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"What's going on?"
Only thick fog was visible beyond the bathroom window. It was impossible to tell what was happening with the naked eye.
However, something unusual had clearly occurred. The stream of water that had been gushing out suddenly became thin and erratic.
I quickly washed up, came out, and looked out the second-floor window.
Below the cafe, zombies were rushing in a crowd, drawn by a loud noise. I thought I had killed a large number of zombies in the area, but it was alarming to see so many hidden somewhere.
'I'll get trampled to death by zombies if I go out there, won't I?'
The officetel was just across the street, less than 10 meters away, but the zombies kept passing by, so I couldn't bring myself to cross.
I decided to wait until it calmed down a bit, collapsed onto the sofa against the wall, and opened my smartphone.
It had already been a week since D-Day.
Now, there were hardly any proper articles on portal sites. Occasionally, some reporters with a strong sense of duty would post articles, but since the environment wasn't conducive to reporting, most were just scraping information from communities or were rambling posts from reporters who had lost their minds.
The military and police, who had promised to wait, hadn't been heard from for a week. I could understand the police being scattered all over the country, but I wondered what the military, which was created solely for group warfare, was doing.
Even if they just brought out a tank, they could crush all the zombies, but I couldn't understand why they weren't moving.
I immediately went to the Gwangjin-gu gallery on the community site. As expected, new posts asking about the cause of the earlier loud noise were flooding in.
【Water pipe burst, water column솟아 in front of my house (5)】
【ㅈㄱㄴ】
└Is it flooded?
└My house is on the 5th floor ㅅㄱ
└OMG, will the water get cut off?
└It looks like it'll be cut off soon based on the trickle
└Ahㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
After browsing the community for a while, I quickly realized what had happened.
'This is bad.'
Not having water was a serious problem. I didn't have any water to drink today, and there was nowhere else to get it. Naturally, it was hard to expect anyone to fix the water pipe.
Since I couldn't live without water, I had to move to a place where water was available as soon as possible, even if it wasn't right away.
'It seems like the real apocalypse is starting.'
The social infrastructure was still being maintained, but if the current situation continued, it was obvious that not only water but also gas, electricity, and communication networks would be cut off soon. There would be no one to maintain them.
If that happened, I might have to wander around looking for food like in zombie apocalypse movies or novels. As the value of food increased, the value of human ethics like law and morality would naturally decrease.
'Why did the water pipe have to burst here? It should have burst somewhere else.'
I grumbled for a while about the reality of having to experience a wandering life earlier than others while browsing the community.
【Please save me, I'm in a studio in front of the back gate of Hoguk University (12)】
【I live in a basement studio behind World Cup Mart. The hallway is flooded.
I blocked it with tape, but it's slowly leaking through the cracks in the doorㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
My eyesight is good, so I can see well at night and even in the fog.
I'm very useful.
If you save me, I'll do anything, really.
Please save meㅠㅠㅠㅠ
010-6969-7474
map.hater.com/p/entry/place/123456789】
└Take off the tape, match the water level, and go out
└But there are zombies outside...
└Ah, ㅅㄱ
└Will you give it up?
└If you save me, I'll let you do whatever you want. Please just save me
└Is she pretty?
└
└Oh, she has a good body. Looks delicious
└Small chest?
└For that body, that's big enough. Live in reality, you virgin
└You idiots, her face must be ugly as hell, that's why she cut it off. What are you expecting?
└Idiot, what does her face matter? Just fuck her from behind
Then, I stopped when I found a post asking for help nearby.
'She can see well even in the fog?'
The offer to "give it up" didn't really catch my eye. Well, to be honest, I was drawn to her slender figure and moderately sized breasts, which were different from the woman on the second floor, but since I already had a fuck buddy who gave it up every day, I didn't feel the need to risk going to find her.
However, the ability to see well even in the fog was a different story.
The reason I'm afraid to move to an open area is that zombies can spot me before I spot them. If a zombie sprints out from 10 meters away with momentum, it's not easy to deal with. And if there are more than two of them, it can be dangerous no matter how much my physical abilities have improved.
