Chapter 18. Trust (4)
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After washing thoroughly, Leticia even finished drawing her blood. Cassandra disappeared into her lab, leaving behind the words, ‘I’ll let you know soon if I’m infected.’ ‘I’ll go help too.’ Camilla followed behind her.
In fact, the two women are uncomfortable with Leticia. Even on Leticia’s part, she didn’t have a particularly good relationship with the two women.
Thanks to you, Leticia and I spent the whole afternoon. She assigned her a room, told her the rules she had to follow, and introduced her floor and room. Since it wasn’t that difficult, Leticia understood it right away.
“The boards and blackout curtains on the windows are meant to block light and sound, right?”
He was also good at guessing.
“Yes. This is higher than other buildings, so I thought it would be noticeable if the light leaked through. But I didn’t know that mercenaries from Minsk, a western country, would attack. “If I had known this would happen, I would have lived a more comfortable life.”
Of course, that’s what it says. Passing marauders might see the faint light and attack.
“Wow. What’s this?”
Leticia entered the ‘warehouse room’ and clapped her hands lightly in surprise. With her mouth open, she looked around frantically.
“Food, water, fuel, what is this? Clothes? Why do you have so many clothes? It’s all new? “There are also luxury goods.”
“First of all, laundry is a bit difficult. Even if it’s underwear, it’s difficult to clean outerwear when it gets dirty, so I tend to just throw it away and put on new clothes. So I wore whatever I could.”
Leticia played with her clothes for a while, completely oblivious to my story. She was wrapped in plastic and had the peculiar smell of new clothes.
Leticia, who was muttering something like ‘She saved three months of her salary to buy these clothes,’ placed her chin and body on her chair.
“Are you tired, Leticia?”
“No. Just… “Because it’s funny.”
“Huh? “Which one?”
“Just everything. Good clothes, nice bed, nice house… I just wanted to get something like that, so I lived my life looking at everything I could see. “What I really wanted was outside the city.”
But the appreciation was short-lived. Leticia shook her head with a stern look on her face.
“No. You shouldn’t say things like this. “You must have fought to the death to get this.”
Well, other than being ‘disintegrated’ in Virginia’s hands, there wasn’t really a big risk. In fact, loading and unloading items was more tiring than defeating zombies. Leticia looked up at me with a wide smile.
“Can I wear whatever I want?”
“Yes. Because you are now part of our family. And everyone brings the clothes they like to their room. “I guess what’s here is because it’s not to my taste or the size doesn’t fit?”
Camilla unconditionally preferred clothes that were comfortable and sturdy, while Cassandra did not have many clothes that fit her due to body type issues. So, surprisingly, there were a lot of regular women’s clothes left. Maybe that’s why Leticia’s face became so bright that her dark room became a little brighter.
Growl.
Leticia covered her lower abdomen with both hands. She even turned her head in embarrassment.
“It’s okay. It’s a natural phenomenon. Since it is an unprotected area, it is natural to feel hungry. “Would you like something to eat?”
“First, choose some clothes. “I don’t want to choose someone with a bulging stomach.”
She came down to the dining room, leaving herself to pick out her clothes. Because I didn’t eat anything properly today either. It was a hassle to cook something, so I chewed an energy bar.
I’m hungry.
I want to go into the food warehouse and put everything I can into my mouth. I wanted to fill something that couldn’t be comforted. But I also know that this cannot be done as long as we are in polluted land.
Still, the hunger level in this area is low. It is said that in places where the concentration of hunger pollution is high, people eat and eat until their stomachs explode. It’s not just about being hungry, it’s about arousing the fear inherent in living things that they might die from hunger. It’s not like that here.
Maybe that’s why we go to each other’s rooms every night. I want to forget for a moment the hunger that is annoying and lingers around my body like a mosquito on a midsummer night. I want to temporarily cover up my hunger with joy, anxiety, and anticipation.
How much can we unite?
I don’t even want to get to the stage of opening my heart. We must calculate that cooperating with each other is more beneficial than going our separate ways or selling out each other.
I was brought out of my thoughts by the sound of the door opening. Leticia was coming down the stairs.
“How about me?”
“Uh… “
Camilla and Cassandra are very deceitful, and Leticia also has a pretty body type. She is a little taller than the average woman, her shoulders are straight, perhaps due to years of training, her breasts are a little bigger, and her butt is quite large.
Maybe that’s why black stockings went quite well with such a plain black and white dress. Even though the clothes are plain and plain.
“My legs are a bit thick, so I’m not sure if it suits me.”
“Is it pretty? “It suits you surprisingly well.”
Is it because I only see them wearing military uniforms, tights, or underwear? Rather, in some ways, it was refreshing because it was ordinary.
“… “Does it really suit you?”
Leticia is not trustworthy.
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“Why? “Do you think it doesn’t suit you?”
“I just thought that clothes like this don’t suit me. A little… “It’s embarrassing and embarrassing.”
Then, she immediately raised her head straight.
“What do you think? Let’s try these clothes on before the world falls apart. Is not it?”
What on earth does Leticia think of as ordinary?
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I finished eating. Leticia seemed a little more tired. She seemed somehow listless. She had a slight fever on her forehead.
“… “It’s because of you.”
But isn’t that something that will pinch my side?
“Why?”
