Chapter 228 – Trouble

On a broken leg.
A place only 2 km away from the south exit of the shelter.

Flash!!

The woman opened her eyes for a moment and quickly looked around her and started running.
Destination? There was no such thing.
She just ran and ran.
Because I have to run away.
Because that’s the only thing it can do.
The woman who started running at the end of the broken bridge led the limp leg and ran until her breath caught up to her chin, and she crossed the plaza of the National Museum with a large pond in the center.

“Ha..! Ha..! Ha..!”

As she ran up the stairs with difficulty, she saw a large iron barrier.
The woman did not know that there could be no such thing in the middle of Seoul.
A structure made artificially by human hands.
That means there are survivors.
Her wide-eyed woman, unable to catch her breath, started running again, and when she arrived at her southern door, she knocked frantically at the door and shouted:

Bang bang bang!!!

“Help me!! Please save me!!!”

As she knocked on the door with a pitiful voice, her hand was torn and blood leaked out. Backed off.
She’s calling for help, but apart from that, she didn’t know what would pop out from the inside of the open door.

“Are you okay?”
“I am very hurt. Once this way… “
“… “

When the guard who came out of the door stepped closer, the woman instinctively backed away from her, but unlike him, she was asking for help with a pitiful expression.

“Help… “
“I’ll help you, so come inside.”
“Hey, wait.”
“Why?”
“Call the control room and ask them to send some women nearby. Maybe it’s because he’s a man.”
“Ah… Okay.”

The guard immediately contacted the control room, and it was Camilla and Deanna who received the radio from the control room and arrived at the southern entrance.

“Help… Please… Please… “
“Miss Camilla, Miss Deanna. Once inside… “
“Wait a minute. Deanna, get a good look at her left thigh.”

At Camilla’s words, Dianna’s eyebrows as well as Camilla’s eyes slightly furrowed as Dianna’s flashlight shone closely on the outside of her woman’s left thigh.

“Do you think it’s right?”
“Huh. Will you do it?”
“Can’t you? I’ve never done it…”
“I haven’t tried it either?!”
“… “

Deanna, who was exchanging an unknown conversation with Camilla in front of her woman, passed her flashlight she was holding to Camilla and approached her woman.
And unlike when her man, the sentinel, approached, Diana, holding her hand in front of the woman who did not back down from her, pulled her hand as hard as she could in her moment, behind her back, and held her back. I raised my right fist.

Poop!!!!

“Ah…!!!!”
“Mr. Diana!!”
“What are you doing?!”

Deanna’s sudden action of thrusting her fist into the woman’s abdomen made her guards scream and approach, but as she collapsed in front of her, something began to come out of the woman’s mouth as she sat down on the floor.

“Cheuk..! Kuk..!!”
“I’m going to choke to death! Diana! Once more!”
“No way..! Sorry!!”

Wheeik-
Poop!!!

“Ouch..!!!!”

As Diana’s toe kicked her stomach, the black object and vomit poured from the woman’s mouth to the ground as if her jaw were about to come out.

Dudududuk-

“Keeeee!”)
“W-what is that?!”
“A monster, a monster… “
“Ha…”

Two guards who are perplexed, Diana who is frustrated by their appearance, and Camilla who stabs and kills the monster that jumped out of the woman’s mouth with a knife drawn from the scabbard hanging from the guard’s waist. After stabbing more of the caterpillar monster, he returned the knife.

“We will take the woman with us.”
“Yes? Ah… Yes…”
“Boo, please…”

Deanna sighed as she watched the foolish guards behind her.
It was unavoidable.
As many people died due to the fight with the cockroaches, of course the guards needed new manpower, and those guards were newcomers who joined the guards a while ago as guards dedicated to the guards.

“What if we don’t give education on these things and send guards in?! And he’s a survivor and opens the door! Really frustrating..!! At least nighttime vigilance is important, so shouldn’t we have a guard?!”
“They should rest too. They are suffering more than us.”
“I know, but…! Ha… But more than that, why am I carrying it?”
“Because I am old.”
“Despicably..!”

Although they speak plain language to each other and stay friends, it was American culture, and whenever it was like this, this is Korea.
So Camilla and Deanna headed to the infirmary late at night, and after a while Yeo Min-jeong arrived at the infirmary holding Ida-sol, who was hanging like a koala.

