Chapter 2: They're Alive.
Upon arriving at Sosa-beol Comprehensive Stadium, Kim Jun felt a wave of relief at how quiet the place seemed.
Of course, a few zombies could be seen shuffling in the distance, but he either sped past them in the car before they could get close or dropped them with precise shots from his rifle.
“Hoo…”
Before stepping out, Kim Jun had prepared thoroughly.
Fully armed in case anything grabbed his ankles or tried to bite him, he had come prepared. Even though it had been a long time since his discharge, he had tucked his pants into his boots with rubber bands and strapped on soccer shin guards over his legs.
He also wore arm guards and wrist supports on both arms, along with a face mask and helmet. Armed to the point where not even a mosquito or bee sting could get through, Kim Jun carried both an Air Gun and a Shotgun.
The Air Gun was quiet and didn’t use gunpowder, making it good for stealth, but it was a hassle to reload after every shot. On the other hand, the Shotgun’s slug rounds could drop a wild boar in one hit, though the loud noise and smell of gunpowder spread everywhere.
Besides the long guns, he had a canteen and pistol on his left hip and a hand axe on his right as secondary weapons before stepping out of the car.
Creak—
Kim Jun entered through the emergency exit he remembered from his working days and turned on the LED light attached to his helmet.
He moved in quietly, holding his breath. Inside, he could hear the sound of running water and machinery humming.
“…”
Clank—
When he entered after steadying his breathing, there was nothing there.
The generator was running without an owner, rattling and spitting out rusty water, probably because it hadn’t been greased in a long time.
Kim Jun immediately shut it off, rummaged around inside, and discovered a small oil-powered generator among the emergency supplies.
The box was soggy from the basement humidity, but the unit inside was in good condition, so he decided to take it.
“Alright~ this one just needs a little maintenance and it’ll run fine. Next…”
He searched the warehouse for anything else worth looting.
The civil defense shelter had all sorts of items, but unfortunately, most of them were in terrible shape.
Tents, barricades, tubes, gas masks, raincoats… everything was rotten beyond repair.
“Look at the state of this shelter… what a mess.”
Besides the portable generator, everything else was useless. Kim Jun continued searching the area, hoping to salvage anything more.
That was when he hit the jackpot.
“Oh!”
What Kim Jun found was a battery-powered LED touch light—the kind commonly sold at discount stores like Daiso.
It was the type you could stick on walls in warehouses or windowless studios for easy lighting. There were plenty of batteries too, and right beside them were butane gas canisters and a portable gas stove.
Kim Jun carefully packed them all into an empty bag.
Three gas stoves, one box of butane, the LED touch lights, and a full load of batteries—he stuffed everything in tightly.
His bag was filled with survival gear, and in his hands he carried the generator along with every visible length of electrical wire he could cut and take.
Once he had loaded up generously and headed back upstairs, he turned on his smartphone and switched to camera mode.
This let him check blind spots. Fortunately, nothing appeared.
Kim Jun quietly emerged, now planning to load everything into the car and head back.
That was when it happened.
“Help… please, help me…”
“?!”
“Is… is anyone there?”
It was a person. A woman’s voice.
When Kim Jun raised his gun and scanned the area, he saw a delicate hand reaching through the iron bars set into one section of the wall.
It was a very neat and beautiful hand.
She had done her nails. Just from the hand alone, he could tell she must be an incredibly pretty woman.
Still, Kim Jun approached cautiously, gun raised and body tense.
Then another voice came from elsewhere.
“Unnie… is there… someone over there?”
Female voices coming from two different rooms.
It seemed there were people in multiple rooms.
And then he noticed the fallen signboard at his feet.
Girls Fighting MC Waiting Room
“!”
It was Girls Fighting, the famous variety show that Kim Jun had occasionally watched online.
And it looked like the members were trapped inside.
Kim Jun thought for a moment, then knocked quietly.
Knock knock—
“!”
The sound of whispering erupted as they noticed the presence.
“Unnie… what is it? Is someone here to rescue us?”
“Then open the door right now!”
“Wait, we don’t know yet!”
While they were sorting themselves out inside, Kim Jun looked up at the iron bars above.
He quietly raised his smartphone and took a quick photo inside.
Click—
The phone sound made their voices stop instantly. Kim Jun checked the screen.
“Whoa…”
There were absolutely stunning beauties inside.
And not just one or two—several of them!
The image was a bit shaky, but one of them was clearly Gaya, the leader of Sand Girls, the girl group he had loved back when he was still active. Beside her was Seo In-ah, the multi-entertainer idol known by her stage name Shine, who had succeeded massively as a singer, actress, and variety star.
