Episode 3 Moving (2)
The first feeling I had when I saw the person was joy.
Because I woke up and didn’t see anyone.
Kang Min ran straight to that person. But he soon stopped.
‘Strange.’
Only then did Kangmin look around. Although it was not a large place, it was a two-lane road with cars on it.
Cars that would normally come and go were stopped. It didn’t just stop.
‘Has there been an earthquake?’
The 10-vehicle collision involved cars colliding to a comical degree. Some vehicles entered the sidewalk and crashed into a fast food restaurant.
‘Oh my god, is there really a war?’
I couldn’t even imagine what would have to happen for this to happen.
I tried turning on my cell phone, but there was no communication. The only things that worked were the ones saved on the phone.
Kangmin looked ahead.
‘Wouldn’t that person know why?’
Kangmin quickly walked towards the person in front of him.
Then it stopped again about 5 meters away. A strange feeling stopped Kangmin. Something was strange.
‘why… ‘Is that what you’re doing?’
The person in front didn’t move. It seemed like it was moving little by little, but there was something very strange about the movement.
It stumbled and moved forward little by little. At first glance, she looked like a drunk person, but she was strangely different from that.
Kangmin looked around and picked up an iron pipe rolling on the road.
‘Just in case, let’s be a little careful.’
Kang Min carefully approached the person, hiding the iron pipe behind him.
‘huh?’
As I got closer, I could clearly see the person in front of me.
The person in front was wearing a suit, but it was torn here and there. Moreover, there was blood all over his body.
‘Are you homeless? no. Even homeless people aren’t like this.’
It felt cheap. She even thought about just going back like this.
‘No, if I’m not this person now, I don’t know when I’ll meet another person.’
Kangmin opened his mouth, tightly holding the iron pipe hidden behind his back with his right hand.
“hey.”
The person in front of him stopped at Kangmin’s words. But he didn’t look back.
Kangmin spoke a little louder, wondering if he could have heard.
“I… “Can I ask you something?”
It was only then that the person in front of him started to move, probably because he heard Kang Min’s loud voice. The man slowly turned around, staggering his body as if he was having trouble with his feet.
‘Fuck, what is this!’
Kangmin’s eyes got so big that they seemed like they were going to pop out.
The first thing that caught my eye was the man’s face. The man had the skin around his mouth and cheeks torn off. Every bone inside him was visible.
Kangmin automatically took a step back.
As I took a step back, I saw a ship. The man’s stomach was empty. What appeared to be traces of intestines were hanging, but they were all rotted and had flies attached to them.
“what… what!”
Surprised, Kangmin took a step back. Then the man took a step forward with more force than before. and.
“Kaaaaang!”
He opened his teeth wide and shouted. Stretching out my arm to catch Kangmin was a bonus.
Every cell in Kangmin’s body stood on edge.
“Fuck!”
Without realizing it, Kang Min hit the person in front of him with all his might with an iron pipe.
– Pow!
The head of the person in front went in slightly. The person in front stopped but ran again.
Kangmin stepped back. But he couldn’t retreat further because there was a bus behind him.
‘Is that a person?’
It couldn’t have been a person. With his face torn off and his internal organs missing, there was no way anyone could survive.
As far as Kangmin knew, there was only one being that could do that.
‘zombie?’
It made no sense, but there was no other way to explain the current situation.
“Kaaaaang!”
Before I knew it, a zombie came running and attacked me. Without hesitation, Kangmin hit the iron pipe again.
– Pak.
My head sunken further.
Still, when the zombie opened its mouth again and rushed at him, Kang Min stuck the iron pipe into the zombie’s mouth.
“Aaaah!”
Kangmin screamed and pushed the zombie in that state. The zombie couldn’t overcome Kangmin’s strength and was pushed back.
“die!”
Kangmin pushed the zombie and smashed it into the back of the SUV. The iron pipe pierced the zombie’s neck and pierced the back window of the SUV.
“omg… omg… … .”
Kangmin let out a rough breath and quickly stepped back.
