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#Episode 31. Government Dog (3)
After the morning roll call, people were divided into three main groups.
The first type is the type that runs to the bathroom to urinate or defecate that has accumulated while sleeping.
The second type is the type that stubbornly endures physiological phenomena and crawls back to their place.
The third group were those who remained in the parade ground for reconnaissance.
Detective Lee Cheong-chun stopped Jin Jae-hee, who was trying to enter the building.
“Mr. Jin Jae-hee.”
Jin Jae-hee followed Zion and then looked back at him.
Sergeant Lee Cheong-chun had made thorough preparations for reconnaissance.
He was wearing a three-section baton, a pistol, a bulletproof vest, and a fur hat.
The Manan Police Station’s reconnaissance team departed every day after roll call.
The purpose was to obtain food from the merchants or recruit survivors.
Zion stopped to enter the building and overheard their conversation.
Lee Cheong-chun said to Jin Jae-hee.
“Please come to the reconnaissance team as you promised.”
Jin Jae-hee stared blankly at him and then looked back at Kang Si-on.
It was an expression as if he was asking for advice.
Kang Shi-on nodded and approached Lee Cheong-chun and spoke.
“I will go with you.”
Kang Shi-on volunteered for reconnaissance.
Because information about external circumstances was also needed.
As he stepped forward to volunteer, Lee Cheong-chun glanced at Kang Si-on.
Small stature.
And a young face.
At most, he was a man of high school age.
If you live in this city, it could be your daughter’s school friend.
Even if I were to join the reconnaissance team, it seemed like I’d only be able to perform the role of a porter.
Lee Cheong-chun looked at Jin Jae-hee’s expression and then looked back at Kang Si-on and answered.
“No, reconnaissance is dangerous. Yesterday, I lost a fellow police officer during reconnaissance. He was attacked by an unidentified tentacle.”
“That’s why I’m going.”
“Yes. So… yes?”
So that’s why you’re going.
Lee Cheong-chun couldn’t understand it easily.
Most people in this police station were reluctant to hear the word ‘reconnaissance’.
At first, they sent out a few citizens to scout out the area, but after the deaths, there was strong opposition.
Because I realized that it was dangerous outside the police station.
The reconnaissance team was now made up of those who had joined the force on the condition of joining the police and reconnaissance team.
Of course, it is true that each and every human being is desperately needed.
However, Lee Cheong-chun did not want to push the student in front of him to death.
Lee Cheong-chun shook his head.
Regardless of what Kang Shi-on in front of him was thinking or what his purpose was, he decided that he could not take him with him.
“No, I can’t. I’m sorry.”
“If this person doesn’t go, I won’t go either.”
“yes?”
This time, Jin Jae-hee took the lead.
Lee Cheong-chun looked at Jin Jae-hee with a little surprise.
She was looking straight at me with a very serious expression on her face.
And this guy.
Are you saying that they are not siblings?
Lee Cheong-chun crossed his arms.
It was a habit he had when he needed to set the mood.
“I remember that Mr. Jin Jae-hee came here on the condition of joining the reconnaissance team. If you come out like this, it will be difficult.”
“Then I’ll go out.”
Jin Jae-hee answered without hesitation.
It was a heavy downpour.
Jin Jae-hee rummaged through his pockets and handed four plastic sticks to Lee Cheong-chun.
Lee Cheong-chun stared blankly at the stick in her hand.
She waved her wrist as if to tell me to hurry and take it.
Then, from afar, his subordinate shouted.
“Sir! We’re leaving now.”
Lee Cheong-chun turned his head and looked at them.
Before I knew it, the team members who had finished preparing for reconnaissance were looking this way.
Lee Cheong-chun turned his head again and looked at the two people.
During the several exchanges of words, the expressions on the faces of the two men and women in front of them had not changed at all.
Is it intentional or natural?
Lee Cheong-chun looked back at Kang Si-on and sighed deeply.
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“Okay. Then let’s go together.”
It was a pity to give up Jin Jae-hee because of Kang Si-on.
She was a vital addition to the reconnaissance team.
It was just Lee Cheong-chun’s intuition.
Having been in martial arts for a long time and then becoming a police officer, he could tell.
tiger.
From the moment I first met her, I felt a strong spirit like a tiger from her.
“But don’t overdo it.”
Lee Cheong-chun gave Kang Si-on one last request.
* * *
An hour has passed since the reconnaissance began.
I followed the crowd.
At the front of the group were armed police officers, in the middle were a group of ordinary citizens, and at the very back was Jin Jae-hee.
The reconnaissance team consisted of ten people in total.
Here’s the information I found out by looking around the police station yesterday and today.
