Chapter 89 – Home of Other Survivors (2)

Now, what should I do?

In fact, what I was going to do was decided from the beginning.
It does nothing.

Whether they starve to death or not doesn’t matter to me. Living like a homeless person on the bare ground because I couldn’t grasp the situation properly, whimpering because I couldn’t catch a single rabbit, and why the women are starving because of that, it doesn’t matter to me.

Potentially, they could become my hinders or competitors. It might be better for me to starve everyone to death.

However, it is not easy for humans to starve to death.

They were also likely to cross the line if they were eventually forced into an extreme situation. Once you cross the line and taste the coin, it will be easy from next time. 12 males and 12 females. There may be orgy parties every day. If that happens, these forces will gather their strength in an instant, and if this number and equipment are equipped, they could pose a threat to us as well.

If so, wouldn’t it be better to deal with it early?

“Hey, hey…”

I see a woman walking up to me, hesitant.
A poor body with a groggy face. My cheeks are sunken because I haven’t eaten.
Wouldn’t it be like this if I threw Seung-hee into the wild and let it roll for about a week?

Such a woman was looking up at me with her pitiful eyes.
It reminded me of the look on Peep’s face when she pretended to be sorry for her mother for something to eat.

“Ha…”

Would my mother feel the same way?
I took off my backpack and put it down.

The woman is startled. Who eats it?
I opened the backpack and looked through the contents.

“Do you guys have a burner or cooking utensils?”
“Uh… No.”

I was about to take out my things, but I glanced up at the woman.

“No? Then what have you been eating and living up to now?”
“That, make a bonfire, boil grass or mushrooms, or grill them… Oh, there is a pot. It’s small.”
“… Is that so?”

It’s darker than I thought.
Of course there is no rice cooker. Since there is no electricity, even if there is a rice cooker, it cannot be used. Then it would be useless to give them rice.

I can’t cook rice, and even if they give me meat, I don’t have tools, so I don’t think I’ll be able to cook it properly.
Besides, it’s a bonfire… These guys are really ‘surviving on an uninhabited island’.

“This is meat.”

I took the meat I had hunted on the way back out of my backpack.
Pork 3kg, venison 2kg, rabbit meat 500g.
It was a shame to throw it away, so I carried it around, but it turned out just fine. Let’s deal with it here.

“Find out something else. If there are 12 couples, there must be some who do not use coins and hide them.”
“Oh, me, are you giving it to us?”
“Okay. And.”

I also took out an emergency ration that I had brought with me in case of an unexpected situation.

[Emergency food]
[Necessities of uninhabited island life! Non-perishable emergency food! It tastes like chicken.]

One small box for one day. There are three vinyl contents inside.
Would you be reminiscent of a calorie bar packaged like a Korean snack?

I tore off one of them and put it in her mouth.

“Cellar?!”
“Eat.”

I ate one and put the rest back in my backpack. To the plastic waste.
If someone sees the vinyl that was later eaten and discarded, a fuss may arise.

“Boo… Masisoo…”

Seeing them eat it without question, they must have been very hungry.
It eats it like a squirrel nibbles an acorn.

“Did you eat? You ate, so you do what I tell you to do.”
“To…”

Did you know you would do something weird?
The woman, who had been tearing up while holding a calorie bar, widened her eyes at my words.

“Never say that you met me here. Everything about me is a secret. Okay?”
“Uh… Yes.”
“The meat is said to have fallen here. And don’t tell others what you ate. Wipe your mouth and get rid of the smell before going back.”

This isn’t for me, it’s for this woman.

I ran out of food, so I picked it up. However, if he ate only the calorie bar alone, there would be no good talk among other starving survivors. It was something to be criticized for even bringing meat.

It’s a stupid story, but it was a story that had enough potential to see the boy’s missing screw. If I hadn’t told her, I could clearly see her smiling future with cookie crumbs buried in her mouth.

“I’m really sorry, but could you just give me one more? I have a brother…”

Look at this.

“Did you just hear me through your asshole?”
“Ugh. Oh no…”

If I had come to the army, I would have been in a bad grade.
It was fortunate that the woman did not serve in the army.

