Chapter 43 – Shelter (1)

Doo doo doo!!!

With the loud sound of the propeller, my body, suspended in the air, was finally lifted up onto the helicopter by the rope being pulled upward.
Of course, Kwon Joo-hyuk, whom I grabbed and pulled up, also came up.

“Brother!!”
“Brother!!”

Min-seo and Kwon Joo-ha approach each other, calling out to each other.
However, I waved his arm to push the cheek of the approaching Minseo aside and glared at the soldier in military uniform.
It can be called a lifesaver, but these bastards are now pointing their guns at me.
To be precise, it is Kwon Joo-hyuk, not me, but no one knows when that gun will be pointed at me.
Of course, soldiers wouldn’t threaten innocent civilians, but you can’t conclude that such a thing doesn’t exist in this world.
However, the captain, who seems to be in his late 20s or early 30s at most, is giving orders to subordinate soldiers who seem to be my age.

“Everyone lower your guns.”
“But the wounded… “
“It is an order.”
“… “
“I won’t turn into a zombie! My brother got vaccinated!!”

The young soldiers who were hesitant to lower their guns hesitantly lowered their muzzles at Kwon Ju-ha’s cry, but did not take their hands off the guns.
You have to change to become a human zombie, isn’t it too timid?
And if you’re a soldier, isn’t it normal that you should have bought a vaccine and stabbed it before aiming a gun at it?
Uh… The soldiers who protect the people are terribly petty.
The captain’s hand was put out in front of me as I shook his head with a small tongue click.

“I am Captain Kim Hyeon-joon of the 1st Airborne Special Forces Brigade.”
“I am Kang Ha-jin.”

Kim Hyun-joon, who shook my hand lightly, exchanged brief greetings with the other three people and then began to explain.

“From now on, you will go to the Yongsan Emergency Shelter. After arriving, various inspection procedures will be conducted, and after 3 days of quarantine, you will be moved to an evacuation center if it is deemed safe. Until then, please follow the instructions carefully.”
“What inspector is it? Is it such a test whether you turn into a zombie or not?”
“Yes, and there will be additional stat and trait checks and a few simple checks. Please ask the inspector for details.”
“Well, yes. But one more thing. If it’s a three-day quarantine, does that mean I have to do nothing and be locked up somewhere?”
“Yes, you will be staying in a quarantine facility set up outside the shelter.”
“How about hunting?”
“Are you talking about hunting?”
“I have to earn coins and raise my stats. But 3 days is too much time wasted. And I don’t want to show my information.”
“… “

Captain Kim Hyeon-joon staring at my face.
So what?
I don’t like being quarantined for 3 days and I don’t like having to show my information.
Of course I understand.
A place called a shelter has to be a safe place without zombies, so it has to be more difficult and thorough.
But I don’t like that procedure being applied to me because I know I’m safe and don’t turn into a zombie.
Like the psychology of the majority of normal, selfish people.

“If you don’t follow the rules, you won’t be able to enter the shelter.”
“I guess so.”
“Brother… “

Fearing that I would refuse to go into the shelter, Minseo looks at me with worried eyes and pulls on the hem of her dress.
You don’t have to make that face, girl.
Anyway, I’m going to go into the shelter first.
Of course, I’ll have to negotiate so that I can hunt during the three-day quarantine.
If you can’t die… You have to stay still

“Two minutes before arrival!”

At the voice coming from the cockpit, Minseo and Kwon Juha as well as I stuck to the closed helicopter door and looked out the window.

“A shelter… “

Drooling!!!
Doo doo doo doo!!!!

When the closed door opens, dust blows in with the louder sound of the propeller.

“Hold your head down!”
“It’s dangerous, don’t lift your head!!”
“Yes!”
“All right! But my brother…!”
“We will take care of you safely! It’s dangerous, keep your head down!”
“… Am I invisible?”

In case someone isn’t a soldier, the soldiers take care of Min-seo and Kwon Ju-ha when the helicopter lands.
I don’t even care at all
Captain Kim Hyeon-joon, who seemed to be interested, was the first to get off the helicopter as soon as it landed, and the remaining young military barbarians didn’t even look at me.

“Brother! Get off quickly!!”
“Mr. Hajin!”
“Shit… At least you are the only ones.”

I got out of the helicopter following Min-seo and Kwon Joo-ha, who bowed their waists outside the helicopter and waved their hair, beckoning me to come quickly. Moved somewhere
But are there only military barbarians here?
I see nothing but military uniforms.
Maybe everyone has become soldiers because it’s a wartime situation, but no matter how much you look around, you can only see soldiers in military uniforms.
Because of this, those military baristas drool when they saw Minseo and Kwon Juha.
But there are a lot of foreign soldiers too.
Are they all American soldiers?

“Where are you going?”
“Everyone has arrived. There it is.”

