Chapter 240 – Zombie Apocalypse 3 (25)

I parked my motorcycle in front of Unit 524’s barracks and got off with Naeun.

We can feel eyes on us, but if we don’t want to talk right now, we won’t.

“Let’s walk around and take pictures.”

“I understand. This is my first time at a military base.”

“Me too.”

If the world were normal, I was planning on enlisting next year, but the world has become like this.

Now that it’s like this, soldiers may be more important, but the power I have is not something that can be controlled by any group.

First, I walked around with Naeun to find the corpses of zombies around the barracks.

Military uniform or sportswear, i.E. Activewear? There were some zombie corpses wearing them.

However, considering the size of the barracks, there were very few zombie corpses here. Did we avoid the zombie outbreak?

I took a large walk around Unit 524, thinking of various situations in my head.

“There are more places to protect than the supermarket.”

Although there was only one entrance, Unit 524 was quite spacious.

The unit was surrounded by barbed wire just outside the barracks, and it was thought that it would be difficult for the people in the mart to stand guard that far.

I think it would be a good idea to block it to the point where people can never enter other areas while carrying out construction to reduce the scale that needs to be maintained.

The people at the mart will know the estimate for such construction, so a place for Naeun and I to stay is important, but do we have to go into the barracks in the end?

As I slowly walked towards the entrance of the barracks, I saw in the mirror a soldier in military uniform holding a kitchen knife and slightly hiding himself.

“Hey. If you want to make a surprise attack, you have to hide in a place that isn’t reflected in the mirror, right?”

“Hmph!”

The man who heard me dropped the kitchen knife on the floor and started running away.

“Sian, do you think that person is not good enough?”

I don’t know about that either.

I want to talk to them in order to properly understand the situation of the unit, but if everything feels that way, I don’t think there is any need to talk.

When I deployed presence detection, it seemed like the soldier who had run away earlier had entered what appeared to be his room on the second floor.

Of course, we were intruders, but seeing that they preferred to threaten us with a kitchen knife rather than having a conversation, we thought it would be difficult to welcome them, so we slowly went up to the second floor.

In the open living room, there were traces that people had left in a hurry and that someone had left drawers open to search for items.

In a closed dormitory, the small window was blocked with something like newspaper to prevent others from peeping.

People like the soldiers we saw earlier will be holding out in the closed dormitory.

Seeing that everyone lives separately, the people here reminded me a bit of an individualistic officetel.

We went up to the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors, showing signs of presence, but there was only a dormitory with a closed door and covered windows, and it did not respond to us.

‘It’s annoying, should I just clean it up?’

I had a strong feeling that I wanted to clean things up without leaving any survivors.

Naeun said as I slowly walked down the stairs.

“I don’t know what to do since they don’t react at all.”

“It looks practically the same as the guy with the knife at first.”

After coming out of the barracks, I threw the kitchen knife I was holding onto the playground, and it got stuck in the dirt.

And when I saw the barracks, I filled my mana and shouted loudly.

“I’ll give you just 10 minutes! I’ll come down to the first floor and kill everyone who doesn’t show their face! Over 100 people are planning to move here, so show your face quickly!”

“Really?”

“I thought it would be more comfortable.”

At that time, a loud voice was heard from inside the building.

“That’s damn good! Come on!”

“I just need to kill one person first.”

“It’s just that. It could be because you reacted too hostilely.”

I checked the time while listening to Naeun.

It’s 10:22, so let’s wait until 32 minutes.

“I think I need to start moving quickly, so I can finish maintenance here before 30 days are up. And I’m still worried about Hyorim High School.”

“I think it’s true when you think about us. Take care of it.”

While avoiding the sunlight at the entrance of the barracks, Naeun and I sent a photo of Unit 524 to Seongtae Choi and then added a message at the end.

[Confronting the survivors of Unit 524.]

Then a reply came right away.

[How many people?]

Seongtae Choi didn’t even ask me how I dealt with the huge number of eyeless zombies on the way to Unit 524.

I like this.

[There are six people, but seeing as they are separated from each other, it appears that they are not cooperating with each other.]

[You can communicate using your smartphone. You should think of it as a group.]

I definitely thought that in order to respect personal space, two people could occupy one floor and use the group chat room only when necessary.

Then, there is a greater chance that the guy who screamed at first will do what he said and become everyone’s opinion.

I’m looking forward to being able to get things done quickly.

*

10 minutes have passed.

Even without using the presence detection boost, the commotion on the third floor made it seem like the survivors had gathered in one place.

“Stay here. I’ll come back for a moment.”

“Couldn’t it be resolved through dialogue as much as possible?”

“First, we succeeded in collecting everyone. If it makes sense, I will do it verbally.”

If you want to subdue it, you can subdue it by carving a sleep magic circle, but I thought it would be difficult to throw away a prisoner captured like that.