“Haam..! Long time no survivors again… Dasol, would you like to wake up for a second?”
“Huh… “

It took quite a while to wake Ida-sol, who was complaining of sleep, but she woke up for a moment, and after treating the woman, she fell asleep again, and an unexpected neighborhood meeting was held in the infirmary.

“Are the Mentis coming again?”
“Captain, the king must be in the middle this time, right?”
“Maybe.”
“But how did the older sisters know?”
“Because the stab wound on my thigh was shaped like a Mentis hook.”
“Ah… “

The eyes of the people gathered in the infirmary, including Kim Hyun-joon and Kim Ji-hoon, focused on Lia, who nodded at Camilla’s answer.

“Why, why…?”
“Why can’t I see Kang Ha-jin?”
“I can’t see Minseo and Jooha either.”
“The older sisters went hunting at night… Brother is… “
“What are you asking? There is only one answer.”
“… “
“… “

This time, Deanna tilted her head towards Kim Hyun-jun and Jackson, who kept her mouth shut at Diana’s blunt answer.

“By the way, why did the captain and Jackson come out? Aren’t you busy?”
“What do you mean?”
“What are you saying.”
“You both made a living. With the women I picked up then.”
“… “
“… “

At Diana’s words, the two’s expressions suddenly darkened.
Hyo-Jung Kim and Hanna Seo, the two women he saved when he ran into the King of Heads in the tunnel.
Kim Hyun-joon and Jackson were lifesavers and somehow managed to make a living as if they were affectionate in the process of running away, but it was not the kind of life they dreamed of.

“Whoa… “
“Whoa… “
“Whoa… ”
“… No, fuck Why are you just sighing after calling out a busy person?!”

After a short neighborhood meeting in the infirmary, Kim Hyun-joon, Jackson, and even Kim Ji-hoon went to the house and knocked on the door and called Ha-jin, who was busy eating idol Yuna-yeon, to the rooftop, but all three of them sat down and sighed deeply, but did not say anything.

“Crazy guys..! If you don’t have anything to say but knock on the door again, then they’ll search everything! I’ve only been able to lift two feet yet…!”
“… Sit down I will tell you now.”
“Kuhm… What?”

Hearing Kim Hyun-joon’s words that he would speak to her, Ha-jin, who quietly sat down, stared at her with a twinkle in her eyes, as if he was still curious. Said as if

“What makes you so easy?”
“What bullshit?”
“Whoa… Know nothing…”
“You don’t know what? Please tell me something easier to understand!”
“They said it was their dream to get married and have children.”
“What kind of place… Oh, that kid? Are you asking me to have a baby? Is it because of that?”
“Kid… It’s good… Because I also wanted to be a father to one child someday. However… Lying down, holding only her hand and staring at her ceiling only. Then you will have a child…”
“… “
“… “
“… “

In an instant, the eyes shot towards Kim Hyun-joon.
Not only Ha Jin, but Jackson and Kim Ji-hoon, who were sitting next to her, all looked at Kim Hyun-joon with pitiful faces.

“You bastard..!! You can just do it!”
“You mean by force? Do you mean to treat Hyojeong like an ugly beast like you?!”
“Then hold hands and stare at the ceiling for the rest of your life, you bastard! But you’re 21 years old? Doesn’t that mean there’s something wrong with your head?”
“… Do you want to die?”
“No, that’s right~ Why don’t elementary school students know everything these days?”
“It’s because he’s so deeply religious and pure.”
“To be pure is damned. It’s just stupid.”
“It looks like you really want to die.”
“Kill or not, that’s up to you. Now, this guy stole a girl as young as 10 years old, and he can’t eat it because he’s an asshole. What is your reason?”

Among Jackson and Kim Ji-hoon, who were looking at each other at Ha-jin’s question, Kim Ji-hoon raised his hand and said.

“Because I’m Soeun, I’m still 19 years old… “
“Hey!!”

Puck!!!

“Chehehe!!!”
“This bastard is a jerk too! Do some damn shit, you bastard! Do you want to pay a fine for speeding while running? Bastard bastard..! What is your reason again?!”

Frustrated, Ha-jin, who kicked Kim Ji-hoon, who was the same as Kim Hyun-joon, finally asked Jackson, and Jackson had a slightly different reason than the previous two.

