32. Situational Awareness
32. Situational Awareness
GP Apartment.
If Imedi Apartment is to the right of Cheongju Elementary School, then GP Apartment was to the left.
Of course, there were buildings including IN Mart in between, so GP Apartment wasn't clearly visible from the Cheongju Elementary side.
Here.
From the 3rd floor of the house I came down to in the south, I could catch a glimpse of GP Apartment.
"Is that it?"
"Yes."
Dark dawn.
The apartment showed no lights.
A scene that looked abnormal at a glance.
I narrowed my eyes.
Looking closely, I could see something fluttering.
Something like leaves.
"It's a plant."
"...Yes? A plant?"
"Yeah. It's covered in plants."
"Could it be ivy or something like that?"
"Doesn't look like it."
Because something like grass was wrapping around and climbing up the apartment.
Whether it was grass, a plant, leaves, or flowers.
'Wait, hold on.'
Flowers?
Among the things Sergeant wrote down, there was something referred to as a Flower. He said they die from guns, but using fire or a flamethrower was more efficient.
Is this a place with a new Variant?
Of course, it might not be a Flower, or it could be a place created by another Ability User.
One thing was certain: I had to check what that was.
It was essential, as long as I couldn't go back to Green Fresh Market.
'Whether it gives me a gauge or not.'
"Well, forget about that place, that looks like an SOS."
"Yes. You're right."
And on the opposite side, at the Cultural Center, an SOS was hung.
Since the Cultural Center had no windows, I couldn't feel any presence, but the letters SOS were clearly visible even from afar.
Something else to do.
I let out a sigh without realizing it.
#
March 9th, daytime.
The house was quiet.
Ssaek-ssaek
Ssaek-ssaek
Because everyone had fallen asleep after a difficult move at dawn.
I, too, was lying still in the main room on the 1st floor, staring only at a piece of paper.
Next to me was the paper I had written on.
I erased 4, Green Fresh Market, and changed it to GP Apartment.
1, 2, and 3 were impossible right now.
In the end, I had to look at 4, 5, and 6.
The Cultural Center with the SOS written on it.
GP Apartment, where I suspect plants or Flowers are.
The Extractor that someone touched.
'Haa...'
Erase one, another pops up. If I handle the next one, another will pop up again. Seriously.
I decided on the order.
'Check the Extractor first, then check GP Apartment, then check the SOS Cultural Center.'
And,
If I clear the Cultural Center... if I go up a bit from there, IN Headquarters appears.
'......'
I should check that out too.
Blink
Blink
Knock, knock
As I was doing that, the door was knocked.
ㅡA-are you sleeping?
Seong Eun-bin's voice, sounding slightly trembling.
I opened my mouth.
"No."
Then I felt a hesitant presence in front.
Soon, a quietly heard voice.
ㅡC-can I come in?
Well,
I wasn't sleeping anyway.
"Yeah."
Kkii-ik
The door opened carefully.
There was Seong Eun-bin wearing fuzzy pajamas.
She looks cute dressed like that.
"Why."
"......"
She sat next to me without a word.
I asked again, still lying down.
"Why aren't you sleeping? You had a hard time yesterday."
"...That..."
"Yeah?"
I don't know why she's acting like this.
I watched her quietly.
"Just. Can't we call it... counseling or something?"
"Counseling?"
"Yes."
Counseling.
I don't know anything about that.
More than that.
"Can't you stop using honorifics?"
She's a noona.
"You said you were twenty-nine."
"......"
"You're three years older than me, so honorifics are a bit..."
"...You really are annoying."
"Next year you'll be an egg... Ow!"
Slap
Seong Eun-bin hit my forehead.
The funny thing is, she apologizes after doing that.
"...I'm sorry."
"What's with saying sorry after hitting me? Just use casual speech."
"It's fine."
"......"
She's stubborn as hell. Seriously.
Forget it.
Since she doesn't want to.
Silence flowed.
She picked up the paper I wrote and asked.
"What is... this?"
"Things to do in the future. Places to go around. Childish, right? But I realized I can't do it without something like this."
It's definitely a bit awkward with Eun-bin.
Maybe because we haven't had sex.
"......"
She stared at the paper. A beauty with a cold impression frowning made quite a picture. Maybe there was a taste for that kind of thing.
'Come to think of it, Yun-ji is cold too.'
But if Yun-ji is the feeling of a young, cold girl.
Eun-bin feels like a cold woman worn down by society.
'What am I saying.'
As I was doing that, Eun-bin opened her mouth.
"...Yu-seong-ssi."
"Yeah."
"Are you not afraid of the Infected? And not afraid of people either."
"...?"
Afraid, huh.
"I'm afraid. Wouldn't it be a lie to say I'm not? If you go outside, it's completely wild. Unlike the Korea we used to live in."
The Infected are a given.
And people, I think I would have traveled alone if it weren't for Seo-yoon.
Being like this with Eun-bin right now is only because I know it's safe due to the Contract.
On top of that, going around outside is because of my ability.
Metal manipulation.
