34. houses
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Groomed the wild boar that Gold brought.
I took out the intestines and put it in the freezer with only the blood drawn, but besides this, there is a wild boar, two elk, and two chickens.
I would eat the chicken, and since the elk was honestly not a good meat to serve to guests, I decided to dismantle one sow.
This is my first time dismembering meat.
I turned on the slaughter video and imitated it.
The skin didn’t come off as well as I thought, but as I did it slowly and steadily, the boar had changed to the look I saw at the butcher shop.
I smelled it.
It’s not a particularly appealing smell.
There is a smell.
The wild boar says that the ribs are the least edible.
The ribs were divided into three large parts.
One is the defender brother and sister, one is the sniper mother and daughter, and the other is mine.
I had a similar experience when I was in China.
A colleague of mine had captured a domestic pig that had escaped from the pen and skillfully dismantled it with the Chinese and had a pork party.
At that time, it seems that there was hope in China.
It is said that the northern part is being eroded, but a huge supply of materials was supplied from the rear, and a manpower equal to that filled the front line tightly.
I heard that there are 1,000 hunters recruited every month.
We pulled out Hunters, who had barely produced a thousand in a year, in that short amount of time.
To be honest, the level of training wasn’t that high, but that didn’t matter too much.
Although he was a beginner, he had basic training and quickly became a veteran in a life-and-death battle.
In fact, they drove out a group of monsters that had taken control of a large city and purged the eroded area.
It was probably humanity’s greatest victory over monsters.
The Chinese shouted with excitement that humanity, overcoming nature, would overcome even monsters, and China was at the forefront.
But destruction cannot be stopped.
Through the cracks I saw
Despair in the name of infinity.
*
Pioneers are now part of life.
If you turn on the walkie-talkie, you can hear the radio of pioneers here and there.
A plea for help, a silly joke, someone’s backstory, a hymn to the good old days.
There was no way to know the news of the pioneers confronting them in the north, but there was no need to find out.
Other pioneers pushed their way south through the roads they faced.
One concern was that most of them had information about the sniper’s mother and daughter.
I heard several times that there was a remnant of the US Army in that village, so don’t approach it.
It may help the sniper mother and daughter right now, but I don’t think it will bring much good results in the long run.
As the pressure from the pioneers increases, her realm will face a greater challenge, and it is said that she will be able to deal with the powerful enemies that have been targeting mother and daughter like before.
For example, the Cho Sung-yong gang.
Cho Sung-yong’s gang no longer appeared, but it is a world where such a guy survives longer.
Maybe somewhere else is driving people into the wilderness for fun?
Listening to the pioneers’ disorganized radio calls, I pulled my bicycle and headed for Seo Truk.
A wasteland appeared with huge shell pits everywhere.
It was a place where Chinese warships took control of the West Sea and bombarded it with missiles.
Defender’s new home was perched precariously in the corner of the hollow wilderness.
As I approached the house, I spoke into the radio.
“I am here.”
A young man and woman emerged from the ruins.
“Suseobang!”
Defender and his brother came out and waved.
“What kind of a jerk is this?”
“I know. My brother is also impatient. I haven’t even met you yet.”
“no. What kind of guy’s meeting is this? Neither of you have parents?”
My brother stared at the luggage compartment.
“What is this?”
“ah? this?”
A proud smile crept across his lips.
The wild boar meat dismantled by Lee Park-gyu himself is the most delicious part of the ribs.
“What kind of meat is it?”
Defender put his nose to the meat and sniffed it.
“pork? Does it smell very delicious?”
“wild boar.”
“wild boar? seobang? Are you good at hunting?”
“No, rather than hunting, it was because of the circumstances.”
You wouldn’t believe it if I told you that it was bitten by a mutant dog.
“I’m not good at hunting.”
“That is amazing.”
“Because hunting humans and hunting animals are different.”
“How is your new house? Is it worth living for?”
Other ruined houses stood side by side around it.
There were faint signs of life in either house.
It is a ruin that was abandoned a long time ago and no one has ever looked for.
“Would you like to take a look? Aren’t you here for a housewarming party?”
“What kind of houses are in the city right now? I just came here because I was worried.”
“Take a look and go.”
“Mmm.”
Visiting someone else’s house during the period of destruction is an event with a high probability of leading to death, but the Defender siblings are reliable friends.
“good.”
When was the last time you went to a friend’s house?