The police officers’ main duties were reconnaissance, control, and communications.
The reconnaissance involved a total of about 30 people divided into three teams who took turns searching the city.
Control was a task carried out by almost all police officers except for the team that went on reconnaissance, and communication was carried out by a small number of people including the police chief using the police contact network within Anyang City.
But, except for a few civilians assigned to the reconnaissance team, the hundreds of people living inside the police station had nothing to do.
It was an absurd way of surviving.
‘So that’s why it appeared in the quest too.’
If the police chief continues this way, this force will be destroyed in less than a month.
I won’t be able to get past the topic of ‘winter’ that K mentioned.
What made me even more anxious was the thought that winter had not even arrived yet.
The weather right now is winter enough for humans, but is it really winter for ‘them’?
I followed the line with such doubts in mind.
There was only one reason I volunteered for this reconnaissance.
I had to get to know this city better.
Ultimately, it’s all a battle of information.
Only when you have the information advantage can you easily unfold the story, no matter what options are given.
Even if the meaning of reconnaissance is simply securing food and survivors.
The meaning given to me was different.
Jin Jae-hee, who was walking next to him, would also know that fact.
The reconnaissance team was following a pre-determined patrol route.
Two hours after the reconnaissance began.
So far, nothing has come out.
Officer Lee Cheong-chun, in the front row, stopped the line, then turned around and spoke.
“I’ll just take a break for a moment.”
At that voice, the reconnaissance team, exhausted, went into the building next door to rest.
Originally, it was a reconnaissance of a short distance and time, so short that you wouldn’t even be out of breath.
But, in addition to the physical fatigue of pushing through the snow, they were also under the psychological pressure of having someone die during a reconnaissance mission just yesterday, so they couldn’t help but feel exhausted.
dump-.
I sat against the wall inside the building a little way from the scout post and caught my breath.
I put my hands in my pockets and warmed myself with a hot pack.
It was warm.
Just a moment ago, I was having a hard time because the cold felt like it was cutting my fingers and toes.
I had no choice but to keep wiggling my toes.
Jin Jae-hee came closer and asked.
“are you okay?”
“what.”
She sat down next to me and asked.
“It’s cold.”
“No problem.”
In fact, this level of cold wasn’t a problem for me when I was working as a day laborer because I got used to it.
But the problem was that it got colder than this.
Jin Jae-hee was taking something out of the bag he was carrying.
I asked her like that.
“It’s going to get colder than this, right?”
Then Jin Jae-hee answered without hesitation.
“Yeah. When the cold comes, the snow will pile up enough to completely cover a small building.”
Agjak-.
She took a frozen energy bar out of her bag, broke it open, and handed me half.
“Eat it. Chocolate helps maintain body temperature.”
I took it carefully and put it in my mouth.
The chocolate bar was frozen solid because of the cold, and it felt like chewing candy.
“We have to prepare.”
Jin Jae-hee’s voice was dull as he bit into a hard chocolate bar.
I thought to myself as I rolled the chocolate bar on my tongue and melted it.
By now the snow had reached up to the knees.
But according to her, the snow piled up far beyond that, roughly 10 meters above the ground.
Nationwide, too.
That exceeded the standards of extreme cold.
It may be a disaster now, but it was a disaster.
“In my previous life, I burned down the entire city to prepare for the extreme cold. Haeundae, Gukje Market, Marine City, Busan Station. Everything burned down. It was as if there had never been any civilization there in the first place. It was the choice of people who couldn’t endure the extreme cold that cut off their fingers and toes.”
Rustle, rustle.
I listened to her while fiddling with the bag of energy bars.
“Thanks to that, the snow melted, but because of that, all the people who were hiding burned to death in their sleep.”
Rustle-!
I grabbed the bag tightly and then quickly dropped it on the floor.
Then the bag of energy bars fell limply out of his grasp.
At that time, Detective Lee Cheong-chun looked around at the people and said.
“We’re starting again. Please wake up.”
At that voice, the people who had been resting rose one by one.
I said, getting up before her.
“It’s okay. You don’t have to burn down the city.”
After experiencing Round 1, I have come to understand to some extent the importance of retaining human resources.
It was not possible to burn down the entire city just to solve the immediate second round.
I wanted to make sure I won this round.
To do that, a foundation was needed.
A foundation for gaining power.
First of all, I had to gain the trust of the detective Lee Cheong-chun in front of me.
Jin Jae-hee got up and asked carefully.
“What method is there?”
I put my hands in my pockets and joined the group walking ahead.
And then I answered naturally.
“I’m going to build a road.”
Jin Jae-hee stopped at my words.
And then he muttered quietly as if he couldn’t believe it.
“road name……?”