It's an ability that blocks bullets and stops grenades and similar things. If it weren't for that, I couldn't go out.
I'm living as I please, but it's not easy.
"It's definitely different from the media. And very different from what I thought."
I met them at a convenience store, and humans try to kill me, and the Infected target me everywhere.
I thought things would work out well, but they didn't, and it's not once or twice that I've been frustrated.
"Is that so?"
"...Why?"
"Just because. I don't know what I should do here. I guess Yu-seong-ssi is the same."
"Just by you being here, you're pulling your own weight. You have healing, and you have knowledge as a doctor."
It's a kind of insurance.
Like A-rin getting hurt during this move.
Like me getting hurt at Green Fresh Market last time, didn't I recover thanks to her?
On top of that, if an emergency happens later, I can go to her.
I continued.
"It's not just you, I'm the same. I don't know what to do first, I don't know what to do, so I'm just living. It's better to do something than nothing."
"......"
"Why do you keep doing that?"
Seong Eun-bin hesitated and continued.
"Because it's futile. Everything I achieved is gone, I can't reach my parents, and the people I spent time with, they're all dead. Only I survived."
"Hmm."
I have nothing to say to that.
"Why did the world become like this? Did that IN Company really do it?"
"I'll know when I go there. IN Company. Or I can ask those people."
"......"
Seong Eun-bin looking at me quietly.
"The government and the military must have collapsed too. Seeing as not even a helicopter has flown in almost two months."
"I really don't know about that. I think I'll know when I go to Sejong City and Seoul, but right now, even feeding ourselves is a difficult situation. You know that too."
"......"
Seong Eun-bin looking at me quietly.
The answer came a long time later.
"That's true."
"Yeah?"
Saying that, she took off her clothes. One layer, two layers.
Her naked body was revealed.
I watched her quietly.
"What are you doing?"
"Situational awareness."
"What does taking off your clothes have to do with that?"
She hugged me.
A nice scent wafted over, and her bare skin, without a single hair, touched my clothes.
"The world has changed."
"You just realized that?"
"I realized it when I almost died earlier."
"So?"
"This is, a bribe."
Her body is a bribe.
I didn't bother saying that.
Instead.
"You're going to suck it dry?"
"..Do you have to say it like that?"
"It's the truth."
"Why do you use honorifics?"
"Because you're a noona."
"...Don't call me noona. Don't use honorifics either. And don't say bad things."
"You are a noona, though."
"Even so."
She's stubborn as hell. Seriously.
But Seong Eun-bin said quietly.
"Do you know? From the moment Cheongju Elementary School collapsed, no, from the moment you brought me, I already lost. I."
I am different from others.
I can do it.
"It wasn't easy. Ideals and reality are too different, and I couldn't do anything as just a woman. It's funny. I thought men were stupid. But to think I couldn't do anything without that man."
"A man can't do anything either."
"You really never lose a word... You have a talent for ruining the mood. Forget it. I won't talk. Just."
She climbed on top of me naked.
And pulled down my pants.
My cock was already standing stiff. With slightly reddened eyes, she aligned it with the entrance of her pussy.
An act as if she had thrown away her shame.
I opened my eyes wide.
Because I realized what she was trying to do right now.
"Hey. Hey..."
If she puts it in like that...
Ppu-geup
Ow.
A scream rang out.
#
"Ugh... ugh..."
She lets out a painful groan.
"Ah."
It hurts for me too.
The pain of inserting without foreplay, and without lubricating fluid.
"......"
"......"
Eun-bin and I made eye contact.
But neither opened their mouths.
Because bloodstains appeared on my stomach.
It seems it really is her first time.
More than that, she really has a bad personality.
"How can you just shove it in like that."
"Because I don't care."
Isn't this girl completely crazy.
"Forget it."
I flipped her over.
"Wai... ugh..."
"What do you mean 'wait'."
A woman who can't say anything because of the pain when I try to say something.
This time I was on top.
I sighed and kissed her. Even if she has no feelings for me, if I stimulate her body, something will come out.
A woman with wide eyes.
But she didn't bite or anything.
Carefully, slightly awkwardly, her tongue wrapped around mine.
Tsu-p
Tsu-eup
A lewd sound rang out.
Haa
Haa
Following that, Tsu-bup, tongues pulling apart.
Eun-bin faces me with a flushed face.
I lowered my tongue along her body.
Voluptuous breasts.
Nipples.
"Ugh...!"
A stomach with slight abs.
And, a pubic area without a single hair.
When I rolled my tongue, her body trembled.
"Ha..."
A sigh exhaled.
Something like suppressing.
It seems she's not a type that doesn't feel anything at all.
I stuck my tongue inside her.
"What are you..."
Tsu-p
"Ugh..."
A woman who tries to say something but shuts her mouth. I serviced her inside. A tightly clenching vaginal opening, but my tongue ruthlessly violates the inside.
A pussy that tastes lewd, or more accurately, tastes only like flesh.
Tsu-p
Tsu-p
Tremble
Soon her toes curl.
