8. Zombie and Immortal(2)
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-SF Siwoo: If you have any time left, please use the magic routine like last time and send me some data.
-London City: Because of the Cthulhu terror?
-SF Siwoo: ㅇㅇ There may be some aftereffects left in the soul, and even if not, if you analyze the soul, you may find notable changes.
-Akashiu: I was already going to ask you a favor.
-Akashiu: (file)
-Akashiu: I think I’m a bit contaminated with Cthulhu right now, so please get me checked as soon as possible.
-SF Siwoo: ㅇㅋㅇㅋ
-London City: No, what kind of Cthulhu is this in the Academy world?
-London City: What did you do to become polluted? Could it be that you didn’t die even after being directly exposed to Cthulhu last time?
-London Siwoo: If you live with that, you really are a superhuman.
-Akashiu: No, that’s not true, I closed the chat room at about the same time the Cthulhu picture was uploaded.
-Akashiu: I think I was exposed for a very short time.
-London City: Huh… So what is the situation now?
-Akashiu: As long as you don’t lose your mind, there are no problems.
-London City: Write… Usually, I get hooked after that.
-Akashiu: There really is no problem right now. There aren’t any other Cthulhu elements in this world, so how could it get any worse?
-London Siu: That’s not true.
-London Siwoo: Is this enough to last you while drinking? If you drink one or two more drinks, you’ll pass out.
-London City: Always be careful because the slightest gap can cause it to erode in an instant.
-Akashiu: Hmm… First of all, hahahaha
-London Siwoo: If you were in our world, I would also recommend Dreamland Dive…
-London Siwoo: Let’s wait for the SF Siwoo analysis results first.
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Next day.
Si-woo woke up only in broad daylight. He was tired from searching the hospital yesterday, and he had to stay awake from time to time because he took turns being on watch with Reina last night. He had a hard time sleeping properly because of the gunshots he heard during the night.
Still, I slept well today. Originally, he always moved at night to avoid being noticed by others, so he had to sleep in the sunlight during the day. A life in which day and night were reversed left people devastated in many ways.
Siwoo tidied up his disheveled appearance with a single spirit summoning and knocked on the front door of the hideout. Then Raina, who was on guard duty outside, knocked on his face and answered.
But there was another voice.
“Woke up?”
“Are you awake now you damn banana!”
Siwoo was confused for a moment, but soon realized who the owner of the loud voice was. Bruce. He was a broker in the black market. Although he was nothing more than a liaison between buyers and suppliers in the black market, he was a very smooth lubricant in the city’s information system, which revolved around rumors.
When he opened the door, Bruce was waiting, just as Siwoo expected. He was a dark-skinned man and quite large. The fact that he had built up muscles that could not be maintained without sufficient food was an indicator that his life was not difficult.
He isAs soon as Siwoo appeared, he grumbled and complained.
“It’s so hard to look at Banana’s face just once.”
“Shut up, chocolate ball. “Something you can’t even see at night.”
Banana and chocolate ball. Although both were close to racially derogatory terms, neither Siwoo nor Bruce were offended. This was because we had been friends for a long time, and even though we were not in the same group, we were closer to colleagues.
It was also because they showed friendliness but were careful not to cross the line with each other. This is because we live in an age where if you make a mistake, you can be shot to death. This is called the etiquette of barbarians.
Siwoo looked at Bruce, who was rather flattered by his words, and said with a chuckle.
“Anyway, it looks like the rumor has already spread. “When I see you come.”
“Everyone knows. No, when did you attack the hospital? “Without even telling me?”
“I originally had no intention of putting it on the black market. But I got caught. I thought I did a good job keeping my guard up… “Who saw it?”
“I didn’t see you in person. “There was just an explosion, and you were the only recent buyer of C-4.”
“Ah.”
Siwoo was relieved and nodded his head.
Siwoo regularly purchased C-4. C-4 is a military plastic explosive, a device that gave plausibility to Siwoo’s ‘corpse explosion’. If the explosion at the hospital entrance was interpreted in conjunction with that, it would have been enough to infer that Siwoo had robbed a large hospital.
“I’m glad. I wondered who else had seen it. “It bothers me that he moved in broad daylight.”
“No way. “The only people like you who risk their lives for low visibility are ninjas, right?”
“What are ninjas? “It’s just crap.”
In fact, Siwoo’s hideout looked like it had been robbed.
Broken window. A wall where all the wood has been torn off, exposing the framework. Outside the hideout, broken electronic appliances were lying around, and the corpses of pets tied to leashes were lying smashed, giving off the stench of death.
All of this was done to avoid being noticed.
Modern combat between groups is determined by Lanchester’s square law. The law states that the combat power of a group is proportional to the square of its troops. As a result, Siwoo Group’s combat power is at an absolute disadvantage. At most, there are only two people, Siu and Raina.
Of course, Si-woo is not an ordinary person, but he is not so extraordinary that he can withstand the bullet. The moment he encounters a group of dozens of robbers, it is obvious that he will die without even being able to resist, and the countless gray molecules gathered in groups in this city are too much for Si-woo to handle.
If you join a large group, you won’t have to suffer like this. However, as an Asian, it would be difficult for Siwoo to easily integrate into the group, and it would be difficult for him to use his abilities in such a group, so it was inevitable.
“Anyway, so… Judging from the fact that they came to see me, it looks like there is a demand for medicine. “How many people are looking for you now?”
“Five antibiotics. Four disinfectants. Thirteen opioids (narcotic painkillers).”
Siwoo frowned at him.
“Why are there so many bastards looking for drugs?”
“It looks like a guy from another town used some opioids instead of alcohol. “He killed the goose that laid the golden eggs and left.”