“She is a viper woman…”
“What?”
“When the world became like this, bad things happened to men. She heard the story So I try to be as careful as possible. But even if I hold my hand, he puts a knife to his throat.”
“… Just meet another year.”

It is true love to care for and understand the person’s wounds, but from Ha-jin’s point of view, it’s just a frustrating voice.
Even within the shelter, all the men who are in tune with Kim Hyun-jun, Jackson, and Kim Ji-hoon, as well as Kwon Joo-hyuk and Ahn Tae-jin, are all popular.
That’s why he couldn’t understand the three people who were worried about this even though he could live with all the women he wanted.

“Oh right. By the way, the radio was ringing earlier. What is that?”
“Ah… I’m here to tell you the story. It looks like the Mentis army will arrive soon.”
“Mantis?”

Kim Hyun-joon, Jackson, and Kim Ji-hoon regained their reason after leaving the house for a while at the moaning sound of Yun Na-yeon flowing through the front door. He nodded and got up from his seat.

“Well, when the time comes, you will know. I’m going to call you all and fuck you.”
“Are you just going to wait for these guys to come in?”
“Or not?”
“There is also a method called a preemptive strike.”
“You want us to hit first?”
“Because it might be safer that way.”

At Kim Hyun-jun’s words, Ha-jin fell into trouble with her arms crossed.
If you wait at the shelter and fight the coming monsters, the shelter will be messed up again and you will spend a lot of time and coins restoring it.
Of course, it’s not a problem since the reward follows after the war, but people will continue to think of the shelter as the last line of defense rather than a safe place.
Well, that’s not bad either.
If you don’t relax too much and always maintain the right amount of tension, you can cope with unexpected situations much better.
But the biggest problem is that some of the people with significantly less combat ability will die in the chaos.
Of course, in a war against monsters in one way or another, sacrifices will follow.

“It is still too dangerous. If you leave it here and the roads cross, or if they come to rob an empty house, they’ll be annihilated. Of course, you can hide it in a suitable place and go out, but even that is too risky. Why would you take a risk when you’re not like you? Are you stressed because you can’t work at night? Do you feel like you need to break something right now? Or would you like me to find a suitable woman for you?”
“Shut up and listen seriously. There are about 40 people who will be classified as non-combatants in the war against Mentis. That means there are only 40 left.”
“That’s because you keep taking them away from the guards.”
“Do you know how many people are in the shelter right now?”
“About 200 people?”
“… “
“Whoa…”

Kim Ji-hoon gave the exact number instead of Kim Hyun-jun, who looked at Ha-jin as if he was pathetic, and Jackson, who sighed.

“Brother, there are 105 people.”
“Is that all there is to it?”
“Yes, it’s really not long now.”

The number of people at the shelter is close to 400, including those newly joined after Hajin cleaned up the military forces that had taken control of the Yongsan Shelter.
But now there are only 105 left.
There, there are as many as 40 people who are impossible or difficult to fight like Lee Da-sol or Yeo Min-jeong, and if you protect those 40 people and wage war against the Mentis Corps, at least half of them will die.
Of course, you can protect all 40 people, but if that happens, more people who have to fight without even running away to protect them may be sacrificed more.

“We, Minseo, Juha, Juhyeok, the vice-captain, and even the kids in the special forces here. There is no guarantee that you will be able to fight while protecting people because you never know what kind of strong guys will appear. That’s why the fight to defend is against us. So, with only the minimum number of defense troops left, we must make a preemptive strike after clearly grasping their strength and location. So that all attention can be focused on us.”
“Hmm… I mean take the risk… Oh, but are you sure you’re coming this way? Aren’t you bothering those who want to go somewhere else?”
“If you’re going somewhere else, you’re protecting the people there.”
“Gandhi was born. I’m such a pacifist, so I can’t eat even if I give it to you, you stuffy bastard… What the hell is that difficult..! Tsk tsk… Let’s just not talk uh… This guy.”
“… “
“Captain, be patient! Is that brother doing that for a day or two?”
“Captain, be patient. It wakes people up.”
“Leave this. That bastard just..!!”
“Then do your best~ Ah! Kim Hyeon-joon, don’t do this here, go home and take care of your daughter. There was too much blood in the head~ haha”
“Aaaaa!!!! Strong Hajin!!!!”