The others looked familiar too.
“Holy shit… four of them?”
The door slowly opened amid his swirling thoughts.
Creeeeak—
As the security chain came undone, the person who appeared in the gap was a mature-looking beauty with curly long hair and striking double eyelids.
It was Gaya, leader of Sand Girls.
“Ah!”
“…”
“By any chance… did you come to rescue us?”
Kim Jun lowered his gun but said nothing.
Possibilities… possibilities…
The first non-infected humans he had encountered since the zombie outbreak.
But what if one of them had been bitten?
“How many are in there?”
“Four… and there are four more in the room over there.”
Not four, but eight in total.
“Has anyone left this place?”
At Kim Jun’s question, her tears burst forth as she spoke of the suffering they had endured.
“We’ve been hiding from people who turned into monsters… we’ve been stuck in here the whole time… sob…”
“…”
Seeing Gaya cry, Kim Jun looked past her at In-ah, Do-kyung, and the fourth person he didn’t recognize—probably the new member who had been added recently.
If he rescued them, they could survive.
But had they truly never gone outside? Had none of them been bitten?
What if they were hiding an infection? What if this was a trap and they planned to attack him?
His mind was a mess.
Seeing his hesitation, the women desperately cried out.
“Please save us! There’s no food left in here. We’re all going to starve to death!”
“Mister—no, oppa… please… I’ll do anything!”
“Save us! Please don’t abandon us!!”
Watching the women cling to him so desperately, Kim Jun slammed the door shut.
Bang bang bang—
“No! Please!”
“Save us! Please!”
At that moment, Kim Jun shouted.
“Quiet!!!”
He yelled because he was worried the commotion might attract zombies.
And then he made his decision.
“All of you… when the door opens, take off all your clothes right there.”
“…What?”
“Strip completely, open the door, then stand against the wall with your arms and legs spread.”
“…”
The sudden order to completely undress and spread their limbs in front of a top star caused another round of frantic whispering inside.
“What the hell? What is he trying to do to us?”
“Unnie… what’s going to happen to us?”
“Don’t tell me… he’s going to drag us all away and…”
He understood why they would think that.
These were celebrities who had grown up under the national spotlight. Suddenly being told by a strange man to strip naked and wait would naturally cause panic.
Of course, Kim Jun wasn’t making the demand just to ogle their bodies.
At that moment, something rose up through the bars after a quiet knock.
It was Gaya’s slender hand again.
“Um… I’m sorry, but I’ll be the only one who undresses. So… so please don’t touch the girls.”
“…”
The big sister had stepped up.
“I’ll do everything, so please don’t touch the kids. I’ll be the only one who takes her clothes off…”
That was when it happened.
Grrrr— Uuuuuh— Uuuuuhhh—
“?!”
When he turned toward the sound, two zombies were shambling closer.
The sound of their footsteps was getting louder.
Reflexively, Kim Jun raised his Shotgun.
He calmly aimed at the zombies and pulled the trigger.
Bang—!! Clack— Bang—!!!
“Kyaaa!”
The moment the gunshots rang out, the arms quickly withdrew.
Kim Jun expertly fired two rounds, planting slug rounds squarely in the heads of both zombies.
The performance was excellent. The two headless zombies collapsed, twitched for a moment, then went still.
“Huuu—”
More zombies might come after hearing that noise. It was time to decide.
“Hey, girls inside! Listen carefully!!”
“!”
“You think I’m telling you to strip so I can admire celebrity bodies in this situation? I need to check if any of you have bite marks, open wounds that could lead to infection, or any other problems!”
“?!”
“How can I just blindly accept you when you say you’ve been in here the whole time? I need to verify at least that much!”
“…Ah.”
At those words, another stir of voices rose inside, and finally the doorknob turned.
“Open the door and stay against the wall until I come in.”
“…Yes.”
Kim Jun counted exactly twenty seconds before slowly opening the door.
Inside, a stale smell wafted out, along with the idols who had been locked up for ten days.
He could see a toilet and sink, meaning they had survived by drinking tap water.
And the four women pressed against the wall were completely naked, exactly as Kim Jun had instructed.
“Hmm…”
Click!
To check them one by one, Kim Jun first shone his light over Gaya.
“Eep!”
Gaya squeezed her eyes shut. Her skin was delicate and glass-like in its purity.
He examined her slender neck, collarbones, and both shoulders, then moved down to her full breasts… and further still, where her trembling legs came into view.
“Turn around.”
“Ugh… yes.”