But if I can spot zombies just 10 meters further away, I can significantly reduce the danger of zombies. 10 meters is where I have to fight, but 20 meters gives me enough leeway to assess the situation and run away.
Of course, the catch is that other people without skills like 「Hacking」might not know their own abilities, so they might not have the ability to increase visibility.
But if she says she can see well on her own, it feels like she might have it.
'Will I ever encounter that ability again?'
I didn't have a database of abilities, and the sample size was small, so it was hard to judge whether it was worth going through the zombies drawn by the loud noise.
Also, the fact that the hallway was flooded meant that she was close to the source of the noise, so even if I broke through, I couldn't be sure if I could rescue the isolated basement girl from a place swarming with zombies.
'Let's check the situation first and go if it seems possible.'
After resting blankly in the cafe for about two or three hours, I looked down and saw that it seemed quiet outside.
Perhaps because the zombie horde had all disappeared after chasing the loud noise, the streets were deserted. It was so quiet that a few people from the cafe building's studio and officetel, whom I didn't even know existed, had come out.
I finally left the cafe and went into the officetel.
But when I went up to the 5th floor, the woman from the 2nd floor was waiting for me in front of the door.
"What's going on?"
The woman from the 2nd floor came around sunset every time, had dinner, had sex, and went back. There was no unnecessary conversation. We were just taking what we wanted from each other.
I knew the woman from the 2nd floor's name because I saw it in the status window, but the woman from the 2nd floor probably didn't even know my name. If we didn't even know each other's names, there was no way we would know each other's ages, jobs, or hobbies. I didn't particularly want to hide it, but we just didn't ask each other, so it ended up that way.
That's why it was surprising that the woman from the 2nd floor was waiting for me in front of the door now, with a couple of hours left until sunset.
"Oh, hello."
"Yes."
"Well..."
"Let's go inside and talk."
The woman from the 2nd floor hesitated without saying anything right away, so I let her in. The woman from the 2nd floor, who had already been here four times, came in without hesitation.
"Please speak."
"There are people gathered at Chungmu University. They've created a base there and go out to get food. My friend is there, so I'm going too."
"Oh, that's great."
"..."
The woman from the 2nd floor looked at me with a sullen expression. She seemed unhappy about something.
"What's wrong?"
"...Nothing. I'll go."
"Since you're here, why don't you have dinner—"
"No thanks."
The woman from the 2nd floor coldly cut me off and left.
'What's wrong with her?'
We had a purely transactional relationship. I didn't have a visually appealing appearance, the sex, which was just me randomly thrusting, couldn't have been satisfying, and I certainly wasn't unforgettable in bed. There was no room for emotions to develop between us, who hadn't even exchanged names.
But suddenly, the woman from the 2nd floor was acting like a sulky lover, showing a disappointed reaction, which was baffling.
'Who cares? It's unlikely we'll see each other again.'
I was planning to go to the back gate of Hoguk University, where the isolated basement girl who had requested help on the community site was, and Hoguk University and Chungmu University were about one subway stop away.
Before D-Day, it was just one stop away, but in the current situation, it was a distance that was hard to go to rashly.
From the start, it was unlikely that the woman from the 2nd floor could even go to Chungmu University, and even if she arrived safely, there was a high probability that she wouldn't meet me again, so there was no need to worry about her. I was just sad that my fuck buddy was gone.
Leaving behind my disappointment, I turned on the portal site's road view and drew a route to the back gate of Hoguk University. There were many alleys and low-rise buildings along the way.
'This might be worth going for?'
Having smashed the heads of countless zombies for three days, I had gained confidence in dealing with zombies. Perhaps that's why I felt like it was worth going as long as I could escape when the zombies suddenly rushed in.
'Let's fill my stomach now, take a nap, and then leave.'
While dealing with zombies, I could feel that my vision seemed to be narrowing at night, even though I couldn't be sure.
Of course, since my vision would be narrower, it would be a disadvantage to fight one-on-one, but in a place swarming with zombies, it would be much more advantageous for me if our vision was narrowed together.
I quickly finished my meal and lay down on the bed.
It was early to go to bed, but perhaps because I had been accumulating fatigue, I was able to fall asleep quickly.
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