Chapter 74: Yoon Sejin
The Choi Gyuseok group that had dominated the Won Yong-gyo intersection was dismantled.
The leader and core fighters of the Choi Gyuseok group had been using Hillstate Pohang 104-dong; this single apartment building had caught fire and burned completely. In the process, many people died in the fire, and those who tried to escape, including Choi Gyuseok and Lee Geon-woo, died for unknown reasons.
Seo Yoon-pil confirmed this information and was shocked.
In just one day...
Within a day of Kang Dohyun confirming the Choi Gyuseok group's information, the group was destroyed.
Indeed, that fact was true!
The men of level 20 who had appeared at the checkpoint two days ago—Kang Dohyun was certain that one of those men was him.
But it wasn't just about surpassing level 20.
The ability user who wiped out a large group in a single night—that was Kang Dohyun.
Seo Yoon-pil carefully entered the house where he was staying in the morning.
"Haa.. ha... haa.."
In the living room, there was Lee Chaerin lying naked, and Kang Dohyun, who had just had morning sex with her and was in a good mood.
"You're here?"
"Yes."
Kang Dohyun was naked, but calmly put on a robe and drank a glass of cool water while speaking.
"It's only 7 o'clock, and you're already here."
"Yes, I wanted to check the master's house first and call the cook and housekeeper."
Seo Yoon-pil spoke while gauging Kang Dohyun's reaction.
"Shall I call the cook and housekeeper?"
"Yes, call them. Lee Chaerin! Go to your room."
At the master's command, Lee Chaerin went to her room naked, and as Seo Yoon-pil called the cook and housekeeper to the house, the day began.
Kang Dohyun drank the morning coffee prepared by the cook and began talking with Seo Yoon-pil.
"By any chance, how did the matter I asked about yesterday go?"
"Master, please wait a little longer. I'm searching diligently."
"Hmm..."
Kang Dohyun only dragged out his words, but cold sweat ran down Seo Yoon-pil's back.
"Please do well. I don't have much time."
"Understood! I'll look into it right away."
Seo Yoon-pil left the house at a quick pace.
He's the type who works better when in a crisis, right?
Kang Dohyun expected quick results from Seo Yoon-pil's demeanor.
The next day
Seo Yoon-pil visited in the morning, looking slightly haggard.
"Master, I found an eccentric scientist named Yoon Sejin."
"Really?"
At Seo Yoon-pil's words, Kang Dohyun smiled brightly. Seo Yoon-pil felt relieved.
"Where is he?"
"He lives in a small house in Yugaeng 1-ri."
He had found the person he was targeting.
Yugaeng 1-ri, Yeonil-eup, Nam-gu, Pohang City—this area was administratively part of Pohang, but it wasn't strange to call it a nearby rural village.
When Kang Dohyun went to the address Seo Yoon-pil had given him, fortunately, he could easily find the house. According to the information Seo Yoon-pil had explained, the house with an abnormally large number of solar panels stood out.
He knocked on the front door.
Thump thump thump.
"....."
He knew there was someone inside through presence detection, but naturally, there was no response. After the apocalypse, no one would simply open the door.
So Kang Dohyun called out loudly.
"Mr. Yoon Sejin, I've come to make you a very good offer."
"....."
It was still quiet, but since he confirmed through presence detection that a life form had come near the entrance, Kang Dohyun brought up something that might interest him.
"Don't you want to know about Ms. Yoon Chaeae?"
The moment he mentioned the name Yoon Chaeae!
Click!
The man inside opened the door.
"Do you know about Chaeae?"
Since the front door's safety latch was engaged, he only peeked out slightly to ask.
"Yes, I know about Ms. Yoon Chaeae."
At Kang Dohyun's words, he finally opened the door.
Yoon Sejin had fortified this small house like a fortress. The weapon he would have used if Kang Dohyun were an enemy was—
"A crossbow?"
"I made it myself."
He was holding a crossbow, and his house had various weapons.
Most ranged weapons that don't use gunpowder can be self-produced, I see.
As Kang Dohyun, seated in the reception room, quickly scanned and confirmed his house's living room, Yoon Sejin asked urgently.
"Where is Chaeae?"
"You mean Ms. Yoon Chaeae, who is a second-year student in the Department of Chemistry at POSTECH this year, your niece, Mr. Sejin?"
At the accurate information, Yoon Sejin excitedly said.
