The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 45
Episode 45: Deserter (3)
An old building standing in a corner of Gangwon-do.
In a room in a building where all traces of normal times have disappeared.
A man was fiddling with a firearm.
A man cleaning a firearm with an oily cloth.
at that time.
Someone opened the door and entered the room the man was in.
“I’m here.”
“Is Jinyoung here?”
The two seem to be friendly.
We saw each other and briefly exchanged greetings. What
‘s a little special about it
is that they’re both wearing military uniforms.
“How is business going?”
“I hit the ball today too.”
“…Tsk.”
“It’s going to be difficult to be active around here.”
A man entered the room.
Jinyoung put his gun in a corner and continued talking.
“I think there were rumors.”
“What rumor?”
“What? “There are rumors that there are deserters here.”
“…hey. “Should we call ourselves deserters?”
“It’s not wrong, so what? “If you’re going to care about that, you shouldn’t have jumped in the first place.”
“greatness.”
Jinyoung put down his gun and sat down on the old sofa.
And he continued speaking with a serious expression.
“I heard a rumor that a large group of survivors was forming, so it was nice to settle down on this side of the road leading there. “I overlooked that there might be rumors about us.”
“It’s hard to move around because of monsters and zombies, so why are rumors spreading so quickly?”
“Anyway, things turned out like shit. Shit. The slave died not too long ago. “I was going to drag one of the survivors I met next.”
“So, let’s not bother killing him, I…”
“Ah! “Did I know that the survivors would suddenly stop coming?”
At Jinyoung’s shout.
There was a moment of silence between the two.
After a while.
The man who was working on the gun opened his mouth.
“hey.”
“Oh, I apologized last time, saying I was sorry for killing the slave.”
“Not that one, man.”
“ok?”
A man opens his mouth with a tired expression.
“You said there was no one coming near you because of the rumor, right?”
“uh. “It’s a very shitty situation.”
“Then… how about you stop doing this?”
“what?”
What a colleague said.
Jinyoung wondered if he had heard wrong.
“We can’t just plunder like this forever. We’ll have guns too. “It’s like a mountain with no people in it, but if you just lock yourself in, grab a suitable piece of land, and farm… then you can make a living, right?”
I guess I didn’t hear it wrong.
Jinyoung couldn’t help but be dazed for a moment.
After a while.
Jinyoung let out a laugh and said.
“hey. Are you crazy?”
“what.”
“Ha… this bastard with a flower garden on its head.”
Jinyoung scratches his head in frustration.
“gun? It’s good. Thanks to that, we are making a living. But you know that too. “How loud is the gunshot?”
“….”
“Let’s farm in the mountains? And what if a monster comes?”
“If you kill some monsters with a gun…”
“Let’s say you catch one with a gun. “What are you going to do with the monsters that come after hearing that gunshot?”
“that.”
“Have you already forgotten? “Those monsters that flocked to the unit.”
Even though Jinyoung said these words out of his own mouth.
He felt goosebumps forming on his skin.
A story from just a month or two ago.
Monsters suddenly invaded their normal unit.
Most of the unit members were killed in the sudden attack.
The survivors took up arms and resisted.
‘It didn’t work at all.’
Connection with the outside world was also lost.
If things continued as they were, it would have been obvious that we would have been wiped out.
When the unit members became confused and attempted a sit-in protest in the building.
Some soldiers, including Jinyoung…
had different thoughts.
After securing as many bullets as possible.
He stole a car and escaped through the siege of monsters.
‘Honestly, I almost fell, but… I was lucky. Even if I were there, dying would have been the same.’
Among the comrades who escaped with Jinyoung, less than half survived.
By their escape, the defense in the direction where Jinyoung and his colleagues were guarding would have been completely breached.
It would have been a unit that would have been wiped out soon anyway.
The speed may have been accelerated considerably.
But Jinyoung thought.
‘So what? Even if it wasn’t me, someone would have tried to run away.’
In that case, what was wrong with running away first?
He has already stabbed other unit members in the back.
They had nothing to worry about anymore.
“When monsters flock like they did back then, there is no answer. Doing something that stands out like farming is considered suicidal. Compared to that…”
Jinyoung says with a grin.
“How comfortable are you dealing with humans?”
When you fire a gun, monsters flock to you due to the noise.
but.
“There’s no need to shoot at humans.”
