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There was a 'CCTV Installation' item in the Facility Management function.
A high-cost feature that cost a whopping 100 Coins.
It was fortunate that I had some spare Coins.
If the villa hadn't been swarmed by zombies, I would have been trembling while paying even 20 Coins for chicken, let alone 100 Coins.
'If I had eaten one more chicken, I would have been late installing the CCTV.'
20 Coins was an amount that could be covered if Kang Mu-yeol just caught twenty zombies, so it would only have been delayed a little.
If I went out with my Slingshot and helped Kang Mu-yeol, it's an amount I could collect in less than half a day.
Of course, I have to take into account that this is a special situation.
It was only possible thanks to the Spider and the siren bringing the zombies; otherwise, I would have had to wander around the villa for days on end catching zombies.
Anyway, after spending a large sum to install the CCTV, a screen appeared on my TV.
It was a screen split into sixteen parts.
It meant that sixteen new CCTVs had been installed around the villa.
There weren't any originally.
Maybe one or two in the alleyways.
CCTVs that I didn't even know if they worked.
Now, the area around the villa was visible very clearly.
If I had only seen the villa and zombies, I would have just thought, 'Okay.'
I saw something else.
"...People?"
It was people.
A whopping four men.
They were looking around.
As if looking for something.
As I was watching them closely, a system window suddenly popped up in front of my eyes.
「Name : Kim Cheol-min」
「Job : Looter」
「Level : 3」
「Name : Park Seong-su」
「Job : Looter」
「Level : 3」
...
They were Looters.
It would have been nice if they were prospective Tenants.
I don't accept Looters as Tenants.
Looters? I see them differently.
I see them through the CCTV.
Looking at them again after knowing their jobs, they looked like rats looking for something to loot.
To think they're looking for loot near my villa.
That won't happen.
Of course, I won't step out myself.
I quietly went out to the front door and called Kang Mu-yeol.
Kang Mu-yeol was smashing zombie heads like a machine.
"What is it?"
Kang Mu-yeol wiped the sweat running down his forehead and came inside.
The air around Kang Mu-yeol was hot.
As if he had just done cardio.
"Oh? What is this?"
Kang Mu-yeol was surprised to see the TV screen.
Because it was a CCTV screen that wasn't there even yesterday.
"I installed CCTV. I thought it would help with security."
"As expected of the Landlord-nim. An excellent choice."
Kang Mu-yeol gave a thumbs up.
"But what is that? Aren't those people?"
Kang Mu-yeol narrowed his eyes.
"They don't seem to have come with good intentions, though...."
A system window wouldn't even pop up for Kang Mu-yeol.
Can he judge what kind of people they are just by their appearance?
He has a great eye.
I gave him the answer.
"They're Looters. They've been lurking around here for a while."
"As I thought."
"I want to chase them away so they can't even get close."
"Smashing their heads in is the most certain method, after all."
I knew Kang Mu-yeol would say that.
I was a little worried.
Even if they are Looters, to think the only option is death.
It doesn't actually matter if Looters die.
It's Kang Mu-yeol's mental state that I'm worried about.
When I first killed a Looter, the aftereffects lasted quite a while.
Even now, I sometimes think of the appearance of the Looter whose head flew off back then.
Then I suddenly flinch by myself.
"There's a problem."
"What is the problem?"
"I can't go outside because of the zombies filling the stairs. But they won't be able to enter the villa either. Who would want to enter a house full of zombies?"
"Then isn't that actually fine? It means they'll leave without a harvest. We won't have to run into them either."
"If there's a sharp guy among them, the story changes. A villa full of zombies? They'll think it's suspicious. They might think a survivor living above has set up barricades."
"Now that you mention it, that could be the case."
The outside is rather quiet, but the villa is full of zombies?
It's extremely suspicious.
I would have thought it was suspicious too.
"So, there's something I want Kang Mu-yeol-ssi to do."
A Looter group operating out of a neighborhood-level food mart, the A-Two Faction.
There's no special meaning to the name.
The food mart's name was A-Two. A-Two Food Mart.
A-Two Food Mart was looted as soon as the zombie outbreak started.
There were groups that just looted the goods, and groups that settled in the mart entirely.
Starting with the mart employees, some ordinary people joined forces to set up barricades at the mart.
Blocking zombie intrusions and human intrusions alike.
The Mart Guardians didn't last that long.
Because Moon Byeong-dae, who was active as a gangster in the area, crawled into the mart.
Moon Byeong-dae's organization was disbanded due to the zombie outbreak.
Moon Byeong-dae wandered around looking for a base, bringing along the organization juniors who usually followed him.
Wouldn't the mart have plenty of supplies?
With that simple thought, they headed to the mart blindly.
The Mart Guardians were effectively ordinary people.
It wasn't easy to deal with thugs who habitually committed assault.
Since the thugs weren't people who killed others either, they finished it by chasing the Mart Guardians out of the mart and taking it over.
In the process, they recruited the person who managed the mart's supplies on the condition of guaranteeing proper treatment.
