Chapter 517: Defeat the Zombie King in the Zombie Apocalypse![R-18] (14)
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 517: Defeat the Zombie King in the Zombie Apocalypse![R-18] (14)
Kang Da-hye was a beauty, but she talked a lot. Even now, with the rest of the team dismissed, she showed no signs of leaving, sticking right next to me and chattering away.
“Seo-yun Oppa, what did you do when you were outside? The uncles were saying you’re incredible.”
“I worked out a bit when I was out there.”
“Really?”
She slyly reached out and placed a hand on my abs. As her fingertips lightly brushed over them, her expression shifted to a playful smile.
“Gasp, they’re so hard! Hey girls, you should feel this too.”
The two high school girls who followed her around giggled and came closer, placing their hands on my abs as well. As their hands roamed, the three of them exchanged sly glances and whispered amongst themselves.
“Wow… this oppa is no joke. All the guys I know are either scrawny or fat.”
Hearing such things from refreshing high school girls, it wasn't grating on the ears, even if it was noisy. In fact, it put me in a strangely good mood.
Just then, a couple of high school boys who had been watching from the side approached, their faces scrunched up in scowls.
“Hey, let’s cut it out and go. How long are you going to mess around with this bastard?”
“Oh, right. Let’s go.”
The words, dripping with jealousy, were thrown out with a complete inability to read the room. In an instant, the laughter vanished from the girls’ faces.
Kang Da-hye’s eyes, in particular, changed completely.
Her face, which had been full of laughter just a moment ago, turned ice-cold in an instant.
“Ugh, you guys really can’t read the mood. Do you think you’re something special just because we hang out with you? Stop being a smartass and go do what you’re supposed to do. Before I tell my brother to just kick you out.”
“Fuck, Kang Da— Ugh!”
Smack—!
Kang Da-hye’s fist connected squarely with the boy’s face.
“I told you to call me nuna, you little shit.”
The girls beside her burst out laughing and cheered. The guy who got hit staggered back, clutching his nose.
“Ugh… you fucking bitch…”
“What? You want another one?”
As Kang Da-hye raised her fist, the boys hastily backed away.
“Damn it, we’re going!”
Once they were gone, Kang Da-hye dusted off her hands and turned back to me. The murderous expression from before was gone, replaced by her fresh smile.
“Ugh, those losers ruined the mood. Sorry, Oppa.”
“It’s fine. More importantly, you’ve got a good punch.”
“Hehe, I learned some martial arts when I was in the States.”
Her friends chimed in from the side.
“Da-hye unni is a really good fighter!”
“Yeah, yeah. One time, some guy who said he was a gangster’s son hit on her and ended up in the hospital.”
Kang Da-hye scratched her head, looking embarrassed.
“Hey, why are you telling him that? What if Oppa gets scared of me?”
I let out a small laugh.
“What’s there to be scared of? If anything, it’s charming.”
“Really? Hehe.”
Just then, someone called out loudly from the end of the hall.
“Kang Da-hye! The boss’s wife is looking for you!”
“Ah, okay!”
She pouted, looking disappointed.
“Tch, what bad timing. Oppa, I’ll see you later. It’s a promise, ‘kay!”
She left with a wink and ran off with her friends.
As Kang Da-hye and her friends disappeared down the hall, my eyes unconsciously followed her ass.
She has sturdy hips. She’d be good at bearing children.
Her firm thighs, revealed beneath her short skirt, and the sway of her ass with every step automatically painted lewd scenes in my mind.
And then there was the doctor from before, Lee Seon-yeong.
I definitely need to secure that doctor.
I also needed to get a better grasp of this camp’s structure and personnel.
First, I’ll deal with the Zombie King. Then, I’ll take this place over.
Just then, Do Hyung-soo approached me.
“Jin Seo-yun, the boss is calling for you.”
“Kang Hyeok-jun?”
“Yeah. Follow me.”
We went up the stairs and entered a spacious office. The entire camp was visible at a glance from the window.
*
Kang Hyeok-jun was sitting in a chair, looking at a map. A young woman stood beside him, reporting something.
“Boss, I brought him.”
“Ah, you’re here.”
Kang Hyeok-jun looked up at me.
