8. Zombie and Immortal(3)
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-Zombie Siu: f*ck, I just discovered something really weird.
-Zombie Siu: (photo)
-Zombie Siu: @ Jusul Siwoo
-Zombie Siu: Is this the letters of your world?
-Jusul Siwoo: … ?
-Jusul Siwoo: No, why is it there?
-Zombie Siu: I don’t know, f*ck it. I thought it was strange that there is no virus and you just turn into a zombie when you die, and then there’s something like this in the government building.
-Zombie Siu: Can we say that this is a spell used to create zombies?
-Juju Siwoo: ㅇㅇ I think that’s right.
-Jusul Siwoo: The content of the letter itself is nothing special, but the circumstantial evidence is very strong.
-Zombie Siu: Ha… If this is the case, should I learn magic before sacred power?
-Jusul Siwoo: Why? Looking at the way your world is going, it seems that world magic has become a part of the law, but you can’t destroy it just by learning a little magic. At least, unless you become a lake level shaman…
-Soul Siwoo: So just learn divine power first and do the spell slowly.
-Zombie Siu: No, that’s not it. What should I do if I at least know what it means when I hear an explanation about witchcraft?
-Jusul Siwoo: I can explain it in a way that even laymen can understand.
-Zombie Siu: ㅇㅋㅇㅋ Then, please help me when I call you later.
-Nut Pan Siu: Should I go and explore it myself?
-Zombie Siu: Uh. Because I can’t live like this
-Zombie Siu: I have adapted to my current life and have reached a level of stability thanks to the spirits, but honestly, if I live like this, the only thing I can do is eat canned food until I die and turn into a zombie.
-Zombie Siwoo: If I’m going to survive day after day like this, I want to try something.
-Nut Pan Siu: Well, there is nothing more unfortunate than a life just for the sake of living.
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“You want to buy an armored vehicle?”
After looking at Bruce’s note, Bruce expressed his disapproval at Siwoo’s order.
There was a considerable amount of armored vehicles released to the civilian population. This is because the United States is a country where military products are frequently converted for civilian use and sold, with more than 1,000 civilians owning tanks.
Originally, these products were supposed to be requisitioned in times of national emergency, but there were quite a few armored vehicles that could not be requisitioned because the zombie outbreak occurred while a pandemic dozens of times more serious than the coronavirus broke out and deaths were increasing across the United States.
But the question was who currently owns the armored vehicle.
Bruce continued in a skeptical manner.
“That might be difficult. Most of the people driving armored vehicles now are gangs of robbers. “It will be difficult to establish a fair transaction, and even if there is a transaction, it will be meaningless if there is no oil.”
“Oh right. Those bastards were taking over the gas station…”
“Yes. So it would be difficult to make a deal with them. It would be more realistic to get an electric car. There are a lot of abandoned armored vehicles, and there are a few people who have personal generators, so if we modify them somehow and charge them, they will be able to run.”
Bruce’s voice suggesting an alternative was weak.. In the first place, electric vehicles and armored vehicles only had one common denominator: automobiles, but their intended uses were fundamentally different.
It was just an alternative that was thrown out because it was difficult to get a car, and he knew that it was an alternative that he would not accept, so he naturally lost strength.
However, Siwoo, who had no intention of giving up, asked Bruce again.
“Still. Is there any way to save it? “I am willing to sell all but a week’s worth.”
“Hmm…”
Bruce’s dark face darkened as he struggled. Is this really a difficult request? Siwoo thought of a separate plan.
First of all, the gloves themselves cannot be given up. There’s no better target for looters than a moving car. Even though it is an armored vehicle, it is only lightly armored, but it is completely different from having no defense at all.
So, how about trying wearing light armor in a different way? Siwoo happened to have many special abilities that others did not have, as well as physical abilities that exceeded human limits. He enchants electric cars to be bulletproof, or adds various materials to make them bulletproof… There were many possible ways.
You’ll need to train a lot more to get to the level where you can enchant magic on an entire vehicle, and making light armor DIY may require a lot of trial and error, but at least it’s more likely than getting an armored vehicle yourself and riding it.
It may take a long time, but that is inevitable.
As Siu was holding the strand towards him, he asked Raina, who had been listening quietly.
“Siwoo. “You’ll only use that armored vehicle once when moving to your destination, right?”
“Huh? “Oh, right.”
“Then isn’t it okay to use an outside company’s vehicle?”
“… Uh?”
Siwoo’s eyes widened at an idea he had never thought of before.
Indeed, it was so. There is no need to own an armored vehicle myself.
Bruce, free from his worries and with a bright complexion, laughed with his signature exaggerated gestures.
“hahahaha! Rayna is right. External contractors are people who receive goods from outside, so they must have a transportation plan. “It would be better to use that transport vehicle.”
“They will try to charge you dollars for transportation, so it would be better to sell the goods to other people in exchange for dollars.”
“Oh, it’s perfect. Raina. “Are you kind of smart?”
“Well, this is it. “I once went to college in Boston.”
When Rayna showed off, Bruce gave an unlucky look. Siwoo burst into laughter as he saw Bruce’s face distorting dynamically.
Bruce shook his head as if he didn’t want to see that anymore, and then turned his head to Siwoo, who was smiling for a while.
“That’s right, what do you want to do?”
An offer that there is no reason to refuse.
Siwoo raised both his hands and quivered as if he was surrendering.
“If you went to college in Boston, you can be trusted. “I’ll do as Raina says.”
“So you’re saying you don’t believe me?”