Bruce said with a disapproving look.
Even during the apocalypse, alcohol was sold successfully. No, rather, there were more people living because it was the end. Those who despair of reality and want to escape even just for a moment. Those people are differentIt used to be of great help to the nobles. Alcohol was not an easy commodity to obtain, but once obtained, it acted like an almighty currency for alcoholics.
However, since they gave drugs to those people and left, it was obvious that the value of alcohol would fall due to reduced demand. It’s even difficult to get drugs because the Mexican cartels have collapsed.
“What is the price?”
“Mostly food. “There are MREs (combat rations) dropped by the Air Force, and canned corned beef.”
“Hmm… “I don’t really feel like it.”
Siwoo shook his head. Although he didn’t have a lot of food, it wasn’t so little that he had to give up medicine. The only exception is opioids, which he has no use for.
Reina, who was watching the conversation from the side, cautiously suggested.
“How about getting it in dollars instead?”
“Dollar? “Are you going to act like an outside contractor too?”
Outside contractors were people who made huge amounts of dollars using market profits by linking up with people in some states that still had a money economy and government system.
The person who sold C-4 to Siwoo was one of those people. Although there was no direct physical evidence, the circumstances suggest that corruption in the defense industry was suspected.
Reina nodded his head.
“Okay. If necessary, you could exchange it for items from other outside companies, and it would also be helpful in misjudging our power. “I’m selling opioids, so give me $200 each.”
“Well, no one would believe me if I told them that it was just the two of us robbing the hospital… Then I will look into that matter, Siwoo. “Do you have anything else you can sell?”
Siwoo thought briefly about Bruce’s words.
First of all, there is water. Siwoo can summon spirits to create water, so as long as he has a container to hold the liquid, such as a plastic bottle, he can make enough water or saline solution to sell. However, there are not many such containers, and even if he sells water, it is difficult to get a good price.
Other than that, these were medicines that Siwoo classified as unnecessary. However, it was extremely unlikely that something that was useless to Siwoo could be useful to others, and even so, he was reluctant to sell it by pretending that it was a useful medicine because it was embarrassing for other Siwoo to see.
In the end, Siwoo had no choice but to shake his head.
“No. Just tell me the news. “Is there any recent news?”
“Originally, these things should all be paid for…”
“Why don’t you take some antibiotics?”
“Good. First of all… “There is a suspicion that a new type of zombie has appeared.”
“What is the reliability?”
“Rumor level.”
“Then there is no need to look. “Any other information?”
“No way. Still, it sounds pretty good, isn’t it worth a listen?”
“Well. “I’m the type of person who has to see things with their own eyes to believe them.”
When Siwoo cut it off with a single cut, Bruce’s dark face turned glum. It seemed like the intention was to explain it by mixing in all sorts of exaggerated actions.
There was a reason not to listen to the rumors. As far as Siwoo remembers, there has never been another zombie in the original. Even though all kinds of street animals and birds become zombies, they are still just animals.
There is a possibility that it may have appeared only in the United States, but that possibility would be relatively slim.
“Then… How about this? “Mysterious letters.”
“Letter?”
“Uh. “It’s a letter that was discovered at the state government building, and they say it’s the first letter they’ve ever seen before.” ＜Br＞
“Hmm… “I think it’s just common American ignorance, but just show me.”
From Noble mtl dot com
“Wait a moment. I copied it here somewhere…”
Bruce took out a small notebook from his pocket and flipped through the pages. Since Bruce is so big, the note seemed unusually small, so it seemed quite comical to see him whining while holding on to it.
As it took quite a while to find it, Siwoo muttered as if nothing had happened.
“It’s taking a long time. “At that time, he came out in less than five minutes.”
“No, I didn’t know where I wrote it down… What?”
“5 minutes.”
Bruce refuted Shiu’s words with an aggrieved look on his face.
“No, I said it was too long ago!”
“Are you okay. It can happen when you have s*x for the first time. It’s a symptom that most men experience. Either premature or boring. “There are times when I can’t get an erection at all.”
“No, that’s not it…”
What Siwoo was talking about was something that happened at the marketplace. He said that at night, people would gather in places like school playgrounds and find things they needed and trade with each other. At that time, Bruce, who was accompanying Siu, bought a can of corned beef for a night with a woman.
And then I went into a certain building.
Came out in 5 minutes.
Since then, Siwoo has been teasing Bruce about that.
Bruce looked at Si-woo with his eyes wide open, feeling quite unfair at being constantly teased. Then he looked at Raina, and then at Siu again.
Then he sighed.
“Yeah, there’s no way this guy can’t have s*x…” …”
“… ?”
It seemed like there was some misunderstanding, but Siwoo decided to remain silent. Because it was more convenient that way.
Bruce buried his nose in the notebook, looking for the words I had written. Just a few minutes. Bruce opened his notebook triumphantly.
“Found! Here. This is it!”
“Give it to me. “Please read it for a moment.”
“Don’t turn the other page.”
“Of course.”
Siwoo took the note and looked at the letters. At first, he rolled his eyes as if he was ignoring it, but at some point his face hardened. Seeing that, Bruce got nervous and lowered his voice.
“What’s the matter? “Do you know any letters?”
“No, this…”
Siwoo got his posture right again and looked at the letters.
It was clearly a letter that does not exist in modern times. To someone who doesn’t know it, it may just look like random scribbling.
But it was clearly a letter Siwoo knew.
There was no way I didn’t know. Because it was a letter he often saw in chat rooms.
“… “Why is this here?”
The text said it was in the state government building.
It matched perfectly with the magic characters used in the world of magic poetry.