Thanks to that, the A-Two Faction, which was mostly thugs, was somehow managing to function.
Occasionally, survivors would come to the mart.
Most of them came without knowing it was occupied by thugs.
But the world had changed.
If they agreed with the thugs, they joined; otherwise, they left.
That's how they increased their numbers a little more.
Kim Cheol-min was a member who joined midway.
He was originally an ordinary person, but somehow ended up at the mart, and since he didn't want to wander around, he joined.
Kim Cheol-min spent his time looting the surroundings just as the lower-level employees did.
A new mission was given to such a Kim Cheol-min.
The mission was to find traces of Lee Sung-joo, who was an original member of the A-Two Faction, as he had gone missing.
Lee Sung-joo was a person to be avoided.
Even though they were both thugs, unlike Moon Byeong-dae who had a bold side, Lee Sung-joo had a strong feeling of being a real scumbag.
He especially had a tendency to look down on ordinary people who joined late.
'Still, since they told me to find him, I have to find him.'
Now, Kim Cheol-min had nowhere else to go but A-Two Food Mart.
He was tired of wandering around looking for a new nest.
He received Lee Sung-joo's route.
Kim Cheol-min and three lower-level employees moved according to Lee Sung-joo's route.
Then they arrived at this villa.
It strangely felt like people had been here until recently.
The area around the villa was clean, as if it had been cleaned.
Zombies were wandering around, but there were no zombie corpses.
"It's strange...."
More zombies were visible at the villa entrance.
Kim Cheol-min peeked inside the villa.
"...Hiiik!"
He almost screamed.
Kim Cheol-min hurriedly covered his mouth.
Fortunately, the zombies didn't seem to have heard the sound.
"Why? What's the matter?"
"Shh!"
The other group members also checked inside the villa.
The villa was packed full of zombies.
"There's no way Lee Sung-joo came here. Why would he come to a place full of zombies like this? He'd rather search other houses in that time."
"Wait...."
Kim Cheol-min stopped his companion from speaking.
"Doesn't it actually mean there are people here? The zombies gathered like this because there are people. Maybe it's Lee Sung-joo."
"Do we really have to check this place? Even if Lee Sung-joo is trapped in this villa. Saying Lee Sung-joo can't get out is the same as saying we can't get in."
"That makes sense."
What if Lee Sung-joo is really here?
We can't save him anyway.
There was no reason to risk their lives to break through that horde of zombies.
Checking inside the villa was impossible itself.
And they couldn't call out.
"Hey!"
Someone shouted.
Kim Cheol-min and his group's heads snapped around.
If they made a loud noise here, they would draw the aggro of the zombies filling the villa.
"Where did he come from?"
It was a sturdy man holding a baseball bat.
There was blood on the baseball bat.
He was standing behind Kim Cheol-min's group.
It seemed like he came out of a building near the villa.
"What are you doing there?"
The man with the baseball bat shouted again.
"Shh! Shh! Do you want to die?"
Kim Cheol-min desperately tried to quiet the man.
The man didn't seem to understand.
"It's dangerous there, so get away! It's full of zombies!"
"I know! I know, so be quiet!"
It was already too late.
Kim Cheol-min, who turned his head toward the villa, saw it.
The sight of all the zombies that had been filling the villa looking at him.
"Grrr...."
"Gueeeeh...."
The zombies tilted their heads left and right.
Then.
"Kyaaaah!"
"Guaaah!"
They charged.
"Cr, cr, cr, crazy! Run!"
Kim Cheol-min and his group turned their backs and started to run.
In the process, one of the group members who tripped over his own feet became a sacrificial lamb.
"Thanks!"
Kim Cheol-min expressed his gratitude to the companion who bought them time.
Since he had accumulated one good deed in an era full of evil deeds, he would be rewarded in the afterlife.
Zombies clung to the companion.
The zombies, unable to find the human buried under zombies, chased Kim Cheol-min and the other group members.
Kim Cheol-min looked around for the man who had been shouting from afar.
The man with the baseball bat was nowhere to be seen.
'He was definitely around here?'
That was when.
A baseball bat popped out from the alley.
Thwack!
The companion running beside him couldn't avoid the baseball bat.
He rolled on the ground.
The man with the baseball bat grinned and disappeared again.
"Argh! Save me! Help me up!"
There was still some distance from the zombies.
Kim Cheol-min hesitated for a moment, just a very brief moment.
He saw something descending rapidly from the rooftop of a building near his companion.
It climbed down the outer wall of the building with its limbs as if defying gravity.
Kim Cheol-min cleanly gave up on his companion.
He didn't know what it was, but it looked dangerous.
'Thanks. I won't forget you.'
The companion didn't give up.
He managed to grab his leg and stand up.
"Just let me catch you. If I survive, you will definitely...."
He glared at Kim Cheol-min with a face full of malice.
That was when.
Something pounced on his back.
The companion who was barely standing fell face-down on the ground again.
His limbs wouldn't move.
The companion turned only his head to see the attacker.
The monster with white pupils opened its mouth wide.
It was full of sharp teeth.
"Ah."