I think the last time I went to Lee Sang-hoon’s house to play was.
I wasn’t particularly friendly.
No, we’ve never been close.
Sang-Hun Lee’s mother, who is a bit flirtatious, invited some of Lee Sang-Hoon’s friends to the birthday party, but I was included in it.
I was not very close to Lee Sang-hoon, so the reason I was invited was probably because I had better grades than him.
My friends and I, who were high school freshmen at the time, were able to get a glimpse of the life of the so-called upper class in Seoul.
It was full of things I had never seen before and where I couldn’t tell where they were used, and things I hadn’t seen, but things I instinctively thought I couldn’t have forever, were positioned as if for granted wherever my gaze reached.
I had no idea.
The fire of hatred burning inside me was so hot that I felt jealous or embarrassed when I saw the wealth and wealth of others.
We ate moderately delicious food, exchanged presents moderately – I went empty-handed – moderately sang Happy Birthday.
Anyway, unlike then, I grew old, Lee Sang-hoon died, and Lee Sang-hoon’s splendid apartment collapsed, but for some reason, I felt nostalgic for Lee Sang-hoon in “A Friend’s House,” which I revisited after a long time.
Perhaps the reason is the splendor of the interior.
“hey. what is here?”
The wavy marble patterns, luster, and well-finished sophisticated furniture and objects I saw at Lee Sang-hoon’s house were spread out in front of me in an incredibly well-preserved state, unbelievably well-preserved under the desolate ruins.
“I told you. This is a gambling place.”
The defender spun a roulette like you would see in a casino.
“I don’t think it will be of any particular help to survival.”
I toured the underground gambling hall with the Defender siblings.
The fairly large gambling hall was equipped with a number of massage chairs, a sleeping room, and even a shower room.
When I turn on the tap, water comes out.
The smell of lacquer was too strong in the water.
“I was criticized for cleaning the water tank with my younger brother. I was thinking of calling the studio too.”
“Never go.”
“I think so.”
The bedroom is a converted sleeping room, but there is only one bed.
Defender pointed to the corner of the casino.
“I sleep by the entrance.”
Indeed, there was a matrix erected on a corner with a neatly arranged blanket.
“What about electricity?”
“Once the battery is left. I brought a generator, but I don’t really have enough fuel. This winter has been quite long, hasn’t it?”
Neither fuel nor food is particularly plentiful.
I will reveal everything before summer comes.
Defender doesn’t care.
“We need to get it soon.”
“There are ammunition left over.”
“As expected, Suseobang!”
Even after that, I slowly looked at the new house and confirmed what was necessary or lacking.
It’s not a particularly favorable terrain for defense, but it’s a good place to hide.
told Defender.
“You don’t have to kill a lot here, do you?”
“Maybe. Of course, if we find the entrance on our side, we’ll have to kill them all, right? Still, the guys who built it didn’t seem to come here. It looks like he died right away.”
“I mean.”
Before leaving, I looked around the splendid gambling hall one last time.
It would have cost quite a bit of money.
Maybe enough money to double my air-raid shelter.
But then what?
I pass it on to someone else without even using it.
“Then I’ll go back.”
“Are you going? Don’t you eat meat together?”
“There are so many pioneers.”
“Have a cup of tea or go.”
Defender’s brother appeared in front of me and was shaking a teacup.
Both the luxurious cup and the tin can are expensive black tea. It must have been a hidden object in this casino.
“I have a good car. Did you work at a cafe for a while?”
“Then let’s have a drink.”
A gathering that started with a housewarming and led to a skeleton visit turned into an impromptu tea party.
Under the starry night sky, a simple table was laid out and three camping chairs were installed.
Soon, Defender’s brother came out.
You can tell just by smelling it.
It’s a good car.
It’s a different class from the lemon black tea in my shelter.
slurp
I’m honestly not sure about the taste.
Didn’t they say that tea is eaten for its incense?
There were no snacks to accompany it, but the scent of tea that drove away the stench of death and fear prevalent in the time of destruction, the luxurious bitterness and bitterness, and the warm warmth that traveled down the esophagus and covered the stomach came as a good enough experience to be remembered for a long time.
We didn’t say anything for a while and sipped the black tea left by the unknown friend.
It was Defender who broke the silence.
“Later.”
He stared at the lights lit by the pioneers in the distance.
“When the world gets a little quieter and you live better than you do now.”
“…”
“What are you going to do then?”
Defender looked at me first, but I didn’t say anything.