The zombie stretched out its hand towards Kangmin and then immediately lowered its arm. He also bowed his head.
“Huh, huh… porridge… Are you dead?”
He wanted to check, but he was afraid he might attack again, so Kangmin stayed away and observed.
“He’s dead, right?”
The zombie didn’t move. Instead, something like smoke came out of the zombie’s body and was sucked into Kangmin’s left arm.
“Ahh!”
The tattoo on my left arm glowed and was painful. It felt like her bones were breaking.
After a while, the pain disappeared, but a blue window appeared in front of my eyes and a message appeared inside it.
Kangmin’s entire body glowed. It was a light that no one else could see, but only Kangmin could see.
‘what? Qualification? Awakening?’
Kangmin was out of his mind.
The pain came and went, and when words like zombie, message window, qualification, and awakening appeared, I had no idea what they were.
‘Am I still dreaming?’
If it was a dream, it was a terrible nightmare. I wanted to wake up quickly from my dream.
-Slap.
Kangmin slapped his cheek. It was so painful that I cried.
“Oh my god, is this real? You woke up to find yourself in a world full of zombies? “Is this American drama?”
If it really was like a zombie drama, it would be the worst. I really wanted to cry about how I should live from now on.
As if someone knew what Kangmin was thinking, the message appeared again.
I was a little embarrassed, but now it was all over. I could do anything as long as I could survive.
When Kangmin pressed the YES button, a message appeared.
– Start moving to the ‘parallel world’.
– The move to the ‘parallel world’ has been completed.
– You can return to the ‘original world’ after 7 days.
– This is the first world line movement. Prepare for shock and return in 7 hours. From then on, the normal 7-day period applies.
– You have acquired the ‘Language (S)’ skill as your first awakening reward.
– You can use the status window.
Kangmin, who saw the message, stood blankly with his mouth wide open.
* * *
It was about 20 minutes later that Kangmin came to his senses.
Kangmin opened his hands. When he killed a zombie, he was so distracted that he didn’t realize it, but some of his skin was peeled off.
That was how tightly he was holding on to the iron pipe.
“It hurts.”
A drop of blood fell from the peeled skin to the ground.
As expected, it wasn’t a dream.
‘I wish it were a dream.’
Kangmin looked at the back of his left hand. There was a red tattoo in the shape of a red flower. At first he thought there was something on it, but it wasn’t.
‘What on earth happened to me? I just fell asleep with the ring on.’
Kangmin thought, oh no. When I looked at his left hand, I saw that the tattoo started on the middle finger of his left hand. It was there that he put his ring.
‘Is it because of that ring?’
The history of the ring that his father had told him about came to Kangmin’s mind.
‘really? ‘Is this a ring given by a immortal?’
I didn’t know the truth, but I had a strong feeling that this phenomenon was related to the ring.
‘Let’s think slowly and calmly. They say that even if you go into a tiger’s den, you will survive as long as you come to your senses. If you solve it one by one, there will be a way. First, you said you could call up the status window, right?’
Kang Min sang ‘Sangtae Chang’. Then a blue window appeared in front of me again.
1. Name: Choi Kang-min.
2. Skill (1/3)
– Language (S) (LV. 1)
* Irregular information
1. Power
– World Line Movement (SSS) (LV. 1)
– Weight limit: 10kg.
– Cool time: 5 hours 48 minutes (temporary)
2. Points held: 1
The status window was simple. Only the name and skills appeared.
Anyone who had played the game even a little bit would recognize it right away.
However, there was something faintly called ‘Irregular Information’ underneath it. It felt like they were showing me information that wasn’t supposed to be there.
Kangmin looked closely at each thing that appeared in the status window. Like a game, if you click on the message for a few seconds, a detailed explanation window appears.
The first thing I looked at was ‘world line movement’.
‘So, you can move around the world every 7 days, and there is a 10kg limit on the weight you can bring with you when moving? Moreover, you can use points to raise the world line level.’
It was easy to understand because it felt like a game. It was just hard to believe.
