Stagnant Water of Apocalypse

Chapter 40: Life After The End

<Life After The End>

From what I saw several days ago, there were six members in the gang occupying the abandoned villa at the foot of the mountain. But since I already killed 5 of them, there should be only one member left. However, when I arrived at the villa and looked around, it was deserted.

"It's empty." Which means, all the stuff here was mine.

With a glowstone in my hand, I went up to the second floor. There, I found dozens of packs of cigarettes piled up all over the place.

"Why did they collect so much?" I didn't smoke at all, but there's nothing wrong with looting it. In the apocalyptic world, where food and water was scarce, cigarettes would undoubtedly become a precious commodity, after all.

"It will definitely sell for a lot of points once people unlock the Auction House." I heard that cigarettes have an expiration date, but it didn't matter to me, as once it was sold, it's the buyers' decision whether to still use it or not. When I opened the veranda, it was filled with plastic bottles filled with beer and soju. It was something dangerous to be taken in this situation, but people don't always act rationally. These guys were the prime example.

Though, it was useful sometimes to handle the piled-up stress. Of course, I wouldn't drink unless the situation around me was completely safe, which was a hard thing to secure in this kind of world.

I moved all the supplies in the house to the shelter. When I finished and stretched my body, dizziness assaulted my head. Even if I took a deep breath, the fatigue did not go away at all.

"Well, I had a hard time yesterday..." I wanted to just lie down on the mattress and rest, but since I already got out of my house, I had to finish what I set out to do. Namely, looting the fireworks.

After resting for a few more minutes, I hit the road once again and moved along the route planned in advance together with Dingo. It was quite a long way to Gwangalli, but it seemed that there would be no blockage if I used the riverside road. As soon as we left the residential area, the ghastly wreckage of a high-rise building showed itself in front of my eyes.

"Oh my god." I exclaimed softly. There were no buildings left. Only a mountain of concrete debris and a handful of zombies roaming the area. The riverside park, which should have been crowded with countless people enjoying the night breeze around this time, was empty.

"It's only both of us here, huh?" I said. Meanwhile, Dingo bravely took the lead. And as expected, when we arrived near the river, we couldn't use the bridge to cross since it had already collapsed.

"It can't seem to bear the load." Taking out the plastic telescope given by Yoohyeon, I looked at the bridge to the north. But the bridge there was in the same state as the one in front of me.

"Guess I will have to go by boat from here." I took out the rubber boat and put some air in it. After it fully inflated, I threw it to the river, jumped on it, and beckoned Dingo. "Come! Come!"

The boy jumped up and got into the boat. Taking up the oar from the portal, I started to row. However, since the current of the river was quite strong, the boat could move just fine even without me rowing. I just need to correct its direction every once in a while. Then, as soon as I arrived at Gwangalli pier, I saw a huge amount of firecrackers waiting for me in one particular boat.

"Lucky me! They haven't moved it yet." It seems like the organizer didn't move it yet because of all the chaos and decided to just put that here unattended.

From the pier, I looked at the city centre in the distance. It was dark without any trace of light anywhere. But, undoubtedly, someone was still alive there, just like me. They are probably struggling to avoid the zombies, trying their hardest to get food, cooperating with people, or even fighting against zombies or each other. And in the future, that would be their daily routine. At least until they met their death.