"Yes! That's right! That's correct!"
"I also heard it by chance, but I understand that Ms. Chaeae is at Ganggu Port in Yeongdeok."
At the mention of Yeongdeok Ganggu Port, Yoon Sejin made a bewildered expression.
"Chaeae? Why? There?"
"I don't know the reason, but I had an acquaintance who saw Ms. Chaeae at Ganggu Port."
Since Kang Dohyun knew that Yoon Chaeae was his niece and even her department, Yoon Sejin judged that his information was relatively accurate.
At first, he was grateful that his niece was alive, but then, a bad feeling started to creep in.
"But why... if Chaeae is alive, why isn't she answering my messages?"
Kang Dohyun didn't answer this question immediately.
With the introduction of the message function, survivors could use it to check if each other was alive.
Yoon Sejin, of course, had sent messages to everyone named Yoon Chaeae, but even after several months, he still hadn't received a reply from his niece.
If his niece wasn't dead, it meant she was in a situation where she couldn't send messages.
A situation where she couldn't send messages, with no Zombie Coins at all, most likely meant she was a slave unable to hunt zombies.
If a woman was a slave... the highest possibility was that she was a sex slave.
When Kang Dohyun fell silent, Yoon Sejin, having expected this himself, closed his mouth, but his hands began to tremble and tears started flowing from his eyes.
I should have held back. I should have held back that day.
To Yoon Sejin, Yoon Chaeae was a truly special niece.
When his older brother and sister-in-law died in an accident during her childhood, Yoon Chaeae was the niece he had raised himself.
She was very smart, like him and his brother, grew up well, and successfully entered the Department of Chemistry at POSTECH.
When she entered university and became a second-year student.
"What's an uncle to interfere in my life? Even if you're my uncle, stop meddling in my love life! Please stop!"
Because of Yoon Chaeae's boyfriend, they had a small argument, and she left home in a huff.
The problem was that the apocalypse occurred the next day.
After the apocalypse began, Yoon Sejin searched for Yoon Chaeae everywhere but couldn't find her.
When Yoon Sejin, who had been searching for Yoon Chaeae with difficulty, heard from the person who brought news of his niece that she was likely in a dire situation, his eyes became bloodshot.
"She's at Ganggu Port? Where in Ganggu Port? Where should I go to find Chaeae?"
He was thinking of going to Ganggu Port right now to bring his niece back.
"Are you planning to go alone? You'll die, but?"
The organization or group holding her as a sex slave was most likely large. Therefore, if Yoon Sejin went alone, he was highly likely to meet a gruesome death.
"It doesn't matter. Even if I die, it's okay. I have to save Chaeae!"
To Yoon Sejin, his niece Yoon Chaeae was more precious than his own life. So he had to save her.
"Is your niece more precious than your life?"
"Yes."
"Then let's make a contract with me. I'll save Ms. Chaeae and bring her here."
He was someone who knew Chaeae's information. With this person, the possibility of bringing Chaeae back seemed high.
"Yes, I'll do it. I will! If you bring Chaeae back safely, I'll agree to any contract."
When Yoon Sejin answered like that, the document Kang Dohyun took out was a slave contract.
Yoon Sejin was a genius engineer and scientist.
He had made bows and crossbows as ranged weapons on his own. He had the skills, knowledge, simple materials, and even the drive.
With just materials, he could make guns, and he was an ability user who could create various weapons and mechanical equipment.
Right now, his value wasn't well known, but if utilized well, he was a person worth as much as an army.
Seeing the slave contract, Yoon Sejin flinched, but.
"Can you really save Chaeae and bring her back?"
"Yes, I promise."
Bringing back his niece was the most important thing to him.
"If you bring Chaeae back, I'll sign immediately."
"You're promising?"
"Yes."
It was a verbal promise, but to win over Yoon Sejin's heart, Kang Dohyun accepted the promise.
After finishing the conversation with Yoon Sejin, Kang Dohyun went up to the roof of the house. And Yoon Sejin followed him up.
What's he planning to do?
As he wondered, Kang Dohyun summoned a drone.
Vroom..
"!"
Yoon Sejin was startled by the suddenly summoned drone. He had thought he wasn't an ordinary person, but summoning such a device was impressive in itself.
"I'll go and come back quickly."
Kang Dohyun immediately got on the drone and flew far to the north.