Hiding the House in the Apocalypse

39. Yuse (2)

When he entered the monster control area with Je Poong-ho, Park Sang-min’s power was great.

He rode in an official car, had a knight, and had an aide to shout and choke for him.

Now he is alone and his car is running out of gasoline.

Black smoke like a forest fire rose from the exhaust vents, giving off a nasty stench.

“People looked at me funny because it was proportional representation.”

It was a topic he managed to bring up after swallowing dry saliva several times.

I kept my mouth shut and checked the direction the car was passing.

Looking toward Yeouido.

“However, proportional representation is also a legitimate representative of the people determined by law and public opinion. It is an advanced system first adopted by developed countries such as Germany and Northern Europe, and it plays a role in diversifying policies and expanding the interests of minorities.”

“Where are we going?”

“Ah, the Capitol side.”

“Are there only two of you?”

“no. There will be reinforcements in front of the Capitol.”

As soon as the short conversation was over, I turned my head out the window.

Park Sang-min was at least a person with a sense of humor.

Seeing how I keep my mouth shut, knowing that I don’t like to talk to him.

A group of people, including soldiers, gathered in front of the Capitol, whose roof had collapsed in half.

It seems that he came on the bus standing next to him.

“Senator!”

“Mr.~!”

Middle-aged men and women greeted Park Sang-min with big smiles.

Seemed like a follower.

It was impressive that there were more middle-aged women than men.

Park Sang-min went to one of them and bowed his head excessively, but he didn’t really care.

Many times more than that, there was an important person in this place.

“long time no see.”

This is my one jockey senior, Baek Seung-hyun.

My blood was already as cold as that of a reptile when I got in Park Sang-min’s car, but when I saw his face, the temperature dropped to the point of freezing.

I thought for a moment in the short time I bowed.

How to deal with this human.

“…”

Let’s hide the house for now.

yes, that would be nice

“ah. Senior Baek. Long time no see. How have you been?”

“Senior. It doesn’t matter.”

He offered me a cigarette.

It’s a pre-war thing with a filter.

I had a cigarette in my mouth for a while before he lit it, but for some reason I got nauseous.

Not a non-smoker.

I smoke quite a bit.

The reason I vomited was because the smell of the fishy corpse from an unlit cigarette flowed into my mouth through the filter.

“It’s good. Cigarettes of the past.”

I thanked him as I drove away the smell of corpses in my mouth with nicotine-mixed smoke.

“It was hard to find.”

Baek Seung-hyun replied with a calm smile.

I wanted to ask how he got it, but he didn’t.

We stood side by side, smoking cigarettes, and watching Park Sang-min’s actions.

He shook hands with each supporter and hugged them as if he had come for a real campaign, not to subdue monsters.

Baek Seung-hyun looked at Park Sang-min with a sad face and exhaled white smoke.

“Have you been called too?”

“yes. I have my own connections.”

“okay. Are you still in the shelter?”

“no. I entered Incheon.”

“Ah, I’m from Incheon too. It’s on the Michuhol side.”

“This is Gyeyang.”

“Gyeyang?”

Baek Seung-hyun looked at me with startled eyes.

“I heard it was a complete war there. Didn’t the super-large bell slide in front of it?”

“At that time, we fled to the south.”

“okay. Was the house safe?”

“I have to check. I don’t think there’s anything to lose because there’s nothing to live for. Rather, what are you doing here?”

Naturally, the subject changed.

Baek Seung-hyun did not doubt my intentions.

Rather, he answered my question with a subtle smile, as if the new subject suited his taste.

“In a word, show.”

Baek Seung-hyun looked up at the sky.

Above the blue sky, a line of nonchalant clouds floated leisurely.

“Ms. Park, I want to be the human national representative, but I have nothing to present, so I am planning a show to vote at the Capitol. By the way, there is a capsule in the Capitol, what is it?”

“Remove the capsule to accumulate achievements?”

“That’s the story.”

“I heard it was a monster.”

“It is well known outside the country. It is a capsule.”

Seunghyun Baek stomped on the floor and spat.

He saw the embittered children nestled in the corners of the crowd.

“Maybe he didn’t even know he brought it.”

“That’s what a fanatic would do.”

“Are you going to do it?”

Baek Seung-hyun looked toward the Capitol.

“well.”

he chuckled.

Soon several vehicles arrived in front of the Capitol.

＜ The 9th Pioneer Group ＞

The flags flying in the cars told us what kind of people they were.

“I will just go. It wasn’t Park Sang-min who called it, it was because someone from the other side called it.”

Baek Seung-hyun had a connection with the Pioneer Corps.

It wasn’t just that they had connections, they were a complete team.

Next to bandit-like people in plain clothes, Baek Seung-hyun burst into a more sincere and hearty laugh than when he was out there.