Kangmin shook his head and looked at the next skill.
– Language (S): Can interpret and speak all existing languages.
In normal society, this would have been an unbelievable ability. However, in a world full of zombies, there was no such useless ability.
‘Is the skill bad?’
Even though he thought it was a disaster, the smile did not leave Kangmin’s mouth.
‘If I can really go back to the world I lived in, it’s not a failure, it’s an incredible ability.’
Only then did Kang Min realize that he had now taken a huge opportunity.
‘If only I could go back home.’
Kangmin took out the wallet he had picked up earlier from his pocket.
‘Didn’t I just say that the person I killed was a zombie? Then everything makes sense. ‘The streets are broken and there are no people.’
Kangmin took out a bill from his wallet.
‘Then all the money and jewels on this street are unclaimed. It means that the person who picks it up is the owner.’
It would be crazy good if there were no zombies.
Kangmin stuffed the bills into his pocket and threw away his wallet.
‘Is there about 5 hours and 40 minutes of cooldown remaining?’
When I found out everything, I became impatient. He had to save as much money as possible in the meantime.
I didn’t know if there might be zombies, but I couldn’t miss this opportunity.
‘If I go back to reality like this and my house is taken away, I won’t be able to live even if I survive. Even if it means taking risks, I have to take the money back with me.’
Kang-min approached the dead zombie and pulled out the iron pipe. A dead zombie fell to the floor.
Kangmin held the iron pipe tightly and made a promise.
‘Never miss this opportunity!’
Kangmin left. And about 3 hours later, several people showed up.
* * *
All the new people who appeared were holding iron pipes, knives, and axes in their hands.
Among them, the one with the ax was very large, and he approached the zombie lying on the ground.
“Chief, this zombie looks like it’s been dead for a while.”
When a zombie dies, it turns to dust about 24 hours later. It turned to dust without even leaving any bones.
The bones left on the streets were people who had been eaten and died to the point where they could not become zombies.
“time is?”
asked a person with a motorcycle helmet on his head. His voice was so raspy that I couldn’t tell if it was male or female.
“Looking at the level of dust, it takes approximately 2 to 3 hours.”
The zombie’s face has already cracked and part of it has turned into dust and disappeared.
The leader approached the zombie and flipped it over with his foot. The leader said after seeing the hole in the back of the neck.
“It went from my mouth to the back of my throat. With this strength, you are a man. Or maybe he was awakened to the strength class, or the weapon looks roughly like an iron pipe… … .”
Everyone had serious expressions upon hearing the leader’s words.
Sammy, a woman in the group with shoulder-length hair, approached and asked.
“Is this the guy the guard was talking about?”
“Maybe so, maybe not.”
“What are you going to do?”
Hearing Sammy’s words, the leader looked at the path Kangmin took and said.
“I have to go. This is our land. “We can’t leave danger behind!”
When the leader made a decision, everyone held on tightly to their weapons.
“Sammy, where are you?”
At the leader’s words, Sammy looked at the blood on the floor, touched it with his hand, and closed his eyes.
Sammy opened his eyes after a moment and pointed to one side.
“Over there.”
That was the direction Kang Min went. They moved in that direction.
About 5 minutes after they left, a person appeared. It was a man with yellow hair.
“Hoo, I guess there’s someone else who came in besides me? Giggle, this must be fun! “The more food, the better!”
* * *
Kang Min first picked up bills from his wallet lying on the side of the road. He went into stores such as restaurants and convenience stores and opened cash lockers to obtain cash.
After doing that for about two hours, Kangmin realized that he had done something stupid.
“I can just rob the gold and silver room, right?”
Banknotes were bulky and difficult to carry in large quantities. Instead, gold was different. Even just one gold coin was worth a lot of money.
Kangmin took out a bag from the sports store, put it on his back, filled it with all the bills he had earned, and headed to the gold and silver room.
“This is Shincheonji!”
The cabinets and floor of the gold and silver room were filled with all kinds of precious metals.