Bruce grunted, took out his pen and wrote a few things down in his notebook. He seemed to be calculating something.
Meanwhile, Si-Woo belatedly realized that he should have listened to Raina’s opinion first and apologized.
“I’m sorry, Raina. “By doing this without consulting anyone.”
If it were a normal group of survivors, it would have ended with Si-woo leaving, but Si-woo’s group consists of only two people, Si-woo and Reina.Without Si-woo, Raina would be left alone, so Raina had no choice but to follow Si-woo whether she liked it or not.
Nevertheless, Si-woo’s eyes were drawn to the magic text in front of him and he arbitrarily decided to investigate. The shock was so great that it didn’t even reach Raina’s thoughts.
Although it was a sufficiently unpleasant mistake, Reyna did not show her displeasure.
“Are you okay. I’ve been surviving comfortably thanks to you from the beginning… Looking at your reaction, it seems like this is a very serious matter. “You’re looking into the state government building, right?”
“That’s right. “If clues emerge from there, we may be able to expand the investigation further.”
“Also…”
Then Raina came closer to Siu, lowered her voice and asked:
“Those letters are related to the ‘that’ you’re using, right?”
“Partially.”
A hint that the text Bruce showed was of a supernatural kind, like Siwoo’s special ability.
Raina’s voice quieted when she understood that.
“Then this must be something only you can do in the world.”
“… I see okay. “It’s something only I can do.”
Only then did Siwoo realize that this investigation was something that should never be approached lightly.
As Raina said, only Siwoo could investigate the zombie outbreak.
How many people’s lives depend on Si-woo’s investigation? 80 million people? 800 million people?
Moreover, it was not only human lives that were at stake. The zombie outbreak was a disaster that not even all animals and plants in the world could escape.
Perhaps it could be said that the survival of this world depends on one Si-woo.
So Siwoo must never fail.
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Never.
Raina, who noticed Si-woo’s mood becoming heavy with such thoughts, patted Si-woo’s back and comforted him.
“Are you okay. “That’s a hero, right?”
“Hero…”
What Siwoo thought of at this moment were some of the people in the chat room.
They carried heavy burdens. I complained countless times. I lamented, wondering why it was something that only I could do. They were responsible for many people, and the results were entirely in their hands.
It looks like they will be stampeded to death at any moment. Like I was suffocating. Although I acted like I was going to let it all go. It looked like he had fallen and couldn’t even lift a finger.
Nevertheless, in the end, I crawled all the way to the end and planted the flag.
Siwoo looked at them and knew that he was the one who could do that.
“Yes, that’s what a hero is.”
And.
Now Siwoo has become the person he should be.
Climbing like crazy on a journey where only victory is allowed.
He is a person who must become a superman.
*
It was two weeks later that Siwoo and Raina got into the car of an outside contractor.
There were three main reasons for the delay in negotiations. The communication took a long time due to the slow delivery cycle. Due to the active activities of outside vendors, not many people have dollars, so it took a long time to sell Siwoo’s products. And it was said that Siwoo and Raina might be carriers of the pandemic disease ‘Apollon’.
‘Apollo’ is the worst epidemic in human history, and the zombie outbreak has reached this point.That was one of the culprits. The basic infection reproduction index exceeds 20 and the fatality rate easily exceeds 20% even by the standards of developed countries. It could truly be called the incarnation of the Apocalypse.
The Riders of Plague and the Riders of Death acted as if they were one team. The zombies killed by Apollo spread a plague even when they died, and the plague killed countless people and turned them into zombies. Nowadays, most zombies are carriers of Apollo.
Therefore, as an outsider, I had no choice but to worry that Siwoo and Raina, who had been living side by side with zombies for a long time, might already be infected with Apollo.
Depending on the mutation, Apollo’s incubation period can exceed a year in severe cases, and even during the incubation period, contagiousness exists at a low level. It was a natural concern unless you knew about the existence of Sylph, which blocks and purifies the air, and SF Siwoo, which receives Siwoo’s physical data and diagnoses it remotely.
So, they asked Siu and Raina to purchase a simple test kit, and Siu and Raina purchased the test kit they had obtained and tested it, showing that it came out negative. Only then were negotiations able to begin.
In the end, it took two weeks to get in the car.
And in the process, the number of people in the group increased.
“Hey, banana. Welcome.”
“Don’t be rude when you’re squatting in the back seat…”
Bruce grinned at Siwoo’s point and assumed an arrogant posture, as if he was lying down on his back. Then Raina looked offended. Yuck. With a voice saying.
Bruce had been aware of Siwoo’s extraordinary nature to some extent for some time, but the reason he followed him here was during negotiations.
A look filled with grounded confidence. A tone of obligation. Negotiations have been stalled for a long time. In the meantime, he does not give up and even considers new alternatives.
All of that was enough to tip Bruce’s scales. So he went straight to Siwoo and offered to accompany him.
Then Siwoo asked why he looked so special, and Bruce chuckled and said,
‘How many of the survivors in this city do you think can walk around as cleanly as you, f*cking Banana? ‘I thought all Asians were smart, but there are some bad guys.’
Hearing Bruce’s words, Siwoo waved his middle finger and allowed them to join.
“Good. It looks like you’re there, so I’ll take you to your destination. “You must have prepared the right amount, right?”
Si-woo waved a bundle of cash at the words of the driver sitting in the driver’s seat. Even at a glance, it is incredibly thick. The carrier’s face straightened slightly.
And immediately the armored vehicle started running.
Toward the state government building.