She looks at me with a flushed face.
"Unexpected."
"Why."
"...I just thought you'd only be violent."
"Why do you think that?"
"You were coercive."
That's true.
But I didn't need to be coercive to her, who was already a caught fish.
She's also being controlled by the Contract ability.
"I heard your preferences too."
"...Really."
A woman who now even skips the follow-up words.
I laughed and hugged her.
Her voluptuous breasts touched my chest. I carefully aligned the head of my cock with her hairless pussy.
Jjil-kkeok
My cock entered inside her.
#
I carefully lifted her soft thighs.
Kissing her briefly, I carefully kissed her soft neck.
Tsu-p
Tsu-p
Eun-bin shakes her body here and there as if she has goosebumps, but doesn't refuse.
I moved my waist slowly.
Jjil-kkeok
Jjil-kkeok
I don't do it hard.
Because I heard her preferences earlier.
And, I also quite like doing it slowly like this.
"Haa..."
A flushed groan is heard right next to my ear.
I grabbed her buttocks and aligned our navels.
Skin touches skin, and Tsu-eup, lewd sounds come from below.
Jjil-kkeok
Jjil-kkeok
Pyut
Pyut
Fluid eventually spurts out from her lower abdomen.
Fluid wetting the floor.
Eun-bin closes her eyes, perhaps a bit embarrassed seeing it.
But I'm not done yet.
"Wai..."
She says something, but that's not important to me right now.
My glans tightens at the entrance and ejaculates inside, gulluk gulluk.
Gulluk
Gulluk
Semen sprayed onto the side of the vagina.
Eun-bin stares at it quietly.
I looked at her.
I didn't ask this time.
"......"
"......"
There was no answer either.
However, I know what her true feelings are because of the Contract.
I quietly went behind her.
Mating continued for a while.
#
Eun-bin left.
With a feeling of being relieved for some reason.
I don't know, but well, what's done is done.
Sex... honestly, I intended to take my time, but I didn't expect her to come onto me first.
That evening.
The time when the kids were about to wake up.
The house became quite noisy.
Seo-yoon gathered the women and explained.
"Here are the canned goods, here are the dried foods, here are the ones with short expiration dates. Seasonings are up here. There's some rice left over there, but we have to eat that first."
"Then how do we do the duty roster?"
"How about taking turns day by day, excluding Oppa. Oh, A-rin-ssi. Why?"
"C-cleaning? Do we take turns cleaning too?"
"Let's do cleaning together. By assigning zones. Or is taking turns better?"
"Let's do it together. By assigning zones. And rotate that by date. Like bathroom is bathroom, room is room."
"Eun-bin-ssi's words make sense. Then, for the night watch..."
"Do, do we have to stand it?"
"I think it's fine when Oppa is here. There are no people here, but I think it's necessary at night. Two hours a day. During the day. Because everyone is awake at night."
"Hmm, that's the right way to do it. I saw yesterday that there's a room on the 3rd floor where you can see all 3 directions. How about standing there. The back... is a mountain anyway."
"Let's do that."
Well, it seems they are doing well on their own.
Well, the house suddenly became much wider, so unlike the villa where they had individual areas, living together in one house, it wasn't strange to decide things like that.
I wonder if there's an ability like surveillance.
In the end, people are the problem.
People, food.
'......'
Well, since the women are trying to do something in their own way, I should move too.
#
March 9th, night.
I stopped the women who said they would go with me and left.
Leaving behind words that it would take a few days.
Jjeo-eok
Jjeo-eok
I lifted the Extractor machine I had left at the hospital.
Bbi
Bbi
And headed to Hope Villa.
Kki-ik
It's my paranoia, but you never know. There was no reason for those guys to come here and not retrieve this.
......
The Extractor didn't ring.
I waited for a day like that.
March 10th.
'I guess they're not coming.'
It was a stretch, attaching a location tracker to a machine like this.
I got up from my seat.
Extractor.
I'll leave this at Hope Villa and ask those unit members when I meet them later.
About how to extract, the conditions, things like that.
If I carry this around, I might be able to guess where they are. But superpowers are still a priority over humans.
I sighed, got up, and headed outside.
It was time to go check the GP Apartment and the Cultural Center on the other side.
#
March 11th, night.
I rested for a day and headed towards GP Apartment.
Looking at the satellite map.
Since there was a road where I could go around this way instead of the IN Mart intersection direction, going this way was also fine.
The house side definitely had fewer people.
There were fewer Infected too.
I slipped into the alleyway between the large 4-lane road where Cheongju Elementary and IN Mart are, and the 8-lane road behind it, and moved.
And not long after, I arrived at the GP Apartment complex visible before going to IN Mart.
'...Is it Building 102.'
I remember this place being a corridor-style apartment when I saw it before.
I could see that the windows and corridors were all covered in grass.
The inside of the apartment, which was completely contrasted with the apartment complex, covered in grass.
'It's not all like that, but only this place is covered in grass.'
Is it right to go here?
I pondered for a moment, then finally took a step.