This was the reason I came on this reconnaissance.
I had to find some creature.
It can withstand the cold well and is easy to capture.
If only the methods I think would work… … .
I think I can file a police report without any difficulty.
* * *
The road in front of Anyang City Hall, Dongan-gu, Anyang-si.
Phew-!
Sebeom fell forward, unable to withstand the kick.
Two women approached from around them.
And she grabbed Sebeom by the back of his neck and lifted him up.
“Get up. Stop thinking nonsense.”
“Huh… … Huh… … .”
The woman pushed Sebeom to walk again.
The road in front of City Hall.
Ten men were walking in a line toward the city hall.
Those who watched over the men and pushed them forward were all ‘warriors’.
Warriors with their faces covered by the 1st force in Dongan-gu, Anyang-si.
The men tied to the warriors walked weakly.
They were all commodities.
A gift to be presented to the Queen.
“Cough! Cough… … !”
Sebeom lost his strength while walking and fell down in the line again.
Even the man next to him staggered.
Then a woman walked in holding a pipe.
“Haa… … Haa… … .”
In Lee Se-beom’s blood-covered vision, he saw a woman’s shoes coming closer to him.
And the woman struck Sebeom on the back without mercy.
A bone-crunching pain shot through my whole body as the pipe hit my back.
Lee Se-beom screamed as if in pain.
As the warrior was about to strike Sebeom’s face, the warrior next to her stopped her.
“No face.”
Then the warrior carefully put away the pipe he was holding.
And then he grabbed Sebeom’s hair and lifted him up.
“Walk. Get the goods. Or die.”
Sebeom walked, half-led by the chain.
Every time he walked, there was a kick from behind.
“Haa… … Haa… … .”
Sebeom raised his head and looked at the city hall.
The force occupying the city hall.
The first force that unified the Dongan-gu area of Anyang-si in just 3 days.
Sebeom realized in front of that force that what they had done inside the shopping mall was nothing more than a child’s war game.
The roads were different.
The road was soon a path connecting the cities.
And when the league was held, the most populous was also the road.
They occupied the roads and rapidly expanded their power.
Kang Si-on’s Hong team scattered as soon as the round ended.
This place still stands.
No, it was healthy, if not solid.
In front of the city hall, warriors armed with various priestly weapons talked.
“10 people.”
“Only 10 people? Then what? It won’t work.”
“Don’t worry. This time, we’ve got some of the best in the mix.”
“Best product?”
Warriors wearing masks and hoods turned over.
The warrior’s eyes were like those of a wild beast.
The warrior looked back at Lee Se-beom.
Sebeom felt goosebumps all over his body when he saw her smile.
“Ah-. This is the best. Even the Queen would be pleased with that.”
The masked warrior took out a small sword from his bosom.
Then he slowly approached and lifted Sebeom’s chin excessively.
She whispered to Sebeom in a lewd tone.
With a knife to his neck.
“Be careful. The Queen is very hungry right now.”
“… … Sister. What did I do with you?”
“huh?”
The warrior tilted his head.
The lead character from 707 was helplessly attacked by the assailants.
Sebeom still couldn’t forget the sight of Jooyeon bleeding from between her lips, even though it was just yesterday.
The assailants dragged up the lead actor’s body, which was hanging like laundry.
After that, Sebeom couldn’t see the lead role.
The woman spoke to Sebeom, still holding the knife in her hand.
“I can’t tell you that. Show it to the Queen. Maybe she’ll spare your life.”
“Why are you doing this… … Why.”
“Why? Well, if we don’t meet our quota, we’ll be executed.”
“Execution… … ?”
“You. You’re from the building. I see you still don’t know anything about the ‘law.’”
Law? Building origin?
Sebeom couldn’t understand anything even though he was listening to the woman’s words.
He realized that everything that had been inside the building, that is, inside the shopping mall, was just a drop in the bucket.
About the law.
And the queen.
Even the forces occupying this place.
It had been a week and two days since the world had been destroyed, but this was a completely different world.
Human lives are lost like flies.
How could this happen?
Sebeom couldn’t know anything until he faced the Queen.
The men entered the viewing room in a single file.
However, three men from the back row were unable to enter the viewing area.
They were the men right behind Lee Se-beom.
“Wait a minute. You three stay. The marketability is low.”
The rest of the people were trembling with fear.
As Sebeom was being dragged there, he glanced at the revolving door of the city hall.
Pok, pok, pok.
The three men who failed to enter were stabbed to death on the spot.
Their deaths were plain.
Without even a single scream, he simply fell forward with the knife stabbed into his neck.
The view between the revolving doors.
Sebeom watched their end with his eyes until the very end.
(Continued in the next episode)