Chapter 212 – Contact
「Seo Chae-yeong: When are you coming, Mister?」
「Hana Kang: When are you coming?」
While looking at the aurora borealis in Alaska and thinking about this and that, Chaeyoung and Hana sent a message.
After the little ones entered the raid party, they would often send messages like this.
「Unho: It’s a long way to go.」
「Seo Chae-young: Mister, I miss you.」
「Hana Kang: I miss you.」
I’m sorry for the little ones, but I didn’t want to see them that much.
「Unho: Yes.」
It was embarrassing to answer, but I still had to answer. If you don’t do it, the little ones will send you endless messages.
The little ones started reporting stories that they didn’t want to know, such as a fight with a certain kid.
「Seo Chae-young: …And then… Mister, do you know how many times 11017680 times 4131661933?」
Now, the topic has shifted to mathematics.
I guess I’m studying these days.
Is Chaewon teaching?
But the problem is not cute.
Is it a elementary schooling problem?
It’s just a matter of taking time to calculate.
Of course, I had no intention of solving it…
「Unho:…I don’t know.」
「Seo Chae-young: Eh, don’t you know that too?」
Yeah… You’re good
「Seo Chae-young: That’s right…I solved it, and Suzy-unnie was surprised, right? They say I’m a genius.”
The neverending story begins again…
‘Please stop now…’
I thought about blocking it, but…
I endured it because I felt that I would not be able to avoid being criticized by my women.
Also, the little ones are difficult to deal with.
「Baek Seol-hwa: Chae-young, I have a conversation to share with you right now, so let’s talk about it later.」
「Seo Chae-young: Yes…」
Phew…
Seolhwa’s message came at the right time.
「Baekseolhwa: My Prince, a group of survivors have descended from the north. It is said that it was US troops stationed in Korea, but it is quite large.”
「Unho: U.S. Forces Korea?」
Did the guys I helped go down there?
“Snow White: Yes, it doesn’t look like a lie when you see that you are wearing a military uniform and that you are a foreigner. How would you like to do it? Husband.”
「Unho: Seolhwa, do it yourself.」
“Snow White: Yes? Would that be okay?」
「Unho: Yes. Seolhwa, I believe in you.”
“Snow White: Oh, thank you. I will repay you for your trust.”
Seolhwa might have shed tears and bowed deeply if I had been in front of her. It wasn’t difficult, but it wasn’t difficult to say something that Seolhwa would like.
Now, the residence in Sejong City is not in great danger.
In addition, it can be said that a system that runs well without me has been established.
Now, I had no intention of touching the residence management. It was me, as long as the current hunting system was running well, it didn’t matter.
‘I need to go to sleep.’
I lit a bonfire on the aurora I had never seen in my life and set the mood, but I stopped and went to sleep.
I burrowed into the gap between the folded wings of the crow next to me.
A new fact I realized on the way here.
I also thought about it when I rode on the back of the black bird, but the feathers are quite soft and fluffy.
That’s why I thought it was in the bosom of Kkamangi.
Kkamangi’s arms were more comfortable than I expected.
It was nothing to do with the bed.
After that, it became a substitute for my bed.
Kkamangi, who was sleeping, opened her sleepy eyes and glanced at me digging into her arms, and gently lifted her wings so that she could come in comfortably.
Kkamangi didn’t like what I was doing at first, but now he’s completely used to it.
I went into Kkamangi’s arms, enjoyed the comfortable bed, and went to sleep.
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Taylor came into contact with a survival group in Sejong City.
And Taylor, with his men waiting outside, entered the residence alone. Knowing his abilities, his men won’t worry too much.
As a condition of entering the residence, his firearm was confiscated and his hands were tied.
It was to be expected.
However, it was meaningless to himself who had awakened his psychic powers.
The guards are on radio.
Taylor moved somewhere under their guidance. As he moved, he took a closer look at the survivors of the residence.
The first impression he felt was that the survivors were much cleaner than he thought.
It was a different feeling than seeing it on the screen.
In the meantime, he was quite compared to himself who hadn’t washed properly.
People stare at themselves.
It was not a hostile gaze.
It wasn’t even an anxious look.
It was just out of curiosity.
Then, in Taylor’s field of vision, he saw a person walking down the street and using a cell phone.
‘Hey, are you using a cell phone?!’
No matter how I looked at it, it didn’t look like a walkie-talkie.
It is a smartphone that I once held in my hand until I got tired of it.
And that’s not all.
I could often see people looking at the screen of their smart phone.
‘Yeah, smoke?’
It was so foreign and unrealistic that it made me think that way for a moment.
Come to think of it, he had no reason to do so.
‘How?’
With a question in my head, I followed the guard. And the guide was to a place with a table and chairs in the living room on the first floor of an empty apartment.
There was an old man, a fairly young woman, and a man who looked to be in his 30s.
The woman and the old man were wearing traditional Korean clothes, and they were wearing swords at their waists.
The woman was quite beautiful, but her expressionless expression made her look a little cold.
“This is Taylor Smith.”