“I heard from my wife. You took care of a variant zombie by yourself?”
“I was lucky.”
“You’re being modest. But I don’t think something like that is possible through luck alone.”
His gaze sharpened.
“Jin Seo-yun… who are you?”
I simply answered his question with a smile.
*
Kang Hyeok-jun watched Jin Seo-yun leave through the door, then turned to Do Hyung-soo standing beside him.
“What do you think?”
“I’m not sure. We’ve only spent a few days with him, so it’s hard to say. However—”
“However?”
“Taking down a variant zombie with a single kitchen knife isn’t something an ordinary person can do. And he did it without his expression changing one bit, as if he were swatting a fly. My gut tells me… he’s killed people before.”
Kang Hyeok-jun chuckled and crossed his arms.
“So, should we kick him out?”
“…No. We’re short on manpower right now. But we need to keep him under surveillance.”
“Alright. Assign someone suitable to watch him.”
“Understood. …More importantly, how much food do we have left?”
Kang Hyeok-jun’s expression hardened.
“Not enough. We bring it in steadily from the outside, but there are too many people. It runs out quickly.”
“We’ll need to find a way to secure a large amount of food at once.”
“Right… If we keep bringing it in little by little like this, the people going outside won’t last long.”
Do Hyung-soo slowly nodded.
“Ultimately, I think we’ll have to target a large supermarket or a logistics warehouse.”
Kang Hyeok-jun narrowed his eyes.
“You know how dangerous that is, right?”
“I do. But if we continue like this, we’ll starve to death first.”
A moment of silence passed. Kang Hyeok-jun looked down at the map and let out a long sigh.
“…Let’s think about that a bit more. The monsters outside are getting stronger these days. We need to solve that problem before we can proceed with anything else.”
“Understood.”
*
While staying at Kang Hyeok-jun’s camp, I quickly grasped its structure.
As I thought, there are factions.
The people who went outside and the people who lived inside. On the surface, they acted friendly, but there was a clear, invisible line between them. Kang Hyeok-jun didn’t seem to have noticed, but that division was already deeply rooted.
And then, Master Jirobo’s famous words came to mind.
‘When five people gather, one of them is bound to be trash.’
This place was diligently upholding that rule.
Because—
“I’m going to be that trash.”
All I needed was one thing—a scapegoat.
Kang Hyeok-jun, you’ve insulted me. How dare a man give me orders?
Honestly, there was no real reason to torment him. It was just for fun.
That was all.
And the food situation here is serious.
The number of people going outside was limited, and the amount of food they brought back was pitifully small. Meanwhile, inside, there were too many mouths to feed.
If it were me, I’d use the useless trash as bait, throw them to the zombies… and sweep up all the food in the meantime.
This is why being a pushover and doing good deeds only leads to losses.
First, shall I start by wrecking the food supply?
In the dead of night, when everyone was asleep, I quietly got up and concealed my presence.
The guy assigned to watch me is snoring away.
I had known about Kang Hyeok-jun’s surveillance from the start. I carefully slipped past the snoring man and left the camp without a single footstep.
I headed straight for a nearby supermarket. Then, at every building that likely held food, I tilted a gas can and drenched the area in gasoline.
The moment I flicked the lighter—
Fwoosh!
Flames erupted in an instant. I stuck my hands in my pockets and watched the building burn.
“It’s burning nicely.”
Black smoke billowed into the sky, and the cries of zombies grew louder in the distance. At this rate, it wouldn’t take long for the camp to notice.
Now, I wonder how much of a shitshow it’ll become once the food is gone.
With a smirk, I quickly returned to the camp.
As expected, it was pandemonium when I arrived.
“Fire! There’s a fire!”
People stumbled out, their faces dazed with sleep, and the entire camp was thrown into chaos. The orange flames rising in the distance tore through the night sky, thick black smoke billowing up.
“That’s… the big supermarket!”
“What happened?!”
Kang Hyeok-jun rushed out. His expression instantly hardened as he looked at the fire through a pair of binoculars.
“Damn it… It’s completely burned down.”
Do Hyung-soo ran up to him.
“Boss, it’s not just there. The convenience stores and small marts in the area are all on fire too.”
“…What?”