“Then, Senator. I’m going to do some reconnaissance.”

After a while, Baek Seung-hyeon entered the Capitol with a group of pioneers.

While waiting for them to return, Park Sang-min approached.

“Hunter Park.”

“yes.”

“You seem to be acquainted with Back Hunter.”

“Because we’re from the same school.”

“Oh~.”

“Aren’t you a member of the school?”

I asked, knowing that it wasn’t.

“I am from the evaluator.”

“okay.”

“I’m about to start the operation soon.”

“Let’s listen to the briefing.”

I don’t really have the heart to suit Park Sang-min’s play.

What I was asked to do by Woo Min-hee was Yoo Se-ji, not the election.

So you just have to pretend.

Will all the people gathered here vote for Park Sang-min?

I don’t think so.

Not knowing what I was thinking, Park Sang-min innocently talked about his plan with a smile on his face.

“The plan is simple. Hunter Park and I enter the Capitol together. There is a capsule in the capitol. that’s handling it. It’s not at all difficult. To be honest, it is so easy that it cannot be compared to the days of Chairman Poong-Ho Je.”

“Mr. Do you have combat experience?”

I asked Park Sang-min.

Park Sang-min made a surprised expression and shook his head.

“I will not enter the battle.”

“why?”

“Park Hunter has to do it. I heard that you can defeat the capsule by yourself. It’s very easy too.”

I suddenly had doubts.

What kind of life should I live to be able to smile like that and force others to sacrifice as if it were natural?

“Park Hunter?”

He tilted his head and demanded my answer.

He sighed and replied.

“That is an old story. As for me now…”

It was time to make excuses and try to get away.

“It is for the people.”

Sangmin Park cut me off.

“yes?”

I don’t really want to show my feelings to this person, but when I just heard that, I revealed my true feelings without realizing it.

“What bullsh*t are you talking about?”

It was a pretty sharp word.

By the way, this person named Park Sang-min.

no shaking

“It’s not bullsh*t. It is for the people.”

In an instant, I felt a strong suspicion that the people he was talking about were a modified form of Park Sang-min’s first person “I”.

“No, what kind of people is that for? Isn’t that what you want to be elected, Senator?”

“Even that is for the people.”

“yes?”

“now······.”

Today seems to be a lucky day.

It’s because I saw that he didn’t have to be angry with Park Sang-min to keep his mouth shut somewhere else.

“I can’t do this!”

Baek Seung-hyun and the Pioneer Corps, who had entered the Capitol, rushed out.

The voice was so loud and ferocious that Park Sang-min and I both stopped talking for a moment and turned our heads toward it.

“It’s too dangerous. it’s a capsule I don’t know if there’s any hunter equipment, but don’t you have that too?”

It is Baek Seung-hyun’s voice.

he is yelling

I know this because I have talked with Baek Seung-hyun several times, but this is not a story I would say to a colleague next to me.

He is the type to speak quietly and in a small but clear voice, and he hardly ever cursed like he was from school.

“What are you doing with this? f*ck~~~! Are you going to follow me?”

In other words, Baek Seung-hyun is talking to Park Sang-min.

“Hunter equipment? Don’t you have one?”

The Pioneer Corps member next to me smiled and asked in the same loud voice.

Probably pre-arranged.

“The one I have now is for hunting mutants. i need something stronger I think it’s funny to see it as a capsule, but a capsule is not an egg. It’s a summoning beacon. If you don’t have close combat equipment, have you prepared a lot of diffused reflection bullets? Give me at least two shooters who can do intimidating. There are a lot of conditions attached.”

Baek Seung-hyun passed me by, gave me a meaningful look and closed one eye.

“To jump in without it means to die.”

A little confused.

When Seunghyun Baek showed up around my territory before, he only smelled like a predator, but here he’s helping me against Sangmin Park.

The Pioneer Corps member turned to us.

“But what if that person makes a claim?”

Even though Park Sang-min was right next to him, the pioneer member told him to listen.

Park Sang-min’s supporters behind him heard that and protested, but the Pioneer Corps members only laughed.

In the midst of that, Baek Seung-hyun struck the decisive blow.

“What is that worm off the string going to do?”

I saw Park Sang-min’s face.

The face of the man who shamelessly laughed and tried to drive me to death turned white.

“In the first place, he was a rookie without a single regional district. I’m going to sh*t The puppies who looked after them are also busy living their own lives, and they are puppies who don’t even have supporters in the first place. Look at the faces of the bastards gathered in the seat. that’s all That’s all the supporters that bastard has raked in his soul.”

Baek Seung-hyun turned around with a cigarette in his mouth.

Park Sang-min didn’t say anything.

As if enjoying the helpless reaction, the members of the Pioneer Corps followed Baek Seung-hyeon and spoke flatteringly.