She had given up and turned, pressing herself against the wall. Her elastic calves and smooth buttocks were revealed.
He barely held back the groan that almost escaped his lips.
As he scanned up her spine, Kim Jun gave his final instruction.
“Lift your hair.”
“Yes…”
When she used both hands to lift her long curly hair, her neck was fully exposed.
Her body was perfect to the end, without a single wound.
“Good. Pass! Move to the left wall!”
After sweeping the idol’s naked body with his HD flashlight, he waited for the next.
“I-I’ll do it quickly.”
Seo In-ah, also completely naked, had average-sized breasts but an incredibly attractive line from her slender waist down through her pelvis and legs.
As the HD light passed over her, she shivered violently.
They all kept their eyes tightly shut, enduring the humiliation.
Seo In-ah lifted her long hair that reached her waist, revealing the back of her neck.
After thoroughly checking her from behind, Kim Jun waved his hand.
“Good! Pass. Next!”
“Ugh… this feels like a medical exam…”
Yoon Do-kyung, a short-haired woman standing at 177cm with a body honed by athletics.
Leader of Crush Girls and a former volleyball player from her school days, she had incredibly toned thighs and an impressive backside.
She was the calmest during the body search, not trembling at all.
However, the glare she gave Kim Jun was terrifying enough to kill a man, and her plump lower lip kept twitching.
“…Pass! Those who have been cleared, get dressed and prepare to leave.”
The three of them hurriedly gathered their clothes. The last person to come forward was Japanese.
“Hehe… am I last?”
Brown hime-cut hair, a small face, and a voluptuous figure.
She was Nanika, the visual of the multinational girl group Hexacore that brought together Asian members.
She had a small face paired with eye-catching breasts and the kind of curvaceous body men loved. Her toes kept curling as she shifted her thighs.
For a moment he almost got hard, but the sturdy protector inside his hazmat suit pants kept it from showing.
“N-next, turn around.”
The way her hips swayed as she turned nearly tempted him again, but he focused on the task and inspected her thoroughly until the end.
That was when he noticed something dark on her calf.
“Hey, what’s that on your calf?”
“Ah~ I fell on the way here and it scabbed over. There’s new skin underneath—do you want to see?”
Upon closer inspection, it was indeed a scar, but it had healed long ago. Fresh skin would appear if it were even slightly scratched.
He had never seen a zombie bite that healed and scabbed over, so he let it pass for now.
“Huuu, good! Now get dressed and prepare to leave.”
The women kept expressing their gratitude, as if they had been saved.
Before that, Kim Jun took out some mini-shell chocolates and a few candies from his pocket and handed them to Gaya.
“I don’t know what you’ve been eating, but take one each and put it in your mouth!”
“Wow! Th-thank you!”
Gaya put the chocolate—wrapper and all—into her mouth. The other members frantically tore open the packages and did the same.
“Careful! If you swallow it, you’ll have to spit it back out!”
Among them, Nanika was loudly crunching on a marble candy with her teeth.
Gaya, Nanika, Seo In-ah, Do-kyung…
Every one of them was a famous ace idol within their agencies. Kim Jun prepared to leave with the girls.
That was when another cry for help came from elsewhere.
“Hey~ please~ over here too…”
“!”
Now that he thought about it, there had been rescue requests from the other room as well.
Gaya quickly spoke up.
“Um… mister—no, oppa! Can you save them too?”
Her earnest plea.
Kim Jun answered carefully.
“If I can persuade them…”
“Thank you!”
She grabbed his hand tightly and looked like she was about to hug him, but after being trapped for ten days, her body had a somewhat stale and disheveled scent. There was also a faint trace of old cucumber soap…
When Gaya explained the situation, a hand appeared through the bars on the other side.
The other women also had beautiful skin, but this one had skin so pale it was almost white. In her hand was a bra.
“Okay~ nice. So I get to have sex before I die, right?”
“Pfft!”
As she fumbled around, a pair of lace panties from a top star—who hadn’t changed them in days and were covered in stains—fell to the floor.
They still looked warm from being worn recently, and the front was slightly damp.
For a second he thought about picking them up with his gloved hand, but the perverted thought made him turn his head and abandon the idea.
He was about to unlock the door and tell them to wait when the door opened first.
What appeared before his eyes was a blonde Caucasian woman with a dynamite body that would score a perfect 100 even compared to the previous four. She spread her arms wide, exposing her chest.
“Right! See me!”
“Hey!”
Behind the woman were three others who looked terrified of her chilling gaze.
It was definitely a sight for sore eyes, but the sense of danger crawling up his spine and between his legs wouldn’t go away.