Chapter 39 – Invading Zombies

I even bought binoculars that cost 50 coins at the store and checked them.
Hannam Bridge, the closest road to Gangbuk, as well as Banpo Bridge and Dongho Bridge, located on the left and right, were cut off.
It is highly likely that all bridges across the Han River were cut off, judging from the sound of the explosion.
Then, the only way to get to the shelter is to cross the Han River naked or find a means of transportation such as a boat.
Anyway, aren’t these bastards too selfish?
Cut off all roads for survivors to reach shelters to keep themselves safe?
These fucking bastards..!

“Brother! Hey!! Look over there!”

While looking toward Dongho Bridge at Minseo’s urgent cry, I turned my binoculars to the side and checked the lower part of Hannam Bridge that Minseo’s finger was pointing at.

“These are the babies. Fuck you, you bastards..!”

A group of military uniformed soldiers swimming across the Han River wearing life jackets.
Right now, the bridge is full of zombies driven by the sound of the explosion, so it’s clear that they planned to escape that way from the beginning.
Anyway, the number of zombies will definitely decrease.
It doesn’t seem like they’re chasing that group of soldiers, but countless zombies are throwing themselves into the Han River due to the broken bridge.
It is also a country with the highest suicide rate in the OECD.
How does this country make even zombies commit suicide?

“Um… What should I do now…? If the bridge is broken, the way to get to the shelter is… “
“Ah! Over there, water taxis and water skis… “
“Doesn’t exist.”
“Yes..?”
“There are no ships left.”
“Ah… “

I have already checked all the Han Riversides.
Do you have any boats you can use?
However, even if you wash your eyes and look for a ship, you will not see a single one.
Even if it were me, if I had been around here when the zombies appeared, I would have escaped by boat.

“Here you go!!! There are people here!!!!”
“Lord, Lord! Let us shout too! It is this way!!! There are survivors!!!”
“Help me!! Save people!!!!”

Min-seo and Kwon’s brother and sister start shouting at a group of soldiers who are suddenly swimming across the Han River.
In that situation, there is no way you can hear the shouting from this side, and even if you hear it, there is no way they can help you.
There’s no way they’d suddenly change course and come across this way unless they’re insane.
And even if they come over, nothing will change.
Now is not the time to shout and seek their help, but the time to think about how to cross the Han River.
Should I just swim across it like those soldiers?
I don’t think it would be that difficult given my current physical stats…

“What, what is that?!”

The three people who had been shouting at my sudden burst of voice turned their heads and looked at me.
Then I dropped the binoculars I was holding in my left hand and slowly raised my right hand with my index finger extended and pointed at one place.
That’s why you don’t need to use binoculars.

“Tide..?”
“No! That’s a submarine! Maybe keep those soldiers safe… “
“No… That’s not like that… “

As Min-seo said, the wave looks like a big wave rushing in, or as Kwon Joo-hyeok said, it looks like a submarine rising above the surface.
However, as Kwon Ju-ha said, that is neither a wave nor a submarine.
I’ve never actually seen a submarine, but no matter how big it is, it won’t be that big.
No, even if there were a submarine that big, there wouldn’t be one that could move in such a graceful curve.

Fuwaaaaa!!!!

The water, lifted up by a huge object rising from the water at an angle of about 45 degrees, falls like a waterfall.
Waves spread as white foam formed around them, and soldiers swimming and numerous zombies that fell under the bridge disappeared in an instant as they were sucked into a huge black hole-like mouth.

Turn up!!!!

Even though it seems to be 500 meters away from here, I can hear the sound of my mouth closing vividly.
Crocodile? No, snakes?
How the hell am I supposed to express that?
A snake the size of a building covered in crocodile skin.
Yes, this expression would be the most appropriate.

“Aww!!! I-what the hell is that?!!!”
“Uh… Uh… “
“No, no way… Monster… It’s a real monster… “

A monster so desperate to scream, speechless, and slumped to the floor.
I, too, couldn’t speak, so I could only stare blankly at the hideous monster re-entering the water.
What kind of monster is Baekdu Mountain?!
Why does something like that live in the Han River!!!
But what’s surprising is that there isn’t just one monster like that.

“This crazy..!”

I hurriedly lifted my binoculars and checked the Banpo Bridge and Dongho Bridge on the left and right. The same monsters I saw a moment ago were repeatedly popping out and entering the water surface.
It’s like the fish that rush to eat each other when food is thrown into a fishbowl.
Now, the option to swim across the Han River has disappeared.
No, I understood why I couldn’t see a single abandoned boat or water ski floating in the Han River.
They were all eaten by those monsters.

“I’ll turn around..!”
“Brother.. What should I do now..?”
“What do you do? It’s the most shelter and nabal, and we survive by ourselves. The bridge is also broken and monsters like that are infested, but there is no way, right?”