Taylor first introduced his self.
“You speak Korean well.”
A man in his 30s said.
“My wife is Korean.”
It was also true, and it was judged to be an element that could increase the favorability.
“So that’s right. I’m Lim Sung-kyung.”
Judging by Lim Guo-gu’s expression, where his guard is slightly relaxed, it seems that his wife’s story has been worked to some extent.
“It’s Snow White.”
“Call me Baektaesan, Heavenly Father.”
An old man and a woman introduced themselves following Im Sung-gu. Taylor tilted her head as she did not understand the term heavenly treasure.
“Are you the leader of this place?”
Even if they weren’t leaders, they judged that they would occupy a fairly high position in this residence. Otherwise, there would be no reason for the guards to bring him here.
“No. The leader is my husband. He went out for a while.”
“Nanggun?”
It was a word that did not make much sense to Taylor, a foreigner.
“Would you understand if I said it was my husband?”
“Ah, I understand.”
If you look closely, he looked like a newcomer to society… But marriage… It could have been that he looked young because he was an Asian.
At first, I thought that Lim Guseong or Baektaesan might have a higher status, but it was Baekseolhwa who led the story.
‘Is it safe to say that Snow White is the actual leader now?’
Taylor thought that Snow White’s being the leader’s spouse might have a big impact.
“Anyway, what did you come for?”
“We came all the way here, avoiding monsters that we couldn’t stand against. And during reconnaissance, we found you. We couldn’t hold back our curiosity to see them living peacefully, so we came here.”
“Do you intend to settle down here?”
“That hasn’t been decided yet. Right now, we’re just looking at this city.”
“There is nothing we can do about you settling in Sejong City. However, if you do, it will be difficult to find food around here. As far as I know, most of the food in this city has been collected.”
“Then could you provide us with some food as a humanitarian measure?”
It could be a shameless statement.
Taylor, of course, didn’t expect them to give them food.
In today’s world, food is very important.
Humphreys also said that if another group asks for food, of course he won’t.
Taylor just wanted to see how they reacted.
“Do you have magic stones? If you have magic stones, we can exchange them for food.”
“Magic stone? What is it?”
“It says something like this.”
Then, Snow White took out a stone that glowed softly in blue from the air.
Seeing this, Taylor was shocked.
‘As expected, this woman was also a psychic Awakener.’
It was the first time I had seen it, but it wasn’t something I couldn’t understand if I thought of it as a superpower.
And the blue stone that Snow White took out.
Of course I know.
It is an object that came from a mutant monster that is stronger than a zombie.
Humphreys had them too, but not too many.
I knew that the Blue Stone was a bit special.
Humphreys also studied a little, but there was not much progress, so it was not treated as precious. Above all, the camp was cluttered and there was no room for proper research.
As a result, it was treated as a memento in the current Humphreys.
‘Exchanging it for food…’
They might have figured out something special about this blue stone.
‘If I had known it would be like this, I would have saved a lot.’
Baek Seol-hwa’s expression and tone were stiff, but she was more kind and dignified than I thought.
After talking with her, Taylor got her weapon back and escaped unharmed, returning to their collective Humphreys.
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“It is said that the leader there has been away for a while. Currently, it seems that the leader’s woman, Baek Seol-hwa and the leader of a group called Cheonbu-bun, are led by an old man named Baek Tae-san. To me, Snow White seemed more powerful.”
“It’s amazing that you can use your cell phone by restoring the wireless communication network. You said that if that woman named Snow White gave you the Blue Stone, she would give her food in return?”
Commander Daniel couldn’t help but be amazed at Taylor’s report.
“Yes. That’s right. They called it a magic stone. The reason why there are almost no zombies here is that they say it’s because there are a lot of them.”
The blue stones that come from monsters… I know that the magic stones are valuable to them.
‘Is that comparable to food?’
Daniel had such doubts, but the news was not bad.
“Was it such a useful thing? How many Blue Stones do we have?”
Daniel asked Walter, who was next to him.
Even if it was a precious item that they did not know about, it was useless to Humphreys, who was in a hurry for food.
“There aren’t that many. Some people may have them as souvenirs, but…”
On the way, he caught a few monsters that seemed to have such a magic stone, but he didn’t bother to dig through the corpses to find them.
“To get food from them, I’ll have to get that magic stone. Should I also find and catch that deformed monster?”
“They told me how.”
Just when Daniel was thinking about how to save him, Taylor said.
“Huh? You told me how to do that?”
“Yes, if you go to a place called Cheongju, which is a little further south from here, there are quite a lot of monsters, and they say you can easily get them by catching them.”
Daniel frowned.
Because it was such a well-made story.
He needed a magic stone, and he kindly told me where to get it.
It was too kind.
It’s not the normal world like before.
I couldn’t take that kindness straight away.
“Could it be a trap?”
“I can’t rule it out, but… I don’t think it’s bad to go once. I’ll go scouting.”
Daniel, who was briefly troubled by Taylor’s words, believed him and allowed the reconnaissance.
