102 – No matter how it changes, everything changes
This world is terrifying.
I don’t know if there have been people who have thought this way since the old days.
At least since destruction began, everyone must have thought that way.
A world where zombies are rampant and monsters hunt people.
There’s no way you can think of a place like that as good.
It was the same for Hyena.
Making all my close school friends die in front of my eyes.
A catastrophe that even lost my parents.
I kept it a secret from Jihoon and Yuri.
I was so scared that I secretly sniffed at night.
Nevertheless, she knew she was on the lucky side.
It was like that from the first time I met Jihoon.
A childhood friend who never knew what he was thinking.
As soon as the disaster began, he performed unbelievably and kept himself by his side until the end.
It wasn’t strange to fall for Ji-hoon like that.
Yuri and Eunbyul, whom I met later, are also good people.
Even though they like Ji-hoon and compete with each other.
Both were kind, reliable people.
Thanks to her new friends, Hyena was able to live in this world with peace of mind.
And above all, Mina, the most precious little sister in the world.
Hye-na was sincerely relieved that Mina was alive.
Surprisingly, even when she was left alone, she worked hard to survive.
She was even respected as the leader of a village.
Looking at all the greedy people I’ve seen so far, it’s never been easy.
They supported Hyena’s life.
A man I love.
Friends you can share your heart with.
There’s even a precious little sister.
It was proud to fight alongside them.
I felt comfortable spending time with everyone.
I realized once again that there was happiness in living like this.
I know it’s a world where I shouldn’t dare to say I’m happy.
Nevertheless, Hyena felt that her recent daily life was happy.
I wish that this kind of time could go on forever.
To the extent that I can seriously think about it.
…What is being sacrificed for that happiness.
What would have happened if I had known from the beginning.
This was a story about such an older sister.
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We went to the building Yuri pointed to and looked around slowly.
A typical abandoned building, not uncommon in a world like this.
Even though people don’t bother to visit.
If you want to go, another place not far away.
It was the best place to hide something.
“I don’t see anything strange. A lot of dust.”
“Because it is such an old building.”
The inside was full of clutter and garbage that had not yet been cleaned up.
Occasionally, I saw several mice the size of people’s feet passing quickly through the hallway.
As humans disappeared due to extinction, it became easier to see such animals.
Haeundae Village is a place where people live together, so there are many things to eat.
Anyway, it didn’t look like an inhabited building.
Yuri walked leisurely as if taking a walk, tapping here and there with her sword sheath.
‘I wonder if there’s something I can guess.’
I was only able to come this far because I was the main character of this novel and received various privileges.
To be honest, I am not a great person.
But glass is different.
He was a knight of a famous knight order in his previous life.
A place where even that has risen to the level of pure skill before reincarnation.
From innate talent to experience and knowledge, there is no comparison with me.
His gait was strangely relaxed.
How long did the search last for such a long time?
Yuri suddenly stopped in front of a certain wall.
After touching the place with the sword for a moment, she slightly frowned.
“Only here the sound is different.”
“Different?”
“All buildings have different uses in terms of the way they were built and their roles. So each one has its own unique sound. But in the building, it’s mostly the same no matter where you knock, but only this one sounds weird.”
I can tell the sound of knocking on a building.
It’s honestly hard to believe, but Yuri isn’t the type to brag about things like this.
If you see him talking so assertively like this, it must mean that there is something.
“There seems to be a space behind the wall.”
“Hmm, it looks like a secret base. You often appear in horror games.”
We looked at each other for a while.
Perhaps everyone is thinking the same thing.
“But how do we get beyond this? Shall we go back to the other side?”
“It’s probably the same everywhere. There must be another way to get in, so let’s look for it.”
“You don’t have to.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Yuri pulled out and swung it.
The wall cracked like tofu and collapsed.
Ignorant, but sure way.
Really ignorant though.
“Hey, how are you going to deal with it by any chance… ….”
My mouth was closed when I was talking because of the sight over the wall.
Stairs.
It’s as if someone carefully made it.
Unlike the building, the stairs look brand new.
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The space beyond the wall was directly connected to the dark basement.
I really felt like I had discovered a secret base.
“You couldn’t have volunteered while building a place like this, right?”
Yuri muttered a little dumbfounded and put her sword on her shoulder.
She had doubts to some extent, but as if she didn’t know that it would be this serious.
“Should I go down…See it?”
She said in a voice that Eunbyeol didn’t like it very much.
Whatever is here.
I probably won’t be as comfortable as I used to be.
No matter how things change, everything will change.
“Let’s go.”
But there was no option to go back after coming this far.
Because we have to find out who and what they are hiding.
At the very least, you should know why the girl who gave the knight a flower as a gift suddenly disappeared.
With Yuri as the lead, we started to descend underground.
The stairs were considerably longer than expected.
After going down for a while, a huge space appeared.
What unfolded there was a very unexpected sight.
“A hospital? No, is it a laboratory?”
The basement had a fairly modern look.
White walls, high-tech machines installed everywhere.
Various reagent bottles and flask bottles on the desk.
…….And ropes and bloodstained cloth.
As Eunbyul said, it reminded me of laboratories that often appear in movies or games.
Before destruction began, or perhaps even more advanced technology.
“…What the hell were you doing researching in a place like this?”
“Maybe they were making biological weapons.”
I said it as a joke, but I thought it might be true.
We slowly looked around the inside, preparing for any unexpected situation.
Suddenly, Eunbyeol’s scream was heard from one side.
As we hurriedly ran away, Eunbyeol was sitting on the floor with a rare blue face.
“That, that girl who was said to have disappeared… Oops!”
The trembling Eunbyeol couldn’t stand it and ran to her corner and retched her.
It was her who popped her zombie head off with her gun, but the sight in front of her was more horrifying than that.
I also stared at the transparent glass tube and the ‘it used to be a girl’ floating there.
Even the glass tube wasn’t the only one.
Since then similar things have been lined up.
[The talent ‘Metafiction’ ignores mental shock!]
[I get a psychological blow because I couldn’t block all the shocks with ‘Metafiction’!]
Maybe it’s because I’ve gotten quite used to living in ruin.
These days, metafiction didn’t react even when I saw a lot of corpses.
However, the scene in front of me made me think that even metafictional mental barriers were not enough.
At times like this, I envy the readers on the other side of the screen.
Because you don’t have to look directly at this, just look at the text.
No matter how the writer describes this, no matter what you imagine while reading it.
It can’t be compared to the sight you see in person.
Even Yuri couldn’t hide her surprise and had a shocked face.
Her lips opened cautiously.
“……Alive.”
That sounded more shocking than anything else.
That piece of meat is still alive?
“In that state? Is that possible?”
“I may not be conscious. I’m sure you’re alive Its vitality is also diminishing…But it’s still there.”
As if he didn’t even want to say it.
It was a voice that seemed to be squeezed.
It was a crueler story than a simple corpse in any sense.
‘…This is crazy.’
Looking at the bottom of the glass tube, it was a complex machine I had never seen before.
After that, an unknown coffin stretched out and stretched to one place.
‘Who the hell did this?’
“Ah, they got caught after all.”
Suddenly, there was a voice that the three of us could hear.
I never wanted to hear in this situation.
A voice that kept denying it inside.
But again and again.
The sound of footsteps reminiscent of our first meeting.
He kept making it real who he really was.
I gently bit my lip and turned my head.
“……Yumina.”
“Hello, brother Jihoon.”
The representative of Haeundae Group and Hyena’s younger sister.
She walked with Noh Kyung-woo next to her.
Damn, it’s crazier than I thought.