The most realistic way in the current situation is not to go to the shelter.
It’s because I’ve survived so well so far anyway.
But there is one concern.

“Ha, but…! If a monster like that appears here, we can’t survive on our own..”

Yes, as Minseo said, there is no law saying that a monster like that lives only in water.
If a monster like that appeared on the ground, we couldn’t survive on our own.
Of course, there’s no guarantee that you can kill a monster like that by joining forces with the people in the shelter, but it’s still better to fight each other than alone.
However, the bridge is also broken and there is a monster like that living in the Han River, so how can I get to the shelter…

“Boo, Bundang Line!”
“And Line 5 is also available!”

Yes, as the Kwon siblings said, you can use two tunnels, which are underpass tunnels that cross the Han River.
Because this is something I thought of before.
But what if there were more zombies than the first day I was there?
It is like walking into a zombie den with nowhere to escape.
And unlike the ground, where you can roughly check the situation ahead by climbing up to the roof of a building like this, it is difficult to secure a view on the dark track, and you have to keep moving without knowing what is in front of you, so you cannot recognize the danger in advance and it is difficult to deal with it.
Fuck, after seeing that monster, maybe it’s because I’m a bitch too…

“It’s not urgent to go to the shelter right now, so let’s think about it slowly. First of all, what we need to do right now is to become stronger. That’s the most pressing issue. Especially the two of you.”
“… ”
“… “

The people I pointed out were Minseo and Ohta… No, Kwon Joo-hyuk.
These two need to get stronger.
Not to mention me, and Kwon Joo-ha wouldn’t be inferior anywhere if he was at the level he is now, but Min-seo and Kwon Joo-hyeok weren’t.
You have to become stronger.

『Name: Kang Ha-jin (27)
Height: 183 cm Weight: 77 kg
Attributes: Strong Mental Power (D), Agile Movement (E)
Coins: 103
[Strength Lv.8] [Agility Lv.11] [Stamina Lv.6] [Luck Lv.3]』

『Name: Minseo Kim (25)
Height: 163 cm Weight: 49 kg
Characteristic:-
Coins: 76
[Strength Lv.5] [Agility Lv.8] [Stamina Lv.4] [Luck Lv.3]』

『Name: Juha Kwon (24)
Height: 169 cm Weight: 52 kg
Characteristic:-
Coins: 98
[Strength Lv.6] [Agility Lv.8] [Stamina Lv.4] [Luck Lv.3]』

『Name: Kwon Joo-hyuk (27)
Height: 173 cm Weight: 88 kg
Attribute: Body Enhancement (E)
Coins: 61
[Strength Lv.8] [Agility Lv.5] [Stamina Lv.4] [Luck Lv.1]』

In the case of Kwon Ju-hana and Kwon Ju-hyuk, there is no change in stats from when we first met.
Because I stole all the coins I had, all the coins I got from the zombies I killed while moving yesterday and today.
However, in the case of Minseo, the agility level rose one more.

“When did you hit level 8 agility? Even so, I have quite a few coins.”
“Did I kill hard too? And killed people too…”

In this way, there is almost no difference between Minseo and Kwonjuha.
If you look at the sum of the stats excluding Luck, the difference is only 1.
Of course, Kwon Joo-hyuk has the same stats as Min-seo, but the distribution is wrong.
It would have been easier to follow us or deal with the zombies if we had put it on agility rather than strength.
Of course, if there was one characteristic that could cover the lack of agility stat, it could be a long shot.
Do you have any useless traits like that?
Well, because of that trait, he survived being hit by my mace without dying.

“Keah!!”
“Kuaa!!”
“Aaah!!”
“Great!!”
“However… Isn’t the zombie sound too loud..?”
“What is it?”
“Oh, no…”

As Kwon Joo-hyuk said, it is true that the screams of the zombies have been getting louder and louder since a while ago.
But what about that?
We’re on the roof of an apartment building, so those stupid zombies screaming downstairs won’t hear us, and even those with sight won’t see us.
In addition, since the entrance door to the rooftop was firmly closed, we have nothing to do with the screaming zombies.
Even so, that otaku bastard is checking the lower part of the roof with his body half-stretched on the roof railing.

“Hey, hey… I think you should come here for a second and look at this… “
“Whoa… What?”
“Zombies are coming all over this apartment…”
“What?!”
“What do you mean?”
“Really, brother?”

Dadadadadak!!!

At Kwon Joo-hyeok’s words, Min-seo and Kwon Ju-ha hurriedly ran to the railing and looked down.
And Kwon Joo-hyeok’s words were not exaggeration or lies, but the truth.
Real zombies are gathering in this apartment.
There’s no apartment neighborhood association, so why the hell are you coming here?