Kang Hyeok-jun’s voice trembled. His entire plan for securing food had just gone up in smoke.
“Who… who would do this…”
The faces of the camp members were all colored with anxiety and anger.
“What are we going to do now?”
“Are we going to be okay for food?”
Just then, a man raised his voice.
“This is no accident! Someone set these fires on purpose!”
“That’s right! There’s no way zombies set a fire!”
Instantly, gazes scattered in every direction. The glares they exchanged grew sharper.
Kang Hyeok-jun shouted.
“Everyone, calm down! This is not the time to fight! We need to secure food immediately!”
Then he lowered his voice and added.
“Not just the external team, but everyone who can fight, get ready to go out.”
“Wait, Hyeok-jun! Are you saying we have to go out too?!”
“That’s right! In this emergency, we need as many people as we can get!”
I watched the commotion in silence, a smile playing on my lips.
Phase one, complete. Now, shall we move on to phase two?
It cost me some points… but there was no equipment like this anywhere else in the world.
I took out the Demon King’s Earring and put it on.
Lowering my altered voice, I suddenly shouted from a corner of the crowd.
“Are you kidding me?! We don’t even know how to fight! Going outside is the external team’s job! Why do we have to do it?!”
As my voice rang out, a few faces grimaced, and murmurs spread through the crowd.
“He’s right! We agreed to only do internal work!”
“Weren’t the dangerous jobs for the external team?”
“Does it make sense to suddenly change the rules?!”
More and more people began to voice their complaints. Kang Hyeok-jun’s face hardened.
“Don’t you understand the situation we’re in? If we run out of food, we’ll all starve to death!”
I changed my voice again and shouted from another direction.
“Then what has the external team been doing all this time? Eating more than us and only bringing back scraps of food!”
Do Hyung-soo’s face turned red as he yelled.
“What are you talking about, you bastards?! We’re the ones risking our lives out there!”
“Risking your lives? And you think we’re safe? We don’t know when monsters might attack this place either!”
Suddenly, shouts erupted from all over.
“You always look down on us, but now you want to drag us out when things get tough!”
“The food distribution was unfair too!”
“Yeah!”
Kang Hyeok-jun raised his hands.
“Calm down! Everyone, please calm—”
“Calm down about what! You’ve been discriminating against us from the start!”
At that moment, Kang Da-hye stepped forward.
“What do you all think you’re doing? My brother is—”
“You just worry about yourself! You’re only eating well because of your brother!”
“What?!”
Kang Da-hye’s face flushed.
“That’s right! She even threatened to have us kicked out! Isn’t this a total abuse of power?!”
Seizing the opportunity, I changed my voice again and shouted.
“In the end, it’s all about connections! Only the people close to Kang Hyeok-jun get special treatment!”
“He’s right! He talks about fairness, but in the end, he’s just playing favorites!”
“Then what does that make us? Are we your slaves?”
The atmosphere turned extremely hostile. Kang Hyeok-jun gritted his teeth and shouted.
“If we have internal conflict now, we’ll all die!”
“Who created this conflict in the first place!”
“If you had been fair from the beginning, this wouldn’t have happened!”
I moved stealthily through the crowd, continuing to add fuel to the fire.
“Exactly! The external team ate meat while we got potatoes!”
“You saw it at the meeting earlier, right? They didn’t even listen to our opinions!”
More and more people joined in, and soon, the external and internal teams were facing off against each other.
Do Hyung-soo clenched his fists.
“These crazy bastards… We go out there risking our lives, and instead of being grateful…”
“Grateful for what! Do you have any idea how hard we work inside?!”
“Who do you think built the barricades?!”
They started shouting and shoving each other. Kang Hyeok-jun tried desperately to stop them, but the situation was already out of control.
Just then, Lee Seon-yeong appeared and shouted.
“Everyone, stop! We can’t be doing this right now!”
But no one listened to her. Instead, someone yelled.
“Must be nice for the doctor! Getting special treatment and all!”
“That’s right! We’re the only fools here!”
Lee Seon-yeong’s face hardened as well.
When the chaos reached its peak, I quietly slipped away. No one noticed I was gone.
They were all too busy blaming each other.
Now, shall I go greet the next guest?