Because the handling of calligraphy maps at the supermarket has become really strange.

As I slowly walked up the stairs, muffled by the sound of my footsteps, I heard men’s voices.

“Aren’t you bluffing because you have a woman?”

“Yes. Why did you kill six of us?”

“Yes… I think she’s pretty… “

“Don’t you know that you are reflected in the mirror like an asshole? A low-class bastard.”

“Sir… He’s a deserter too.”

“Mr. Senior? Is it funny?!”

Hmm. After hearing this much, I understand that there is no need to save it.

Instead of pulling out the bone sword, I held a dagger made of shadow in both hands.

Then, using Yeongtu (影套), I quickly went up to the third floor while muffled the sound of my footsteps.

“What?!”

A dagger between the eyes of the surprised guy, and one on the head of the guy next to him.

Then, as he fell slightly, he created two daggers and threw them again.

Both of them hit the soldier’s head accurately.

The guys in military uniforms were holding swords attached to the ends of wooden poles, but they didn’t give them time to swing and killed them all.

As I was about to create a dagger and throw it for the final finishing touch, one of the guys who wasn’t dead quickly ducked.

I drove a dagger into the head of the guy who was standing and threw the dagger at the head of the guy who was lying down on the floor.

Because six people in military uniform were dead, blood started flowing down the stairs.

Considering cleaning, should I have dragged him outside and killed him?

“Well, the people at the supermarket will take care of it.”

I came down to the first floor faster than the blood spreading.

“Sian, are you finished?”

When Naeun saw me coming down with light steps, he lifted his back from the wall and said.

“Yes. I even heard that they were deserters. So there must have been only a few left here.”

“But wasn’t it necessary to catch him and get more information?”

“It doesn’t seem like there’s anything to find out, and it seems like you’re talking with the feeling that you’re going to kill me and do something about you.”

“Then you killed it well.”

I left the unit with Naeun on a motorcycle parked on the playground.

Because she was on a slope, she went a little faster when running, but she was able to achieve a momentary faster speed due to the wave wheel movement, so she didn’t have any trouble driving.

The mart’s relocation plan can proceed a little faster.

*

When I returned to the mart, Choi Seong-tae was looking at the photo I sent and gathered with men who had served in the military to discuss how to remodel Unit 524.

I was thinking of first reducing the scope of what I had to protect, but I don’t know if I would have enough materials to do so.

“Ugh… I barely planted it… Again…”

Dujin Lee, who manages the vegetable garden, was tearing out his hair.

I’ve been scooping up dirt at best, but it’s a burden that it takes a long time to get the right results. Wouldn’t it be a lot of stress if I’m about to move the place again?

“Now I think we should just start small with plastic bottles.”

Since the Mart group is likely to move even after obtaining a gun, it seemed better to start with ease of movement.

“Mr. Xian, is the route there completely safe now? I heard it will take three days.”

“Thanks to your hard work, it’s pretty well organized. Would you like to go right away in the afternoon?”

“Considering the movement of supplies, we need to start work as quickly as possible. I think we should take people with us in the afternoon. Would you please join us, Mr. Xian and Mr. Naeun?”

“That’s right. I’ve sorted out 99% of it, but 1% still remains.”

Since that 1% is a place where there is a high possibility of becoming an evolved zombie, I have to look back often.

“Then, the men, mainly, will have to visit the base in the afternoon. We will be able to start moving as early as tomorrow.”

In a way, it can be said to be the first migration of people who settled in the supermarket from the beginning of the zombie outbreak.

Although they settled in a supermarket from the beginning, they lived in groups and had few personal belongings, so the migration could be considered complete with only moving the most important food and other supplies.

Rather, wouldn’t Naeun and I have the most personal baggage? We also need to make some preparations to move.

*

That afternoon, I went to Unit 524 with the men from the supermarket and inspected the unit’s facilities.

Fortunately, there were no problems with the facility, but it was a bit difficult to clean up the bodies of soldiers who died on the third floor and the blood that flowed down to the first floor.

And I looked into the room that the six people were sharing, and there were traces of food being divided equally.

Although they said they were deserters, they were distributing all the unit’s supplies to themselves, but the entrance was blocked by eyeless zombies, so it seems like they were living a bit of a debaucherous life.

That could be confirmed in a diary written by one of those people.

It is said that in the early days of the zombie outbreak, while following a unit joining a larger unit, they deserted and the six of them decided to hold out by dividing supplies.

Meanwhile, it was written that the area that could be considered the entrance to Unit 524 had become an area for eyeless zombies, and there was no need to worry about other people.

‘It was definitely impossible for an ordinary person to break through.’

Anyway, the next day, the 18th morning of the zombie outbreak.

My second base movement has begun.