“I think I got physically sick because I worked too hard.”
It’s a bit unfair. She tried to say that it wasn’t you who climbed on top every time. Before Camilla opened her door and opened her eyes.
“… Come in. Because the results came out.”
I stopped Leticia who was trying to get up from her chair.
“No. “Let’s all just listen together.”
Both Leticia and Camilla looked at me. I spoke again.
“We know the result anyway. “It’s better to just listen when we’re all together.”
“You know the result?”
Leticia asked back. Camilla looked at me silently and called out Cassandra. Cassandra walked out hesitantly, holding her test paper.
“What do you mean? “Did Yohan by any chance look at my test paper before me?”
When Cassandra saw Leticia attacking her, she flinched.
“Oh, no. That’s not true… “
“There is nothing to be intimidated by.”
Camilla gently squeezed Cassandra’s arm.
“Yeah, but… “
“There is nothing to be intimidated by.”
Camilla and Leticia glared at each other. Camilla’s face hardened, and Leticia was grinning slightly as if it were funny. For a moment, an image of two women wrestling each other appeared in my mind. We were pulling each other’s clothes and tearing each other’s clothes…
What are you thinking? Hastily dispelling her delusions, she looked at Cassandra. Cassandra caught my gaze and shrugged her shoulders.
“Well, so…” “You’re right, you’re infected.”
Silence.
“Is that all?”
Surprisingly, Leticia is apathetic. This time we looked at her in surprise. Leticia blinked her eyes and looked back at us.
“Why are you so surprised? “It’s common knowledge that the Cro virus has spread so widely that antibodies are found in almost everyone.”
“That’s common sense?”
Camilla let out her moan. Leticia somehow seemed to be in a good mood. It seemed to her that she thought she knew something that Camilla did not.
“Yes. That’s what she said at the CDC? However, because our body’s immune system is so superior, it is said that we can overcome it if we do not get too close to the source of pollution. However, they also said that people with weak immune systems or the elderly are more at risk. If you practice good personal hygiene, exercise moderately, and eat a balanced diet… “
“… “When did you talk about it?”
Despite being scared, Cassandra’s voice was quite sharp. Leticia responded to her unexpectedly strong appearance.
“A month? No two months? I don’t remember exactly. Anyway, there is no city where zombies have not appeared, and there is no one among my family members who has not turned into a zombie. So, it is inevitable that the Cro virus will spread in the air, but I heard that people with a healthy immune system have nothing to worry about.”
Me, Camilla, and Cassandra looked at each other.
In the end, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency did its job.
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All-out war speech.
This is a speech by Nazi Germany’s Propaganda Minister Goebbels. The Nazis did their best to hide the news of defeat coming from all over, but it had reached a point where they could no longer hide the truth.
Goebbels acknowledged the fact. We are losing. And, we went one step further. ‘Oh, that’s right. It’s all true. But do you know what happens when that happens? ‘You all die.’
It was propagated that the country would fall into the hands of capitalists and communists, and that everyone must engage in ‘total war’ to avoid defeat.
And surprisingly, it worked well. Why did it work so well? Because what the people of Nazi Germany wanted to believe was not defeat.
Goebbels knew how to cleverly combine ‘what ordinary people want to believe’ and ‘his own purpose.’ Although he acknowledged the facts themselves, he came to a completely different conclusion.
“No.”
When I hear something like this, I start by denying it.
“No, Leticia. Not at all. “Everyone turns into zombies except for a very few people.”
“Yes, that’s right. The level of inflammation in the body is also quite high. It’s not dangerous, but… “
“Hey, I’m sorry. I’m a little tired… “
Leticia touched her forehead. There seems to be quite a bit of sweat coming from your forehead. Cassandra touched Leticia’s forehead, went into her study, took her stethoscope, and placed it on her clothes.
‘Take a deep breath. ‘Exhale.’ He said the same thing, but this time he looked at me.
“… Why?”
“… Two people. “What did you do?”
“Why are you asking that again?”
Leticia’s tone became noticeably sharper. Camilla wrinkled the corners of her mouth.
“Hey, John. Be honest. The prescription may need to be prescribed differently… “
“I slept.”
A crackling sound came from Camilla’s direction. Leticia let out a moan. Cassandra asked again coldly.
“Did you just sleep in the same bed or was there any physical contact?”
“There was.”
“Did you do it?”
“Yes.”
It would be better to be honest than to be wrong.
“You did it?!”
As if she couldn’t hold it any longer, Camilla let out her scream.
“How deep did you go?”
Cassandra asked back with the sternness of a doctor.
“Enough to share saliva?”
I answered honestly.
“What is this…?” “
Leticia jumped up from her seat and sat down, feeling dizzy. Camilla was smiling blankly at me with a lost expression on her face. Cassandra’s eyes were blank and she was beyond scared.
“What does this mean now?”
Leticia asked me in a weak voice.
“… There are viruses in our bodies too. They say the virus is slightly different in each person’s body. But my virus is quite strong and eats things from other people’s bodies. Cassandra is an exception. Camilla has become quite similar to me. But because you are foreign… “
“Yes. Viruses are fighting each other inside your body. “Just like the western and eastern countries fought over Elsa.”
“Even if you say that, I… “
Leticia, who was trying to get up from her seat, collapsed back down.