[Episode 12] The Savior (3)
Officetel in Bujeon-dong.
A woman was lying listlessly on the bed that took up most of the room.
‘hungry’
She was so hungry she almost felt sick, but she had no choice.
Everything edible in the house had been eaten.
I gave up on going to the convenience store every now and then, risking my life to survive, after a shark crawling on the ground appeared.
“water…”
The last sip of water.
I drank water from a plastic bottle while lying down, trying to suck up every last drop.
dump
Her arm, which had no more strength to hold on, fell first, and the plastic bottle with a few drops of water left in it fell from her mouth to the bottom of the bed.
‘Am I going to die like this…?’
I wish I could think that it wasn’t a bad life.
‘What a shabby life!’
Baek So-ra thought about her life, which was heading towards its worst until the very end.
If a jury were to hold a judgment call on one’s life, it would be full of sympathy votes.
Her only father was an alcoholic who beat her whenever he had the chance. The society she had barely escaped from demanded money every day.
Rent, utilities, food, etc.
It wasn’t a small amount.
I had to work hard to survive.
Just when I was barely able to catch my breath, the world was ruined.
‘Why me of all people….’
Was it really necessary to be born to such parents and live such a difficult life?
I wish I had never been born.
“Ugh.”
I wanted to live a normal life.
Just like everyone else.
A normal life, with healthy parents, eating three meals a day, making friends at school, and occasionally dating.
It was like a dream for Baek So-ra.
That was when.
Knock knock knock!
It was not his own visit.
Judging from the vibrations coming through the walls, it seemed to be from the lower floor.
The depression that had filled the room disappeared without a trace, and my heart began to pound urgently.
‘Is it a monster?’
Sometimes goblins would come up.
But if the door didn’t open, I would quickly lose interest and leave.
I curled up in bed and prayed desperately for the monster to go away.
…Do I still want to live in this situation?
At that moment, a sound that sounded like a lie was heard.
“Rescue team! Are there any survivors?”
At first I thought it was just an auditory hallucination.
An auditory hallucination that is heard with a very earnest heart.
Knock knock knock!
But that wasn’t the case.
“Are there any survivors? Please respond! This is the rescue team!”
It was clearly a human voice.
‘Okay, rescue team?’
In another sense, my heart started pounding.
“Here…!”
I got out of bed and staggered toward the front door.
“There are people here!”
Just before opening the front door, she froze, holding the doorknob.
‘What if that thing is some kind of monster that imitates human voices?’
Doesn’t that kind of scene always appear in novels and movies? A monster imitating a person.
It was when I was hesitating to go out because of anxious thoughts.
“Are you sure you really want to rescue me?”
“Yes, that’s right. I’m fine now.”
Baek So-ra heard a sound coming from outside and carefully opened the door.
There was the back of a man wearing clothes with 119 written on an orange background.
He was handing water to a man who appeared to be a survivor.
Baek So-ra shouted when she saw it.
“Hey, over here! Me too…!”
He came over with a smile and handed me a 500ml bottle of Samdasoo.
“Hello, we came to rescue you under the instructions of Mr. Kim Jae-hyun.”
“…yes?”
“This is a rescue team moving under the instructions of Kim Jae-hyun.”
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“-??”
Ironically, this has become a guideline for rescue teams.
Even among the rescue team, they jokingly called themselves a cult and made fun of them, but what could they do?
It actually works,
“From now on, we will enter Kim Jae-hyun’s territory. Then, you will be safe.”
When conducting rescues within the safe zone, simply saying his name often brought back the survivors’ energy.
In some cases, the dying person would shake off his seat and get up, so it was now established as part of the rescue process.
“I’ll take you outside. If you can move on your own, please come here.”
One rescue worker led those who were still moving around normally out of the building.
“Over here! Bring the stretcher! Move quickly!”
Although there were some patients in critical condition, most were still able to move around normally.
Baek So-ra was at the front of the crowd, following the rescue worker’s back.
But at that time.
Thud!
“ouch.”
As she was about to walk into the tangled road, a transparent wall blocked her way. Then, translucent letters appeared before her eyes.
[No entry.]
“…What is this?”
That moment when I was confused by the sudden phenomenon.
[Would you like to obtain citizenship?
[Yes/No]
A new letter appeared, and the rescuer inside it opened his mouth.
“You can just get citizenship and come into the area!”
I somehow acquired citizenship.
Tiring!
[You have acquired citizenship.]
As soon as Baek So-ra obtained citizenship, she felt her body, which had been as limp as water-soaked cotton, become energized.
‘This is…!’
It felt like a refreshing breeze was flowing through my body.
Along with that, I naturally remembered what the rescue worker had said earlier.
“Did you say Kim Jae-hyun? Is that his power?”
Could this mysterious power be his ability?
‘What kind of person is he?’
And after a while, the rescue team arrived at a hospital on the third floor of a building.
The place was crowded with a lot of people.
“You can wait your turn here.”
The rescue team was sent back to the scene, and Baek So-ra looked around. It seemed that most of the people there were fine, just like herself.
It seemed like all those in serious condition were transferred elsewhere.
After waiting, Baek So-ra was finally able to meet the doctor in the white gown.
“Is there anything that feels uncomfortable?”
“..no.”
“Can you look at me for a moment?”
Then the doctor’s eyes lit up with blue light, he looked over her entire body and said.
“You can go down and take the shuttle bus.”
