Stagnant Water of Apocalypse

Chapter 43: Survivor and Murderer (2)

Sooyeon's story revolved around the time shelter. She told me that there were three factions that had been formed around the place which would be opened in a year's time.

"Let's call my team, Team A, one other team as Team B, and the golf course as Team C." As soon as I heard it, I immediately knew. The golf course team of Mr. Kwon, whom I stole the pistol and smartphone from, must have something to do with the murderer. But I kept my silence and listened to the story. According to Sooyeon, Team C was the most powerful group amongst the three.

"I think there's around 10 people there. At first, I thought they were from a different team, but I think they communicated with each other because I often saw their members exchange supplies."

"Are you saying that they normally live apart from each other?"

"Yes."

I nodded my head at her words. It was a smart move in order to prevent the zombies from detecting them when there's 6 people or more in a group. It was thanks to that fact that I have a reason for not joining the gym team.

"Anyway, that point is still fine. As Mr. Seongho knows, this neighborhood... is filled with wealthy people. Therefore, a lot of information has been circulating, including things about the zombie apocalypse, and people have prepared for the apocalypse quite well. The problem is..."

"What is it?"

"Team C made an offer to others to open the time shelter."

"Already? Wasn't it set to be openable only in a year's time?"

"We thought so too, but the leader of Team C came to Team B before he started to persuade us too. He said, what is the difference between now and a year later? Let's share it before more powers gather here."

"Who is the leader of Team C, if I may ask?"

"I don't know his name. I only know that he looks tall and skinny..."

Tall and skinny, huh? Then it really is Mr. Kwon, the owner of Yongjeong Bunker. Why did he propose to open the time shelter? Did he pretend to be a gentleman in order to have connections with people so that he can use his mind manipulation skill?

Since from what I knew, he had 3 bunkers, it could be said that he had around 14 people inside his team. And because on his phone, he has photos of womens, the number of personnels who are capable of fighting should dwindle to around 10.

Sooyeon elaborated further by telling me that her team and team B refused Kwon's offer because they felt that they could live just fine for the time being using their supplies and the looted supplies from the building around the area.

"But what does opening the time shelter have to do with a murderer showing up?" I asked nonchalantly.

"Should I say, the timing? As soon as we refused to open the time shelter, the rumour that there is a murderer around spreads. sound of heart pounding, do you know about it, Mr. Seongho?"

I know a lot about it. Back in the game, I had encountered over 200 murderers and had killed over 100 of them.

"Roughly. The sound came when the murderer was close to us, didn't it?"

"Yes... When I told my team members about it, they laughed at me because it was nothing but a game system. Then, one of our team members died while going out to farm..."

"Ah... By the way, the murderer had only appeared after the proposal had been refused?"

"Yes..."

"Hm... I think it has something to do with it." I'm 100% sure about it. But I just couldn't tell Sooyeon about it. By the way, I'm really curious about why Kwon wants to open the time shelter this early. If there were 14 subordinates under him, it would be easy for him to survive regardless whether it was now or one year later. So, why?