At Minseo’s question, a soldier points to a two-story building.
After a while, we entered the building and were tested separately, women as women and men as men.
Of course, Kwon Joo-hyeok, who had a hard time controlling his body, went to another place apart from me.

“You can take off all your clothes.”
“No, it’s not like going to some kind of prison, what do you do to this extent?”
“This is a procedure to check if there are any wounds on the body.”
“Eh… Driving me crazy…”

Going around undressed is my specialty, but I get annoyed when I try to take off my clothes according to someone’s instructions.
However, once he took off his clothes, inspected his body for any wounds, and if there were any, he checked when and how the wounds were inflicted, drew blood, and did all sorts of shit before the basic examination was over.
And after moving to another place and changing into the clean clothes provided, I say my name and resident registration number and wait again.
Shit, living without law or order and coming into this set frame already makes me feel stuffy and go crazy.
I want to just kill them all and become the king here, but there are a lot of soldiers with guns everywhere, so I can’t act recklessly.
Do you think this came for nothing?
Of course, if I didn’t want to die from the zombies, I had no choice but to get on the helicopter.

Jump-

In the middle of annoyance, an ajumma who appeared to be in her early to mid-40s opened the door and entered the room where I was.
Then she went and sat down opposite me at the long table.
What else is this person doing?

“Kang Ha-jin, you worked hard getting tested.”
“Yes, it was hard.”
“Haha~ Now, can you tell me how you survived?”
“Should I say something like that? Is it your private life?”
“You have to tell me. Since this is an evacuation shelter that protects the people, it is to prevent any unfortunate incidents that may occur due to the mixing of dangerous people.”
“… “

Fuck, does this sound like you’re just going to filter me out?
If I tell you how I’ve lived so far, I feel like I’ll be shot dead or kicked out by a soldier with a gun standing in front of the door.
However, even if I lie here, Minseo, Kwon Joo-ha, and Kwon Joo-hyeok would be exposed immediately if I told them what I had done, so I couldn’t lie.
Then there is one way.
You just have to look around

“A zombie appeared on the subway on my way to work, and somehow I survived and somehow got here.”
“… Have you ever committed murder in the process?”

Wow, it just hooks right in.
Is there anything you can do now?

“There is. Killed quite a few.”
“What was the purpose of the murder?”

A woman who is not at all taken aback by my words that she has killed quite a few people and asks the purpose of the murder.
Is this woman a soldier too?
No, if you see that it’s less surprising than that, do you mean that there are many other people here who have committed murder besides me?

“Aren’t you surprised?”
“It’s not that surprising.”
“It is. Hmm.. For the purpose of murder… Once I killed someone who recognized me as an enemy.”
“Have you ever committed murder for the purpose of stealing coins, traits, food, or women?”
“It’s a combination of both.”
“All right. Then you can go to the quarantine facility after checking the information one last time.”
“I refuse.”
“Yes?”
“I don’t want to show my information. It seems that I failed the examination anyway.”
“Why do you think so?”
“Because if you were like me, you wouldn’t want the murderer to stay in a shelter.”
“Heh..”

The lady laughed as if she was mocking me and said, holding out her hand in front of her to confirm her information.

“There are exceptions. It’s a world where you can be forgiven as long as you’re strong. Of course, you have to follow the controls well.”
“… “

This lady is not normal.
What should she do anyway?
Should I hold this hand out in front of me? Shouldn’t it?
After thinking for a while, I grabbed the hand of the woman who was standing right in front of me.

“Sharing information.”

『Name: Kang Ha-jin (27)
Height: 183 cm Weight: 77 kg
Traits: Strong Mental Power (D), Agile Movement (E), Strong Muscles (E)
Coins: 257
[Strength Lv.8] [Agility Lv.11] [Stamina Lv.6] [Luck Lv.3]』

What?
While sharing information, I also checked my information, and there are a huge number of new characteristics and coins.
It’s a coin. You killed the zombies in the egg like that, so even if you say that, when will that characteristic…
Ah! Kill that monster and the flashing exclamation mark tells you that you got that trait.
I still haven’t checked that out.
However, the name is straightforward and tacky.

『Tough Muscle (E) – Strength +10%』

First you get stamina, then speed, then strength…
So next time you’re going to get something that increases your luck?
Anyway, why is this lady’s expression like this?
The face of the ajumma, who had had a very relaxed face until now, hardened a little.
No, should I say she’s dazed?
Could it be that my stats are too high? Or is it too low than you thought?

“Hey, Kang Ha-jin…”
“Yes.”
“How many people have you killed..?”
“You didn’t kill that many?”

How many people have I killed?
Killing Jung Woo-bin and his party increased dramatically, but about 20 people?
Even if it’s a little more, it’s less than 30 people.
Well, depending on the person, it might be thought that he killed a lot.
Still, by my standards, it’s a low number.