This is different from zombie monsters that will attack you regardless of whether you show them your gun.
gun.
The most representative symbol of power in the 21st century.
Its power is already firmly engraved in the minds of humans.
Just pointing a gun and threatening was enough.
Survivors who lower their heads and spit out things.
The same is true even if there are people with superpowers who have recently begun to appear among humans.
Super powers and all.
Because if you get a hole in your body, you die.
“At least we need to secure enough supplies to last until this situation is resolved. Before that, I couldn’t stop doing this even if I was defeated. “If you don’t like it, don’t ruin the mood and go out alone, you idiot.”
“…no.”
Let’s growl and say.
The man who was cleaning his firearm answered.
“I thought wrong. “It’s as if we’ve already killed the unit members, so there’s no reason to worry about conscience now.”
“Good idea, man. under. “I suddenly wondered if this guy had eaten something wrong.”
“Oh, you’re so scary that I said something wrong.”
“I was sorry. Are you done?”
The conversation ended well thanks to Jinyoung’s persuasion.
Jinyoung, who was actually involved, thought differently.
‘This guy still seems a little shaken up.’
One of my colleagues was pricked by his conscience and left.
That doesn’t matter.
The problem is guns and bullets.
If even a part of it is taken, it could be a big problem.
These items are like their lifeline.
Jinyoung thought for a moment and then made a decision.
‘There’s a risk of him escaping, so it would be better to kill him before he does.’
This is a colleague who sometimes appears shaken even in normal times.
If you use that as an excuse to drive them away and then kill them.
I’m sure other colleagues will understand to some extent.
That was when I was thinking about that.
“hey. “I’m sorry we’re in the middle of a conversation.”
A colleague who was watching from the balcony of the building said.
“excuse me. “Someone is coming.”
“what?”
I was just saying that it seemed like a rumor had started a little while ago.
And yet, there are survivors coming to this area.
“Are they the ones who didn’t hear the rumor?”
“Maybe they just came here from another region.”
however.
“Tsk tsk. “It doesn’t matter either way.”
Even so, business has been slow recently.
On the contrary, isn’t that a good thing?
“This time, let’s get a few people who can be used as slaves.”
“no. for a moment.”
“huh?”
“If you look closely. “Something is strange.”
A colleague who was scouting with a telescope frowned and said.
“You look like a soldier.”
“what?”
Jinyoung took the telescope from his colleague and held it to his eye.
OK.
I saw men in military uniforms walking from afar.
“It’s real, right?”
“I don’t think they are from our unit. “It was a face I’d never seen before.”
“Maybe they’re deserters like us.”
“If there are soldiers over there too, it would be better to just let them go.”
Colleagues in the camp also seemed to recognize the uniform.
If he was a fellow deserter, he would have a gun, so threatening him would not work.
Colleagues reacted with excitement.
but.
“no.”
Jinyoung’s thoughts were different.
“Look Carefully. Those guys. “You don’t have a gun.”
“hmm?”
As he said.
The group of people wearing military uniforms were holding things like hammers and swords.
No one had a gun.
“Really? “They’re soldiers, but they don’t have guns.”
“They must have been the ones who happened to go out and survive the monsters or something like that.”
“Then…”
“What are you hesitating about?”
Jinyoung said while holding his K2 rifle that was standing in the corner of the room.
“You guys are only making moderate threats here.”
“Are you going?”
“Before I deserted, I was the youngest. “I have to go.”
He put K2 on his shoulder and went down from the building.
Come out to the entrance of the building.
I saw people approaching from afar.
Personnel in military uniform approaching without knowing anything.
Jinyoung shouted at them.
“You guys over there!”
“…?”
“If you have anything. “Leave everything behind.”
* * *
‘What is this again?’
When survivors first came out of the building, I wondered what was going on.
But the military uniform I’m wearing.
A gun being held shakily.
Even the last words he said directly.
“He looks like the deserter the survivors I met earlier mentioned.”
“It’s been so long since I found out about your existence that I meet you like this.”
A deserter looking at us with a confident expression.
I fell into trouble as I looked at his face.
‘how will we do it.’
There is no option to just ignore it and pass by.
It looks like they also want the supplies we have.
furthermore.
These are the people who thought they should be resolved as quickly as possible.
“Minjae hyung.”
“What’s going on?”
“we. “Can you win against soldiers with guns?”
“hmm. “It’s a topic worth thinking about.”