“Baekhyung. Isn’t fact violence too much?”

“That’s right. I’m not trying to kill you with facts.”

Laughter followed, but there was nothing Park Sang-min could do.

I couldn’t even make a small protest.

That was the reality of that arrogant man.

Soon, a young man who seemed to be the leader of the pioneering group approached us.

“Ah, Senator.”

A sloppy attitude and a defiant look that showed no respect.

“Our Hunter said he couldn’t do it. We need more support.”

I saw Park Sang-min’s face.

Although he deliberately maintains an expressionless expression, it seems that his will cannot hide the reddening of his face.

“······Just go.”

Park Sang-min said in a suppressed voice.

The Pioneer Corps man didn’t even answer and turned around right away.

“hey. work is over let’s go!”

Several vehicles competed to start.

burrureung-

The crude flag waved fleetingly under the throb of the engines.

Baek Seung-hyun, wearing a German army helmet and goggles, drove a vintage motorcycle like his trademark and approached us.

“Hunter Park!”

“yes.”

“Do you have a personal identification number? Let’s have a drink later.”

“no. I don’t have a personal identification number.”

“Wasn’t there?”

“There was, but it’s gone. In the meantime, something like this has happened.”

In the meantime, Park Sang-min looked at me with strange eyes, but that expression was only for a moment.

“is that so? That’s too bad.”

“What is that?”

“Me?”

“yes. Baek’s identification number. I wanted to contact you later if I ever get an identification number.”

As far as I know, Baek Seung-hyun, unlike me, was not given a personal identification number.

It seems to be there now.

If you look at the emphasis on being proud like that.

So I expected him to answer.

Unsurprisingly, Baek Seung-hyun answered brightly with a smile on his face like an adult but at the same time like a child.

“This is DARAM.”

“Daram?”

“Oh, because I like squirrels.”

“yes?”

I looked up and glared at him.

Baek Seung-hyun looked at my expression and immediately replied with a smile on his lips.

“… Actually, I got it from Daram Kim Hunter.”

It’s a lie.

Why would that possessive woman hand it over to you?

“Oh, I see.”

“Let’s have a drink next time. Did you say gyeyang? I’ll see you when the time comes.”

There are many things I want to ask, but it is true that he has more friends than I do.

That’s a dozen or so friends with guns.

Still, I wanted to check one thing.

“Commissioner Daram Kim. Do you know any news?”

He looked straight ahead and asked.

“well.”

Baek Seung-hyun moved the accelerator and made a loud engine sound.

“I’ve heard that he went to the legionnaires.”

he stared at me

“You bet wrong.”

Is it really so?

Daram Kim is a smart woman.

No one around me is as smart as her.

I’m pretty sure she’s not dead.

The motorcycle carrying Baek Seung-hyun left with a roar.

Park Sang-min approached me with an awkward smile.

“hahahaha······. Hunter Park.”

Now it seems that the only thing he can rely on is me.

I lost so many supporters, power, and aides who showed off their loyalty by grabbing me by the collar.

All that remains is a handful of helpless supporters.

“Park Sang-min fighting!”

When one woman ignorantly shouted a cheering slogan, the rest of the women followed suit.

“Park Sang-min fighting!”

“Chief Park, do your best!”

“U.U.P.Boo Park Sang-min!”

Mixing in buzzwords I can’t even remember when.

“…”

Rather than being hot, Park Sang-min stood in front of me wearing lukewarm support.

“Hunter Park.”

“Sorry, but I have no intention of taking any risks.”

I intend to leave with Tyler in a good way.

It’s unlikely that this man will give you a ride anyway, so you’ll have to wait for the people from Minhee Woo’s side to come.

But Park Sang-min is my friend.

He didn’t do it with Baek Seung-hyun, but he seems to be sloppy with me.

He looked at the supporters behind him and started talking in a low voice.

“When I was president Je Poong-ho, I was really wrong. It’s because I’m not from school and my networking pool is narrow. I didn’t recognize a great person like Park Hunter.”

“I am not the same as before. More than four years have passed since I was on the battlefield. Then excuse me.”

The day I was about to leave, he stopped me.

“How could it not be for the people?”

“yes?”

this person.

“For the people.”

Why are you doing this?

“I beg you, can’t you just go all the way to the Capitol together?”

He pretended to be conscious of the back.

Not even a handful of supporters were staring at his back.

“It’s not possible.”

Park Sang-min suddenly cried like a punished child.

“My mother is here too…”

A middle-aged woman in the crowd shouted in a sharp voice.

“Sangmin! Stop it and come here!”

Park Sang-min was the one who bowed his head too much earlier.

This person seems to be Park Sang-min’s mother.

“Come!”

It’s very unfortunate, but our intrepid defender of the constitution, Rep. Park Sang-min, never returned to his mother’s arms.