I haven’t encountered any of the zombies I was worried about since.
Kang Min swept all the items in the gold and silver room into a bag. He didn’t even put in half of it, but the bag was full.
Kang Min even carried precious metals in his pants pockets and wore an expensive-looking watch on his wrist.
‘It can’t be over 10 kg, right?’
I tried lifting the backpack, but it didn’t seem to go over.
“Kkkkkk.”
The weight of the heavy bag made Kangmin feel excited. It felt like I was flying.
Kang Min carried his bag tightly and left the Geumeun Room. But I heard a human voice from somewhere.
‘person? ‘Are you a zombie?’
Kangmin quickly leaned down and looked in the direction where the voice came from. I saw people there holding swords, axes, and iron pipes.
‘I’m not a zombie.’
They were talking. I met someone I really wanted to meet, but for some reason I felt reluctant.
The atmosphere was scary from the start.
‘Let’s be quiet and then go back to the real world. There’s no need to meet them now.’
Nothing else mattered. What was important was the cash and jewelry in the bag behind his back.
‘Please go somewhere else.’
Kangmin didn’t want to run into them, so he hid quietly. But they were coming exactly to where Kang Min was.
‘I can’t help it. ‘Run away.’
Kang-min left the Geum-eun Room and started running.
If you don’t know anything else, this was the neighborhood where Kang Min lived his whole life. Moreover, because he ran every day, he knew the side roads better than anyone else.
“There it is. catch!”
“You rat!”
I heard a voice swearing at Kangmin from behind.
“stop!”
Kangmin started running faster.
‘If it were you, would you stop if I were running towards you with a knife?!”
Kang Min ran away in a panic. He even threw an iron pipe as it was a hindrance to his running.
Kang Min entered the alley and jumped between houses using a shortcut that only he knew.
At this level, no ordinary person could chase him. But they were different.
‘How are you following me?’
Enemies chased after him like ghosts. It felt like he had a tracker attached to his body.
‘But it’s over now!’
I saw my own house. Once he entered the house, there was no way he could find Kang-min among the many houses.
When I looked back, I didn’t see them yet.
‘bye!’
Kangmin carefully opened the door and entered the house.
‘You’ll be okay now, right?’
But Kangmin’s thoughts soon collapsed.
“This is the house.”
A woman’s voice was heard along with people’s footsteps behind the gate.
‘How did you find it!’
I locked the gate, but it didn’t seem like it would last long.
“The door is locked!”
“Come out, I’ll do it!”
– Boom!
The gate behind me shook and made a loud noise.
“You crazy bastards! “Why are you doing this!”
A man holding an ax shouted at Kang Min’s voice.
“You know better! “You spy.”
– Boom!
The door shook again and there was a cracking sound.
“I’m not a spy!”
“Everyone says that.”
It seemed like the gate wouldn’t last long.
“Fuck!”
Kangmin ran into the master bedroom. It was closed, but it seemed like it wouldn’t last long because all the windows were traditional Korean-style houses.
‘Damn it!’
Kangmin held on tightly to the jewels in his pocket.
‘Now that I have a way to live, I die like this? Leave this cash and jewels behind!’
I felt like I couldn’t even close my eyes because it was so unfair.
Kang-min held on to the jewel until it bled. With just this gem, I could repay all the overdue interest.
– Boom!
A tremendous sound was heard. The gate was broken.
“Where are you?”
“catch!”
“Kill me!”
I could hear their voices. In a few seconds, he would enter the living room and then he would be done.
‘Don’t throw away the iron pipe! Then I would have at least tried to fight.’
I was disappointed to be killed by a person rather than a zombie, which I was worried about.
– All right.
I could hear them coming up to the main hall. I became impatient.
‘It is said that even if you go into a tiger’s den, you will survive as long as you come to your senses. There must be a way! ‘There is a way!’
Kangmin thought so and found a way.
‘What a way! ‘There isn’t one!’
Kangmin was in despair.
But that was then. A message window appeared in front of Kangmin.