“Huh? The bus?”
“Yes. Next person, please come in.”
There were many things I wanted to ask, but Baek So-ra had no choice but to leave because she looked busy.
I went down to the first floor while keeping an eye out and saw that the bus was indeed waiting.
A few of the windows were broken, but it was still a bus.
“Let’s go!”
The bus, full of people, started moving.
The road appeared to have been cleaned only minimally for buses to move.
The scenery outside the window changed rapidly. The mess of blood and corpses gradually disappeared, and a clean, well-maintained road appeared.
and.
‘The smell of bread?’
It was a passing scent, but I didn’t miss it. That was because I was hungry. It seemed like everyone else felt the same way.
People’s eyes were focused on one place.
There was a bakery there that was doing business normally. It wasn’t just a bakery. There was also a cafe nearby where people were waiting in line.
and.
‘Oh, what happened?’
The people waiting in line had calm faces, as if they were living ordinary lives.
‘What about monsters? What about goblins?’
There was nothing like that anywhere.
The view from the bus was a series of shocks. Everything I saw as I entered the apartment complex was shocking.
A person walking a dog.
A child riding a bicycle.
Even people jogging lightly.
‘Did destruction just pass by here?’
Isn’t this a very different scene from how he had been trembling in fear of monsters just a short while ago?
Baek So-ra thought with a blank expression.
‘Has the savior really appeared?’
Was her earnest prayer finally reaching heaven? She looked around the inside of the room with a confused face.
[That’s all.]
While listening to Kim Da-bin’s report, I used the ring of communication to answer.
[So the point is that the public facilities are full?]
[Yes. Could you please increase the public facilities?]
After gathering his thoughts for a moment, he said:
[Please send back to your homes anyone who has a house nearby.]
[Is that okay?]
[We are also planning to build public facilities outside the apartments. Places like community centers and community offices. We are also building stores here and there, so it will soon be possible to live outside.]
I had been guessing that there would come a limit someday.
Fortunately, most of the people who have recently moved in have homes nearby.
As the area expanded to a 1km radius, numerous houses came into the area.
If we send back everyone who has a house nearby, we’ll have some leeway.
‘There are a lot of empty houses.’
Houses had much lower survival rates than apartments.
‘It must be because the structure is easy for goblins to invade.’
Most survivors were crowded into high-rise buildings such as officetels, studio apartments, and apartment complexes.
I used the Eye of the Absolute to check if there were any items that could be registered in the store, and selected a suitable point to build a store.
‘I should make the house on the outskirts the base for my hunting team. I should also make a store centered around this place and hire someone to manage it!’
It was bound to be inconvenient to go back and forth from the apartment complex.
We felt the need to create a few outlying strongholds with the concept of intermediate maintenance stations.
Managing the base was a matter of assigning temple positions and giving them work.
As the overall population increased, the economically active population also increased, so positions could be assigned without burden.
[Ms. Dabin.]
[Yes, Jaehyun.]
I briefly explained the plan to Kim Da-bin and asked her to select people to manage the base.
[Leave it to me, Jaehyun.]
Next, we used construction mode to build new stores at each selected point, and selected places to be public facilities, providing basic facilities such as electricity, gas, and water.
Meanwhile, I also saw the medical team working hard. The hospital they were using was naturally providing everything, and as the medical equipment at the hospital became available, it was having a positive effect on the treatment of people.
We have purchased and supplied them with needles, IV drips, and other supplies, and told them to ask for anything they need at any time.
‘It would be nice if we could regionalize university hospitals.’
Just having a general hospital would have made many things possible, but considering the capabilities of the cutting-edge medical equipment at university hospitals, it was absolutely necessary.
‘I wonder how we can utilize the outpost.’
Of course, there was still work to be done before that.
‘How far did it go?’
The Hadonggun party was now running towards Jangjeondong as fast as possible.
We were able to advance at breakneck speed using poison gas tactics up to Gyodae Station, but after that we had to fight our way through.
This is because the tracks connecting Gyodae and Dongrae were structured to go above ground in the middle.
From Dongrae Station, it becomes an above-ground railway, not a subway.
In open areas, there were limits to the use of poison gas tactics, and from here on, the Hadonggun party had no choice but to hunt monsters themselves and advance.
What was encouraging was that the power of Ha Dong-geon’s party had become several times stronger than before.
“Bite me, you punk!”
A black crow, three times larger than a normal crow, was gnawing on the bluefin tuna.
[You have hunted a Sky Bluefin Tuna (Lv. 17).]
[Gain experience points.]
[1,295,571 won was deposited into the wallet of the absolute owner of the house.]
Kim Geon’s new skill was the result of rapid growth.
The rapidly growing crow was able to handle dozens of marlins on its own.
Taang! Bang!
At the same time, a gunshot was heard in the empty air where nothing could be seen.
It was an attack by Moon Byung-ho who had acquired the transparency skill.
Moon Byung-ho’s bullet, flying in from the perfect spot, blew up the monster’s head with one blow.
“Get up!”
On the ground, the steel knights summoned by Kang Deok-su aggressively paved the way.
Thanks to this, Hadonggun’s party was able to make their way through the battlefield while engaging in minimal combat.
At that time, I was running smoothly along the subway tracks.
“stop.”
The road was cut off in the middle.
The bridge that connected the subway tracks had completely collapsed.
[Episode 12] The Savior (3) > End