“Whoa… First of all, Kang Ha-jin… “

The moment her aunt tried to say something with a sigh of unknown meaning, the closed door burst open following the sound of urgent footsteps.

“Bah, Doctor! It’s a big deal!”
“What happened?”
“The test subjects have escaped!”
“I beg your pardon?!”
“We will see you. Get out of here at once!”
“A test subject? Are there any zombies here?”
“Yes that’s right. In the basement of this building… “
“There is no time!!”
“Let’s talk as we go out.”
“… “

The lady who jumped up and followed the armed soldiers out the door, and I, who followed them, glanced to the left and turned around.

“Mr. Hajin! This way!”
“I am this way.”
“No, what now…!”

If you follow that lady and her soldiers, there will be an exit, but I have to go here first.
Because Min-seo and Kwon Joo-ha become really lousy women without weapons.
Both bare-handed fights are rat poison.
Of course, there is a high possibility that the military barbarians who are crazy about women evacuated it well on their own, but it’s just in case you don’t know.

Tadada dat-
Awesome!!!

As I ran down the hallway, I stopped hastily, squeezing my sneakers that were very clinging to the floor.
Then he sneaked a peek inside the open door, and found Joo-hyeok Kwon, who was left alone there, tossing and turning on the bed in the white hospital room with a groan.

“Ugh..!”
“Hey, otaku. What are you doing here?”
“Oh, are you here? I am receiving treatment and resting.”
“Okay? It would be dangerous.”
“Yes..?”
“There were zombies here, but they must have escaped.”
“… But why has no one said that to me?”
“You must be busy. Then I’m busy too.”
“Hey, wait a minute!!”

Behind me as I leave Kwon Joo-hyeok behind and run again, the voice of an ajumma who does not know why he is following me resonates.

“If it was because of the ladies who came with me, I would have gotten out safely already! Therefore… “

Ride on!!!
Valid!! Bang bang!!

“I don’t think so?”

Gunshots echoed through the building.
If it was just a normal zombie escaping, it wouldn’t have been a waste of bullets unless the number was staggering.
That means that the escaped test subject is most likely not an ordinary zombie, but the child of the monster I killed.
Or a monster stronger than that.
That should be enough to make the soldier holding the gun nervous.
As I ran a little further down the hallway, Min-seo and Kwon Joo-ha ran in between a group of soldiers running from the other side.

“Brother!!! Save me!!”
“Mr. Hajin! What about my brother?!”
“There are otaku everywhere you go. Anyway, why do I have to save you every time?”
“Kyaaak!!!”
“Shoot! For now, stop me from chasing you!!”

Ride and ride!!!
I’m going to go to the middle of the day!!
Tata Tang!!!

Soldiers who turned around while running opened fire in the rear.
And a monster much thicker than the monster I killed, like the Hulk, is frantically chasing the soldiers with its arms crossed over its face.
Wow, where did you get that monster from?
No, how did you get it?

“Ha..! Ha..! I’ve confirmed that they’re all safe, so I’ll have to evade them quickly… “
“No, I’m not a stalker, why do you keep following me?! Auntie, get out!”

Leaving behind the woman who was constantly babbling annoyedly, I ran forward and stretched out her hand toward the soldier running in front of me.

“Let’s borrow some.”
“Wow!!”
“Oh, sorry.”

A young soldier tumbled on the floor because he pulled the gun, not knowing that the shoulder strap was hanging, but in the meantime, I pulled the barrel and grabbed the gun after a long time since the reserve army, and ran toward the monster like the Hulk.
Is it to save people?
No, I can’t even hunt for 3 days, but I have to catch it and earn coins.
And since he’s slower than the guy I dealt with, it’s easy to deal with.

“Brother!!”
“Mr. Ha Jin!!”
“What are you doing?! Dangerous!!”
“Come back!!”
“You do shit. What is so dangerous about such a cute guy? Isn’t it?”
“Kuuuuu!!!!”

A monster that found me, crossed it in the shape of an X, lifted up its arms that were covering its face, and slammed its huge fist at me.

Wow!!!

Along with the overturning floor, broken fragments bounce off in all directions.
Wow, great power.
Instead of being a bit slow, he is ignorantly strong.

“Are you like an otaku?”
“Big!!!”

He raised his fist that had hit the floor again and slammed his right fist at me, who was slightly back.

“Eat this.”

Fire!!

A monster that covers its face with its left arm as soon as it sees a gun pointed at it.

“You’re smarter than you look, aren’t you?”

After a light compliment, I hit the guy’s left arm, which was covering his face with my tightly clenched left fist, and thrust the muzzle into the monster’s muzzle, which was looking a bit embarrassed.

“Big… “
“What.”

Ride and ride!!!!

The head of a monster exploding with a fire-breathing muzzle.
Wow, that was very neat this time.