“Why are you all here…”
“Sir, you’re not coming to us right?”
“… “

Without answering Minseo’s question as she looked at me with her eyes wide open, I quickly turned around and ran towards the rooftop door.

Jump!
Come on!!

“Keah!!”
“Aaah!!”
“Aaah!!!”

The sound of zombies’ footsteps and cries echoed through the emergency stairs leading to the rooftop.
Damn, you’re coming here?!
How the hell do you know we’re here!
Wake! Now is not the time to be wondering about such things!
What should I do? Should I close the door and hold on? Or do you go down now?
The rooftop seems like a safe place in a way, but here is a dead end with no place to escape.
The only thing that can stop the incoming zombies is this iron gate and the bodies of the four of us.
If the door is broken, we are stuck on the roof and have to constantly deal with the incoming zombies.
If you don’t like that, the only way is to commit suicide by throwing yourself down.
And obviously I closed the emergency stairway door, but the fact that zombies are coming up using the emergency stairwell means that the same door, the roof door, can also be broken.

“Follow me!!”

At my urgent cry, the three people on the railing start running toward me, starting with Minseo.
I didn’t forget to pack the bag and weapon that I had left on the way, and I grabbed the mace handed to me by Minseo with my right hand and started running down the stairs holding the bag in my left hand.

“Aagh!!!”
“Fuck, you came so soon!”

We haven’t even reached the downstairs yet, but a zombie is running up the stairs.
It’s not a zombie that has changed into a person, but a real zombie that was a zombie from the beginning.

Whoa!!
Kwajik!!!

The mace swung from the bottom up hit the hair of the zombie, and the zombie that was busily jumping up began to fall down as its body floated into the air.

Tadat-

I stepped on the corner of the stairs and threw myself into the air, stepping on the chest and belly of the falling zombie with my feet, landing on the curved flat area below her and swinging the bag she was holding in her left hand.

Poop!!

After passing the bag into the arms of a zombie who suddenly appeared around the corner and tried to attack me, I pushed the dead zombie’s corpse away and rammed the bag into the zombie’s arms with my shoulder.
Then, the zombies collide with the zombies that are pushed back and fall down.
Fortunately, I was climbing up the sloping stairs, so a lot of zombies fell down, but those were only zombies on the half-floor stairs.
The zombies on the curved, flat place at the bottom like where I am now are stepping over the fallen zombies and continuing to come in droves.

“Don’t lift your head!”

Wheeik!!
Remembrance!!

Minseo’s knife slammed into the zombie’s head while holding the bag, and Kwon Ju-ha’s dagger glided past the zombie’s cheek at the same time, digging into the eyes of the zombie who was pushing the zombie holding the bag in its arms from behind.

“Quickly pull out your weapon!”
“Hey, you now… “
“Get out of the way! Aaaaa!!!!”

Poop!!!

You crazy otaku, drop kick with that body?
At 173cm and 88kg, he lost 1kg in one day, but Kwon Joo-hyuk still has a small and round body.
However, Kwon Joo-hyuk threw his heavy body on the stairs and gave a drop kick to the zombie holding the bag in his arms and threw it into the corner, and at the same time, several zombies in the back lost their balance and fell down, blocking the zombies running up the stairs. .
Of course… As a result, with zombies in front and Minseo and Kwon Jooha in the back, I, who had no place to escape, ended up under his stomach.

“If you do this one more time, you will fall behind..!”
“I’m sorry…”
“Get out of here, you bastard!!”

Hurry up!!

I got up with Kwon Joo-hyeok, who hurriedly removed the heavy body on top of me, and I got down on my knees and started hitting the fallen zombies’ heads with my mace, as if I was catching a mole.

“Big… “
“One animal!”
“Nice..”
“Two! Three! Damn, set a new record today!!”
“Is this when you’re doing that?!”
“You have to kill these bastards so they won’t pass!”
“Ah… Oppa fighting!!”
“Shut up and cover your stomach well!”
“Leave it to me!”

I left the zombies that fell down step by step with Min-seo Seon and Joo-ha Kwon on both sides of the zombies climbing the stairs, and we slowly descended almost all the half-floor stairs, reaching the emergency stairs leading to the 20th floor, the top floor of this apartment. Almost there.

“Otaku! Now, one more room!!”
“Excuse me for a minute!! Aww!!!”

Took!!

“Ugh..! Fuck, this pig is fucking heavy..!!”

Joo-Hyuk Kwon jumped on my shoulder and performed another drop kick to send the zombies blocking the emergency stairway down the stairs.
But the moment I face the long stretched hallway of the apartment…

“What the hell is this..?”
“Ah… “
“What the hell is that… “

Min-seo and Kwon Ju-ha, as well as me, were at a loss for words.
That’s right, the zombies couldn’t hear us or see us, so that’s why they ran like crazy.
This apartment… It was a zombie spawning ground.