No, they live in darkness.”

… That’s crazy
I must be crazy because I’ve been stuck in the station for too long.
In a way, there is no law that there are no ghosts in a world where zombies and monsters appear, but that is too absurd.
You’re a ghost…
Anyway, what Woo Jin-hwan says are two types in total.
One is a ridiculous ghost, and the other is a beast-like monster.
I asked roughly, but I wasn’t referring to the beast-like biter.
A much smaller, nimble, clever, and cunning beast.
Well, we’ll soon find out who both of them are.

“There it is. I will land.”