I sighed and said.

“If there is such a thing, there will only be a fight. You, my brother, came to give it to you, but will other people just watch? Both you and your brother will eat swearing as swearing and take away food too, right? Even if I hide it, I could bet my entire fortune on 100% of what you do.”
“That, that’s right, yes…”
“That’s why you should never show off eating alone. Even when you go back, wipe your mouth thoroughly so that you don’t notice it. Okay?”
“Yes yes.”

A woman wipes her mouth with the sleeve of a messy dress.
It’s fine… Why am I even nagging like this? I’m not even his mother.

“Then I will go. Again, never say never. The same goes for your brother. Okay?”

I put my backpack back on and walked into the woods.
After removing the meat, the backpack definitely felt lighter.

“Hey, hey, what’s your name?”
“Wilson.”

I brought up a name from a deserted island movie.
Come to think of it, was Kaylee’s last name Wilson? How are you?

“… Oh, thank you, Mr. Wilson! Thank you so much!”

I didn’t answer and went straight into the forest.
Where should we go next?
As I move, I take out my phone and turn on the map.
This neighborhood is between the safety zone and the boundary zone. No other biological reactions were seen in the surroundings.

On the way, take a moment to look back.
A woman who was running with a piece of meat on her back fell face down in the grass.

What are you doing?

*

Away from the group of survivors, I decided to head east of the safe zone.

I thought about going back to the hideout, but it was a waste of effort to come to the safety zone. Especially when you think of those wolf cubs.

“Because I don’t want to do that again.”

To get here next time, you have to cross the danger zone again. Then there was no law against meeting those guys again.

I don’t think the same guy will respawn in the same place, but since the captain who occupied the area died, there was a good chance that another similar person would come and occupy the empty area.

It was a wolf at least this time, so he could do something with a pistol.
But what if bears or velociraptors show up in droves next time?
No matter what country, I really have no choice but to die.

So I decided to search a little wider, since I had come to the safe area.

Those survivors were lucky enough to meet them as soon as they entered the safe zone. If you search further, you may find other survivors. Maybe there are more groups like that, or maybe there are bigger ones.

“The problem is… Are those four people?”

In addition, I was worried about the four survivors who were said to have escaped from that group.

They said that they could not endure the stuffy life of that group and left. That said, there was a high possibility that the members who had left were doing their best.
While living in a safe area where safety is guaranteed, coins are also obtained unlimitedly. It wasn’t usually dangerous.

“Furthermore… You know the location of the group over there.”

Judging by their appearance, they would be living in one place without moving. That said, it was a story that the location of the hideout was exposed to the four people who were excluded from that group.

What if they attack that group armed with the coins they mined?

Kill the men and enslave the women. Such a future was clearly visible.
Among them, a man who listens well can be made a slave. He said everyone came with his family, so he’s easy to take hostage.

From then on, classes are divided among the survivors, and the rule of the many by the few begins. Coins will gather faster and the risk of the group will increase.

If it is now, it will be fine. Judging from what the girl said, it seems like she recently broke away. He probably hasn’t accumulated enough coins to buy a decent weapon yet.

“So before you grow up…”

Moving east, I stopped at my seat.
Because the survivors were marked on the map.

One, two, three… Seven.
Are those men?

Judging by the number and direction, I thought they were the men we were hunting earlier.
I’ll have to check it out though.
I moved closer to their path and hid myself in a suitable thicket of trees.

“Here you are.”

They were walking towards the same survivor group hideout I had passed.
I was able to capture it through my telescope because I was hiding on the road.

“… Tsk tsk.”

Still looking laggy.
My shoulders drooped, and I felt like I was watching company members who were eliminated in the first round of a division soccer tournament.

In the end, the hunt seems to have failed.

I couldn’t go back empty-handed, so I was packing something that I didn’t know whether it was grass or vegetable, but it didn’t look like a very nutritious harvest.

“Cheer up, young man.”

After secretly rooting for the young man walking in the lead with a melancholy look on his face like a fired new employee, I started moving towards my next destination again.