Chapter 32: Preliminary investigation.

“Isn’t someone like me enough?”

Even though I have little sense of belonging and no affection, I know that I don’t have the authority to arbitrarily accept outsiders whom I don’t even know.

Well? We don’t really have the leeway to accept new people…”

There are broadly two types of people who have survived so far.

The reason why I subtly drop these words to her, even though I know that the answer will not be clearly determined.

‘People who have been living like hothouse flowers so far by luck, and people who have tenaciously survived outside.’

It’s not to enter that group, but just a step to confirm how serious the situation inside is and how rotten it is.

I think I belong to the latter.”

If the inside is solid, they wouldn’t openly accept newcomers who might become risk factors.

What do you think personally?

I can go back, report, and get an answer.”

They may be a disaster for them, or just a fleeting connection.

“Four days later, I’ll send a message from around here. I’ll tell you the exact location then, and the radio frequency will be the same as it is now.”

My existence as a mutant, ‘I,’ was not revealed, and rather it could be an opportunity to know the situation within that group, so I willingly decided to send her away.

Is it really okay to go like this?”

‘Well, I have nothing to lose. Unless they betray me first.’

Whatever the situation, from their point of view, I am alone and can look weak enough.

If they have other thoughts in a bad way, I don’t know how I’ll be defeated, so I need some kind of insurance.

‘Chijijik, chick!’

The walkie-talkie I gave her works without problems and the battery is full.

The location will be a new place that I designate through the radio after I have identified the people first, so the risk of being ambushed is reduced.

Thank you again for saving me, come to think of it, we didn’t even introduce ourselves.

Above all, I will not follow them no matter what decision they make.

My name is Lee Yaeun, what’s yours?

Now, if I don’t have to hide my existence unconditionally…

‘My name is…

To the survivors, the existence of ‘I’ is a key to a possible vaccine and an uncontrollable fear, a threat.

If you look at it accurately, I can’t completely control the zombies as I please yet, but with just the abilities I have now, I can only be seen as a dangerous species that is incomparable to ordinary zombies.

In addition, the intelligence that no other zombie has, I have the memories of my past life, the memories before I woke up in this body, and act accordingly.

Thanks to the degraded intelligence of zombies, the appearance of zombies with intelligence is nothing more than the first button of the apocalypse for the survivors who have barely survived.

It may be a new glimmer of hope for them that I am a zombie, but not a completely hostile neutral position, but that is an attitude that can eventually be reversed at any time.

Of course, I want to remain human, and if possible, I want to go back to the way I was.

The situation is close to impossible, but if there is even a glimmer of possibility, I will never give up.

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The most unique and heterogeneous being that can be seen in a zombified state.

If this is a game-like world, and everything is just a fabrication or a bad joke of someone close to God, there will definitely be an end to it.

In order to reach that end, I need as much information as possible about this world and me.

To that end, even if I am just a zombie, or even using the fact that I am a zombie to the fullest, I will run towards the end.

If there is someone who interferes with that process, if I am placed in a choice where I have to give up humanity in that process…

I won’t hesitate…

Absolutely….

After writing it several times, I gradually feel this sensation naturally.

The decreasing number of zombies and the heterogeneous sensation at the end.

“Release.”

I stopped using the Presence Detection skill and started tracking her again.

I released the scout, Lee Yaeun, and am secretly stalking her.

I already know the location of the main force, Yaeun’s survivor base, and the former military unit, and there is no need to stalk her, but

Apart from knowing the location, it is important to grasp their level.

With Captain Kang Jiseok, the representative of the remnant soldiers who barely maintained their lineage after most of the troops were killed, and the civic representative, Park Byeongsik, the former district head, who replenished supplies and manpower,

These two factions are still in a subtle war of nerves, but no matter how toothless the tiger is, the military faction, which is still overwhelmingly armed with firepower, dominates the atmosphere and creates a relatively orderly environment, and I heard that the situation is maintained without much internal conflict in a direction that is generally satisfactory.

In the past, there were times when they unconditionally rescued and evacuated citizens and carried out their natural activities as their main business, but amid internal conflicts and shortages of supplies due to the prolonged situation, an ‘accident’ broke out, and many soldiers, including the lieutenant colonel, the highest commander of the unit at the time, died. Afterward, Captain Kang Jiseok, who automatically inherited the command and became the chief commander, changed the unit’s operation by 180 degrees, resulting in the current situation.

It is said that this happened.

It’s not as bad as the warehouse gang that I eliminated before, but it’s the same in that you are discriminated against based on your ability.

Of course, the few soldiers who continue their lineage are treated with the highest respect, and among the citizens, those with skills such as technicians and farmers who help with long-term survival and future unit operations are also treated at the highest level,

People who are healthy and can work without any special abilities are treated fairly well, and the weak who have no ability or labor are rejected.

However, even those people are not completely rejected, and they maintain a minimum level of treatment and clearly adhere to the line that should not be crossed as a human being, so they have kept the last faith as soldiers.

Of course, there are people like Yaeun who can’t stand that treatment and go out directly to take care of even a little more of their share, so you can roughly infer the internal situation to some extent.

Presence detection.

I keep a distance as much as possible to avoid being detected, and track her by checking her location through skills from time to time.

As I use it, I realize that since it is not a unique skill, even if I identify the location of the survivor ‘Yaeun’ or the zombies located in various places, I do not receive experience points.

Still, I am satisfied enough with the skill, which is almost a scam, and there are almost no usage restrictions or usage penalties.

“Ah, it’s going to be dangerous from here.”

I have already left the city center and am heading towards the military unit located in the outskirts of the mountains.

The number of artificial structures is decreasing, and instead, there are natural shelters such as trees and rocks, but in the detection skill, other survivors besides Yaeun are starting to appear.

Release.

I hide my body and carefully check, and it seems to be the people patrolling near the military unit.

People presumed to be citizens or reservists armed with K-2 or M16 rifles, they also have considerable firepower.

“Ha, crazy?…”

Barriers and entrances guarded by soldiers armed with digital camouflage military uniforms and bulletproof helmets, K2C1 rifles, and K-3 and K-6 machine guns,

Absolutely… a frontal breakthrough with that firepower is suicide.

There is no dog hole in the military facility…”

It is clearly different from the warehouse gang.

There is no outer wall to sneak in, and rather the barbed wire fence is reinforced.

It’s literally impregnable, nothing more than a complete fortress.

If the warehouse gang and the remnants of the church are neighborhood thugs, this side is a regular army… no, it was a regular army in the first place.

The only weakness for them is the continuous supply problem to protect those many people and the large military unit.

In the trade that will take place in four days, I must dig into this point as much as possible.

No matter how good they are, they can’t easily give up the numerous food supplies in the city and the military supplies such as ammunition left by the warehouse gang.

Whatever the process, I just need to achieve my purpose.

So far, there is no particular reason or justification to attack them.

So please let them…

Don’t provoke me.