“me.”
My brother raised his hand instead of me.
“I want to go to New York.”
“New York?”
At my question, my younger brother nodded and conveyed his thoughts to me in a louder voice than before.
“I have never been abroad before.”
“It’s New York.”
Defender held the teacup with both hands as if wrapping it, and smiled strangely.
“I want to make a house.”
“house?”
“When I was little, my father and I decided to buy land and build a house in that scenic suburb. It has a gabled roof, Spanish skylights, labyrinthine gardens, and Greek columns.”
“I can’t imagine what kind of house it is.”
Brother and Defender covered their mouths together and laughed.
Looking at the close brother and sister, I shook the teacup lightly and was lost in thought.
it’s the future
we have no future
how much longer will you live
There are only so many choices.
But they are different.
Even though they live in the same dark period, facing countless deaths and sorrows, they still keep what they want to do in their parched hearts.
It’s kind of like, when someone has something that I don’t have, it makes me think again.
“Seobang.”
Defender called me.
“Isn’t there anything you want to do at the studio?”
“well.”
I’m ashamed to tell you honestly.
Wouldn’t it seem overly desolate if the goal was simply to live longer and die than others?
“honey.”
With the addition of my younger brother, I eventually succumbed to a sense of duty to somehow cover up my bleak hopes, and soon came up with an excuse I had thought of a long time ago and was spontaneous at the same time.
“I’m thinking of writing a diary.”
“diary? Can’t you use that right now?”
“I haven’t written it yet.”
“Then when are you going to use it?”
This time my brother asks.
I looked up and saw the twinkling stars.
I remembered a story I once heard.
The starlight in the sky is actually the light from tens of thousands to hundreds of millions of years ago, and reached the earth after that amount of time.
Can humans be forever like the stars?
“When the world gets quieter and turns greyish white, when that day comes when everyone disappears and I am the only one left on the bulletin board.”
want to be forever
“Then I record each day.”
“In letters?”
“No, no computer. Before I die, I print out what I wrote on a printer, and I, the last human being, put every day I lived by my bedside. do you know Either an alien or a mutation on behalf of a human will appear and look at the records I left behind. Ah, the last of mankind seems to have spent their last days thinking like this.”
As I finished the story, I was conscious of the siblings staring at me with dumbfounded faces.
“Skelton.”
The defender was serious.
“You are definitely a little different from us…”
“…”
Isn’t it a seuseobang now?
“Wake up.”
Even my brother was surprised.
“There is still romance. Although the alien part gave me a strange feeling.”
Defender got up from his seat and arranged the tea cups and tea utensils.
“Even if you keep a diary, how about writing something more hopeful?”
hope
There is no hope in this world.
What is the use of having hope in a world whose end has already been decided?
Thinking so, he said a little carelessly.
“There is no such thing as hope in this world. They are all destined to die.”
The moment I said it, I wanted to say it, but I already said it.
What can I do?
This is the reality we face.
However, Defender’s younger brother Da-jung’s expression is strange.
She looked at me blankly and said curtly.
“m9, who lives in The Hope, will live more positively than you.”
“what?”
what did you just say
m9?
Anyway, that’s not it.
Comparing this skeleton to that guy.
Rather, wouldn’t that guy freeze to death this winter?
“m9? Wasn’t he dead?”
There’s a 99% chance it’ll freeze to death.
“He is alive.”
Defender’s brother held out a tablet to me.
On the site with the Failnet mark clearly visible, it was not enough to tilt, and there was an apartment with all the windows broken and a clear view.
Inside, there was a figure of a man risking his life to do laundry with a rope tied around his waist.
Undoubtedly.
That grumpy side view.
Our bulletin board former colleague m9.
“He lives hard like that….”
In shock, the words m9 had written in the past suddenly appeared in front of my eyes.
mmm: Look! The majesty of this royal view!
It seems that not everyone collapses in front of despair.
In this miserable destruction, some were still fighting fiercely against the enemy of despair.
“… even if you search soon, you’ll still have a view.”
The world is wide.
I need to reflect a little.
*After the tea party, Defender approached me as I was about to leave.
“Hey Skelton.”
“Isn’t it a seobang now?”
“I changed my mind.”
“…”
“Isn’t that it? Ruining the school?”
“You tear down the school?”
“It seems like they’re also attending the principal’s funeral.”
“Principal?”
There was a person who gave me the call sign Professor.