When trying to escape from the mountain range.
I have experienced bullets from soldiers who have become zombies.
According to the soldier who was shot, it hurt to the point of death.
But our military uniforms are not ordinary items either.
Although the impact remained, it did not penetrate.
I don’t know if those guys are awakened shooters, but…
it doesn’t seem that way.
“hmm. “I think it depends on the situation.”
“For example.”
“If the soldiers were strengthening their defenses with sufficient visibility and distance, like when we defend a unit, it would be difficult to break through.”
“Then one person faces the front. What if the rest of the people are in a building within 100m?”
“Are you asking because you don’t know?”
Minjae answered while laughing.
“The range of a gun is also reduced inside a building.”
“hmm.”
“On the other hand, our soldiers can close a considerable distance in an instant.”
“Just to conclude?”
“A landslide victory is expected.”
What?
I thought so too.
“Okay, did everyone hear that?”
“““Yes!”””
“Let’s all take out our combat rations.”
Soldiers immediately take out combat rations.
The deserter who was watching us said as if he was dumbfounded.
“Hey guys.”
“I will subdue the guy in front. The rest enter the building. “Lieutenant Kim, please give me the signal.”
“What are you suddenly pulling out?”
“One, two….”
“What?”
Did you think we would be scared if you showed us the gun?
[All abilities slightly increase-.]
This guy is watching blankly even though he is eating openly.
“three!”
towards him.
My soldiers and I rushed in.
“What!?”
The embarrassed deserter finally grabbed his gun.
The gun was meant to be pointed at us…
in the first place.
It was too close.
“Ugh…!”
“If you were threatening someone with a gun, you should have kept your distance.”
If it were ordinary people, they would not have had the option of rushing in and subduing an opponent holding a gun.
But here, everyone is an awakened person.
Now my cooking and Lieutenant Kim’s command overlap.
It was as if there was no distance at all.
After knocking the guy’s gun away.
The guy himself was subdued by throwing him to the floor.
“Let go, you bitch!”
“Uh huh. Calm down. mister.”
The deserters also seemed to be putting up some resistance.
Wow.
“What kind of power…?”
The physical abilities of awakened people far exceed those of ordinary people.
Enough to easily subdue an adult male, even in a non-combat position.
“Are you calming down?”
“Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk… you. “I guess he’s a psychic who’s been showing up lately.”
“huh?”
Instead of calming down, the guy on the floor did nothing.
Instead, he glanced in my direction and grinned.
“okay. “I suddenly gained such strength, so it’s no wonder I gained confidence.”
“What do you want to say?”
“You’ll be fine though. “What about your colleagues?”
While I was suppressing the deserter in front of me.
The remaining soldiers entered the building.
“There are close to 10 of my colleagues in the building. “Everyone is armed with guns.”
“hmm.”
“Everyone must have seen that I was subdued, so they will all be on guard.”
This guy is giggling while rubbing his face on the floor.
“I don’t know what will happen to a superpower like you, but will the people who entered the building be safe?”
ah.
I was wondering what you wanted to say.
“That was all?”
It was then.
-Those bastards overpowered Jinyoung.
-crazy. Kill it!
A building where deserters appear to be staying.
A deserter on the balcony of the building pointed his gun at us.
“Hehe… Your comrades will never die easily. Especially you. I will put special effort into tormenting you…”
“Minjae hyung.”
Ignore the guy who is talking nonsense.
I looked at Minjae.
“What are you doing? “I’m not suppressing you.”
“I was just about to leave.”
After hearing what I said, Minjae’s finger pointed towards the sky.
A finger points towards the deserter on the balcony.
“One hundred thousand volts.”
Puzzle!
-Cough, big….
Blue electricity erupts with a playful word.
A deserter who had been hit directly by the lightning was seen losing consciousness and collapsing.
The gun he was holding also fell to the floor.
“what…?”
Eyes shaking as if embarrassed.
But that wasn’t everything.
Shouting coming from inside the building.
-Is it okay to shoot? Monsters will come…
-You idiot! Now is the time to argue about that.
-crazy. Are they all psychic?
Most of them.
It was filled with the screams of deserters.
“hmm. “It looks like it’s been roughly sorted out.”
“….”
“ah. mister. “What did you say earlier? I was busy so I didn’t hear it.”
More than 10 deserters.
It took less than 5 minutes to subdue them.